This training will provide participants with information to increase success for students included within mainstream classrooms. This workshop will provide information on designing writing assignments that address “writing to learn", provide information on responding to writing errors/skills development within the context of the STEM classroom.

The target audience for this workshop includes STEM high school general education teachers, inclusion specialists, local assistive technology specialists, and staff within the Deaf Education program.

This conference is designed to foster collaboration and integration of data, technology and functionality.

This conference is unlike any other you will attend this year. You won’t just learn by sitting in workshops and presentations. MARCON’s intimate size allows you the opportunity to collaborate one-on-one with the presenters, exhibitors and other attendees. Join us as companies share their best practices, and information on new and emerging technologies, methods and techniques in the area of Reliability and Maintenance Engineering and Management. This conference is a forum for all — practitioners, specialists, managers, educators, students, and even the new and uninitiated.

Join 3,500 federal GIS professional and government leaders for insightful sessions, training, and networking. You will See the innovative ways your peers are achieving goals, hear from leaders who are guiding the nation forward, Get product updates from Esri staff, and Find inspiration you can act on when you get back to the office.

This webinar will provide an overview and characteristics of a strong, working community of practice and how to get started, and how to keep it going and growing.  Several examples from the ATE community will be highlighted.

Cyber insurance specialist Andrew Laubmeier from Aon Risk Solutions will provide an overview of Network Security & Privacy "Cyber" Liability Insurance. In addition, he will also discuss the different coverage components of a policy, as well as recent trends in the industry.

The RSA Conference is an opportunity for the security industry to converge to discuss current and future concerns and get access to the people, content and ideas that enable individuals and companies to win, grow, and do their best. It serves as a marketplace for the latest technologies and hands-on educational opportunities that help industry professionals discover how to make their companies more secure while showcasing the most enterprising, influential, and thought-provoking thinkers and leaders in security today.

The two-day event is intended as a forum for the domestic shipbuilding industry, its supplier base, the U.S. Navy Program Offices and the U.S. Navy-sponsored shipbuilding research programs to exchange information on shipbuilding technical developments. Featured are advances generated respectively by the National Shipbuilding Research Program and the Navy ManTech Program through its Centers of Excellence and related shipbuilding initiatives. The objective of the information exchange is to reduce total ownership cost of naval ships while enhancing the competitiveness of the domestic shipbuilding industry.

Understanding crystal structures and crystal planes help engineers, technicians, and designers develop processes and choose materials that yield effective, long-lasting microsystems. It also helps one to better understand the processes and the desired outcomes  - information that is needed to identify, troubleshoot and solve problems that may occur during the process of building a microsystem.

In this topic you explore concepts related to crystallography and their applications in microsystem technology.  You observe, study and demonstrate several concepts related to crystallography and bulk micromachining.  This topic includes the following activities.

• The Miller Index Activity - This activity provides the tools to navigate within a crystal and identify the planes of the crystal using Miller notation. (Miller notation utilizes the Cartesian coordinate system.)
• Breaking Wafers Activity - This activity applies destructive testing to learn more about crystal structures and how crystals such as diamonds use different cleavage planes to produce multi-faceted jewels and how microtechnology uses crystal planes to fabricate specific shapes such as pressure chambers and microfluidic channels.
• Bulk Micromachining - An Etch Process Activity - This activity uses an actual pressure sensor process chip to demonstrate and observe the anisotropic etching of silicon in a sodium hydroxide solution. (Personal protective equipment as well as a fume hood are required to complete this activity.)

SCME's "Crystallography Kit" supports some of the activities in this topic. 

SCME's "Bulk Micromachining Kit" supports the Bulk Micromachining Activity.

The concepts taught in this topic can be applied to mathematics, physics, chemistry, earth science, material science, electronics, engineering, and micro and nanotechnologies.

The Spring 2016 conference focuses on strategies that maximize the likelihood that policy makers, funders and practitioners will demand and use rigorous research.
A central goal of the meeting is to build bi-directional pathways between decision-making and evidence on educational effectiveness.

The Technical Symposium of the Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) is an annual event with approximately 1300 attendees. It addresses problems common among educators working to develop, implement, and/or evaluate computing programs, curricula, and courses. The symposium provides a forum for sharing new ideas for syllabi, laboratories, and other elements of teaching and pedagogy, at all levels of instruction.

This workshop is the first face-to-face meeting of the SAGE 2YC Faculty Change Agents. Workshop participants will learn more about the project, each other, the leaders, and the research and evaluation component of the work that lies ahead. The program will focus on aspects of the following topics: supporting the success of all students, broadening participation, promoting professional pathways (careers and transfer), and engaging your partners. The Change Agent teams will spend time working together on their action plans.

The SXSWedu® Conference & Festival fosters innovation in learning by hosting a diverse and energetic community of stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds in education. The four-day event affords registrants open access to engaging sessions, interactive workshops, hands on learning experiences, film screenings, early stage startups and a host of networking opportunities. By providing a platform for collaboration, SXSWedu works to promote creativity and social change.

SXSWedu is a component of the South by Southwest® (SXSW®) family of conferences and festivals that includes SXSW Music, Film and Interactive; SXSW Eco and SXSW V2V. Internationally recognized as the convergence gathering for the creative arts, SXSWedu extends SXSW’s support for the art of engagement beyond musicians, filmmakers and new media innovators to include society’s true rock stars: educators!

