Celebrating 20 years

SAVE THE DATES!

Please mark your calendars as the following dates have been selected for the 2014 and 2015 ATE Principal

Investigators Conferences.

October 22-24, 2014

Omni Shoreham Hotel

Washington, DC

October 21-23, 2015

Omni Shoreham Hotel

Washington, DC

Celebrating 20 years

Conference Program

ATE@20:

Sustaining Success and Advancing

Innovation

October 23-25, 2013

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ATE@20: Sustaining Success and Advancing Innovation

October 23-25, 2013 | Omni Shoreham Hotel | Washington, DC

Conference at a Glance ...................................................................... 4

Guide to Conference Sessions ............................................................. 8

Conference Schedule ....................................................................... 10

Wednesday .............................................................................................. 10

Thursday .................................................................................................. 13

Friday ....................................................................................................... 23

Breakfast Roundtables ..................................................................... 25

Thursday ................................................................................................... 25

Friday ........................................................................................................ 28

Plenary Speakers ............................................................................ 32

Hotel Maps ..................................................................................... 36

Exhibit Hall Map ............................................................................. 38

Showcase Sessions .......................................................................... 40

Showcase I: Wednesday – ATE Centers .................................................... 40

Showcase II: Thursday – ATE Projects and ATE Students ........................... 47

Showcase III: Friday – ATE Projects and ATE Students ............................... 58

ATE Students and Recent Alumni ...................................................... 69

Helpful Information ........................................................................ 71

Registration

Badge Identification

Business Center

Internet Café

Accessibility Information

Emergency Procedures

Smoking Policy

Tickets

Area Restaurants and Local Map ....................................................... 72

Conference Steering Committee ........................................................ 74

NSF ATE Program Staff ..................................................................... 75

2014 and 2015 ATE Conference Dates ......................................... Back pg

2013 ATE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS CONFERENCE 3

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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

10:00 am – 8:00 pm

Conference Registration

West Conference Foyer

10:00 am – 7:30 pm

Internet Café and Hot Spot

Executive

1:00 – 5:00 pm

Workshop A: Getting Started

Ticket required

Palladian

1:00 – 5:00 pm

Workshop B: Advancing Innovation and

Disseminating Impact: How to Spread the Word

Ticket required

Congressional

1:00 – 4:00 pm

Workshop C: Follow the Money: Strategies for

Leveraging ATE Grant Funding

Ticket required

Diplomat

1:00 – 4:00 pm

Workshop D: Increasing Your Web and

Social Media Impact

Ticket required

Hampton

Thursday, October 24, 2013

7:00 am – 6:00 pm



7:00 am – 6:00 pm


Executive

7:30 – 8:45 am

Showcase II Set-up

Exhibit Hall

7:30 – 8:45 am

Continental Breakfast

Regency

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1:00 – 4:00 pm

Workshop E: Strategies for Meaningful

Interpretation of ATE Evaluation Data

Ticket required

Empire

3:30 – 6:00 pm

Showcase I Set-up

Exhibit Hall

6:00 – 7:30 pm

OPENING PLENARY SESSION

ATE@20: Reflecting on the Past,

Reinvigorating the Future

Keynote Speakers:

Rick Stephens, Retired Vice President of Human Resources and Administration, Boeing Corporation

The Honorable David E. Price, United States House of

Representatives

Regency

7:30 – 9:45 pm

Showcase I and Welcome Reception

Exhibit Hall

9:45 – 10:30 pm

Showcase I Breakdown

Exhibit Hall

7:30 – 8:45 am

ATE Student/Alumni Recognition Breakfast

(By Invitation Only)

Hampton

7:45 – 8:45 am

Breakfast Roundtables

Ambassador

9:00 – 10:15 am

PLENARY SESSION

Technicians in the Workforce – Celebrating Student

Leadership and Success

Facilitator: Moira Gunn, Host, TechNation and Biotech

Nation, National Public Radio

Regency


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10:15 – 10:30 am

Refreshment Break

10:30 – 11:45 am

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Session 1: Industry Voices – What Industry Wants

from Graduates to Hire Them and Keep Them?

Ambassador

Session 2: Envisioning ATE@30: The Community

College Role in the STEM Economy

Diplomat

Session 3: STEMMING the Marginalized Tide:

Meeting Underrepresented Learners

Where They Live

Palladian

Session 4: Emerging Technologies Lightning Round

Empire

12:00 – 2:15 pm

Showcase II and Lunch

Exhibit Hall

2:15 – 3:00 pm

Showcase II Breakdown

Exhibit Hall

2:30 – 3:45 pm

WORKSHOP AND DISCUSSION SESSIONS

Workshop: Career Pathways: A Strategy for Building

Tomorrow’s STEM Workforce

Track 1

Palladian

Workshop: You Have Developed a Patentable Product

on an ATE Grant. Now What?

Track 1

Diplomat

Discussion: The National Cyber League: Where

Cybersecurity is a Passion

Track 1

Calvert

Discussion: Transforming the Mindset of Secondary

School Educators to Stimulate Student Choice of

STEM Careers

Track 1

Embassy

Discussion: In-depth Review of the Development of a

Manufacturing Career Pathway

Track 1

Senate

Workshop: The Competitive Edge of Leadership:

Gaining/Using/Sharing Knowledge of What Works in

Technician Education

Track 2

Empire

Discussion: What Can ATE PIs and Co-PIs Do to

Proactively Broaden Impacts and Recruit Women to

STEM?

Track 2

Congressional A

Discussion: Beyond the Classroom Walls

Track 2

Forum

Workshop: Using Universal Design Principles to

Improve Student Learning and Success

Track 3

Congressional B

Workshop: All for One: Meeting the Grant Mission

with Multiple Partners

Track 4

Ambassador

Workshop: Mechatronics: The Foundation for

Manufacturing, Supply Chain Technology, and Other

Critical Industries

Track 6

Hampton


Workshop: Working with the NSF’s SBIR Program to

Benefit Your College and Support Small Business in

Your Community

Track 6

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Discussion: Exploring In-Demand Skills from

Employer Job Postings Metadata

Track 6

Cabinet

Discussion: Training Water Technicians for Business and Industry

Track 6

Council

Workshop: International Collaboration: Benefits and

Lessons Learned

Track 7

Governors

4:00 – 5:15 pm


Discussion: Nationwide Opportunities for STEM

Technicians

Track 1

Senate

Discussion: How Do I Help My College Transform

Its Infrastructure to Support Entrepreneurial

Endeavors?

Track 1

Congressional A

Discussion: Overview of Engineering Pathway

Guide with Strategies for Teaching, Learning, and

Student Support

Track 1

Embassy

Workshop: Creating Classroom Transformations in

STEM Education

Track 2

Diplomat

Workshop: Best Practices for Engaging and Inspiring

Secondary Teachers as Emerging Technology

Leaders

Track 2

Governors

Workshop: Getting Started with PBL: Strategies,

Resources, and Lessons Learned

Track 3

Palladian

Workshop: Advancing Innovation in Technician

Education: Flipping Classrooms and Integrating

Open Learning Resources

Track 3

Ambassador

Discussion: If You Don’t Lecture – How Do You

Teach? Options for Engagement, Collaboration, and

Relevance in Technology Classrooms

Track 3

Forum

Discussion: Innovations in Dual Enrollment

Track 3

Congressional B

Discussion: Determining Readiness for Scalability and Sustainability – How Do You Know and How Can

You Prepare?

Track 4

Calvert

Workshop: ATE Targeted Research in Action: FLATE/

PathTech and Fox Valley/METTE Partnerships to

Improve Student Outcomes

Track 5

Regency

Workshop: Cultivating Effective Industry

Partnerships for Long-Term Sustainability

Track 6

Empire

Workshop: Understanding and Leveraging the USA

Digital Fabrication Learning Community

Track 6

Hampton

Discussion: Working with the Department of Labor to

Develop a Competency Model

Track 6

Cabinet

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Friday, October 25, 2013

7:30 am –12:00 pm



7:30 – 10:00 am


Executive

7:30 – 8:45 am


Regency

7:30 – 8:45 am

Showcase III Set-up

Exhibit Hall

7:45 – 8:45 am


Ambassador

9:00 – 10:15 am

PLENARY SESSION

The Next 20 Years: Technology Innovations and

Global Opportunities


Carolyn Corbin, President, Center for the 21 st Century

Jeff Wacker, Senior Fellow Emeritus, Hewlett-Packard/EDS

Regency

10:15 am – 12:30 pm

Showcase III and Lunch

Exhibit Hall

12:30 – 1:15 pm

Showcase III Breakdown

Exhibit Hall

12:45 – 3:00 pm

ATE Center Directors Meeting

ATE Center Staff Only

Palladian


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Please refer to the conference schedule for specific session times and room locations.

BREAKFAST ROUNDTABLES: Breakfast roundtables are a forum for interactive discussion of a topic among a small group of 5-10 people. They are designed as informal sessions and attendance is firstcome, first-served, and limited to a maximum of 10 people seated around one table, including the moderator.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS: Concurrent sessions include formal presentations and/or panel discussions that address topics pertaining to the conference theme and the needs of the ATE community.

DISCUSSION SESSIONS: The discussion session format offers an interactive venue for ATE grantees to share promising practices and lessons learned with other members of the ATE community, to network, share insights, and explore ways to collaborate. Discussion moderators serve as facilitators of interactive, substantive discussions and small group activities. Please note that the capacity for discussion sessions is 30 – 40 people.

WORKSHOP SESSIONS: Workshop sessions provide additional venues for formal presentation.

Presenters may facilitate an exchange of ideas or conduct a demonstration or application of techniques and/or promising practices to provide greater insight into the issues outlined in the conference tracks

(listed below). Please note that the session capacity for panel sessions range from 50 – 60 people.

SESSION TRACKS: Workshop and discussion sessions scheduled on Thursday, October 24 feature topics pertaining to the conference theme of “ATE@20: Sustaining Success and Advancing Innovation” and are organized by the following tracks: n Track 1: ATE@20 – Sustainability, Connectivity, and “Spreading the Word”

Examples of content in this category may include: strategies for sustaining and scaling programs; engaging partners; increasing the number of students entering and graduating from a program; developing career pathways; and marketing technical programs to external constituents such as students, secondary schools, guidance counselors, parents, funders, and/or the community. n Track 2: Developing STEM Leaders in Innovation

Examples of content in this category may include: faculty development for secondary school teachers and community college faculty; methods and models for professional development; faculty externships; leadership development; and mentoring programs.

n Track 3: Access to Success – Strategies for Teaching, Learning, and Student Support

Examples of content in this category may include: problem or case-based learning; internships; bridge programs; dual-enrollment; online learning and its impact on physical space and classroom design; virtualization; MOOCs; assessment strategies and resources; and addressing the needs of 21st century learners.

n Track 4: Best Practices in Administration of Programs

Examples of content in this category may include: project and fiscal management; meeting evaluation and accountability challenges; assessment strategies; and establishing IRBs.

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s essions n Track 5: Advancing Innovation through STEM Research

Examples of content in this category may include: strategies for conducting institutional and educational research; partnering with four-year colleges on student learning outcomes; and integrating undergraduate research into the classroom. n Track 6: Business and Industry Connections - The Community College Role in Workforce and Economic Development

Examples of content in this category may include: developing and supporting industry partnerships; responding to industry trends; addressing emerging career fields and workforce development needs; and implementing entrepreneurship and innovation strategies.

n Track 7: Worldwide Perspectives and Practices – ATE Goes Global

Examples of content in this category may include: international programs and practices; how to develop international partnerships; incorporating global competencies into STEM curriculum; and faculty and student exchange.

SHOWCASE SESSIONS : The showcase sessions provide grantees an opportunity to exhibit their projects and share information with other programs, NSF program directors, and with guests at the conference. ATE projects and centers present displays that capture the purposes and products of their programs. The displays are divided into three sessions; one center showcase and two project showcases. The conference’s main meal events are coordinated as part of the showcase sessions.

Note: ATE students will highlight their program of study and/or career path as part of the project showcase sessions. Please take the time to visit the student booths during the project showcases

and show your support of their efforts.


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PRECONFERENCE ACTIVITIES

10:00 am – 8:00 pm



10:00 am – 7:30 pm


Executive

1:00 – 5:00 pm

Workshop A: Getting Started

Advance Registration and Ticket Required

Palladian

David Campbell, Program Director, National Science

Foundation, VA

Elaine Craft, Director, SC ATE Center of Excellence, SC

Dennis Faber, Co-Principal Investigator, Mentor-Connect, MD

LeVar Rashawn Farrior, Grants and Agreement Specialist,

Division of Grants and Agreements, National Science

Foundation, VA

Arlen Gullickson, Co-Principal Investigator, EvaluATE, MI

Jason Burkhardt, Data Architect, EvaluATE, MI

Corey Smith, Data Analyst, EvaluATE, MI

This workshop is recommended for all principal investigators, co-principal investigators, and other team members involved in newly awarded projects and centers in

FY13. Others who may find the workshop useful include new awardees in FY12 and other project personnel from prior years who have recently become involved in ATE projects and centers. The workshop will be divided into three parts:

(1) ATE Program Issues. Topics to be covered include reporting requirements such as annual and final reports, working with NSF program officers, changes in project personnel or scope, data collection, FastLane and other reporting systems, use of Advisory Boards and National

Visiting Committees, preparing project highlights for NSF and others, Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), and many other relevant topics. (2) Financial Management and Grant

Management Issues. This section will focus on financial accounting issues and discuss in detail problems often seen in monitoring visits such as participant support, time and effort accounting, subawardees, record keeping, changes in scope, overload, and use of consultants. (3) Evaluation. This segment will address building in evaluation from the start of your project or center. The ATE program conducts an annual survey of all projects and centers that have been active for more than one year. Additional evaluation topics to be addressed include, but are not limited to, evaluation design, methods and instrumentation, resources for learning about productive evaluation, the roles of internal and external evaluators, and evaluation challenges.

1:00 – 5:00 pm

Workshop B: Advancing Innovation and

Disseminating Impact: How to Spread the Word


Congressional

Elaine Johnson, Executive Director and PI, Bio-Link, City

College of San Francisco, CA

Sandra Porter, Co-Principal Investigator, Bio-Link, CA

Linnea Fletcher, Co-Principal Investigator, Bio-Link, Austin

Community College, TX

Deb Newberry, Director and PI, Nano-Link, Dakota County

Community College, MN

Jennifer Newsted, Student Blogger, University of Nevada –

Las Vegas, NV

Do the results of your project simply get filed away at NSF?

Does your students’ work disappear after the funding period ends? All too often, the lessons learned from a project are never shared with the larger community. Publishing your work provides a way to increase the broader impacts of your project and helps others build on your findings. You have already done the work, so why not leverage it? Publishing can bring numerous benefits for your project, your partners, your institution, and the ATE program. Multiple people can also participate in the publishing process. Having students blog or write papers helps them learn and publicizes your work. Publishing increases your credibility, validates your work, increases project visibility, provides more opportunities for future collaborations, and increases your chances of future funding. Participants in this interactive session will learn about informal (blogs, newsletters) and formal (peer-reviewed journal articles) opportunities for publishing, matching the audience with the type of publication, and best practices for different forms of publishing. The presenters have published in a variety of formats; have served as writers and editors for blogs, and as reviewers for journals; and have experience with student bloggers.

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1:00 – 4:00 pm

Workshop C: Follow the Money: Strategies for

Leveraging ATE Grant Funding


Diplomat

Ann Beheler, Principal Investigator, Regional Convergence

Technology Center, Collin College, TX

Patricia Dombrowski, Director, Life Science Informatics Center,

Bellevue College, WA

Bob Feldmaier, Director, Center for Advanced Automotive

Technology, Macomb Community College, MI

Anand Gramopadhye, Associate Vice President, Workforce

Development, Clemson University, SC

Monica Pfarr, Corporate Director, Workforce Development,

American Welding Society Foundation, FL

This session will encourage and empower participants with the tools to build on NSF support by discussing the practical considerations for vetting other private, state, and federal funding opportunities. Participants will discuss the legal, ethical, and political ramifications of grant integration in a single area and will work on individual case studies, including garnering on campus buy-in and industry partnerships.

1:00 – 4:00 pm

Workshop D: Increasing Your Web and Social

Media Impact


Hampton

Edward Almasy, Co-PI, ATE Central, WI

Edgar Troudt, Co-PI, Student Entrepreneurs Video Project, NY

Gordon Snyder, Executive Director and PI, ICT Center,

Springfield Community and Technical College, MA

In this interactive session, participants will learn about tools and techniques for increasing the effectiveness and impact of their web site and social media channels, and have the opportunity to discuss what has and hasn’t worked for them and how best to employ those tools and techniques within their environment to reach their target community. Facilitated brainstorming in a roundtable format will be interspersed with group Q&A, with participants selecting the subjects most of interest to them. Topics covered will include web and social media analytics, usability testing, and content sharing mechanisms, as well as issues specific to each of the popular social media services

(Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube). While this will be a non-technical workshop, technical concerns may be covered in breakout groups as needed.

1:00 – 4:00 pm

Workshop E: Strategies for Meaningful

Interpretation of ATE Evaluation Data


Empire

Lori Wingate, Principal Investigator, EvaluATE, MI

Krystin Martens, Curriculum and Instruction Specialist,

EvaluATE, MI

In this workshop, participants will review and discuss strategies for synthesizing and interpreting evaluation data to reach conclusions about an ATE project or center’s quality, progress, and/or impact. Data interpretation typically requires one or more points of reference for comparison— whether internally-set targets, national benchmarks, other sites/organizations, past performance, or other information sources. Enhancing data interpretation helps projects avoid two common pitfalls in evaluation: (1) making conclusions that are not clearly linked to data and (2) reporting data without providing meaningful conclusions. The workshop will include demonstration and hands-on group work to apply strategies for data interpretation to reach conclusions and inform recommendations for project improvement.

3:30 – 6:00 pm

Showcase I Set-up

Exhibit Hall


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CONFERENCE OPENING

6:00 – 7:30 pm

Plenary Session

Regency

V. Celeste Carter, Lead ATE Program Director, National

Science Foundation, VA

Gail Schwartz, Senior Vice President for Innovative Learning and Student Success, American Association of Community Colleges, DC

Joan Ferrini-Mundy, Assistant Director, Directorate for

Education and Human Resources, National Science

Foundation, VA

Cora Marrett, Acting Director, National Science

Foundation, VA

7:30 – 9:45 pm

Showcase I and Welcome Reception

Exhibit Hall

9:45 – 10:30 pm

Showcase I Breakdown

Exhibit Hall

ATE@20: Reflecting on the Past, Reinvigorating the Future

The twentieth anniversary provides the perfect context to reflect on the how the ATE program began, what the program has achieved, and where the program might go from here. Today, science, technology, math and engineering education, as well as our research and development enterprise, remain critical to our nation’s competitiveness. ATE’s proven model of success can play an important role in continuing to ensure that we equip current and next generations of science and engineering technicians with the latest skills and tools to compete in the global marketplace.


Rick Stephens

Retired Vice President for

Human Resources and

Administration, Boeing

Corporation

The Honorable

David E. Price

United States House of

Representatives

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7:00 am – 6:00 pm


Executive

7:30 – 8:45 am

Showcase II Set-up

Exhibit Hall

7:30 – 8:45 am


Regency

7:30 – 8:45 am

ATE Student/Alumni Recognition Breakfast

(By invitation only)

Hampton

7:45 – 8:45 am


Ambassador

9:00 – 10:15 am

Plenary Session

Regency

V. Celeste Carter, Lead ATE Program Director,

National Science Foundation, VA

Susan Singer, Deputy Director, Division of Undergraduate

Education, National Science Foundation, VA

Technicians in the Workforce – Celebrating

Student Leadership and Success

This plenary session focuses on the conference theme of

ATE@20: Advancing Innovation and Sustaining Success, and highlights STEM technicians from their student beginnings to their value and impact as employees in the workplace.

Hear directly from industry employers and recent ATE program graduates about how the ATE program helps students transition into the workplace; the benefits to employers of hiring ATE-prepared graduates; and ATE’s role in preparing students to be leaders in advancing the

U.S. STEM workforce and our nation’s competitiveness.

Facilitator:

Moira Gunn, Host, TechNation and Biotech Nation,

National Public Radio, CA

Panelists:

Johann Garcia,

Junior Health Physics

Technician, Bartlett

Nuclear, FL

Keqin Gregg,

Genetic Testing Lab

Manager, Genotox

Laboratories, TX

Wenjing Guo,

Analyst I, Genotox

Laboratories, TX

Jerry W. Hiatt, Chief

Technical Officer,

BHI Energy, MA

Bryant Lekander,

Quality Assurance

Technician,

Hysitron, Inc., MN

Justin Patten,

Operations

Manager, Hysitron,

Inc., MN


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10:15 – 10:30 am

Refreshment Break

Diplomat, Ambassador, and Empire Foyers

10:30 – 11:45 am

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

SESSION 1: Industry Voices – What Industry Wants from Graduates to Hire Them and Keep Them?

Ambassador

Werner Eikenbusch, Manager, Apprentice and Associate

Training, BMW Manufacturing Corporation, SC

Matt Glover, Senior Director Global IT, AMX, TX

Patricia A. Shugart, Chief Operating Officer, Carolina Liquid

Chemistries Corporation, NC

Moderator: Ann Beheler, Principal Investigator, Regional

Convergence Technology Center, Collin College, TX

Hear from a diverse group of business and industry leaders involved with the ATE program regarding their impressions of the impact of ATE on the workforce and the skills they wish to see in our graduates. Panelists will also discuss current job prospects; issues surrounding diversity in hiring practices; the value of certificates, degrees, and industry recognized certifications; and the behaviors that are necessary to keep a job once it is obtained. There will be sufficient time devoted to a question and answer period with the audience.

Session 2: Envisioning ATE@30: The Community

College Role in the STEM Economy

Diplomat

Elaine Craft, Director, SC ATE Center, Florence-Darlington

Community College, SC

Jonathan Rothwell, Senior Research Associate and Associate

Fellow, The Brookings Institution, DC

Louis Soares, Vice President, Policy, Research, and Strategy,

American Council on Education, DC

Moderator: Kent Phillippe, Associate Vice President, Research and Student Success, American Association of Community

Colleges, DC

Where is the STEM workforce for tomorrow being educated?

According to a recent Brookings Institute report on The

Hidden STEM Economy, 50% of STEM jobs do not require a bachelor’s degree. This panel will address current and future trends in STEM occupations and employment, shifts in higher education and the changing models of postsecondary degrees, and the challenges and issues that community colleges will need to address in preparing future

STEM technicians. Key leaders in higher education, public policy and research, and STEM technician education will discuss the future of U.S. higher education given our shifting economy and changing educational landscape—and its impact on STEM.

Session 3: STEMMING the Marginalized Tide:

Meeting Underrepresented Learners

Where They Live

Palladian

Brian J. Ketz, Executive Officer, Veterans’ Employment &

Training Service (VETS), U.S. Department of Labor, DC

Terrance R. Campbell, Deputy Director, YOUR Center, MI

Moderators: Deb Newberry, Director and PI, Nano-Link,

Dakota County Community College, MN

Patricia Dombrowski, Executive Director, Health eWorkforce

Consortium, Bellevue College, WA

The opportunity to learn from, inspire, and serve the oncoming wave of diverse STEM learners and technicians is an exhilarating challenge for community colleges. Leadership from veterans, students of color, indigenous communities, youth living in poverty, and learners with cognitive and physical impairments is needed. This session focuses on practical steps to link with faith based and veterans’ organizations. A session goal is to foster an open exchange with experts in these fields and other participants, to assist development of localized scenarios and strong projects.

