Join the CAAT at AutoRama's Student Career Day to learn about technical education career pathways. Instructors, students, and general public welcome.

Student Day was started in 2006 as an initiative to support the automotive educational programs at schools by exposing students to the wide range of opportunities in the industry through speakers, corporate support and event participation.

Presented by Summit Racing Equipment and the International Show Car Association (ISCA), AutoRama, World of Wheels, and Cavalcade of Customs are committed to the future by holding these annual “Career Days� where students and instructors enjoy the aftermarket hot rod industry. The events feature guest speakers who share their passion of the industry.

In the wake of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated coastal regions of northern Japan and the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant, the U.S. nuclear community requires new safety regulations to go beyond current safety planning to prevent a similar event from happening again. This webinar is designed to discuss what we've learned from the Fukushima disaster and how to integrate these outcomes into the nuclear classroom.

The webinar will cover

• Classification & phases of a nuclear accident
• Emergency planning & response to nuclear accidents
• Overview of the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Power Station accident
• Lessons learned

This workshop covers a variety of material related to microtechnology and MEMS devices in the medical field, as well as biological concepts that are exploited by such devices. Participants will become familiar with SCME’s bioMEMS series of learning modules and will complete a variety of activities found within these learning modules. Activities include the role of DNA and proteins in micro-sized devices, biomolecules and their functions in bioMEMS, and explorations and presentations about specific bioMEMS used for diagnostics, therapeutics and clinical laboratory applications.

A short presentation about different styles of pruners and pruning vines by Dave Cairns and Highland Community College's Dominic Martin. HCC's Intro to Viticulture students will also be in attendance.

This workshop will facilitate discussion, exchange of information, and sharing of resources to make the most out of your introductory courses in the geosciences, including courses focused on geology, oceanography, atmospheric science, and Earth system science.

The workshop will include a series of web-based synchronous and asynchronous sessions, including presentations from experts, sharing among participants, on-line chat sessions, and time for guided individual and group work. A primary focus of the workshop will be the development of online resources for geoscience faculty and departments that address key issues in introductory courses including a set of examples drawn from participants' experiences. These materials will be published on the website for use by other faculty, departments, and partnerships. Participants will have time to create an action plan for modifying their course(s) and obtain feedback on this plan from other workshop participants.

This workshop builds on and moves beyond previous workshops on Teaching Introductory Geoscience offered by On the Cutting Edge. We welcome individual instructors who wish to enhance and improve their course, and we will also provide the opportunity for groups of faculty and instructors to come together to discuss overarching strategies for introductory courses within programs and undergraduate curricula.

Late applications still accepted. Cost is $200.

Topics will include: wine tasting methodology, wine sensory components, wine faults and flaws, and errors in the perception of wine. Workshop attendees will be guided through sensory test methods to access perceived differences and preferences in wine. This workshop will benefit winemakers, cellar workers and others in the industry who seek a deeper understanding of these topics and their impact on a winery’s success. The course concludes with a Certificate of Completion.

This VESTA Sensory workshop is a featured pre-conference workshop for the Wineries Unlimited Grape and Wine Conference.

This course is designed to grow the NETLAB+ community of users & will enable you to create custom PODS for new classes.

Participants of this workshop will be performing a "from the ground up" build of the learning NETLAB learning environment to include both physical and software installations.

This three-day workshop will be IN-PERSON at Hagerstown Community College. Faculty will be instructed on the procedures and processes for implementing a virtualized lab solution using NDG NETLAB+ and VMware vSphere.

Virtualized labs enable organizations to host real IT equipment, virtual machines and lab content on the Internet to support IT training. Generally, these labs include all the software needed to provide an environment through which students may schedule and complete lab exercises for Information Technology courses.

Improving student success is an important priority at most 2YCs, but is especially challenging given the wide range of abilities, preparation and goals of 2YC students.

This workshop will bring together faculty, education researchers, professional geosciences to address these issues and share ideas and experiences. We will assemble a menu of best practices for attracting and retaining geoscience students and for preparing them to transfer or enter the workforce.

The goals of this workshop are to:

• Document current practices for promoting student success (e.g., activities, instructional approaches, programs, support structures)
• Explore strategies for effectively teaching all students, including distinct subpopulations
• Develop approaches to engage our colleagues, including full-time and part-time faculty and administrators, in implementing approaches discussed at the workshop
• Foster the network of colleagues who will implement and disseminate insights from the workshop

When developing evaluation plans for NSF ATE projects, one size doesn’t fit all. How can meaningful evaluation plans be developed for “Small Grants for Institutions New to ATE� or other small-budget grant proposals? Small budgets create unique challenges in identifying impact and effectiveness of grant-funded work. Staff from EvaluATE and the Mentor-Connect Project will provide information on approaches and strategies to plan and implement effective evaluations of smaller projects, including budget considerations for implementing these evaluation approaches.

