This FREE event offered by the Center for Advanced Automotive Technology will be held at Macomb Community College's South Campus in Warren, MI on Friday, May 6, 2016. It is targeted towards automotive industry representatives as well as secondary and postsecondary auto educators, counselors, and administrators.​

The automotive industry is transforming. With car makers making significant investment into R&D and the connected vehicle, the monetisation opportunities are significant. This is reflected in the growth of Silicon Valley based offices of automotive OEMs.

Specific areas including fully autonomous vehicles, ADAS and predictive intelligence are the future for the automotive industry. On top of this connected car systems are moving forwards and increased uptake provides a significant long term monetisation opportunity.

Future & Connected Cars in 2016 will provide the opportunity to engage with automotive R&D centres in Silicon Valley and tap into an entirely new audience including industry players focused on the internet of things, autonomous drive, V2X and predictive intelligence.

The second Naval STEM Expo will be held on Sunday, May 15, 2016 1:00pm – 5:00pm at the Gaylord Convention Center, National Harbor, Maryland.

The Naval STEM Exposition provides a fun and educational way to connect students with our nation's top military and civilian organizations who can inspire students to pursue a STEM-related career. By fostering more transparency between industry representatives and students before college, the STEM Exposition offers early insight for students about the value of a STEM skill-set in today's world. This will help ensure companies and the military have a pipeline of potential employees with the right skills for our nation's security.

The Annual Conference is the flagship WTS networking event of the year. It attracts hundreds of corporate and governmental industry leaders worldwide. Private corporations, public agencies, and government officials invested in every transportation mode will exhibit, present, learn, and network. Eight distinct events, including an opening night reception and a banquet dinner, will showcase the tremendous leaders represented. You don’t want to miss this opportunity to be part of the one and only multi-modal conference of the year!

Professional development workshop €œLasers and Fiber Optics€ hosted by LASER-TEC and designed for secondary educators teaching math, science, technology, and engineering.  The purpose of this workshop is to introduce cutting edge technologies of lasers and fiber optics to high and middle school educators, and help them integrate modern applications into existing lesson plans.  

This workshop covers basic and advanced topics of light, lasers, and fiber optics and includes hands-on activities throughout the workshop. Using the "Light and Optics Exploration Kit" developed by LASER-TEC, participants investigate the nature of light, its dual nature, colors, color addition and subtraction, electro-magnetic spectrum, spectroscopy, laws of reflection and refraction, imaging, critical angle and light propagation in optical fiber, interference, diffraction, polarization, and fundamentals of laser operation.

There will be exhibits and workshops to promote workforce development.

The Institute is for high school students, teachers and counselors (grades 9-12) who want to learn about the many career choices and applications of the photonics industry, the skills required to be successful in photonics-enabled careers, TSTC’s Laser Electro-Optics degree program, and basic Laser and Optics principles.