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Project Summary -- National Engineering Technology Education Clearinghouse (NETEC)

The New Jersey Center for Advanced Technological Education (NJCATE), and its partner colleges across the United States, established a National Engineering Technology Education Clearinghouse (NETEC), which serves as a resource center for broad dissemination of exemplary engineering technology education program models, materials, and pedagogical strategies. Primary educational NJCATE partners in the NETEC are the College of DuPage, San Diego City College, St. Louis Community College, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Industry and professional association partners include Johnson & Johnson, ITT, PSE&G, IEEE and ABET. NETEC provides:

  1. On-demand, 24-7 access to:
    • Engineering technology education curricula, instructional materials, program models and structures, and instructional strategies;
    • Career and employment information to business and industry, engineering technology students and potential students, secondary and postsecondary educators, government and professional associations.
  2. A mechanism and means by which institutions wishing to develop and/or implement curricula from existing exemplary programs can be matched with consultants and/or mentors.
  3. Face-to-face technical assistance via institutes, workshops and seminars.

Primary NETEC goals are to:

  1. Increase the national impact of the reform and improvement of technician education through the dissemination of model programs educational strategies and instructional curricula and materials via an electronic clearinghouse and organized professional development.
  2. Broaden the involvement of the engineering technology education community in reform and improvement by linking institutions desiring to adopt or adapt successful engineering technology education innovations with appropriate consultants and/or mentors.
  3. Create a technical assistance communication network of engineering technology educators nationwide.
  4. Serve as a national resource on educational programs, careers and skill sets in engineering technology for students and potential students, secondary and postsecondary educators, and employers.