Scaling Up Utah's Automated Manufacturing Technician Pipeline

扩大犹他州的自动化制造技术人员管道

• 批准号: 1801154
• 负责人: Mason Lefler
• 金额: $ 22.5万
• 依托单位: Bridgerland Applied Technology College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-05-01 至 2022-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1801154&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Scaling; Up; Utah; Automated; Manufacturing

Utah is experiencing a critical shortage of skilled technicians in advanced manufacturing due, in part, to the abundance of large and small industries which continue to automate their facilitates statewide. Furthermore, there are a limited number of advanced manufacturing programs which are able to adequately educate and prepare future technicians for the workforce. In addition to creating an innovative pipeline of high school students into advanced manufacturing to support the economy, this project will provide a refined prepackaged curriculum and programmatic resources that could be easily shared anywhere across the state or nation. The project will serve as a model on how applied technical colleges and secondary schools can collaborate through learning management systems to simultaneously prepare participants with high paying jobs and/or a pathway to college. A professional development model will also be developed and implemented to best serve high school and college faculty as they adapt the advanced manufacturing program at their own institutions. It is anticipated that the expected outcomes and findings will offer the educational community an insight as to how to build blended learning environments comprised of learning management systems with high levels of hands-on training.This project will make a significant impact on the capacity and quality of advanced manufacturing technicians statewide by directly impacting high school and college students, Bridgerland Technical College, the Utah System of Technical Colleges, and our industry partners. The benefits to students will be: (1) improved curriculum, (2) higher retention rates, (3) access to a pathway into a career into automated manufacturing and robotics, and (4) strong connections to local industry leaders. The benefits to the College will be: (1) improved curriculum, (2) new branding of recruitment strategies, (3) enhanced tracking/retention, (4) advanced leadership development in project management/grant writing, and (5) a pathway for the College to become a regional training leader in automated manufacturing. The benefits to the Utah System of Technical Colleges will be: (1) a pilot of curriculum development and collaboration across technical colleges, and (2) a mechanism of how to share and scale best practices across the State of Utah. The benefits to industry partners will be: (1) growing number of students pursuing careers in automated manufacturing, and (2) a curriculum more reflective of industry needs.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

犹他州正在经历先进制造业熟练技术人员的严重短缺，部分原因是大量大大小小的工业继续在全州范围内实现设施自动化。此外，能够为未来的劳动力技术人员提供充分教育和准备的先进制造项目数量有限。除了创建高中生进入先进制造业以支持经济的创新渠道外，该项目还将提供精致的预包装课程和项目资源，可以在全州或全国任何地方轻松共享。该项目将成为应用技术学院和中学如何通过学习管理系统进行合作的典范，同时为参与者做好高薪工作和/或进入大学的途径做好准备。还将开发和实施专业发展模式，以便在高中和大学教师在自己的机构中适应先进制造计划时，为他们提供最好的服务。预计预期成果和调查结果将为教育界提供如何构建由学习管理系统和高水平实践培训组成的混合学习环境的见解。该项目将对能力和质量产生重大影响通过直接影响高中生和大学生、布里杰兰技术学院、犹他州技术学院系统以及我们的行业合作伙伴，在全州范围内培养先进制造技术人员。对学生的好处将是：(1) 改进的课程，(2) 更高的保留率，(3) 进入自动化制造和机器人领域的职业道路，以及 (4) 与当地行业领导者的紧密联系。学院的好处将是：（1）改进课程，（2）招聘策略的新品牌，（3）增强跟踪/保留，（4）项目管理/拨款写作中的高级领导力发展，以及（5）途径使学院成为自动化制造领域的区域培训领导者。犹他州技术学院系统的好处将是：（1）跨技术学院的课程开发和协作试点，以及（2）如何在整个犹他州共享和推广最佳实践的机制。对行业合作伙伴的好处将是：(1) 越来越多的学生追求自动化制造职业，以及 (2) 课程更能反映行业需求。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。