Marine Technology Education Center

海洋先进技术教育（MATE）中心，总部设在蒙特雷半岛学院在蒙特雷，加州，是一个全国性的网络社区学院，高中，大学，研究机构，海洋产业和工作的专业人士。MATE中心的使命是改善海洋技术教育，并以这种方式帮助美国未来的海洋相关职业的劳动力。MATE中心继续其使命，现在作为一个ATE资助的资源中心。作为海洋技术教育的资源中心，MATE中心：（1）支持有兴趣开发或改进海洋技术项目的机构;（2）开发新课程，特别是在海洋地理信息系统，潜水技术，海洋地理空间数据收集等领域（水文测量）和职业意识;（3）为高中、学院和大学教育工作者提供以海洋技术为重点的教师发展机构（包括潜水技术、海洋数据收集和分析、海洋职业意识和地理信息系统的海洋应用）;（4）开展区域和国家一级的培训，（遥控飞行器）竞赛，以增加学生的学习经验，并建立学术和雇主伙伴关系;（5）加强和扩大国家MATE实习计划，为来自全国各地的学生提供岸上和海上技术经验;（6）传播MATE产品，包括课程、教科书、职业指南、能力和过程指南（实习手册、调查材料等），无论是在传统的格式和电子通过该中心的网站;（7）增加海洋劳动力的多样性。MATE中心寻求成为全国领先的组织，支持，加强和扩大海洋技术教育在社区学院，高中和大学。海洋经济规模庞大，种类繁多，占我国国民经济的20%，支持我国六分之一的就业机会。海洋技术对国家安全、运输和商业、能源和勘探活动、电信、娱乐和旅游、渔业和水产养殖、搜索和回收、环境评估和监管以及研究至关重要。虽然这些经济部门各不相同，但它们背后的技术有许多相似之处。其中包括收集和使用来自遥控飞行器和声学仪器的数据;使用地理信息系统等先进的计算系统组织和管理数据;以及使用电子和微电子技术在偏远、恶劣的环境中提供动力、进行控制和实现小型化。对能够设计、建造、操作和维护这项技术的高素质技术专业人员的需求从未如此之大。需要作出协调一致的努力，以确保我们的劳动力为目前日益依赖海洋活动和使这些活动可行的技术的经济做好准备。MATE中心准备领导这一努力。

The Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center, headquartered at Monterey Peninsula College in Monterey, California, is a national network of community colleges, high schools, universities, research institutions, marine industries, and working professionals. The mission of the MATE Center is to improve marine technical education and in this way help to prepare America's future workforce for ocean-related occupations. The MATE Center continues its mission now as an ATE-funded Resource Center. As a Resource Center for marine technology education, the MATE Center is:(1) Supporting institutions interested in developing or improving marine technology programs;(2) Developing new curricula, particularly in the areas of marine GIS, submersible technology, the collection of marine geospatial data (hydrographic surveying), and career awareness;(3) Offering faculty development institutes for high school, college, and university educators that focus on marine technology (including submersible technology, ocean data collection and analysis, marine career awareness, and the marine applications of GIS);(4) Conducting regional and national ROV (remotely operated vehicle) competitions to increase students' learning experiences and build academic and employer partnerships;(5) Enhancing and expanding the National MATE Internship Program that provides students from across the country with shore-based and at-sea technical experiences; (6) Disseminating MATE products, including curricula, textbooks, occupational guidelines, competencies, and process guides (internship manuals, survey materials, etc.), both in traditional formats and electronically though the Center's website; and(7) Increasing diversity in the marine workforce.The MATE Center seeks to be the nation's leading organization for supporting, enhancing, and expanding marine technology education at community colleges, high schools, and universities. The ocean economy is large and diverse, accounting for twenty percent of our national economy and supporting one in six jobs in this country. Marine technology is vital to national security, transportation and commerce, energy and exploration activities, telecommunications, recreation and tourism, fisheries and aquaculture, search and recovery, environmental assessment and regulation, and research. Although these economic sectors are diverse, the technology behind them has many similarities. These include the collection and use of data from remotely operated vehicles and acoustic instruments; the use of advanced computing systems, such as GIS, for organizing and managing data; and the use of electronics and microelectronics for power, controls, and miniaturization in a remote, harsh environment. The need for highly qualified technical professionals who can design, build, operate, and maintain this technology has never been greater. A concerted effort is required to ensure that our workforce is prepared for an economy currently and increasingly dependent on ocean activities and the technologies that make these activities feasible. The MATE Center is prepared to lead this effort.