The National Center for Optics and Photonic Education (OP-TEC), is a National Science Foundation (NSF) National Center of Excellence with the mission of promoting photonics education and assisting colleges around the United States in developing and implementing educational programs that support expansion of this critical technology.
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 Open Entry/Open Exit course has been developed for faculty whose schedules demand a more flexible course timeline. It is perfect for busy faculty who might have difficulty keeping up with weekly assignments in a "scheduled" course, but who would have a period or periods of time during the semester or school year that would allow them to complete assignments and exams independently and at their own pace. It is also an excellent opportunity for junior faculty, adjunct faculty, and lab technicians who may need to prepare to teach a college level or dual credit introductory photonics course.
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.
The course will cover OP-TEC's Fundamentals of Light and Lasers. Modules Include: Nature and Properties of Light, Optical Handling and Positioning, Light Sources and Laser Safety, Basic Geometrical Optics, Basic Physical Optics, and Principles of Lasers.
Online: The course is facilitated by an instructor experienced in teaching photonics concepts at the college level and will require a high level of independent self-paced instruction. The six modules will be completed online and through email with the instructor. Though this course is self-paced, participants must pass all six End of Module tests by May 15, 2013 to be eligible to attend the Capstone Laboratory Experience in June 2013.
Hands-on: After successful completion of all six modules by May 15, 2013, participants will spend a 3-day Capstone Laboratory Experience at an OP-TEC partner college where they will have the opportunity to conduct laboratory experiments included in the course and discuss with experienced instructors best practices for teaching the materials.
Participants who successfully complete the online course and the 3-day laboratory session will receive a certificate of completion from OP-TEC. Participants may also apply for 9 CEUs from an OP-TEC partner college.
No tuition or materials fees! Participants will be responsible for travel, lodging, and meals for the 3-day lab session in June 2013.
Applications are accepted online or by email. For more information and registration, please visit http://www.op-tec.org/faculty, call 254-751-9000, or email [email protected].
Increase the number of women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) classrooms with the strategies presented in the WomenTech Educators Online Training Fellowship. Based on proven practices, the workshop training curriculum includes the “best-of-the-best” of IWITTS strategies, culled from four National Science Foundation projects and over 18 years of success in assisting educational institutions in recruiting and retaining female students in programs around the country.
Participants will take away (learning outcomes):
• An easy-to-implement recruitment plan that will greatly increase the number of women and girls in their STEM classrooms.
• A retention plan that will increase the completion rate of female (and male students), starting this semester.
• The knowledge and confidence to put these plans into action, right away.
Fellowship includes:
• WomenTech Educators Online Training ($450 value). 10-week training starts January 28, 2013.
• Long-term follow up support for implementation ($300 value). 6 monthly live Support and Strategy sessions of 45-60 minutes each, starting in April 2013
• Women in Technology Outreach Kit ($150 value). Learn where to find female role models and exactly what to ask them. Includes easy-to-customize outreach materials like brochures, flyers and a PowerPoint Presentation.
• STEM Resources for Instructors to Help Women and Girls: An Annotated Bibliography ($35 value): Instant access to online role model resources that will help women and girls see themselves in all career pathways.
• Membership in the WomenTech Educators Online Learning Community (priceless)
Eligibility: Administrators, teachers, professors, instructors, counseling and outreach staff at two-year colleges from science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs in which women are under-represented. Priority will be given to applicants who are connected to an ATE Project or Center.
The National Council for Geographic Education, US Geological Survey, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and West Valley College (in Saratoga CA) are partnering to offer professional development for GIS instructors at two-year colleges, high schools, and universities interested in collaborationg with two-year college geospatial programs. The program builds on the successful iGETT project (Integrated Geospatial Education and Technical Training), recently completed with ATE funding by the same group of collaborators. The new program, iGETT – Remote Sensing, enables participants to teach workforce skills that integrate remote sensing data with GIS.
iGETT – Remote Sensing is currently recruiting the first of two cohorts. Cohort 1 will join the project in February 2013; Cohort 2 in February 2014. Each will participate in monthly webinars and two summer institutes, held at the USGS EROS Center and/or the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, over an 18-month period. More information about both the original iGETT project and the current project and Cohort 1 applications for iGETT-Remote Sensing (due December 20, 2012) are available at http://igett.delmar.edu.
