William C. Schwartz Industry Innovation award winners were recognized at a special luncheon on September 6, 2012 at SeaWorld’s Ports of Call in Orlando. The event, sponsored by the Orlando EDC, MACF and other organizations, was attended by more than 100 guests who had the privilege to see some of the many things that are […]
The Florida Advanced Technological Education Center of Excellence, FLATE, uses its NSF-ATE resources to strengthen the advanced manufacturing technician education system in Florida. This effort exemplifies the creation of partnerships among the colleges, manufacturers, economic development organizations, Workforce Florida, and Florida Department of Education. Using this mutual effort among its partners, FLATE has brokered strong working relationships […]
Voltage response of photovoltaic panels systems This puzzles presents math and technology ideas. From the math perspective the slope of the two plots are the same so the graphs are correctly presented as parallel lines. However, the position of each line is determined by the intercept value on the Ordinate. In this case, the intercept […]
During our planning grant for our NSF ATE Center of Excellence back in 2002, the FLATE leadership team identified the Baldrige Quality System as the evaluation model we would use. Grounded in industry expectations, based on organizational excellence, and a data driven format were qualities of an evaluation model, which appealed to us and we […]
The 2012 Florida Energy Summit combined with this year’s annual Florida Energy Systems Consortium (FESC) Summit and took place in Orlando on August 15 – 17. The Summit provided opportunities for the 500 participants (homeowners, businesses, local governments and energy producers) to explore how Florida can secure a stable, reliable and diverse supply of energy, […]
In keeping with FLATE’s “Year of Manufacturing Awareness” theme, and encouraged by partners to expand Industry Day offerings, FLATE provided an Industry Day multi-tour experience to George S. Middleton High School in order to support the engineering program offered at the Tampa magnet high school. The magnet schoolprograms at Middleton are designed to help students […]
On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy proposed what might have seemed like an amazing challenge. The United States would put a man on the moon before the end of the decade. This was not an engineering, nor technology, nor science, nor mathematics challenge; it was a STEM challenge that required STEM professionals to […]
The Florida Advanced Technological Education Center (FLATE) congratulates St. Petersburg College (SPC) for its latest addition. The Collaborative Center for Emerging Technologies (CCET) is the area’s first center for emerging technologies created to reinforce hi-tech education training of tomorrow’s engineering technology, and manufacturing employees. Brand Jenkins, Dean of Engineering Technology at SPC and co-PI of FLATE […]
A technician’s assignment is to determine the efficiency of photovoltaic panel systems manufactured at the “we-make-em” alternative energy manufacturing facility. The data collected from these pilot plant studies are arranged as ordered pairs. One of these two values is the voltage measured from the photovoltaic panel while the other data point is the […]
It’s hard to believe that summer is almost over. Here at FLATE we just completed five amazing weeks of robotics camps at the Hillsborough Community College (HCC) Brandon campus, and three equally awesome weeks at the Institute of Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) in Ocala, captivating the minds and hearts of middle and high school students, […]
