Improving Technician Training in Industry 4.0 technologies Using Competency-Based Education

利用基于能力的教育改进工业 4.0 技术的技术人员培训

• 批准号: 2200761
• 负责人: Sheri Plain
• 金额: $ 55.63万
• 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: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-05-01 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2200761&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Improving; Technician; Training; Industry; 4.0

Technician education programs that include competency-based education in Industry 4.0 technologies can provide entry points for students into technical careers at advanced manufacturing companies. There is a recognized need for more skilled technicians that can implement and maintain these technologies in manufacturing facilities. This project will develop and pilot a new competency-based educational approach that supports greater access to technician training and improves postsecondary student learning in emerging Industry 4.0 technologies. This should result in a pipeline of highly skilled, next generation manufacturing technicians. This will also address the growing worker shortage in manufacturing, which will help ensure future economic health for Kentucky, as well as the nation. This project will include model practices to recruit and retain students from traditionally underrepresented groups in manufacturing education programs. Competency-based education components will help prepare students for the technician workforce by engaging learners and improving the learning process. The project will increase partnerships between academia, industry, and other stakeholders to ensure that the competency-based education is aligned with the needs of industry.The goal of this project is to develop a competency-based educational approach to help current and future manufacturing technicians learn new skills in Industry 4.0 technologies. Additionally, the project will encourage students from underserved groups to consider manufacturing as a career choice and provide students with personalized support so that they have a successful learning experience and transition to the workforce. The project team will redesign seven existing advanced manufacturing courses that fulfill the academic requirements for six, credit-bearing, industry-recognized certificates and two national certifications. The courses will be restructured to focus on helping students learn content, related skills, and competencies followed by assessments to determine if they have achieved specific learning objectives. These competencies will focus on the technical areas of fluid power, maintaining industrial equipment, circuits, electrical motor controls, industrial robotics and robotics maintenance, and programmable logic controllers. The project will recruit incumbent manufacturing technicians and/or dislocated and underemployed workers as well as students from underserved groups to earn industry credentials. The effectiveness of the competency-based education will be assessed using student and industry survey data. 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.

包括基于能力的工业教育的技术人员教育计划4.0技术可以为学生提供高级制造公司技术职业的入口点。公认的需要更熟练的技术人员，这些技术人员可以在制造设施中实施和维护这些技术。该项目将开发并试行一种新的基于能力的教育方法，该方法支持更大的访问技术人员培训，并改善新兴行业中学生学习4.0技术。这应该导致一条高技能，下一代制造技术人员的管道。这还将解决不断增长的工人在制造业中的短缺，这将有助于确保肯塔基州和国家的未来经济健康。该项目将包括模型实践，以招募和保留传统上代表性不足的群体中的学生。基于能力的教育组成部分将通过吸引学习者并改善学习过程来帮助学生为技术人员的劳动力做好准备。该项目将增加学术界，行业和其他利益相关者之间的合作伙伴关系，以确保基于能力的教育与行业需求保持一致。该项目的目的是开发一种基于能力的教育方法，以帮助当前和未来的制造技术人员学习行业4.0技术的新技能。此外，该项目将鼓励来自服务不足的团体的学生将制造业视为职业选择，并为学生提供个性化的支持，以便他们成功地学习经验并过渡到劳动力队伍。项目团队将重新设计七个现有的高级制造课程，这些课程满足六个，信用，行业认可的证书和两项国家认证的学术要求。这些课程将被重组，专注于帮助学生学习内容，相关技能和能力，然后进行评估，以确定他们是否实现了特定的学习目标。这些能力将集中在流体功率的技术领域，维护工业设备，电路，电机控制，工业机器人技术和机器人技术维护以及可编程逻辑控制器。该项目将招募现任制造技术人员和/或失业者和就业不足的工人以及服务不足的团体的学生来赚取行业证书。基于能力的教育的有效性将使用学生和行业调查数据进行评估。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。