Spotlight on our 2022 FLATE Award Winners
July 18-20, 2022 or the 2022 MakeMore Manufacturing Summit on October 13th.
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The Bay Area Manufacturers Association wins
FLATE Most Innovative Manufacturing Month
Student Event Award
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For many years, Manufacturing Month meant coordinating in-person student tours of local manufacturing facilities to promote manufacturing careers. But after the 2020 pandemic halted in-person activities, many of Florida's Regional Manufacturing Associations (RMAs) and industry partners found creative ways to reach out to students. This year's award goes to the Bay Area Manufacturers Association for their “Manufacturing Month 2021-Great Manufacturing Teach-In” events.
In collaboration with 12 Florida Manufacturing companies as well as the Pinellas and Hillsborough County School Districts Career, Technical and Adult Education Departments, the Bay Area Manufacturers Association planned and executed an interactive and fun virtual event for students. Beth Galic, the Executive Director of BAMA, coordinated the event which provided students and teachers in Hillsborough and Pinellas County high schools with the opportunity to watch a pre-recorded virtual tour and then participate in a live Q & A virtual session with each company.
More than 690 students from 24 schools in at least 6 cities were introduced to career pathways in modern manufacturing and the exciting career opportunities that the industry offers. Jereme Monette, Supervisor of Career, Technical and Adult Education for Hillsborough County Public Schools and Michael McCullough, Resource Teacher for Industrial, Technology, Agriscience & Public Service Education for Pinellas County Public Schools worked closely with BAMA to coordinate the events.
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Michael Shaluly wins FLATE 2022 Distinguished Manufacturing Service Partner of the Year! |
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Michael Shaluly, President and Founder of Mastercut Tool Corp in Safety Harbor, started the company in his garage in 1985. Now a world class carbide cutting tool manufacturer, all products are still manufactured in Florida, using state of the art equipment, skilled craftspersons and the exclusive Mastercut Automated Production (MAP) quality control technology.
Michael developed a desire to promote manufacturing education at the beginning of his career in the carbide cutting tool industry. Starting on the factory floor, he remembers being placed in front of a machine with no formal training, no achievement goals, nor even a safety review. Years later, when his employer closed and he started his own manufacturing firm, Michael found very little in the academic world to help him find, train, and retain employees. As he began shipping tools into the automotive and aerospace industries, he recognized how interconnected and important manufacturing was to the world, and how vital it is for the future of the US economy, and indeed for the global economy. These experiences led Mr. Shaluly to conclude that for manufacturing to grow and strengthen, our country, as well as local municipalities, must be committed to manufacturing education programs. He knew he had to do his part, and strongly believes manufacturers themselves must promote such education.
Along with his wife Mia and his Mastercut associates, he created the Shaluly Foundation LLC in 2015. Sponsored by Mastercut Tool and the Shaluly Foundation LLC, the annual 5K Run or Walk for Manufacturing Education was created to celebrate Manufacturing Day and raise funds to support manufacturing education, raising over $136,000 over the last 7 years for student scholarships (see Events section below for 2022 5K Walk/Run info). Over the past 6 years Mike and his team have participated during Manufacturing Month, providing educative and fun tours to students, parents, and educators and he maintains an open-door policy to regularly welcome engineering and manufacturing students for plant tours. Mr. Shaluly also regularly donates tooling to universities and machines to training institutions, such as AmSkills, Inc. for their programs.
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FLATE Presents at National CTE Conferences |
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FLATE's Senior Education Advisor, Dr. Marilyn Barger, presented at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference in Minneapolis, MN, June 26-29, 2002. Now in its 129th year, the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition is the only conference dedicated to all disciplines of engineering and engineering technology education.
Executive Director of FLATE, Ernie Friend presented at The Role of Community Colleges in Cybersecurity Education: Future Directions, sponsored by NCyTE Center and the National Science Foundation on June 27, 2022, in Alexandria, VA. This unique Summit builds off an original 2002 workshop and publication sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) and includes a gathering of invited experts eager to learn and contribute to shaping the future of cybersecurity education for years to come.
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Look inside the NEW National Science Foundation (NSF) ATE IMPACTS Book for 2022-2023! |
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Did you know – that the NSF ATE community publishes an IMPACT book every two years to highlight the activities and impacts of the projects and centers funded by the program? In the Advanced Manufacturing section, there are five 'centers' and five 'projects' highlighted in this year's book. It’s a big effort led by the team at ATE Central (www.atecentral.net) to showcase the important work done in 2-year degree-granting institutions: preparing highly skilled and educated technicians for the continuously changing advanced technologies workforce. The book highlights innovations in technical education programs implemented by the grantees of this program in the following technology categories:
- Advanced manufacturing
- Agricultural and environmental
- Biological and chemical
- Engineering
- Information and security
- Micro and nanotechnologies
FLATE, now part of the FloridaMakes Network, is proud to be included as a “sustained” center now that it is no longer funded by NSF ATE as a center. FLATE is now supported by FloridaMakes, project grants from the Florida Department of Education (FDOE), and project grants from NSF. FLATE’s 20 years of impact in Florida can be found on pages 16-17 and highlights an “ATE” Alumni of Pasco-Hernando State College now working at Southern Manufacturing Technology in Tampa
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FloridaMakes Network News |
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FloridaMakes Apprentice of the Year Award |
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Celebrate Florida’s top manufacturing apprentices! The Apprentice of the Year award will be given to manufacturing apprentices who have made an outstanding commitment to their professional development and a positive difference to their company.
