Educating Entrepreneurial Technicians for Unmanned Aerial Systems

培养无人机系统创业技术人员

• 批准号: 1902003
• 负责人: Andrew Shepherd
• 金额: $ 54.62万
• 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: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-10-01 至 2022-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1902003&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Educating; Entrepreneurial; Technicians; Unmanned; Aerial

The Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) industry continues to grow at a rapid rate, creating new jobs and economic opportunities. As a result, there is a strong demand for technicians with knowledge about the technology, operation, and rules of UAS, as well as effective communication skills, business know-how, and the skills to safely and effectively apply the technologies for commercial purposes. Widespread commercial UAS activities in the United States have already increased workforce demands, not just in UAS companies but also across a broad range of industries that use UAS. Offering ways for students to obtain the skill sets to work in existing companies, develop their own businesses, or create their own inventions with UAS technologies is becoming increasingly important. To help address this need, Sinclair Community College and their industry partners will develop an education program that prepares the entrepreneurial technicians needed in the UAS field. In this way, the project will seek to enhance the number of well-qualified UAS technicians, thus supporting the continued growth and integration of UAS solutions for the nation's industries.The goal of this project is to educate a new type of entrepreneurial technician who is equipped with the technical and other skills required for success in the dynamic, quickly evolving UAS industry. The project partners will develop a competency-based curriculum that results in a one-year UAS Entrepreneurship Certificate. This curriculum will include new courses that focus on entrepreneurial principles and modified existing courses that focus on UAS applications and technologies. Enhancements will include hands-on and interactive project-based learning experiences through which students can master UAS knowledge and skills. An innovative aspect of the curriculum will be a UAS entrepreneurship kick-starter competition. This venture capital style competition will engage students in applying course content to create new ideas or new connections to available intellectual property. The competition will cultivate students' entrepreneurship abilities by providing them with access to mentoring from technical and business experts, as well as access to cutting-edge UAS technologies. The project team will also develop course modules on UAS technologies and entrepreneurial applications for high school teachers and students. These materials will be used in outreach and professional development activities with high schools to promote career interest in this technology field. Project materials and results will be widely shared and disseminated on websites of partnering organizations, in publications, through webinars, and presentations at regional and national venues. This project is funded by the Advanced Technological Education program that focuses on the education of technicians for the advanced-technology fields that drive the nation's economy.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.

无人驾驶系统（UAS）行业继续以迅速增长，创造了新的就业机会和经济机会。结果，人们对拥有UAS技术，运营和规则的技术人员以及有效的沟通技巧，业务知识以及安全有效地将技术应用于商业用途的技术的技能。美国广泛的商业UAS活动已经增加了劳动力需求，不仅在UAS公司，而且在使用UAS的广泛行业中。为学生提供获得在现有公司工作，开发自己的业务或使用UAS技术创建自己的发明的技能的方法变得越来越重要。为了帮助满足这一需求，辛克莱社区学院及其行业合作伙伴将制定一项教育计划，为UAS领域所需的企业家技术人员做好准备。通过这种方式，该项目将寻求增强合格的UAS技术人员的数量，从而支持UAS解决该国行业的UAS解决方案的持续增长和整合。该项目的目的是教育一种新型的企业家技术人员，这些技术人员具有在动态，快速发展的UAS行业中成功所需的技术和其他技能。项目合作伙伴将开发基于能力的课程，从而颁发一年的UAS企业家证书。该课程将包括专注于企业家原则的新课程，并修改了专注于UAS应用程序和技术的现有课程。增强功能将包括动手和基于项目的学习经验，学生可以通过这些学习经验来掌握UAS知识和技能。 课程的创新方面将是UAS企业家踢球运动员。这种风险投资风格的竞争将吸引学生应用课程内容，以创建新的想法或与可用知识产权的新联系。竞争将通过为学生提供技术和商业专家的指导以及获得最先进的UAS技术的指导，从而培养学生的创业能力。该项目团队还将为高中教师和学生开发有关UAS技术和企业家应用程序的课程模块。这些材料将用于与高中的外展和专业发展活动，以促进该技术领域的职业兴趣。项目材料和结果将在合作组织，出版物，网络研讨会以及区域和国家场所的演讲中广泛共享和传播。该项目由先进的技术教育计划资助，该计划的重点是推动国家经济的高级技术领域的技术人员的教育。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的智力优点和更广泛影响的审查标准通过评估来通过评估来支持的。