Increasing Technician Preparedness in the Built Environment

加强技术人员在建筑环境中的准备

• 批准号: 1600455
• 负责人: Charles Setterfield
• 金额: $ 70.59万
• 依托单位: Sinclair Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-06-01 至 2021-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1600455&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Increasing; Technician; Preparedness; Built; Environment

This project from Sinclair Community College has a focus on providing community college students, including under represented populations, an opportunity to master STEM competencies and industry standards in demand by employers, and to increase graduate employability in a variety of "built environment" jobs. With architecture technician occupations changing rapidly due to the growing complexity of today's construction industry, this project will transform associate degree programs by embedding critical STEM and industry standards from the Construction Document Technologist (CDT) certificate into two-year education programs. The CDT credential was chosen because it is recognized by employers as a respected entry-level credential and addresses significant gaps in undergraduate education.With a strong involvement from industry, workforce development will be enabled by involving forty college faculty nationwide to develop and disseminate new curricular modules for undergraduate students enrolled in architectural technician and construction management associate degree programs. The project will enable professional development of community college faculty and staff. Not only will over nineteen hundred community college students be impacted by this project, but project outcomes will also be disseminated to other institutions with educational programs in the built environment. The targeted focus on diversifying their student populations is a strength of the project, as is the direct value to students and graduate job-seekers who will be better able to certify their knowledge and skills to employers. The long-term outcome will be a more diversified workforce that better meets the needs of built environment professions.

辛克莱社区学院的这个项目重点是为社区学院的学生（包括代表性不足的人群）提供掌握雇主所需的 STEM 能力和行业标准的机会，并提高毕业生在各种“建筑环境”工作中的就业能力。 由于当今建筑行业日益复杂，建筑技术人员的职业正在迅速变化，该项目将通过将建筑文件技术专家 (CDT) 证书中的关键 STEM 和行业标准嵌入到两年制教育课程中来转变副学士学位课程。选择 CDT 证书是因为它被雇主视为受人尊敬的入门级证书，并解决了本科教育中的重大差距。在行业的大力参与下，全国 40 名大学教师将参与开发和传播新课程，从而促进劳动力发展建筑技术员和施工管理副学士学位课程本科生的模块。 该项目将促进社区学院教职员工的专业发展。 不仅超过 1900 名社区学院的学生会受到该项目的影响，而且项目成果也将传播到在建筑环境中开展教育项目的其他机构。有针对性地关注学生群体的多元化是该项目的优势，这对学生和毕业生求职者来说也是直接价值，他们将能够更好地向雇主证明自己的知识和技能。长期结果将是劳动力更加多元化，更好地满足建筑环境专业的需求。