Foundation of Technical Careers

技术职业基础

• 批准号: 0402581
• 负责人: Anthony Ucci
• 金额: $ 60万
• 依托单位: Bristol Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-07-01 至 2008-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0402581&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Foundation; Technical; Careers

The Department of Engineering and Technology at Bristol Community College and ten high schools in the region are collaborating with business, industry, and governmental agencies to identify, recruit, and prepare technicians for the new economy. Summer Institutes in Technology are offered for high school and college faculty. The themes are project-based, and workshops include discussion of teaching and learning styles and national and state standards; field trips to industry and speakers are incorporated. Themes include underwater robotics, nanotechnology, and MATEC Factory Wise modules for HAS-200 Highly Automated System. Foundations in Technical Careers is a certificate program including: Introduction to Engineering and Technology, Computer Tools for Engineers, Computer Aided Drafting, Technical Communication Skills, and Technical Applications of Mathematics. Three courses are new, designed to address curious but undecided students. Assessments, course content, and personal advisement will help to direct students toward appropriate fields of study and a technical career. Courses are tuition-free, except for fees and texts of approximately $500, a significant incentive for BCC's low-income students. Other implementation activities include a strong outreach and recruitment plan, the improvement of technology labs for project-based learning and discovery, convocations to support professional development, workshops, and a website. Intellectual Merit: The program design and the content of the institutes and the certificate program address the regional educational needs at the secondary and postsecondary level. The activities include plans for meaningful assessment of participants' progress, appropriate pedagogy and content for nontraditional students, and enhancement of labs for project-based learning. Broader Impacts: A significant aspect of this project is the aim to close the skills gap in technical fields by creating a pathway between secondary and postsecondary levels. Efforts are grounded in a strong collaborative organization that brings all the players together to implement the project. Every aspect of the project is outcomes-oriented and designed to have a broad impact, including cultivating public awareness of engineering disciplines and their relationship to society and supporting career opportunities for a large region that is undergoing economic redevelopment.

布里斯托尔社区学院的工程技术系和该地区的十所高中正在与商业、工业和政府机构合作，为新经济寻找、招聘和培养技术人员。暑期技术学院为高中和大学教师提供。主题以项目为基础，研讨会包括对教学方式和国家和州标准的讨论；对行业和演讲者的实地考察也包括在内。主题包括水下机器人，纳米技术和MATEC工厂智能模块的哈斯-200高度自动化系统。技术职业基础是一个证书课程，包括：工程技术概论、工程师计算机工具、计算机辅助制图、技术沟通技巧和数学技术应用。新开设了三门课程，专门针对好奇但犹豫不决的学生。评估、课程内容和个人建议将有助于引导学生走向合适的学习领域和技术职业。课程是免学费的，除了大约500美元的费用和文本，这对BCC的低收入学生来说是一个很大的激励。其他实施活动包括强有力的外联和招聘计划、改进基于项目的学习和发现的技术实验室、召集支持专业发展的会议、研讨会和网站。智力优势：课程设计和内容的研究所和证书课程解决在中学和高等教育水平的区域教育需求。这些活动包括对参与者的进步进行有意义的评估的计划，为非传统学生提供适当的教学方法和内容，以及为基于项目的学习加强实验室。更广泛的影响：该项目的一个重要方面是通过在中学和高等教育水平之间建立一条途径，缩小技术领域的技能差距。努力建立在一个强大的协作组织中，该组织将所有参与者聚集在一起实现项目。项目的每个方面都以结果为导向，旨在产生广泛的影响，包括培养公众对工程学科及其与社会的关系的认识，并为正在经历经济重建的大地区提供就业机会。