The Florida Forum on Engineering Technology (E.T. Forum) is an important vehicle to bring together the diverse and geographically dispersed colleges with common issues and challenges. The Forum is a semiannual 2-day meeting of community college engineering technologies faculty in Florida. FLATE utilizes the Forum to strengthen its Technology Consortium; share its activities and projects; provide professional development; bring industry and academics together; engage faculty and administrators in statewide curriculum reform; and keep in touch with new and ongoing college program issues and concerns. The ET Forum has met twenty-nine times since 1996 at 19 different colleges around the state.
The University of North Texas Department of Computer Science and Engineering, in collaboration with the Convergence Technology Center at Collin College, are hosting a 1-day workshop on Security issues related to mobile device platforms and applications, Social Media and the Cloud.
The conference is intended for Community College and University Faculty Members and Students as well as Industry Professionals interested in discussing new trends in security as well address issues in the mobile space, the rise of Social Media and Cloud Computing and Storage.
Speakers, Posters and general participation form all levels is solicited and encouraged.
Suggested general topic areas include:
•Mobile Security
•Cloud Security
•Physical Security
•Network Security Issues
•Social Network Security
•Watermarking
•Social and Economic Implications of Security
•Other related topics are also encouraged
The annual convention of the Massachusetts Business Educators Association (MBEA) supports the primary goal of the MBEA: to provide instruction for and about business. Join the conference for a chance to pursue professional opportunities, network with your MBEA colleagues, learn about current and projected trends affecting the business curriculum, see the latest textbooks and materials from major business education publishers, hear about developing trends in technology, and to generally celebrate business education.
This meeting brings together the best and latest findings in all major areas of cancer research. Through plenary sessions, symposia, forums, educational sessions, methods workshops, poster presentations, conversations with experts and networking, attendees walk away with a wealth of new information, more connections and renewed energy, inspiration and focus in their work.
This two-day installation course offers participants an advanced level of lecture and hands-on learning as they install a permanent utility-interactive PV system with micro-inverters on a roof. Micro-inverters represent a growing portion of the PV installation market. Knowing the range of the products, their specific benefits and features will aid in offering these important elements of the PV world. Participants will learn about sizing, component selection, system layout, NEC calculations and requirements, and real world installation techniques.
This six-week online course uses a series of online presentations, webinars, topic resources, assignments, and quizzes to teach the basics of wind electric systems. Participants will learn how to define wind energy and how residential wind energy systems work. This course will provide a basis for making informed decisions about the design, sizing, and siting of wind energy systems.
This course is an online course and will require participants to attend an online webinar for each week of the course.
This six-week online course uses a series of online presentations, webinars, topic resources, assignments, and quizzes to teach the basics of solar electric systems. Participants will learn how photovoltaic (PV) systems work, diagram the four PV system types, describe and identify components, understand the best application and limitations of each system type, define the solar window, make energy efficiency recommendations, estimate system loads, and understand the basics of PV site assessment.
This course is an online course and will require participants to attend an online webinar for each week of the course.
This course will guide participants through the design process for a utility interactive residential or small commercial PV system. Participants will become familiar with the procedures, tools, and resources used to select equipment, determine equipment location, plan system layout, perform string sizing, determine breaker size, and site the array. Participants will apply their knowledge by solving design challenges in three PV system case studies.
This course is an online course and will require participants to attend an online webinar for each week of the course.
The Association of American Geographers' Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, California includes fellow geographers, GIS specialists, environmental scientists, and other leaders for the latest in research and applications in geography, sustainablity, and GIScience.
