In this webinar, Amanda Nicholson, Chief Operating Officer of the Product Stewardship Institute, will discuss how EPR policies and laws can influence design choices and how they can benefit businesses — leveling the playing field for all. She’ll also touch on how manufacturers can build on EPR principles to better manage products throughout their life cycles to conserve resources, decrease environmental impact, and share the burden of responsibility. Using exemplary and precautionary case studies, Nicholson will discuss how to design products and processes to create a more circular economy. Learn how EPR can help manufacturers work with governments, waste management companies, and consumers to develop and implement programs to minimize waste. 

Since the Fall of 2021, students and faculty from College of the Canyons have engaged in multidisciplinary design collaborations with students and faculty from other colleges and universities worldwide. Aside from the unique educational experiences these projects have provided Canyons students, faculty have also benefitted through development of new technical skills and enhanced currency in the A/E/C profession. Projects with educational institutions in El Salvador, Romania, and Scotland will be discussed which have included language barriers as well as concurrent participation in the U.S. Department of Energy/NREL Solar Decathlon Design Challenge. 

Jason Oliver, AIA, LEED AP BD+C (Chair of the COC Architecture Program) will present an overview of the process employed in initiating these international collaborations, managing student/faculty teams, and lessons learned with the hope of inspiring other community college programs to explore similar unique Project Based Learning experiences to build international relationships for the benefit of student learning and educator professional development. 

This webinar will cover a current supply chain ATE grant and the ongoing work in developing curriculum and materials. Presenters include Dr. Ying-Tsu Loh, Dr. Terri Quenzer, and Emily Quach.

This hands-on workshop will introduce the basic elements of creating a Remotely Operated vehicle (ROV), practical applications of these devices, soldering, framing, design, cameras, and safety considerations. Those who may have students participating in the MATE ROV competition will find this workshop especially helpful.

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.

Topics include: Welcome and Introduction to Tasting, White Sensory Standards, Red Sensory Standards, and Evaluating Palate Attributes: Alcohol, Acid, and Tannin Wine Defects, Descriptive Wine Analysis of White Wines, Descriptive Analysis of Red Wines, Laboratory Investigating, Wine Competition Methodology and Professional Wine Rating Systems. A certificate will be awarded after the completion of this workshop.

Register now for a free, two-day CMMC (Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification) 2.0 workshop! Spaces are limited.

NCyTE is offering a free workshop that will cover the CMMC 2.0 and the new Department of Defense (DoD) requirements which include: moving from a five-level compliance model to a three-level model, shifting most auditing requirements to the DoD, and revising the program to mirror NIST 800-171 more closely.

Who should attend?

• Cybersecurity faculty
• Small business IT or cybersecurity personnel 

The workshop will be facilitated by Dr. John Sands who has over 30 years of experience in education and workforce research in data communications, manufacturing technologies, information technology, information security management and cybersecurity. He has led previous CMMC workshops and is well versed in CMMC 2.0.

All attendees will receive an Instructor Guidebook, Student Guidebook, training resources, and a Canvas course package. The workshop is limited to 25 attendees and spots are filling up quickly.

Radars used for autonomous driving development are changing rapidly. Advances in hardware technology have enabled complex concepts like imaging radar and digital phase modulated continuous wave (PMCW). Software development must change to complement this hardware technology evolution and leverage these new advances to provide a more dependable automotive radar solution.

In this 60-minute free webinar, KPIT’s Santhana Raj will discuss critical software approaches, architectures, and solutions for the new age of radars.

In this webinar, Jace Allen will present system validation and verification processes, the necessary tools needed to validate advanced sensing technology, and what still needs to be solved to truly reach widespread Level 3-5 operation in commercial-vehicle fleets. The complex implementation of ADAS and Automated Vehicle (AV) software demands a powerful and flexible simulation and testing environment.

The Annual NICE K12 Cybersecurity Education Conference, supported by the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE), and hosted by iKeepSafe, features timely and thought-provoking presentations that highlight effective collaborations, bold experiments and innovations, and other potentially game-changing methods in support of growing the cybersecurity workforce. Attendees include training and educational leaders from academia, business, and government for two days of focused keynotes, panels, concurrent sessions, and discussions in support of the NICE Strategic Plan.

