Convergence Technology Center

融合技术中心

• 批准号: 0903239
• 负责人: Ann Beheler
• 金额: $ 155.68万
• 依托单位: Collin County Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0903239&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Convergence; Technology; Center

With the advice and recommendations of its Business Advisory Council, the Convergence Technology Center determined the knowledge and skills required by technicians who work with systems that combine voice, video, data, and images over one secure network. The Center forecasted the hiring needs of regional and local industry and created awareness of the career opportunities and developed curriculum to educate over 400 faculty and 2000 students. The Center began to mentor other community colleges developing convergence technology programs. The Center now extends its work to reach 18 other community colleges. The new activities include recruiting and retaining especially Hispanic students presently underrepresented in the technology workforce. The curriculum and professional development is expanded to include Green information technology especially as it relates to decreasing the energy consumption of technology. The evaluation conducted by an external evaluator investigates the effectiveness of the curriculum, including hybrid courses, the impact of the professional development, the increase in the minority students in the program, and the changes in the mentored colleges.

根据其业务咨询理事会的建议和意见，融合技术中心确定了在一个安全网络上使用联合收割机组合语音、视频、数据和图像的系统的技术人员所需的知识和技能。 该中心预测了区域和当地行业的招聘需求，并创造了对职业机会的认识，并开发了课程，以教育400多名教师和2000名学生。 该中心开始指导其他社区学院开发融合技术项目。 该中心现在将其工作扩展到其他18所社区学院。 新的活动包括招聘和留住目前在技术劳动力中代表性不足的西班牙裔学生。 课程和专业发展扩大到包括绿色信息技术，特别是因为它涉及到减少技术的能源消耗。 由外部评估员进行的评估调查了课程的有效性，包括混合课程，专业发展的影响，少数民族学生在该计划中的增加，以及指导学院的变化。