The National Center for Welding Education and Training - NSF ATE Center - Request for Continuation

国家焊接教育和培训中心 - NSF ATE 中心 - 继续申请请求

• 批准号: 1104107
• 负责人: Monica Pfarr
• 金额: $ 299.79万
• 依托单位: Lorain County Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-01 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1104107&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: National; Center; Welding; Education; Training

The National Center for Welding Education and Training (Weld-Ed) is a national partnership between the welding and materials joining industry and the nation's community and technical colleges and universities that is dedicated to expanding the role and pipeline of welding technicians in the industry. Weld-Ed brings together the American Welding Society (AWS), industry partners Lockheed Martin and Lincoln Electric, 140 business/industry affiliates, 66 educational affiliates, and ten Regional Center Partners. This project has the following goals: 1) Develop a national welding educators' certificate program; 2) Expand professional development for welding faculty in new technologies including blended learning, virtual simulation, and new and emerging welding processes; 3) Expand and increase the effectiveness of the Center and its Regional Partners Network to address market-driven needs, including regional welding technician specialization, and the use of distance learning applications in sharing curricula between institutions and in delivering coursework; and, 4) Develop and implement a strategy to deliver technical assistance and consulting services to community and technical colleges, universities, K-12 school districts and the welding industry.The Center activities enable other community and technical colleges in the U.S. to partner with their local K-12 school districts, adult education and institutions of higher education to expand welding technician education in their area. Many of those same institutions as well as two-year colleges that are currently offering welding technician education are able to add welding specializations that better meet the needs of their regional welding employers. The project enhances and expands professional development opportunities for welding educators by developing a national welding education certificate program and a master welding educator certificate that can be offered by current and future Weld-Ed partners throughout the U.S.

国家焊接教育和培训中心（Weld-Ed）是焊接和材料连接行业与国家社区和技术学院和大学之间的全国性合作伙伴关系，致力于扩大焊接技术人员在该行业的作用和管道。Weld-Ed汇集了美国焊接协会（AWS）、行业合作伙伴洛克希德·马丁公司和林肯电气公司、140个商业/行业分支机构、66个教育分支机构和10个区域中心合作伙伴。本项目有以下目标：1)建立全国焊接教育工作者证书课程；2)拓展焊接教师在新技术方面的专业发展，包括混合学习、虚拟仿真和新兴焊接工艺；3)扩大和提高中心及其区域合作伙伴网络的有效性，以满足市场驱动的需求，包括区域焊接技术人员专业化，以及在机构之间共享课程和提供课程作业中使用远程学习应用程序；4)制定并实施一项战略，为社区和技术学院、大学、K-12学区和焊接行业提供技术援助和咨询服务。该中心的活动使美国的其他社区和技术学院能够与当地的K-12学区、成人教育和高等教育机构合作，在他们的地区扩大焊接技术人员的教育。许多同样的机构以及两年制大学目前提供焊接技术教育，能够增加焊接专业，以更好地满足其区域焊接雇主的需求。该项目通过制定国家焊接教育证书计划和硕士焊接教育证书，增强和扩大了焊接教育工作者的专业发展机会，该证书可由美国目前和未来的焊接教育合作伙伴提供