During this conference, industry leaders will come together to share stories, strategies, and key takeaways around why and how they are partnering for sustainable success. 

In this free, 60-minute webinar, Jamie Zinser and Derek Prichett of Novelis explain how automakers can use collection and sorting technologies to reduce energy consumption and increase their recycled content in vehicles, thereby reducing their overall CO2 manufacturing footprint.

The experts also discuss the three main levers helping to take automotive material circularity to the next level.

Come connect with CalFlexHub’s ecosystem of multidisciplinary team of experts from many sectors—including state agencies, industry, utilities, academia, manufacturers, and non-profits—for the first annual CalFlexHub Symposium! This year’s Symposium will showcase CalFlexHub’s innovators and portfolio of projects, amplify solution-centered conversations with government and industry leaders in the space, and provide deep-dive opportunities for attendee collaboration and networking.

CalFlexHub is administered by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and is funded by the California Energy Commission through the Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) program.

Planning for the future is a crucial process for individuals and families as they plan for secure and fulfilling futures for and with their loved one with a disability. While creating a future plan often seems inaccessible or challenging for families, it is possible and necessary to create a person-centered plan to document the wants, needs, and available resources for an individual with a disability. The post-secondary school transition process serves as a great example of a necessary student-centered future planning process. In this webinar, attendees will learn about how Special Education transition planning fits into the broader idea of future planning. Attendees will gain insight into approaches for effective transition planning for students with IEPs as well as considerations for families, educators, and support professionals as they collaborate with the student during the transition planning process. 

OEMs today need to navigate multiple regulatory, commercial, technical, and environmental challenges while developing their thermal systems. These challenges are expected to grow through the decade, and traditional development processes will be inadequate to overcome them. This 60-minute Webinar will explore a modeling and simulation approach to thermal systems development that aims to address current and future needs.

In almost every market category, mass EV adoption is lagging behind expectations. While government mandates might increasingly force the issue, widespread preference for EVs can be accelerated by a focus on superior experiences.

In this free, 60-minute webinar, CEO Chris Rockwell will share Lextant’s Experience Adoption Threshold and how, as an industry, we can design experiences to facilitate the EV future.

The National Center for Autonomous Technologies (NCAT) and Northland Community and Technical College is excited to host the RADC 2021-22 Challenge: Blackout! NCAT is located at the Northland Aerospace campus in Thief River Falls, Minnesota. 

Doors will open at 7:30 AM with team check-in beginning at 8:00 AM. Teams that have not checked in 30 minutes prior to the beginning of the qualifying matches will be dropped from the roster to allow for the match list to be run. Teams running late should contact the Event Partner prior to the 30 minute cutoff to avoid being dropped. Organizers anticipate that the event will conclude no later than 4:00 PM. 

Tournament 1: November 5, 2022
Tournament 2: December 17, 2022 

Co-hosted by BEST Center and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL), the 2023 Annual Institute is the premier event to build on your knowledge and practice of high-performance building operations. This year's theme is Advancing Building Decarbonization: Policies, Technologies, and Workforce Education. 

There will be many presentations and small roundtable discussions looking at the worlds of policy, research, industry, and education in order to:

1. Develop strategies for reducing our building operations carbon footprint while maintaining occupant comfort and health
2. Instruct and improve the technician workforce to support decarbonization and energy conservation goals.

This virtual conference is for Information Communication Technology Educators & their Industry Partners. 

Conference Tracks: Yesterday's Foundations, Today's Workforce, Tomorrow's Skill

Cybersecurity knowledge and abilities are needed in many of today's industries. The focus of this academy is to cross-train non-cybersecurity faculty to incorporate cybersecurity concepts and practices into their community college program disciplines.

This 2-day in-person faculty development academy is tailored for community college faculty in manufacturing and automation. The workshop will provide faculty with curriculum, content, and assessment instruments.

Discover the latest trends, technical advancements, and best practices in photonics. 

Photonics Media will host its third annual Photonics Spectra Conference Jan. 9-12. The virtual event will comprise four technology tracks featuring webinars presented by experts in Lasers, Optics, Test and Measurement, and Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs).

