Advanced Technology Environmental Education Center (ATEEC)

先进技术环境教育中心（ATEEC）的愿景是创建一个全国性的社区学院网络，通过公共和私人合作伙伴关系提供支持，准备和维护环境技术劳动力，以满足行业需求，并促进中学生向高等教育的转移。 通过ATEEC国家研讨会，环境技术已被定义为“一个职业领域，利用科学，工程，通信和经济学的原则，以保护和提高安全，健康和自然资源。“环境技术领域包括一系列专业，即，污染预防、水和废水处理、能源和保护以及许多其他方面。 环境技术课程的跨学科性质包括数学，科学，社会学，政治学，技术，经济学等。 这个领域是一个很好的机制，以达到所有的学生，特别是那些谁可能会感到威胁的数学或科学的研究。 所有学生都必须接受核心指导，使他们在为环境技术职业做准备时能够胜任数学，科学和技术技能。 ATEEC旨在满足建立强大的环境技术教育基础设施的需求，帮助国家社区学院开发高质量的环境技术教育项目。 为了实现这一目标，该中心的使命，其中包括三个目标，是通过课程开发，专业发展，并在全国的社区学院和中学的方案改进，以推进环境技术教育。 为了建立环境技术教育基础设施，ATEEC利用了其合作伙伴的优势，危险材料培训和研究所（HMTRI），环境技术教育伙伴关系（PETE）和北方爱荷华州大学（U NI）环境和能源教育中心。 迄今为止，已成功完成了40多项活动，证实ATEEC作为国家协调中心，领导环境技术教育计划的发展和改进。 将使ATEEC持续到2000年的活动的基础是国家访问委员会、ATEEC伙伴和中心主任的规划努力。 这些活动满足了教育、商业和工业代表提出的需求。 战略规划的团队方法确保了合作伙伴的购买和责任，以提供ATEEC已建立全国声誉的高质量计划和服务。 ATEEC在向2000年迈进的过程中继续其最初的使命。 ATEEC作为一个“国家”中心，继续加强必要的基础设施，以支持和补充中学，社区学院和四年制学院的环境技术教育。 ATEEC使这些机构能够合作建立高质量的环境技术项目，这些项目包括一个明确的知识基础，强调强大的数学，科学和技术技能。 ATEEC是一个真正意义上的孵化器，它可以创建新的程序并不断改进现有程序。

The vision of the Advanced Technology Environmental Education center (ATEEC) is to create a national network of community colleges, supported through public and private partnerships, that prepares and maintains an environmental technology workforce to address industry's needs and to promote the transfer of secondary students to higher education. Through an ATEEC National workshop, environmental technology has been defined as "a career field that utilizes the principles of science, engineering, communication, and economics to protect and enhance safety, health, and natural resources." The environmental technology field encompasses an array of professions, i.e., pollution prevention, water and wastewater treatment, energy and conservation, and many others. The interdisciplinary nature of environmental technology programs includes math, science, sociology, political science, technology, economics, and more. This field is an excellent mechanism to reach ALL students and particularly those who may feel threatened by the study of math or science. It is imperative that ALL students receive core instruction enabling them to become competent in math, science, and technical skills as they prepare for environmental technology careers. ATEEC was designed to address the need to build a strong environmental technology education infrastructure which assists the nation's community colleges in the development of quality environmental technology education programs. To achieve this, the Center's mission which incorporates three goals, is to advance environmental technology education through curriculum development, professional development, and program improvement in the nation's community colleges and secondary schools. To build the environmental technology education infrastructure, ATEEC has utilized the strengths of its partners, the Hazardous Materials Training and Research Institute (HMTRI), the Partnership for Environmental Technology Education (PETE), and the University of Northern Iowa's (U NI) Center for Environmental and Energy Education. To date, more than 40 activities have been completed successfully which substantiate ATEEC as a national focal point to lead efforts in environmental technology education program development and improvement. The foundation for the activities which will carry ATEEC through 2000 is based upon the planning efforts of the National Visiting Committee, ATEEC partners, and the Center's director. The activities address needs articulated by education, business and industry representatives. The team-approach to strategic planning ensures partner buy-in and responsibility for delivery of high quality programs and services for which ATEEC has established a national reputation. ATEEC is continuing its original mission as it progresses toward 2000. Firmly established as a "national" Center, ATEEC continues to strengthen the necessary infrastructure to support and complement environmental technology education in secondary schools, community colleges and four-year colleges. ATEEC enables these institutions to cooperatively build quality environmental technology programs which embrace a defined knowledge base emphasizing strong math, science, and technology skills. ATEEC is an incubator in the truest sense which enables the creation of new programs and the continuous improvement of existing programs.