Session 4: Emerging Technologies Lightning

Round

Empire

Kevin Cooper, Director, RCNET, Indian River State College, FL

Marilyn Barger, PI and Executive Director, FLATE, Hillsborough

Community College, FL

Dan Hull, PI and Executive Director, OP-TEC, TX

Gordon Snyder, PI and Executive Director, ICT Center,

Springfield Community and Technical College, MA

Sandra Porter, Co-PI, Bio-Link, WA

Michael Lesiecki, PI, Executive Director, MATEC, Maricopa

Community Colleges, AZ

Steve Kane, Managing Director, SpaceTEC, FL

Mel Cossette, PI, MatEd, Edmonds Community College, WA

Ken Patton, PI, RapidTech, Saddleback College, CA

Michelle Norgren, Director and PI, VESTA, Missouri State

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Kristi Jean, Co-PI, Nano-Link, North Dakota State College, ND

Edgar Troudt, Co-PI, Student Entrepreneurs Video Project,

Kingsborough Community College, NY

Moderator: Rachael Bower, PI, ATE Central, University of

Wisconsin-Madison, WI

Come join experts from the ATE community and learn about a range of new and emerging technologies in a fast-paced and informative lightning round session. Ten presenters will each spend six minutes (and a few slides) providing participants with an overview of recent changes and innovations in their field— including photonics, information technology, vitacology, manufacturing, nanotechnology, biotechnology, and much more. A brief question and answer period will allow attendees to interact with presenters, mention trends or technologies from their own field, and expand on information provided during the more formal portion of the presentation.

12:00 – 2:15 pm

Showcase II and Lunch

Exhibit Hall

2:15 – 3:00 pm

Showcase II Breakdown

Exhibit Hall

2:30 – 3:45 pm


Workshop: Career Pathways: A Strategy for

Building Tomorrow’s STEM Workforce

Track 1

Palladian

Peirce Hammond, Senior Advisor for Special Initiatives, OVAE,

U.S. Department of Education, DC

Christopher Coro, Deputy Director, Adult Education and

Literacy, OVAE, U.S. Department of Education, DC

Stan Koutstaal, Program Manager, Health Professional

Opportunity Grants Program, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, DC

Laura Messenger, Education Program Specialist, OVAE,

U.S. Department of Education, DC

Andrala Walker, Workforce Analyst, ETA, U.S. Department of

Labor, DC

As the need for postsecondary skills and knowledge presses individuals and employers, career pathway approaches are gaining attention. Career pathways are a strategy for youths and adults to acquire marketable skills and postsecondary credentials by aligning education, employment, and social services among public agencies and linking them to labor market trends and employer needs. In April, 2012 the Departments of Education (ED), Health and Human

Services (HHS), and Labor (DOL) issued a joint letter encouraging states and local areas to adopt career pathway approaches to the delivery of employment, training, and education services and providing a common definition of career pathways and their essential components. ED, HHS, and DOL have formed an interagency working group to share information, identify opportunities for collaboration and technical assistance, and recommend strategies for adoption of career pathways approaches. This workshop will provide an overview of federal activities concerning career pathways, emphasizing their relevance to higher education and STEM. Agency representatives will share promising practices and address ways to build high-quality programs for a variety of student populations, including disconnected youth, low-skilled adults, and dislocated workers.

Workshop: You Have Developed a Patentable

Product on an ATE Grant. Now What?

Track 1

Diplomat

Patricia E. Campbell, Director, School of Law, University of

Maryland, MD

Dorian Grumet, Director, Licensee Relations and Reliance,

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, NJ

Ned Israelsen, Partner, Knobbe Martens, CA

Moderator: Judith Fitzpatrick, Director of Quality Assurance

Program , Bergen Community College, NJ

Community colleges are joining their university counterparts in encouraging research and now are confronted with the issues surrounding patenting and commercialization. The university departments that handle these processes are costly and supported by a high volume of intellectual property. Community colleges are challenged to provide this. Consequently, inventors at community colleges and community colleges are short-changed. In this session, participants will hear from three distinguished patent professionals familiar with various university commercialization infrastructures who will lead a discussion on the various avenues that might be utilized by community colleges to support the patenting of inventions and the entrepreneurial spirit.


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Discussion: The National Cyber League: Where

Cybersecurity is a Passion

Track 1

Calvert

Casey O’Brien, Director and PI, National CyberWatch Center,

Prince George’s Community College, MD

Attendees will learn about the National Cyber League

(NCL), a first-of-its-kind ongoing educational experiment in learning and gaming, where the students (AKA players) are co-creators and collaborators in building engaging, entertaining, measurable, and scalable methods of learning to enlist a new generation of cybersecurity professionals.

This session will engage participants by telling a compelling story of how four ATE centers partnered in May 2011 to create an ongoing and virtual training ground for students to develop, practice, and validate their cybersecurity knowledge and skills using novel, next-generation, highfidelity simulation environments.

Discussion: Transforming the Mindset of

Secondary School Educators to Stimulate Student

Choice of STEM Careers

Track 1

Embassy

John Reutter, Director of Planning and Resource Development,

J.F. Drake State Technical College, AL

J. F. Drake State Community and Technical College has created the Summer Technology Institute (STI), a two week experience for secondary school educators. The

STI immerses participants in an 80-hour, postsecondary education experience covering a range of STEM topics and exposure to related careers. Participants are required to develop lesson plans and portfolios for use in their secondary school teaching and counseling jobs upon return to work in the fall. Testimonials produced by the participants at the end of the Institute provide evidence that participants undergo a significant transformation of opinion about STEM careers and community college educational pathways leading to those careers.

Discussion: In-depth Review of the Development of a Manufacturing Career Pathway

Track 1

Senate

Karen White, Executive Director, 360º Manufacturing and

Applied Engineering ATE Regional Center, Bemidji State

University, MN

Participants will engage in a discussion on best practices for the development of a multiple college career pathway.

Project leaders will review how they developed the 360º

Seamless Career Pathway encompassing machine tool, welding, electronics, and mechanical design. Lessons learned include how best to engage faculty in the development of a seamless career pathway from high school to bachelor level. Meeting facilitation, worksheets, sample articulation agreements, and communication graphics will be shared and discussed. Participants will be asked to share how the best practices and lessons learned could be utilized by their project and field.

Workshop: The Competitive Edge of Leadership:

Gaining/Using/Sharing Knowledge of What Works in Technician Education

Track 2

Empire

Dennis Faber, Co-PI, Mentor-Connect Project, MD

Tressa Gardner, Program Manager and Co-PI, Florence-

Darlington Technical College, SC

Shawn Payne, Mechatronics Coordinator, Owensboro

Community and Technical College, KY

Liesel Ritchie, Assistant Director for Research, University of

Colorado, CO

Moderator: Elaine Craft, SC ATE Director, Florence-Darlington

Technical College, SC

Leaders know that knowledge is power. Learn how to gain, use, and share powerful knowledge through mentoring to inform effective practice, engage STEM students, and overcome obstacles. Learn about a new way that relevant research is being brought to the doorstep of technician educators. Explore ways you can use research findings to be more successful in your work and to prepare competitive grant proposals. Review options to grow as a leader by mentoring within the ATE Program and sharing information/ research findings from your project or center work.


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Discussion: What Can ATE PIs and Co-PIs Do to

Proactively Broaden Impacts and Recruit Women to STEM?

Track 2

Congressional A

Donna L. Milgram, Executive Director, IWITTS, CA

Find out what your ATE project or center can do to meet NSF’s broader impacts requirements and increase diversity in your STEM programs. Donna Milgram, PI of the CalWomenTech Scale-Up Project, will share concrete strategies that have worked to increase the number of female students in STEM programs at ATE sites using a

Women in STEM Leadership Team model. Attendees will then have an opportunity to share experiences, learn what strategies have been successful for other programs, and brainstorm strategies to take back to their projects/centers that can be implemented right away.

Discussion: Beyond the Classroom Walls

Track 2

Forum

Cathryn Balas, Co-PI, Clark State Community College, OH

Dan Heighton, PI and Professor, Computer Networking-

Cybersecurity, Clark State Community College, OH

This discussion session will focus on the effective use of faculty extern/student intern teams for faculty development.

Presenters will demonstrate how faculty have become more engaged in the business community and the impact of the team approach on faculty and students. This promising model has benefits to all the parties involved—small businesses gain resources through faculty involvement; students experience teamwork in a business setting far beyond a single internship model; and faculty develop new, hands-on approaches to teaching and mentoring students.

Participants will be challenged to identify methods they can use to replicate the model.

Workshop: Using Universal Design Principles to

Improve Student Learning and Success

Track 3

Congressional B

Donna Lange, Center Director, DeafTEC, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY

Gary Long, Co-PI, DeafTEC, Rochester Institute of

Technology, NY

Myra Pelz, Co-PI, DeafTEC, Rochester Institute of

Technology, NY

Universal design in education is an approach to designing course instruction, materials, and content to benefit people of all learning styles. Modifications for students, especially for those with disabilities, are built into the curriculum, not merely added later on as needs arise. During this presentation, participants will experience what it is like to be a deaf student in a class followed by a discussion on the challenges deaf students face in the classroom and

Universal Design principles that could be used to improve the instruction and learning not only for the deaf student but for all students in the class.

Workshop: All for One: Meeting the Grant Mission with Multiple Partners

Track 4

Ambassador

Jodi Creasap-Gee, State Coordinator, VESTA, Kent State

University, OH

Michelle Norgren, Director and PI, VESTA, Missouri State

University, MO

Scott Kohl, Campus Director, VESTA, Highland Community

College, KS

Moderator: Michael Gau, Co-PI, VESTA, Northeast Iowa

Community College, IA

Coordinating a large number of partners and assuring that all grant goals and objectives are met can be daunting even to the most seasoned grant coordinator. VESTA will provide an overview of strategies utilized by this national

ATE center to assure full participation by all partners, that all grant goals and objectives are met, and that all expenditures are matched to grant objectives. Reporting procedures and communication tools including a grant activity grid, quarterly activity report form, Saba Centra, BlackBoard, and the VESTA web site will be shared with the participants.


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Workshop: Mechatronics: The Foundation for

Manufacturing, Supply Chain Technology, and

Other Critical Industries

Track 6

Hampton

Marilyn Barger, Executive Director, FLATE, FL

Gary Forger, Senior Vice President, Professional Development,

Material Handling Industry of America, NC

William Mazurek, Director of Continuous Improvement,

Conmed Corporation, FL

Ned David Young, Co-PI, The National Center for Supply Chain

Technology Education, OH

Mechatronics is the integrated study of mechanical mechanisms, electronics, robotics, pneumatics, hydraulics, and automated control systems. The integration of these traditionally separate disciplines provides significant opportunities for developing multi-skilled technicians possessing troubleshooting/maintenance skills that can be applied to emerging industrial fields. We will highlight two sectors that require mechatronics technicians: manufacturing and supply chain technology. The session will engage participants with a discussion of additional industry sectors requiring mechatronics, and how colleges can provide both a strong mechatronics curriculum and career awareness of diverse applications to numerous industries that have demonstrated critical need for multi-skilled technicians in this enabling technology.

Workshop: Working with the NSF’s SBIR Program to Benefit Your College and Support Small

Business in Your Community

Track 6

Regency

Dave Brown, Program Director, National Science

Foundation, VA

Ben Schrag, Program Director, National Science Foundation, VA

Moderator: Sandra G. Porter, President, Digital World

Biology, WA

Businesses that are funded by the Small Business Innovation

Research (SBIR) program at the National Science Foundation are eligible for supplemental funding that can benefit community colleges, instructors, and students. These businesses are natural allies and partners for members of the ATE community. In this session, we will describe the

SBIR program and its goals, describe the supplements, and

18 2013 ATE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS CONFERENCE describe how to find and contact the companies that have been funded in your area and field. We will discuss ways to connect with these companies before they apply for SBIR funding and how you can help them with SBIR grants.

Discussion: Exploring In-Demand Skills from

Employer Job Postings Metadata

Track 6

Cabinet

Elaine Johnson, Executive Director and PI, Bio-Link, CA

Levi Thiele, Research Director, AIM Institute, NE

Because the technology needs of business and industry are always changing, we as educators are challenged to keep students focused on the right skills to meet these changing needs. Industry engagement models, employers’ job postings, and region specific labor market analyses are some examples of the tools that community colleges can utilize in order to identify current job market needs and adapt their curriculum as needed. This session will facilitate a discussion focused on the strategies that educators can use to bring the most relevant learning experiences to our students.

Discussion: Training Water Technicians for

Business and Industry

Track 6

Council

Ellen Kabat Lensch, PI, Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center (ATEEC), Eastern Iowa Community

Colleges, IA

Kirk Laflin, Executive Director, Partnership for Environmental

Technology Education (PETE), ME

ATEEC and PETE present results of the 2013 national forum and report, Defining Water Management. Industry representatives from across the country defined the water field, clarified occupational categories, and listed technician occupations and job functions. ATEEC plans to conduct a series of regional Water Management Conversation forums, gathering stakeholders from business/industry, government, nonprofits, and education. These forums and resulting reports will expand on the national report to form a realistic regional snapshot of the current/future water technician workforce, with particular emphasis on translating business/ industry needs to education. Discussion will gather input on conducting the Water Management Conversation forums to support regional needs.

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Workshop: International Collaboration: Benefits and Lessons Learned

Track 7

Governors

Karen Wosczyna Birch, Executive Director, RCGNM,

Connecticut Community Technical College System, CT

Mary Slowinski, Faculty and Online Learning Coordinator,

CREATE, CA

Ken Walz, Renewable Energy Project Director, Madison Area

Technical College, WI

In the past year, two regional ATE Centers were funded by

NSF programs to conduct two different international learning programs, one focused on students in manufacturing

(RCGNM) and one focused on faculty teaching renewable energy (CREATE). Join this session to learn how RCGNM planned and administered a student-centered trip to

Germany, how CREATE designed activities to deepen the learning experience for faculty visiting technical colleges in Australia and New Zealand, and hear first-hand accounts from a faculty and student about the participants’ experiences.

4:00 – 5:15 pm


Discussion: Nationwide Opportunities for STEM

Technicians

Track 1

Senate

Greg Kepner, Department Chair, Regional Economic

Advancement, Indian Hills Community College, IA

Indian Hills Community College (IHCC) has a unique approach to recruitment and job placement for STEM technicians with an AAS degree in Laser/Electro-optics

Technology. IHCC recruits students and places graduates regionally and all across the nation. Graduate job placement is nearly always 100% and there are often 4-6 job opportunities per graduate. Some may consider this a brain drain and others consider it an opportunity for students to enter high wage, high demand, high skill, STEM technician careers.

Discussion: How Do I Help My College Transform

Its Infrastructure to Support Entrepreneurial

Endeavors?

Track 1

Congressional A

Vivian Ngan-Winward, Director, Biomanufacturing Program,

Salt Lake Community College, UT

Judith Fitzpatrick, Director, Quality Assurance Program, Bergen

Community College, NJ

This session is designed to allow participants to share strategies and best practices that enable success and sustainability of entrepreneurial projects. A dialogue between ATE project personnel that have spawned (or are planning) such entrepreneurial projects is anticipated.

Topics may include issues such as appreciation of student benefits, institutional barriers, available facilities,effective institutional response to project needs, institutional impacts of project success, and sustainability potential/ plans. Participants will choose a topic to discuss with other interested parties, and discussions will be shared with the whole group.

Discussion: Overview of an Engineering Pathway

Guide with Strategies for Teaching, Learning, and

Student Support

Track 1

Embassy

Verlyn Fick, Vice President of Instruction and Provost,

Cochise College, AZ

Caroline VanIngen-Dunn, Manager, STEM Pathways, Science

Foundation Arizona (SFAz), AZ

Chad Laux, Assistant Professor, Technology, Leadership, and

Innovation, Purdue University, IN

Vearl Turnpaugh, Assistant Vice President, Career and

Technical Programs, Ivy Tech Community College, IN

Anchored by community colleges and led by local business,

SFAz’s engineering pathway model aligns K-12 outreach and career exploration, foundational knowledge and skills, and certificate and degree programs. Delivered as a guide, the pathway model provides strategies for teaching, learning, and student support. Examples include an Early College

Academy from Cochise College and an engineering technology pathway between Ivy Tech and Purdue.

Participants will compare their pathways, identify what is in place, where there are gaps, and what is needed for improvement. Outcomes will inform participants’ pathway development and help optimize the Engineering Pathways

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Workshop: Creating Classroom Transformations in STEM Education

Track 2

Diplomat

Claudia J. Morrell, Chief Operating Officer, NAPE, PA

Carolyn Parker, Assistant Professor, School of Education, The

Johns Hopkins University, MD

Faculty in the innovative professional development program,

Micromessaging to Reach and Teach Every Student, use the power of micromessages (small and often subtle, yet powerful messages) to improve classroom culture and pedagogy. A team of equity and STEM experts, researchers, and practitioners across disciplines and among education, business, government, and nonprofit communities developed the program to provide educators with a process for using research-based strategies and effective practices to address the unique needs of diverse students. The yearlong training has demonstrated a statistically significant impact on faculty practice (treatment vs. control groups) leading to improved STEM student academic outcomes.

Workshop: Best Practices for Engaging and

Inspiring Secondary Teachers as Emerging

Technology Leaders

Track 2

Governors

Maureen A. Devery, Outreach Coordinator, North Seattle

Community College, WA

Dianne McKee, Project Coordinator, Maricopa Community

Colleges, AZ

Jeannette R. Shaffer, Project Coordinator, Maricopa Community

Colleges, AZ

Reaching the next generation of ATE program graduates is easier with strong partnerships with high school teachers. In this session, participants will engage with other ATE programs to share best practices, challenges, and experiences in creating and carrying out face-toface and online professional development workshops for high school educators. Participants will explore how fostering relationships with participants can lead to strong and innovative leadership that can help bring emerging technologies into existing classrooms as well as create new technology courses. Successful models of professional development will also be shared and discussed.

Workshop: Getting Started with PBL: Strategies,

Resources, and Lessons Learned

Track 3

Palladian

Nicholas Massa, Professor, Laser Electro-Optics Technology,

Springfield Technical Community College, MA

Jane Ostrander, PI, Destination PBL project, Truckee Meadows

Community College, Reno, NV

Problem based learning (PBL) challenges students to solve real-world problems and acquire professional skills needed for success in the 21st century workplace. Transforming classrooms to PBL demands new classroom management and instructional skills, curriculum materials, and student approaches to learning. In this interactive session, instructors who have created PBL programs and classrooms, and ATE projects and centers that have created resources and provided support for PBL faculty, will host roundtable discussions to share their processes, available resources, and lessons learned. Participants will select two roundtable discussions to join, share resources, and develop a plan of action for getting started with PBL.

Workshop: Advancing Innovation in Technician

Education: Flipping Classrooms and Integrating

Open Learning Resources

Track 3

Ambassador

Kris K. Frady, Research Associate,Clemson University, SC

Kapil Chalil Madathil, Technology Lead, Clemson

University, SC

Danine Tomlin, Executive Director, AMTEC, KY

Moderator: Walter Barlow, Modularization and Curriculum

Specialist, AMTEC, KY

This session highlights technical education models

(AMTEC’s mechatronic maintenance curriculum and

CA2VES advanced manufacturing curriculum) utilizing classroom flipping strategies and open learning resources supporting blended learning. Discussions will include promising practices for implementation at community/ technical colleges, implications for other technical programs of study, a description of methods used to develop assessments and lessons aligned to validated industry skill standards, and organization of digital learning tools into a hybrid online lecture/face-to-face lab associate degree program and curriculum. Participants will experience digital learning tools, open learning resources, and reflective activities encouraging them to consider technology and open learning resources in their programs.


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Discussion: If You Don’t Lecture – How Do You

Teach? Options for Engagement, Collaboration, and Relevance in Technology Classrooms

Track 3

Forum

Erika Bowles, PI, Tacoma Community College, WA

Candyce Rennegarbe, UDL Project Director, Tacoma


Less lecture and more classroom interaction is a desirable goal; but how do you achieve this in technology classrooms where lecturing is the norm? Universal Design for Learning

(UDL) provides a framework for interactive learning through focus on learning accessibility for all students. Presenters will review the UDL model, review UDL applications in a current NSF/other projects, then lead a discussion in which participants describe their best practices in interactive

UDL-based learning. Takeaways will include descriptions of successful UDL classroom implementations, best practices in interactive learning, and interactive learning tools/resources, including access to a UDL best practices database.

Discussion: Innovations in Dual Enrollment

Track 3

Congressional B

Donna Lange, Center Director, DeafTEC, Rochester Institute of

Technology, NY

Michael Staley, Dean, School of Engineering, Design, and

Construction, Seminole State College, FL

This session will discuss two innovative strategies: a unique co-taught dual enrollment growth strategy and a national dual credit model delivered across the country. The co-taught methodology overcomes common obstacles to delivering dual enrollment courses locally, thereby building a more robust pipeline of full-time students from the high schools.

The national model (Project Fast Forward) has developed, over the past seven years, a host of best practices for implementing these programs across state lines. While both projects have focused specifically on STEM programs, Project

Fast Forward has concentrated on delivering these courses for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.

Discussion: Determining Readiness for

Scalability and Sustainability – How Do You Know and How Can You Prepare?

Track 4

Calvert

Deborah Boisvert, PI, BATEC, University of Massachusetts-

Boston, MA

Elaine Johnson, Executive Director and PI, Bio-Link, CA

David McNeel, Senior Consultant, University of Massachusetts-

Boston, MA

You have concluded a successful pilot of your project and are now considering next steps for scaling and sustaining it. Some of the most important aspects of assessing a project’s success and preparing for scaling and sustainability go back to the design and plans for the project. Participants will be challenged to consider their thoughts on determining and assessing project outcomes and readiness for scaling and sustainability and to share their views in dialogue with others. Concepts, processes, and tools that have been determined to aid in this success will be presented as well as examples and lessons learned of their use.

Workshop: ATE Targeted Research in Action:

FLATE/PathTech and Fox Valley/METTE

Partnerships to Improve Student Outcomes

Track 5

Regency

Allen Phelps, Senior Scientist, Wisconsin Center for Education

Research, University of Wisconsin, WI

Will Tyson, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology,

University of South Florida, FL

Lakshmi Jayaram, Visiting Instructor, Department of Sociology,

University of South Florida, FL

Edward Fletcher, Assistant Professor, Department of Adult,

Career, and Higher Education, University of South

Florida, FL

Moderator: Patricia Frohrib, Vice President, Student and

Community Development, Fox Valley Technical College, WI

PathTech (USF Sociology) and METTE (UW-Madison

Education) each partner with local public two-year colleges to conduct targeted research on student outcomes using quantitative and qualitative methods. Each study uses state longitudinal administrative data and student performance databases to uncover pathways into technician education programs, track student progress, and describe student outcomes. These projects also conduct interviews and focus groups with technician education students, faculty, administrators, and other key informants from high schools and local industry. In this session, PathTech and METTE investigators describe findings and conduct activities to illustrate ways of using targeted research findings to improve practice.


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Workshop: Cultivating Effective Industry

Partnerships for Long-Term Sustainability

Track 6

Empire

Brad Mason, Director, AMSEC, LLC, VA

Barbara Murray, PI and Apprenticeship Related Instruction

Director, SMART, Tidewater Community College, VA

Monica Pfarr, Corporate Director, Workforce Development,

American Welding Society, OH

Moderator: Ed Smith, Associate Director, Industry Relations –

Centers for Applied Competitive Technologies, San Diego

City College, CA

Forging effective partnerships with industry leaders is key to achieving ATE program success. The SMART center has created a customizable model of industry partner engagement that has enabled the center to effectively develop a new career pathway for its industry, measure significant career awareness success, and cultivate a cadre of educators and industry leaders dedicated to advancing the center’s success. Attendees will hear from the SMART center’s industry partners, and ATE center partner Weld-

Ed, about the process of implementing proven principles to produce effective partnerships with industry professionals to ensure sustainability for your center or project.

