Creating Plastics Technology Career Pathways in Rural Michigan

在密歇根州农村地区创造塑料技术职业道路

• 批准号: 1204908
• 负责人: Lenard Govitz
• 金额: $ 71.73万
• 依托单位: Mid-Michigan Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-07-01 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1204908&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Creating; Plastics; Technology; Career; Pathways

Creating Plastics Technology Career Pathways in Rural Michigan is advancing plastics technology and plastics workforce development throughout Michigan. The project is linking Mid Michigan Community College with community and industry leaders, the Clare-Gladwin Regional Educational Service District and Ferris State University to ensure that students are progressing incrementally toward academic credentials and sustainable employment in the local plastics industry. The project's strategies are addressing gaps in current education and training programs by: 1) formalizing an industrial alliance to provide curriculum assistance, career awareness, and workforce experience; 2) developing a non-credit training credential, an academic certificate, and an associates degree with seamless transferability into a bachelors degree in plastics engineering technology, and 3) recruiting and retaining students into a laddered program that provides an array of hands-on and work experience options as well as the integration of entrepreneurial instruction into the curriculum. This innovative approach is addressing issues surrounding the state's manufacturing industries: overt competition among companies for qualified employees, an aging workforce, a shortage of applicants and incumbents with necessary skills, and a pervasive stigma about manufacturing careers. This project is serving as a model to other rural industries, demonstrating that progress can be made through collaborative, proactive strategies. The project is also enhancing the capacity of educational systems at all levels, comprehensively approaching workforce needs, broadening participation by under-represented women, and building entrepreneurs who are reinvigorating the region's economy.

在密歇根州农村建立塑料技术职业途径正在促进整个密歇根州的塑料技术和塑料劳动力发展。该项目将密歇根州中部社区学院与社区和行业领导者，克莱尔 - 格拉德温区域教育服务区和摩天摩托大学大学联系起来，以确保学生在当地塑料行业的学术证书和可持续就业方面逐步发展。 该项目的策略正在解决当前教育和培训计划中的差距：1）正式化工业联盟以提供课程援助，职业意识和劳动力经验； 2）开发非学术培训证书，学术证书和授权学位，将无缝转移能力纳入塑料工程技术的学士学位，3）3）将学生招募和留住学生进入一个阶梯的课程，该计划提供了一系列的动手和工作经验和工作经验的选择，以及将伦敦力学指导集成到餐饮指导中。这种创新的方法是解决围绕该州制造业的问题：合格员工的公司之间的公开竞争，老龄化员工，缺乏必要技能的申请人和现任者，以及对制造业职业的普遍污名。该项目是对其他农村行业的模型，表明可以通过协作，积极主动的策略取得进展。 该项目还在提高各级教育体系的能力，全面满足劳动力需求，扩大代表性不足的妇女的参与，并建立正在振兴该地区经济的企业家。