Faculty Development in Hybrid and Advanced Automotive Technology

混合动力汽车在世界各地迅速普及。对燃料成本和空气质量的担忧正导致混合动力汽车的销售达到前所未有的数量。混合动力汽车销量的增长需要相应地增加经过培训的技术人员来维修这些车辆。通过这个项目，正在开发和提供专业发展讲习班，针对社区大学教师和高中教师谁是汽车维修技术教学。来自美国几家主要汽车制造商的代表参加了研讨会。正在通过各种战略将参与者联系在一起，形成一个实践社区，以交流课程材料、课程想法和可能的设备共享。后续活动旨在帮助确保讲习班的内容在参与机构的学术方案中得到实施。参与者还在创建课程模块，这些模块正在接受审查并存储在在线存储库中。目前正在通过各种措施对该项目的成果进行严格评估。

Hybrid vehicles are quickly gaining popularity around the world. Concerns about fuel costs and air quality are resulting in the sale of hybrid vehicles in unprecedented numbers. The growth in hybrid vehicle sales requires a corresponding increase in the number of technicians who have been trained to service these vehicles. Through this project, professional development workshops are being developed and delivered that are aimed at community college faculty and high school teachers who are teaching in automotive repair technology. Representatives from several major US automakers are participating in the delivery of the workshops. Participants are being linked together through a variety of strategies to form a community of practice for the exchange of curricular materials, course ideas, and the possible sharing of equipment. Follow-up activities are designed to help ensure that content from the workshops is being implemented in the academic programs of the participating institutions. Participants are also creating curriculum modules that are being vetted and stored in an online repository. Results from the project are being rigorously assessed through a variety of measures.