Workshop: Understanding and Leveraging the USA

Digital Fabrication Learning Community

Track 6

Hampton

James J. Janisse, PI, Digital Fabrication Learning Community,

Fox Valley Technical College, WI

Michael Lesiecki, PI, MATEC, Maricopa Community

Colleges, AZ

Moderator: Dale Walker, Director, Business and Industry

Services, Fox Valley Technical College, WI

This session will describe the pilot USA Digital Fabrication

Learning Community (DFLC) that leverages digital and personal fabrication’s proven enrichment of STEM competencies and attitudes with learners and educators, while driving Next Generation Manufacturing technician development. Special emphasis will be placed on the potential and opportunities for DFLC technologies and techniques to drive U.S. innovation, and economic and workforce development. Learn about the extensive resources and support now available and join the rapidly growing and global MIT Fab Lab community!

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Discussion: Working with the Department of

Labor to Develop a Competency Model

Track 6

Cabinet

Vince DiNoto, Dean of College and Systemic Initiatives, PI

GeoTech Center, Jefferson Community and Technical

College, KY

Ann Johnson, Associate Director and Co-PI, Jefferson

Community and Technical College, KY

The discussion session will explore the work which has been accomplished in the development of the Geospatial

Technology Competency Model (GTCM) for the Department of Labor (DoL) as well as updating of the model during the 2013 - 2014 academic year. The discussion will include examples of the outlines for model courses that have been developed based upon the previous GTCM. Participants will explore how this competency based method can be used for course design, articulations, and certifications.

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Regency

7:30 – 8:45 am

Showcase III Set-up

Exhibit Hall

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Showcase III and Lunch

Exhibit Hall

12:30 – 1:15 pm

S howcase III Breakdown

Exhibit Hall

12:45 – 3:00 pm

ATE Center Directors Meeting

ATE Center Staff Only

Palladian

9:00 – 10:15 am

Plenary Session

Regency

V. Celeste Carter, Lead ATE Program Director, National Science Foundation, VA

Richard Duschl, Division Director, Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings, National Science Foundation, VA

The Next 20 Years: Technology Innovations and Global Opportunities

Every 40-50 years since the industrial revolution, technologies that drive world economies have shifted. From water power to steam to electricity to oil, from railroads to automobiles, from steel to mass production, and most recently to information and telecommunications—each cycle has created enormous social and economic change presenting great opportunities for those prepared to take on the challenge. This plenary session features two premier futurists to discuss the technologies that are currently transforming the economy and defining the next generation of employment opportunities for all workers, including technicians; and the intersecting socio-economic trends that are transforming how we live and work. Speakers will discuss both the challenges and opportunities for educational institutions as they empower future STEM technicians.


Carolyn Corbin,

President,

Center for the 21 st Century

Jeff Wacker,

Senior Fellow Emeritus,

Hewlett-Packard/EDS


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Ambassador Ballroom

Table 1: ATE Mentoring Opportunities—The

Mentor-Connect Project

Dennis Faber, Co-PI, Mentor-Connect, MD

The Mentor-Connect ATE mentoring system facilitates

“win-win” knowledge transfer among peers to expand the impact of the ATE program. Are you an experienced PI,

Co-PI, Senior Personnel/Staff or Project Director? Want to

“give back” to others in the ATE community? Learn about the various ways in which you can provide meaningful mentoring assistance to both new and experienced ATE community members as well as to community college educators who aspire to be first-time ATE grantees.

Table 2: Supply Chain Technology Education

Erika Bowles, PI, Tacoma Community College, WA

The boom in automated distribution centers has created a need for technicians to maintain highly sophisticated and efficient sorting, picking, and routing equipment. Much of the training of existing industrial engineering, mechatronics, and other similar programs is relevant to this technology, but just lacks the supply chain component. This roundtable will discuss requirements and resources to add the courses necessary to create a supply chain technician pathway from existing automated equipment training programs.

Table 3: Blended Tech Learning

Denis F. H. Green, Department Chair, Mechatronics, Linn Benton

Community College, OR

Blended or hybrid online learning is all the rage, but how do technical programs with critical hands-on labs offer training to distance learners? Learn from our successes and mistakes in setting up instructor-generated, blended-tech courses that incorporate pod casts, written exercises, and intensive hands-on labs called technology weekends. Participants will receive sample courses on a flash drive.

Table 4: Status, Role, and Needs of Engineering

Technology Education

Greg Pearson, Senior Program Officer, National Academy of

Engineering, DC

This roundtable will introduce a recently funded ATE project that aims to collect and synthesize data concerning the education and employment of those with two- and four-year engineering technology degrees. Because the study has just begun, the PI will have little progress to report. The session will provide an opportunity for interested individuals to learn more about the study and to suggest questions and issues the project should address.

Table 5: T.E.A.M.: Technician Education in

Additive Manufacturing

Frank Z. Cox, Program Manager and PI, Edmonds Community

College, WA

From standards to competencies to instruction, Project

T.E.A.M. Educators are accelerating the growth of Additive

Manufacturing (AM) by assisting ASTM (F42) and ISO

(TC261) with international standards development.

Reshaping the newly developed standards into competencies provides a foundation for ATE programs and courses. AM is an enabling technology for a wide range of manufacturing. The steady improvement in materials, processes, and standards has staged this industry for sustained growth.

Table 6: Games and Education

Steven Weitz, Assistant Professor, Media Arts, Lehigh Carbon

Community College, PA

This roundtable will consist of discussion between those teaching game development and those using games for educational purposes. Discussion questions will include:

What is the best way to integrate games into education?

What would be an effective curricular approach for teaching game development? Come and learn about games as educational resources.

Table 7: The Controversy Over Contextual Math: A

Struggle for Our Students and for Educators

Lisa Seidman, Co-PI, Biotechnology Laboratory Technician

Program, Bio-Link, Madison Area Technical College, WI

Math is often a barrier for our students and a source of failure. But, in fact, the majority of students can perform basic math calculations; their problem is that they cannot apply math in a contextual setting. This roundtable will begin by looking at a provocative report from the National Center on Education and the Economy that shows a profound disconnect between the math taught in high schools and the math required in the workplace. What does this mean for us?


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Table 8: Performing a Curriculum Gap Analysis:

How and Why?

Beverly Hilderbrand, PI and Director, CARCAM, Gadsden State

Community College, AL

The Consortium for Alabama Regional Center for

Automotive Manufacturing (CARCAM) curriculum gap analysis survey model ensures that the automotive manufacturing technology program content meets current industry standards by using industry representative subject matter experts to review and provide feedback on current course offerings. Information gathered in this process provides continuous improvement with curricula changes, additions, and further review of curriculum content. The process also aids in building stronger relationships with education and industry partners.

Table 9: Developing and Implementing

Assessments that Serve Practical Project

Evaluation Needs

Amy M. Gullickson, Senior Lecturer and Coordinator, Master of Evaluation Program, Centre for Program Evaluation,

University of Melbourne, Australia

Are you getting good use from your evaluation dollars?

Do your evaluation findings serve regular program and management decision making? This discussion will focus on tools that routinize data collection and facilitate reflection and changes based on results. We will consider such factors as using logic models to ensure you’re gathering data on salient features, identifying key collection opportunities, and providing easy means to view and discuss results (e.g., dashboards).

Table 10: Proposals to the Targeted Research

Strand

Connie Della Piana, Program Director, National Science

Foundation, VA

The ATE program would like to receive more successful proposals to the Targeted Research Strand. Two-year institutions and technician education are increasingly being pointed out as opportunities to foster a population of STEM literate students and professionals and to expand the pool of skilled technicians in established and emerging strategic advanced technology fields. At this roundtable, we will discuss three topics: (1) components of successful projects;

(2) ideas of useful research projects; and (3) input to redesign the research strand in ways that (a) contribute to research and practice in meeting this critical national need and (b) grow a research community that is characterized by partnerships among technician education practitioners, industry representatives, and researchers.

Table 11: Creating a National Workforce Education

Network for Emerging Technologies

Bob Ehrmann, Managing Director, NACK Network,

Pennsylvania State University, PA

The intent of this breakfast roundtable is to discuss the various strategies to be considered to nationally disseminate curriculum, provide professional development for educators, as well as provide connections for students, alumni, educators, and industry. Leadership from the

Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge

(NACK) Network will facilitate this roundtable.

Table 12: Engaging High School Students in

Science through Biotechnology

Jennifer K. O’Connor, Adjunct Professor, Natural Science, State

College of Florida, FL

Picture this—an aloof student telling her biology teacher that she can’t wait to come to class and a low performing student explaining how restriction enzymes work. Getting high school students excited about science isn’t always an easy task. What could possibly have transformed these students? Biotechnology! The Biotechnology Alliance for Suncoast Biotechnology Educators (BASBE) has brought biotechnology into local high schools. During this roundtable, participants will learn about the BASBE program and how to model it. Attendees will also receive an activity that is guaranteed to make anyone a master of restriction enzymes.

Table 13: Teaching Technical Subjects Online —

Lessons Learned

Philip Craiger, Associate Professor, Engineering Technology,

Daytona State College, FL

Mark Pollitt, Associate Professor, Engineering Technology,

Daytona State College, FL

Students learn best by doing. As schools embrace online classes, instructors teaching subjects requiring hands-on learning are confronted with the problem of providing students with hands-on experiences in a virtual environment. In this roundtable, presenters will discuss lessons learned and best practices based on 20+ combined years in teaching complex computer-related subjects online.

We will provide examples of how to engage students with targeted, just-in-time video lectures. Participants will be asked to share their own lessons learned and best practices.


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Table 14: Using Geospatial Technologies for

College Institutional Research

Vince DiNoto, PI, GeoTech Center, Jefferson Community and

Technical College, KY

This discussion will explore the ways in which GIST

(geospatial information science and technology) can be used to study student populations. These studies can include demographics of students, clustering analysis of students by subject of interest, student achievement based upon demographical characteristics, and campus planning. Many of the studies can be done by geospatial students. Examples of some of these studies will be available for those attending to review.

Table 15: Utilizing 21st Century Technology and Pedagogy in the IT Classroom: A Model

Professional Development Experience for High

School IT Teachers

Ben Franske, Instructor, Network Technology and Security,

Inver Hills Community College, MN

This roundtable will explore how an urban community college leveraged business and educational partnerships to create and deploy a two-day experiential professional development event for high school IT teachers. The curriculum for the workshop centered on the following topics: diversity in the IT workplace, engaging underrepresented students, exploring the latest IT pedagogy, utilizing the newest high school IT curricula, travel to Cisco to experience TelePresence, modern IT workplace competencies, and action planning. Participants will engage in active dialogue with project PIs and have time for action planning with them.

Table 16: The National Academy of Science’s Study of Undergraduate STEM Education

Michael Feder, Senior Program Officer, Board on Science

Education, The National Academies, DC

The National Academy of Sciences has formed an expert committee on “Attracting and Retaining Students to

Complete 2- and 4-year Undergraduate Degrees in STEM” to conduct a comprehensive review of evidence on the barriers to completing a STEM degree at 2 and 4-year institutions and the potential strategies for overcoming these barriers. This roundtable will provide a chance for the ATE community to learn about the study goals and provide input on what issues related to ATE should be addressed.

Tables 17-18: ATE, TAACCCT, SEED, and Energy

Henry Kelly, Chief Scientist, Energy Policy and Systems

Analysis, U.S. Department of Energy, DC

The portfolio of both the ATE and TAACCCT programs contain projects and consortia that focus on energy.

We are interested in how to establish and grow this energy community to facilitate community building and communication of efforts around developing curricula, programs, certificates, and industry-recognized skills and competencies. This roundtable will focus on how to effectively link the communities. Possible discussion topics include the effectiveness of a joint conference that would also include industry; resources and programs being developed and possible mechanisms to ensure lack of duplication across the energy sub-areas; and how to most effectively engage industry regionally and nationally.


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Table 1: What Have We Learned in the Past

20 Years? Recruiting Students for Advanced

Technological Education Programs

Tressa Gardner, Program Manager and Co-PI, Florence-

Darlington Technical College, SC

ATE projects and centers share the challenge of recruiting students for ATE programs but don’t always share the solutions. What have we learned in the past 20 years? Join in a discussion about strategies that work and tools that you can use; find out how to share what you know about what works and what doesn’t; and evaluate two fresh ideas for maximizing your ability to raise career awareness, increase student interest, and boost enrollments.

Table 2: The National Educators Workshop –

What is New?

Mel Cossette, Executive Director and PI, National Resource

Center for Materials Technology Education, WA

The subject of this breakfast roundtable is STEM teaching and learning in the context of materials technology.

Interaction and hands-on experience with the world introduced us to materials and is a natural way to continue to explore this enabling technology. The National Educators

Workshop (NEW) provides a venue for experiential learning and time to network in meaningful pursuit of new knowledge as an advocate of STEM Education.

Table 3: Facing the Challenges of Student

Research and Teaching Bioinformatics

E. Bruce Nash, Assistant Director, Science, Cold Spring Harbor

Laboratory, NY

Beginning with a discussion by Cold Spring Harbor

Laboratory staff based on experiences with Genomic

Approaches in Biotechnology, this roundtable will explore the challenges of student-focused research, teaching bioinformatics, and assessing the effects of curricula on students.

Table 4: Defining the Role of Virtual and Simulated

Laboratory Games in Construction, Engineering, and Technology Education Programs

Jesse D. Kamm, Professor and Program Manager, Seminole

State College, FL

With growing budgetary concerns throughout higher education, the high overhead costs associated with establishing world class training labs have led some institutions to the creation of virtual labs and simulation games. This roundtable discussion will seek responses on participants’ prior experiences, investigate funding requirements, and identify instructional methods and student assessment tactics associated with virtual labs and simulation games.

Table 5: Strategies to Address Institutional

Barriers for Massive Open Online Course

(MOOC) Adoption

Peter D. Kazarinoff, Faculty, Math/Science, North Seattle


While there are many technical, legal, and pedagogical hurdles to overcome when designing a MOOC, one hurdle faced by all ATE participants will be institutional adoption.

This breakfast roundtable discussion will focus on barriers to MOOC adoption from an administration and institution standpoint, and highlight ways different ATE projects and centers have overcome these barriers.

Table 6: Collaborating Across Community

Colleges for Regional Impact

Neal Grandgenett, External Evaluator for MCIT, University of

Nebraska at Omaha, NE

How can community colleges collaborate effectively for regional impact? This roundtable will facilitate a discussion on effective collaboration strategies being identified within the ATE program. The roundtable will be facilitated by the Midwest Center for Information Technology, which involves ten community colleges across four states.

Discussion questions will center on components that appear to be related to effective collaboration, such as ongoing communication, well-defined tasks, faculty professional development, and a shared vision for reform.

Table 7: Student and Teacher Reactions to

Problem-Based Learning in STEM Education

Nicholas Massa, Professor, Laser Electro-Optics Technology,

Springfield Technical Community College, MA

In this breakfast roundtable, we present the results of research conducted to examine the impact of problembased learning (PBL) on the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of pre-service and in-service STEM teachers from a fouryear university, and on associate degree level photonics technician students from two community colleges. Results of quantitative and qualitative analyses showed positive gains in students’ content knowledge, critical thinking,


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Table 8: Research and Assessment: Adding Rigor to the Evaluation of Learning Outcomes

Melissa I. Zelaya, Program Manager, Center for Workforce

Development, Clemson University, SC

This discussion will focus on the importance of small and large scale technology education research studies for ATE projects and centers. The rigor of research to evaluate learning outcomes can provide faculty and staff a means of advancing innovation and sustaining success of technology programs. Discussions will also explore the ATE grantees’ obstacles that prevent the development and execution of sound technology education research studies and submissions to peer reviewed conferences and journals.

Table 9: Understanding Consumer Buying and the Growth of E-Commerce and Its Influence on

Technology

George Walters, Principal Investigator, Norco College, CA

The way we buy consumer goods today is changing the level of automation in distribution centers worldwide. Working directly with many large retailers, the National Center for

Supply Chain Technology Education has identified the key reasons our nation’s largest companies are incorporating technology at an alarming rate. Having highly skilled technicians is no longer a luxury. If you are interested in hearing more, please join our discussion.

Table 10: Program Development and

Sustainability: Emerging Stem Cell Technologies

Thomas Tubon, Instructor, Grant Project Director, Madison

Area Technical College, WI

The field of Stem Cell science is rapidly growing, paving the way to develop technical programming aligned to the needs for a highly-skilled workforce. We will provide information that increases accessibility of Stem Cell programming in higher education. To this end, we will discuss efficiencies in operational costs that have a broad impact on the ability to successfully integrate educational materials into existing bioscience programs. We will use an open forum to discuss issues in adopting Stem Cell programming, and provide direction and resolve for many the obstacles we have encountered as part of our program project grant.

Table 11: Curriculum Development: Beyond

DACUM

Michelle Norgren, PI, VESTA, Missouri State University, MO

Building industry relevant curriculum is a balance between the worlds of industry and education. This roundtable will share the success that VESTA has experienced in developing an industry validated and nationally recognized educational program. Through the use of an annual working symposium,

VESTA utilizes a process that maximizes the expertise and synergy of industry representatives, instructional faculty, and center management team members. Roundtable participants will experience the curricular development process, and walk away with a wealth of templates and examples that will provide each participant with the resources to launch their own curricular symposium and program review process.

Table 12: Assessments and Credentialing, Natural

Synergy with STEM Programs

Steve Kane, Managing Director, SpaceTEC Partners, Inc., FL

This roundtable is an opportunity to consider added value for STEM programs including: (1) assessment – tools to show level of preparation; (2) implementation – targeted approaches in contrast to broad brush instruction; (3) achievement – credentialing rewards achievement builds momentum; and (4) success – credentialing as a “means-toan-end” approach, creating pathways to jobs and fulfillment of career and academic goals.

Table 13: The Bioscience Industry Fellowship

Project (BIFP)

Russ Read, Executive Director, National Center for the

Biotechnology Workforce, Forsyth Technical Community

College, NC

The Bioscience Industry Fellowship Project (BIFP) is a professional development initiative to improve the quality and relevance of a community college bioscience education.

People who attend this roundtable will hear about a novel project, which gives community college instructors with an interest in the biosciences an opportunity to engage with the project’s growing biosciences community for a period of 30 days and report back their findings both to the NSF and to the greater community college community.


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Table 14: Meeting the Job Readiness Needs of

Students

Catherine Basl, Recruitment and Employment Specialist, North

Seattle Community College, WA

How can ATE projects and centers meet the job readiness needs of their students? In this breakfast roundtable, we will discuss creative strategies for identifying and meeting student career needs. The facilitator will provide examples of successful career interventions including workshops, evaluation tools, and activities.

Table 15: International Interactions in the ATE

Program

Thomas L. Deits, Project Director, Innovation 5, MI

At this roundtable we will facilitate a general discussion about international interactions, past, present, and future: What international interactions have you had through

ATE? What did you learn from these interactions? Are you considering an international interaction—and is ATE the place where you are going to support this effort, or are there better resources? Is there more that ATE could or should do to promote international interactions at the technician and instructor level? Join us for a wide-ranging discussion and find colleagues who share your interests in this area.

Table 16: ATE Student Breakfast Networking

Roundtable

Gail Schwartz, Senior Vice President for Innovative Learning and Student Success, American Association of Community

Colleges, DC

This student-only roundtable session will provide an informal setting for ATE students to network with one another. Student participants are welcome to come and share their educational and professional experiences and hear from other students about how they balance school, work, and life.

Tables 17-18: ATE, TAACCCT, and Manufacturing

Bruce Kramer, Program Director, National Science Foundation,

VA

The portfolio of both the ATE and TAACCCT programs contain projects and consortia that focus on manufacturing.

We are interested in how to establish and grow this manufacturing community to facilitate community building and communication of efforts around developing curricula, programs, certificates, and industry-recognized skills and competencies. This roundtable will focus on how to effectively link the communities. Possible discussion topics include the effectiveness of a joint conference that would also include industry; resources and programs being developed and possible mechanisms to ensure lack of duplication across the manufacturing sub-areas; and how to most effectively engage industry regionally and nationally.


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The Honorable David

E. Price

represents North

Carolina’s Fourth District—a rapidly growing, research-and-educationfocused district that includes parts of Alamance, Orange, Durham,

Wake, Harnett, Chatham, and

Cumberland counties. He received his undergraduate degree at UNC-Chapel Hill and went on to Yale University to earn a Bachelor of Divinity and Ph.D. in

Political Science. Before he began serving in Congress in

1987, Price was a professor of Political Science and Public

Policy at Duke University. He is the author of four books on

Congress and the American political system.

Price currently serves on the House Appropriations

Committee and is the ranking member of the Homeland

Security Appropriations Subcommittee. He is also a member of the Appropriations subcommittees covering housing, transportation, military construction, and veterans affairs.

He is a recognized leader in foreign policy, co-chairing the

House Democracy Partnership, which he initiated to help strengthen parliaments in emerging democracies. In North

Carolina, Price’s constituents know him as a strong supporter of improved transportation alternatives, accessible health care, affordable housing, clean air and water, and education.

Price has been a leader in the fight to improve public education by bringing teachers of the highest caliber into the profession. The Higher Education Reauthorization

Act of 2008 included a provision based on his legislation

(the Teaching Fellows Act) establishing a Teacher Quality

Partnership grant program to bolster development of a highquality K-12 teaching workforce. Building on this success,

Price is currently working to pass his Keeping Teachers

Teaching Act, which would provide federal support for innovative state and local teacher retention programs.

Price also has worked to improve higher education and make it more affordable for working families. The National

Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education program, established by a Price-authored bill in 1993, helps community colleges upgrade their training programs for jobs in high-tech fields. Price also sponsored the Price

Education Affordability Act, enacted in 1997, which allows families to deduct the interest on student loans and make penalty-free IRA withdrawals for education.

Price is a native of Erwin, Tennessee. He and his wife,

Lisa live in Chapel Hill and are parents of two children and proud grandparents of a grandson born in 2006 and a granddaughter born in 2009.

Rick Stephens

brings knowledge, experience, insight, and passion to the subject of preparing our workforce for today and the future and the subject of the ATE 2013

Conference: Sustaining Success and

Advancing Innovation.

He retired from Boeing earlier this year after a 33 year career where he lead large complex businesses and completed his last 8 years leading human resources and administration for the corporation, during which Boeing ramped up production rates to new levels and established new production capabilities, both requiring a keen focus on workforce development and readiness.

Stephens and his team at Boeing were involved with over 150 community colleges, colleges, and universities across the country —and in the last two years at Boeing they hired over 33,000 new employees.

Stephens is a former commissioner on the Secretary of

Education’s Future of Higher Education in America, served on the President’s Council for Tribal Colleges, has testified before Congress on education and future workforce, and has given many presentations to organizations such as APGGCU,

AAU, NAE, AIA, Aviation Week, ASEE, Decade of the Mind, and at a number of colleges and universities around the country and overseas. He has published numerous articles including most recently in the National Academy

of Engineering Bridge, and Science Magazine, and he and

Elaine V. Scott wrote and published, “The System: Igniting the Soul of Commerce”

Stephens received his Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics in 1974 from the University of Southern

California, where he was the Boeing executive focal, and his

Master of Science degree in computer science in 1984 from

California State University, Fullerton. He is a former Marine

Corps Officer. Stephens is an enrolled member of the Pala

Band of Mission Indians and served as tribal chairman from

1988 to 1989.

Stephens and his wife, Elaine, between them, have

6 children and 9 grandchildren and well understand the important role that parents and community members have in setting expectations of personal accountability and values from the time children are born until they enter the workforce. Today, they work together as partners in the notfor-profit organization Birth2Work.


