The OP-TEC Workshop on Optics and Photonics Education has the following three goals:
1. To inform participants about career opportunities and the growing need for optics and photonics technicians and the secondary and postsecondary programs options to prepare them.
2. To explain the opportunities for participants to create new secondary-to-postsecondary programs in photonics and/or to infuse optics and photonics instruction into existing technical programs and courses in math, science and technologies enabled by photonics.
3. To inform participants of the OP-TEC curriculum materials and services available for planning and implementing photonics education at their institutions.
Although the workshop is free of charge, space is limited and registration is required. Participants are responsible for lodging, meals, and all travel expenses. Lunch will be provided on Thursday, March 7. Registrants are also invited to attend the “LASERS IN ACTION” Industrial Affiliates Symposium at the Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL) on Friday, March 8. Optional Friday Symposium events include technical presentations by CREOL faculty, graduate students, and business affiliates, exhibits, and lab tours spanning 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM.
Norman Bier of the Open Learning Initiative of Carnegie Mellon University will provide an overview of implementing Flipped Lesson pedagogy into online courses to improve learner outcomes both in the classroom and eLearning formats. Norman Bier is the Associate Director of the Open Learning Initiative (OLI) at Carnegie Mellon University. OLI is dedicated to the development of freely available “stand-alone” college-level online courses and web-based learning environments informed by the best current research from the cognitive and learning sciences.
Industry experts describe what is on the horizon for renewable energies. Hear the latest on small, large, and offshore wind turbine research as well as progress on ultra-high efficiency solar cells and concentrators. The latest approaches in energy harvesting will be reviewed and the discussion will include smart approaches to enhanced energy efficiency. To register, visit: http://www.matecnetworks.org/growth.php
Experts estimate that by 2015 there will be more mobile devices than people on our planet. It is also expected that people will be seven times more likely to connect to the Internet using a mobile device than with a traditional desktop or even a laptop computer.
What does BYOD mean for organizational security? How does the military handle troops accustomed to using personal mobile devices? What are best practices for on-the-go individuals who are tied to social media? Which moves will smartly tap into this new market of mobile viewing at minimal risk? How can your organization safely integrate mobility and security? This conference will explore mobile security from a variety of perspectives presented by speakers who are forerunners in their fields.
This course is offered in cooperation with the 2013 Sustainability Summit & Exposition and with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, School of Continuing Education.
This course is based on Articles 690 and 705 in the National Electrical Code (NEC) and how they pertain to photovoltaic (PV) systems. The course will also review some of the key requirements in Chapters 1-4 of the NEC, as well as equipment listing and labeling requirements. This course is intended to inform electricians of code compliance requirements for solar electric systems.
This workshop provides an introduction to POGIL (Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning) and explores the benefits of this approach to active learning in the classroom. Participants will experience a POGIL-based learning environment, analyze activities to understand how guided inquiry is structured in a POGIL classroom, and consider classroom facilitation and other issues related to the implementation of POGIL.
Innovations 2013 is designed for professionals dedicated to improving organizational teaching and learning and discovering new approaches for enhancing the community college experience. The conference provides a forum for collaboration among academic experts and leading community college professionals, while granting participants access to inventive and thought-provoking programs from around the world.
The conference provides opportunities for colleagues to showcase their model programs, share lessons learned, and look to the future by experiencing a wide array of new ideas through the ten Conference Streams.
CyberPatriot is the premier national high school cyber defense competition that is designed to give hands on exposure to the foundations of cyber security. CyberPatriot is not a hacking competition. CyberPatriot's goal is to excite students about Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education.
In each competition round, students are provided one to three virtual machines. These machines contain several vulnerabilities, and students must clean the image of them. The virtual machines can have Windows or GNU/Linux Operating systems. They are given a set amount of time on the competition day to do so. Teams that find the most vulnerabilities pass on to the next round, and the winners of all three rounds compete in the National Championships in Washington, D.C.
The support from the competition’s industry-leading sponsors helps reaffirm the importance and relevance of cyber security. A generous grant from the program’s presenting sponsor, Northrop Grumman, made full national deployment possible. SAIC supplies their patent-pending software as the platform for the competition. The CIAS at the University of Texas in San Antonio (creator of the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition) provides rich instructional materials for the competition. All of these sponsors ensured that CyberPatriot became a reality for high school students nationwide.
