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Intern Position For
Educational Coordinator
please respond to
administrator@fpef.org
Applicant
Pre-Requisites:
 | Work experience in an
industry involved with motion control/automation incorporating fluid power |
| Teaching and
administrative experience at the secondary and post-secondary level
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Duties and
Responsibilities:
| Key Schools |
- Monitor existing key schools and their programs
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with key processors to determine how Foundation can better serve them
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Review applications from schools seeking key school status
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Working with key school applicants to assist in curriculum
development
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Scholarships |
- Review all application and recommendations sent to the Foundation
requesting scholarships to determine eligibility
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Determine allocations for each key school
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Confer with key professors about ways to make scholarships more
meaningful to their programs
| Educational
Activities |
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Develop and implement teacher-training workshops
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Respond to all requests for information from schools or industry that
are sent to the coordinator or Foundation headquarters
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Work with middle schools and high schools to get motion control and
automation introduced into their curriculum
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Where possible, serve on advisory committees for schools, which have,
or are considering, courses in motion control or automation
| Help develop meeting
content when teacher / industry networking meetings are planned
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| Develop surveys of
Key schools to gather statistics relating to funding requests student and
school demographics, or any other information the Board may require.
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| Network with high
school and college teachers to spot ideas and opportunities to bring to
other schools. For example the ideas of using LEGO with solenoid valves
was implemented by middle school teachers in Michigan.
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| Develop curricula for
inclusion or modification by any school, such as the downloadable
curriculum on our web site.
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| Liaison activities |
Serve on the education committees for each of
the fluid power associations
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 IFPE
March 11 - 15, 2008 Las Vegas, NV
USA
IFPE 2008 is the leading international
exposition and technical conference devoted to power transmission
and motion control through hydraulic, pneumatic and mechanical and
electrical technologies.
See the IFPE 2008Flash Movie |
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