The National Center for Optics and Photonic Education (OP-TEC), a National Science Foundation (NSF) National Center of Excellence, promotes photonics education and assists colleges to develop and implement educational programs in optics and photonics.
As part of its efforts to provide faculty development in optics and photonics, OP-TEC offers a hybrid, online faculty development course in optics and photonics. This online course is being offered at no charge to U.S. high school, community college and technical college faculty interested in teaching a basic photonics course.
• Crystal orientation and the Miller Index
• Why is crystal orientation important to microsystems fabrication?
• SCME's Crystallography Kit for classroom activities
This workshop provides an introduction to POGIL (Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning) and explores the benefits of this approach to active learning in the classroom. Participants will experience a POGIL-based learning environment, analyze activities to understand how guided inquiry is structured in a POGIL classroom, and consider classroom facilitation and other issues related to the implementation of POGIL.
Innovations 2012 is the premier event for professionals dedicated to improving organizational teaching and learning, and discovering new approaches for enhancing the community college experience. The conference provides a tremendous forum for collaboration among academic experts and leading community college professionals, while granting participants exclusive access to the most inventive and thought-provoking programs from around the world.
The conference provides opportunities for colleagues to showcase their model programs, share lessons learned, and look to the future by experiencing a wide array of new ideas through the Conference Streams:
Learning and Teaching
Leadership and Organization
Workforce Preparation and Development
Student Services and Activities
Basic Skills and Developmental Education
Resource Development and Foundation Management
Research, Assessment, and Accountability
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Sustainability
Open Educational Resources
We encourage you and your colleagues to attend the 23rd ANNUAL NATIONAL YOUTH-AT-RISK CONFERENCE, March 4 to March 7, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Savannah, Georgia. The College of Education of Georgia Southern University hosts the conference in cooperation with other universities, school districts, and social agencies. The following credits will be awarded: PLU, CEU, POST, LPCA, GAMFT, and NASW. COMPREHENSIVE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Join 1200 attendees and select from 120 sessions for school and community educators. Nationally recognized presenters share research-based practical strategies on how to identify and eliminate at-risk conditions that may threaten young peoples’ safety, health, emotional needs, or academic achievement.
ACE Founder Diego Navarro and Pathway Manager Jim Knickerbocker, PhD explain how ACE Pathway can help colleges to apply the latest research on “tentative” students. Such “tentative” students are typically underprepared, developmental education, vulnerable, or have risk factors that come from lives of poverty.
Session topics include:
*What is ACE Pathway?
*What are the benefits to colleges using ACE Pathway?
*How is ACE Pathway different than other approaches?
*What are tangible outcomes of using ACE Pathway?
*Why is ACE qualified to offer Pathway?
*How does ACE Pathway work?
*How can I learn more about ACE Pathway?
*What is the ACE Pathway Launch?
National Agriculture Day is a day to recognize and celebrate the abundance provided by agriculture. Every year, producers, agricultural associations, corporations, universities, government agencies and countless others across America join together recognize the contributions of agriculture.
Revolutionizing manufacturing with automation and process control. Our webinars are accessible online from virtually anywhere, and they are FREE to attend and/or replay.
This conferences main focus is to look at the increased dependence on computers and the implications of it. Chief of Security for General Motors, Rod J. Kinghorn, will be the keynote speaker and promises to give attendees a peak at the automotive future in his presentation, "Your Automobile - The Rolling Computer: Risks and Rewards". In addition to a wide-variety of speakers, there will be SANS hands-on interactive presentations on persistent threat management as well as speakers on virtual cloud, voting machine fraud and more.
Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) provide an alternative solution for technicians and engineers looking to implement digital logic. This workshop provides instructors with an introduction to designing with Xilinx FPGAs using ISE development software tools and will allow all attendees to work towards successful implementation of teaching digital logic with FPGAs. Sponsored by the ATE project: Developing the Digital Technologist for the New Millennium based at the University of New Mexico.
