Robotics Corridor Phase II

该项目正在宾夕法尼亚州建立一个基础广泛的合作伙伴关系，为稳步发展的机器人产业培养一支训练有素的劳动力队伍。该项目是：1.在宾夕法尼亚社区学院系统中增加机器人证书课程和机器人工程技术副学士学位课程，并签订衔接协议，以获得旨在支持全州先进制造业和机器人行业的学士学位;2. 为高中和大学教师提供机器人系统的高级技术培训;3.实施“高中大学计划”，让高中生获得电子学、参数实体建模、编程和机器人工程学的大学学分;向表现出入门级工作准备的工人提供机器人技术员证书;5.通过提高高中教师的能力来提高攻读技术教育、工程技术和工程本科学位的学生的质量;评估机器人走廊项目对学生和教师的数学能力的影响，这是当今技术人员的关键技能。海因茨基金会是该项目的主要捐助者，该项目影响了约10名大学教师，300名高中教师，1，000名本科生和6，000名高中生。

This project is forming a broadly-based partnership in Pennsylvania to grow a technically trained workforce for a steadily expanding robotics industry. The project is:1. Adding a Robotics Certificate program and a Robotics Engineering Technology Associate Degree program to the Pennsylvania Community College system with articulation agreements that lead to a baccalaureate degree designed to support advanced manufacturing and robotics industry statewide;2. Providing advanced technical training to high school and college faculty in robotics systems;3. Implementing "college in the high school programs" enabling high school students to receive college credits in electronics, parametric solid modeling, programming, and robotics engineering;4. Offering a Robotics Technician Certificate to workers demonstrating entry level job readiness;5. Improving the quality of students pursuing Technology Education, Engineering Technology, and Engineering undergraduate degrees by improving high school teacher competency; and6. Assessing the impact the Robotics Corridor Project has on growth of students' and teachers' mathematical competency, a skill critical to technicians today.The Heinz Foundation is a major contributor to the project, which is impacting about 10 college faculty, 300 high school teachers, 1,000 undergraduate students, and 6,000 high school students.