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.
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Today I had the final check for NACK’s Remote Access to Nano Characterization Tools webinar. This is a free webinar that starts at 1 PM ET.
The NACK Center has several nano-characterization tools that can be controlled remotely by users around the world. By sending us your samples, or using standard NACK samples, you can have […]
This blog is written by Peggie Weeks of the Evalua|t|e Center. She was a panelist on NetWorks’ webinar, Evaluating Student Impact (click to view the recording) and was a comment about using trial and error for students. She writes more about this:
I made a comment during MATEC’s Evaluating Student Impact webinar about a “trial and […]
Assessing impact is very important if you are an instructor or assessing a NSF project. Last week I was lucky enough to attend a Evaua|t|e workshop on Assessing with Joellen Killion, of the National Staff Development Council, as the presenter. It was an excellent workshop and I learned a lot. One of the take aways I […]
Things are NetWorks are really busy. I am working on the library and checking each resource the library has. 78 down, 1300 more to go. Plus I hosted the NACK webinar last Friday on Introduction to Nano-characterization, and have an eSyst implementation webinar on Microprocessors. You can catch the NACK webinar recording here, and you […]
This semester I had a very interesting group of students - One student was in his seventies, another was forty-six, a few in their thirties, a bunch of twenty year olds, and finally a student who was sixteen. All in the same class. Four generations of students. The dynamics of this class is very interesting. You […]
In the workplace, there are two, three generations at work. In classrooms, there can sometimes be four generations. Each generation is shaped by the times they live in and how they will respond. In order for a company to be successful, each generation must be able to communicate successfully with the other, as well as […]
This month we are having a lot of webinars. If you are interested in Nanotechnology, this Friday NetWorks is hosting the NACK Nanotechnology in the Classroom Labratory. Next Wednesday (11/18), the ATE Center, Evalua|t|e is hosting Evaluate Basics for New ATE Grantees. And finally, eSyst a Systems View of Electronics will have its third in […]
I just got done having a rehearsal for the upcoming NetWorks Energy Utilization webinar next Friday, September 11 at 10 MST. Below is a description:
Modern society runs on electricity, and as standards of living increase worldwide, electricity represents the fastest growing form of energy use. This growth, coupled with ongoing advances in technology, presents significant […]
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