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CCAT offers a wide range of services to educators and educational instutions, particularly throughout the state of Connecticut. These efforts span two main areas: Improving the quality of math and science education in grades K-12, and boosting the skills sets of the current workforce particularly in the areas of advanced manufacturing and other technology-related disciplines. The core focus of CCAT's services for educators comprise the following:
 The Connecticut Quality Council (CQC), which is part of CCAT's Manufacturing and Supply Chain Initiative (MSCI), offers a wide range of programs and services aimed at helping organizations in all sectors to improve their quality level, productivity and efficiency. Workshops are developed to provide comprehensive and practical knowledge aimed at successful culture change for the benefit of customers, companies, and employees. Public workshops offer diversity of participant perspective and experiences. CQC also provides private workshops and facilitated hands-on sessions at customer sites or at CCAT’s facility in East Hartford. Conducting a program within an organizational setting allows a company to experience customized content with company-specific exercises. CQC instructors are highly experienced practitioners, and educators who have the ability to custom design and copyrighted their own material. Instructor backgrounds range from professional engineers, certified quality engineers, certified quality auditors, to Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award examiners and Ph.Ds
To contact CCAT about this service, please click here. CCAT's Education Initiative can plan and host events for home school organizations, informal and formal science education entities, colleges and universities and others. To contact CCAT about this service, please click here. CCAT’s Education Initiative develops curriculum for programs that enhance student engagement and achievement in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) content areas. CCAT's curriculum modules focus on advanced technology disciplines and emphasize skills such as problem-solving, collaboration and innovation. Recognition of our expertise by formal and informal organizations -- including the CT State Dept. of Education -- has positioned CCAT as a leader in STEM curriculum development. For more information on STEM curriculum development, contact Susan Palisano.
CCAT's Manufacturing and Supply Chain Initiative also works on curriculum development at the community college level. For more information on these programs, contact Bob Torrani.CCAT's Education Initiative spearheads a number of efforts to develop strategic partnerships aimed at offering programs to improve education and workforce development in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). To contact CCAT about this service, please click here. CCAT's Education Initiative has earned a reputation for developing and providing high-quality, innovative professional development programs for K-12 educators. CCAT’s professional development programs such as the NASA-PLAN Teachers Academy and the new Department of Higher Education Teacher Quality Partnership, equip teachers with the tools needed to generate student interest in emerging science and high technology fields, and increase participation and achievement in STEMM content areas. To contact CCAT about this service, please click here. CCAT Education Initiative staff develop and conduct short workshops designed to expose teachers to advanced STEM content and career opportunities, inquiry-based design and instruction, student assessment and instructional technologies such as Web 2.0, virtual communities and online collaboration. To contact CCAT about this service, please click here. CCAT works to foster collaboration between industry, academia and government to find the best way of training the future workforce in advanced technology. This includes the Manufacturing Consortium, which works to ensure that the workforce entering the manufacturing field possesses the skills the industry demands. To contact CCAT about this service, please click here. CCAT's Education Initiative offers a suite of online learning and collaboration tools through CATAPULT, our web-based education portal. CATAPULT delivers resource libraries, a live chat-enabled workspace (CREW), discussion forums, online surveys, four-way videoconferencing, and web pages that can be customized to fit your program’s educational needs. CCAT’s Collaboration Center features full videoconferencing and audioconferencing, wireless Internet, interactive whiteboard, copyboard, audio system, and DVD player for a truly advanced educational experience.