The CUE Conference is the largest and oldest education technology conference in California, and among the largest in the United States. Educators, technology coordinators, administrators and those who are looking to see how technology can support student achievement should attend. Many sessions and exhibits will be of special value to those involved in Title I, School Improvement Program, Eisenhower Program, Data and Assessment, Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT), English Language Development (ELD), Special Needs, and GATE.
The conference includes concurrent sessions, a poster session, panels, short CUE tips presentations, corporate sessions, featured speakers, and more.
The ATE Team routinely holds free beginners and advanced courses for academic personnel. The ATE team's workshops are designed to bring instructors up to date on current Xilinx FPGA chips and tools. Sponsorship is available for instructors. This beginner course assumes that participants have a basic understanding of digital logic and can develop simple circuits.
This course will focus on code compliant calculations required for PV system design. Using a combination of lecture and classroom activities, the course will review all pertinent mathematics, although much of the focus will be directed by participants in order to address their areas of concern.
Pittcon is the world’s largest annual premier conference and exposition on laboratory science. It is organized by The Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, a Pennsylvania not-for-profit educational corporation which is comprised of the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh (SSP) and the Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh (SACP).
Join us in the great city of Philadelphia, where 15% of economic activity is attributed to major industries such as pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, research and development, medical devices and diagnostics, healthcare services, and supporting industries.
AeroDef® is an industry-wide gathering to re-think aerospace and defense manufacturing – from design, to product, to lifecycle sustainment. Created with the support of executives from Bell Helicopter, Boeing, EADS, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining, NASA, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon, AeroDef showcases emerging technologies in every category needed to spread innovation throughout the supply chain.
Participants at this conference will: experience the entire A&D manufacturing enterprise in one venue, learn about the new ideas that are driving innovation, hear highly-regarded experts address the challenges facing the industry, and collaborate with peers on new ideas to speed production, create efficiencies and reduce costs.
This is the composite manufacturing industry’s authoritative event exploring how composites are changing aerospace, automotive, defense, recreational and sporting goods, and wind/alternative energy.
Bonus this year: Composites Manufacturing 2013 will be co-located with AeroDef Manufacturing 2013. Not only will exhibit attendees have access to viewing more exhibits, but conference attendees will have crossover privileges between both conferences.
In this section you will assign up to 8 Job Classifications as well as selecting the Primary Occupation that most accurately describes this Job. Both the Job Classification and Primary Occupation fields are required, as indicated by the red asterisk. Please note that you are limited to 8 Job Classifications.
This is the first ever Puget Sound FabLab Symposium! Developed by MIT, a FabLab is a special lab comprised of off-the-shelf industrial-grade fabrication and electronics tools. It is a community workspace offering experiences in areas such as design, science, and engineering skills valuable to today’s industry employers.
Cost of $225 ($99 student) includes:
• Hands-on demonstrations of cutting edge technology such as 3D printers and laser engravers.
• Real-life applications including aviation.
• Tours of Boeing’s Everett factory, and the Future of Flight Interpretive Center.
• Presentations by organizations such as the WATR Center (Washington Aerospace Training & Research) and Boeing.
• How to start a FabLab.
• And MUCH MUCH MORE!
For evaluation reports to be meaningful and useful, clients and other stakeholders need to be able to find the forest of the trees. What’s the bottom line? Is the project on track? What’s the project’s quality? What do these numbers mean? To convey clear answers to these types of questions, evaluators need to interpret, synthesize, and report results in meaningful and efficient ways. In this webinar, presenters share strategies for transforming data into genuinely evaluative conclusions and presenting results in visually compelling ways to aid in understanding and using results.
This webinar will take place from 1:00-2:30 pm EST.
Educators: Learn powerful recruitment and retention tools--Don't miss it!
Check out this free, one-hour webinar to learn:
•The # 1 secret to increasing the number of women in classes
•The top three recruitment strategies-according to women themselves
•The critical thing women want to hear up front that will keep them engaged throughout a course
•Why just changing thinking isn't enough, and what can be done instead
•3 simple techniques that can be implemented tomorrow so female students will excel in the lab
This webinar will teach proven, research-based strategies that can be implemented right away.
Space is limited, so be sure to register right away.
