The third national Women in Cybersecurity conference (NSF Award# 1303441) will be held in Dallas, Texas. The event is jointly organized by Tennessee Tech and The University of Texas at Dallas. Strategic partners include Facebook,  CyberPoint, IBM, GE Software, and Intel Education.

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 interactive workshop will focus on how to identify, develop and implement strong indicators of near-term outcomes and longer-term success.  Designed for human rights practitioners, the workshop will help them make better use of social science in their work. Attendees will discuss how best to develop and measure the indicators. In small groups participants will discuss the merits of different kinds of indicators and how they might be constructed, applied, and measured for specific hypothetical projects in the US and abroad.  An open discussion of each scenario and the strengths of  various indicators will follow.  This workshop will provide an opportunity for human rights practitioners to think more intentionally about how the social sciences can support robust project design.

The microcantilever is a widely used component in microsystem devices.  Its flexibility and versatility make it a popular component for diverse applications in a number of fields (e.g., environmental, biomedical, consumer products, food production).  This topic discusses several applications of electromechanical systems (MEMS) cantilevers and microcantilever-based devices, how they work, and how they are made.

In this topic you explore applications of microcantilevers as transducers, sensors, and actuators in microsystems. You learn how a cantilever works, its characteristics, its properties, and its modes of operation.

The primary activity for this topic involves an in-depth study of dynamic cantilever operation and the effect that material, dimensions, and mass have on the operation of the device. The SCME "Microcantilever Model Kit" provides the materials that allow you to investigate the motion of a dynamic cantilever under varying masses and various dimensions in order to determine the relationship that expresses the resonant frequency of a cantilever as a function of mass or size.  This activity simulates the dynamic mode of operation for microcantilevers used in MEMS sensors. 

The concepts explored in this topic can be applied to physics, mathematics, chemistry, engineering, materials science, data acquisition, and micro and nanotechnologies.

This will be an important convening as the AMTEC 2 National Delphi Results will be reported out and recommendations made for AMTEC adoption or removal. Participants in the Delphi analysis should plan on attending.

You will also learn about Lansing Community College’s accelerated implementation of AMTEC using DOL funding, learn about the latest career pathways research on award winning models, discover how to use marketing materials and provide recommendations, and hear from special partnerships to benefit AMTEC college partners. A tour of the General Motors Delta Township Plant is also on the agenda.

While project and center leaders are often very skilled at grant writing, seeking alternative funding solutions can be difficult. For some, it may seem too long or difficult a road or it may just not be clear what sort of alternative funding streams are possible or attainable. In this session, participants will hear about examples of revenue generating activities that have worked for other ATE PIs, and be encouraged to brainstorm possible avenues for themselves. Special guest Deidre Sullivan, PI of MATE, will share her experience in experimenting with a range of revenue-generating tactics from sponsorships to online sales. ​

Geared toward VFA members doing VFA data collection, this webinar will provide a more in-depth review and discussion of the VFA’s cohorts and measures. What is reported as well as some frequently asked questions will be covered. Webinar participants are encouraged to ask questions and provide feedback.

Attendees will learn about: VFA Timeframes & Cohorts, Student Progress & Outcomes measures, Career & Technical education measures, and Adult Basic Education measures

Come for the conference to share your research and celebrate your accomplishments. 

Then take in the beautiful scenery and investigate 

the region's thriving arts, entertainment, and food scene.  

It's all in the name of research....

Visit three NE Ohio employers to learn about the different areas of IT: tour the facilities, Hear from IT experts, participate in the Q&A with employers, See IT in action, engage with IT faculty.   $10 cash deposit required to secure your spot (fully refundable at the end of the tour). Deadline to register is Friday, March 11.

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

This national summit brings together leaders in education equity to build capacity, knowledge, and skills to transform classrooms education and improve student success.

The workshop is being held under the auspices of the Academies’ study of the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs, led by Dr. Jacques Gansler, formerly Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics. The event will offer an opportunity to describe agency initiatives to support the commercialization of SBIR and STTR technologies, explore challenges faced by entrepreneurs, and consider how to better track the outcomes of SBIR and STTR awards.

