ATE educators add ‘green’ to their duties
Advanced Technological Education (ATE) principal investigators got another charge at their recent annual meeting: Leverage their knowledge
and professional networks to help address the nation’s environmental and energy issues.
The principal investigators, who are mostly community college educators, are considered catalysts for change in technical education by virtue of their grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for innovative programs in advanced technology fields.
NSF Director Arden Bement urged them to join the process “to reorganize our intellectual capacity” to address energy and environment problems. He said priorities include obtaining more accurate information on climate change, reducing the nation’s dependence on fossil fuels and maintaining the nation’s prosperity as it deals with higher energy costs.
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