For evaluation reports to be meaningful and useful, clients and other stakeholders need to be able to find the forest of the trees. What’s the bottom line? Is the project on track? What’s the project’s quality? What do these numbers mean? To convey clear answers to these types of questions, evaluators need to interpret, synthesize, and report results in meaningful and efficient ways. In this webinar we’ll share strategies for transforming data into genuinely evaluative conclusions and presenting results in visually compelling ways to aid in understanding and using results.
BEST (Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology) is a no cost (6) Week Robotics Program aimed at Middle and High School Students to encourage them to pursue Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)-related careers through participation in a sports-like robotics program and competition emphasizing Business and Workforce Development.
Many people, companies and organizations have websites. They contain very useful information. But how do you make yours standout? Better yet, how do you get a website to help your bottom line?
If you want to learn the basics of website information architecture, join this workshop for an informative training and discussion on webpage structure and ROI metrics.
This seminar is brought to you by AIM Institute. This presentation features speaker, Tim Erickson, co-manager and implementer of several websites that have won E-Gov Pioneer and Best of the Web awards.
Join this conference for hundreds of opportunities to learn, share, and connect with other technology-using educators. Sessions are available at every level of proficiency from novice to long time technology implementer. New features to the conference encourage you to meet with like-minded educators to explore new ideas, share lessons learned, and have some fun. If you’re looking for ways to share in the conversation, use your device and join the backchannel discussions on Twitter and Facebook. Also new this year is the MACUL app. Check it out at http://www.conferencebeat.com/macul.
During this webinar, the NACK Network will highlight best practices for developing programs in nanotechnology in 2 year colleges and discuss collaborations with 4 year institutions.
The Midwest CCDC events will equip graduates with a more experienced skill set for their jobs upon beginning their employment. This competition also provides direct feedback for schools to exercise, reinforce, and examine their security and information technology curriculum.
If you're a woman considering a career in the exciting technology field, Moraine Valley's mentoring program is just for you. The Women in Technology program, supported by the National Resource Center for Systems Security and Information Assurance (CSSIA) helps women feel more comfortable entering technology careers.
The mentoring groups allow students entering programs in technology to connect with experienced female students who can provide guidance, answer questions, and learn more about career opportunities for females. The unique relationship between students and professionals makes the transition from college into the work world smoother and less intimidating.
Please contact Angela Spyropoulos for more information ~ spyropoulosa@morainevalley.edu or 708-974-5602 ext. 2184.
1. Learn more about vacuum technology & its STEM components
2. Review pump operation & maintenance
3. Develop your own lesson plans
By invitaton only!!
IF you:
• Attended an AVS Science Educator Workshop in 2010, 2011, or 2012
• Received a vacuum pump after attending
Please contact Dr. Marilyn Barger (barger@fl-ate.org) for details
Nanometer-scale science and technology encompass the research and application of new behaviors and properties exhibited by materials with dimensions ranging approximately from 1 to 100 nanometers.
Nanotechnology is helping to improve, even revolutionize, many technology and industry sectors: electronics, energy, environmental science, food safety, information technology, national security, medicine, and transportation, among many others.
A skilled S&T workforce is one essential component for advancing the research, development and commercialization of nanotechnology to help drive the successful implementation of Advanced Manufacturing.
Two-and four-year colleges, in collaboration with research universities, can provide educational pathways for technicians to obtain training, certificates and degrees applicable in numerous industries utilizing nanotechnology in various products and
services.
In this Informational Workshop, learn more about:
- Nanotechnology Nanotechnology and applications and applications - Pathways Pathways for technician education in AZ for technician education in AZ
- Nanoscale S&T at ASU (incl. lab tours) - Professional development opportunities
This workshop provides an introduction to POGIL (Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning) and explores the benefits of this approach to active learning in the classroom. Participants will experience a POGIL-based learning environment, analyze activities to understand how guided inquiry is structured in a POGIL classroom, and consider classroom facilitation and other issues related to the implementation of POGIL.
The Sixth Annual Pacific Rim Regional Cyber Defense Competition will be held March 23 and 24, 2013, and will be hosted by Highline Community College (Direction and Hotel Reservation).This event is an integral part of curriculum for the Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity at the University of Washington, and provides real world cybersecurity and information assurance experience that cannot be replicated in a classroom, making the students better trained and prepared when they graduate. Lodging and other details for the PRCCDC will be provided under separate cover prior to the event. The winning team will continue to the National CCDC, to be held in April 2013 in San Antonio, TX.
