The NACK National Network for Nanotechnology Workforce Development

NACK 国家纳米技术劳动力发展网络

• 批准号: 1205105
• 负责人: Osama Awadelkarim
• 金额: $ 420万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1205105&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NACK; National; Network; Nanotechnology; Workforce

The National ATE Center for Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge (NACK) is creating the "NACK Network", a designation that reflects the philosophy, structure, and operation to be developed across the U.S. The objectives are enhanced national coordination and dissemination of micro-nanofabrication workforce educational resources, programs, and activities, and enhanced growth of the US nanotechnology workforce. The methods to be employed include pressing forward the NACK approaches of (1) resource sharing among community colleges as well as among community colleges and research universities; (2) providing course materials that deliver a core set of industry-recommended nanotechnology skills; (3) stressing broad student preparation for careers in any industry utilizing micro- or nanotechnology; and (4) developing economically viable, quality nanotechnology education across the U.S. NACK Network methods also include further expansion of its alliance of community college/university and community college/community college resource-sharing hubs, including the addition of virtual hubs. To support this network and all U.S. community college nanotechnology education efforts, the Network offers up-dated and free-of-charge core skills course lecture and lab materials, recruiting materials, retention and completion approaches, web-accessible equipment capability, and faculty development workshop curricula at its web site www.nano4me.org. In addition the NACK Network is developing and disseminating an assessment rubric for its core skill course lecture and lab materials, and continues to work with industry to have its core skills institutionalized into industry standards. The NACK Network continues to offer its well-received faculty development workshops and is further expanding its dissemination methodologies at www.nano4me.org with enhanced functionality and the further enhancement of social networking tools. Recruitment, retention, and education completion are key NACK Network-wide endeavors and include new tasks addressing these issues as they impact veterans, Hispanics, African-Americans, and women. Intellectual Merit: The intellectual merit of NACK's activities lies in their addressing, researching, experimenting with, and evaluating effective-practice approaches for (1) motivating students from across the U.S. social and geographic spectrum to consider careers in nanotechnology; (2) enhancing student retention, completion, and future career opportunities; (3) defining and evolving a model nanotechnology workforce education program, and (4) helping to develop economically sustainable nanotechnology workforce programs in colleges. Based on positive feedback on the intellectual content of its products and services, the continuation has a clear vision of what the community values and needs. Broader Impacts: The NACK Network materials, practices and services are having a broad impact across the US. Their ready-availability at www.nano4me.org is strengthening secondary and community college education, in particular, and STEM education, in general. NACK workshops bring faculty and administrators together from across the country and have resulted in a better national understanding of nanotechnology education demands and requirements, approaches, resources, and sustainability issues. In addition, NACK's partnering/resource-sharing approach is a model for all aspects of science and technology education. The NACK Network establishes a nation-wide experiential basis for effective, working, community college/community college and community college/research university resource sharing relationships. In their totality, the intellectual merit and broad impact of the NACK Network activities are profoundly important to the nation's nanotechnology workforce, and to the global competitiveness of U.S. industry.

国家自动测试设备中心纳米技术应用和职业知识（NACK）正在创建“NACK网络”，这反映了理念，结构和操作的名称将在美国各地开发目标是加强国家协调和传播的微型nanofabstraction劳动力教育资源，计划和活动，并加强美国纳米技术劳动力的增长。所采用的方法包括推进NACK方法：（1）社区学院之间以及社区学院和研究型大学之间的资源共享;（2）提供课程材料，提供一套核心的行业推荐的纳米技术技能;（3）强调广泛的学生准备在任何行业利用微型或纳米技术的职业生涯;和（4）在全美范围内发展经济上可行的高质量纳米技术教育。NACK网络方法还包括进一步扩大其社区学院/大学联盟和社区学院/社区学院资源共享中心，包括增加虚拟中心。为了支持这个网络和所有美国社区学院纳米技术教育工作，该网络提供最新的和免费的核心技能课程讲座和实验室材料，招聘材料，保留和完成方法，网络访问设备能力，此外，NACK网络正在制定和传播其核心技能的评估标准课程讲座和实验材料，并继续与行业合作，将其核心技能制度化为行业标准。NACK网络继续提供其广受欢迎的教师发展讲习班，并通过增强功能和进一步加强社交网络工具，进一步扩大其在www.nano4me.org上的传播方法。招聘，保留和教育完成是关键NACK网络范围内的努力，并包括解决这些问题的新任务，因为它们影响退伍军人，西班牙裔，非洲裔美国人和妇女。智力优势：NACK的活动的智力价值在于他们的地址，研究，试验和评估有效的实践方法（1）激励来自美国的学生社会和地理频谱考虑纳米技术的职业;（2）提高学生的保留，完成和未来的职业机会;（3）定义和发展一个模型纳米技术劳动力教育计划，和（4）帮助发展经济上可持续的纳米技术劳动力计划在大学。基于对其产品和服务的知识内容的积极反馈，延续对社区价值和需求有着清晰的认识。更广泛的影响：NACK网络的材料、做法和服务在美国各地产生了广泛的影响。它们在www.nano4me.org上的现成可用性正在加强中学和社区大学教育，特别是STEM教育。NACK研讨会将教师和管理人员从全国各地聚集在一起，并导致更好地了解纳米技术教育的需求和要求，方法，资源和可持续性问题。此外，该中心的伙伴关系/资源共享办法是科学和技术教育所有方面的典范。NACK网络建立了一个全国性的经验基础，有效的，工作，社区学院/社区学院和社区学院/研究型大学资源共享关系。总的来说，NACK网络活动的知识价值和广泛影响对国家的纳米技术劳动力和美国工业的全球竞争力非常重要。