The landscape of the world has significantly changed in the past few months. Whether it is a business, university or teachers and students, many people have been forced to work, learn, and interact remotely.
Proper remote, access control and Work-From-Home policies are critical to protect sensitive, proprietary, and private data. With ever-increasing cyber threats, IT policies have become a necessary component in all organizations. The difficulty of creating a proper IT policy and the sheer number of standards, controls, processes, and policies – it can become dizzying to try to build one from scratch.
Technology can play a big role in helping organizations navigate the various standards to build a policy that helps mitigate risks.
In this webcast, Leslie Weinstein will discuss how to automate the building and maintenance of compliance policies for the small to medium sized business (SMB) market, fostering security across the entire supply chain.
MNT-EC is holding a Summer Seminar Series every Wednesday, August thru November. Each seminar will feature one of the MNT-EC's very own members who will talk about their summer of 2021 professional development opportunities. Opportunities include writing groups, clean room labs, nano safety and other exciting hands on activities.
This session will focus on the presentation of key data points on STEM education and barriers to STEM success, with a specific focus on underrepresented subgroups in STEM: Black, Latinx, Native American, those with disabilities, foster youth. Additionally, the presenter will use case studies to illuminate and discuss challenges to diversification within the STEM community. Further, the presenter will discuss literature and resources for self-paced learning and development in the area of STEM education.
The Centers of Academic Excellence (CAE) in Cybersecurity Community is hosting the fourth annual CAE Virtual Career Fair (VCF), sponsored by the National Cybersecurity Training and Education (NCyTE) Centerand the National Science Foundation (NSF). The virtual career fair is unique in that CAE invite students/alumni from 300+ institutions designated as CAEs in Research (CAE-R), Cyber Defense Education (CAE-CDE), and Cyber Operations (CAE-CO) to participate. Institutions receive the CAE in Cybersecurity designation after meeting the rigorous requirements of the program set forth by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The standards set forth by the NSA/DHS curriculum guidelines also ensure students from CAE institutions receive a quality cybersecurity education that prepares them for a career in the cyber workforce.
MNT-EC is holding a Summer Seminar Series every Wednesday, August thru November. Each seminar will feature one of the MNT-EC's very own members who will talk about their summer of 2021 professional development opportunities. Opportunities include writing groups, clean room labs, nano safety and other exciting hands on activities.
CNEU at PSU is a global leader in nanotechnology education and workforce development, striving to better both workforce educators as well as students. The CNEU multi-level mission is to service student education (NMT partnership, Master’s program, ASTM certificate development), to equip educators (NACK Support Center, NPDP workshops, RAIN Network), and to reach under-served populations (UNESCO chair, LSRCE-SCENE, veterans initiatives).
During this webinar, a program officer for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program will explain ATE funding opportunities available to two-year colleges, especially those new to ATE. Mentor-Connect project leaders will follow with specifics about support available to help you prepare a competitive NSF ATE grant proposals (service provided by NSF ATE grants #1501183 & #1840856). The live webinar provides opportunities for audience questions to be answered throughout the broadcast.
Join presenters Kendra Bouda and Rachael Bower on Tuesday, September 15, 2020 from noon-1:00 pm CDT for a free webinar on archiving with ATE Central. Presenters will discuss NSF ATE’s archiving requirement and recommended Creative Commons licenses, what the ATE Central Archiving Service is, and how to select and submit materials for archiving. Learn what to expect during the archiving process and what happens to your materials behind the scenes. This webinar is designed for those new to archiving with ATE Central, though all are welcome to participate.
MNT-EC is holding a Summer Seminar Series every Wednesday, August thru November. Each seminar will feature one of the MNT-EC's very own members who will talk about their summer of 2021 professional development opportunities. Opportunities include writing groups, clean room labs, nano safety and other exciting hands on activities.
Virtual reality simulations are fun, but can also be used to great educational effect when training is combined with the fun. In this seminar, the presenter will discuss modules designed for training students to use nanotechnology equipment and complete processes which they complete before encountering the real equipment in the laboratory. The presenter will show sample clips from some of these modules and discuss the design considerations for building them as well as some initial feedback from the students who have used them in class.
