Spring 2025 ET Forum
Click here for the draft agenda.
Nearby hotels:
The Hacienda (5621 Main St, New Port Richey)
Group block under “ET Forum” (Wednesday, April 2- departing Friday, April 4).
Room fee $119 per night (taxes not included). One night deposit required. 48 hr cancellation policy. You will need to call The Hacienda at 888-845-5621 to get the block rate.
Comfort Inn & Suites (6206 US-19, New Port Richey)
Hampton Inn & Suites Port Richey (11050 U.S. Highway 19, Port Richey)
Holiday Inn Express & Suites (10619 U.S. 19, Port Richey)
Marilyn Barger’s Retirement Celebration
April 3 – Lunch (Pasco Hernando State College, New Port Richey Campus, Room 151) – included in ET Forum Registration
April 3 – Dinner (Whiskey Joe’s Bar & Grill, 7835 Bayview StreetPort Richey, FL 34668) – on your own
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The Florida Forum on Engineering Technology (E.T. Forum) is an important vehicle to bring together the diverse and geographically dispersed colleges with common issues and challenges. The Forum is a semiannual 2-day meeting of community college engineering technologies faculty in Florida. FLATE utilizes the Forum to strengthen its Technology Consortium; share its activities and projects; provide professional development; bring industry and academics together; engage faculty and administrators in statewide curriculum reform; and keep in touch with new and ongoing college program issues and concerns.
E.T. Forum Impacts
- Leads curriculum reform for statewide associate degree programs
- Provides a foundation for strong partnerships between colleges
- Started reform and reorganization of common course numbering for relevant courses
- Unified input to Perkins IV state implementation plan
- Supported CAPE and other CTE legislation
As of Spring 2024, the ET Forum has met fifty-three times since 1996 at 25 different colleges around the state. You can find ET Forum presentations and resource files on FLATE’s Wiki, filed by year.
Previous E.T. Forum Meetings:
- November 8, 2024 – Virtual (Rescheduled due to Hurricane)
- April 4-5, 2024 – State College of Florida, Bradenton, FL
- September 28-29, 2023 – St Johns River State College, Orange Park, FL
- March 30-31, 2023 – Daytona State College, Daytona Beach, FL
- November 18, 2022 – Virtual (Rescheduled due to Hurricane)
- March 31-April 1, 2022 – Broward College North Campus, Coconut Creek, FL
- October 26, 2021 – Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress, Orlando FL (Hybrid)
- March 19 and March 26, 2021 – Virtual
- October 9 and October 16, 2020 – Virtual
- April 17 and April 24, 2020 – Virtual
- October 17-18, 2019 – Seminole State College, Central Florida
- March 28-29, 2019 – Suncoast Technical College, Sarasota, FL
- November 1-2, 2018 – St Petersburg College, St Petersburg, FL
- April 12-13, 2018 – South Florida State College, Avon Park, FL
- September 21-22, 2017 – College of Central Florida
- March 30-31, 2017 – Chipola College
- Sept 22-23, 2016 – Daytona State College
- Mar 31-April 1, 2016 – Lake Sumter State College
More information, presentations files, handouts, etc can be found on FLATE’s wiki filed by year behind the presentation button.
