ATE Community
Twenty-Five Years of Advanced Technological Education
- NSF Investment: $1.1 Billion
- 61 Centers and 1,294 projects
- 715 Organizations Received ATE Funding
Executive Summary
Winning the global skills race has been identified as a critical recommendation in every recent report on U.S. economic competitiveness. As developing countries increasingly educate their workforce in science and technology the U.S. must keep pace with the changing nature of the competition. To maintain leadership in the global marketplace, our nation needs a technically savvy science and engineering workforce capable of translating knowledge and skills into new processes, products, and services.
ATE Collaborative Outreach and Engagement (ACOE)
The ATE Community jointly exhibit at many conference during the year in a effort to broaden the impact of the ATE program; recruit more participants in the grant program, and disseminate the products and activities of individual centers and projects. The ACOE project and representatives from funded centers and projects regularly exhibit at the large conferences listed in the table below with the primary audience of each event. We also often attend and display at smaller venues with table displays or presentations: National Coalition of Advanced Technology Centers (NCATC); National Association for workforce Improvement (NAWI), National Council for Workforce Education (NCWE) and the Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration (CIEC) and other smaller venues with single table displays. (You can find out more about all these conferences and their target audiences on their websites.
Regular Conferences for ATE Community Joint Displays:
Conferences |
Attendees |
| AACC: American Association of Community Colleges | Community College Educators |
| ACTE: American Association of Career and Technical Education | Secondary CTE Educators |
| ASEE: American Society of Engineering Education | Engineering & Eng. Tech Educators |
| LOI: League of Innovation | Community College Educators |
| NCPN: National Career Pathways Network | All career pathway professionals |
ATE Community Table Displays
- NCATC NCATC.org Community College Educatorss
- CIEC asee.org/conferences-and-events/conferences/ciec/2017 -Engineering & Engineering Tech Educators
- NAWI nawionline.org/ All career pathway educators
- NCWE www.ncwe.org National Council for Workforce Education
To participate in any joint displays, contact FLATE at flate@fl-ate.org 4-6 months in advance of the conference. You can access/download the calendar of ATE Center Joint displays below.
Upcoming Joint ATE Exhibits
Download Calendar: Download the 2018-2019 Calendar of Exhibits 
Joint ATE Community Projects Include:
- ATE Center Impact Publication (every 2 years)
- ATE Centers’ website
- Collaborative Centers for Technical Assistance (CCTA) provides webinars, convening and mentoring to TAACCCT, ATE and other education and industry consortia and collaborations
- Research on evaluation and technician education
- HiTEC, an ATE Centers-driven conference for technician training and education
- ATE IMPACTS Blog
ATE Centers’ Reach
ATE Facts
Source: EvaluATE
