The Faculty Associates in Science and Technology Leadership Corps Project for Enhancing Environmental Technology Education

环境技术教育伙伴关系(PETE)是一个全国性的非营利性公私合作伙伴关系，旨在将联邦实验室、联邦和州机构、私营行业和专业协会的资源与社区和技术学院联系起来。其主要目标是协助大约460所参与院校制定高质量的环境技术人员教育方案，并将学生转到四年制院校。教师发展一直是PETE计划的一个关键因素，现在仍然是。皮特是NSF/ATE计划资助的高级技术环境教育中心(ATEEC)的合作伙伴。这项提议与ATEEC的方案目标密切相关。该项目将在PETE内部建立一个科学与技术学院助理(FAST)计划。根据这一倡议，每年将有多达60名社区和技术学院教师被安排在私营行业、国家实验室、国防部设施、补救地点和监管组织进行为期4至8周的暑期实习。该项目确定了该计划的四个阶段，包括向环境技术教师提供真实世界的经验，这转化为改进的社区大学课程，以及发展一个由经验丰富的专业教育工作者组成的全国性网络(快速领导力团队)，作为向其他社区和技术学院教师提供环境项目的资源。PETE为项目成果的全国性影响提供了组织框架。FAST项目是基于在西部皮特地区开发的教师实习计划的四年经验。

The Faculty Associates in Science and Technology Leadership Corps Project for Enhancing Environmental Technology Education The Partnership for Environmental Technology Education (PETE) is a national non-profit public-private partnership designed to link the resources of federal laboratories, federal and state agencies, private industry and professional societies with community and technical colleges. The primary goal is to assist approximately 460 participating colleges in developing quality programs for the education of environmental technicians and transfer students to four-year institutions. Faculty development has been and remains a key element of the PETE program. PETE is a partner in the NSF/ATE Program-funded Advanced Technology Environmental Education Center (ATEEC). This proposal is closely linked with ATEEC's programmatic objectives. This project is establishing within PETE a Faculty Associates in Science and Technology (FAST) program. Under this initiative, up to 60 community and technical college faculty are being placed annually in 4 to 8 week summer internships in private industry, national laboratories, DoD facilities, remediation sites and regulatory organizations. Four phases of this program are defined in the project, including providing environmental technology faculty with real world experiences which translates into improved community college curricula and the development of a nationwide network of experienced professional educators (FAST Leadership Corps) to serve as a resource to other community and technical college faculty delivering environmental programs. PETE provides the organizational framework for a national impact of program results. The FAST Project is based upon four years experience with the faculty internship program developed in the Western PETE region.