Fall 2024 ET Forum

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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-two 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:

• 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

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• 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.