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Vision

FLATE will be Florida’s leading resource for education and training expertise, leadership, projects, and services to promote and support the workforce in the high performance production and manufacturing community.
Mission

FLATE, an NSF-ATE Regional Center for Advanced Technological Education, is the go-to organization for manufacturing and advanced technical education, best practices and resources supporting the high performance skilled workforce for Florida’s manufacturing sectors.

Goals

  1. To ensure that FLATE’s mission is sustained.
  2. To implement a statewide unified education system for manufacturing that positions manufacturing education as a convergent curriculum that optimizes technician preparation in manufacturing and its enabling technologies.
  3. To provide an effective outreach platform for Florida’s high school, community college, industry, and legislature to access information related to the requirements for and impact of manufacturing education
  4. To present professional development opportunities for technical faculty to develop, refine or certify their knowledge base within manufacturing and/or its related enabling technologies and educational pedagogies.

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FLATE’s administrative core is a partnership between St.Petersburg College, the College of Engineering at the University of South Florida and Hillsborough Community College. The Center is housed at Hillsborough Community College on its Brandon Campus under the leadership of Campus President, Dr. Nancee Sorenson. It occupies 1500 square feet of office space and shares the laboratory resources of the manufacturing /engineering technology program.

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation, under the following grant DUE# 1204751. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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