Explore the rich culture of San Antonio with its world-famous River Walk. With the theme Next Generation Science: Learning, Literacy, and Living, the conference strands will focus on Next Generation Assessments, Next Generation Elementary Science, Next Generation Special Populations, and Next Generation Technology.
The conference committee has worked hard to develop a series of sessions and presentations to stimulate professional growth, motivate a sense of inquiry, and promote lifelong learning. Attendees will have an opportunity to discover strategies for improving science teaching and learning, engage in professional discussions, receive the latest information on science education, and network with colleagues from across the country and globe.
Explore the exhibit hall and enhance skills by participating in sessions. After the conference, attendees will return to their community refreshed and energized.
PAA is a non-profit, scientific, professional organization that promotes research on population issues.
Topics include:
1. Fertility, Family Planning, Sexual Behavior and Reproductive Health
2. Marriage, Family, Households and Unions
3. Children and Youth
4. Health and Mortality
5. Race, Ethnicity and Gender
6. Migration and Population Distribution
7. Economy, Labor Force, Education and Inequality
8. Population, Development and Environment
9. Population and Aging
10. Data and Methods
11. Applied Demography
This workshop will feature the use of one form of Problem-Based Learning, Very Large Contexts (VLC), in which student teams have 4-5 weeks to construct a project, collect pertinent data, create a technical instruction manual for their device and develop a multimedia presentation about their efforts. Participants will work in small groups on specific VLCs projects.
These workshops are designed for members the AEC community: architects, engineers, or other design professionals and students. For two days this April at facades+ PERFORMANCE, experts in the industry will analyze, discuss, and dispute the development, implementation, and maintenance of high-performance building enclosures.
Here’s a taste:
Performance is contextual. Like durability, it is not an inherent property of a material, product or system. The usage must be defined, performance evaluation criteria established, with metric and benchmark criteria determined. If the material, product, or system exceeds these benchmarks, they are qualified as high-performance. However, the definition of high performance facades itself is elusive, often incorporating trending keywords like “sustainable” and “technologically advanced” to describe practices that are arguably neither. The difficulty lies in pinpointing the most significant contributors to the performance of a façade, with contenders ranging from metrics (such as U-values) to physics (a double-skin façade cavity) to post-occupancy commissioning. There is no clear answer.
"Building Pathways: Developing the Future of the Manufacturing Workforce" AMTEC Spring 2013 Academy Registration for the AMTEC Spring 2013 Academy has opened! Participants can attend the Spring Academy, which will be co-hosted by AMTEC, Tennessee Technology Center at Murfreesboro and Nissan, on April 11-12, 2013. The Academy will be held at the Nissan Smyrna Manufacturing Plant in Smyrna, TN. Participants must register by March 7, 2013. When: April 11, 2013, beginning at 8:00 am and ending at 4:30 pm April 12, 2013, beginning at 8:00 am and ending with tours at 4:00 pm Tour options include Nissan Smyrna Manufacturing Plant and the Jack Daniel’s Distillery Where: Nissan Smyrna Manufacturing Plant 983 Nissan Drive Smyrna, TN 37167 To Register: www.autoworkforce.org Registration Fees: $199 Lodging: Doubletree by Hilton 1850 Old Fort Parkway Murfreesboro, TN 37129 (615) 895-5555 Note: Hotel reservations must be made by March 11, 2013. Please request the KCTCS rate.
This webinar features developmental education students and their faculty who openly and frankly discuss the challenges they face in persisting through to completion.To register, visit: http://www.matecnetworks.org/growth.php
This webinar will take place from 1:00-2:30 pm EST.
The Community of Practice (CoP) is an opportunity for the ACE community to come together to exchange ideas and learn from one another. It is a day when ACE instructors and implementers can share their innovations around every aspect of the program; from recruiting students, to teaching, or institutionalizing ACE at a college. The goal is to not only build community and share knowledge, but also to capture great ideas to further strengthen this program and better help our students.
