National Resource Center for Materials Technology Education

材料技术（58）本项目正在创建一个美国材料技术教育国家资源中心。该计划是基于行业对了解材料技术基础知识的合格和训练有素的技术人员的需求。这对于纳米技术和复合材料技术的新发展以及金属、塑料和复合材料制造等更传统的领域尤为重要。该计划建立在先前的材料和制造技术教育项目的基础上，由来自学院，大学，专业协会和行业的经验丰富的团队开发。这个项目的总目标是为材料技术的广泛领域开发一个教材交流中心，因为它适用于制造和工程技术，并为教员提供必要的指导支持，以便在其课程中充分处理材料技术的主题。重点是加强教育的制造和工程技术人员谁处理材料在广泛的结构和电子制造。预期的结果包括增强与行业核心竞争力相一致的课程模块，为学生提供与行业需求相一致的培训，以及如何将这些模块插入制造和工程技术课程的示范课程。我们还期望在高中和社区大学培养一批训练有素的教师，以及越来越多的大学、学校和行业合作，以进一步发展这些成果。专业团体和行业在提供课程和提供指导方面的新角色发展也包括在内。本中心的智力价值是建立在收集和开发课程资源的基础上，为教师提供基本材料原理，包括材料加工，性能和结构之间的相互关系，以加强他们目前的课程。通过指导计划，教师能够更好地满足行业对熟练技术人员的需求，这些技术人员了解加工参数的变化会改变零件的性能。该中心建立在以前的材料技术和材料技术相关项目中收集的广泛课程基础上，作为过去和当前项目的结果，提供了一套广泛的材料技术领域的分类和审查课程。强有力的制度支持为中心项目的可持续性提供了保障。更广泛的影响侧重于制造技术人员当前和未来的需求，因为与他们使用的材料有关。它还包括通过与专业协会的互动，加强工业和学术机构之间的伙伴关系，这些协会为学生和专业教师提供指导、实习和交流机会。该中心的课程项目非常注重解决在技术领域代表性不足的群体的需求。通过专业协会和教育机构广泛传播中心的产品，提高了制造、工程和材料项目的学生入学率，并增加了进入这一关键领域工作的学生人数。

Materials Technology (58) This project is creating an ATE National Resource Center for Materials Technology Education. The program is based on the needs of industry for qualified and trained technicians who understand the basics of materials technology. This is especially important relative to new developments in nanotechnology and composites technologies as well as in more traditional areas of metals, plastics, and composites manufacture. The program builds on prior ATE projects in materials and manufacturing technology education, and has been developed by an experienced team from colleges, universities, professional societies and industry. The overall objective of this project is to develop a clearinghouse of teaching materials for the broad field of materials technology as it applies to manufacturing and engineering technology, and to provide the mentoring support needed for instructors to adequately treat the subject of materials technology in their courses. The focus is on enhanced education for manufacturing and engineering technicians who handle materials in the wide range of structural and electronics manufacturing. The expected outcomes include enhanced curricular modules aligned with industry-based core competencies to provide student training aligned with industry needs, and model programs on how to insert these modules into manufacturing and engineering technology courses. Also expected are a set of well-trained instructors at high school and community college levels, and a growing alliance of colleges, schools, and industry working to further develop these outcomes. The development of new roles for professional societies and industry in delivering courses and providing mentoring is also included. The Intellectual Merit of this Center is based on the collection and development of curricular resources for faculty to enhance their current courses with basic materials principles that involve the interrelationship between materials processing, properties and structure. With the mentoring program, faculty are better able to meet the needs of industry for skilled technicians who understand that changes in processing parameters change performance of a part. The Center build on the wide base of curricula collected in prior ATE and related projects in materials technology as a result of past and current programs, providing a set of categorized and reviewed curricula in the broad area of materials technology. Strong institutional support provides for sustainability of the Center program. The Broader Impacts focuses on the current and future needs of manufacturing technicians as related to the materials they use. It also includes the development of enhanced partnerships between industry and academic institutions through its interactions with professional societies, which provide mentoring, internship and networking opportunities for students and faculty with professionals. The Center's curricular programs have a strong focus on addressing the needs of groups underrepresented in technology. Broad dissemination of the products of the Center through professional societies and educational organizations enhance student enrollment in manufacturing, engineering and materials programs and the numbers of students available to enter the workforce in this critical area.