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Moira Gunn

is Host of Tech

Nation and BioTech Nation, which air in such venues as NPR’s 24 hour program stream, National Public

Radio’s SIRIUS Satellite Radio channel

NPR Now, and internationally to 177 countries via American Forces Radio

International. Produced at the studios of KQED in San Francisco, the programming can also be heard on over 200 domestic public stations and through podcasts via IT conversations and other Internet distribution venues.

Tech Nation is the sole national weekly radio program on the impact of technology, and its weekly BioTech Nation segment enjoys the same status in the area of biotech issues.

Gunn’s weekly commentaries touch all aspects of our lives in these unpredictable times. The story of building the BioTech

Nation segment and the leading biotech issues facing us all in this arena is described in Gunn’s book, Welcome to

BioTech Nation ... My Unexpected Odyssey into the Land of

Small Molecules, Lean Genes, and Big Ideas.

More than simply radio, the family of Tech Nation programs seeks to educate the public on the issues of science and technology. Her guests come from every walk of life: politicians and businesspeople, scientists and futurists, novelists and educators, members of the media and more.

In over 2,000 in-depth interviews, Gunn has engaged with recognizable people from every venue: from business leaders like Intel’s Andy Grove to emergent tech guru’s like

Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin, from the old guard of science such as Linus Pauling and Crick and Watson to our new generation of scientists like David Haussler and Jay

Keasling.

Gunn’s early career at NASA included large-scale scientific computation and global communications, with special emphasis in infrared satellite image processing, computational fluid dynamics, and global climate and weather modeling. She did subsequent robotics engineering work at

IBM, Morton Thiokol, United Technologies/Pratt & Whitney,

Lockheed-Martin, Rolls-Royce, and the U.S. Navy. She holds technical patents in conjunction with two USDA nutrition scientists in the area of nutrition measurement systems.

Gunn is currently a professor and director of the

Business of Biotechnology Program at the University of San

Francisco; a member of the External Advisory Council for the Global Policy Research Institute at Purdue University; and an advisory board member for the Departments of

Mechanical Engineering at both Purdue University and

Stanford University.

Johann Garcia

is a Junior

Health Physics Technician for Bartlett

Nuclear. Originally from Bogota,

Colombia, Garcia moved to the United

States when he was 10 years old. He obtained an AS degree in Computer

Information Technology from Indian

River State College (IRSC) in 2009.

Due to the fact that there were limited job opportunities in the field at that time, Garcia changed his career interests and enrolled in the radiation protection track of the nuclear energy technician program at IRSC. He graduated in summer 2011 as a junior radiation protection technician.

His first job was at Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Station, in

February 2011. From there, he has been continuously training to become a senior radiation protection technician.

Keqin Gregg

received her Ph.D in molecular biology from Princeton

University in 1998, and subsequently obtained a NIH research service award to pursue a post-doctoral research project on breast cancer at the University of Texas at Austin from

1998 to 2000. From September of

2000 to July 2001, Gregg worked at GenomicFX, an animal biotech company, focusing on SNP discovering and assay development for the cattle industry. After GenomicFX, she worked at Viagen (an animal genetic improvement company) first as a research scientist and then as the director of animal genetics until November 2010. She and her team developed various genetic tests and pathogen assays for the animal industry. Since December 2012, Gregg has worked as a lab manager for Genotox to establish and maintain a CLIA certified laboratory, focusing on genetic testing for personalized medicine. She is also currently an adjunct faculty member at Austin Community College teaching biotechnology.


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Wenjing (Melanie) Guo

is a Genetics Analyst at Genotox

Laboratories; a startup company that provides genetic testing and toxicology services. She utilizes cutting edge real-time PCR based technology to genotype various drug metabolizing genes to enable health care providers to better personalize medication for their patients. As a child, Guo moved a lot with her parents, finally settling down in Connecticut. Upon graduating high school, she decided it was time for another change of scenery

(and weather) and moved to sunny Austin, Texas. She received her Bachelor of Science in Neurobiology from the

University of Texas at Austin. Afterwards, she enrolled in the

Biotechnology Advanced Technical Certificate program at

Austin Community College to further hone and polish her laboratory skills. With the help of the hands-on experience provided by the biotechnology department, she was able to land her current job. Guo currently resides in Austin, Texas with her dog, an Alaskan Malamute, named Scarlett.

Jerry Hiatt

is the Chief Technical

Officer for BHI Energy (BHI) and has over 38 years of experience in the commercial nuclear power industry. His varied experience includes working as a radiation safety technician, a United States Nuclear

Regulatory Commission (USNRC) radiation safety inspector, and as a consultant in the areas of applied radiation safety, training, and emergency preparedness. He is a 1975 graduate of Virginia Polytechnic

Institute and State University and has been with BHI in multiple positions since 1985. Hiatt is Board Certified by the American Board of Health Physics (ABHP) and has served as an actual Member of the Board, Chairman of the Part 1 Examination Panel, and as a member of the Part

2 Examination Panel. In 2011, Hiatt was presented the

William A. McAdams award in recognition of his continuing contributions to the ABHP certification process. He is only the second commercial nuclear power health physicist to have been honored with this award in the 26 years the award has been conveyed. Hiatt serves on the Curriculum

Advisory Board for several community college radiation safety programs and has assisted the USNRC in a review of grant applications for technical and vocational schools.

Bryant Lekander

is currently employed at Hysitron Inc. with a degree in nanoscience technology from Dakota County Technical

College. Hysitron is the world leader in nanomechanical testing and has brought cutting edge technology to the scientific community since

1992. Lekander has applied his nanoscience education and life experiences to his current role where he leads in areas including calibration, metrology, and quality assurance. Lekander oversees calibration of all measurement devices produced by Hysitron and has contributed to the advancement of process techniques and the underlying technology. As a research assistant for

Dakota County Technical College, Lekander participated in the development and testing of Nano-Link’s educator curriculum. The curriculum included lab experiments to demonstrate a wide range of nanomaterial properties and phenomenon.

Justin Patten

is Operations

Manager at Hysitron Inc. with a degree in electrical engineering from the

University of Minnesota. Hysitron is the world leader in nanomechanical testing and has brought cutting edge technology to the scientific community since 1992. Patten has applied his education and experience in engineering and manufacturing to his current role where he has global responsibilities for manufacturing, information technology, and facilities. Since 2004, Patten has been active in a broad range of projects and responsibilities at Hysitron. Notable accomplishments include commercialization of the TI

950 TriboIndenter and nanoDMA II. Patten is currently an active member of the Dakota County Technical College

Nanoscience Technology Industrial Advisory Board. He has previous experience commercializing microfluidic instrumentation for biological applications as well as design and automation of manufacturing and testing processes for a wide range of industries.


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Carolyn Corbin

is president of the Center for the 21st Century, which provides speeches, executive briefings, consulting, and organizational training in critical 21st century issues. As an internationally renowned socioeconomic futurist, author, and speaker whose career spans four decades, Corbin’s work holds a stellar reputation for its 95% accuracy rate and decisive strategies. She has been spotlighted in hundreds of TV, radio, Internet, and periodical interviews including ABC, CBS, and NBC affiliates,

CNN, the Gannett (owner of USA Today) newswire, and

United Press International throughout the United States,

Europe, and Asia.

Corbin was a pioneer in educational technology in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In those days, the discipline was known as Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI). In the

1980s, she was an early forecaster of the importance of private space business, which is at the forefront of news stories today. In 1987, Corbin was the first speaker/trainer/ consultant to have her corporate charter changed to allow her to do business beyond planet earth.

During her career, she has written five books, some of which have ranked #1 on several best-seller lists and have reached markets on every major continent. Besides in the

United States, she receives invitations to speak throughout the world in such places as England, Italy, Ireland, Sweden,

Malaysia, South Africa, Nigeria, Singapore, Jamaica,

Barbados, Trinidad, and Turkey.

Her fifth book, Community Leadership 4.0: Impacting a

World Gone Wiki, was launched in 2011, in both traditional and digital formats. It immediately became the Number

1 Top Rated Amazon.com Kindle eBook in Public Affairs and Administration, and held that ranking for 18 months.

The book has also become a Book Pick of the World Future

Society. And, in March of 2013, Community Leadership 4.0 was named Book of the Month by the Malaysian Foresight

Institute of the Prime Minister’s Department in Malaysia.

Among her honors and awards, Corbin has been named:

Texas Role Model for Entrepreneurial Women; Distinguished

Alumna, University of North Texas; Most Impressive

American by the Toastmasters of Peru; Professional of the

Year by the American Society for Training and Development;

21 for the 21st Century Leadership Award by Inside Collin

County Business newspaper; and McKinney Magazine’s

“25 Top Women in Business, 2012” award. She is active in the McKinney (Texas) community, serving on multiple education, civic, religious, and historical boards and committees.

Jeff Wacker

is a professional futurist who focuses on the technology revolutions that are driving the next socio-economic environment in which we will work, live, and play. He is a senior fellow emeritus, having recently retired from Hewlett-Packard/

EDS after 36 years. During his tenure there he was responsible for discovering, developing, and bringing to market new capabilities and service offerings.

Wacker worked extensively with HP Labs in innovating and pioneering emerging technologies including MEMS and

NEMS sensor systems and neuromorphic computing.

Wacker’s leadership resulted in originating and bringing to market new embedded technology capabilities for the oil and gas industry to dramatically improve their exploration for new energy. His work in sustainability has become a cornerstone of dialog within the IT industry and resulted in the creation of ultra-efficient data centers.

Wacker has mentored major companies in their transition from traditional to emerging technology positions and corresponding business opportunities.

Wacker is a highly respected technology advisor with substantial influence in multiple geographies with analysts, reporters, and business leaders. He is a prolific speaker and has delivered many keynote speeches, been featured in numerous publications, and has appeared on most major U.S. and international television networks. Wacker is a requested contributor by many authors and has worked closely with

Thomas Friedman on both The World is Flat (2nd and 3rd

Edition) and Hot Flat and Crowded.

Wacker works globally with the next generation of top innovators and futurists through his work with major universities and think tanks. He is currently a member of the Convergence Center National Visiting Committee for the National Science Foundation and in the past has been a member of the Greater Dallas Chamber Technology

Business Council, The Chamber Economists Advisory

Committee, and a board member for SciTech Discovery

Centers. He is a long-time professional member of the World

Futurist Society.

Wacker received a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Nebraska. Wacker and his wife live in Parker, Texas.


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613/614 360 – Degree Manufacturing and Applied Engineering

ATE Regional Center of Excellence

501/502 AMTEC – Automotive Manufacturing Technical

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002 ATE Central

103/104 ATEEC – Advanced Technology Environmental and

Energy Center

409/410 BATEC – Broadening Advanced Technological

Education Connections

601/602 BEST – Building Efficiency for a Sustainable

Tomorrow Center

511/512 Bio-Link – Next Generation National ATE Center for

Biotechnology and Life Sciences

617/618 CA2VES – Center for Aviation and Automotive

Technology Education

311/312 CAAT – Center for Advanced Automotive Technology

207/208 CARCAM – Consortium for Alabama Regional Center for Automotive Manufacturing

309/310 CREATE – Renewable Energy Regional Center

603/604 CSEC – Cyber Security Education Consortium

609/610 CSSIA – Center for System Security and Information

Assurance Resource Center

503/504 CTC – National Convergence Technology Center

211/212 CyberWatch – National CyberWatch Center

008/009 CyberWatch West

407/408 DeafTEC – Technological Education Center for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students

003 EvaluATE

105/106 FLATE – Florida’s Advanced Technological Education

Center of Excellence

205/206 GeoTech Center – National Geospatial Technology

Center of Excellence

005 HI-TEC – High Impact Technology Exchange

Conference

006/007 ICT Center – Information and Communications

Technologies Center

301/302 MATE – Marine Advanced Technology Education

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303/304 MATEC NetWorks – National Resource Center

203/204 MCIT – Midwest Center for Information Technology

004 Mentor-Connect: Leadership Development and

Outreach Initiative for ATE

209/210 MPICT – Mid-Pacific Information and Communication

Technologies (ICT) Regional Center

607/608 NACK – National Network for Nanotechnology

Workforce Development

611/612 Nano-Link – Midwest Regional Center for

Nanotechnology Education

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605/606 NBC2 – Northeast Biomanufacturing Center and

Collaborative

509/510 NCSCTE – National Center of Excellence for Logistics and Supply Chain Technology Education

405/406 NEATEC – Northeast Advanced Technological

Education Center

505/506 OP-TEC – National Center for Optics and Photonics

Education

307/308 RCNET – Regional Center for Nuclear Education and

Training

507/508 RCNGM – Regional Center for Next Generation

Manufacturing

101/102 SC ATE – National Resource Center for Expanding

Excellence in Technician Education

411/412 SCME – Southwest Center for Microsystems

Education

305/306 SHINE Center – Seattle’s Hub for Industry-Driven

Nanotechnology Education

615/616 SMART – Southeast Maritime and Transportation

Center

401/402 SpaceTEC – National Resource Center for Aerospace

Technical Education

201/202 VESTA – National Center of Excellence

403/404 Weld-Ed – National Center for Welding Education and

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Florence-Darlington Technical

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SC ATE - National Resource Center for

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SC ATE is significantly expanding excellence in technician education by: providing www.TeachingTechnicians.org to increase participation in professional development in the ATE program; hosting the Proven and Promising Practices database, a searchable compendium of research on technician education; expanding the number of educators using SC ATE strategies to increase the number of students in the ATE pipeline; and stimulating high school and community/technical college use of ATE curriculum models and best practices that attract students and positively impact technician education.

Booth # 103/104

Eastern Iowa Community College

ATEEC - Advanced Technology

Environmental and Energy Center

ATEEC is a national resource center for environmental and energy education.

Its mission is the advancement of environmental and energy technology education through curriculum, professional, and program development.

ATEEC works to foster a network of educational communities, supported through public and private partnerships, that ensures human health, safety, and global sustainability.

Booth # 105/106

Hillsborough Community College

FLATE - Florida’s Advanced

Technological Education Center of

Excellence

FLATE supports the manufacturing industry in Florida through its curriculum reform efforts, its “Made in Florida” recruitment and outreach programs, and professional development workshops for technical faculty—all of which are based on strong industry partnerships. FLATE is housed at Hillsborough Community

College in Tampa, Florida and serves the manufacturing education interests throughout the state via its network of college partners. Through its strong partnerships with the Florida Department of Education and its industry partners,

FLATE continues to play a leading role in developing a robust technical education model to support manufacturing industries.

Booth # 201/202

Missouri State University

VESTA - National Center of Excellence

VESTA, with an emphasis on a scientific, mathematic, and technologic foundation in viticulture and enology, provides students’ access to a cadre of nationally recognized expert instructors through online courses and participation in local field practicums. Through an expanding

18 state partnership and utilizing its ground-breaking distance education model, VESTA provides educational institutions and the grape and wine production industry access to knowledge and skill development programs.

VESTA provides leadership, expertise, resources, academic programs, and technical assistance to students and entrepreneurs interested in entering and advancing careers within the grape and wine production industry throughout the nation.

Booth # 203/204

Applied Information Management

(AIM) Institute

MCIT - Midwest Center for Information

Technology

The MCIT regional center partners with

10 community colleges in Nebraska,

Iowa, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

The center was created in 2001 through

NSF ATE funding. Building upon the success of past efforts, the center’s goal is to extend its impact to support regional systemic change; and produce

IT graduates with the technical and nontechnical skills, and non-IT graduates with the IT skills, desired by regional employers.

Booth # 205/206

Kentucky Community and Technical

College System

GeoTech Center - National Geospatial

Technology Center of Excellence

The National Geospatial Center of

Excellence will showcase the goals of the refunded center as well as highlight its current projects. Some of the projects that will be showcased include professional development, mentoring, revisions of the

U.S. Department of Labor’s Geospatial

Technology Competency Model, data warehousing, and the development of a community of practice.

Booth # 207/208

Gadsden State Community College

CARCAM - Consortium for Alabama

Regional Center for Automotive

Manufacturing

CARCAM provides a system to educate a highly-skilled employee pipeline for the automotive and advanced manufacturing industries. Funded by NSF,

CARCAM updates and develops relevant curriculum for industry needs, provides professional development, and creates student career pathway options.

Booth # 209/210

City College of San Francisco

MPICT - Mid-Pacific Information and

Communication Technologies (ICT)

Regional Center

The Mid-Pacific ICT center’s mission is to coordinate, promote, and improve the quality of ICT education with an emphasis on two-year colleges, in a region consisting of California, Nevada,

Hawaii, and the Pacific territories. The annual Winter ICT Educator Conference will be held on January 4-5, 2014 in San

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Prince George’s Community

College

CyberWatch - National CyberWatch

Center

The National CyberWatch Center, headquartered at Prince George’s

Community College, is a collaboration of 100+ colleges and universities in

31 states, as well as government and industry partners, whose mission is to lead collaborative efforts to advance cybersecurity education and strengthen the national cybersecurity workforce.

The National CyberWatch Center continues to focus on building its culture of collaboration, growing program and faculty capabilities based on models of excellence, and promoting the cybersecurity profession nationally. In addition, the center helps strengthen and expand career pathways for students, as well as advance research in cybersecurity education across the country.

Booth # 301/302

Monterey Peninsula College

MATE – Marine Advanced Technology

Education Center Resource Center

MATE’s mission is to use marine technology to create interest in and improve STEM education and to provide the marine technical workforce with well-educated STEM professionals. One example of MATE’s successful STEM programs is its network of regional and international ROV (underwater robotics) competitions. These competitions engage thousands of students, teachers, mentors, and parents each year. Other activities include: at-sea internships, professional development for educators, curriculum development, and workforce assessment.

MATE is a national partnership of community colleges, middle schools, high schools, universities, informal educational organizations, research institutions, marine industries, and professional societies.

Booth # 303/304

Maricopa County Community

College District

MATEC NetWorks - National Resource

Center

MATEC NetWorks is a resource center that provides digital learning resources and faculty professional development opportunities in semiconductor manufacturing, automation, electronics, nanotechnology, and related fields. The center also offers to collaborate with others in the ATE community on the development of web seminars.

Booth # 305/306

Seattle Community College District

Office

SHINE Center – Seattle’s Hub for

Industry-Driven Nanotechnology

Education

As an NSF ATE Regional Center, SHINE promotes awareness of nanoscience among the public, veterans, high school students, and STEM educators; trains nanotechnicians to meet industry needs; and connects nanotechnology stakeholders in the Northwest.

SHINE’s efforts are directed along the full spectrum of the workforce development pipeline: secondary education, technician training, and public awareness. SHINE also supports regional educators and industry by getting students excited about nanotechnology, while training future nanotechnicians to meet industry need in Washington,

Oregon, and Idaho.

Booth # 307/308

Indian River Community College

RCNET - Regional Center for Nuclear

Education and Training

NSF established RCNET to address nuclear workforce demands in a unified and systematic way. RCNET is located at Indian River State College in Fort

Pierce, FL and is a consortium of 46 colleges and universities, 35 industry partners, and multiple agency and other partners. RCNET’s primary focus is on two-year college training and involves partnerships between academic institutions and employers to promote improvement in the education of nuclear technicians at the undergraduate level.

RCNET also focuses on curriculum development, professional development, employing 21st century learning tools

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Booth # 309/310

College of the Canyons

CREATE - Renewable Energy Regional

Center

The goal of CREATE is to address the demonstrated high demand for renewable energy technicians in southern and central California as a multi-county consortium. This four-year grant will allow the center to complete objectives in five areas: curriculum development, faculty development, articulation, and 2+2+2 pathways, assessment, and dissemination.

Booth # 311/312

Macomb Community College

CAAT - Center for Advanced Automotive

Technology

CAAT is partnering with industry, academia, government, and professional organizations to serve as a central resource for developing and disseminating advanced automotive technology education to meet industry’s requirements of technicians in research, design, development, service, and reuse/ recycling of advanced propulsion vehicle systems and their components.

Booth # 401/402

Brevard Community College

SpaceTEC - National Resource Center for Aerospace Technical Education

SpaceTEC® created a rigorous performance-based certification process for STEM technicians which carries an

FAA Safety Approval and is accredited to ISO 17024 requirements for thirdparty certification by the International

Certification Accreditation Council.

SpaceTEC® used this same methodology to create CertTEC®, for individuals who desire jobs in related fields outside of aerospace. Together, SpaceTEC ® and CertTEC ® deliver certifications for economic sectors most in need of skilled workers, including aerospace, manufacturing, and electronics.

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Lorain County Community College

Weld-Ed - National Center for Welding

Education and Training

Weld-Ed is a dynamic partnership between business and industry, community and technical colleges, universities, the American Welding

Society, and government. The center is conducting business as Weld-Ed through support from the National

Science Foundation. Weld-Ed provides professional development to welding educators.

Booth # 405/406

Hudson Valley Community College

NEATEC - Northeast Advanced

Technological Education Center

Through the collaborative effort of educators, industry, and government,

NEATEC’s mission is to build a highlyskilled technical workforce to meet the employment demands of the rapidly growing semiconductor and nanotechnology industries in New

York and Greater New England.

With the implementation of cuttingedge educational training programs, student recruitment, and cooperative employment opportunities, the center seeks to meet the needs of the regional economy as a whole, and other communities looking for answers to similar challenges.

Booth # 407/408

Rochester Institute of Technology

DeafTEC - Technological Education

Center for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing

Students

DeafTEC’s goal is to increase the number of deaf and hard-of-hearing (hh) technicians entering high technology fields. Through a comprehensive web site and a regional partner model, DeafTEC is serving as a resource for high schools and community colleges that educate deaf/hh students in STEM-related technician programs and for employers hiring deaf/hh individuals. DeafTEC is also expanding the ATE funded national dual credit program, Project Fast Forward, which provides qualified deaf/hh high school students across the country the opportunity to take college STEM courses while in high school.

Booth # 409/410

University of Massachusetts, Boston

BATEC - Broadening Advanced

Technological Education Connections

BATEC is a National Center of Excellence for Computing and Information

Technologies working in the urban areas of Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, and

Las Vegas. BATEC is working to define, extend, and strengthen computing and

IT pathways and career opportunities; facilitate and leverage strategic partnerships with education, business, government, and community to build awareness, generate interest, and support learning opportunities; conduct actionable research to inform policy makers, IT educators, and workforce development agencies; and participate in and lead the national discussion on the subject of integrated curriculum and applied IT.

Booth # 411/412

University of New Mexico

SCME - Southwest Center for

Microsystems Education

Microsystems are an enabling technology which supports biotechnology, transportation, homeland security, and consumer product applications with an $8 billion per year market. SCME continues to increase educational capacity to produce technologists skilled in research, design, and commercialization, while promoting the general public’s awareness of the microsystems industry.

Booth # 501/502


College System

AMTEC - Automotive Manufacturing

Technical Education Collaborative

AMTEC is a NSF funded collaboration of community and technical colleges and industry partners from across the U.S. working together to promote postsecondary education and highschool career choices in advanced manufacturing and skills development.

AMTEC prepares highly skilled technicians and manufacturing engineers to be globally competitive in the automobile manufacturing and advanced manufacturing technology workforce.

Booth # 503/504

Collin County Community College

CTC - National Convergence

Technology Center

CTC mentors colleges through a

“community of practice” that provides best practices, networking, and IT/ convergence curriculum development.

The center regularly engages industry leaders to help steer curriculum and validate job skills; supports virtual labs online to offer students 24-7 access; delivers free, in-depth professional training on cutting-edge IT/convergence topics to faculty; and disseminates strategies to recruit underserved student populations. The center is also developing a new “virtual internship” model to connect students with industry leaders for intensive “capstone” projects.

