The National Initiative For Cybersecurity Education (NICE) will host its third annual Shaping the Future of Cybersecurity Education Workshop at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD. The NICE Initiative is focused on enhancing the cybersecurity of the United States by accelerating the availability of educational resources designed to improve the cyber behavior, skills, and knowledge of the population.
The 2012 Workshop will focus on Connecting the Dots between government, academia, industry, and the public in the cybersecurity education arena. The conference will focus on the critical role each group plays in raising national awareness about risks in cyberspace; broadening the pool of individuals prepared to enter the cybersecurity workforce; and cultivating a globally competitive cybersecurity workforce.
The workshop will host four tracks: raising awareness; education, professionalism, and certifications; training and maintaining a competitive cybersecurity workforce; and the role of cybersecurity in competitions.
The Southwest Center for Microsystems Education (SCME) presents free interactive online seminars that participants can attend from virtually anywhere. Each live 90-minute session is presented by subject matter experts and includes screen sharing, live chat, and Q & A. Webinars are recorded for repeat viewing and to use in classroom presentations.
The second in the series is Microsystem Processes Part II - Photolithography and Etch. The webinar, which takes place at 1:00 pm EST, will address one overarching question: How do these two processes (photolithography and etch) work together to transfer a specific pattern into a deposited thin film layer or substrate?
In addition, the webinar will touch on the following key ideas: coat, expose, develop, wet and dry etch, and chemical and physical etch.
Learn about one community college program in engineering technology in which the percentage of females retained went from zero percent in 2007 to 26% in 2012. Plus, more male students and minority students are receiving degrees and certificates as well!
In this webinar you will learn:
What female students need to hear from faculty to keep them on track to graduate.
The curriculum changes that will keep students engaged throughout the program.
How the layout of your lab may help or hinder the retention of female students.
The National Educator's Workshop (NEW) builds upon 26 years of annual workshops aimed at promoting science, engineering, and technology education. Each year the workshop has enhanced the quantity of useful information provided to the participants while maintaining quality and relevancy.
The National Educators Workshop series has provided over 7000 participants with the latest developments in materials science while offering strategies for teaching and learning and shared over 600 experiments and demonstrations. Recent endeavors have provided best practices and hands-on curricular materials that strengthen young people's understanding of STEM principles and enhance K-20 technology education integration. Peer review and publication of the experiments and demonstrations have provided the materials education community with current, valuable aids for teaching and research.
The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) offers college credit and advising services, illuminates career paths, influences public policy, and participates in research and innovation in order to achieve their main goal: helping people get the education and training they need.
The CAEL International Conference is designed to serve adult learners in today’s difficult economy. There will be several exhibitors seeking job prospects, educational workshops, and speakers including journalists, professors, policy and legislative counselors, and the President of SNHU.
This one-day event will be held on Saturday, November 10, 2012, on the campus of the University of Illinois at Springfield.
The purpose of this event is to provide an opportunity for any student currently attending an Illinois community college, college, and university to explore computer forensics education through exercises targeting introductory forensic skills. The hands-on exercise will include an academic lesson and engage the next generation of computing professionals in a digital forensic scenario.
Current college and university students from across the state of Illinois may apply to participate in this entry-level event.
Students who wish to apply must meet the following criteria:
1. U.S. Citizen
2. Currently enrolled student at an Illinois community college or university
3. Completion of a college-level, information security or networking course
This is an exciting opportunity that allows students to gain practical experience in the field of digital forensics. Students need to submit a completed, online application by October 24, 2012. Applications will be reviewed and students will be notified of their status by October 25, 2012.
Deadline to submit an application is October 24, 2012.
The Digital Forensics Challenge is brought to you by Springfield InfraGard Members Alliance, and its valued partners, the Center for System Security and Information Assurance (CSSIA) and the Computer Science Department at the University of Illinois at Springfield.
Integrating Adult Basic Education and Career and Technical Education is a challenge as ATE projects and centers support transitioning adult students. This webinar from MATEC NetWorks will feature best models in the area and discuss the Integrated Career and Academic Preparation System (ICAPS) being used at community colleges in Illinois.
The webinar will take place at 1:00 pm ET and last approximately 90 minutes.