The New York Geographic Alliance and the Staff Development Department of Wayne-Finger Lakes BOCES are partnering to present a workshop for secondary teachers on Geographic Practices aligned with the new Social Studies Standards. This will be an interactive workshop, because we want teachers to be successful in bringing more geography into their lessons. Lessons will be presented that are appropriate for both middle and high school, and teachers will have time to work with colleagues to come up with their own lesson ideas. Materials will be provided.

While ATE Projects and Centers devote a great deal of attention to measuring impact and evaluation, the toughest question to answer is, bluntly stated, “Who cares?� If your project or center were to lose funding tomorrow, who would run to its defense? The focus of this webinar will be to provide an overview of some important steps any project or center leader can take today to start to identify the deep value they have created, and to think about ways that value can be leveraged into forms of ongoing support. This webinar serves as an overview; the webinars that follow will each delve into specific topics in greater depth.​

Join educators to share and learn about the latest tools and trends in CNC and precision machining education and partnerships. Co-sponsored by HFO-Tampa.

The mission of the Haas Technical Education Center network is to promote and advance manufacturing and productivity through excellence in manufacturing education. Our vision is to collectively develop and disseminate the best educational materials and techniques in the world for advanced manufacturing education.

This workshop will benefit winemakers, cellar workers, winery staff, and wine enthusiasts who seek a deeper understanding of these topics and their impact on a winery’s success. In addition, workshop attendees will be guided through sensory test methods to access perceived differences and preferences in wine.

Each faculty member will build his/her own custom electric guitar based on applied STEM learning techniques to better engage students in the topics of science, tech- nology, engineering and math (STEM). Participants will leave this weeklong experi- ence with their custom-made guitars, curriculum modules with short term assess- ments that can be immediately integrated into the faculty’s school curriculum.

The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations.

Hosted by CADRE, this webinar will provide an informational overview of the program with perspectives from the NSF and PIs on active STEM Education CAREER grants.

This webinar presents a framework to identify and implement effective strategies to increase the participation, persistence, and completion of underrepresented students in STEM and other nontraditional career preparation programs using NAPE’s Suite of Professional Development Programs and other resources. As identified in the Solving Education Equation report, there are key gaps in the participation of historically underrepresented groups in STEM, including women, men of color, Latinos, Native Americans, students with disabilities, and students from “Special Populations.� Join the NAPE staff to explore solutions to these gaps so that our communities and nation can realize the potential of every student.

Choose one of four 1.5 hour sessions.

Attendees will review of the state-of-the-art in basic research on additive manufacturing (AM/3D printing) for health, examination of future prospects of AM for health and sharing of perspectives on AM for health from funding agencies such as DoD, NIH, NIST, and NSF, identification of needs, gaps and challenges facing AM for health, and formulation of recommendations for basic research initiatives.

Hosted by Cal Poly Pomona in Pomona, CA, this competition focuses specifically on the operational aspect of managing and protecting an existing commercial network infrastructure. Students get a chance to test their knowledge in an operational environment, as well as to network with industry professionals who are always on the lookout for up-and-coming engineers. This is a unique opportunity for students and industry professionals to interact and discuss many of the security and operational challenges the students will soon face as they enter the job market.​

Innovations 2016 is the premier event for professionals dedicated to improving organizational teaching and learning, and discovering new approaches for enhancing the community college experience. This international conference provides a forum for collaboration among academic experts and leading community college professionals, while granting participants exclusive access to the most inventive and thought-provoking programs from around the world.

USFLN Annual Symposium 2016 features presentations and workshops on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Other elements will deal with Education and Sustaining a Fab Lab or Makerspace. Early-bird registration is discounted @ $300, including full individual membership for the remainder of 2015 and all of calendar 2016.

The Historic Preservation and Collections Department at George Washington’s Mount Vernon is pleased to host our fifth one-day symposium on the deployment of GIS in the management and research of historic resources on Wednesday, March 23, 2016. The Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington will provide the setting for the symposium and we invite speakers to share their strategies and experiences on the varied uses of GIS.

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.

The Convergence Technology Network started 11 years ago and has grown to have 46 member colleges from 16 states. This session will present best practices for creating, maintaining and growing a community of practice similar to the Convergence Technology Network. Member colleges will share the benefits they have received from being a part of a community of practice.

 

TU-Automotive Cybersecurity dissects the real issues behind the headlines, helping you to apply technology and best practices to deliver robust security defenses and processes within a more secure ecosystem.The conference unites players from research labs, automakers, tier 1’s, security researchers, and the complete supply chain to plan for the imminent future. 

This free workshop empowers college faculty to integrate modern methods for genome analysis into courses and student research projects. All the resources presented in the workshop are produced by the iPlant Collaborative, a NSF-funded project to develop a computer infrastructure for life science research (www.iplantcollaborative.org). Instruction, workshop materials, and lunches are provided by NSF grant funding.

To help you make the most of the professional development opportunities available at the Nashville conference, the Conference Committee has planned the conference around four strands that explore topics of current significance, enabling you to focus on a specific area of interest or need. These strands are 1) Setting the Stage: Scientific Literacy 2) Building the Band: Involving Community Stakeholders 3) Harmonizing Concepts: Integrating Instruction and 4) Stringing It All Together: Three-Dimensional Learning.