Planning for Regional Center for Automotive Technology

这个规划项目汇集了亚拉巴马两年制大学的教育和劳动力发展工作，以解决汽车制造业技术工人的教育问题。目标受众是行业和合作院校和K-12的教师和学生。 规划补助金的主要目标和相关目标是：设计一个基础设施，有效协调联盟的合作机构;将联盟机构与行业合作伙伴联系起来，促进理解和合作，以达到学术和行业标准;发展联盟，并在工业和教育之间建立必要的沟通渠道，从而建立ATE区域该项目通过探索汽车制造技术课程的发展，包括证书和学位课程，加强了亚拉巴马在劳动力培训和经济发展方面的努力。 在一个计划中的区域中心，教师，通过他们与行业的互动，将成为更有知识和技术技能。 学生将有机会亲身体验工业，从而提高他们的智力，同时也了解汽车行业及其制造工艺的复杂性。 这些后果将是由于更强大的技术核心和国家两年制学院提供的更好的中小企业教育的结果。更广泛的影响该联盟正在开发和实施广泛影响个别学院，学生和教师，以及整个社区的活动。 在计划中的区域中心，汽车技术教育的水平将提高到高于普通维修/机械课程的水平。 对于学生来说，该中心的课程将激励他们取得更高的成就，使他们更高的技能，更高的报酬，这反过来又会提供更好的生活标准和质量。 该中心还将为更多的少数群体提供更大的激励措施。 该中心的方案将根据最新的行业标准和设备提供更好的教学，并与行业代表进行个人接触。

This planning project pulls together the educational and workforce development efforts of two-year colleges in Alabama to address the education of technical workers in the automobile manufacturing industry. Target audiences are industry and the faculty and students of the partner colleges and K-12. The major goals of the planning grant and accompanying objectives are: To design an infrastructure that will effectively coordinate the partnering institutions of the Consortium; To link Consortium institutions with industry partners to promote understanding and cooperation to meet both academic and industry standards; To develop alliances and establish the necessary communication flow between industry and education that will lead to the establishment of an ATE Regional Center.Intellectual Merit The project enhances Alabama's efforts in workforce training and economic development by exploring the development of an automotive manufacturing technology curriculum, to include both certificate and degree programs. In a planned Regional Center, faculty, through their interaction with industry, would become more knowledgeable and technically skilled. Students would have opportunities for hands-on experience with industry and, therefore, improve their intellectual capacity, while also comprehending the intricacies of the automotive industry and its manufacturing processes. These consequences would occur as the result of a stronger technology core and improved SMET education being offered in the State's two-year colleges. Broader Impacts The Consortium is developing and implementing activities that broadly impact the individual colleges, students and faculty, and the community as a whole. In a planned regional center, the level of automotive technical education would be raised to a level higher than that of the ordinary repair/mechanic programs. For students, the programs in the Center would motivate them to higher levels of achievement, making them more highly skilled, more highly paid, which in turn would provide a better standard and quality of life. The Center would also provide greater incentives for a larger number of minorities. The Center's programs would provide for improved teaching according to the latest industry standards and equipment, as well as personal contacts with industry representatives.