Being a community college president is high-profile and high-pressure job. What does that mean for their spouse? Join community college presidents and their spouses to hear first-hand about being married to a college CEO and how to support each other while meeting the demands of both the job and their families.
Panelists include Dr. Walter Bumphus and Dr. Aileen Bumphus; Dr. Mary Graham and Wayne Graham, and Dr. Merrill Irving and Jose Irving.
MNT-EC is holding a Summer Seminar Series every Wednesday, August thru November. Each seminar will feature one of the MNT-EC's very own members who will talk about their summer of 2021 professional development opportunities. Opportunities include writing groups, clean room labs, nano safety and other exciting hands on activities.
Northwest Vista College will host its fourth summer Nanotechnology workshop for high school students and high school educators in summer 2021. The AIM-TEC grant offers sessions of Atomic Force Microscopy, Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESEM), Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), hands-on training at the Kleberg Advanced Microscopy Center at UTSA for students and educators.
The Marine Applications of Unmanned Aerial Systems: From Improving Weather Forecasts to Igniting Entrepreneurship and Collecting Whale Snot for Conservation brought to you by the National Center for Autonomous Technologies (NCAT) and the MTS Monterey and Great Lakes Sections.
The goals of the webinar are to:
Increase awareness and highlight the use of UAS in the marine space
Contribute to the community’s professional development
Preparing students for the workforce! Two days of experience and a variety of exciting opportunities to work directly with Cisco and partners.
Workshops using industry products relying on programming, cybersecurity, and more will be featured. Sessions include topics in cybersecurity, cloud computing, networking, and more
In this webcast, Donna Milgram will show you how two schools boosted female (and male) enrollments in Cybersecurity and IT programs after attending a WomenTech Educators Training, and how you can apply these techniques to boost (and retain) similar enrollments in your programs:
Fayetteville Technical Community College doubled female enrollment in their Cybersecurity program in only 5 months - from 12 to 22 women. Male enrollment also increased from 58 to 101
Broward College increased female enrollment in their IT & Computer Science Department (including Cybersecurity) - by 77 women in a year’s time. Male enrollment also increased from 751 to 1009
National Drive Electric Week is a nationwide celebration to raise awareness of the many benefits of all-electric and plug-in hybrid cars, trucks, motorcycles, and more. They are fun to drive, are less expensive and more convenient to fuel than gasoline vehicles, are better for the environment, promote local jobs, and reduce the dependence on foreign oil. Are you considering going electric? Come talk to owners who have successfully done so!
Each year, National Drive Electric Week includes hundreds of events in communities across the United States and around the world. This year, the 10th annual National Drive Electric Week will be adding online events for the first time, including the NDEW Kick-Off Event event on Sep 24, 2020.
(2 days)
Mary M. Gates Learning Center701 N Fairfax StAlexandriaVA22314United States
The 2020 Autonomous Capabilities for DoD Summit will provide a “town-hall” style forum to discuss the advanced capabilities that AI-enabled autonomous systems and machine learning provide to the Warfighter in the battlespace, and how these emerging technologies are bolstering current and future DoD efforts to achieve mission impact at scale. The Summit will focus on current initiatives being enacted to leverage the flexibility that autonomous capabilities can provide the Warfighter in the future fight, both to facilitate the DoD’s strategy of developing technologically superior weapons systems to further compete in the Great Power competition, and to outpace adversaries who will also utilize artificial intelligence and other means to their advantage.
Topics to be covered at the 2020 Summit:
Driving the development of technologically superior weapons systems with autonomous capabilities across the DoD
Accelerating DoD’s adoption and integration of AI and autonomy to achieve mission impact at scale
Leading the Continued Adoption of AI as the Key to Army Modernization
Facilitating the USAF strategy to implement varying levels of AI for mission success
Empowering the Commanders, Marines and Sailors ability to be more adaptive and resilient in highly contested environments using AI and autonomy
Utilizing innovative and disruptive AI/Machine Learning technologies to bolster Army’s Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS)
Considering the ethical and technical challenges during the development of autonomous systems
MNT-EC is holding a Summer Seminar Series every Wednesday, August thru November. Each seminar will feature one of the MNT-EC's very own members who will talk about their summer of 2021 professional development opportunities. Opportunities include writing groups, clean room labs, nano safety and other exciting hands on activities.
