PFI: PIIT: Partners for Innovation in Information Technology

PFI：PIIT：信息技术创新合作伙伴

• 批准号: 0917840
• 负责人: Thomas Cheatham
• 金额: $ 60万
• 依托单位: Middle Tennessee State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-15 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0917840&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PFI; PIIT; Partners; Innovation; Information

This Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) project is a Type III (A: C) partnership between Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), an NSF PFI graduate (0227754), and two institutions new to the PFI Program (defined as ones that have never been PFI grantees): Alabama A&M University and Nashville State Community College (NSCC). The Bureau of Labor Statistics projected the total number of IT job openings in the U.S. to be 1.6 million between 2006 and 2016. Only half of that number will be filled due to decreased enrollment and low retention rates in IT related majors, and this shortfall situation is mirrored in Tennessee. Currently, the estimated demand for IT professionals in the Nashville area is as high as 1,200 per month. However, the universities in middle Tennessee are graduating a maximum of 380 graduates per year with an IT related baccalaureate degree. In order to address the need to increase the numbers of qualified IT professionals in the region, the project seeks to develop a national recruitment and retention model for IT workforce development by building an infrastructure to bring together all the stakeholders in the pipeline--academic (a PhD granting university, a community college, an HBCU in a nearby county in Alabama, and public high schools in both Tennessee and Alabama) and local business (through IT business associations) in the Tennessee and Alabama region. What is proposed to address both the recruitment and retention of IT students at the college level is a set of interrelated set of activities (including student summer camp topics such as Alice animation, robotics, and multimedia design) intended to motivate, challenge, and intrigue as well as to provide learning experiences which make the students? studies more relevant and their resumes more competitive.The direct involvement of local IT business and academic institutions with high school students/teachers/parents will have a positive impact on the number of IT majors and IT graduates. The database of real-world problems and projects and resulting case studies will be widely distributed providing examples for other IT educators to use. The model created by Partners for Innovation in Information Technology (PIIT) will result in a greater number of better trained IT professionals helping address the national IT workforce crisis.Partners at the inception of the project are Academic Institutions: Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) (lead institution) , Alabama A&M University, Nashville State Technical Community College (NSTCC), Rutherford County Schools (TN), Davidson County Schools (TN); and Madison County Schools (AL); Private Sector (Corporate) Organizations: Mind2Marketplace (AL and TN); and Governmental Organizations: Tennessee State Government.

这个创新合作伙伴关系（PFI）项目是中田纳西州立大学（MTSU），NSF PFI毕业生（0227754）和两个新的PFI计划机构（定义为从未被PFI授予者）之间的III型（A：C）合作伙伴关系：亚拉巴马A M大学和纳什维尔州立社区学院（NSCC）。 美国劳工统计局（Bureau of Labor Statistics）预计，2006年至2016年间，美国IT职位空缺总数将达到160万个。由于IT相关专业的入学率下降和保留率低，只有一半的人数将被填补，这种短缺情况反映在田纳西州。目前，纳什维尔地区对IT专业人员的需求估计每月高达1,200人。然而，田纳西州中部的大学每年最多有380名毕业生获得IT相关学士学位。为了满足增加该地区合格信息技术专业人员数量的需要，该项目力求通过建立一个基础设施，将管道中的所有利益攸关方-学术界-聚集在一起，（一所授予博士学位的大学，一所社区学院，亚拉巴马附近一个县的HBCU，以及田纳西州和亚拉巴马州的公立高中）和田纳西州和亚拉巴马地区的当地企业（通过IT企业协会）。什么是建议，以解决这两个招聘和保留IT学生在大学一级是一套相互关联的一套活动（包括学生夏令营的主题，如爱丽丝动画，机器人和多媒体设计），旨在激励，挑战和阴谋，以及提供学习经验，使学生？本地资讯科技企业及学术机构与高中学生/教师/家长直接接触，对资讯科技专业及毕业生的人数，会有正面的影响。真实世界的问题和项目以及由此产生的案例研究的数据库将被广泛分发，为其他信息技术教育工作者提供使用的例子。由信息技术创新合作伙伴（PIIT）创建的模式将导致更多训练有素的IT专业人员帮助解决国家IT劳动力危机。该项目开始时的合作伙伴是学术机构：中田纳西州立大学（MTSU）（牵头机构），亚拉巴马A& M大学，纳什维尔州立技术社区学院（NSTCC），卢瑟福县学校（TN），戴维森县学校（TN）;和麦迪逊县学校（AL）;私营部门（企业）组织：Mind 2 Marketplace（AL和TN）;和政府组织：田纳西州政府。