Three 55-minute microsystems workshops, presented by Dr. Matthias W. Pleil, PI at the Southwest Center for Microsystems Education (SCME), will be available free at the ATMAE Conference. These workshops, numbered 6, 7, and 8 in the program, will take place between 8:30 am and 12:00 pm in Capitol 2.
The three sessions cover the following topics: (1) What are MEMS and why a 2-year tech program should care; (2) How are MEMS made? The SCME pressure sensor process kit and understanding microfabrication processes in the classroom; and (3) How do MEMS sensors work? The pressure sensor macro model kit.
Please consult the conference program for complete descriptions.
The geospatial technologies industry is currently growing at a rate that will require increased quantities of skilled workers over the next several years. With the increased demand for technical skill sets, Elmhurst College has provided a GTCM-aligned program consisting of an Online GIS Certificate Program and plans for an additional online Geospatial Science Program over the next year. A traditional undergraduate program, also aligned with the GTCM, currently exists in Applied Geospatial Technologies (AGT), and has prepared students to transition into the geospatial workforce with spatial skills stemming from coursework in spatial thinking, a required internship, two programming courses, and a Web Mapping course in addition to courses in remote sensing and spatial analysis. This webinar offers an examination of a geospatial program designed with both the transitioning undergraduate student as well as the geospatial professional in mind.
The webinar will take place from 11:30 to 12:30 pm Central Standard Time. Free registration is required.
As more GIS educators contemplate offering their courses and academic programs online, they are faced with a slew of pedagogy and technology challenges. In this presentation we will interview two professors from the University of Twente in the Netherlands who have successfully incorporated proven pedagogical strategies in their GIS courses. The webinar will focus on the use of Learning Design principles for developing an effective eLearning GIS course. We will feature an Open Source Web Mapping solution as the demonstration eLearning course.
The webinar will take place from 11:00 to 12:00 pm Central Standard Time. Free registration is required.
This November, career and technical education professionals from across the country and around the world will gather in Atlanta at the Georgia World Congress Center Nov. 28-Dec. 1 for the most exciting and talked-about CTE event of the year—CareerTech VISION 2012!
Please note that the ACTE Annual Convention is now CareerTech VISION.
CareerTech VISION 2012 is designed to be an integral component of your overall professional learning plan. The format of VISION has been created to meet individual professional growth needs and align with institutional strategic-improvement plans. You will drill deeper and accomplish more by taking advantage of a wide range of international partnerships, powerful business and industry connections, and critical certifications.
The Southwest Center for Microsystems Education (SCME) presents free interactive online seminars that participants can attend from virtually anywhere. Each live 90-minute session is presented by subject matter experts and includes screen sharing, live chat, and Q & A. Webinars are recorded for repeat viewing and to use in classroom presentations.
The third in the series is Problem Solving for Technicians – How to teach a critical manufacturing skill. The webinar, which takes place at 1:00 pm EST, will address one overarching question: How to teach problem-solving, a critical manufacturing skill, to student technicians.
In addition, the webinar will touch on the following key ideas: Basic steps of problem solving, applying these steps to simple everyday problems, and applying the steps to problems related to microsystems fabrication. For the best experience, it is recommended that attendees review the previous webinar, Microsystems Processes Part II – Photolithography and Etch.
As hundreds of thousands of American adults seek new career options, they are inflating the enrollments at every community and technical college in the nation. They bring with them new challenges and opportunities for adult education practitioners, workforce developers, career guidance personnel, and administrators. Participants in this webinar from MATEC NetWorks will learn what works, what strategies are actionable, and how to measure results on their way toward building adult career pathway program capacity.
The webinar will take place at 1:00 pm ET and last approximately 90 minutes.
The AGU Fall Meeting is the largest worldwide conference in the geophysical sciences, attracting more than 20,000 Earth and space scientists, educators, students, and other leaders. Attendees will have the opportunity to present research, learn about the latest geophysical breakthroughs and connect with their peers.
The Fall Meeting takes place in the North, South, and West buildings of the Moscone Center, at the intersection of Fourth and Howard Streets, San Francisco, CA 94103. The Moscone Center is accessible by BART and MUNI public transit lines, and also in walking distance of many hotels.
Our new world of mobility encourages the exchange of people and ideas around the world. This webinar from MATEC NetWorks looks at specific features of the globalization of education as described by a panel of experts.
The webinar will take place from 1:00-2:30 pm EST.
