Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Workshop A: Getting Started
Workshop C: Lessons from Big Duck – How Branding and Marketing Strategies Can Strengthen Your ATE Work
Workshop E: Survey Fundamentals – Good Data Starts with Good Questions
Plenary Session: Helping Students to Perceive, Plan, Prepare, and Persist (P4) toward Higher Education and Improvement
Keynote Speaker: Christine Darden, Former Researcher and Executive, NASA
Thursday, October 25, 2018
Concurrent Sessions
Concurrent Session 1: Building and Deepening Employer Engagement
Concurrent Session 3: Redesigning Mathematics for Technical Students
Concurrent Session 4: Celebrating 25 Years of Preparing Students to Join America’s Skilled Technical Workforce
Hilda Arguelles, Pratt & Whitney, East Hartford, CT
James Gannage, Gannage Technology Services, Inc., Arroyo Grande, CA
Marlena Jackson, Genentech, Inc., San Francisco, CA
Mary Patton, IHS Markit, Plano, TX
Jeremy Scott, Austin Energy, Austin, TX
Victor McCrary, National Science Board, Alexandria, VA
Forum and Discussion Sessions
Forum: Unmanned Aerial Systems Projects: A Coast-2-Coast-2-Coast Perspective
Discussion: Makerspaces for CTE/STEM: Strategies for Teaching, Inclusion, and Workforce
Discussion: How to Support Employability Skills: Harvesting Ideas from the Field
Forum: Summer Camps to Career Pathways
Discussion: Increasing the Student Biotech Pipeline – From Recruitment to Employment
Forum: Encouraging Innovation in Professional Development
Forum: Using a Supply Chain Model to Recruit and Education Students; and Models for Developing Faculty Leaders
Discussion: Sharing Our Strategies: Using the ATE Impacts Book for Outreach and Collaboration
Forum: Get More Veterans in Your College Using the DoD Career Skills Program
Forum: Engaging Students in sUAS through Service Learning and Drone Challenges (17)
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Discussion: Advancing Technician Education through Evidence-Based Decision Making
Forum: ATE Coordinating Networks – Extending ATE’s Reach through Collaborative Synergies
Forum: Working Partners: Keys to Successful Educator-Industry Partnerships
Discussion: What, When, and How: Archiving with ATE Central
Demonstration Sessions
Demonstration: Using Live Stream Technology for Professional Development and Outreach (22)
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Demonstration: Hands-On Math Activities to Engage Manufacturing Students
Demonstration: Acquiring STEM and Soft Skills by Developing AVR Content for Clients
Demonstration: Advanced Technological Education and Autistic Experience
Demonstration: Aligning Employers and Classrooms: Using a Body of Knowledge to Analyze Syllabi
Demonstration: Building Relationships by Engaging High School STEM and CTE Teachers
Demonstration: Engaging Industry Partners to Develop Simulations for Workforce Development
Demonstration: Just In Time Learning – Create Once, Use Multiple Ways
Demonstration: Engaging Teachers to Incorporate Industry Awareness into STEM Curriculum (30)
Friday, October 26, 2018
Plenary Session Panel: From PI to Community College President – Leadership Perspectives on ATE, America’s Technological Workforce, and the Next 25 Years
Annette Parker, President, South Central College, MN
David Harrison, President, Columbus State Community College, OH
Edwin Massey, President, Indian River Community College, FL
V. Celeste Carter, Lead ATE Program Director, National Science Foundation, VA
High Impact Workshops
Workshop 2: Essential Practices for Impact on the 21st Century Manufacturing Industry and Workforce
Workshop 3: Learn How to Successfully “Move Up” with Your Next ATE Grant Proposal
Synergy Meetings
HSI Strategies/Challenges: Growing America’s Technological Workforce
Developing Middle-Skilled Data/Big Data Practitioner Programs
Creating Effective Professional Development Activities