This one-day course uses a combination of lecture and classroom activities to teach the basics of solar electric systems. Participants will learn how photovoltaic (PV) systems work, diagram the four PV system types, describe and identify components, understand the best application and limitations of each system type, define the solar window, make energy efficiency recommendations, estimate system loads, and understand the basics of PV site assessment.
The National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity (NAPE) is a consortium of state and local agencies, corporations, and national organizations committed to the advancement of equity and diversity in classrooms and workplaces. At this NAPE-sponsored Professional Development Institute, participants will learn about research-based strategies and innovative tools to help implement promising practices and get results. The Institute also features professional networking time, a full schedule of workshops, and a day dedicated to public policy which includes a visit to Capitol Hill.
A series of two workshops, the Nanotechnology Course Resource Workshops (formerly known as "Train the Trainer" Workshops) were created to provide faculty with: Resources (labs, presentations, and more) and Guidance needed to effectively teach undergraduate nanotechnology courses. Please note: it does not matter which workshop is attended first. These workshops are designed for: post-secondary faculty and administrators.
Nanotechnology Course Resources I: Safety, Processing, and Materials. This workshop focuses on: Materials, Safety, and Equipment Overview, Basic Nanotechnology Processes, and Materials in Nanotechnology.
Applicants who are accepted for the curriculum delivery workshops will be granted a fellowship to attend. The fellowship is valued at $1,700 and includes: workshop registration fee, breakfast/lunch, travel (airfare up to $750), and lodging. Space is limited, register early!
CalGIS always offers a mix of technical workshops, presentations, and networking opportunities. GIS professionals at all levels are invited to share ideas and solve problems together. This three-day workshop includes presentations, panels, roundtables, poster sessions, an exhibition hall, and more.
Today, efficiency is the new formula for success essential to propel the next generation of automobiles.
As we strive to achieve efficiency, the resulting significant and exciting challenges are once again positioning the automobile industry as the industry of choice for the world's best and brightest engineering minds. Vast opportunities await those companies and individuals that dare to be creative and dream big.
Now more than ever, the entire industry must work together to collect and elevate this talent in order to realize responsible mobility and reward those within the engineering community that are good stewards of our natural resources.
Top 4 Reasons to Attend SAE 2013 World Congress:
Technical Knowledge: Learn from a large collection of expert engineers through a technical program that is relevant and stimulating-enhancing skills and creativity.
Peer-to-Peer Networking: Discuss challenges and ideas during designated networking opportunities as well as between sessions and leave with invaluable improvements and solutions.
Management Program: Listen to industry leaders to learn about automotive technology trends and gain insight into the big picture.
Innovators Only Exhibition: Discover new companies and innovative technologies from OEM, top-tier suppliers, and other industry-related companies worldwide.
Whether the challenge is creating micro features on micro parts or on macro parts, participants in this event look for ideas to improve their process. Exploring the many processes available, this conference brings together industry professionals in key areas including:
Participants are invited to take an active role in this cutting-edge program by sharing knowledge and experience with current, new, and potential users of the technology.
This annual conference is the region’s premiere event for individuals and companies interested in staying at the forefront of business technology. For many years, AIM has worked with the founders of Infotec, AITPOmaha, to produce this three-day event. Now, beginning with the 2009 conference, Infotec operated under the new direction of the AIM Institute.
Infotec features exciting keynote speakers and excellent breakout presenters that deliver great content on a variety of tech topics. There are several tracks to choose from – and this year will feature something new – lightning talks in every track. In lightning talk sessions you will hear quick presentations from multiple speakers giving you a lot to think about long after the session is over.
Here are this year’s tracks:
-Mobile Technology
-Marketing & Technology
-Enterprise Technology
-Emerging Business Technology
-Innovation & Technology
-BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)
-Youth in IT
What are the best practices to help female students succeed and thrive in science, technology engineering and math programs? There are proven, low-cost strategies that high schools, colleges and universities can implement right away so that more female students will complete their STEM education.
