Board Members
ATETV's advisory board comprises some of the most accomplished
professionals working in Advanced Technological Education (ATE)
today. Their input has been instrumental to all aspects of the
project.
Ashok Agrawal
Dean of Math, Science, Engineering and Technology
Division and Director of the Emerson Center for Engineering and
Manufacturing, St. Louis Community College at Florissant
Valley
Ashok Agrawal has led efforts to establish customized technical
training programs for AT&T, Ameren and Boeing, and to found a
Regional Engineering Academy for St. Louis area schools. In 2006,
Agrawal was appointed by the governor of Missouri to serve on the
state's Math, Engineering, Technology, and Science task force. He
currently serves on the planning team of the St. Louis region's
FIRST Robotics Competition and on the advisory committees of the
St. Louis Science Center and several local school districts. He is
also active internationally, working with two of Georgetown
University's scholarship programs.
Kathleen Alfano
Director - California Regional Consortium for
Engineering Advances in Technological Education
(Create)
Kathleen Alfano , PhD, is the Director and Principal Investigator
of the CREATE Renewable Energy Center, based at the College of the
Canyons in Valencia, California. Dr. Alfano has overseen the
multi-college California Regional Consortium for Engineering
Advances in Technological Education (CREATE), since its development
as an ATE Regional Center in 1996. Dr. Alfano has served as a
Program Director for the National Science Foundation's ATE Program
in Arlington, Virginia and has also held positions as a faculty
member and Dean of Academic Computing and Professional Programs at
the College of the Canyons. She holds BS, MS, and PhD degrees from
the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Nouna Bakhiet
Professor of Biology, School of Mathematics, Science and
Engineering, Southwestern College
Nouna Bakhiet has been a professor at Southwestern College since
1998. Currently she is the director of Southwestern's Biotechnology
Program and the coordinator of the Bridges to the Future Transfer
Program, funded by the National Institutes of Health. Bakhiet is
also the principal investigator on the National Science
Foundation's Advanced Technological Education, Biotechnology
Education and Training Sequence Investment Project.
Terry Brase
Principal Investigator, AgrowKnowledge; Associate
Professor of Geospatial Technology, Kirkwood Community
College
Terry Brase has been teaching courses on using GPS and related
technologies in agriculture since 1993. He serves as principal
investigator of AgrowKnowledge, The National Resource Center for
Agriscience and Technology Education, which provides resources in
agricultural technology to colleges across the United States. He
has also written a textbook titled Precision Agriculture,
published by Delmar/Thomsen Learning.
Darryl Collins
Student Empowerment Academy, Los Angeles, Calif.,
Unified School District
Darryl Collins has been a department chair and lead teacher for
many years at Thomas Jefferson High School, where he was
instrumental in developing the Student Empowerment Academy. Collins
has facilitated tremendous strides in introducing underrepresented
students to science-based careers. He has collaborated on several
state and local grants with Los Angeles Trade Technical College and
is a member of several grant committees.
Elaine Craft
Director, South Carolina ATE Center of Excellence (SC
ATE), Florence-Darlington Technical College
Elaine Craft has served as director of the SC ATE Center of
Excellence since 1994. She is a co-principal investigator for the
SC ATE National Resource Center for Expanding Excellence in
Technician Education. Craft is also founder and president of SCATE
Inc., a not-for-profit corporation created in 2005 to promote
systemic change in ATE.
Jerry Duncan
Department Chair of Process Technology, College of the
Mainland
Jerry Duncan is the former director of the National Science
Foundation Center for the Advancement of Process Technology (CAPT).
He draws on his 27 years in industry and 8 years teaching to create
textbooks and online courses on process technology. At the College
of the Mainland, he administers one of the largest Process
Technology programs in the country.
Ellen Hause
Program Director for Academic, Student and Community
Development,
American Association of Community Colleges (AACC)
Ellen Hause is currently the co-principal investigator on AACC's
ATE grant from the National Science Foundation. She has managed
nine national ATE conferences and has edited and coordinated
several ATE publications. Hause also serves as the project director
for AACC's MentorLinks program, which offers mentoring and
technical assistance to community colleges seeking to develop or
strengthen programs in science, technology, engineering and
mathematics.