Booth # 505/506

University of Central Florida

OP-TEC - National Center for Optics and

Photonics Education

OP-TEC works with secondary, postsecondary, and industry partners to increase and sustain our nation’s capacity to produce photonics technicians. OP-

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Connecticut’s Community-Tech

Colleges’ College of Technology

RCNGM - Regional Center for Next

Generation Manufacturing

RCNGM provides Connecticut’s community colleges with a seamless career pathway in advanced manufacturing. The center offers professional development opportunities for teachers and faculty; articulation pathways that are dynamic and include stackable credentials; and addresses the need to market manufacturing as a clean, high tech industry. Stop by for the center’s latest DVD that includes a focus on additive manufacturing with live footage from state-of-the-art industries as well as profiles of individuals who have embraced manufacturing as a career path.

Booth # 509/510

Riverside Community College

District

NCSCTE - National Center of Excellence for Logistics and Supply Chain

Technology Education

Tomorrow’s distribution centers require highly trained supply chain technicians to operate and maintain complex robotics and conveyor systems.

NCSCTE facilitates true alignment between community college programs and industry needs. Supply chain technicians are prepared with portable certifications and poised for successful careers. Businesses can adopt emerging technologies and multiple location companies can receive consistently trained technicians across state lines. The speed and accuracy of goods movement increases while producing a more efficient process. As a result, technology expands, workers’ skills are enhanced, and the efficiency of the nation’s supply chain improves.

Booth # 511/512


Bio-Link - Next Generation National

ATE Center for Biotechnology and Life

Sciences

The Bio-Link Next Generation National

ATE Center for Biotechnology and Life

Sciences now in its fifth year, continues to build on the success of the original

Bio-Link ATE Center funded in 1998 to meet the rapidly changing needs of the biotechnology industry, related life sciences industries, and prospective technical workforce. The center continues to provide a wide range of services and products needed by the swiftly changing biotechnology industry.

Booth # 601/602

Peralta Community College

BEST - Building Efficiency for a

Sustainable Tomorrow Center

The BEST Center’s mission is to prepare technicians to optimize building performance for energy efficiency.

In turn, the center provides model curricula, professional development for instructors, STEM/career pathway design, and dissemination of research.

In this showcase of first-year activities, instructor workshops and linkages with national labs and industry will be highlighted.

Booth # 603/604

University of Tulsa

CSEC - Cyber Security Education

Consortium

CSEC is a cohesive partnership of community colleges and career and technology centers in Oklahoma,

Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana,

Missouri, Tennessee, Texas—and the

University of Tulsa, which serves as the principal training entity and mentor to the two-year institutions.

Booth # 605/606

Montgomery County Community

College

NBC2 - Northeast Biomanufacturing

Center and Collaborative

The NBC2 showcase features curricular materials developed for courses in biopharmaceutical manufacturing and biofuels production and analysis, including laboratory manuals and industry-written textbooks with lecture slides and virtual training modules.

Information about hands-on professional development workshops, including the yearly Protein is Cash workshops for high school teachers and the annual

BIOMAN conference, will be available.

Pick up new publications and learn more about the ever-evolving bioeconomy and training skilled technicians for the workforce.

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Pennsylvania State University

NACK - National Network for

Nanotechnology Workforce

Development

NACK has a mission to provide assistance such as curriculum, workshops, webinars, and remote access to laboratory tools to existing or developing micronanofabrication education and workforce development programs at postsecondary institutions across the

U.S. The “NACK Network” has helped to establish hands-on community/technical college partnerships with universities in 7 states as well as Puerto Rico with more partnerships in the planning stages. NACK material, including six fully developed and continually evolving undergraduate level nanotechnology courses, as well as Network linkages can be accessed via www.nano4me.org.

Booth # 609/610

Moraine Valley Community College

CSSIA - Center for System Security and

Information Assurance Resource Center

CSSIA has provided students with real-world learning experiences in information assurance and network security through several program improvement initiatives. Initiatives include expanding and enhancing cybersecurity skills through events and competitions; building a national infrastructure to deliver current faculty


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Virtualization Data Center in cooperation with industry partners.

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Dakota County Technical College

Nano-Link - Midwest Regional Center for Nanotechnology Education

Nano-Link focuses on providing

NanoScience based educational content in a topically-specific, activity-based, technically-sound modular format.

These modules are used by high school educators to increase awareness of

NanoScience and emerging technology career options. College faculty use the modules to enhance existing technician and traditional programs as well as enhance emerging technology education.

Modular design and format are developed to support educator needs.

Educational content is also correlated to industry needs, applications, and student competencies. Nano-Link has strong connections to industry partners and works to advocate for NanoScience education.

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Bemidji State University

360-Degree Manufacturing and Applied

Engineering ATE Regional Center of

Excellence

The 360º Regional Center is a consortium of 10 colleges, led by Bemidji State

University that serves the manufacturing industry by building the future pipeline of workers and offering flexible educational opportunities. This showcase will include resources for student outreach, industry connection to schools, and information on online and blended manufacturing programs.

Booth # 615/616

Tidewater Community College

SMART - Southeast Maritime and

Transportation Center

The SMART Center serves as a regional education resource and an economic model for preparing a sustainable, globally prepared maritime and transportation workforce for the 21st century. SMART produces and facilitates faculty development programs, strengthens maritime apprenticeship programs, and disseminates those models to community college systems and business and industry partners.

SMART targets high school students, recent veterans, military transition personnel, and re-careering adults.

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Clemson University

CA2VES - Center for Aviation and

Automotive Technology Education

CA2VES focuses on solving workforce problems on a local level through strategic partnerships created with educational, industrial, and governmental organizations to promote the mission of advancing aviation, automotive, and manufacturing technician education that will support workforce preparedness and economic development. CA2VES aims to develop high impact virtual reality simulations and cutting-edge instructional design packages. This showcase will focus on new innovative components of the CA2VES library, including: a highfidelity 3D automobile engine with failure scenarios, an interactive bread board, two immersive environments, curriculum, and various research initiatives.

Booth # 001

National Science Foundation

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; and to secure the national defense.

The foundation competitively awards grants for research and education in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields.

Booth # 002

ATE Central

ATE Central provides services, tools, and an online portal that support and highlight the work of the ATE projects and centers. ATE Central includes an expansive collection of ATE-created curricula, learning objects, web sites, and media brought together in one searchable interface, a comprehensive database of project and center information, and an array of services and tools that leverage and tie together all this data in various ways to serve and promote the ATE community. Notable this year is the ATE@20 Book+Blog project, providing an overview of the history and impacts of the ATE program in its first two decades. The blog can be found on the

ATE Central site and the ATE@20 Book will debut at the 2013 PI meeting with multiple copies available to centers and projects.

Booth # 003

EvaluATE

EvaluATE promotes the goals of the ATE program by partnering with ATE projects and centers to strengthen the program’s evaluation knowledge base, expand the use of exemplary evaluation practices, and support the continuous improvement of technician education throughout the nation. Resources include webinars, workshops, a quarterly newsletter, and web site with digital library and evaluator directory.


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Mentor-Connect: Leadership

Development and Outreach

Initiative for ATE

Mentor-Connect is designed to fill a void created by the recent elimination of a preliminary proposal review process for the ATE Program; address the fact that roughly two-thirds of the nation’s community colleges have never been awarded funding from the NSF ATE program; better manage the rapidly growing number of requests received by

ATE center PIs and NSF program officers related to grant proposal development/ project management; and, develop grant-writing skills among community college faculty who lack sufficient grant development staff (or sponsored research officers) at their institutions.

Booth # 005

HI-TEC - High Impact Technology

Exchange Conference

HI-TEC is a national conference on advanced technological education where technical educators, counselors, industry professionals, and technicians can update their knowledge and skills. Charged with educating America’s technical workforce, the event focuses on the preparation needed by the existing and future workforce for companies in the high tech sectors that drive our nation’s economy. HI-TEC uniquely explores the convergence of scientific disciplines and advanced technologies. Join us July 21-24 in Chicago, Illinois for HI-TEC 2014.

Booth # 006/007

Springfield Technical Community

College

ICT Center - Information and

Communications Technologies Center

The ICT Center is recognized as a national leader in developing and distributing comprehensive Information and Communications Technologies

(ICT) content supporting business and industry’s efforts to educate and train the ICT workforce. The ICT Center incorporates emerging technologies in which the creation, storage, and movement of information is of critical importance and is a key resource for developing and securing appropriatelyskilled ICT technicians and technologists.

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Whatcom Community College

CyberWatch West

CyberWatch West (CWW), is the only NSF ATE center in the western

U.S.dedicated to cybersecurity education and outreach. Now headquartered at Whatcom Community College in

Bellingham, Washington, the CWW consortium is focused on building educational and industry partnerships and delivering professional and student development programs. CWW continues in its mission to build a stronger cybersecurity infrastructure through innovative online curricula, a unique faculty mentoring program, and robust student competition initiatives.


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409 Alpena Community College

Sustainability in Concrete Technology

002 ATE Central

105 Bellevue Community College

National Health IT Technician Certification, Curriculum and

Implementation

511 Bristol Community College

Student Booth: Kimberly Bellefeuille, Courtney LeBlanc,

Ashley Bergeron

401 Bucks County Community College

Applied Engineering Technology - Many Pathways to

Success

305 City College of San Francisco

Stem Cell Pipeline


TechSpot 2.0

610 Clemson University

Student Booth: Myrtede C. Alfred, Jeff Bertrand

106 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Genomic Approaches in Biotechnology

208 College of Lake County

The College of Lake County Regional Photonics Initiative

Phase II

508 Community College of Baltimore County, Essex

NSF ATE Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Professional

Development

411 Connecticut Pre-Engineering Program, Inc.

21st Century Learning: A Connecticut Higher Education,

Industry, and Government Collaboration

006 CUNY Baruch College

Student Entrepreneurs: A Reality-Based Video Series following the STEM Virtual Enterprise

412 CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College

Fostering Student Success in Geospatial Technology

104 CUNY Kingsborough Community College

On-Campus Discoveries in Science: A Science Preparation

Program in Biotechnology in Support of New York City

Teachers and Students

601 CUNY Kingsborough Community College

Student Booth: Hector Colon

507 CUNY New York City College of Technology

Fuse Lab: Collaborative Education for Tomorrow’s Technology in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction


Student Booth: Kenneth Idan, Alejandro McNab-Segarra


512 Dakota County Technical College

Student Booth: Joseph W. Camplin, James Ewen,

Matthew Schulz

310 Daytona State College

Advanced Cybersecurity Education Consortium

607 Del Mar College

Student Booth: Molly Jane Robertson, M. Clayton Speed

506 Denmark Technical College

Creating a Pathway for High School Minorities to Community

College STEM Programs

203 Edmonds Community College

The National Educators Workshop (NEW) 2011-2014

201 Education Development Center

New Media Enabled Technician

003 EvaluATE

306 Everett Community College

Snohomish County Advanced Manufacturing Project

004 Florence-Darlington Technical College

Mentor-Connect: Leadership Development and Outreach

Initiative for ATE


Student Booth: Neil Gramopadhye


Student Booth: Jessica Zaft, Richard Lockamy

402 Fox Valley Technical College

Digital Fabrication Learning Community

202 Hagerstown Community College

Development of a Biotechnology Microscopy Training Center

614 Hillsborough Community College

Student Booth: Mercedes M. Heredia

005 HI-TEC – High Impact Technology Exchange Conference

210 Hofstra University

Articulated Technological Education Pathways (ATEP)

503 Kentucky Community and Technical College System

Discover STEM - Generation Innovation

103 Lansing Community College

Integrated Career and Educational Pathways in Building

Science

510 Lansing Community College

Student Booth: Scott DeRuischer, Dorothy Najeebah Mateen

212 Lee College

ATE Workshops for Physics Faculty

204 Lehigh Carbon Community College

Merging Computer Science and Digital Arts: An

Interdisciplinary Gaming and Simulation Curriculum


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509 Lewis and Clark Community College

Implementation and Expansion of Science-Based Service

Technology in HEVs

308 Madison Area Technical College

Career Education in Renewable Energy Technology


Development of a Technical Program in Stem Cell

Technologies: Responding to an Emerging Need


Student Booth: Katie Draheim, Mandy Hunter


Student Booth: Joshua Stern, Walker Willis

404 Maricopa County Community College District

High Tech Workforce Initiative 2: Externship-Driven Talent

Development

406 Maricopa County Community College District

Student and Teacher Technology Transformation Teams (ST4)

206 Massasoit Community College

Pipelines and Pipets: Biotechnician Training and

Undergraduate Research

408 Mid-Michigan Community College

Creating Plastics Technology Career Pathways in Rural

Michigan

410 Minnesota State College - Southeast Technical

Nanotechnology Partnership for Rural Education Pathways

(NANOprep)

501 National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity

Education Foundation

Educators’ Equity in STEM Academy


309 New England Board of Higher Education

Problem Based Learning in Advanced Manufacturing:

Transforming 21st Century Technician Education

602 Northwest Vista College

Student Booth: Jason G. Giuliani, Chris A. Salinas

307 Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College

Curriculum Infusion: Using A Modular and Online Approach to Train Renewable Energy Technicians and K-12 Teachers

205 Partnership for Environmental Technology Education

Connecting Tribal and Pacific Rim Colleges to Improve

Indigenous Environmental Technology Education

101 Pellet Productions, Inc.

ATETV – Bilingual Video Series

504 Pellet Productions, Inc.

Interactive Movie: A Tool to Deepen Student Learning about

Quality and Regulatory Affairs in Biotechnology


211 Red Rocks Community College

Preparing a 21st Century Workforce for the Water Industry

505 Salt Lake Community College

A Biomanufacturing Enterprise for Innovative Student

Training and Entrepreneurship

304 Science Foundation Arizona

Engineering Pathways Partnership Project (EP3): A Rural

Model for a Modern World

102 Seminole State College of Florida

Career Pathways in Construction, Architectural Engineering, and Design Technology

407 Sinclair Community College

The High School STEM Teacher Synergistic Institute

403 Suffolk Community College

LIGHTES - Leading Innovation through Green High Tech

Engineering and Sustainability

209 Texas Engineering Experiment Station

Revising Science Education with Vision (REVISION)


South Texas Aviation Maintenance Technician Education

Project (STAMP)

611 Tidewater Community College

Student Booth: James Mullins, Stephen Hight

612 Tidewater Community College

Student Booth: Brenden Frazier

312 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Applied Baccalaureate Degree: An Emerging Pathway to

Technician Education

502 University of Massachusetts, Boston

The Synergy Collaboratory for Research, Practice, and

Transformation

405 University of New Mexico

A Model for Improved Technological Education in Northern

New Mexico

603 University of North Texas and Collin College

Student Booth: James B. Glenn, Steadman H. Smith

311 University of Wisconsin-Madison

Improving Educational Outcomes in Manufacturing

Engineering Technologist and Technician Education Programs

606 Wallace State Community College

Student Booth: Jordin Rivers, Jonathan B. Townsend

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Pellet Productions, Inc.

ATETV - Bilingual Video Series

Pellet Productions is working to extend the innovations and current successes of existing ATETV material to Hispanic and

Latino audiences by creating a series of videos featuring and aimed at these groups to help them: discover how to research pathways to colleges offering technology programs; discover the educational requirements for technician careers; become familiar with employer expectations and earnings potential; develop awareness of confounding issues facing students and how colleges and community organizations can provide support to ensure student success; and develop an understanding of the high school preparation required to succeed in STEM programs in college.

Booth # 102

Seminole State College of Florida

Career Pathways in Construction,

Architectural Engineering, and Design

Technology

Seminole State is strengthening the academic pathways from high school to associate and baccalaureate programs, with articulation to the master’s level.

This project aims to increase awareness of the many career opportunities within the building environment, as well as the number and diversity of students prepared for these STEM careers. The project encompasses the integration of sustainable concepts throughout the curricula, intensive summer programs for high school students, and a web site to work out problems, share curricula, and post career information. Unique features of our model include co-taught dual enrollment and AS to BS online completion programs.

Booth # 103

Lansing Community College

Integrated Career and Educational

Pathways in Building Science

Lansing Community College and its academic and industry partners are creating integrated grades 11-16+ academic-career pathways models to give students the technical and workforce skills needed to become leaders in the rapidly growing fields of sustainable construction, energy management, building operations and management, and building automation systems. This showcase will discuss the ways that pathways were constructed incorporating formal and informal industry and academic information, particularly under uncertain future conditions.

Booth # 104

CUNY Kingsborough Community

College

On-Campus Discoveries in Science:

A Science Preparation Program in

Biotechnology in Support of New York

City Teachers and Students

The On-Campus Discoveries project seeks to strengthen science teaching and broaden the pipeline of qualified science students through: (1) offering two Summer Institutes, Genomics and

Proteomics, for high school teachers to extend their technological knowledge and ability to engage students; (2) preservice and in-service teachers enrolled in a MS education program attending an innovative course in teaching biotechnology; (3) high school students conducting experiments in a college laboratory and in their own schools via an equipment lending laboratory; and

(4) AS biotechnology majors improving their job training skills though virtual enterprise simulations.

Booth # 105

Bellevue Community College

National Health IT Technician

Certification, Curriculum, and

Implementation

In collaboration with the world’s largest health IT professional association, the

Health Information and Management

Systems Society (HIMSS), Bellevue

College has created an entry-level health IT industry certification, providing a career pathway for emerging HIT professionals. Bellevue College has also created an online preparatory curriculum for the certification. This showcase will offer demonstrations of this online and freely-accessible Certified Associate in

Healthcare Information and Management

Systems (CAHIMS) curriculum.

Booth # 106

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Genomic Approaches in Biotechnology

Genomic Approaches in Biotechnology is a partnership between the DNA

Learning Center, Cold Spring Harbor

Laboratory, and community colleges nationwide. Faculty are given the foundation necessary to prepare students for biotechnology careers in the genome age. Week-long workshops provide training in cutting-edge science tools, hands-on laboratories, bioinformatic investigations, and careers.

The curriculum integrates theoretical, laboratory, and computer technology with practical advice on lesson planning, classroom management, and career exploration. Program design, curriculum, implementation, and assessment will be showcased.

Booth # 201

Education Development Center

New Media Enabled Technician

Working with social media experts, this project developed lessons and tools to help students in technical fields learn to use social media to build their business brand and to expand their professional network. The profile of the

Social Technology-Enabled Professional identifies 6 duties and 59 tasks associated with building, maintaining, and leveraging online social networks to engage with customers, business partners, employees, and key influencers with the goal of building organizational success. Online lessons can be used as classwork, homework, or projects to enhance existing technical curriculum.

Rubrics have been developed to guide the assessment of student progress.

Booth # 202

Hagerstown Community College

Development of a Biotechnology

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(MTH) for use on HCC’s campus and will also be used with partners at the K-12 levels. The central theme of the MTH is to engage students and teachers with increasingly sophisticated microscopy skills and open them to the possibility of careers in biotechnology as they build microscopy skill sets.

Booth # 203

Edmonds Community College

The National Educators Workshop

(NEW) 2011-2014

NEW features hands-on learning through breakout sessions that include experiments, labs, and demonstrations.

The workshop focuses on the latest developments in materials science and instructional methodology that encourages greater student engagement. NEW shares significant benefits and impact in terms of career awareness for students, professional development for faculty, and the sharing of successful practices in pedagogy.

NEW 2013, Materials in Enabling

Technologies: Defining the Future, will be held on November 3-5, 2013 at the

Tulsa Tech Riverside Campus, in Tulsa,

Oklahoma.

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Lehigh Carbon Community College

Merging Computer Science and Digital

Arts: An Interdisciplinary Gaming and

Simulation Curriculum

Through the medium of games,

Lehigh Carbon Community College is drawing students into STEM disciplines and helping educators create more effective learning tools. The curriculum model created through this grant, which emphasizes problem solving, computational thinking, and team work, has been successful in attracting students beyond initial expectations. The project offers workshops for high school

STEM teachers to instruct participants in ways to make engaging educational games; and summer camps to expose young learners to the fundamental concepts of game design and creation, share information on computer game industry careers, and lead them through computational thinking exercises.

Booth # 205

Partnership for Environmental

Technology Education (PETE)

Connecting Tribal and Pacific Rim

Colleges to Improve Indigenous

Environmental Technology Education

PETE is assisting Tribal and Pacific

Rim Colleges in improving their environmental technology programs by providing educational resources and professional development to build and inform an up-to-date environmental and

“green” workforce.

Booth # 206

Massasoit Community College

Pipelines and Pipets: Biotechnician

Training and Undergraduate Research

Through this project, Massasoit

Community College introduced new degree and certificate programs in biotechnology that provide industryrecognized credentials for graduates, increase linkages between regional two- and four-year higher education institutions, and help to build and strengthen industry partnerships. Using a foundation of inquiry-based learning, the college integrated research-like experiences into core science and math curriculum to better prepare students to seamlessly transition to the workforce, and increased capacity to give students internships and in-depth research experiences that build professional competencies and encourage persistence in STEM studies.

Booth # 207

Texas Engineering Experiment

Station

South Texas Aviation Maintenance

Technician Education Project (STAMP)

STAMP focuses on developing webenabled interactive learning modules for general aviation curriculum as outlined in the Federal Aviation

Administration (FAA) CFR 14 Part 147 appendix B. The curriculum will cover

2013 ATE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS CONFERENCE the aspects of FAA regulations, shop practices (precision measuring tools, hand tools, non-destructive testing and hardware), aviation science (math, physics, and blue print/drawings), basic electricity (direct current, alternating current, and introduction to electronics), weight and balance, and ground operations.

Booth # 208

College of Lake County

The College of Lake County Regional

Photonics Initiative Phase II

The College of Lake County, to provide

Illinois with a technical workforce ready to assume photonics job positions, has established the Lasers Photonics and Optics program. The program offers a foundational certificate at the high school level that continues to the AAS with innovative scheduling and organization. The AAS will be modularized to fit the open-entry-openexit model to accommodate busy and erratic schedules as well as the ability to graduate in less than two years from the program.

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Station

Revising Science Education with Vision

(REVISION)

REVISION has incorporated the Vision and Change curriculum by embedding an authentic research component into bioscience courses. The curricular reform has followed the Vision and

Change initiatives by focusing on the core concepts and competencies rather than memorizing extensive course content. REVISION has implemented a mobile device platform to allow students to review preloaded podcasts of critical laboratory techniques. Assessment data shows that students who participate in undergraduate research show increased retention and integration into the profession of the scientific discipline from presenting at scientific meetings.

REVISION is providing student outcomes that cannot result from traditionally taught freshman science classes.

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Hofstra University

Articulated Technological Education

Pathways (ATEP)

The ATEP project is developing three, semester-long courses for high school students that provide a bridge to community college programs in technician education. The courses

(in biotechnology, information and communications technology, and materials/manufacturing technology) are delivered through a Moodle-based

LMS and include 3D simulations driven by curriculum learning objectives.

ATEP, now in its third year, is pilot testing materials in each domain with classes of the high school teacher-developers.

Hofstra University (the lead agency) is collaborating with a commercial publisher, four ATE centers, and affiliated high schools.

Booth # 211

Red Rocks Community College

(RRCC)

Preparing a 21st Century Workforce for the Water Industry

RRCC’s Water Quality Management

Technology program is advancing water quality technician training by converting the entire water quality curriculum to hybrid and online course delivery, supporting mobile learning lab creation and delivery, offering outreach and mentorship for the inclusion of women, and developing transfer agreements with four-year institutions. To date, individuals in rural Colorado communities have enrolled in online courses and conducted water lab experiements in the accompanying mobile learning lab.

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Lee College

ATE Workshops for Physics Faculty

This project offers two types of workshops for high school and two-year college faculty—a three-day immersion professional development workshop offered at least three times a year, and a biannual laboratory activity development workshop. Information about both types of workshops will be displayed. This project also has a web site that features resources for participants and the ATE community.

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Madison Area Technical College

Development of a Technical Program in

Stem Cell Technologies: Responding to an Emerging Need

This display highlights the project’s recent successes educating students for careers in regenerative medicine and also using stem cell education to recruit diverse populations and excite students about science. Come talk to team leaders about future activities and collaborations relating to stem cell education.