At the 60-minute webinar, participants will learn how to create a campus-wide retention effort to boost success; tools to get students off to a positive start & breed confidence; ways to engage female students when their numbers in STEM are small; and actionable examples of women in STEM programs.
This four-day installation course offers participants an advanced level of lecture and hands-on learning as they install a permanent utility-interactive PV system on two pole mounts. The system will employ high-efficiency Sanyo HIT® Double bifacial solar panels. The array will be mounted on two pole mounts and power a Fronius IG+ inverter. Participants will learn about sizing, component selection, system layout, NEC calculations and requirements, and real world installation techniques.
This multi-track, technical conference attracts 200+ professionals for an intensive one- and a half-day schedule that includes discussion and debate over forensics, security, data/information governance, cyber crime and security, ethical hacking, eDiscovery, cloud forensics, steganography, policy and compliance, privacy, wireless security, cloud computing, and identity theft.
Past Participants Include:
AccessData, Argonne National Laboratory, Authentify, Cisco, The Chicago Police Department, CompTIA, Computer Associates, the FBI, Fermilab, Fortinet, Guidance Software, IBM, IEEE, KPMG, Microsoft, Motorola, Sungard, UniForum, X-Ways Forensics and many others. Speakers and participants continue to represent local, regional, national, and international organizations and universities.
The conference is currently accepting proposals for presentations, technical sessions, panel discussion, and tutorials.
This course covers PLC programming, installations, and troubleshooting. Emphasis is placed on logical thinking and efficient, logical program development. This course is oriented towards beginners. A basic familiarity with computers and electrical systems is helpful, but not essential.
Key concepts covered in the basic PLC course include: Programming AND / OR conditions, Seal / Latch instructions, Examine ON / Examine OFF instructions, PLC program scan cycle, program documentation,
batch programming techniques, understanding PLC addressing, common program problems and bugs, safety considerations, programming counters and timers, comparison statements, numerical / integer operations, Latch / Unlatch instructions, hardware considerations, diagnostics and troubleshooting,
emerging trends and capabilities.
If we look at the broader history of technology, we see rare individuals possessing a clear vision of an expansive future created by technologies they studied, designed, and promoted. Pushing beyond speculations, their activities sometimes produced actual things and influenced policy. Just as importantly, these people also built communities and networks so they could connect their radical ideas for the technological future to interested citizens, politicians, and business leaders. This talk explores the activities of two such visioneers Gerard O'Neill and Eric Drexler who advocated space settlements and nanotechnologies in response to perceived threats of eco-catastrophism and planetary limits.
Visioneers and the communities of researchers, futurists, and entrepreneurs they attracted have often existed at the blurry border between scientific fact, technological possibility, and optimistic speculation. Their design, imagining, and promotion form part of a longer chain of technological enthusiasm that has marked much of America's history. Nonetheless, visioneers and their supporters were not immune to the lures of profit, celebrity, and sensationalism. And, as their ideas received wider attention and publicity, they also worked to defend the purity and original goals of their visions from fringe characters as well as mainstream scientists. Finally, considering visioneers as a particular analytical category provides an opportunity to reexamine the uptake and adoption of radical ideas in contemporary technological ecosystems.
The Regional Center for Nuclear Education and Training (RCNET), a National Science Foundation (NSF) Center is hosting its second annual meeting. This 2-day meeting reviews the progress of RCNET and its partner colleges. Focus will be placed on RCNET's efforts to support standardized college curriculum available for use across the nation. RCNET implements an Instructional System Design (ISD) ADDIE model (Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement & Evaluate). RCNET, using the ADDIE process, will explain how curriculum developed, collected, or purchased by RCNET, for the nuclear community, aligns to the Systematic Approach to training (SAT). Ultimately, Curriculum Review Committees (CRC's) will verify that the curriculum aligns to industry's exacting standards.
