The Education/Career Development Committee (ECDC) is a Bartlesville, Oklahoma area entity established in 1989 to foster and promote interest in engineering and science. The committee serves as a conduit through which educational information and resources can be passed to the local schools and community. The ECDC was incorporated as a "not for profit" organization in the State of Oklahoma in 1993.
The group is a funding mechanism for grants to attend science education conferences for area teachers. Over the decades, it also served as a funding mechanism for an Energy Days program for area fifth graders, science instruction workshops for Bartlesville area teachers, and educational programs such as sending a vo-tech student robotics team to a national competition. It also helped recruit volunteers as coaches and judges for science fairs, helped link area schools to sources of donated materials, and promoted the education programs of its professional societies such as: Engineering Week, the Oklahoma Microscopy Society's "Ugly Bug" contest, National Chemistry Week, various Explorer Posts, the SAE's "A World in Motion", and Phillips Petroleum Company's Green Country Science Teachers Workshop.
The ECDC has been chaired for many years by Granger Meador, who chaired the science department at Bartlesville Public Schools until 2017, and the long-time treasurer is Gary Layman, a retired BPSD science teacher and science fair sponsor. The primary financial support for the ECDC are annual grants from Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips.