The GeoTech Center is proud to announce the first annual competition based
upon the new Department of Labor Geospatial Technology Competency Model.
The competition is open to any two year community and technical college
student currently enrolled in a geospatial technology course or program.
The competition requires a pre-registration and the first round begins
January 31, 2011.
Please announce the competition to your qualified students as early as
possible. Information regarding qualification, rules, and how to apply can
be found online here
Students from all over the world are welcome to participate in the student component of the IVE Stock Market Competition. Upon sign-up students will receive a trading budget to invest in the virtual and real stock market. Students who made the most profit will be announced at our IVE Collaborative Conference in April 2011 and as the winners they will receive prizes and awards.
OP-TEC, the National Center for Optics and Photonics Education, is a National Science Foundation (NSF) National Center of Excellence with the stated mission of promoting photonics education and assisting colleges around the country in developing and implementing educational programs that support expansion of this critical new technology.
As part of our efforts to provide faculty development in optics and photonics, OP-TEC will be offering a hybrid, online faculty development course. The course will cover OP-TEC’s Fundamentals of Light and Lasers. Each of the six modules will be taught online over a two-week period with a high level of self-paced instruction combined with an interactive component facilitated by e-mail exchanges and chat room discussions.
Fundamentals of Light and Lasers Modules:
Module 1: Nature and Properties of Light
Module 2: Optical Handling and Positioning
Module 3: Light Sources and Laser Safety
Module 4: Basic Geometrical Optics
Module 5: Basic Physical Optics
Module 6: Principles of Lasers
This online course is being offered at no charge to high school, community college and technical college faculty interested in teaching a basic photonics course. Participants who successfully complete the 12-week course and 3-day laboratory session will receive a certificate of completion from OP-TEC. Participants will also be awarded 9 CEUs.
Next course date: Starts February 28, 2011 ( 12-week course runs 2/28/11 - 5/22/11)
The six modules will be taught over a 12-week period. After the completion of Module 6, all participants will spend a 3-day period at an OP-TEC Partner College where they will have the opportunity to conduct all laboratory experiments included in the course and discuss with experienced instructors best practices for teaching the materials.
We want to welcome you to Sacramento for 2011! In a continued effort to maximize the efficiency and the benefits of our professional development delivery system pertaining to Career Technical Education (CTE), the California Career Pathway Consortia and the California Partnership Academies will again join forces as the 17th annual Educating for Career Conference and the 23rd annual California Partnership Academies Conference becomes the California Career Pathways Consortia and California Partnership Academies Educating for Careers Conference. The theme for this year’s conference will be Focusing Education on the Future.
This workshop focuses on the fundamentals of writing POGIL activities. Participants will analyze a POGIL activity using the Learning Cycle and consider the types of questions that support the learning process within a POGIL activity. Participants will use the rubrics designed by The POGIL Project to analyze an activity.
After discussion of the characteristics of a successful POGIL activity, teams of participants will construct a POGIL activity based on the Learning Cycle. These newly written activities will be analyzed using the Learning Cycle Rubric.
Participants who have already written POGIL activities are encouraged to bring their work for coaching and author feedback. This workshop is intended for both new and experienced POGIL authors.
California's education and research communities leverage their networking resources under CENIC, the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California, in order to obtain cost-effective, high-bandwidth networking to support their missions and answer the needs of their faculty, staff, and students.
CENIC designs, implements, and operates CalREN, the California Research and Education Network, a high-bandwidth, high-capacity Internet network specially designed to meet the unique requirements of these communities, and to which the vast majority of the state's K-20 educational institutions are connected.
For information about registration please click here.
CTE programs play critical roles in developing a qualified workforce and are an essential part of our education system. Do your Members of Congress realize that CTE is helping students learn the knowledge and skills needed to compete for the high-wage, high-demand jobs of today and tomorrow? Do they know that CTE retrains adults to help them re-enter the workforce? CTE is vital to turning around this economy and ensuring that every student has the education and expertise to succeed in the workforce. Make sure your CTE voice is heard on Capitol Hill by attending the 2011 National Policy Seminar March 7-9.
The 2011 PAS National Conference will be held in Springfield, Illinois, "Land of Lincoln" at the Crowne Plaza. Mark your calendar now for March 9 - 12 and plan to join us for this special celebration of "Overcoming Today's Obstacles, Achieving Tomorrow's Dreams."
As technology advances, the distribution and utilization of energy and electricity will become an increasingly important focus of the STEM workforce. Learn about the technologies that will be used to optimize electrical energy utilization and help ensure that education programs and materials are aligned with SMART initiatives.
Date: Friday, March 11, 2011 12:00 P.M. EST
Length: 90 minutes
University of Illinois in Springfield, IL will be hosting their eighth annual Cyber Defense and Disaster Recovery conference on March 11th, 2011. This years theme will be “Securing the Human”.
