RET Site: Innovation-based Manufacturing

该奖项为弗吉尼亚理工学院和州立大学（VT）的工程和计算机科学现场项目教师研究经验（RET）提供为期三年的持续奖励，该项目名为“RET现场：基于创新的制造”，由Christopher B博士指导。威廉姆斯。在过去的几十年里，北美制造业一直受到来自低劳动力成本国家的竞争的挑战。 为了保持竞争力，制造业迫切需要基础研究工作，致力于使创新实验室研究有效过渡到全面生产。 为了满足这一需求，VT成立了创新制造中心（CIBM），该中心由多学科研究人员组成，他们正在探索新的制造技术，改进传统技术，并改进管理创新，信息，制造流程及其相关供应链的方法。 CibM的使命是为制造系统的创新奠定基础，以加速创新技术的商业开发，从而改造和推进该国的制造基础设施，同时培养下一代制造业领导者。在这方面，CibM建议主办一个RET网站（RET：IbM），将提供总共36个科学，数学和工程预科初中和高中教师（每年12个，为期3年），为期6周的夏季研究和专业发展经验。RET：IbM的主要目标是通过为教师提供参与尖端制造业研究主题的机会，为改善年轻人对工程和制造业的看法迈出重要一步，这些主题富含STEM原则的上下文示例。 这一目标显然促进了发现和理解，同时促进了教学、培训和学习。 在职和职前教师参与者将从弗吉尼亚州西南部的县，其中包括农村和城市地区，从而影响广泛的社会经济范围内招募。 拟议的RET：IbM计划的制造重点将与该地区的既定历史产生共鸣，但最近在我国经济的这一重要部分中的存在感正在减弱。拟议计划的举措的总和将导致渴望进入STEM学科的受过教育和有动力的学生的管道。

This award provides funding for a three year continuing award for a Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science Site Program at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VT) entitled, RET Site: Innovation-based Manufacturing, under the direction of Dr. Christopher B. Williams. In the last decades, the North American manufacturing sector has been continuously challenged by competition from low labor cost countries. In order to remain competitive, the manufacturing sector is in urgent need of fundamental research efforts that are dedicated to enabling the efficient transition of innovative laboratory research to full-scale production. To address this need, VT has formed the Center for Innovation-based Manufacturing (CIbM), which is composed of a multidisciplinary team of researchers that are exploring new manufacturing technologies, improvements to traditional technologies, and improved methods for managing innovation, information, manufacturing processes and their related supply chains. The mission of the CIbM is to create a foundation for innovation in manufacturing systems as a means to accelerate the commercial development of innovative technologies and thus transform and advance the country's manufacturing infrastructure while training the next generation of manufacturing leaders. In this vein, the CIbM proposes to host a RET site (RET:IbM) that will provide a total of 36 science, math, and pre-engineering middle and high school teachers (12 per year for 3 years) with a 6-week summer research and professional development experience. The primary goal of the RET:IbM is to make significant steps towards improving young people's perception of engineering and manufacturing by providing opportunities for teachers to engage in cutting-edge manufacturing research topics that are rich with contextual examples of STEM principles. This goal clearly advances discovery and understanding while promoting teaching, training and learning. In-service and pre-service teacher participants will be recruited from counties of southwest Virginia, which contain both rural and urban areas, thus impacting a wide socio-economic spectrum. The manufaturing focus of the proposed RET:IbM program will resonate well with the region's established history, but recently diminishing presence, in this vital portion of our nation's economy. The sum of the proposed program's initiatives will result in a pipeline of educated and motivated students eager to enter STEM disciplines.