Establishing Veteran Career Training for Advanced Manufacturing Careers

为先进制造职业建立退伍军人职业培训

• 批准号: 2055582
• 负责人: Timothy Cordova
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Kentucky Community & Technical College System
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-05-01 至 2024-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2055582&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Establishing; Veteran; Career; Training; Advanced

The Elizabethtown-Fort Knox, Kentucky region has a robust advanced manufacturing industry that is increasingly using automation and robotics. This industry now has more than 400 annual openings for Manufacturing Engineers, and it takes an average of 40 days to fill these positions with a qualified candidate. This project intends to increase the pool of qualified candidates for these and related positions. To do so, Elizabethtown Community and Technical College will partner with the U.S. Army Garrison - Fort Knox to provide educational opportunities in Advanced Manufacturing to soldiers transitioning to civilian life. These opportunities will include the high-demand areas of Automation, Robotics, Industrial Maintenance, and Electrical Technology. The college will use flexible course options to meet the needs of transitioning soldiers so that they can use their post-service time to obtain industry-recognized, stackable credentials, including academic certificates and associate degrees. The result is expected to be a new career pathway that will expand advanced manufacturing education to more students. In addition, by redesigning their Advanced Manufacturing courses to closely align with the skills needed in high-demand industries in the region, the project can benefit soldiers reentering civilian life.This project at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College will focus on serving transitioning military personnel and will gain a better understanding of veteran culture and the necessary services needed to promote student success. Student services will be combined with portable, relevant, affordable education in high-demand areas in Advanced Manufacturing. The college intends to shorten the time to a credential through flexible course options that include online, hybrid, and face to face instruction, combined with increased acceptance of experiential credit from military transcripts. The goal of the project is that at least 90% of the students in each cohort will be placed in industry or retained for graduation with an Associate degree. The academic and service model developed by the project will be shared among the 16 colleges in the Kentucky Community and Technical College System. The program will also disseminate their model and findings nationally, to assist other colleges that want to serve growing veteran populations that would benefit from similar academic and career support. 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.

肯塔基州伊丽莎白敦-诺克斯堡地区拥有强大的先进制造业，并且越来越多地使用自动化和机器人技术。 该行业目前每年有 400 多个制造工程师职位空缺，平均需要 40 天才能找到合格的候选人来填补这些职位。该项目旨在增加这些职位及相关职位的合格候选人库。 为此，伊丽莎白敦社区和技术学院将与诺克斯堡的美国陆军驻军合作，为过渡到平民生活的士兵提供先进制造的教育机会。 这些机会将包括自动化、机器人、工业维护和电气技术等高需求领域。 该学院将使用灵活的课程选择来满足转业士兵的需求，以便他们可以利用退役后的时间获得行业认可的、可叠加的证书，包括学术证书和副学士学位。 预计结果将是一条新的职业道路，将先进制造教育扩展到更多学生。 此外，通过重新设计先进制造课程，使其与该地区高需求行业所需的技能紧密结合，该项目可以使重新进入平民生活的士兵受益。伊丽莎白敦社区和技术学院的该项目将重点服务于过渡军事人员和将更好地了解退伍军人文化以及促进学生成功所需的必要服务。 学生服务将与先进制造高需求领域的便携式、相关且负担得起的教育相结合。 该学院打算通过灵活的课程选择（包括在线、混合和面对面教学）以及更多地接受军事成绩单中的经验学分来缩短获得证书的时间。 该项目的目标是每个队列中至少 90% 的学生将被安置在工业界或保留毕业并获得副学士学位。 该项目开发的学术和服务模式将在肯塔基州社区和技术学院系统的 16 所学院之间共享。 该计划还将在全国范围内传播他们的模型和研究结果，以帮助其他希望为不断增长的退伍军人群体提供服务的大学，这些退伍军人群体将受益于类似的学术和职业支持。 该项目由先进技术教育计划资助，该计划重点关注推动国家经济发展的先进技术领域的技术人员教育。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和技术进行评估，被认为值得支持。更广泛的影响审查标准。