Every year FLATE makes a formal request to the Florida Department of Education (FL DOE) for enrollment and completion data for the A.S. degree in Engineering Technology (A.S.E.T). After filtering, sorting, and categorizing, FLATE produces an annual “Enrollment and Completion Report.” Annual improvements have included new data requests and building in our own comparatives with […]
Image Source: News Herald Last month we highlighted, two of our FLATE awardees (Ken Jurgensmeyer and Russ Henderlite); this month the spotlight is on Aubri Hanson, recipient of the 2014 FLATE Manufacturing Post-Secondary Educator-of-the- year award. The Award recognizes a community college, or technical school educator for outstanding contributions to manufacturing and/or engineering technology education. Hanson […]
The 2014 FLATE Award winners were recognized last week at the Annual Manufacturers Association of Florida Summit and Global Marketplace held in Destin, FL. Russ Henderlite, from Peterson Academy (Jacksonville), Aubri Hansen, Gulf Coast State College (Panama City) and Ken Jurgenmeyer, Heat Pipe Technologies and MiTEC (Tampa) we sleeked by the FLATE Industrial Advisory Committee […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded the project “Developing an Engineering Technology Workforce to Meet Employers’ Needs” to Tallahassee Community College in partnership with several industry and education partners in 2012. The goal of the Students in Engineering Technology (SET) project is to address employers’ needs by producing highly skilled and educated technicians who are […]
The answer to lastmonth’s puzzle will be discussed next year (And, I know you can all hardly wait). Meantime, here is some breaking news. Technicians at the Santa Workshop are, as expected, working overtime for the next couple of weeks. One of the tasks is to determine the red light luminescence of a particular […]
Every year, in November, FLATE staff, take a break from their in-house responsibilities and step out to share their professional knowledge and experience with local students. The effort is part of the Great American Teach-In, a national initiative targeted to offer students, educators and industry professionals across the nation a platform to exchange ideas and […]
Florida may be a popular destination for vacationers around the globe, but there is much, much more to the sunshine state than those warm sandy beaches. Florida is emerging as a hotspot for manufacturers and is according to a report compiled by VMA Inc., the Volusia, Flagler and surrounding counties manufacturing alliance, the 12thlargest manufacturing […]
Steve Cercone, from Bluegrass Educational Technologies, is the new Chair for the Florida SkillsUSA Mechatronics Competition. Cercone is looking for competitors to register for this year’s SkillsUSA state competition in April. The following is a description of the competition: Description SkillsUSA competition requires contestants to understand the new industrial discipline of “mechatronics,” the ability to […]