The College of Lake County, located in north suburban Chicago, IL, is offering a VHDL & FPGA Design Workshop on December 7th & 8th for engineering technology instructors who plan on teaching or developing coursework in digital logic design utilizing hardware description languages and FPGAs. Attendees will learn basic and advanced coding techniques for VHDL synthesis, Quartus II development software for FPGAs, and curriculum strategies for developing digital logic design courses using VHDL & FPGAs. Some basic knowledge of digital design is required. Attendees will be paid a stipend of $150 per day for the two days, and $500 for travel. Please contact Michelle Leonard at 847-543-2760 or mleonard@clcillinois.edu for more information, or to register.
Learn about proven resources on increasing the number of female students in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs. Participants will learn about effective, evidence-based strategies that they can use to recruit and retain female students in their STEM classes.
In this webinar, participants will learn:
-What changed in one computer science program so that now 42% of their students are women.
-How a short course in spatial reasoning can significantly increase retention rates of female (and male) students.
-How community college technology programs in California created “leadership teams” to recruit and retain more female students.
-Step-by-step, how to use a blueprint worksheet to recruit more female students to STEM programs.
-How to use the free Proven Practices Collection on the IWITTS website to find even more valuable resources on recruiting and retaining women and girls in STEM.
The behavior system developed for the ACE Bridge Semester is an integral cornerstone of the program. This workshop explains the principles of the ACE behavior system and how it is effectively implemented. Participants will also learn how to integrate courses and coordinate assignments for a more successful semester.
All instructors teaching in the ACE program are required to attend this workshop prior to teaching in ACE for the first time. Experienced ACE instructors are also welcome.
The goal of the workshop is to provide ACE faculty with a common framework and consistent set of tools that encourage positive behavior and address disruptive behavior, supporting conditions in the classroom for optimal learning.
A typical session agenda includes:
Discuss ACE’s Inside-Out philosophy
Explain in detail the core Behavior System
Explore supplemental strategies and tools
Apply the Behavior System to typical scenarios
Briefly review approaches to coordinate individual course content
Prerequisite: Faculty Experiential Learning Institute (FELI)
This webinar is a continuation of the May 24, 2012 webinar. It will delve deeper into nano and discovering its impact on our daily lives. The webinar will be presented by Barbara Herr Harthorn, Principal Investigator and Director of the Center for Nanotechnology in Society (CNS-UCSB), a National Science Foundation-funded national center.
Security + is an international, vendor-neutral certification that demonstrates competency in:
- Network Security
- Compliance and operational security
- Threats and vulnerabilities
- Application, data and host security
- Access control and identity management
- Cryptography
This course introduces the basic principles of network security. The student will be introduced to computer network vulnerabilities and threats and how to safeguard computer networks from those vulnerabilities and threats. This course will expose the student to network security planning, network security technology, network security organization and the legal and ethical issues associated with network security. This course is designed to prepare the student for the CompTIA Security + certification.
*Note: This training opportunity is for Teachers/Faculty. Verification of teaching status and institution will be requested.
PLEASE NOTE: Although there is no cost for the workshop, there will be a no-show fee of $500 billed directly to your institution for each registered individual who fails to cancel their registration a minimum of 10 business days prior to the first session of this course.
This two-day workshop will instruct academic institutions/faculty on the procedures and processes for implementing a virtualized lab solution using NDG NETLAB+ and VMware vSphere. Virtualized labs enable organizations to host real IT equipment, virtual machines, and lab content on the Internet to support IT training. Generally, these labs include all the software needed to provide an environment through which students may schedule and complete lab exercises for Information Technology courses.
Participants of this workshop will be performing a "from the ground up" build of the learning environment, to include both physical and software installations. Participants should be familiar with Cisco, VMware, and Microsoft Technologies before attending the workshop.
*Note: This training opportunity is for Teachers/Faculty. Verification of teaching status and institution will be requested.
PLEASE NOTE: Although there is no cost for the workshop, there will be a no-show fee of $500 billed directly to your institution for each registered individual who fails to cancel their registration a minimum of 10 business days prior to the first session of this course.
The purpose of this workshop is to provide an opportunity to learn how to integrate Microsystems Technology into STEM curriculum. Participants will learn how to use select SCME’s kits in the classroom and be provided hands-on experience on the process steps for fabricating a MEMS micro-pressure sensor at the University of South Florida's Nanotechnology Research Education Center located in Tampa, Florida.
