SpaceTEC National Resource Center for Aerospace Technical Education

SpaceTEC® is one of the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Centers[1] funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for developing partnerships between academic institutions and industry partners to promote improvement in the education of science and engineering technicians at the undergraduate and secondary school levels.

[2] With an emphasis on two-year colleges, the ATE program focuses on the education of technicians for the high-technology fields that drive the world's economies.

Successful candidates can qualify for college credits via transcripts provided by the American Council on Education.

[8] The SpaceTEC® national credentialing program has earned a formal Safety Approval by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Commercial Space Transportation.

[10] The original consortium of industry, academia, and government representatives was known as the Community Colleges for Innovative Technology Transfer, a not-for-profit Florida corporation founded in 1994 to provide technician education for geographic information systems.