Other topics covered during this two-day meeting include best practices in Leadership, Articulation, Secondary Education Outreach, Diversity Efforts, and Creating a Nuclear Culture at the College.
In this country and in this city, privacy is highly valued and coveted. Privacy influences many elements of our city from housing design to our preferences for private automobiles. Yet, in Arizona there is a significant commitment to unmanned aerial vehicles, wall-penetrating imaging, and long distance surveillance technology. And while most of these technologies are being developed for use in military and border security applications, they are also likely to become tools for city, county and state police forces. These forms of technology leverage existing (and future) nanotechnology. They are quietly breaking down the ability to retain our private lives. From our Facebook pages to our email the use of electronic surveillance is breaking down our notions of privacy. With the volumes of data being compiled and the expanded use of drone (unmanned aerial vehicles) and other surveillance technology, there are challenges to the cultural expectation and value of privacy.
What does privacy mean in the Nano City? How might nanotechnology threaten to undermine the cultural values aligned with privacy? Who gets to decide what is private and what is semi-private and what is public? Can nanotechnology strengthen our levels of privacy, while encouraging greater data and information sharing? Are information sharing and privacy opposing forces?
Earth Engine is Google's geospatial data analysis platform. This workshop will introduce users to the platform and will provide an overview of the tools available for browsing Earth Engine's data catalog and performing analyses on the data. Users will get to run classification and change detection algorithms for their own areas of interest, using Landsat and MODIS data.
This workshop will be led by Tyler Erickson, Senior Developer Advocate with Google Earth Engine.
This webinar starts with a detailed look at data from institutional research offices at community colleges with a focus on developmental education student populations. The concepts of what is measured and what is measurable will be explored. The discussion will then feature promising practices in developmental ed supported by data that validates the approach, and determines if it is scalable and has a good return on investment. To register, visit: http://www.matecnetworks.org/growth.php
This webinar will take place from 1:00-2:30 pm EST.
To grow, Michigan’s economy needs skilled employees at all levels. Most employers would like to hire new employees who possess a combination of skills and experience. Students learn best when they can use concepts in practical applications. Students, who have experiences applying what they are have learned, quickly become productive employees
This conference will highlight best practices in experiential education and create a dialogue with industry representatives about how opportunities for experiential education might be increased across Southeast Michigan.
Michigan’s growing economy needs skilled employees at all levels. Most employers would like new employees that possess a combination of skill and experience. Students learn best when they can transfer a concept to a practical application. Students, who have applied what they have learned, quickly become productive once employed.
This conference will highlight best practices in experiential education and create a dialogue with industry representatives about how opportunities for experiential education might be increased across Southeast Michigan. Dr. Robert McMahan, President of Kettering University, and Amy Cell, Senior Vice President, Talent Enhancement, of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, have agreed to keynote this event.
The annual 2013 Virginia Tech GIS and Remote Sensing Research Symposium provides a venue to share information about recent advances in geographic information systems and remote sensing applications and research.
The Symposium focuses on interaction among participants and the sharing of data, applications, and techniques. It includes both presentation and poster sessions as well as a keynote speaker.
The Annual Mid-Atlantic regional Conference on Promoting Student Success is merging with the ISTEM Conference (Effective Teaching of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics from State and National Experts!)
Promoting student success is everyone's responsibility. This one-day regional conference will offer opportunities for faculty and administrators to present ideas on a wide range of topics and to interact with peers from other institutions. The goal of the conference is to disseminate ideas and best practices that can be replicated at other colleges.
Conference Tracks:
-Teaching approaches and strategies
-Technology
-Student preparedness
-General interest
-Effective Teaching of STEM
The AACC annual meeting is among the largest and most dynamic gatherings of educational leaders, attracting over 2,000 community college presidents and senior administrators, as well as international educators, representatives of business/industry and federal agencies.