Booth # 302


TechSpot 2.0

TechSpot 2.0 establishes a computer technical support center to provide community college students typically underrepresented in the field of IT with hands-on work experience. This showcase will share strategies for engaging and supporting historically underserved students to promote equity for special populations in career and technical education programs.

Booth # 303

Whatcom Community College

Cybersecurity Camps

Whatcom Community College’s

Cybersecurity Camps include handson activities and a cyberdefense competition for high school students interested in learning more about information security. Community college students act as mentors to the high school students and actively participate in developing lab materials and presentations.

Booth # 304

Science Foundation Arizona

Engineering Pathways Partnership

Project (EP3): A Rural Model for a

Modern World

The engineering pathway developed at

Cochise College is a series of activities, events, programs, and opportunities leading and preparing students for local industry-driven STEM careers. Pathway components will be showcased along with an online guide being developed at

Science Foundation Arizona as a resource for other colleges.

Booth # 305


Stem Cell Pipeline

The Stem Cell Pipeline course introduces high school students and their teachers to cell culture and stem cells, covering topics such as aseptic technique, counting cells, cell/stem cell maintenance, transfection, cytotoxicity, fluorescence labeling, and stem cell differentiation. The students will gain valuable hands-on experience, while learning in a college atmosphere.

Booth # 306

Everett Community College

Snohomish County Advanced

Manufacturing Project (SnoCAMP)

The SnoCamp project is organized around increasing student experience in scientific literacy, application of experimental design, and learning research in engineering and advanced manufacturing. As Washington State students prepare for postsecondary success in emerging fields, courses of study will be articulated from middle school through postsecondary with input from industry. Learning will be enhanced as Everett Community College offers college classes in state-of-the-art manufacturing classrooms based at local high schools.

Booth # 307

Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical

College

Curriculum Infusion: Using A Modular and Online Approach to Train

Renewable Energy Technicians and K-12

Teachers

This project addresses the demand for technicians trained in renewable energy


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Instruments LabVIEW; and this will be emphasized along with the establishment of a LabVIEW Academy at the college.

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Career Education in Renewable Energy

Technology (CERET)

CERET has offered technical training and education to incumbent workers, students, and teachers since 2002. The consortium’s Career Education Grant project has two main objectives: (1) to expand existing Train-the-Trainer

Academies in biofuels and solar electricity to include advanced topics; and (2) to evolve the existing CERET renewable energy certificate into three new academic credentials in solar electricity, wind, and bioenergy in response to national trends and regional needs.

Booth # 309

New England Board of Higher

Education

Problem Based Learning (PBL) in

Advanced Manufacturing: Transforming

21st Century Technician Education

This is a curriculum and professional development project built on the New

England Board of Higher Education’s previous ATE projects. This project is designed to introduce secondary and postsecondary STEM educators offering manufacturing technology education in New England to PBL with a curriculum content focused on advanced manufacturing. The project is improving engineering technician education by creating authentic real-world multimedia instructional materials, developed in collaboration with industry partners into existing curricula. The project is also developing PBL undergraduate and graduate courses to prepare preservice and inservice STEM teacher educators to

PBL instructional materials.

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Daytona State College

Advanced Cybersecurity Education

Consortium (ACE)

Digital forensics is a new science based on the application of scientific and engineering principles to the identification, verification, and examination of digital evidence. ACE is a partnership between state and community colleges in Florida, Georgia,

South Carolina, and North Carolina whose mission is to grow digital forensics programs throughout the southeast.

The project’s multi-threaded approach includes: faculty training; creating and distributing comprehensive course materials; working with K-12 schools to implement cybersecurity and digital forensics programs; and serving as a catalyst for workforce development.

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University of Wisconsin-Madison

Improving Educational Outcomes in Manufacturing Engineering

Technologist and Technician Education

(METTE) Programs

The METTE targeted research project asks: What are the specific METTE program features that are associated with optimal student outcomes? How can key

METTE stakeholders use research data and findings to inform strategic program improvement decisions?

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University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign

The Applied Baccalaureate Degree:

An Emerging Pathway to Technician

Education

This showcase will present results from a multi-phase research project that investigates the implementation of

Applied Baccalaureate (AB) programs that begin at the community college level and culminate in a bachelor’s degree offered by a community college or university. Baccalaureate degree programs in a variety of technical fields are documented using a framework for assessing exemplary and promising technical education programs. Plans for identifying and studying new and emerging AB programs in the final year of the grant will be shared with showcase visitors.

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Bucks County Community College

Applied Engineering Technology - Many

Pathways to Success

Bucks County Community College

(Bucks) improved the curriculum of the current AA degree in engineering ensuring a more seamless transfer to the four-year schools, and established an

AAS degree in engineering technology.

This newly established program is designed to educate and train students in the theory, laboratory components, and skills necessary to enter directly into the workforce as a skilled technician. Bucks’ students are also fortunate to be involved in an innovative, collaborative research project into quadrotor technology, which encompasses different areas of engineering, engineering technology, and environmental fields.

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Fox Valley Technical College

Digital Fabrication Learning Community

(DFLC)

The DFLC project will establish a pilot learning community that leverages digital and personal fabrication’s proven enrichment of STEM competencies and attitudes with learners and educators, while driving advanced technician development throughout the U.S.

To accomplish this goal, the project will integrate multiple networks of community college Fab Labs, digital fabrication experts, STEM learning specialists, and next-generation ATE manufacturing centers into a USA Digital

Fabrication Learning Community that shares digital fabrication curriculum, expertise, and resources.


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Suffolk Community College

LIGHTES-Leading Innovation through

Green High Tech Engineering and

Sustainability

The LIGHTES project aims to increase the number of green and sustainable energy technicians. The primary goals of the project are to create a green technology option in engineering through collaboration with local business and industry, ATE grantees, and higher education institutions in the

Long Island region of New York; and to develop a sequence of articulated green technology experiences for high school students and their teachers. During July

2013, the first teacher cohort participated in a three-day workshop. Results are presented here.

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High Tech Workforce Initiative 2:

Externship-Driven Talent Development

The High Tech Workforce Initiative focuses on preparing and recruiting the workforce that will enable the Greater

Phoenix region to grow and achieve a competitive advantage in the high technology industries. The primary component of the project model is the placement of college faculty in externships in these industries and in the research labs that develop the new knowledge and technologies through which the industries advance. Through externship opportunities, faculty produce new curriculum for college and secondary students that keeps education programs aligned with emerging innovations and provides compelling content for student recruitment efforts.

Booth # 405


A Model for Improved Technological

Education in Northern New Mexico.

The University of New Mexico-

Los Alamos, in partnership with

Los Alamos National Laboratory, is redesigning the applied technologies associate’s program to include degree concentrations in electromechanical, solar, and nanotechnology as an effort to prepare more highly skilled technicians to support the region’s emerging need for high-tech employees in these areas.

The project involves rigorous curriculum and instructional improvements.

Targeting high school teachers, the project articulates a career pathway for underrepresented students that leads to participation in advanced technical education, as well as opportunities at four-year institutions.

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Student and Teacher Technology

Transformation Teams (ST4)

The ST4 project provides teachers, students, and industry experts the opportunity to work in teams and use web accessible information and communication technology tools to produce design based learning labs.

Labs consist of web based, multimedia enhanced presentations of technical solutions to real world problems.

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Sinclair Community College

The High School STEM Teacher

Synergistic Institute

Sinclair Community College along with it’s partners, created a High

Teacher STEM institute. The goal of the collaboration was implementation of a comprehensive professional development experience for high school

STEM teachers in which they would develop inquiry based learning activities in their classrooms, with the expectation that this could stimulate student interest in STEM courses and careers.

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Mid-Michigan Community College

Creating Plastics Technology Career

Pathways in Rural Michigan

Mid-Michigan Community College is partnering with local and statewide economic development agencies, manufacturers, suppliers, and the local community to design a multi-tiered approach to closing the “skills gap” in manufacturing in rural Michigan. This showcase will focus on the alignment of skills from K-12 though bachelor degree completion, non-credit programming, credit certificate, associate and transfer programming, and the ever-present need for entrepreneurial leadership and continuous improvement to foster positive, two-way communication between education and industry.

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Alpena Community College

Sustainability in Concrete Technology

Concrete is the second most used product in the world. Cement is the key ingredient in concrete. Approximately one ton of CO2 is emitted per ton of cement produced. Five billion tons of CO2 will be emitted annually by

2050. Research indicates that CO2 can be absorbed in concrete, a process known as carbonation. Recent research concludes the most beneficial binder of captured CO2 is a concrete masonry product. The focus of this project is to investigate and quantify the amount of

CO2 sequestration based on a range of mix designs, admixtures, and curing methods.

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Minnesota State College - Southeast

Technical

Nanotechnology Partnership for Rural

Education Pathways (NANOprep)

NANOprep will create a new cultural model to improve public awareness and increase enrollment and retention of students in nanoscience programs that will prepare skilled technicians to work in this emerging field. Partnerships among nano-related industries, workforce development, and educational institutions will be developed to design a new and improved recruitment/retention strategy to embed nano concepts within the college curriculum. This approach will generate a nano-literate student in a variety of programs and create a nanosavvy college and community.


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Connecticut Pre-Engineering

Program, Inc.

21st Century Learning: A Connecticut

Higher Education, Industry, and

Government Collaboration

This program helps community college and university students obtain the technology and professional skills required to meet today’s workforce demands. Students are prepared to learn critical thinking, relevant technical skills, and professional skills including teamwork, leadership, project planning, and social networking. Academic partnerships with industry, hospitals, and government entities using realworld applications have been proven to engage diverse populations. Teams are inter-institutional and interdisciplinary to capitalize on the synergy between the theoretical knowledge of university faculty and students and the requisite hands-on technical skills of community college students and faculty.

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CUNY Borough of Manhattan

Community College (BMCC)

Fostering Student Success in Geospatial

Technology

This project focuses on the development, implementation, and assessment of

GIS related core courses in geographic information science (GIS), which are building the foundation for the future development and implementation of a full-scale GIS program at the CUNY

BMCC. The exemplary educational materials and key pedagogical strategies in GIS were developed with assistance from CUNY Hunter College experts, the National Center for Geospatial

Technology (NGTC) representatives, some two-year and four-year institutions, local private industries, and federal, state, and city agencies.

Booth # 501

National Alliance for Partnerships in

Equity Education Foundation (NAPE)

Educators’ Equity in STEM Academy

NAPE provides professional development and resources for educators and counselors to increase the participation of women and underrepresented populations in STEM through its STEM

Equity Pipeline™, which focuses on career and technology education through

STEM equity training for institutional change using the program improvement process for equity in STEM methodology;

STEM equity training for educators using the Micromessaging to Reach and Teach

Every Student™ model; STEM equity career workshops for counselors; and tools and resources such as webinars, research-based materials, and effective practices resources.

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University of Massachusetts, Boston

The Synergy Collaboratory for

Research, Practice, and Transformation

(SynergyRPT)

The SynergyRPT project has collaborated with a group of thirteen ATE centers to build a community of practice focused on the skills and competencies necessary to achieve successful scaling of their projects. For many of these centers, this focus on the concepts, processes, and tools of scaling has resulted in professional growth in their teams, as well as transformation of their approaches to implementation and assessment of their innovations. SynergyRPT is now seeking to leverage the learning and knowledge from this project to help facilitate further scaling within the ATE community.

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College System

Discover STEM - Generation Innovation

Discover STEM is a partnership between six Kentucky Community and Technical

Colleges. Learn how this project is currently delivering STEM education through robotics programming with a focus on recruiting and retaining underrepresented populations. This showcase will share information on how these separate institutions are working together to bring new opportunities to students from elementary to high school age across the state of Kentucky.

Booth # 504

Pellet Productions, Inc.

Interactive Movie: A Tool to Deepen

Student Learning about Quality and

Regulatory Affairs in Biotechnology

Bio-Link, the Next Generation

National ATE Center of Excellence for

Biotechnology and Life Sciences, in partnership with Pellet Productions,

Inc., the producers of ATETV.org, are producing a web-based interactive movie to teach students about quality and regulatory affairs as they impact biotechnology companies. Now in preproduction, this showcase will help recruit additional reviewers.

Booth # 505

Salt Lake Community College

A Biomanufacturing Enterprise for

Innovative Student Training and

Entrepreneurship

This project has established a studentrun company that manufactures and sells biotechnology instructional supplies and serves students from the biotechnology/ biomanufacturing, accounting, business management, and marketing programs.

This company simulates a regulated life science business enterprise and provides students with a safe and mentored environment to practice biotechnology manufacturing and business support activities; to learn how to operate within a quality system; and to engage in entrepreneurship.

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Denmark Technical College

Creating a Pathway for High School

Minorities to Community College STEM

Programs

The project will support participants who desire to pursue a degree in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics.

The program will provide mentorship, internships, bridge programs, and an array of support services and activities to increase participant success. The program aims to serve at least 127 high school minority participants each year.


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CUNY New York City College of

Technology

Fuse Lab: Collaborative Education for

Tomorrow’s Technology in Architecture,

Engineering, and Construction

The goal of the Fuse Lab project is to improve the recruitment, preparation, and success of CUNY’s diverse student population through solid foundations in mathematics and through the integration of discipline specific technologies throughout the curriculum. Model courses, tutorials, and certificate programs are being developed in three key areas of industry need: building information modeling (BIM), “green” technologies with a focus on building performance, and digital fabrication.

An industry “feedback loop” assures that projects and assignments are continuously reviewed for alignment with workplace needs.

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Community College of Baltimore

County, Essex

NSF ATE Project Lead the Way (PLTW)

Professional Development

Developed in response to local PLTW teachers and school administrators, professional development sessions were conducted for Maryland PLTW teachers two to three times a year over a threeyear period. The training supplements the intense two-week summer core training program teachers attended to receive certification in specific

PLTW courses. The goals are to build teacher confidence and increase their knowledge of Autodesk Inventor, VEX, digital electronics, Autodesk Revit, and civil engineering topics. A train-thetrainer program has been put in place to implement the Maryland professional development training model in other states to better prepare teachers across the country to teach the PLTW engineering curriculum and similar courses.

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Lewis and Clark Community

College (L&C)

Implementation and Expansion of

Science-Based Service Technology in

HEVs

L&C is conducting a number of activities that focus on hybrid electric vehicle

(HEV) technology. The project developed

HEV-infused professional development programs in all eight major areas of automotive technology for community college and high school instructors of automotive technology. The project also expanded its outreach to high schools in the region of southwestern Illinois, and strengthened its industry partnerships.

The project continues to work to increase understanding about instruction in HEV technology, and disseminate results of its curriculum development activities and efforts in targeting underrepresented groups and females.

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Lansing Community College

Student Booth: Scott DeRuischer, Dorothy

Najeebah Mateen

Lansing Community College’s Design and Technologies program provides learners opportunities to integrate alternative energy technologies, architecture, construction technologies, construction management, and civil technology curricula. In addition to classroom instruction, hands-on projects, competitions, labs, and field work play a role in the educational process. Viewing of this showcase will provide spectators with a comprehensive picture of student outcomes.

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Bristol Community College (BCC)

Student Booth: Kimberly Bellefeuille,

Courtney LeBlanc, Ashley Bergeron

This showcase will highlight the creation of the BCC Women in Engineering Club.

Initiated in Fall 2012, the students created the club to support one another in a male-dominated field and to encourage more women to pursue careers in engineering.

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Dakota County Technical College

Student Booth: Joseph W. Camplin, James

Ewen, Matthew Schulz


This student showcase will focus on:

Discovering Quantum Dots - investigating the properties of nano-crystalline semiconductors with an emphasis on synthesis and conductivity.

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CUNY Kingsborough Community

College

Student Booth: Hector Colon

Combining modern scientific innovation with marketing ingenuity, the STEM

Virtual Enterprise program gives students the opportunity to prepare for the real world. The program allows students to participate in a unique venture of entrepreneurship by creating their own business firm, with the industry firmly based in earth science or geology.

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Northwest Vista College

Student Booth: Jason G. Giuliani,

Chris A. Salinas

This student booth will showcase the degree plan and certificates available through the nanotechnology program at Northwest Vista College, and share student success stories. The showcase will also feature a student project on contact resistance of tri-layer graphene side contacted with nickel electrodes.

High contact resistance is a key problem in graphene-type device performance.

In order to create devices with high performance values, such as field effect transistors that operate in the terahertz range, the contact properties of graphene devices requires further research.

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University of North Texas and Collin

College

Student Booth: James B. Glenn,

Steadman H. Smith

This student booth will showcase data networking technologies. All communications such as entertainment, research, medical, and social media converge on the Internet. Knowledge is needed to maintain local network, data centers, and wireless technologies.

One example is True-ID, which provides

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College

Student Booth: Neil Gramopadhye

This student booth features a high school freshman who conducted a study at Clemson University on how virtual environments can used to educate the future workforce. The showcase will share results from this research study, which determined what navigational aids will support a person in a virtual reality based environment for reinforcing safety concepts, and how different navigational aids affect usability. The findings from this study will allow virtual enterprise designers to create intuitive interfaces.

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Student Booth: Katie Draheim,

Mandy Hunter

Madison College’s biotechnology department includes multiple program offerings and certificates to address the diverse needs of its students. This student display represents both AAS programming and post-baccalaureate certificates in biotechnology and human stem cell technologies. Students will also share perspectives on industry careers, and student collaborations with the NSFfunded Bio-Link network.

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Wallace State Community College

Student Booth: Jordin Rivers,

Jonathan B. Townsend

Wallace State Community College is part of CARCAM—a consortium of

11 community colleges in Alabama focusing on training modern production methods and maintenance technicians for automotive manufacturing and related high tech manufacturing industries.

This field requires diverse training in areas such as PLCs, robotics, machining, welding, fluid power, and others. Current students share their perspectives on this training and their career paths.

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Del Mar College

Student Booth: Molly Jane Robertson,

M. Clayton Speed

Two students present on their biotechnology projects. The first focuses on human DNA repair proteins, which were amplified and fused to the oxygen-independent iLOV fluorescent tag. Preparation of novel anti-iLOV nanobodies allowed for target genes to be purified. Large-scale purification methods have been optimized for anaerobic crystallization. Future work will include characterizing genetic diseases and analyzing protein structure. The second project investigates the causes of genomic instability. Cell lines with mutations in key DNA repair enzymes where exposed to x-rays, while cell lines with deletions in cell-cycle mediating enzyme were exposed to compounds to increase endogenous stress during

DNA replication. This study suggests that mutations in DNA interacting enzymes increase genomic instability.

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Student Booth: Joshua Stern,

Walker Willis

In May 2013, five students and three instructors from Madison College went to Belize for a renewable energies class. They conducted two separate photovoltaic installations.

One installation was in the village of

Golden Stream and the other was at the Belize Foundation for Research and

Environmental Education. This student showcase features an overview of the effect of small scale renewable energy systems on the development of rural international areas.

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College

Student Booth: Jessica Zaft,

Richard Lockamy

In a chaotic world of mechanized transportation, concrete sidewalks are a lifeline to pedestrians in an otherwise dangerous environment.

Florence-Darlington Technical College is comprised of two campuses that interconnect with a road without sidewalks forcing students to travel by foot on the road. The engineering students have taken ownership of the dire need for safety and begun designing and constructing a sidewalk to span the distance. From concrete mix design to forming and laying concrete, the students are working to ensure quality and safety of transporting students from one building to the next. Student presenters will also discuss the ATE Scholar

Internship program.

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Clemson University

Student Booth: Mrytede C. Alfred,

Jeffrey Bertrand

This student showcase will share information on the research based development of open text curriculum specifically geared towards developing soft skills, as well as technical skills, for manufacturing technicians. Students have developed a set of online virtual reality applications for training technical college students in a variety of tasks related to basic metrology, electriciy, and safety procedures. The display will also discuss the results of efforts to introduce this curriculum at the secondary and technical education levels.

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Tidewater Community College (TCC)

Student Booth: James Mullins,

Stephen Hight

Hear from TCC students as they discuss coursework, apprenticeships, and careerpathways. AMSEC—a college industry partner that provides naval architecture and marine engineering, naval ship


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Tidewater Community College

Student Booth: Brenden Frazier

Hear from a Tidewater Community

College (TCC) student who started his career in combat system electrical prior to entering the Apprentice

School as a marine electrician. From there, he advanced into marine design and currently participates in a new engineering apprenticeship. Mr. Frazier earned his AS in Engineering at TCC and is currently pursuing a BS in Electrical

Engineering at Old Dominion University.

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Technology

Student Booth: Kenneth Idan,

Alejandro McNab-Segarra

This showcase will demonstrate the various robotics/mechatronics products that students made at the Mechatronics

Technology Center (MTC). MTC served as a platform for students to engage in multidisciplinary hands-on design activities.

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Hillsborough Community College

Student Booth: Mercedes M. Heredia

This student showcase focuses on the importance of cultivating STEM education at an early age. Programs like robotics summer camps are designed to introduce middle and high school students to robotics and teach them STEM concepts used in modern manufacturing. By offering hands-on experience and skills training, summer camps help the plant the seeds for a better future.

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ATE Central

ATE Central provides services, tools, and an online portal that support and highlight the work of the ATE projects and centers. ATE Central includes an expansive collection of ATE-created curricula, learning objects, web sites, and media brought together in one searchable interface, a comprehensive database of project and center information, and an array of services and tools that leverage and tie together all this data in various ways to serve and promote the ATE community. Notable this year is the

ATE@20 Book+Blog project, providing an overview of the history and impacts of the ATE program in its first two decades.

The blog can be found on the ATE Central site and the ATE@20 Book will debut at the 2013 PI meeting with multiple copies available to centers and projects.

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Mentor-Connect is designed to fill a void created by the recent elimination of a preliminary proposal review process for the ATE Program; address the fact that roughly two-thirds of the nation’s community colleges have never been

2013 ATE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS CONFERENCE awarded funding from the NSF ATE program; better manage the rapidly growing number of requests received by


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CUNY Baruch College

Student Entrepreneurs: A Reality-Based

Video Series following the STEM Virtual

Enterprise

This project follows STEM student entrepreneurs with a reality-TV style video series. The students at four community colleges are engaged in

STEM business enterprise activities using the Virtual Enterprise pedagogy.

Professional development (PD) videos to help faculty build their capacity to integrate this student-centered learning model into their courses and programs of study are also included. The PD videos will show instructors how to add entrepreneurial exercises to STEM classroom activities. Also intended for student audiences, the videos will demonstrate model business and entrepreneurial activities that the student viewers will subsequently undertake in class.

