Vincent A. DiNoto, Jr., uses the mentoring techniques he learned as a mentee in the MentorLinks program to now serve as a mentor for both
MentorLinks and Mentor-Connect and the leader of the National Geospatial Technologies Center of Excellence(GeoTech Center).
In July, DiNoto received the Innovative Program Award at the High Impact Technology Exchange (HI-TEC) Conference for GeoTech Center’s community of practice, which connects two-year college educators — who are often the only geospatial technology instructors at their institutions — with employers and geospatial instructors at other colleges.
“Geotech is such a rapidly changing field that to look at just what educational peers are doing is not enough,” DiNoto said.
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Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from an article on ATE@20, a blog the spotlights stories pertaining to the federally funded Advanced Technological Education
program, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary. It is reprinted with permission.
Daniel Horine, principal investigator of two National Science FoundationAdvanced Technological Education(ATE) project grants, sees the high demand for mechatronics technicians, who have a combination of mechanical, electrical and computer skills, as evidence of their career opportunities and their importance to manufacturers whose output influences the nation’s economic health.
“Mechatronics is thinking about the end in mind and [about] how we are going to integrate these systems from the beginning … I want mechatronics and the integrated approach to be a way of teaching, and break down the silos and barriers, so that we are setting up our students for success,” Horine said.
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