Professional development workshop €Lasers 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.

Internet of Things North America is an innovative event covering advanced connectivity and cloud based monitoring/control of devices, facilities, automobiles, people, and enterprise operations. Already in its third year, the 2016 event will once again be held in Chicagoland area on April 13-14, 2016
 
It will consist of two full days of educational sessions along with an exhibition showcasing solutions in:

• Machine and Device Connectivity
• IoT Standards and Standardization
• Big Data: Data Acquisition & Analytics
• Apps/DevOps
• IoT Security
• The IoT Ecosystem
• Building a Business Model for IoT
• Open Source IoT
• Enterprise-Wide Connectivity
• Networking: Wireless, Wired, Fiber & Telemetry Networks
• Cloud-based monitoring and control of equipment, assets, facilities & operations
• Integrating Multiple Networks & Communications Systems
• Remote & Smart Service Management

This talk will provide an overview of how intuitive data analytics and visualization tools in geographic information systems (GIS) to inform ocean science both at sea and ashore. Increasingly, GIS is part of the collaboration between ocean scientists, computer scientists, and information scientists to solve complex scientific questions. Successfully addressing scientific problems, including for regional decision- and policy-making within coastal zone management and marine spatial planning, requires integrative and innovative approaches to analyzing, modeling, and developing extensive and diverse data sets. Contributing viable solutions to these problems is part of an emerging science agenda for the ocean sciences, including the ocean GIS initiative at Esri. And further, in the brave new world of science communication we know that scientists can be powerful storytellers as well. We may get the idea from maps, perhaps occasionally from graphs, but we are hardwired to 
 understand stories. Every single scientific success is perfect fodder for a narrative structure. In that vein, the talk will conclude with an introduction to "story maps" as a fast and simple platform for telling compelling stories with ocean science data, including photos, videos, sounds, and sensor dashboards.

The AAAS Forum on Science & Technology Policy brings together the science and policy communities to exchange ideas and discuss the future of science and technology. This is considered the major public meeting in the U.S. on S&T policy issues, where you can hear directly from chief advisors in science and technology. The Forum draws over 500 of the nation's top S&T policy experts. It provides a highly visible setting for discussion of S&T policy issues, including what a new administration will mean to you.

Understanding how and why audiences value your work is a critical foundation for sustaining project and center activities. This webinar will provide project and center leaders with the tools they need to probe their assumptions about their key audiences and stakeholders. Starting with the notion of a “value proposition” -- the value that the initiative offers to a specific group of users or stakeholders – this session will guide participants in defining their key audience segments, identifying the core assumptions about how those people will support the project/center, and defining methods for testing those assumptions.  ​

Participants will know the purpose of various forms associated with NSF ATE proposals, know information to enter into each form associated with NSF ATE proposals, learn about the importance of providing consistent information on forms and other components of a proposal, be alerted to common errors that can be avoided, and get answers to questions on completing required proposal forms.

Participants will learn how to add writing practice to their STEM courses that will help students improve their writing and at the same time enhance their learning in the discipline.​

The Community and College Consortium for Health and Safety Training (CCCHST), administered by the Partnership for Environmental Technology Education (PETE) has training components for the EPA Hazardous Waste Worker Training Program (HWWTP) and the DOE Worker Training Program. The CCCHST HWWTP consists of 120 partners offering hazardous materials instruction (HAZWOPER and related Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) 29 CFR 1910.120) in most states of the nation. CCCHST uses a curriculum developed by the Hazardous Materials Training and Research Institute (HMTRI) Davenport, Iowa through a train-the-trainer model program. CCCHST instructors, prepared by PETE and HMTRI, annually train 10,000 workers, technicians, and supervisors to protect themselves and their communities from exposure to hazardous materials encountered during waste site clean-up, disaster site cleanup, Brownfields redevelopment, in the transportation of hazardous materials, and in the response to spills and releases of hazardous materials. CCCHST membership consists of community colleges partnered with business and industry, universities, and community-based organizations offering a response to the national training need for hazardous waste workers, disaster site workers and emergency response personnel.