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Skilled Students Get Jobs: Recruiting Women and Engaging

All Students

506 Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College

Student Booth: Amy Daugherty

607 Asnuntuck Community College

Student Booth: Tobias J. Mele

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509 Austin Community College

Student Booth: Wenjing (Melanie) Guo

310 Baltimore City Community College

A Systematic Approach to Increase the Success Rates of Engineering and Technology Students at an Urban

Community College

612 Baltimore City Community College

Student Booth: Raphael Outlaw, Joey Wise

501 Bay Area Video Coalition

Bridges to STEM Careers for Low Income and Minority

Youth

511 Bluegrass Community and Technical College

Student Booth: Christopher Cool

101 Brookdale Community College

E-books and Mobile Apps for Technician Education

512 Central New Mexico Community College

Student Booth: Peter J. Vogel


Program in Plumbing Engineering Design


Student Booth: Tamika Jones, Roger Kiel

505 Clark State Community College

Student Booth: Trevor Ferryman


Learning Product Design Through Hands-On Mechatronic

Projects


Student Booth: Luiza De Souza, Maksim Drapey

604 Daytona State College

Student Booth: Patrick Vilkinofsky

407 Durham Technical Community College

Remotely Accessible Virtual Machines Using Existing

Computer Labs

510 Durham Technical Community College

Student Booth: Lee Rogers, Jennifer White

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25


10:15 am – 12:30 pm | Exhibit Hall



SAgE Collaborative: Sustainable Agriculture Education for the Puget Sound Bioregion


T.E.A.M.: Technician Education in Additive Manufacturing

206 Education Connection

Connecticut Pathways to Innovation and Design 21

003 EvaluATE

411 Flathead Valley Community College

Strengthening Continuity of Rural Education in

Biotechnology

508 Flathead Valley Community College

Student Booth: Lydia Sykora, Justin M. Vetch


Mentor-Connect: Leadership Development and Outreach

Initiative for ATE

312 Florida Keys Community College

Tropical Ornamental Mariculture Technician Certificate

208 Foundation for California Community Colleges

From Pipeline to Pathways

601 Gateway Community College

Student Booth: Jonathan Carothers

106 Georgia Tech Research Corporation

Advanced Manufacturing and Prototyping Integrated to

Unlock Potential (AMP-IT-UP)

209 Hagerstown Community College

Pathways to Cybersecurity and Information Assurance

Careers

402 Hartnell College

Salinas Valley Consortium for Sustainable Energy,

Education, and Research

608 Hartnell College

Student Booth: Jessica Landa, Jaida Johnson

005 HI-TEC – High Impact Technology Exchange Conference

302 Holyoke Community College

Sustainable Studies Clean Energy Programs and

Certificates

406 Illinois Valley Community College

Preparing a New Workforce for a Sustainable Economy

105 Institute for Women in Trades, Technology, and Science

The CalWomenTech Scale Up Project

303 James A. Rhodes State College

Mathematics Transitions in STEM Education


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Student Booth: Heather Jolliff, Jesse Owsley

410 Jamestown Community College

HURI SURI: Helping Future Biotechnologists in Rural

Appalachia HURI-Up with Undergraduate Research

602 Jamestown Community College

Student Booth: Gabriel Rose Hrysenko,

Brittany VanDervoort

304 Kankakee Community College

(C4) Community Colleges Confronting the Conundrum: A

Job Market Transformation Model for Renewable Energy

Technician Training

306 Kaskaskia College

The Geospatial Technology Advantage: Preparing GST

Technicians and GST-Enabled Graduates for Southern

Illinois Business and Industry

006 Kennebec Valley Community College

Energy Services and Technology Project

204 Kentucky Community and Technical College System

Mechatronics and Innovation for Rural Technicians

104 Linn Benton Community College

The Technician of the Future: Mechatronics as a Statewide

Transferable Skill Set Supporting Green Industry

311 Manatee Community College

Biotechnology Alliance for Suncoast Biology Educators

205 Manhattan Area Technical College

BioTEKS: Biotechnology Education for Kansas

103 Michigan Technological University

Digital Logic Design: Meeting Industry’s Needs Through

University and Community College Collaboration

207 National Council for Geographic Education

Integrated Geospatial Education and Technology Training:

Remote Sensing


401 Old Dominion University Research Foundation

Expanding Geospatial Technician Education Through

Virginia’s Community Colleges

613 Northern Oklahoma College

Developing Student Troubleshooting Skills in Energy

Programs

309 Ohio State University

Bioenergy: A Model Workforce Education Program

504 Pennsylvania College of Technology

Natural Gas Technician Education Partnership

609 Polk State College

Student Booth: Afrad Mahamed

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25


10:15 am – 12:30 pm | Exhibit Hall


404 Portland Community College

Operations, Construction, and Architecture Technical

Education Professional Development

610 Portland Community College

Student Booth: Jennifer Newsted

412 Purdue University

Engineering Technology Pathways: The Food and Foodstuff

Supply Chain

202 Ranken Technical College

Priming the Pipeline for the St. Louis Region - Creating a

Future High Technology Workforce

210 River Valley Community College

Program Development in Cybersecurity with Focus on

Business and Healthcare Concepts

611 River Valley Community College

Student Booth: Randy O’Neil

408 Sinclair Community College

Dayton Urban STEM Academy

403 SRI International

Targeted Research on Technician Education: Community

College Partnership Models for Workforce Education

Sustainability and Integrated Instruction

405 State Fair Community College

On Target: Technically and Academically Ready for Global

Employment in Technology

502 Tacoma Community College

Secure Logistics Curriculum Enhancement


Discover, Relate, Engage, Attract, Motivate with Interactive

Technologies (DREAM-IT)

301 Trident Technical College

Mechanical Engineering Technology Advancement

305 Truckee Meadows Community College

Destination PBL

603 University of Connecticut

Student Booth: Robert J. McDonald

614 University of New Mexico

Reinvigorating IT Education with Cybersecurity

211 University of Hawaii

Cybersecurity Education, Curriculum, and Workforce

Development

212 Wayne Community College

Project Based Learning for Sustainability Curriculum

308 Yosemite Community College District

Mother Lode Region Multimedia Technician Project


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Brookdale Community College

E-books and Mobile Apps for Technician

Education (E-MATE)

In any college classroom, most students bring some type of mobile device to class; yet mobile devices are rarely used to access textbooks. While e-book adoption is soaring for pleasure reading, e-book adoption in the classroom is lagging even as prices of traditional printed textbooks continue to rise. This showcase will provide a survey of the current state of the art in e-books and e-book creation, as well as an update on the development of a generic framework of templates, sample code, documentation, and resource material to be shared with other faculty and institutions.

Booth# 102

Asheville-Buncombe Technical

Community College

Skilled Students Get Jobs: Recruiting

Women and Engaging All Students

Women receive only 28 percent of degrees and certificates in STEM disciplines. And even though women represent one-half the country’s labor force, in STEM-related fields approximately 24 percent of employees are women. In identified programs at Asheville-Buncombe Technical

Community College (A-B Tech) the number of females is less than 20% of total enrollment. This showcase will share strategies used to recruit more women into designated STEM programs.

Booth# 103

Michigan Technological University

Digital Logic Design: Meeting Industry’s

Needs Through University and

Community College Collaboration

This showcase session features three

ATE grants that are tied together under a common theme. These ATE projects are all related to the advancement of modern digital electronics for technicians and technician instructors. The showcase will highlight two basic types of electronics called FPGAs and microcontrollers.

Hundreds of instructors across the country have been taught this new technology as a result of these projects.

Booth# 104

Linn Benton Community College

The Technician of the Future:

Mechatronics as a Statewide

Transferable Skill Set Supporting Green

Industry

Learn how Linn Benton Community

College constructed a mechatronics/ industrial automation technology program to focus on troubleshooting, maintenance, repair, and energy efficiency. This showcase will highlight how the college raised over $300,000 for equipment in a struggling economy in two largely rural counties; and shared examples of blended-tech learning including podcasts, written expercises, and intensive hands-on labs.

Booth# 105

Institute for Women in Trades,

Technology, and Science

The CalWomenTech Scale Up Project

The CalWomenTech Scale Up Project provides ATE grantees with the tools needed to recruit and retain female students in STEM programs in which they are underrepresented through complimentary professional development including in-person trainings at ATE centers, online training fellowships, and webinars. Stop by this booth to learn more about the professional development and resources available to all ATE grantees through the this project. The original CalWomenTech

Project was highlighted by NSF for demonstrating significant achievement and program effectiveness. Five of 7

CalWomenTech colleges achieved increases in female enrollment ranging from 21.8% to 46.3% in introductory technology courses.

Booth# 106

Georgia Tech Research Corporation

Advanced Manufacturing and

Prototyping Integrated to Unlock

Potential (AMP-IT-UP)

Creative and rigorous K-12 technical education can lay the foundation for student success and innovation. AMP-

IT-UP is a partnership between Georgia

Tech, Griffin-Spalding County Schools, and local industry to develop, implement, and evaluate manufacturing-focused curricula for grades 6-9. AMP-IT-UP activities highlight science and math content and practices while engaging the students in engineering design challenges that require technical drawing, basic manufacturing and

3D printing skills, prototype testing, and data analysis. This showcase will feature examples of the AMP-IT-UP challenges and activities, and the lessons learned from the first pilot testing of the curriculum in authentic classroom settings.

Booth# 201


T.E.A.M.: Technician Education in

Additive Manufacturing

Welcome to the exciting world of

Additive Manufacturing. Though there are few standards applied to this technology, there is an increasing demand for vendors and buyers to be confident in the material properties exhibited by parts produced with this process.

Project T.E.A.M. is collaborating with international standards development organizations, ASTM and ISO, to develop global standards for additive manufacturing. Concurrently,T.E.A.M. is developing core competencies aligned with the emerging standards and demonstrating how to use the competencies to integrate into existing courses or to structure new programs.

Booth# 202

Ranken Technical College

Priming the Pipeline for the St. Louis

Region - Creating a Future High

Technology Workforce

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Booth# 203


Program in Plumbing Engineering

Design (PIPED)

The American Society of Plumbing

Engineers and City College of

San Francisco are partnering to collaboratively develop course and program curricula that will provide plumbing engineering design education at the technician level. The

PIPED initiative is working to develop a partnership between community college, high schools, and plumbing engineering employers; a national, standardized curriculum and set of courses that can be a model for community colleges; a national certification test and certification for plumbing engineering; lessons that can be integrated into high schools to increase STEM knowledge; and plumbing engineering design books and calculating tools.

Booth# 204


College System

Mechatronics and Innovation for Rural

Technicians

This project works to: (1) address the shortage of high-tech manufacturing technicians to meet state and regional workforce needs by increasing access to advanced manufacturing technology programs; (2) develop a systematic framework to attract and retain future technicians through strong partnerships amoung postsecondary institutions, secondary institutions, buisness and industry, and community organizations; and (3) to develop a modularized approach to educate advanced manufacturing workers in innovation and entrepreneurship.

Booth# 205

Manhattan Area Technical College

BioTEKS: Biotechnology Education for

Kansas

Manhattan Area Technical College’s

Advanced Biotechnology Certificate program was created, launched, and reviewed and is now being utilized in its third year. The next step is expansion!

Currently, the college has one partner community college and is seeking additional partners. Partners have access to online lectures while they do the accompanying labs face-to-face at their own location. Stop by and find out more about this unique certificate program focused on real world laboratory skills attainment.

Booth# 206

Education Connection

Connecticut Pathways to Innovation and

Design 21

Center for 21st Century Skills at

Education Connection designs community college-articulated high school blended learning STEM courses.

These technology enhanced, studentcentered, project based courses have served over 10,000 students with demonstrated improvement in student engagement and achievement.

Booth# 207

National Council for Geographic

Education

Integrated Geospatial Education and

Technology Training: Remote Sensing

(iGETT: Remote Sensing) iGETT-Remote Sensing offers 18 months of professional development for faculty who teach geographic information systems (GIS) and are interested in incorporating remote sensing into their courses and programs. Through online learning, two summer institutes, and monthly webinars during the academic year, participants learn to: (1) download and analyze remote sensing data, (2) integrate remote sensing data with GIS, and (3) align their teaching with workforce requirements that are increasingly based on these skills.

Booth# 208

Foundation for California

Community Colleges

From Pipeline to Pathways

This project focuses on identifying and disseminating promising practices that bridge underprepared students into ATE programs; supporting student progress; and collaborating with employers to bring incumbent/unemployed workers in

STEM ATE programs.

Booth# 209

Hagerstown Community College

Pathways to Cybersecurity and

Information Assurance Careers

Hagerstown Community College will share curriculum and outcomes of three summer cyber institutes.

Secondary teachers explored ethics in cybersecurity in the Cybersecurity

Teacher Institute (CTI); computer forensic principles and procedures were shared with high school students in the

Cybersecurity Summer Institute (CSI); and middle school girls explored safe social media skills in the institute entitled,

Cool Careers in Cybersecurity for Girls.

Booth# 210

River Valley Community College

Program Development in Cybersecurity with Focus on Business and Healthcare

Concepts

River Valley Community College and Dartmouth College’s Institute for

Information Infrastructure Protection are collaborating to create an innovative certificate and AS degree program,

Cybersecurity in Healthcare IT. This program provides the advanced training needed to produce a local workforce with the skills and knowledge to install, operate, secure, and maintain information technology systems that support the implementation of electronic health records and health information exchange.


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University of Hawaii

Cybersecurity Education, Curriculum, and Workforce Development

This project is developing a set of information security and assurance courses, using an interactive, hands-on approach, to prepare high school and undergraduate students for workforce opportunities. The curriculum is being structured in modular formats, using project based learning (PBL) scenarios, which are being adapted to different target groups, including high school and college students, as well as high school teachers and college faculty teaching

STEM curricula.

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Wayne Community College

Project Based Learning for Sustainability

Curriculum

Project based learning (PBL) has been widely recognized as a viable learning strategy that students embrace. This project seeks to strengthen available curriculum by increasing the number of PBL scenarios that are available for students in sustainability related programs and to broaden the use of PBL at partner institutions.

Booth# 301

Trident Technical College

Mechanical Engineering Technology

Advancement (META)

META is a project designed to develop flexible and adaptable open source, problem based learning modules for mechanical engineering technology students. By focusing on interactivity, the project strives to make mechanical engineering technology more appealing to all students including underrepresented groups. The modular approach allows flexibility to react quickly to local industry demands.

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Holyoke Community College

Sustainable Studies Clean Energy

Programs and Certificates

Holyoke’s Clean Energy Program includes a set of stackable certificates and a twoyear degree focused on a 2+2 model that is designed to attract high school students and provide them pathways to community college employment or a four-year university. Recruitment strategies target underrepresented groups from urban high schools as well as adult displaced workers and veterans. A network of industry partners provide internships and employment.

Booth# 303

James A. Rhodes State College

Mathematics Transitions in STEM

Education

University, college, and high school partners, with input from industry, design, implement, and evaluate a mathematical modeling course for high school seniors with the overarching goals of enhancing student interest in and preparedness for two-year STEM programs. Intensive teacher professional development and design of appropriate curricular materials are a necessary emphasis of the project. The course focuses on actively engaging students in gathering, representing, analyzing, and interpreting data during activities that apply mathematics in STEM fields.

Technologies, including graphing calculators, sensors, interfaces, and computer software, extend students’ abilities to gather and analyze data.

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Kankakee Community College

(C4) Community Colleges Confronting the Conundrum: A Job Market

Transformation Model for Renewable

Energy Technician Training

Project C4 is simultaneously expanding and improving solar technician training while developing the local solar market, training local electrical inspectors, educating the public on the benefits of solar photovoltaic technology, and developing a pipeline from high schools to community college solar-training programs. In developing this student pipeline, C4 is targeting students from underrepresented groups by working directly with principals, counselors, and teachers to refer students with an interest in renewable energy. The project addresses predicted, increased demand for renewable energy technicians so graduating students will have immediate opportunities for employment. C4 will be replicated at six other Midwest colleges.

Booth# 305

Truckee Meadows Community

College

Destination PBL

The Destination PBL Project supports faculty implementing problem based learning (PBL) and/or authentic assessment practices in their classrooms.

Tools and resources include a scenario builder, assessment builder, assessment guide, ready-to-go scenarios and tasks, instructor guides, PBL Standards of

Practice, the learnpbl.com web site, and the Hawaii PBL faculty-to-faculty site.

Booth# 306

Kaskaskia College

The Geospatial Technology Advantage:

Preparing GST Technicians and GST-

Enabled Graduates for Southern Illinois

Business and Industry

The Geospatial Technology (GST)

Advantage project is preparing GST technicians and GST-enabled graduates for opportunities with southern Illinois businesses, industries, and government entities. Kaskaskia College has created a certificate and will create a degree program in GST while utilizing, pilottesting, and evaluating a curriculum based on the Geospatial Technology

Competency Model developed by the

GeoTech Center. Kaskaskia College will be incorporating GST into STEM courses.

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SAgE Collaborative: Sustainable

Agriculture Education for the Puget

Sound Bioregion

The SAgE Collaborative is led by

Edmonds Community College in partnership with Skagit Valley College,

Seattle Central Community College, and Washington State University. The genesis of the SAgE Collaborative stems from an understanding of the imperative action that must be taken, as a global society, to steward local ecosystems and natural resources in concert with securing the basic food needs of growing and urbanizing populations; and the recognition that community colleges, and education institutions in general, play a pivotal role in the advancement of such an action.

Booth# 308

Yosemite Community College

District

Mother Lode Region Multimedia

Technician Project

Columbia College, located in the rural

Northern California foothills, developed a multimedia technician career pathway to prepare students with the skills necessary to advance into careers as multimedia technicians and entrepreneurs. The

Multimedia Technician program offers two certificates and a degree with a variety of entrepreneurship, multimedia, web development, and digital graphic course offerings.

Booth# 309

Ohio State University

Bioenergy: A Model Workforce

Education Program

Ohio State University, in partnership with the emerging bioenergy industry, created a new two-year associate degree program focused on the bioconversion of organic material to biogas (methane). A DACUM process and extensive involvement of project partners representing industry, academia, and research shaped the development of the curriculum. Project accomplishments include the creation of a new bioenergy instructional laboratory, development of a project web site, and a bioenergy workshop for high school

STEM educators.

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Baltimore City Community College

A Systematic Approach to Increase the Success Rates of Engineering and

Technology Students at an Urban

Community College

This project’s systematic approach is to develop an engineering technology

(ET) model that increases success rates of ET students through new programs, aligned curriculums, innovative advising strategies, internships, job opportunities, career pathways, and outreach to local high schools.

Booth# 401

Old Dominion University Research

Foundation

Expanding Geospatial Technician

Education Through Virginia’s

Community Colleges (GTEVCC)

This showcase highlights a sixstate regional project with multiple partners with the mission to increase the number of geospatial technicians prepared for the workforce. Faculty and teacher professional development and mentoring, online GIS courses, and mobile applications are some of the project components. Representatives from several partnering organizations will be on hand to discuss the project components and impacts to date.

Booth# 311

Manatee Community College

Biotechnology Alliance for Suncoast

Biology Educators

The Biotechnology Alliance for Suncoast

Biotechnology Educators brings biotechnology into local high schools.

This showcase highlights the way the program works, the labs that students conduct, and its impact on student engagement in science.

Booth# 312

Florida Keys Community College

Tropical Ornamental Mariculture

Technician Certificate (TOMT)

Tropical marine aquaculture is increasingly used for conservation and restoration efforts focused on coral reef ecosystems. Increasing environmental concerns over global degradation of many coral reef ecosystems necessitates the immediate need for education of qualified tropical marine aquaculture technicians. In addition, marine aquaculture is the fastest growing sector of the food producing industries and currently responsible for more than

50% of global seafood production.

Therefore, the TOMT certificate is designed to provide technician level marine aquaculture skills that will help fill the marine aquaculture jobs of the

21st century while reducing exploitation pressure in the ocean.

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Hartnell College

Salinas Valley Consortium for

Sustainable Energy, Education, and

Research

Partnering with the University of

California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), this project addresses the region’s long-term needs for generating and delivering sustainable energy. Beginning with local high schools with underrepresented, low income students, the project is building seamless academic pathways through community college to fouryear universities in two disciplines: sustainable engineering and sustainable design. The project has developed an on-campus microgrid test bed facility to support sustainable energy and power, and design engineering education and research. This program includes summer research experiences, a high school to college summer bridge program, and the development of renewable energy educational modules.

Booth# 403

SRI International

Targeted Research on Technician

Education: Community College

Partnership Models for Workforce

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STEM technician field well known or unknown to most people? Your answer should tell you a lot about how to plan outreach and instruction. Come and learn what other STEM tech programmers do to develop their own “strategic support cycles” for industry, students, and the community.

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Portland Community College

Operations, Construction, and

Architecture Technical Education

Professional Development

This project partners with design, build, and operations industry members to provide energy technology related curriculum and materials for architectural, construction, facilities, and landscape students. This project also provides hands-on training modules, teacher training workshops, and professional externships.

Booth# 405

State Fair Community College

On Target: Technically and Academically

Ready for Global Employment in

Technology

State Fair Community College, regional schools, and business partners are creating a pipeline of students who possess an understanding of technical career opportunities and are academically prepared to be successful in those careers. This project aligns curriculum from high school through college into the workplace and provides partner developed activities for improving students’ knowledgebased skills. Mathematics has been the focus and the first collaborative product resulted in a Mathematics Handbook that is being presented to eighth graders with a discussion of the importance of mathematics to career choices. Copies of the handbook will be available.

Booth# 406

Illinois Valley Community College

Preparing a New Workforce for a

Sustainable Economy

Preparing a New Workforce for a

Sustainable Economy is a curriculum project that has produced model certificate programs in wind energy leading to a new AAS degree in engineering technology. An additional certificate program in process control operations to prepare technicians for bio-fuel and other industries is under development. A graduate level course in renewable energy topics, targeting high school and community college teachers, has been offered—teachers in that course developed renewable energy modules for use in a variety of subject areas.

Booth# 407

Durham Technical Community

College

Remotely Accessible Virtual Machines

Using Existing Computer Labs

Virtual machines can be great instructional tools for learning and securing management of operating systems. However, the resources for running virtual machines can be demanding, requiring either significant hardware investment for the student or server infrastructure for the educational institution. This project proposes to use existing computer lab workstations to dynamically host virtual machines on demand when in-person classes are not in session.

Booth# 408

Sinclair Community College

Dayton Urban STEM Academy

Dayton’s Urban STEM Teacher Academy,

Ohio’s first, addresses the shortage of STEM teachers in the Dayton area, establishing a sustainable talent pipeline of secondary students motivated in

STEM teaching. Over eighty students are enrolled in the pathway, which is a product of collaboration among local industry, Sinclair Community

College, Dayton Public Schools, and four universities.

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Technology

Learning Product Design Through

Hands-On Mechatronic Projects

The Mechatronics Technology Center provides a platform for multidisciplinary collaboration through hands-on design activities. It enables students to simulate the actual design activities in the college environment using the cognitive model of

“learning by doing.” This showcase will present various robotic/mechatronics design projects created for students.

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Jamestown Community College

HURI SURI: Helping Future

Biotechnologists in Rural Appalachia

HURI-Up with Undergraduate Research

Jamestown Community College (JCC) is connecting residents of northern

Appalachia to the growing regional biotech industry. Like most areas of rural

Appalachia, regional biotech employers are frustrated by a paucity of well qualified lab personal committed to the region. The goal is to train a regional lab-ready workforce proficient in 21st century skills. To this end, JCC is offering a new biology course taught in the high schools using investigative learning and interdisciplinary content. These activities are supported by teacher training and by offering research experiences to teachers and high school students using the so called HURI SURI Model.

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Flathead Valley Community College

Strengthening Continuity of Rural

Education in Biotechnology

This showcase will highlight the development of the biotechnology transfer program at Flathead Valley

Community College. This project aims to provide a pathway for students from rural

NW Montana to enter the biotechnology workforce, and to strengthen ties between local high schools, the community college, and the four-year university system through biotechnology outreach activities, curriculum innovations, and original


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Chain Gene from the Westslope Cutthroat

Trout.”

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Purdue University

Engineering Technology Pathways: The

Food and Foodstuff Supply Chain

This project is the first engineering technology program in which a community college and major land grant research university offer articulated degrees with a concentration in the food and foodstuff supply chain. With this project, high school graduates have the opportunity to begin their education in this field by earning an AS degree in engineering technology at Ivy Tech

Community College and then seamlessly transfer credits to Purdue University in order to earn a BS degree in engineering technology at Purdue’s College of

Technology Statewide.

Booth# 501

Bay Area Video Coalition

Bridges to STEM Careers for Low

Income and Minority Youth

This Bridge project targets two-year college students, their families, and their college and workplace mentors. The ultimate goal of the project is to keep underrepresented minority and lowincome students in the STEM pipeline by demystifying the process of preparing for a STEM career. The project offers two activities: a comprehensive, paid internship program for community college students enhanced with career panels, family outreach, and peer mentors; and a series of video vignettes on STEM career pathways inspired by the experiences of the internship participants.