This session will detail the science and education outreach efforts taking place at NASA in both the K-12 and internship programs. The presenter will detail how current NASA research shapes activities and lessons for schools, and how those can be implemented by educators nationwide.
MNT-EC is holding a Summer Seminar Series every Wednesday, August thru November. Each seminar will feature one of the MNT-EC's very own members who will talk about their summer of 2021 professional development opportunities. Opportunities include writing groups, clean room labs, nano safety and other exciting hands on activities.
Matt Pleil will be talking about his 2021 MEMS workshop and the upcoming UGR opportunities at the University of New Mexico.
AACC will host an ATE Virtual Conference Orientation Webinar designed for all conference attendees. The webinar will provide an orientation to the 2020 Virtual ATE Conference, and an overview of the agenda, the virtual platform, and ways to network and maximize engagement in a virtual setting. Participants are encouraged to attend the live event, if possible. The webinar will also be recorded.
Industry 4.0 Workforce Summit is moving online. This industry-wide web series is designed to prepare engineering and technology students for The Fourth Industrial Revolution. The goal is to reach a consensus on improvements to curricula, work-based experiences, policies, and practices.
Automation and smart technology are changing the way people learn and work. Many engineering tracks are struggling to produce high-quality graduates with Industry 4.0 skills. The lack of qualified talent is impacting the technical and manufacturing workforce from the shop floor to the C-Suite. Your expertise and educated opinions can help us fix the problem.
MNT-EC is holding a Summer Seminar Series every Wednesday, August thru November. Each seminar will feature one of the MNT-EC's very own members who will talk about their summer of 2021 professional development opportunities. Opportunities include writing groups, clean room labs, nano safety and other exciting hands on activities.
Dr. Peter D. Kazarinoff, co-PI of the MNT-EC (Micro Nano Technician Education Center), presents resources from the Pacific Northwest region for community college faculty interested in micro/nano technician education. Dr. Kazarinoff previews the upcoming peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the MNT-EC and the upcoming podcast from the MNT-EC detailing stories from working technicians.
Are you interested in how things are made? Would you like to help students use entrepreneurial thinking to change harmful processes and practices? Then you will enjoy this workshop, where FLATE celebrates Manufacturing Month by discussing ways in which old business practices are being transformed into new sustainable models that consider the health of our earth.
Dr. Marilyn Barger, Professional Environmental Engineer, Director of the Florida Advanced Technological Education Center and USF Stavros Center Advocacy Board member, will surprise you with the vast amount of goods that are produced in Florida. In addition, Dr. Deborah Kozdras will share resources from her current experiences at the Green Biz Circular Economy Conference and World Economic Forum, which discuss exciting ways in which global businesses, governments, and NGOs are transforming old industrial practices into new ways of thinking and designing. During the session, Deborah and Marilyn will present new case study lesson activities, which illustrate how Florida businesses and industries are tackling problems. In addition, these lessons will include a Rethink Tank activity, where students can use design thinking to envision solutions to the problems that still exist.
The NCPN conference is one of the best professional development opportunities available offering motivational keynotes, keynote speakers, time relevant panels, cutting edge featured speakers and other timely information for professionals in Career Pathways, CTE, and workforce and economic development.
Instructors: Jon Beck, Chris Hadfield, Zackary Nicklin, Ben Richason, Jill Zande, National Center for Autonomous Technologies
This workshop is designed to deliver a primer on the sensor technologies that are impacting the aerospace, automotive, heavy equipment and marine autonomous technologies industries. Educators from these disciplines face many challenges from the rapid integration and prohibitive financial nature of these technologies. Jobs of the future will require a foundational level of knowledge of these sensors. Through hands-on experience and discussion, we will cover industry trends and the future impact of advanced technology integration resulting from autonomous technologies. Attendees will be prepared to use this technology in their classroom using portable, cost efficient experimentation and exercises.