Diane Auer Jones
VP for External and Regulatory Affairs, Career Education
Corporation
Diane was one of the first community college professors to ever
receive a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, which was
through the Young Scholars Program in the late 1980's. Subsequent
to that, she was awarded grants through the NSF College Curriculum
and Improvement Program and ATE before serving as a program officer
at the NSF. After 13 years of direct involvement in science and
math education, Diane then shifted to a career in science and
education policy, working as a professional staffer and acting
staff director for the Research Subcommittee of the U.S. House of
Representatives Committee on Science, as the deputy to the
associate director for science at the White House Office of Science
and Technology Policy and as the assistant secretary for
postsecondary education at the U.S. Department of Education.
Michael Lesiecki, PhD
Executive Director - Maricopa Advanced Technology
Education Center (MATEC)
Michael Lesiecki is the Principal Investigator of MATEC Networks
National Resource Center. Working closely with the Center's host,
Maricopa Community Colleges, Lesiecki develops programs focused on
student learning in the areas of semiconductor, automated
manufacturing and electronics education. Prior to joining MATEC,
Lesiecki was a research professor at the University of Utah and
associate professor at the University of Puerto Rico, and is the
author of 27 peer-review journal articles. He has also held
positions as a senior scientist at Exxon Research and Engineering
and Director of the Bioscience Division at Candela Laser
Corporation. Lesiecki received his PhD in physical chemistry from
Oregon State University.
Renee Madyun
Associate Professor of Chemical Technology, Los Angeles
Trade Technical College
Working with the American Chemical Society, Renee Madyun has been
instrumental in developing alliances between education and industry
throughout California. Her extensive experience in the lab and the
classroom has helped her win several grants for curriculum and
instructional development. She also serves as the director of the
Process Plant Technology program at LATTC. She was recently awarded
the Los Angeles Excellence in Engineering Award for her outstanding
dedication to career technical education.
Maureen Majury
Senior Program Manager, National Workforce Center for
Emerging Technologies (NWCET), Bellevue Community
College
Maureen Majury has worked at Bellevue Community College since
1992, where she is acting director for the Center of Excellence for
Information and Computing Technology. She also manages Washington
state's annual Working Connections IT Institute and is active with
its Center for Information Technology Excellence, organizing its IT
Futures Summit and publishing its quarterly newsletter.
Peter Saflund
Managing Principal, The Saflund Institute
(TSI)
Peter Saflund is a recognized leader in defining emerging
technologies and shaping technology education in support of
technology workforce development. Saflund was a former associate
director at the National Workforce Center for Emerging
Technologies, where he helped codify the Information and
Communications Technology Skill Standards. He co-authored a major
congressionally commissioned report by National Academies of
Science on Information Technology workforce issues and national
policy. Today Saflund operates his own practice, evaluating NSF ATE
projects and centers and researching technology workforce needs and
trends for educators and industry.
Gordon Snyder
Executive Director and Principal Investigator, National
Information and Communications Technologies Center (ICT Center),
Springfield Technical Community College
At STCC Gordon Snyder has helped develop programs in conjunction
with leading IT companies, including Microsoft, EMC, Cisco, Verizon
and Comcast. He is the author of four textbooks and has over 14
years of communications consulting experience. In 2001, he was
selected one of the top 15 technology faculty in the United States
by Microsoft and the American Association of Community Colleges. In
2004 he was named the Massachusetts Telecommunications Council
Workforce Development Leader of the Year.
Lane Warner
High School Teacher Jefferson County Colo., School
District
Lane Warner developed a process technology program that is being
used in high schools across Colorado and in one school in Texas. A
high school teacher and part-time college instructor, he is one of
about a dozen gas and oil instructors in the country certified by
the Center for the Advancement of Process Technology (CAPT). In
2006 he became the first high school teacher to be named CAPT
National Educator the Year.