If you are interested in attracting girls to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) career fields as well as supporting girls in STEM, and would like to collaborate with others who are like minded, be sure to attend the Indiana Girls Collaborative Project (INGCP) Collaboration Conference, STEM-ulating Collaboration: Sustaining Equity and Resources for Indiana Girls. It is a great opportunity to meet and network with others who are interested and influential in promoting STEM fields and making STEM more accessible and attractive to people who are not currently represented. Keynotes include Glenda Ritz, State Superintendent of Public Instruction and Congresswoman Susan Brooks, Ind-5th District. Light breakfast refreshments will be served and lunch is provided.

Learn how to integrate emerging technology resources in your classroom, revitalize your curriculum, learn about nanotechnology, semiconductors, nano-medicine, and photovoltaic/solar peer networking opportunities. This conference is for academic administrators, K-12 Science and technology teachers, community college & University faculty, industry technicians & workforce trainers.

A two–day professional development program designed to help teachers incorporate contextual learning into their classrooms. Sponsored by industry and education leaders. Curriculum focuses on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) concepts, while emphasizing critical thinking, problem-based learning, inquiry learning, and exploration. All activities are hands-on and are matched to current state/national curriculum requirements. Teachers leave with best practices for curriculum integration as well as pre-built content to take back to their classrooms.

Join Kent State University Ashtabula and the VESTA National Center for a hands-on workshop covering analytical chemistry involved in wine production. Topics covered in this two-day workshop include:

• Soluble solids
• Sugar per berry by refractometry
• pH and total acidity
• Sugars by Clinitest
• Sulfur dioxide by AO
• Volatile acidity
• Ethanol
• Malolactic fermentation
• Formol-reduced volume procedure

Dr. Barry Gump, Professor of Analytical Chemistry and Enology at Florida International University, VESTA faculty member, and co-author of Wine Analysis and Production, will lead the workshop.

This workshop covers a complete 10 step process used to fabricate a micro-sized pressure sensor. Topics include a review of deposition, photolithography and etch processes, and how these processes are applied in the fabrication of a MEMS device. Activities include identifying actual processed chips that show each step of the fabrication process, completing the lift-off process on actual metal-deposited chips, and building a model or computer graphic that illustrates the fabrication steps and the correct sequence. This workshop uses SCME's Pressure Sensor Process Kit and Lift-off Kit to provide hands-on learning for many of these activities.

Come as a family and race in the Nerdy Derby, make Comet Ice Cream, build a Toothpick Bridge, and more! (Actual activities may vary.) Families will experience science, technology, engineering and mathematics together as they design, build, and conduct a different experiment or solve a different challenge each hour. Visit Georgia Tech and experience the fun of doing science together as a family lead by GT students, staff, and faculty. Using everyday items participants will learn what being a scientist or engineer is really like while having fun.

Best suited for families with students in grades 4-12. Students younger than 4th grade may have difficulty completing the activities. Families change classrooms each hour for a total of 3 unique classes/projects. A minimum of 1 adult for every 4 students is required to attend. Groups are welcome as long as 1 adult is registered for every 4 students.

A maximum of 300 attendees (adults + students) is possible.

A least 1 adult must attend with each group of up to 4 students. Drop off of students is not permitted.

During this hands-on workshop, participants will become familiar with various TIPERs. TIPERs are Tasks Inspired by Physics Education Research. These tasks are not like traditional physics textbook problems, but rather, require the students to think conceptually about a particular physical situation. They include ranking tasks, working backwards tasks, conflicting contentions tasks, linked multiple choice tasks and others. In this workshop, participants will work with different kinds of tasks, discuss how they might be effectively used in the physics classroom, and learn how to write some of their own tasks. There will be an emphasize on the new Sense Making TIPERs although nTIPERs (Newtonian TIPERs) and emTIPERs will also be discussed.

Technological and Engineering Literacy Core Connections: Envisioning a Society in Which all People are Technologically Literate

A Day of ACE offers an opportunity for a team of thought leaders to gain a deep understanding of ACE. Experiential activities introduce participants to ACE curriculum and pedagogy and provide takeaways for the classroom. Emerging ACE research in the affective domain connects students’ lives to academia through a sociocultural framework. After a networking lunch, teams discuss next steps in creating equitable success models customized for their students and programs. Graduates are encouraged to attend ACE’s Five-Day Experiential Learning Institute offered throughout the country during the summer.

This professional development workshop is open to faculty, staff and administrators of secondary and post-secondary institutions who want to learn more about ACE and have an opportunity to taste the ACE experiential environment. The cost of attendance is $30, which covers a catered light breakfast, snacks and a warm lunch.

Join National CyberWatch Center to discuss Cybersecurity Education and Workforce Development-related topics with nationally-recognized subject matter experts.

