Principal Investigators from twelve NSF ATE Centers gathered
for a meeting at the American
Association of Engineering Education (ASEE) in
New Orleans, LA, in late June to share current, or future partnerships with any
of the national institutes. The NSF ATE lead program officer, Dr. Celeste
Carter and representatives from ASEE also attended the meeting. After sharing a
number of engaged partnership contract agreements, prospective interaction, the group left the meeting with an assignment
to update a developing matrix tool that itemizes the strengths of all the
centers that will become a tool for identifying potential partnerships and
interactions The meeting was facilitated
and sponsored by the Lift (Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow) Institute and
ASEE.
FLATE presented its funded exploratory project with the
PowerAmerica Institute and will attend
their summer community college workshop
this month with two faculty from partnering ATE Centers. In the fall, FLATE and four partner centers
will convene with the PowerAmerica workforce and education team to develop a
partnership model for professional development.
Want to know more?
Come to HITEC, July 25-29 in Pittsburgh. PA! There will be an early morning meeting
Wednesday, July 27, with representatives from four of the institutes to which
all interested centers and project personnel are invited. Later in the day, the
conference offers two technical panel sessions on the technology and workforce
aspects of the institutes. The four participating institutes are Lift,
PowerAmerica, AIM Photonics and NextFlex.
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