This curriculum, derived from global best practices and featuring interactive and innovative educational styles, is designed for professionals with interest in Coastal Management at all experience levels in the practice of Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning (CMSP).

A series of two workshops, the Nanotechnology Course Resource Workshops (formerly known as our "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.

This workshop focuses on: Materials, Safety, and Equipment Overview, Basic Nanotechnology Processes, and Materials in Nanotechnology.

This one-day workshop will introduce participants to the newest publication in the National Project for Excellence in Environmental Education series: Non-formal Environmental Education Programs - Guidelines for Excellence. These Guidelines offer a set of recommendations for developing and administering high quality non-formal environmental education programs.

This class enables ICT faculty to achieve a comprehensive introduction to information storage infrastructure, including virtual environments. Faculty will learn about the architectures, features, and benefits of Intelligent Storage Systems; networked storage technologies such as FC-SAN, IP-SAN, NAS, Object-based and unified storage;  business continuity solutions such as backup, replication and archive; the information security;  and the emerging field of cloud computing. This class is taught using the textbook, “Information Storage and Management (ISM), 2nd Edition”, written by storage professionals from EMC Corporation. The book takes an ‘open’ approach to teaching information storage and management, focusing on concepts and principles – rather than product specifics – that can be applied in all IT environments. 

Participants will receive a complimentary copy of the ISM v2 textbook. Faculty who are participating in the EMC Academic Alliance program will receive the teaching and learning aids to deliver the course including PowerPoints and facilitator guide for each chapter, videos, course lesson planning, and more …

Solar Power International (SPI) generates success for solar energy professionals and the global solar industry. SPI is ranked #109 in the Top 250 Largest Trade Shows (by Trade Show News Network), making SPI the largest solar show in North America. In addition, SPI is a Gold 100 trade show (as ranked by Trade Show Executive), making it the only solar show to make both lists.

The Facts

SPI is North America’s premier business-to-business event for professionals in solar energy and related fields.

• More than 15,000 solar energy industry professionals from 75+ countries attend.
• More than 600 leading manufacturers, service providers, and vendors on the Expo floor.
• Four days of power-packed ROI that will help you grow, learn, connect, and compete.

The Features

SPI brings the full range of industry ideas, experts, professionals, and information together in one comprehensive event that delivers:

• Peer-led educational programming designed to exchange ideas, share lessons learned, and provide solutions for your business.
• Unique networking opportunities that allow you to solidify your current relationships and build new ones.
• Connections with industry vendors and professionals from the U.S. and around the world as they showcase their newest products and services.
• Opportunities to expand in and with the U.S. market.

The IBEX Louisville 2015 show floor plan will look the same as Tampa's main show floor. There will be ONE main cross aisle. Only exhibitors with 1500 square feet or more will be in a true island configuration. There will be several interactive areas on the show floor including the Exhibitor Workshop Theater, The Connected Boat, and Social Media Lounge. We will once again offer specialty pavilion areas; Composites, Electronics, and Compliance, Standards & Education. The IBEX Seminar Series offers world-renowned technical education from fundamental skills to cutting-edge advanced training and is designed for shop floor crew, seasoned technicians, and company officers.

The Annual Advanced Battery Tradeshow For The Global Battery Industry

Taking place September 15-17, Novi, Detroit, Michigan, The Battery Show 2015 is the premier showcase of the latest advanced battery technology. The exhibition hall offers a platform to launch new products, make new contacts and maintain existing relationships. With more qualified buyers and decision makers than any other event in North America, The Battery Show 2015 is the key to unlocking your future business opportunities.

The Battery Show is attended by technical leaders, scientists, engineers, project leaders, buyers and senior executives concerned with advanced energy storage and will host the very latest advanced battery solutions for electric & hybrid vehicles, utility & renewable energy support, portable electronics, medical technology, military and telecommunications.

