Planning Grant for Tampa Bay Regional Center for Manufacturing

这是一份为坦帕湾地区制造业中心准备规划拨款的提案。该中心涉及现有中心的教材开发、改编和实施，以及教育工作者的专业发展。希尔斯伯勒社区学院（HCC）的一个新的制造项目，圣彼得堡学院（SPC）的一个新兴制造技术项目，以及南佛罗里达大学（USF）的一个活跃的以行业为重点的工程学院，为创建这个区域中心奠定了坚实的学术基础。此外，制造业公司也认识到迫切需要重新调整该地区的制造业教育。因此，规划补助金的时间和资金将用于进行工作和技能分析，DACUM，以及对全州范围内的努力结果进行微调，以确保这些学校和该地区制造公司之间的最大耦合。规划补助金资金也将用于塑造拟议中心的活动。除了为专注于制造问题的学术和工业合作伙伴提供所需的协同作用外，该中心还将在HCC的制造技术理学副学士学位和B.S.工程学位（制造业重点）在USF工程学院工业工程系提供。此外，ATE中心将成为SPC和HCC制造技术项目的一个更大的坦帕海湾地区保护伞。该中心将支持所有地区高中和社区学院，这些学校在制造业或相关技术领域开设了课程或项目，这些课程或项目应该得到振兴。

This is a proposal to prepare a planning grant for Tampa Bay regional center for manufacturing. This Center involves educational material development, adaptation and implementation from existing centers, and professional development for educators. A new manufacturing program at Hillsborough Community College (HCC), an emerging manufacturing technology program at St Petersburg College (SPC), and an active industry focused Engineering College at the University of South Florida (USF) form a strong academic foundation for the creation of this regional center. Furthermore, the manufacturing companies also recognize the urgent need to refocus manufacturing education in the region. Hence, the planning grant time and funds are going to be directed to conducting job and skill analysis, DACUMs, and fine tuning of results of the state-wide effort that are currently underway to assure maximum coupling among these schools and the manufacturing companies in the region.Planning grant funds are also going to be used to shape the proposed center's activities. Besides providing the needed synergy for academic and industrial partners focused on manufacturing issues, the Center is also going to build a bridge between the Associate of Science Degree at HCC in Manufacturing Technology and the B.S. Engineering degree (manufacturing emphasis) offered at the Industrial Engineering Department within USF's College of Engineering. In addition, the ATE Center is going to serve as a greater Tampa Bayregional umbrella for SPC's and HCC's Manufacturing Technology programs. The center is going to support all the regional high schools and community colleges that have courses or programs in manufacturing or related technology fields that should be revitalized.