The Engineering and Technicians Project ( E2T)

机电一体化是机械工程、电子工程和软件工程的协同结合。机电一体化服务于控制先进混合系统的目的，并与许多不同的领域相关联，包括制造，运动控制，机器人，智能控制，系统集成，振动和噪声控制，汽车系统，自动化技术，建模和设计，能源管理系统和微设备。总结其目的和价值，机电一体化促进和促进创新，通过集成。VWCC的工程技术人员工程（E2T）解决了学生进入这个不断发展的跨学科工程技术领域的不足，通过建立工业，社区学院教师和二级职业和技术教育（CTE）实体之间的协同作用，简化了机电一体化的职业道路。该项目有三个主要目标：1)实施由暑期学院的中学和大专教师创建的行业驱动的基于项目的学习（PBL）模块；2)通过扩大夏季机电一体化和预工程训练营、年度技术峰会和针对代表性不足的学生群体的STEM职业探索活动，加强学生的项目活动；3)增加地区先进技术学院对代表性不足的人口的入学率。另一个项目目标是提高中等技术教育和工程预科教师实施pbl的能力，最终提高问题分析的熟练程度，在课堂上自主学习和基于解决方案的学习，特别注重从代表性不足的人群中招募学生进入机电一体化领域。

Mechatronics is the synergistic combination of mechanical engineering, electronic engineering and software engineering. Mechatronics serves the purposes of controlling advanced hybrid systems and has been associated with many different areas, encompassing manufacturing, motion control, robotics, intelligent control, system integration, vibration and noise control, automotive systems, automation technology, modeling and design, energy management systems and micro devices. To sum up its purpose and value, Mechatronics promotes and fosters innovation through integration. The Engineering of Engineering Technicians (E2T) at VWCC addresses the student deficiencies entering this growing interdisciplinary engineering technology field by building synergy between industry, community college faculty, and secondary career and technical education (CTE) entities to streamline a career pathway in Mechatronics. The project has three major goals: 1) to implement industry driven project based learning (PBL) modules created by secondary and post-secondary faculty in the summer institute; 2) to enhance project based activities for students by expanding summer Mechatronics and pre-engineering camps, the annual Technology Summit, and STEM Career Exploration events for underrepresented student populations; and 3) to increase the Regional Academy in Advanced Technology enrollment of underrepresented populations. An additional project objective is to enhance the ability of secondary technical education and pre engineering teachers to implement PBLs that ultimately lead to elevated proficiency in problem analysis, self-directed learning and solution based learning in the classroom with particular focus to recruit students from underrepresented populations into the Mechatronics field.