Booth# 502

Tacoma Community College

Secure Logistics Curriculum

Enhancement

Secure Logistics Curriculum

Enhancement is a collaboration between three colleges to develop real-life case study exercises and other curriculum materials for use in logistics programs.

Booth# 503


Station

Discover, Relate, Engage, Attract,

Motivate with Interactive Technologies

(DREAM-IT)

DREAM-IT is a program targeting high school teachers, students, and students’ parents to increase awareness of technical careers and technical education. DREAM-IT has a two-prong approach to achieving its goal: (1)

DREAMCamp, an on campus camp where teachers and students work to create projects in programming, videography, biotechnology, drafting, and robotics; and (2) DREAMCafé, on campus sessions where parents and student become more acquainted with the college admissions process and the resources to aid them.

Booth# 504

Pennsylvania College of Technology

Natural Gas Technician Education

Partnership

The rapidly emerging natural gas industry in the Pennsylvania Marcellus

Shale region is creating new challenges in fulfilling the needs for a skilled workforce. Coupled with a regional decline in high school graduates over the next several years, an innovative educational pipeline is crucial to the success of this industry. Curriculum modules created in this project will be shared to illustrate how modification to existing courses at Penn College increased student knowledge of technical topics relevant to natural gas jobs.

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Clark State Community College

Student Booth: Trevor Ferryman

Clark State Community College students engaged in a summer internship with

Avetec, where students from several colleges completed written research projects in three areas: cybersecurity for high performance computers; cybersecurity for the power grid; and cybersecurity for unmanned aerial systems. Students also participated in an Air Force Institute of Technology

Hackfest—where teams intensely demonstrated offensive and defensive cybersecurity tactics.

Booth# 506

Asheville-Buncombe Technical

Community College

Student Booth: Amy Daugherty

Amy Daugherty developed an interest in environmental science as a child exploring the mountains of Western

North Carolina. As a student, she became involved in Asheville-Buncombe

Technical Community College’s Women in Technology group. This showcase will highlight her career aspirations and work as an ambassador for women majoring in technology and engineering.

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Technology

Student Booth: Luiza DeSouza,

Maksim Drapey

The rapid pace of change in building technologies requires a technologically skilled and highly adaptable workforce.

The goal of the Fuse Lab project is to improve the recruitment, preparation, and success of CUNY’s diverse student population through solid foundations in mathematics at the high school and

AAS levels; and through the integration of discipline-specific technologies throughout the AAS and building technology curriculum. Hear directly from students enrolled in this program and learn of their course of study and career paths.


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Flathead Valley Community College

Student Booth: Lydia Sykora,

Justin M. Vetch

This booth will provide information about the biotechnology transfer program at

Flathead Valley Community College.

Students will also present the results of a semester-long research project: Fishing for

Genes Isolation of the Myosin Light Chain

Gene from the Westslope Cutthroat Trout.

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Austin Community College

Student Booth: Wenjing (Melanie) Guo

Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) is a technique widely used in the biotechnology industry. Genotox

Laboratories currently utilizes realtime PCR technology to genotype various drug metabolizing genes.

By characterizing patients into poor, intermediate, normal, and rapid metabolizers; health care professionals can now personalize medication instead of prescribing through trial and error.

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Durham Technical Community

College

Student Booth: Lee Rogers, Jennifer

White

This showcase will demonstrate a system that provides an inexpensive remote access solution to allow any student with a reasonably stable Internet connection to use the college’s physical computing resources directly from home. All students need for access is

Internet Explorer, Java, and the system infrastructure to allow them access.

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Bluegrass Community and

Technical College

Student Booth: Christopher Cool

Bluegrass Community and Technical

College (BCTC) has developed an excellent biotechnology program.

The growing biotechnology industry in Kentucky is well-served by the preparation offered to students of this program. Internship placements with local biotech companies benefit the students, the college, and the industry.

Hear from a current BCTC student about his experiences in the program.

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Central New Mexico Community

College

Student Booth: Peter J. Vogel

MEMS, also known as microsystems technologies, are found in just about every modern electronic based system.

At Central New Mexico Community

College, students learn how MEMS are fabricated in clean rooms, integrated with electronics, and put to use in a variety of applications.

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Gateway Community College

Student Booth: Jonathan Carothers

This student display showcases the Solo

Transfer Wheelchair (STW) project.

Created as a working prototype for

NooTools LLC, the STW facilitates the transfer of disabled patients to and from bed with minimal caretaker assistance.

This tool gives patients confined to wheelchairs a degree of independence and helps drastically reduce back injuries in health care staff.

Booth# 602

Jamestown Community College

Student Booth: Gabriel Rose Hrysenko,

Brittany VanDervoort

This showcase will feature a student undergraduate research project at

Jamestown Community College, and a summer undergraduate research project at the University of Buffalo. Students conducted an analysis of borrelia in lipotena cervi (deer keds) as a model of infection in the white tailed deer population of New York state. A second project is focused on whether or not glial cells from the hippocampus are involved in learning and memory. A DNA construct containing genes for TASK1 potassium ion channel and TRKRAB, a fusion protein between the krppel associated box and tetracycline receptor was made to use in the testing of this hypothesis.

Booth# 603

University of Connecticut

Student Booth: Robert J. McDonald

Learn of a student’s challenging journey in the pursuit of his college degree and career aspirations. Mr.

McDonald acknowledges that he made some sizable mistakes early on in his college career, which resulted in major disciplinary setbacks. However, his steadfast determination to continue his education, together with the extensive support network of Connecticut’s College of Technology, kept him on track and brought him even farther than his initial educational and career goals.

Booth# 604

Daytona State College

Student Booth: Patrick Vilkinofsky

Digital forensics is a new science based on the application of scientific and engineering principles to the identification, verification, and examination of digital evidence. The

Advanced Cybersecurity Education

Consortium is a partnership between colleges in Florida, Georgia, North

Carolina, and South Carolina to grow digital forensics programs throughout the southeast. Hear from a current student on his experience in the program.

Booth# 605

James A. Rhodes State College

Student Booth: Heather Jolliff,

Jesse Owsley

This student showcase will share information on a student produced reality show as part of a team building class; which also focused on the company and product development. Students worked with Pellet Productions on this exercise.

Booth# 606


(CCSF)

Student Booth: Tamika Jones,

Roger Kiel

Students will discuss the TechSpot 2.0


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iii - a bsTraCTs project and the Broadband Technology

Opportunities Program (BTOP). The

TechSpot 2.0 project will being in January

2014. The Computer Networking and

Information Technology Department at

CCSF is preparing to launch a full service technology help desk in an effort to give students an opportunity to gain real world experience, as well as to provide a service to the CCSF community. The

BTOP project will focus on open labs and working with underrepresented groups to assist them in promoting themselves and their businesses.

Booth# 607

Asnuntuck Community College

Student Booth: Tobias J. Mele

This student showcase session will discuss the importance of education to the manufacturing community and to the individual attempting to make manufacturing their career focus.

Booth# 608

Hartnell College

Student Booth: Jessica Landa,

Jaida Johnson

The Pocket House is a 10x10x16 ft. microgrid home, built to achieve a zero-carbon footprint while still fulfilling all living necessities in a smaller area. The goal of building the Pocket House is to establish sustainability, efficiency, and ecological awareness and educate the public on such significant design concepts. For this internship project, students spent time conceptualizing a detailed design that would maximize energy efficiency and sustainability; undertook a solar panel technology design process; and conducted several energy audits. The designs and prototypes were then implemented on the Pocket House.

Booth# 609

Polk State College

Student Booth: Afrad Mahamed

Polk State College’s Engineering

Technology AS degree is designed to meet Florida’s need for a highly-skilled and technically-competent workforce in advanced manufacturing. This display presents an alumni’s perspective on the program and experience in an ATEfunded international exchange program to a technical college in the Basque region of Spain.

Booth# 610

Portland Community College

Student Booth: Jennifer Newsted

This showcase will focus on a cooperative work experience for a bioscience technology student in a federally funded academic laboratory.

Booth# 611

River Valley Community College

Student Booth: Randy O’Neil

This student showcase will highlight the importance of cybersecurity in the workplace. It will include information on implementing policies, hardening the system, and current topics in the realm of security. Some of those topics include Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), penetration testing, and the importance of the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility trinity.

Booth# 612

Baltimore City Community College

Student Booth: Raphael Outlaw,

Joey Wise

This showcase is focusing on programming, circuits, and robotics/ mechatronics knowledge learned in

Baltimore City Communuity College

STEM programs.

Booth #613

Northern Oklahoma College

Developing Students’ Troubleshooting

Skills in Energy Programs

Education and industry partners across five states, with oversight from the

Louisiana Community and Technical

College System, are working to increase students’ knowledge of and demonstrated skills in troubleshooting within energy degree programs. The two primary objectives of this project are to create troubleshooting instructional materials that are based on sound industry and educational experience, and to provide an opportunity for students in troubleshooting to hone and demonstrate their skills through competition with their peers regionally and nationally. The goal of this project is to promote safer, more environmentally sound, and more productive operations in the energy sector.

Booth # 614


Reinvigorating IT Education with

Cybersecurity

The University of New Mexico – Las

Alamos branch is migrating its Network

Administration program to an IT program with a cybersecurity emphasis. This project also includes various outreach efforts to promote and support cybersecurity education.

Booth # 001




Booth # 002

ATE Central

ATE Central provides services, tools, and an online portal that support and highlight the work of the ATE projects and centers. ATE Central includes an expansive collection of ATE-created curricula, learning objects, web sites, and media brought together in one searchable interface, a comprehensive database of project and center information, and an array of services and tools that leverage and tie together all this data in various ways to serve and promote the ATE community. Notable this year is the ATE@20 Book+Blog project, providing an overview of the history and impacts of the ATE program in its first two


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iii - a bsTraCTs decades. The blog can be found on the

ATE Central site and the ATE@20 Book will debut at the 2013 PI meeting with multiple copies available to centers and projects.

Booth # 003

EvaluATE


Booth # 004




Mentor-Connect is designed to fill a void created by the recent elimination of a preliminary proposal review process for the ATE Program; address the fact that roughly two-thirds of the nation’s community colleges have never been awarded funding from the NSF ATE program; better manage the rapidly growing number of requests received by


Booth # 005




Booth# 006

Kennebec Valley Community

College

Energy Services and Technology Project

(EST)

Partnering with the mechanical services industry and the New England Board of Higher Education, Kennebec Valley

Community College’s EST project is focused on producing more qualified technicians to meet the growing demand from Maine-based employers who need workers that possess a combination of cross cutting technical skills and the ability to problem solve complex, systemic issues.


2013 aTe s

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AACC and NSF wish to congratulate the following ATE students and recent alumni selected to attend the 2013 ATE Conference.

Myrtede C. Alfred, Clemson University, SC

Kimberly Bellefeuille, Bristol Community College, MA

Ashley L. Bergeron, Bristol Community College, MA

Jeffrey Bertrand, Clemson University, SC

Joseph W. Camplin, Dakota County Technical College, MN

Jonathan Barry Carothers, Gateway Community College, CT

Hector Colon, CUNY Kingsborough Community College, NY

Christopher Cool, Bluegrass Community and Technical

College, KY

Amy Daugherty, Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community

College, NC

Luiza De Souza, CUNY New York City College of

Technology, NY

Scott DeRuischer, Lansing Community College, MI

Katie Draheim, Madison Area Technical College, WI

Maksim Drapey, CUNY New York City College of

Technology, NY

James Eric Ewen, Dakota County Technical College, MN

Trevor Ferryman, Clark State Community College, OH

Brenden Frazier, Tidewater Community College, VA

Jason G. Giuliani, Northwest Vista College, TX

James B. Glenn, University of North Texas, TX

Neil Gramopadhye, Florence-Darlington Technical

College, SC

Wenjing (Melanie) Guo, Austin Community College, TX

Mercedes M. Heredia, Hillsborough Community College, FL

Stephen Hight, Tidewater Community College, VA

Gabriel Rose Hrysenko, Jamestown Community College, NY

Mandy Spurrier Hunter, Madison Area Technical College, WI

Kenneth Idan, CUNY New York City College Of

Technology, NY

Jaida Johnson, Hartnell Community College, CA

Heather Jolliff, James A. Rhodes State College, OH

Tamika T. Jones, City College of San Francisco, CA

Roger Andamo Kiel, City College of San Francisco, CA

Jessica Landa, Hartnell College, CA

Courtney LeBlanc, Bristol Community College, MA

Richard Lawrence Lockamy II, Florence-Darlington Technical

College, SC

Afrad Mahamed, Polk State College, FL

Dorothy Najeebah Mateen, Lansing Community College, MI

Robert J. McDonald, University of Connecticut , CT

Alejandro McNab-Segarra, CUNY New York City College of

Technology, NJ

Tobias J. Mele, Asnuntuck Community College, CT

James Mullins, Tidewater Community College, NC

Jennifer Newsted, Portland Community College, OR

Randy A. O’Neil, River Valley Community College, NH

Raphael Outlaw, Baltimore City Community College, MD

Jesse Owsley, James A. Rhodes State College, OH

Jordin Rivers, Wallace State Community College, AL

Molly Jane Robertson, Del Mar College, TX

Lee Alan Rogers, Durham Technical Community College, NC

Chris A. Salinas, Northwest Vista College, TX

Matthew Ryan Schulz, Dakota County Technical College, MN

Steadman H. Smith, Collin College, TX

M. Clayton Speed, Del Mar College, TX

Joshua Stern, Madison Area Technical College, WI

Lydia L. Sykora, University of Montana, MT

Jonathan B. Townsend, Gadsden State Community

College, AL

Brittany D. VanDervoort, Jamestown Comunity College, NY

Justin M. Vetch, Flathead Valley Community College, MT

Patrick Vilkinofsky, Daytona State College, FL

Peter J. Vogel, Central New Mexico Community College, NM

Jennifer I. White, Durham Technical Community College, NC

Clearwater Walker Willis, Madison Area Technical

College, WI

Joey Wise, Baltimore City Community College, MD

Jessica Zaft, Florence-Darlington Technical College, SC


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Registration

Registration is located in the West Conference Foyer of the Omni Shoreham Hotel. You must be fully registered to receive a name badge, conference program, and other materials. Hours of operation:

Wednesday, October 23, 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Thursday, October 24, 7:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Friday, October 25, 7:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Badge Identification

Each person who registers for the ATE Conference must wear their name badge for entry into sessions, meal events, receptions, and the exhibit hall.

Business Center

The business center at the Omni Shoreham is located next to the West Registration Desk and Foyer. It is managed by the UPS Store. Hours: Monday – Friday, 7:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.; Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.; Sunday by prior arrangement. Please note that AACC does not maintain any photocopying equipment.


The café is located in the Executive Room across the foyer from the West Registration desk.

Hours of operation:

Wednesday, October 23, 10:00 a.m. – 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, October 24, 7:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Friday, October 25, 7:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

Accessibility Information

All meeting rooms can be accessed through the elevators in the hotel with the exception of the Regency and Ambassador Ballrooms. A wheelchair lift is located next to the Ambassador Ballroom main entrance and can be taken down to the Regency level for entry to both

Ambassador and Regency Ballrooms. Restrooms with wheelchair access are located on both Level 1B and 2B

(inside of the Health Club); on the lobby level; and in

Robert’s Restaurant.

Emergency Procedures

Dial “0” on any house phone and report your situation to the operator. If the fire alarm should sound, wait for verbal instructions. Please check for exits nearest your location and do not use the elevators in case of a fire emergency.

Smoking Policy

The Omni Shoreham Hotel is a non-smoking property.

Smoking is only allowed outside in designated areas.

Tickets

Tickets will be collected at the pre-conference workshops that require them. If available, additional tickets can be purchased at conference registration.

Once on site, the costs of unused tickets can not be refunded. However, AACC will assist with matching a buyer for unused tickets, if possible. Please see the staff at the conference registration desk.


a rea

r esTauranTs

(within walking distance of the Omni Shoreham Hotel)

AFGHAN GRILL , 2309 Calvert Street, (202) 234-5095

Serving unique Afghan cuisine for over 25 years. Open for lunch & dinner daily, 11am-11pm.

CAFÉ PARADISO , 2649 Connecticut Avenue, (202) 265-8955

Offering Northern Italian dishes with fresh, hand-made pastas. Serving lunch & dinner seven days a week.

CHIPOTLE , 2600 Connecticut Avenue, (202) 299-9111

Casual Mexican Grill, offering freshly made burritos, fajitas, & tacos for lunch & dinner seven days a week.

DISTRICT KITCHEN , 2606 Connecticut Ave NW, (202) 238-9408

A very trendy New American restaurant, generating buzz around the city with its cuisine prepared by Chef Drew Trautmann.

HOT N’ JUICY CRAWFISH , 2651 Connecticut Avenue, (202)299-9448

New to the neighborhood seafood. Only DC outpost of the Las Vegas Legend. Be ready to shuck your own.

ITALIAN PIZZA KITCHEN, 2608 Connecticut Avenue, (202) 939-2979

A new favorite casual pizza spot. Take out available.

LEBANESE TAVERNA , 2641 Connecticut Avenue, (202) 483-7420

Known for “family friendly” & “consistently excellent” authentic Middle Eastern fare, as stated in Zagat’s restaurant guide.

MCDONALDS , 2616 Connecticut Avenue, (202) 462-8773

MEDATERRA , 2614 Connecticut Avenue, (202) 797-0400

Offering Mediterranean-American cuisine with an Egyptian flare in a modern Art Deco setting.

MR. CHEN’S CHINESE , 2604 Connecticut Avenue , (202) 797-9668

Authentic Chinese cuisine using organic vegetables along with a health-conscious cooking style. Delivery available.

MURPHY’S IRISH PUB , 2609 24 th St, (202) 462-7171

Serving casual lunch & dinner entrees in a convivial setting. Also features TV sports & live Irish music nightly.

NEW HEIGHTS , 2317 Calvert St, (202) 234-4110

A long-time, upscale DC favorite with award-winning New American cuisine. Open for dinner Monday-Saturday.

NOODLES AND COMPANY , 2635 Connecticut Avenue, (202) 518-0020

Offering a variety of pasta dishes, soups and salads.

OPEN CITY CAFÉ , 2331 Calvert St, (202) 332-2331

Breakfast, lunch & dinner in a casual, coffee-house setting. Also features a full-service bar & late-night hours.

PASTA ITALIANA , 2623 Connecticut Avenue, (202) 332-2207

Delicious Italian cuisine. Delivery is available.

PETITS PLATS , 2653 Connecticut Avenue, (202) 518-0018

Traditional French cuisine in a very nice, relaxing setting with private upstairs dining room & a delightful Sunday Brunch.

PIZZE , 2653 Connecticut Avenue , (202) 518-1160

Casual carry-out bistro with excellent hand-made pasta and pizzas prepared in a wood burning pizza oven.

PIZZA KITCHEN , 2608 Connecticut Avenue. (202) 939-2979

Offering a large selection of Italian cuisine. Pizza, pasta, calzones, paninis and much more.

RAJAJI , 2603 Connecticut Avenue, (202) 265-7344

Specializing in Northern & Southern Indian cuisine & tandori specialties in a casual atmosphere.

TASTE OF INDIA , 2621 Connecticut Avenue, (202) 483-1115

Authentic Indian cuisine seven days a week. 11am – 10pm.

TONO SUSHI , 2605 Connecticut Avenue, (202) 332-7300

Traditional Japanese cuisine with freshly prepared sushi, teriyaki & tempura dishes. Open daily for lunch & dinner.

UMI JAPANESE CUISINE , 2625 Connecticut Avenue, (202) 332-3636

Creative sushi rolls, terryaki, and bento boxes (for dinner), on the 2 nd floor. Delivery and takeout possible.

WOODLEY CAFÉ , 2619 Connecticut Ave NW, (202) 332-5773

Serving great burgers & casual American fare in a family-friendly environment.


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Many thanks to the following individuals for their dedicated assistance in planning the 2013 ATE Conference.

Marilyn Barger, FLATE, Hillsborough Community College, FL

Ann Beheler, Convergence Technology Center, Collin College, TX

Rachael Bower, ATE Central, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI

David Campbell, National Science Foundation, VA

V. Celeste Carter, National Science Foundation, VA

Kevin Cooper, RCNET, Indian River State College, FL

Patricia Dombrowski, Bellevue College, WA

Dennis Faber, Mentor-Connect, MD

Bob Feldmaier, CAAT, Macomb Community College, MI

Linnea Fletcher, Bio-Link, Austin Community College, TX

Anand Gramopadhye, Clemson University, SC

Ellen Hause, American Association of Community Colleges, DC

Elaine Johnson, Bio-Link, City College of San Francisco, CA

Van Madray, Pitt Community College, NC

Nicholas Massa, Springfield Technical Community College, MA

Duncan McBride, National Science Foundation, VA

Deb Newberry, Nano-Link, Dakota County Technical College, MN

Monica Pfarr, American Welding Society Foundation, FL

Linda Pierre, American Association of Community Colleges, DC

Gerhard Salinger, National Science Foundation, VA

John Sands, CSSIA, Moraine Valley Community College, IL

Gail Schwartz, American Association of Community Colleges, DC

John Souders, OP-TEC, TX

Edgar Troudt, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, NY

Lori Wingate, EvaluATE, Western Michigan University, MI


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Valerie Barr

ATE Program Director

David Brown

ATE Program

Director

David Campbell

ATE Co-Lead Program

Director

V. Celeste Carter

ATE Lead Program

Director

Connie Della-Piana

ATE Program

Director

Kate Denniston

ATE Program

Director

Corby Hovis


Gul Kremer


John Krupcsek


Duncan McBride

ATE Co-Lead Program

Director

Jane Prey


Hal Richtol


Gerhard Salinger


Elizabeth Teles


Yvette Weatherton



SAVE THE DATES!

Please mark your calendars as the following dates have been selected for the 2014 and 2015 ATE Principal

Investigators Conferences.

October 22-24, 2014

Omni Shoreham Hotel

Washington, DC

October 21-23, 2015

Omni Shoreham Hotel

Washington, DC

Celebrating 20 years

Conference Program

ATE@20:

Sustaining Success and Advancing

Innovation

October 23-25, 2013

Celebrating 20 years - American Association of Community Colleges

SAVE THE DATES!

Please mark your calendars as the following dates have been selected for the 2014 and 2015 ATE Principal

Investigators Conferences.

Conference Program

Sustaining Success and Advancing

Innovation

ATE@20: Sustaining Success and Advancing Innovation

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Friday, October 25, 2013

PRECONFERENCE ACTIVITIES

CONFERENCE OPENING

Rick Stephens

The Honorable

David E. Price

(By invitation only)

ATE Center Staff Only

The Honorable David

E. Price

Rick Stephens

Moira Gunn

Johann Garcia

Keqin Gregg

Wenjing (Melanie) Guo

Jerry Hiatt

Bryant Lekander

Justin Patten

Carolyn Corbin

Jeff Wacker

MAIN LEVEL

LOWER LEVEL

ATE Conference

October 23-25, 2013

Omni Shoreham Exhibit Hall

Washington, DC

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23

ATE CENTERS

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24

ATE PROJECTS AND STUDENTS

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24

ATE PROJECTS AND STUDENTS

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25

ATE PROJECTS AND STUDENTS

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25

ATE PROJECTS AND STUDENTS

Registration

Badge Identification

Business Center

Internet Café and Hot Spot

Accessibility Information

Emergency Procedures

Smoking Policy

Tickets

Many thanks to the following individuals for their dedicated assistance in planning the 2013 ATE Conference.

SAVE THE DATES!

Please mark your calendars as the following dates have been selected for the 2014 and 2015 ATE Principal

Investigators Conferences.

Celebrating 20 years

Conference Program

Sustaining Success and Advancing

Innovation

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