The other day I wrote about Vino Scott’s feedback letter. I also promised Julie Formen’s of OP-TEC response. 12. Response from Julie Forman, Associate Director of Partnerships and Communications, OP-TEC: National Center for Optics and Photonics Education My name is Julie Foreman and I am with the National Center for Optics and Photonics Education. We are [...]
The ETD list server response was great for the “all too familier letter” that was posted August 11 that had been sent out to the ETD list serve. The letter was written by Vino Scott, Professor & EET Dept. Chair of New England Institute of Technology. Below are the responses that he recieve and compiled. [...]
If you want to know what an Engineering Technician is, or what the pay is, what is required, or the job outlook for 2008-09, I found the government website with thier definition and statistics. The difference between a Technical School and a Community College? “Community colleges offer curriculums that are similar to those in technical [...]
Hi everyone, As Mark Viquesney mentioned in his blog posting the other day, the Work Ready Electronics project is availabled online at http://www.work-readyelectronics.org/ The Work Ready Electronics project (WRE) is a collection of twenty four resources on relevant topics in electronics technology. Each of these topics when the project was begun did not or was [...]
Hi everyone, In a recent blog Mark Viquesney mentioned the NSF funded eSyst project: A Systems View of Electronics as having valuable resources for faculty teaching electronics or mechatronics course work. This is true and please go to http://www.esyst.org/ to view and access these resources. The eSyst project was started to help begin the change of [...]
I just wanted to wish everyone good luck for the upcoming school semester. Our district starts this Saturday so my online class has to be up and ready and my two in person classes as well. So much to do and so little time it seems like. IF you are going to be teaching an [...]
An all too familiar letter came across the Engineering Technology (ETD) listserv the other day: ‘Declining enrollment in electronics programs for a decade. Has anyone had success in turning the trend around, what suggestions do they have.’ Maybe you have seen this letter. Maybe you were about to write a similar letter. Below is my [...]
Hi everyone, Last week July 19th through July 23rd, the High Impact Technology Exchange Conference was held in in Scottsdale, Arizona. As a sponsor of this conference, the eSyst Systems Approach to Electronics (NSF Project #0702753) conducted a half day workshop for 31 faculty from around the United States and hosted a technology showcase booth [...]
A while back I wrote about how there would be universal chargers at sometime. In Europe, it is now to become reality. The European Commission and several leading cell phone manufacturers agreed Monday to back a mini-USB standard for cell phone chargers beginning next year — two years ahead of schedule. A universal charger standard [...]
In recent years my of understanding of how an FPGA (Field-programmable Gate Array) works and how it can be programmed to perform various tasks, I have begun to wonder if this might be the answer to how we build bigger and faster micro-processors. What I mean is if an FPGA can be programmed to contain [...]
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