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NSF ATE Projects are initiatives for technicians in
high-technology fields of strategic importance to the nation.
Two-year college educators have leadership roles in the
projects, which test ways of improving technician education or
of improving the professional development for the faculty who
teach technicians. The projects’ collaborative work with
industry partners and educators from other undergraduate
institutions and secondary schools perpetuate innovations that
deliver highly-skilled technicians to workplaces. While each
ATE project has its own goals, all the projects are part of a
national effort to ensure that the technical workforce in the
U.S. has the capacity to compete globally.
Prior to MPICT, the City College of San Francisco (CCSF) MPICT
team had an NSF ATE Project grant to improve CCSF’s Computer,
Networking and Information Technology (CNIT) Department called
the
Institute for Convergence of Optical and Network Systems
(ICONS). MPICT would very much encourage pursuit of ATE
Project grants of less than $1 million for 3 years for
community college ICT related programs.
NSF ATE Projects of interest to community college ICT
educators include:
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