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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#A50021'>FREE Post-Conference Workshop<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:blue'>The Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:red'>2011 ASEE-GSW Annual Conference</span></b><span style='color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:red'>Innovating Engineering and</span></b><span style='color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:red'>Engineering Technology Education</span></b><span style='color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>Dear ASEE-GSW Annual Conference Participants:<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>The Robert E. Noyce program was established by Congress and is administered through the National Science Foundation with a stated mission of: "The Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, seeks to encourage talented science, technology, engineering and mathematics majors and professionals to become K-12 mathematics and science teachers." The budget for the Noyce program has grown exponentially in recent years; in 2009 with stimulus funding, the success rate for Noyce was ~75%.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>We are offering a ½ day workshop that informs engineering faculty and administrators about working with the K-12 system and about how to successfully prepare a proposal for the Noyce program. We are offering information that will improve your professional understanding of the Noyce program and upon completion of our workshop you will be able to write competitive grant applications to future cycles of Noyce funding.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This workshop is funded through a grant from the NSF Noyce program and will be led by a former NSF program officer, and engineering faculty who have extensive experience in working with K-12 educators.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If you plan to attend this post-conference workshop on Friday March 11, 2010 from 1-5PM, please send a direct email to me at <a href="mailto:Fattarzadeh@uh.edu">Fattarzadeh@uh.edu</a>. <i>Please reply to me by Thursday December 9, 2010<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>To access the conference website go here:<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='color:blue'><a href="http://www.uh.edu/aseegsw2011/">http://www.uh.edu/aseegsw2011/</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>We look forward to seeing you in Houston!<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><i>Conference Organizing Committee<o:p></o:p></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:teal'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>