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This page from the Materials Education National Resource Center contains the archived abstracts and presentations from the 2014 National Educators Workshop. These workshops have provided "over 7000 participants with the latest developments in material science and technology while offering strategies...

This webinar, provided by EvaluATE: Evaluation Resource Center for Advanced Technological Education, discusses making evaluation a central focus of an ATE proposal. The webinar provides instruction on how to: "focus an ATE evaluation, develop a plan for data collection and analysis, describe the...

This resource from Louise Yarnall, Raymond McGhee, and Joseph Ames includes information on a project which studied industry partnerships with ATE Centers and Projects. The five page PDF contains short descriptions of a Partnership Study and Instruction Study. Additionally, a diagram illustrates the...

Course Description: This Manufacturing Analytics course, taught at Bridgerland Technical College, provides students with experience working as a data practitioner in the field of manufacturing. Utilizing real-world situations, students gain experience with the types of tasks that are required of...

The National Science Foundation has provided this interesting report on the outlook for manufacturing in the United States. The text discusses the "myth of manufacturing's demise" and touches on some manufacturing history while looking forward towards new technologies like rapid prototyping, as well...

This webpage from the EFMR Monitoring Group provides information on the extraction of natural gas from Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale formation. Users may read a brief overview of the extraction efforts and the environmental concerns involved. A lesson plan and resource guide is available for...

This webinar, provided by EvaluATE: Evaluation Resource Center for Advanced Technological Education, discusses maximizing the impact of ATE program evaluations. The video provides evaluators with strategies to make evaluations more accessible and easier to understand, and also shares ideas of how to...

This article from authors Louise Yarnall, Larry Gallagher and Geneva Haertel examines the idea of how a college education can improve individuals' capacity to grasp the "big ideas" of different disciplines. The authors introduce the concept of an "evidence-centered assessment design" or ECD. This...

This webinar, provided by Florence-Darlington Technical College, was presented on November 18, 2015. The webinar is a mentor orientation that introduces the Mentor-Connect project, the fourth cohort mentor team, the roles and responsibilities of mentors, and mentor workshop participation. The...

This 8-page resource, created by the National Convergence Technology Center (CTC), provides an aggregated summary of strategies and best practices for recruiting and retaining under-served student populations. These strategies and best practices were pulled from a variety of websites, reports, and...