|Home | About Us | Products | Services | CITE | Programs | NSF Grants | Partners |         The National Workforce Center for Emerging Technologies (NWCET) is an NSF Advanced Technology Education Center in Information Technology located at Bellevue College, in Bellevue, Washington. Read more...       What's New at NWCET   2009 Working Connections Faculty Development Institute       The Working Connections IT Faculty Development Institute (WC Institute) will be holding its 11th annual Working Connections Institute August 25-28, 2009 (Tuesday through Friday), at Bellevue College. Tracks have been selected based upon the survey results. Registration Fee Announcement (Important!) The registration fee per participant is $450. Based upon the economy dramatically affecting some faculty’s ability to secure professional development and travel funds, there will be a temporary reduction of the registration for the 2009 year only. The registration fee does not cover lodging. A special rate will be negotiated with a local hotel for your convenience. For registrations the fee is due within 30 days of registration. Please make checks payable to: Bellevue College, 3000 Landerholm Circle SE, N211 Bellevue, Washington 98007 Tracks for 2009 Camtasia, Snagit, & Jing: Create Rich Media Content Windows 7 SharePoint: Employers Demand This Virtually, Virtualization: Leveraging Virtualization to Teach Windows Networking If you need to make special payment arrangements, because funding is available after the turn of the fiscal year, June 30, please make that note in the "comment section" of the registration. Contact Maureen Majury at 425.564.4229 or by email with further questions, or comments. We look forward to seeing all of you this summer! Register Here.           CITE Awarded Grant to Create IT and Cyber Security Curriculum "Revitalizing IT Education"   The Center of Excellence for IT was awarded a grant to create IT and Cyber Security Curriculum by our State's Center for Excellence for Homeland Security. We would like to thank Mike Campbell, Director for the Center of Homeland Security, for the award. We would like to thank Michele Royer, NWCET, and Linda Rumans, BC IT & CS Faculty for creating the curriculum modules and PowerPoint presentations. These documents have been provided for educators interested in teaching their students about Business Intelligence and Cyber Security: Business Intelligence Case Studies Business Intelligence Project Business Intelligence Cybersecurity Cybersecurity Case Studies Cybersecurity Jobs Cybersecurity Project Focus on Business Intelligence                     Recent Events     The Annual IT Futures Education Summit: Friday, May 29th at Microsoft     "Redefining IT/CS/BT Programs for 21st Century Industry & Students"           The 2009 Washington State IT Futures Education Summit happened Friday, May 29th, 2009, at the Microsoft Corporate Conference Center. Technical and workforce development instructors across our state discovered new and innovative ways to improve IT education. This one-day free event featured several industry and education speakers in various disciplines of IT that shared the impacts, challenges, growth and demands of technology. This year's panel presentation and question/answer session explored: "Keeping WA State IT & CS CTC Programs Current and Relevant to Meet Changing Industry Needs". Panelists included CTC faculty and administrators who have experienced first-hand reviewing, refreshing, redefining and creating IT/CS/BT programs on their campuses. read more...     NWCET now offers consulting services to help Community Colleges improve their IT programs and make them more responsive to market needs! Click here for details!           page last updated July 31, 2009     Contact our web manager for broken links or navigation problems. NWCET is a division of Bellevue College, and is partially funded by National Science Foundation grants.