This webinar being presented by the National Science Foundation Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) Center, is designed for educators in Building Sciences, HVAC/R, Building Automation, and Sustainable Facilities Operations, and will be packed full of information to help you succeed in marketing your program. 

We’ll review some successful marketing initiatives for your building science program as well as strategies and best practices to recruit women into your program. Do you have a new program? What is the best way to spead the word? 

Bring your questions and forward this to others who can benefit from this resourceful session! 

This webinar is being hosted by HVAC Excellence. 

National CyberWatch Center’s partner, Threat Connect, will provide an overview on Cyber Threat Intelligence.  The webinar will cover what Threat Intelligence is, the faculty resources available and the how faculty can easily integrate it into their courses.

The GeoTech Center is pleased to announce the 2016 Undergraduate Geospatial Technology Skills Competition! The intent of the competition is to showcase the geospatial technology skills of U.S. undergraduate students. Competing students will create a project that utilizes geospatial technology to address a real-world problem. The student will then present the project and the resulting deliverables as a Poster that not only highlights their use of geospatial technology, but also demonstrates their communication and presentation skills.

The competition is software neutral.

Project Access will address classroom access strategies for mainstream teachers to implement which will benefit students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, providing opportunity for them to experience greater success in their coursework.

In this session, participants will learn evidence-based practices, strategies, and instructional routines to incorporate key critical thinking, language, and literacy skills into a variety of situations in multiple disciplines. We will focus primarily on moving from content area to discipline-specific reading needs and then focus on moving from content area to discipline-specific writing strategies. Most suggested strategies and activities will be flexible enough to apply to a variety of subject areas, grades, and ability levels.​

BioMEMS is a HUGE field that is growing at an extremely rapid pace.  The field of BioMEMS includes any microdevice that is used for medical applications, biological analysis, or that employs a biomolecular component.  In this topic you explore many of the areas of BioMEMS and some specific applications currently used for diagnosing disease, treating disease, analyzing specimens, analyzing environments, and identifying specific genomes.

The activities in this topic range from an exploration of DNA to how microtechnology allows for the identification of a specific DNA sequence, and from a size comparison of biomolecules to the use of biomolecules in microsystem devices. Some of the activities are online tutorials and others involve research or a comparison of the size of biomolecular components.  Below are some of the activities you can complete:

• Exploration of DNA Concepts and Applications  
• Protein Structure and Function
• Gene Transcription
• Biomolecular Functions
• The Scale of Biomolecules
• Marketing a BioMEMS Device
• Building a DNA Microarray Model

SCME's "DNA Microarray Model Kit" supports the latter of these activities.

The concepts taught in this topic can be applied to biology, general science, biomedical, biotech mathematics, organic chemistry, genetics, nursing, and micro and nanotechnologies.

Mfg4 surpasses the traditional manufacturing technology event by delivering content and suppliers mandated by industry. Mfg4 is an event for industry developed by industry, with an emphasis on industry-specific solutions with attention to cross-collaboration

The landscape we are all part of is constantly changing, as federal mandates and priorities evolve, and industry shifts to suit the needs to the market. This session will explore the ways in which leaders of ATE projects and centers can use the tactics of an environmental scan to identify future partners and funders.

This session will consider the examination of the environment as a way to both be aware of competitors, but also to identify fruitful collaborators, whether within industry, other academic institutions, or one’s host institution.  The session will guide participants to develop a framework for considering partnerships, and will outline the different forms this relationship can take. It will include examples of successful partnerships in action, as well as a list of pitfalls to avoid. 

The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) is pleased to announce a webinar session on May 4, 2016 from 2:00 to 3:00 PM ET. The session presenters are SREB Advanced Career program leaders Richard Blais and Thomas White, who are also the former founders and developers of PLTW.

The purpose of the session is to:

·Explain SREB and the Advanced Career (AC) STEM high school curriculum.

·Show examples of the project based curriculum.

·Describe the elements of a proposed collaborative arrangement among ATE projects and centers and SREB to include financial incentives for participating ATE community members.