Today is a somber day at MATEC. Due to funding circumstances, we had to say goodbye to three of MATEC’s long time employees. Darlene, admin and basically the glue that held the NetWorks team together, Shay, IT wizard, and Bryan, our graphics guru said goodbye. They have contributed immensely to MATEC and MATEC NetWorks. You [...]
Have a nano program and wondering how to recruit for it? Join Jamie Houseknecht from NACK and listen some of his recruitment tips. Just go to NetWorks and type in the keywords “NACK webinar recruitment” to view this free webinar. This presentation is aimed at providing insight and best practices to implement when recruiting students into [...]
The MATEC NetWorks free webinar, Industry Expectations for Graduates just finished about an hour ago. It was an excellent webinar and some great chat conversations and questions. I think one thing that was a surprise to many that were on was the fact that industry, no matter if high-tec or not, wants soft skills to [...]
The FREE webinar rehearsal for Industry Expectations for Graduates was completed earlier today. This is going to be a great webinar. If you are a teacher and want to help out your students, show this in class – or give it as an assignment, or have them view the recording. Description: It is no surprise [...]
One of our colleagues on the eSyst development team and instructor of electronics engineering, Bassam Matar, has been awarded one of EE Times ACE Awards for Educator of the Year! Below is some of the announcement Bassam recieved: Congratulations! You were nominated and selected as the 2010 EE Times ACE Award Educator of the Year. [...]
This installment of our @matec newsletter article ”Education Challenges in the 21st Century”, inspired by Cathleen Barton’s presentation at the HI-TEC 2009 event, focuses on the “Public View on Manufacturing”. A recent study, commissioned by Deloitte LLP and The Manufacturing Institute, shows that Americans view manufacturing as the most important industry for a strong national economy. [...]
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