Adapting and Improving Mathematics, Science and Technological Education in High Performance Manufacturing

托马斯纳尔逊社区学院（TNCC）及其在弗吉尼亚州半岛劳动力发展中心的教育和私营工业合作伙伴正在建立一个制造卓越联盟（MEC）。该项目的三个目标是：1）调整和实施辛克莱社区学院的数学原理，科学原理，制造设计，制造工艺和材料，制造系统和自动化的ATE资助的模块集群; 2）加强和扩大TNCC现有的合作教育计划，培训教师在合作社发展，准备教师合作社监督的作用，采用与旧自治领大学目前使用的数据库兼容的劳动力交换数据库，并为教师工业实习提供释放时间; 3）装备一个模仿辛克莱先进制造中心的实验室。TNCC正在将其结果传播给弗吉尼亚社区学院系统中的另外两个制造业卓越联盟，以便最终传播给州和地区合作伙伴。

Thomas Nelson Community College (TNCC) and its educational and private industrial partners in the Virginia Peninsula Workforce Development Center are establishing a Manufacturing Excellence Consortium (MEC). The project's three goals are to: 1) adapt and implement Sinclair Community College's ATE-funded module clusters in Principles of Mathematics, Principles of Science, Design for Manufacturing, Manufacturing Processes and Materials, and Manufacturing Systems and Automation; 2) strengthen and expand TNCC's existing cooperative education program by training faculty in co-op development, preparing faculty for co-op supervisory roles, adopting a labor exchange database compatible with that currently in use by Old Dominion University, and providing release time for faculty industrial internships; and 3) equip a laboratory modeled after Sinclair's Advanced Manufacturing Center. TNCC is disseminating its results to the two other Manufacturing Excellence Consortia in the Virginia Community College System for eventual dissemination to state and regional partners.