Engineering Technology Education

Spring 2023 ET Forum

March 30-31, 2023
Daytona State College
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The Florida Forum on Engineering Technology (E.T. Forum) is an important vehicle to bring together the diverse and geographically dispersed colleges with common issues and challenges. The Forum is a semiannual 2-day meeting of community college engineering technologies faculty in Florida. FLATE utilizes the Forum to strengthen its Technology Consortium; share its activities and projects; provide professional development; bring industry and academics together; engage faculty and administrators in statewide curriculum reform; and keep in touch with new and ongoing college program issues and concerns.

E.T. Forum Impacts

  • Led curriculum reform for statewide associate degree programs
  • Provided a foundation for strong partnerships between colleges
  • Started reform and reorganization of common course numbering for relevant courses
  • Unified input to Perkins IV state implementation plan
  • Supported CAPE and other CTE legislation

Previous E.T. Forum Meetings:

  • November 18, 2022 - Virtual
  • March 31-April 1, 2022 – Broward College North Campus, Coconut Creek, FL
  • October 26, 2021 – Hybrid (Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress, Orlando FL & Virtual)
  • March 19 and March 26, 2021 – Location: Virtual
  • April 2-3, 2020- Eastern Florida State College
  • October 17-18, 2019 – Seminole State College, Central Florida
  • March 28-29, 2019 – Suncoast Technical College, Sarasota, FL
  • November 1-2, 2018 – St Petersburg College, St Petersburg, FL
  • April 12-13, 2018 – South Florida State College, Avon Park, FL
  • September 21-22, 2017 – College of Central Florida
  • March 30-31, 2017 – Chipola College
  • Sept 22-23, 2016 – Daytona State College
  • Mar 31-April 1, 2016 – Lake Sumter State College


Need More Information?

As of Fall 2022, the ET Forum has met forty-nine times since 1996 at 24 different colleges around the state. You can find ET Forum presentations and resource files on FLATE’s Wiki, filed by year.