The Battery Show 2015 will once again be co-locating with Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Technology Expo, the premier showcase for electric and hybrid vehicle technology and innovation. The show is a free-to-attend manufacturing and engineering exhibition and will be attended by leading automotive and off-highway vehicle engineers, business leaders, technical experts, consultants and R&D professionals, all looking for greater efficiency and safety while reducing the overall cost of e-mobility.

Why attend The Battery Show?

The Battery Show is America’s biggest free-to-attend exhibition for advanced batteries. The very latest battery technology will be on display for a number of applications, from EV’s to Utility storage, through to bespoke mobile power applications, personal electronicsand healthcare. If advanced battery technology is key to your products and services, The Battery Show will help your company stay ahead.

The Battery Show is also a supply chain event, where the latest solutions from raw material and equipment suppliers, to materials and testing and recycling services. If it happens through the life of a battery, the services to support this will be on display. A must attend event for battery manufacturers, from junior engineer to CEO level, The Battery Show will enable you to attain better battery performance, safety and cost.

Visitors to The Battery Show 2015 will also have free access to Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Technology Expo, the premier showcase for electric and hybrid vehicle technology and innovation

Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Technology Expo is the premier showcase for electric and hybrid vehicle technology and innovation. The show highlight advances right across the powertrain and across a wide range of vehicles from passenger and commercial to off-highway industrial vehicles.

This program provides a unique quick start opportunity to beginning career and technology teachers who do not hold degrees in teacher education. Participants will be professionally and personally challenged as they progress through this program. The program is rigorous, but will provide beginning teachers with critical classroom strategies and foundational skills proved to be effective in today's CareerTech classroom.

Through the new 2.5-day "Get SMART!" Impact Workshops you will learn core concepts and receive materials needed to develop or expand academic courses and pathways that will enable students to enter the maritime and transportation industry which is critical to our nation's economy and security. You will also receive SMART products including lessons, toolkits, "Make the SMART Choice!" video series and new SMART Maritime and Transportation Career Guide. Lastly, you will meet key industry players in your region to help support your programs and learn about registered apprenticeship programs, internships and college programs for students in your area.

CareerTech Professional Development presents, Continuing Teacher Academy for all CareerTech Teachers. This special opportunity will allow teachers to gain knowledge in new strategies and best practices in education.

Come and learn about youth & adult pathways to obtaining a higher education including credit and non-credit programming. The event will include: Program information tables, CPP programs overview, Financial aid workshop, 3D Digital Design & Manufacturing Presentation, Ohio Means Jobs overview.

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. This will be the 35th E.T. Forum.

This training will help teachers just starting in or wanting to start robotics. The focus will be on the programming in robot c. This will be a hands on collaborative training for teachers with many tips and resources.

MakerCon gathers makers from diverse segments that don’t always have the opportunity to share ideas, visions and views. Educators, engineers, entrepreneurs, CxOs from big business, directors of non-profits, and leaders from government agencies join together under one big tent to discuss the impact of the maker movement and making on education, the economy, and emerging markets.

CyberWatch West is a consortium of higher education institutions, government agencies, and industry partners focused on increasing the quantity and quality of the cybersecurity workforce in the western U.S.

In this webinar, CyberWatch West representatives will discuss the various resources they have available that can be leveraged by the National CyberWatch Center members to develop effective training and teaching modules.

The FabLearn Conference brings together key influencers and thought-leaders from around the world in education, policy-making, academia, design, research, and maker communities to learn, present, and discuss digital fabrication in education, the maker culture, hands-on learning, and instructional tools.

The conference has been held at Stanford University since 2011, and has also had many international spin-offs.

The FabLearn 2015 conference theme is Equity and Diversity in Making.

Join the Union of Concerned Scientists to explore how to overcome barriers to scientist-community collaboration and make scientist engagement more effective. Learn about new ways for scientists, leaders, and citizens to work together, and leave with strategies and tangible advice to develop (or improve) connections between scientists and communities. Webcast is coming soon.