Nominations deadline: July 31.
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Fusion 360 Workshop at St. Pete College |
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Manufacturing Education 5k
Saturday, October 29, 2022
Join us for the 7th Annual Manufacturing 5K Run or Walk for Education to show your support for Manufacturing Education.
The past six events have netted over $136,000 in scholarships for deserving engineering and manufacturing workplace students.
Details and registration:
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Virtual Professional Development Opportunity
for Engineering Instructors
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Earn $1750 to (1) develop and implement an entrepreneurially minded class project, and (2) disseminate findings through a conference publication?
Application Deadline: Jul 24, 2022
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Student Internship at NIST - Fall 2022 Semester |
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The Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) NanoFab, at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and NEATEC are sponsoring internships for two students (community college and/or four-year technical colleges) to take place during the Fall 2022 term at the CNST in Gaithersburg, MD. The 16-week internship starts August 29, 2022.
Each student will receive a stipend of $650 per week during the duration of the internship and a one-payment of $500 to cover travel expenses. The program is designed for students enrolled in engineering or technical fields, such as Electrical, mechanical, manufacturing, semiconductor, nanotechnology, and other related fields. Also, students enrolled in science programs, such as Engineering Science, physics and chemistry are welcomed to apply. The NIST will prepare a program based on your interests and background at no-cost. Learn about clean rooms, lithography, deposition, etching, CMP, metrology, etc. The application deadline is July 25, 2022
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Educator Professional Development
Summer Training on Cobots - July/August 2022
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Applications are now open for the on-ground 3rd and 4th Next Generation Industrial Robotics workshops:
- July 26-27 @ Lawson State Community College in Birmingham, AL and
- August 9-10 at Motlow State Community College, in Smyrna, TN.
The workshops are free for faculty, and each person that successfully completes the workshop receives a $400 stipend. Priority is given to two-year college faculty.
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Educator Professional Development Workshops
August 10th - 14th, 2022.
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Underwater Robotics and Engineering Design Workshop
Hosted by MATE Inspiration for Innovation - will focus on the introductory SCOUT competition level. Participants will assemble the SeaMATE Store PufferFish kit of parts and a frame for an underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV). Applications are accepted until the workshop is full.
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STEM Guitar Workshop
August 11-13
Open to all STEM subject area educators, 9-12 or 7-8 CTE/ Industrial arts instructors, community college levels and freshman/sophomore university instruction. As a participant, you will receive a completed guitar and access to our classroom ready modules using the guitar as a STEM learning tool.
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FANUC Robotics Trainings at the
College of Central Florida Corporate College
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The College of Central Florida is the only FANUC Authorized Satellite Training Center in Florida, offering training for machine operators, programmers, maintenance professionals and machine tool builders. Upcoming trainings include:
- FANUC 2D iRVision Operation and Programming, October 31-November 2, 8am-5pm, $1,935, the deadline to register is October 14th.
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Technician vs. Engineer: What's the Difference? |
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In this article from indeed.com, they explore the definitions of technician and engineer, what each position is responsible for in their day-to-day work life and how to choose which of the two careers are right for your students or employees. |
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Micro-Lessons for Teaching the Skills in the
Cross-Disciplinary STEM Core
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Preparing Technicians for the Future of Work continues to develop tools and resources to support educators in future-proofing tomorrow's technicians. Developed to assist educators in adoption of The Framework for a Cross-Disciplinary STEM Core, each of these instructional cards contains micro-lessons designed to address skill areas in advanced digital literacy, data knowledge and analysis, and business knowledge and processes—for introduction in advanced technology education programs.
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ED STEM Resources
U.S. Department of Education
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In an ever-changing, increasingly complex world, it's more important than ever that our nation's youth are prepared to bring knowledge and skills to solve problems, make sense of information, and know how to gather and evaluate evidence to make decisions. These are the kinds of skills that students develop in science, technology, engineering, and math, including computer science—disciplines collectively known as STEM/CS.
For all things STEM, visit the U.S. Department of Education’s STEM page and currently open ED Grants page to apply.
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Adapting Additive Manufacturing Technology to
Meet the Demands of I4.0
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Did you know that job listings for additive manufacturing may also be called 3D printing technician, CAD modeler, rapid prototyping technician or design modeler? Hear about innovations happening in additive manufacturing on the front lines of education and discover which skills technicians will need as the demand for additive manufacturing/3D printing by various industries intensifies. Includes how faculty can introduce additive manufacturing into their curriculum even if they don’t have direct experience with it - a step-by-step on how to get started, along with valuable lessons learned along the way.
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