Machine Tool Advanced Skills Technology Educational Resources (MASTER) Program

机床高级技能技术教育资源（硕士）计划

• 批准号: 9553716
• 负责人: Wallace Pelton
• 金额: $ 155万
• 依托单位: Texas State Technical College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-09-01 至 1999-01-26
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9553716&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Machine; Tool; Advanced; Skills; Technology

This proposal solicits funding to support a multi-state effort to develop curricula and laboratory materials for student learning in advanced skills technologies for fifteen occupational areas supporting the American machining and machine tool industries. The Machine Tool Advanced Skills Technology Educational Resources (MASTER) Program will design, develop, test and disseminate new curricula materials for AS/AAS degree options in machining and metals related technologies. Since these occupational areas generally require some form of apprenticeship or internship, these educational materials will also be designed and prescribed for use with industry partners. The problems addressed by this project are: (1) the use of outdated curricula materials by schools and colleges; (2) fewer students entering programs of study in these career fields that are highly important to the nation's economy in aerospace, metals, and manufacturing; (3) the rapid evolution of new multi-task machine tools that have reached beyond the capabilities of many existing technicians; and (4) the lack of rigorous college level programs that are needed to prepare a target audience of knowledge based workers in advanced problem solving skills. Four key goals will be addressed by the MASTER Program: (1) to provide more technical graduates that are multi-skilled in new machining tools and support related technologies; (2) to upgrade curricula and laboratories in these technical fields which are critical to the success of our nation; (3) to offer college-level training to existing industry employees to become multi-skilled with new and highly advanced equipment; (4) to establish realistic opportunities for college and industrial partners to validate competency requirements, prepare a national model for apprenticeship/internship with prescribed laboratory work experiences; and (5) to disseminate the new curricula and educational materials nationally. This collaborative effort brings together six of the nation's leading two-year colleges, geographically dispersed, in areas of high demand, with identified public school and industry partners. Significant national outcomes can be the survival of many critical industries and technical jobs.

该提案要求提供资金，以支持多个州的努力，开发课程和实验室材料，为学生学习先进的技能技术，为15个职业领域，支持美国加工和机床行业。 机床高级技能技术教育资源（MASTER）计划将设计，开发，测试和传播加工和金属相关技术的AS/AAS学位选项的新课程材料。 由于这些职业领域通常需要某种形式的学徒或实习，这些教育材料也将被设计和规定与行业合作伙伴一起使用。 该项目所解决的问题是：（1）学校和大学使用过时的课程材料;（2）进入这些对国家经济非常重要的职业领域（航空航天、金属和制造业）学习的学生人数较少;（3）新的多任务机床的快速发展已经超出了许多现有技术人员的能力;以及（4）缺乏严格的大学水平的课程，这些课程需要为知识型员工的目标受众提供先进的解决问题的技能。 MASTER计划将涉及四个关键目标： (1)提供更多的技术毕业生，他们在新的机械加工工具和支持相关技术方面具有多种技能;（2）更新这些技术领域的课程和实验室，这对我们国家的成功至关重要;（3）为现有的工业雇员提供大学水平的培训，使他们能够掌握新的和高度先进的设备;（4）为大学和工业合作伙伴提供切实可行的机会，以验证能力要求，制定具有规定的实验室工作经验的学徒/实习国家模式;（5）在全国范围内传播新的课程和教材。 这项合作努力汇集了六所全国领先的两年制学院，地理上分散，在高需求领域，与确定的公立学校和行业合作伙伴。 重要的国家成果可能是许多关键行业和技术工作的生存。