Each participant will actively complete and be trained on the following six SCME kits: Crystallography, Rainbow Wafer, Pressure Sensor Model, Lift-off, Pressure Sensor Process, and MEMS: Making Micro Machines. These kits will allow the participants to bring this cleanroom experience to the classroom.
Please note: This workshop at USF is by invitation only. If you want to be invited, contact Matt Pleil (mpleil@unm.edu) and fill out the application form.
The conference will feature presentations from representatives of ICT industry and education. Participants will be able to gather and share quality ICT education information, resources and practices, improve ICT education, prepare people for good ICT jobs, and help improve the economy.
U.S. community college educators in ICT-related programs are invited to attend this event free, and to submit a presentation proposal for quality ICT educational practices or stories. Qualified faculty in the MPICT region may be eligible to receive a stipend or partial expense reimbursement
The BATEC National Center for IT is among NSF ATE Centers co-producing this event, which is hosted locally in San Francisco by MPICT and the California Community College ICT Collaborative.
CSUPERB is celebrating the 25th Annual CSU Biotechnology Symposium in January. Beyond the anniversary objectives, the symposium program is designed to broaden exposure to cutting-edge biotechnologies, product-focused innovation and the spectrum of career paths available in the life sciences. The symposium brings CSU students, faculty and administrators together, as well as biotech professionals working in academia, government and industry. The program will feature two Poster sessions, a Career Networking session, the I2P Early-Stage Biotech Commercialization Challenge, a Graduate School Information session, and Award Talk sessions featuring student speakers competing for Symposium Awards.
The American Association of Physics Teachers will return to New Orleans for its Winter 2013 Meeting, January 5-9. The Big Easy, well known for its cross-cultural and multilingual heritage, provides a lively and entertaining backdrop for physicists and physics educators as they meet to share information and ideas spanning a potpourri of themes (including physics of accelerator applications, physics of space weather, instructional innovations for the laboratory, reducing the achievement gap in physics, and online physics courses). And the meeting in New Orleans, "the birthplace of jazz," would not be complete without special sessions on the physics of sound, music, and all that jazz!
The conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans with weekend workshops being held at a local university.
This meeting offers an opportunity for members, colleagues, and future physicists from around the world to participate in physics workshops, meet and greet other physics educators, form networks internationally, nationally and locally, engage exhibitors and learn about the latest physics resources.
This is a distance-learning 5 day training starting January 7th & ending January 11th, 2013 from 9a.m. - 5p.m CT
The virtual training sessions will be from 9a.m. - 1p.m. CT and labs will be made available from 1p.m. - 5p.m. CT.
This “train the trainer” track will prepare faculty to teach the technology-based Information Storage and Management (ISM) course offered through participating in the EMC Academic Alliance program and provide the hands-on experience to do the online ISM labs available through Network Development Group (NDG). Further it prepares faculty to become an EMC Proven Professional Information Storage Associate.
*Note: This training opportunity is for Teachers/Faculty. Verification of teaching status and institution will be requested.
PLEASE NOTE: Although there is no cost for the workshop, there will be a no-show fee of $500 billed directly to your institution for each registered individual who fails to cancel their registration a minimum of 10 business days prior to the first session of this course.
The ACE Faculty Experiential Learning Institute is five-day professional development experience designed for community college faculty, staff and administrators. The FELI is an experiential workshop involving more than fifty exercises and activities. These activities include but are not limited to large group discussion, small group sharing and presentations, movement activities, role-playing and reflection. ACE structures the activities to create a community of learners, and asks that all attendees be prepared to participate fully as active learners. Each FELI group is capped at 25 participants to ensure time for each participant to be heard.
The FELI workshop challenges participants in many ways:
Participants will be asked to closely examine reality versus perceptions in the areas of working styles, listening abilities and communications techniques.
Participants will experience the difference between outside-in learning and inside-out learning.
Participants will be asked to practice authentic communication and understand the value of self-awareness and self-disclosure as vehicles for the transformation of education.
A majority of participants report that they experience significant renewal and inspiration upon completion of a FELI.
The FELI can be offered as a stand-alone professional development activity or as a part of the process of bringing an ACE program to a college.
The FELI is the first step for faculty interested in teaching ACE classes.
This workshop simulates the transformative learning incorporated into the ACE Bridge Semester program for students.
