ICDL - Word Processing, Spreadsheets, PowerPoint & Information and Communication

International Computer Driving License (ICDL) is the world’s leading basic computer skills training with over five million candidates enrolled in over 140 countries. The ICDL program is for anyone who is looking to improve their computer skills. It provides the skills necessary for a world where proficient use of information and communication technology is critical. The program focuses on a participant’s knowledge of basic computer skills in three content areas which include: Word 2007, Excel 2007, and PowerPoint 2007. 

Summer Educators' Development Institute (SEDI)

The Summer Educators’ Development Institute (SEDI) is a unique set of professional development opportunities for Southern Virginia educators in all disciplines at all grade levels. SEDI provides participants with practical instruction on how to incorporate technology into their teaching and updates educators on new topics in science, math and research. SEDI is made possible by:Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission.  

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 Tire Research and Test Center Planning Conference -  September 23-24, 2010

The planning conference, held at the University of Akron, brings together key personnel from tire and automotive companies and tier-one suppliers with researchers from Virginia Tech and The University of Akron for the purpose of establishing the Tire Research and Test Center at the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research Campus in Danville VA and at The University of Akron (this is an NSF I/UCRC-Industry/University Cooperative Research Center*).

*This planning conference is funded by the National Science Foundation under the Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRC) program, which encourages cooperative research between academia and industry.

 Workshop - Energy Savings Using Lean Thinking

Besides helping a company to increase customer satisfaction levels, decrease manufacturing cost, and increase profitability levels, lean thinking is also a philosophy that can help your company to drastically decrease energy consumption, affecting not just the manufacturing cost, but also contributing to protect the environment by decreasing the firm’s carbon foot print. There are a variety of efforts by several organizations that have created resources to help industries to save energy by implementing lean projects.

This workshop will review those efforts by introducing the basic concepts of lean thinking, and how those concepts can be translated into practical applications so your firm might start looking at important energy consumption reductions in a short time. Also, the workshop will give information on special information technology platforms that you can use to monitor your energy consumption along with current efforts in the industry in energy savings.

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Workshop - Supply Chain Management (SCM): Trends, Opportunities & Challenges

Supply Chain Management (SCM) has been critical to ensure that manufacturing companies deliver their products at the right time and location. A supply chain of operations can be divided into three sections: suppliers, internal operations, and distribution section. As expected, managing the whole supply chain of operations of any company is a critical task that consumes a great portion of the firm’s resources, therefore only by understanding the internal and external elements that affects the supply chain can a company compete in today’s market place.

This workshop will focus on the basic concepts of SCM as described earlier. We will begin with a review of SCM definitions and what the new trends and challenges are for today’s firms in regards of the supply chain. After this, attendants will have the opportunity to learn about third party logistic partners, SCM technologies, and global transportation issues related to the supply chain. Also, the participants will know what best practices can be used in order to better manage their supply chain through lean thinking. We have arranged a selection of presenters that combine academic and industry expertise with emphasis on practical applications.

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