This year's keynote presenter is Mark David Milliron

With the construction of the Block Island project, it’s a critical time in the offshore wind industry to build upon the progress made. In 2015, the AWEA Offshore WINDPOWER Conference & Exhibition program is gathering top developers and experts to define the next steps in maintaining a positive trend for the industry. An exciting program awaits this year the analyzes new developments, applies the latest lessons learned, and  highlights the best areas for potential cost reductions.

The SMART Maritime Technologies (MarTech) Consortium is a group of approximately 40 industry employers, secondary and post-secondary educators, faculty and career coaches that meet on a monthly basis to support and inform the SMART Center's work. The Consortium is chaired by Brad Mason, Director of Maintenance, Modernization, and Technical Services for ASMEC, LLC a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries.

Join some of the automotive industry's foremost thinkers and leaders at the 2015 MICHauto Summit, Sept. 30. Building off the theme "The Connected Culture," the Summit will focus on how Michigan can leverage its automotive heritage to lead the research, design and manufacturing of next-generation mobility technology. 

Program partners include the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) and the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT).

Project Lead The Way- Learning Management System (Getting Started) 8:30-11:30am 25 seats available Session Lead: Vic Dreier -PLTW Director of School Engagement Arkansas, Oklahoma The Learning Management System has a wealth of resources for you and your students. This will be a hands-on session for all and will help answer all your questions about getting started with the LMS. Come learn how to navigate and set things up for you to easily manage your classes. This session will go through the basic functions of the LMS from setting up your classes, to moving students from class to class, and all the other everyday basic how to items. Learn about where all the resources are and how to incorporate them into your classes. Make the LMS work for you.

The Learning Management System can transform learning in your classroom. Come learn about the advanced technology integrations you can do with your LMS and how to create a multi-media, blended learning environment. This session is for teachers that have the basics of the LMS down and want to take things to the next level. Collaboration with others is a huge part of what we do in PLTW. We will also show you how to create a shared quiz/test bank on the LMS and be able to design and share class resources with other teachers through the LMS. Come get answers to those questions about how you can make all your digital resources work together. Create and use interactive rubrics, embed YouTube videos, design your lessons to be flipped, embed links to your Blackboard, Edmodo accounts, and use other online resources right in your PLTW courses.

The 16th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education and the 4th Annual Conference on Research in Information Technology (RIIT) will be hosted by DePaul University and will take place at the DePaul Loop campus September 30 – October 3, 2015. Both conferences are sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group of Information Technology Education (SIGITE).

The theme of both conferences is “Creating the Future”. The Chicago fire of 1871 enabled a rebirth of development in Chicago, producing notable architecture that continues to impact the city into the present day. In a nod to that period of development, a technology-focused incubator called 1871 has been created, and with it has come a focus on reinventing Chicago for the next century. Industry, academic, and political leaders are working to make Chicago a city known for its innovative approaches to business and technology.

Come out and learn about registered apprenticeship opportunities across Hampton Roads! Exhibitors will include employers from a wide variety of industries including: shipbuilding, manufacturing, construction/skilled trades, services, and education.

Come out and learn about registered apprenticeship opportunities across Hampton Roads! Exhibitors will include employers from a wide variety of industries including: shipbuilding, manufacturing, construction/skilled trades, services, and education.

This event will focus on what we know about the causes, effects and treatments of mental illness, from young children, to adolescents, to middle-age and elderly patients.

In October, manufacturers across the state will open their doors for the Dream It. Do It. Minnesota Statewide Tour of Manufacturing. Most tours will align with Minnesota Manufacturing Week, October 1-10. However, registration is open to celebrate all tours that take place in October. Tour groups will have the chance to:
• See STEM concepts in action.
• Learn about high-tech machinery, like robots.
• Get a hands-on look at how things we use every day are made.
• Learn about growing and well-paid career opportunities in their backyard.

Two content packed days devoted specifically to providing research-based resources and strategies for promoting proper behavior in the areas of cyberethics, safety and security and promoting students awareness of the plethora of career options in the cybersecurity field.