This annual conference provides an opportunity for participants to network with peers throughout the Midwest and has grown in offering and attendance each year. For more information, please contact Janis Rose at [email protected].
The following competitions are scheduled for Spring 2011: 2/19/2011 Illinois 2/26/2011 Michigan/Ohio 3/5/2011 Minnesota 3/12/2011 Indiana/Wisconsin The top two winners of each Midwest State CCDC will be invited to the Midwest Regional which is scheduled for 3/25-26/2011 to be held at Moraine Valley Community College
Running from March 13th to March 19th this week celebrates Agriculture across America. Instructors are encouraged to hold events that teach students about agricultural process and to help their students understand the importance of agriculture in America.
The 2011 ATE program solicitation says that PIs “should establish claims as to the project's effectiveness, and the evaluative activities should provide evidence on the extent to which the claims are realized.” This webinar will walk ATE evaluators and PIs through a five-step process, which includes
identifying claims worthy of evaluative investigation
framing impact evaluation questions around those claims
defining how to measure impact in meaningful, yet practical ways
determining how to make a strong cause that the ATE project caused the observed impact
setting up performance standards to aid in interpreting evaluation results
Join us for this free, 90-minute webinar for guidance about how to move your evaluation beyond body counts, self-assessment, and satisfaction to genuine evaluation of impact and effectiveness.
The 54th Annual AEA International Convention & Trade Show is a unique opportunity to connect with manufacturers, distributors, technicians, and business leaders as we shape the future of avionics together.
The AEA Convention is the only wholesale avionics show representing 90 percent of the North American-certified avionics shops.
The AEA Trade Show is the platform of choice for the introduction of the new avionics products for 2011.
75+ hours of Regulatory, Technical, & Business Training!
More than 135 exhibitors to network with!
Rockwell Automation & Rexel will be hosting a one day Technical Forum to discuss and demonstrate the latest technologies and software tools to increase your productivity and capability to design, develop and deploy control system solutions.
This will be an advanced session for Systems Integrators that deliver Control System Solutions. New Hardware, Software and. Advanced Ethernet Solutions from RA will be highlighted.
Who Should Attend: System Integrator Engineers, Designers, Sales & Management.
Undergraduate level programs in nanotechnology have been in existence now for over ten years. How is the hands-on training in nanotechnology assisting alumni of these programs, and how is it providing American industry with a much needed skill set? This webinar will review data on alumni from nanotechnology programs, and alumni will share their success stories and discuss what they are doing now. The webinar will also focus on the NACK Center’s Alumni Network, which was developed to help graduates of nanotechnology degree programs enhance their professional opportunities and much more.
If you're a woman considering a career in the exciting technology field, Moraine Valley's mentoring program is just for you. The Women in Technology program, supported by the National Resource Center for Systems Security and Information Assurance (CSSIA) helps women feel more comfortable entering technology careers. The mentoring groups allow students entering programs in technology to connect with experienced female students who can provide guidance, answer questions, and learn more about career opportunities for females. The unique relationship between students and professionals makes the transition from college into the work world smoother and less intimidating.
This workshop is a capstone activity that encompasses MEMS applications, MEMS components, and MEMS fabrication. Participants will work in teams to design and develop a component for a MEMS that addresses a specific problem in one of three fields: biomedical, environmental, or consumer product. Once the component is designed and constructed, the team will develop a process flow which addresses the fabrication building blocks needed to build the MEMS component. Workshop discussions will include where and how this material and the related activities can be incorporated into an existing curriculum.
You are encouraged to bring your laptop and digital camera!
The South Carolina Advanced Technological Education Center of Excellence SC ATE and Destination: Problem-based Learning DPBL invite teams of experienced high school and community/technical college faculty to join us for a Roots and Wings Instructional Leadership Institute, where you will create your own interdisciplinary scenario-based tasks to enrich advanced technological education. The event will take place at the beautiful and historic Highland Lake Inn, Flat Rock, North Carolina, near Asheville, NC. Learning Outcomes: collaborate in an interdisciplinary team to create Scenario-Based Learning SBL tasks that equitably meet Standard Learning Outcomes SLO for multiple disciplines; create scenarios and outline multiple tasks that are industry based, interdisciplinary, of interest to all genders, and integrate math in non-linear ways; incorporate critical thinking, problem solving, communication, and team management into a learning experience for students; facilitate industry to faculty collaborations to discuss scenario contents, deliverables, terminology, SLOs, topics, and assessment tools; and, plan classroom or online visits by industry during the academic term. A limited number of $500 travel stipends are available for faculty teaching math, English, physics or other science, computer science, engineering, or a workforce technology subject e.g. manufacturing, logistics.
