Preparing Students for Technical Careers in Autonomous Technologies for Commercial Trucks and Off-Highway Vehicles

为学生从事商用卡车和非公路车辆自主技术领域的技术职业做好准备

• 批准号: 2054997
• 负责人: Carl Borleis
• 金额: $ 46.63万
• 依托单位: Dakota County Technical College
• 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: 2021-04-15 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2054997&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Preparing; Students; Technical; Careers; Autonomous

To increase safety and reduce costs, autonomous technologies are rapidly growing in commercial trucking fleets and off-highway vehicles. Autonomous technologies require a variety of devices, including radar, lidar, video camera systems, communication systems, and differential global positioning systems. Truck service technicians need to be trained to troubleshoot, diagnose, repair, and calibrate these devices and vehicle control systems. However, technician training programs have not kept pace with the new technologies or the increasing demand for technicians with these skills. To address these needs, this project will offer training workshops for instructors in diesel and truck technician training programs. These workshops will help instructors enhance their training programs to include the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed for maintaining autonomous technologies in vehicles. The project is led by the Minnesota State Transportation Center of Excellence, a consortium of public post-secondary colleges with transportation programs. The project will provide consortium members with shared access to vehicles with autonomous technologies. These vehicles will be used for the new training programs, as well as outreach. This project intends to prepare students for technical careers in a growing field that requires new skills and understanding of autonomous technologies for vehicles.The Minnesota State Transportation Center of Excellence serves as a resource hub for autonomous technologies in transportation, providing curriculum resources and subject matter experts for secondary and post-secondary educators. The goal of this project is to advance the knowledge of autonomous technologies in truck service technician programs and, thus, address the growing need for qualified, knowledgeable technicians with the ability to maintain and repair these technologies. To do so, the project will: (1) develop awareness of career opportunities and advances in autonomous technologies for secondary students, transitional workers, and veterans; (2) enhance existing technician programs through professional development for educators and curriculum development; and (3) support the technician training community with shared resources that will include a set of vehicles equipped with the latest autonomous technologies. Using faculty and student surveys, focus groups, and interviews, the project will assess the impact of career awareness activities on students, the impact of the professional development workshops on faculty, and the impact of the new training equipment on students and faculty. The project outcomes will be disseminated through national conferences and professional transportation-related associations. Educational resources developed during this project will be made available to the public through the center’s website. 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.

为了提高安全性并降低成本，自动驾驶技术在商用卡车车队和非公路车辆中迅速发展，自动驾驶技术需要各种设备，包括雷达、激光雷达、摄像机系统、通信系统和差分全球定位系统。技术人员需要接受培训来排除、诊断、维修和校准这些设备和车辆控制系统，但是，技术人员培训计划未能跟上新技术或对具有这些技能的技术人员不断增长的需求。项目将提供培训研讨会这些研讨会将帮助讲师增强他们的培训计划，包括维护车辆自动驾驶技术所需的知识、技能和能力。该项目由明尼苏达州卓越运输中心领导。该项目将向联盟成员提供具有自动驾驶技术的车辆的共享通道，这些车辆将用于新的培训项目以及外展活动。不断发展的领域的职业需要新的技能和明尼苏达州交通卓越中心是交通领域自主技术的资源中心，为中学和高等教育工作者提供课程资源和主题专家。该项目的目标是增进知识。卡车服务技术人员计划中的自主技术，从而满足对有能力维护和维修这些技术的合格、知识渊博的技术人员日益增长的需求，为此，该项目将：（1）提高对职业机会和进步的认识。面向中学生、过渡工人和退伍军人的自主技术； (2) 通过教育工作者的专业发展和课程开发来加强现有的技术人员计划；(3) 通过共享资源支持技术人员培训社区，其中包括一套配备最新自主技术的车辆，利用教师和学生调查、焦点小组。和访谈，该项目将评估职业意识活动对学生的影响、专业发展研讨会对教师的影响以及新培训设备对学生和教师的影响。项目成果将通过全国会议和会议传播。该项目期间开发的专业交通相关协会。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，并被视为值得通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。