The South Carolina Advanced Technological Education (SC ATE) National Resource Center for Engineering Technology (ET) Education serves as one of the central resources for the two-year colleges for the Engineering Technology Community.  The SC ATE National Resource Center's activities focus on developing and implementing best practices.  Attention is also given to the development and distribution of exemplary materials for recruiting and retaining ATE students until they graduate.

EVALUATION PROCESS

The evaluation process focuses on promoting and assessing the Center's goals and objectives.  The center's supervisors work cooperatively with external and internal evaluators, its National Visiting Committee and other participants to evaluate the Center's progress.  Each objective such as providing staff development, adaptation and dissemination of materials, student achievement and their success rate and industry involvement and satisfaction are evaluated on a regular basis using a variety of methods.  Some of these methods of collecting data include survey instruments, evaluation forms, interviews, interview scales and observation.