To contact CCAT about this service, please click here. The Connecticut Quality Council (CQC), which is part of CCAT's Manufacturing and Supply Chain Initiative (MSCI), offers a wide range of programs and services aimed at helping organizations in all sectors to improve their quality level, productivity and efficiency. Workshops are developed to provide comprehensive and practical knowledge aimed at successful culture change for the benefit of customers, companies, and employees. Public workshops offer diversity of participant perspective and experiences. CQC also provides private workshops and facilitated hands-on sessions at customer sites or at CCAT’s facility in East Hartford. Conducting a program within an organizational setting allows a company to experience customized content with company-specific exercises. CQC instructors are highly experienced practitioners, and educators who have the ability to custom design and copyrighted their own material. Instructor backgrounds range from professional engineers, certified quality engineers, certified quality auditors, to Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award examiners and Ph.Ds
To contact CCAT about this service, please click here. CCAT's Education Initiative spearheads efforts to develop partnerships focused on improving STEM education and enhancing workforce development. We facilitate linkages between industry, K-12 education, informal science organizations and higher education partners that create opportunities for students and teachers to leverage resources that support classroom learning. To contact CCAT about this service, please click here. CCAT’s Education Initiative develops and facilitates short workshops for both formal and informal educational settings designed to expose students to and increase their interest in career opportunities available in high technology. These workshops can be delivered onsite or at CCAT’s facilities, either during the school day, after school, on Saturdays or during the summer. To contact CCAT about this service, please click here. CCAT’s Education Initiative coordinates educational tours through and presentations about CCAT's Laser Applications Laboratory and Modeling and Simulation Theater to generate interest in advanced manufacturing and engineering careers. The LAL conducts laser materials process development and assists in implementation in the areas of drilling, welding, additive manufacturing (cladding), marketing, cutting, machining, coating removal, surface modification, and localized heat treatment. The M&S Theater utilizes computer-based software technology to show process improvements to factory floor layout, the feasibility of a manufacturing cell, or the implementation of lean concepts in the manufacturing processes in 3-D. M&S also has a 3-D virtual reality capabilities. To contact CCAT about this service, please click here. CCAT's Collaboration Center, which is available for use by outside organizations, includes capabilities for video conferencing, webcasting and other cutting-edge features that foster collaboration. To contact CCAT about this service, please click here. CCAT's Laser Applications Laboratory (LAL) researches and field-tests potential new uses for lasers to solve manufacturing, repair and overhaul problems. The LAL conducts laser materials process development and assists in implementation in the areas of drilling, welding, additive manufacturing (cladding), marketing, cutting, machining, coating removal, surface modification and localized heat treatment. To contact CCAT about this service, please click here. The Modeling & Simulation program operates a stereo three-dimensional theater which can be used for virtual factory modeling and other manufacturing optimization tools. To contact CCAT about this service, please click here. CCAT Laser Applications Laboratory performs a wide range of activities aimed at field testing and training companies in the use of lasers to drill, weld, cut, machine, mark and notch, as well as research into additive manufacturing, design review and process feasibility. To contact CCAT about this service, please click here. CCAT's Modeling & Simulation program researches and field tests applications of software technology for improving manufacturers' efficiencies. This includes a wide range of services aimed at optimizing manufacturers' efficiency, as well as training to help companies tackle efficiencies-related issues. Among the area that optimization services are available: assembly sequence development, computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), electronic work instruction analysis, factory modeling, interactive online NC, virtual NC programming and robotic work cell design and offline programming. To contact CCAT about this service, please click here. CCAT works with a number of partners and organizations that are researching applications of nanotechnology. CCAT can help companies to obtain funding for research, development and commercialization of nanotechnology. This includes CCAT's Manufacturing and Supply Chain Initiative, which facilitates The Applied Nanotechnology Consortium (TANC). For information on TANC, contact Bob Torrani.
CCAT provides a wide range of marketing and communications assistance to client companies. This includes developing brochures, graphics, press releases and performing other public relations efforts to help bolster a client's image and brand. To contact CCAT about this service, please click here. The Connecticut Quality Council (CQC), which is part of CCAT's Manufacturing and Supply Chain Initiative (MSCI), offers a wide range of programs and services aimed at helping organizations in all sectors to improve their quality level, productivity and efficiency. Workshops are developed to provide comprehensive and practical knowledge aimed at successful culture change for the benefit of customers, companies, and employees. Public workshops offer diversity of participant perspective and experiences. CQC also provides private workshops and facilitated hands-on sessions at customer sites or at CCAT’s facility in East Hartford. Conducting a program within an organizational setting allows a company to experience customized content with company-specific exercises. CQC instructors are highly experienced practitioners, and educators who have the ability to custom design and copyrighted their own material. Instructor backgrounds range from professional engineers, certified quality engineers, certified quality auditors, to Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award examiners and Ph.Ds
To contact CCAT about this service, please click here.
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