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.
Join NACK and explore the world of nanotechnology. Participants will learn about the growing applications of nanotechnology in many industries including the biotechnology, MEMS, optoelectronics, chemical, and nanoelectronics industries. The basics of nanofabrication processes and tools will be covered and emphasized through processing labs held in the class 10 cleanrooms of the Penn State Nanofabrication Facility and the CNEU Teaching Cleanroom. This workshop is designed for: Post-Secondary, Secondary Science, Technology, and Vocational-Technical Educators; Guidance Counselors; School Administrators, and others. (Access the workshop schedule via the tabs at the top of the page.)
MEMS 203: Making a MicroPressure Sensor - a ten step process for fabricating a MEMS pressure sensor. What is a MEMS pressure sensor? Ten steps of making a pressure sensor SCME''s classroom kits that support understanding this process, Pressure Sensor Model Kit, Lift-off kit, Anisotropic Etch kit, and Pressure Sensor Process Kit.
MNT 2012 is a conference for educators or administrators implementing MNT programs or integrating MNT into their curriculum. The conference provides a forum for attendees to learn from MNT Centers and from one another. Funding is available for MNT implementers to attend this conference.
GE Energy, Medtronic, Boeing, Raytheon, Sikorsky and other world-class manufacturing leaders know the best source of innovations and solutions may come from outside industries. That’s why these companies—in partnership with a dozen additional industry innovators—are developing this unprecedented event with the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.
This webinar will overview bridge models and highlight City College of San Francisco's Bridge to Biotech, explaining successes and challenges, steps to implementation and scalability, funding sources, recruitment and retention and applicability to other STEM areas.
Albuquerque - University of New Mexico, Manufacturing Training and Technology Center
Come join nano experts at University of New Mexico in this hands-on introductory workshop. After an overview of Nanoscience, you will participate in three hands-on Nano activities you can bring back to your classroom.
Leeward Community College is hosting the Pacific Region Learning Summit again! Transform your teaching and your students' learning through one of four tracks: 1) Transform Instruction with Problem-Based Learning (PBL); 2) Authentic Online Learning; 3) Five Easy Tools for Global Learning; 4) Blackboard Collaborate for Moderator.
You’d like to have more women enrolled in your technology programs such as nanotechnology and computer networking, but you aren’t sure how many you have now and what you should measure. This webinar will provide you with the evaluation tools you will need to measure enrollment and retention of women in your programs. You'll walk away knowing how to better measure your program’s progress in recruiting and retaining female students.
This webinar will discuss the critical role that group dynamics play in a POGIL lesson. POGIL is an acronym for Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning. The advantages and disadvantages of different group types and student roles will be addressed, and specific techniques for introducing and teaching roles will be shown.
This hands-on training course explores installation, configuration, and management of VMware vSphereTM, which consists of ESXi and vCenter Server. The course is based on ESXi 5 and vCenter Server 5. Completion of this course satisfies as a prerequisite to take the VMware Certified Professional 5 exam. Faculty participants who complete this course may enroll in any of several more-advanced vSphere courses.
The goal of traditional industry conferences is to bring practitioners to problems (organized by subject or track). The Spatial Plexus '12 inaugural conference takes a twist on the traditional conference paradigm by bringing problems - "Wicked Problems" - to the practitioner. "Wicked Problems" are problems that are difficult to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements.
"Inspecting 'Wicked Problems' with Geospatial Goggles," will expose, dissect, better define and manage complexities and interdependencies in order to reassemble and improve them.
What better group to tackle such challenges than geospatial educators, technologists and experts who come from every rank and discipline with the ability to relate issues through geographic visualization and analyses?
Students will learn basic Objective-C concepts, iPhone programming basics, and use the SDK environment on Apple Macintosh computers with OS X as a development platform. Design concepts and programming tools will be integrated with an emphasis on developing and deploying iPhone and iPad applications under iOS 5.
Prerequisite: It is suggested that attendees have some background in Object Oriented programming languages such as Java, Ruby on Rails, Visual Basic.NET, C# or PHP.
This event introduces Linux with a focus on system administration skills and application in computer security. Topics include installation, file and directory management, command execution, input/output redirection and pipes, shell scripts, network services, security, troubleshooting and the X Window system.
The National Association for Workforce Improvement (NAWI) conference brings together national state and local leaders in career and technical education. The attendees include administrators, teachers, and career and curriculum development professionals, as well as business, industry and governmental partners. People in the ATE Community with an interest in learning about best practices and innovation in education should consider attending. This year's theme, "Pathways to Prosperity: Innovation for the 21st Century Workforce," includes over 21 presentations, many delivered by NSF ATE participants.
NACK center offers a live webinar, hosted by MATEC NetWorks, every month to engage and educate people interested in learning more about nanotechnology related topics. This session examines the social impacts of nanotechnology.
This one-day 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. This is a pre-conference workshop in conjunction with the 2012 American College of Sports Medicine annual meeting.