Military veterans transitioning from service to community college bring experiences that can be incredible assets to a classroom along with others that can be barriers to success. Hearing loss, a commonly overlooked disability in the veteran population, is often one of these barriers. The presenters will discuss findings of focus groups conducted with student veterans with hearing loss that provide insight to the unique educational needs of these students and best practices for their success in the STEM classroom and how they can be applied in the online setting.
(3 days)
University of Delaware, Clayton Hall100 David Hollowell DrNewarkDE19716United States
The Mid-Atlantic ESA annual meeting brings together students, researchers, teachers and practitioners from the Mid–Atlantic region and beyond. The theme of the meeting is the ecology of the BosWash Megalopolis. The meeting offers an excellent opportunity for both undergraduate and graduate ecology students to present their research in all ecology-related topics. Undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty and professionals are all welcome.
If you have registered for the meeting: Contact Danielle Slatkin at vincedamico@gmail.com to request a refund or to express that you wish to have your registration continue for the rescheduled meeting in October.
If you submitted an abstract for the meeting: Contact Vince D’Amico at vincedamico@gmail.com to request it be withdrawn or to carry forward for the rescheduled meeting in October.
The 27th National Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Conference is going virtual! The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), with the support of the National Science Foundation (NSF), will host the 2020 ATE Conference on October 19-23.
This year’s event theme ATE 2020: Resilience and New Frontiers, will focus on the critical value of preparing students with STEM technical and employability skills—and the vital role community colleges and the ATE program play in preparing a highly-skilled U.S. workforce in a current- and post-pandemic economy. ATE projects and centers nationwide, in response to Covid-19, are challenged to develop strategies to successfully deliver hands-on content in an online environment such as through virtual labs, simulations, and augmented and virtual reality. The 2020 Virtual ATE Conference will include a special focus on how the ATE community has created innovative curriculum, technologies, and authentic learning experiences in virtual environments and how their resiliency, flexibility, and leadership is both addressing and shaping the current and future needs of STEM technician education.
MNT-EC is holding a Summer Seminar Series every Wednesday, August thru November. Each seminar will feature one of the MNT-EC's very own members who will talk about their summer of 2021 professional development opportunities. Opportunities include writing groups, clean room labs, nano safety and other exciting hands on activities.
Paul Webster, PhD: Oak Crest Institute of Science, Monrovia, CA, will talk about how basic science, community outreach, and student training can be carried out in a small non-profit organization. The Oak Crest Institute of Science is a scientist run institute in Southern California where faculty use their research projects as a platform to teach laboratory skills to high school and community college students. The presentation will provide an overview of the diverse projects being carried out by this small organization and highlight some of the resources open to this community.
Living Room Learning offers hands-on virtually guided activities for youth. Each session focuses on a new activity that can be done with materials found at home. Living Room Learning activities are perfect for youth in 3rd-5th grades. Each session will be recorded and made available for on-demand viewing. Youth do not need to be 4-H members to participate.
This session will focus on the physics of medieval tools. This activity uses principles of physics and engineering to build a simple min-trebuchet and a simple catapult for comparison of their mechanics!
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year's Life Discovery - Doing Science Education Conference will now be a virtual event with a more limited focus on:
The timely experiences and insights gained from teaching ecology and evolution online this Spring/Summer
The education innovation building on ESA’s recently endorsed Four-Dimensional Ecology Education Framework (4DEE).
Minnesota is preparing for connected and automated vehicles by observing trends and advancements in vehicle automation, connected vehicle technology, and other emerging trends. MnDOT’s Connected and Automated Vehicle Office (CAV-X) is the convening office for the state’s connected and automated vehicle transportation technology engagement, policy, testing and partnerships.
The 10 midwestern states that make up the Mid-America Association of State Transportation Officials (MAASTO) welcome transportation professionals, state DOT staff, industry, researchers and other transportation mobility advocates to join MnDOT at the first annual regional summit to hear from national leaders and develop a 10-year regional strategy.
Goal: Develop a regional MAASTO CAV strategy to identify the region as a leader in CAV | Day 1 – Providing Context and Setting the Scene for a Regional Strateg