Ongoing assessment is a key tenet of POGIL pedagogy and vital in actual classroom practice. This webinar will address typical classroom concerns, such as how to grade a POGIL activity and how to incorporate POGIL-related assessments into your existing grading system. This webinar will also discuss ways to effectively communicate with parents and administrators about the goals and methods used when incorporating POGIL activities in the classroom.
Deciding what to measure (and what not to measure) towards gathering evidence of impact can be a daunting task, but it doesn’t need to be. In this webinar, Lana Rucks, an ATE external evaluator, will provide a step-by-step approach for making the decisions around what should be measured as an indication of impact. Using an actual ATE project as a framework, attendees will learn how the varying aspects of evaluation (e.g., logic modeling, operationalizing variables, triangulation, etc.) come together in the real world. Regardless of whether you are in the planning phase or already started the implementation your project, you’ll walk away knowing how to better communicate the story of your project/center’s impact.
Presenter: Lana Rucks - Principal Consultant, The Rucks Group LLC
Moderator: Jason Burkhardt - Project Manager, EvaluATE
ACE Founder Diego Navarro and Pathway Manager Jim Knickerbocker, PhD provide detail about how ACE Pathway works and how to get involved.
Agenda
Session topics include:
What are tangible outcomes of using ACE Pathway?
Does ACE Pathway work for colleges with existing learning communities?
How is the ACE Inquiry Path different than the ACE Action Path?
What is involved in the Pathway Launch this summer?
If we decide to participate in Pathway, what do we do next?
How can I learn more about ACE Pathway?
Would you like to launch a mentoring program for girls and/or women in technology or improve the one that you have implemented already? Research has shown that quality mentoring programs can have a significant positive impact on the lives of women.
This workshop will provide a step-by-step guidance for program coordinators on developing and sustaining successful mentoring programs. Learn what's involved and how to host one. Participants will also get a chance to shadow the coordinator in order to gain a full understanding of the event.
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.
ACE Founder Diego Navarro delves deeper into the concepts he presented in his Change magazine article “Supporting the Students of the Future” and engages participants in an interactive discussion.
Agenda
Session topics include:
Who are “vulnerable” or “tentative” students?
How can we reach these students?
What can we do to increase retention & completion for these students?
IntelliSuite was the first MEMS-specific CAD tool and has been under development for over 20 years. In this webinar, understand how this industry-standard software can help MEMS designers, process engineers, and professors save time and costs in the development cycle, share their designs with others, and teach students about MEMS. The webinar will cover: process development using virtual fabrication tools, etch recipe development using process simulators, design rule checking and cross-sectioning tools for MEMS layout, design exploration and optimization using behavioral and parametric modeling, recent developments in automated meshing algorithms, discussion of coupled FEM-BEM solvers for MEMS multiphysics analysis, linking MEMS models to EDA tools for MEMS/IC co-development, real-world examples showing how simulation tools can help accelerate the MEMS design cycle and discussion of the new features in the latest IntelliSuite release.
Join NSTA at the crossroads for science education during the NSTA 2012 Indianapolis National Conference on Science Education. The conference headquarters hotels are the Indianapolis Marriott Downtown, JW Marriott Indianapolis, and Westin Indianapolis. Conference registration and exhibits will be at the Indiana Convention Center. Most sessions and events have been scheduled at the Convention Center as well as the Indianapolis Marriott, JW Marriott, and Westin Indianapolis.
The NACK center offers a live webinar, hosted by MATEC NetWorks, every month to engage and educate those of you that are interested in learning more about nanotechnology related topics. Our webinars are accessible online from virtually anywhere, and they are FREE to attend and/or replay.
This 1/2 day workshop, the morning session of a one-day workshop, serves as an introduction to POGIL(Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning) and an exploration of the benefits of this approach to active-learning in the classroom. Participants will experience a POGIL-based learning environment, analyze activities to understand how guided-inquiry is structured in a POGIL classroom, and consider classroom facilitation and other issues related to the implementation of POGIL.
