Building Tomorrow's Leaders: Bridging workforce development in ERCs to meet demand for a skilled workforce

培养明天的领导者：促进 ERC 的劳动力发展，以满足对熟练劳动力的需求

• 批准号: 1555449
• 负责人: Anthony Boccanfuso
• 金额: $ 9.96万
• 依托单位: University of South Carolina at Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-15 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1555449&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Tomorrow; Leaders; Bridging; workforce

This project is producing an outcomes-oriented workshop, convened by the University-Industry Demonstration Partnership (UIDP), which will address the challenge of meeting the needs for developing a skilled workforce in emerging areas defined by Engineering Research Centers (ERCs). Since its inception, the NSF Engineering Research Centers program has supported numerous centers that perform high quality R&D - which has led to transformative advances that spawn entirely new technological fields. These thrusts require a skilled workforce at a variety of educational levels, however, existing (as well as graduated) ERCs have been challenged to meet the subsequent growth in demand. The workshop is crafted to assess strategies being employed by current NSF ERCs to meet the challenge of training individuals to work in these emerging areas and make recommendations for ways to bolster these efforts.This workshop is bringing together a strategic set of practitioners and thought leaders from diverse fields who possess the required skills and complementary experiences to evaluate current approaches, extract key aspects of successful programs, and propose new strategies/pilots to meet workforce needs. Effective methods to identify and quantify emerging/acute needs for a skilled workforce in ERC technological areas will be compiled and evaluated. Current and proven domestic and international approaches to meet these demands will be reviewed and strategies for non-federal and federal cooperation will be proposed. The results will be disseminated both in a written report and through participation in relevant professional meetings.

该项目正在举办一个以成果为导向的研讨会，由大学-产业示范合作伙伴关系 (UIDP) 召集，该研讨会将解决满足工程研究中心 (ERC) 定义的新兴领域培养熟练劳动力需求的挑战。 自启动以来，NSF 工程研究中心计划已支持众多进行高质量研发的中心，从而带来了变革性的进步，催生了全新的技术领域。这些推动力需要具有不同教育水平的熟练劳动力，然而，现有的（以及已毕业的）ERC 面临着满足后续需求增长的挑战。该研讨会旨在评估当前 NSF ERC 所采用的策略，以应对培训个人在这些新兴领域工作的挑战，并就如何加强这些努力提出建议。该研讨会汇集了来自以下国家的战略实践者和思想领袖：不同领域的人拥有所需的技能和互补的经验来评估当前的方法，提取成功项目的关键方面，并提出新的战略/试点以满足劳动力需求。将编制和评估有效方法来识别和量化 ERC 技术领域熟练劳动力的新兴/紧急需求。将审查当前和行之有效的国内和国际满足这些需求的方法，并将提出非联邦和联邦合作战略。结果将通过书面报告和参加相关专业会议的方式传播。