The program features 60 industry-leading speakers who will present on a wide range of topics, including the latest developments in materials processing, spaceborne optical platforms, freeform optics, beam profiling, optical metrology, lasers for quantum computing, and the fast-expanding applications driving demand for PIC technology. 

This webinar provides an understanding of the issues students face in a peri-post pandemic period. The facilitator shares a foundation of terms and topics that assist educators at all levels create a welcoming and safe classroom for students to help promote attendance, learning, and self-awareness. The presenter provides a list of ways in which the attendees can create a safe space and where or how they can intervene in difficult situations.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Understand and define mental health and mental illness.
2. Learn how to establish a safe-space classroom.
3. Understand what a crisis is and who can develop crises.
4. Learn how educators can help students dealing with mental health, mental illness, or crises.

The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) is proud to present their annual Workforce Development Institute (WDI).  WDI 2023: Shockproof is the premier annual convening for new and seasoned community college-based workforce and economic development professionals. WDI 2023:  Shockproof will be held January 18-21, 2023.  AACC anticipates approximately 700 attendees from community colleges across the country focused on workforce and economic development to participate in this year's conference. Their program will feature an array of perspectives highlighting innovative strategies and promising practices to support your workforce and economic development efforts.

During this webinar, experts from Dell Technologies and dSPACE will describe how modular HiL/SiL systems and end-to-end data management can come together to offer the most flexible, complete system for simulation and validation.

Key topics and takeaways:

• Find out how to reduce integration time and optimize your total cost of ownership.
• Learn how modular tools and scalable infrastructure provide the right storage, compute, and GPU for ADAS/AD simulation, specifically focusing on data replay.
• Discover solutions that allow you to leverage your cloud of choice.
• Gain insight into a solution that lets you perform validation tasks with perfectly synchronized data and minimum jitter, comparable to real-world testing.

During this webinar, attendees will gain insights from customer stories and hear how AWS services can help modernize at every stage of the automotive and mobility value chain.

Attend the webinar to learn more about:

• AWS for Automotive solution areas, purpose-built cloud capabilities, expertise and partner/developer community. 
• Industry trends, challenges and how AWS has been enabling Automotive customers in their journey  
• Automotive case studies and customer references across each of the strategic workloads under AWS for Automotive    
• How to get started and path to value. 

During this webinar, Fermata Energy Founder and CEO David Slutzky will discuss the value proposition of bi-directional charging for your electric vehicle fleet. This event will feature a presentation and live Q&A.

This workshop will cover how to develop local articulations in order to increase enrollments in college programs.

This conversation about the circular economy will feature three automotive suppliers. Attendees will:

• Learn how aluminum, tires and batteries are being recycled.
• Find out what the challenges of the automotive suppliers are, as the auto industry is shifting toward electrification.
• Learn why using less resources, that last longer, and are more recyclable is an imperative in these times of supply chain volatility, as well as for the overall sustainability of the industry.

Our traditional systems of grading tend to reward behavior rather than knowledge, to be demotivating, and to demand that instructors perform endless workarounds to improve student outcomes. During this webinar, the presenters introduce an approach to grading that aims to equitably assess student learning and motivate student persistence. Presenters share details about grading strategies, preliminary results, and lessons learned from the implementation. They also provide a sample alternative assessment tool.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify how the traditional system of grading produces and reinforces inequities.
2. Explain how alternative grading models are more equitable.
3. Compare tools and strategies to apply a more equitable grading approach in the classroom.

During this webinar, CoorsTek R&D Engineer Aaron Miller will discuss the benefits of using Cerbec Silicon Nitride bearing balls in EV traction motors.

This session will include a live Q&A session

During this free, 45-minute webinar, Upstream's Shachar Azriel and Seth Glasgow will discuss strategies to cope with the critical automotive cyber security risks and vulnerabilities that will occur in 2023.

Key topics and takeaways:

• Gain insight into the latest automotive and smart mobility cybersecurity trends
• Discover the number of incidents carried out by black hat actors in 2022
• Learn about increases in API-related incidents and deep and dark web findings
• Find out how attention will shift in 2023 to protecting users against fleet-wide and massive-scale attacks