The premiere event for community college leaders, AACC's Annual Convention offers unprecedented professional development as well as the opportunity to network, share, and learn from professionals in the fields of education, business and industry, and the government sector. The AACC Exhibit Hall offers a variety of services and products to bring innovation to campuses.
Convention attendees include community college administrators, trustees, faculty, business/industry representatives who work with community colleges, federal or state government representatives, and graduate students.
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, understand how guided inquiry is structured in a POGIL classroom and consider classroom facilitation and other issues related to the implementation of POGIL.
Join biotechnology / biomanufacturing educators and biotech industry representatives from across the United States in Chicago on April 22nd. Learn about current efforts to develop a common core of National Skill Standards for biotechnology and biomanufacturing. Listen to community college graduates talk about their careers in bioscience, and connect with your colleagues.
PMDS – Plant Management and Design Engineering Show is the leading event for managers, engineers, operations and practitioners who assist in the improvement process for their plant maintenance, physical asset management, equipment and system designs and other areas to source the tools they need to stay competitive.
Held every two years, PMDS is the platform which allows attendees to peruse the show floor, watch live demonstrations, compare products and meet with industry suppliers and peers.
Ulrike Passe, Assistant Professor of Architecture Iowa State University and Director of the Center for Building Energy Research presents this free webinar on Building Science. This webinar is presented by Ag Energy and the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center (ATEEC).
The annual NIEHS Biomedical Career Fair, now in its 16th year, is one of the largest assemblies of biomedical organizations and young scientists in Research Triangle Park, NC. Targeting postdoctoral fellows and advanced graduate students, the Career Fair provides these young scientists an opportunity to explore a myriad of fields and create a contact network as they plan for their future careers in the biomedical sciences.
Defense, Security, and Sensing is the largest annual collection of conferences focused on imaging, sensors, lasers and system applications. It is held in Baltimore, Maryland, a region that is the heart of the U.S. defense, security and aerospace industries, and home to many important educational institutions working in these fields.
There are 62 co-located technical conferences covering the latest research and developments in imaging, sensors, lasers, and system applications.
Learn about the latest research and network with experts, vendors, and colleagues from government, military, aerospace, academia and industry from around the world. SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing attracts more than 6,500 top scientists, engineers and product developers, and offers an opportunity to connect with industry leaders and government program directors.
There are more than 55 courses and workshops conducted by experts from academia, government and industry on the latest technologies and training needed to stay competitive in the today’s job market.
Defense, Security, and Sensing features renowned keynote speakers who provide the latest overview of key governmental department missions relevant to this industry.
The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for exchange between federal agencies and Congressional offices regarding domestic issues within the Water-Energy nexus. Affiliations of invited panelists include the EPA, NSF, DOE, DOI (USFWS, USGS, BLM), State Department and Congressional staffers. The goal is to identify shared challenges, opportunities, and possibilities for inter-branch and interagency cooperation. The event is also open to AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellows.
OP-TEC, the National Center for Optics and Photonics Education, is a National Science Foundation (NSF) National Center of Excellence with the mission of promoting photonics education and assisting colleges around the United States in developing and implementing educational programs that support expansion of this critical technology.
As part of our efforts to provide faculty development in optics and photonics, OP-TEC offers a hybrid, online faculty development course in optics and photonics. This Open Entry/Open Exit course has been developed for faculty whose schedules demand a more flexible course timeline. It is perfect for busy faculty who might have difficulty keeping up with weekly assignments in a "scheduled" course but who would have a period or periods of time during the semester or school year that would allow them to complete assignments and exams independently and at their own pace. It is also an excellent opportunity for junior faculty, adjunct faculty, and lab technicians who may need to prepare to teach a college level or dual credit introductory photonics course.
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.
The course is facilitated by an instructor experienced in teaching photonics concepts at the college level and will require a high level of independent self-paced instruction. The course will cover OP-TEC’s Fundamentals of Light and Lasers.