Participants will get an inside look at the Research Experience for Teachers program, funded by the National Science Foundation, and get ideas of activities for the HS classroom. The webinar will focus on the use of Skype sessions and YouTube videos that follow a research student as they learn and apply 21st century manufacturing skills.

Increase the success of your wine business! This 1.5 day workshop of lectures and hands on lab exercises, will be held at Northern New Mexico College in Espanola, NM. Utilizing his 30 years of experience in chemisty, brewing and wine analysis, Dr. Barry Gump of Florida International University, will guide winemakers, enologists, lab assistants, etc. through analysis and lab techniques necessary to have a well-functioning wine lab.

Inside 3D Printing brings together the 3D printing universe and prepares you to take advantage of "The Third Industrial Revolution." Partake in workshops, seminars for every interest level, and networking to explore business opportunities, policy consideration, and the latest 3D printers and services.

Early registration ends February 18, 2014.

Join AACC and SEED in this webinar about incorporating sustainability into the colleges fundamental principles. In doing so it will be the difference between isolated projects and full integration across the campus.

As sustainability activities are often dispersed across organizational units and campuses, embedding these principles into the college's guiding documents can mean the difference between an isolated classroom recycling project and full integration across the institution. Learn how colleges have, through their institutional strategic planning processes, incorporated sustainability components into strategic planning documents, facility master plans, and even employees' work procedures. Once sustainability is part of the institution's DNA the efforts endure as presidents and trustees come and go.

The program committee has worked hard over the past two years to bring you an exciting program that will challenge your teaching knowledge and strategies. They received a record-breaking number of proposals for the conference from which they selected a diverse, engaging program that will appeal to teachers at all grade levels and disciplines. For those who wish to focus on a particular topic in more depth, they have selected four strands: Science and Literacy: A Symbiotic Relationship, Teaching Elementary Science with Confidence!; Leading from the Classroom; and Engineering and Science: Technological Partners. In addition to numerous hands-on workshops, share-a-thons, presentations, field trips, and invited speakers, the Museum of Science, Boston will provide free admittance to conference attendees.

The ASEE Zone 1 Conference is held once every 5-6 years and this issue of the conference is anticipated to attract more than 1000 faculty, students and experts from academia and industry who are interested in engineering education, STEM Education, Research and Development in Engineering and Engineering Technology. The theme of the conference is “Engineering Education: Industry Involvement and Interdisciplinary Trends.� The conference is committed to fostering the exchange of ideas, enhancing teaching methods and curricula, and providing prime networking opportunities for faculty members, students and industry and government representatives.

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 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 exhibit hall offers a variety of services and products to bring innovation to your campus.

Two days of preconvention workshops and business meetings are offered before the convention gets underway. The conference officially starts on Saturday afternoon with the opening general session followed by the grand opening of the exhibit hall and various affiliate receptions.

Sunday and Monday offer breakfast meetings, breakout sessions, visits to the exhibit hall and more affiliate receptions.

Monday evening is the Awards of Excellence gala dinner where AACC celebrates the truly extraordinary—often visionary—work being done at our member colleges.

Tuesday morning hosts one hour of concurrents sessions followed by the AACCOutstanding Community College Alumni brunch.

This workshop covers a variety of different micro-sized components (e.g., accelerometers, surface acoustical wave devices (SAWs), cantilevers arrays, microfluidic components), how they are used and the different micro-machining processes that are used to fabricate them. The majority of the time in this workshop is spent working in teams to build a three-dimensional model of a micro-sized component that addresses a specific application. In addition to creating a model, each team develops an outline of a fabrication process that could be used to build the device. This workshop uses SCME’s MEMS Innovators Kit to complete the activity.

NOTE: To get the most out of this workshop and this kit, it is best that you already have a basic knowledge of MEMS and MEMS fabrication processes. This is NOT an introductory workshop.

Gulf Coast MakerCon will provide added value for adult attendees, with a special Young Makers section for kids and families, as well. There will be a wide variety of creative and interactive vendors, exhibitors, and entertainment that includes everything from robotics and metalsmithing, to recycled instruments, ham radio, RC modeling, automotive tech, gaming, inventions, innovations, future tech and much more.

Early registration ends February 28, 2014. Advance ticket sale ends April 3, 2014.

This workshop will cover the teaching of three courses out of the six course suite: Materials, Safety, and Equipment Overview; Basic Nanotechnology Processes; and, Materials in Nanotechnology.

The workshop uses the National Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge (NACK) class notes and the corresponding set of labs. The workshop will also cover the strategies for the conducting of the NACK-provided labs for the courses. The workshops will also discuss the equipment needs for the labs, equipment costs, and sustaining costs.

This workshop is a continuation of Nanotechnology Course Resources II, although it does not matter in which order the workshops get completed.