Microsystems Certification Project

培养一支熟练的技术劳动力队伍以满足区域劳动力需求，支持国家的竞争力。许多产品和行业都需要微技术和纳米技术。该项目的主要目的是扩大工程技术人员教育，为技术人员在微系统行业工作做好准备。该项目正在为工程技术或电气工程技术副学士学位课程注册的学生设计和实施微型机电系统(微系统)证书，并为他们准备通过LabVIEW认证(实验室虚拟仪器工程工作台，用于数据采集、仪器控制和工业自动化)。微系统和LabVIEW证书正在补充和补充工程技术方面的副学位，为技术人员创造更广泛的就业机会，并为微系统行业培养一支称职的劳动力队伍。为该项目创建的MicroSystems证书和LabVIEW准备很容易在该州其他地区的工程技术项目中通过常春藤技术系统复制到其他州的社区大学。该学院继续与SCME合作，将社区学院的重点放在他们的资源上。这一持续的伙伴关系确保通过SCME国家教育和信息传播渠道提供所产生的资源。项目外展活动包括那些专门为吸引和留住代表不足的少数族裔、女性和退伍军人而设计的活动，这些少数民族、女性和退伍军人已经占学院学生的很大比例。该项目建立在美国国家科学基金会对西南微系统教育中心的ATE拨款(1205138)的基础上。因此，由SCME生产的11个动手教育课程模块和工具包正被整合到学院的工程技术课程中。在这个项目中，学院和中小企业正在共同开发三个额外的课程模块和工具包，重点是构建微系统，这些模块和工具包补充了SCME开发的学习模块。该学院还将LabVIEW认证考试的准备工作整合到新的微系统课程中，为技术人员提供毕业时除了副学士学位之外还有两个证书的机会，这使它们更有市场。这些新课程提高了社区学院为各种微纳米技术相关行业培养技术人员的能力。一门微系统入门课程在高中提供双学分，向高中生介绍微系统的概念和职业。学生每学期都可以通过实地考察北大或密歇根大学获得实际的洁净室体验，这两所大学距离学校都在两个半小时的车程内。微纳技术存在于该州主要雇主生产的各种产品中，包括高级表面显微镜、邦斯实验室、德尔福公司、礼来公司、Guidant公司、Exelis、J&Amp；S资源管理公司、M4 Science、Makuta Technics、MicrotechNano、MonoSo、Prosolla、QuadraSpec、SemaforPharmticals和传感器高级开发公司。尽管集成电路(IC)行业在2012年整体下降了2%，但Yole Development的研究显示，微系统行业增长了10%，成为一项价值110亿美元的业务。分析师预计，到2018年，复合年增长率将达到12%-13%，将创造一个价值225亿美元的微系统市场。微系统和集成电路的使用对新产品的设计和开发至关重要。常见的例子包括加速计、压力传感器、惯性传感器、微流体泵和流量传感器。通过建议的课程模块和工具包以及SCME已经开发的模块介绍微系统技术，为学生提供了一个独特的机会，让他们以一种容易看到的方式学习工程概念，同时使他们接触到目前许多微系统行业正在使用的设计和制造技术。

Preparing a skilled technical workforce to meet regional workforce needs supports the Nation's competitiveness. Microtechnologies and nanotechnologies are needed in a broad range of products and industries. The primary purpose of the project is to broaden engineering technician education to prepare technicians to work in the microsystems industry. This project is designing and implementing a Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (Microsystems) Certificate for students enrolled in engineering technology or electrical engineering technology associate degree programs, as well as preparing them for LabVIEW certification (Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench, for data acquisition, instrument control, and industrial automation). Microsystems and LabVIEW certificates are supplementing and complementing associate degrees in engineering technology, creating broader employment opportunities for technicians and preparing a competent workforce for the microsystems industry. The Microsystems certificate and LabVIEW preparation created for this project are easily replicable in engineering technology programs in each of other regions in the state through the Ivy Tech System and in community colleges in other states. The college is continuing its partnership with SCME, adding a community college focus to their resources. This continuing partnership is assuring that the resources produced are being made available through the SCME national education and information dissemination channels. Project outreach activities include those specially designed to attract and retain to the program under-represented minorities, females, and veterans who already make-up a significant percentage of students at the college.This project builds on an NSF ATE grant (1205138) to the Southwest Center for Microsystems Education (SCME). As a result, eleven hands-on educational course modules and kits produced by SCME are being integrated into engineering technology courses at the college. In this project the college and SME are co-developing three additional course modules and kits focused on building microsystems, which complement the learning modules developed by SCME. The college is also integrating preparation for the LabVIEW certification test into the new microsystems courses, providing technicians with the opportunity to graduate with two certifications in addition to an associate degree, which makes them more marketable. The new courses are increasing the capacity of community colleges to produce technicians for a wide variety of micro- and nano-technology related industries. An introductory microsystems course is being offered for dual credit in high schools to introduce high school students to microsystems concepts and careers. Students receive actual clean room experience each semester through field trips to either Norte Dame University or the University of Michigan, both located within a two and a half hour drive from the college.Micro and nano-technologies are found in a wide range of products made by major employers in the state including Advanced Surface Microscopy, Bangs Laboratories, Delphi Corporation, Eli Lilly and Co, Guidant Corp, Exelis, J&S Resource Management, M4 Sciences, Makuta Technics, MicroTechNano, MonoSo, Prosolla, QuadraSpec, Semafore Pharmaceuticals, and Sensor Advanced Development. Although the integrated circuits (IC) industry saw a two percent decline overall in 2012, the research by Yole Development showed that the microsystems sector grew by 10 percent to become an $11B business. Analysts expect a 12-13 percent compound annual growth rate through 2018 to create a $22.5B microsystems market. The use of microsystems and integrated circuits is crucial to the design and development of new products. Common examples include accelerometers, pressure transducers, inertial sensors, micro fluidic pumps and flow sensors. The introduction of microsystems technology via the proposed course modules and kits, and those already developed by SCME, provides a unique opportunity for students to learn engineering concepts in an easy to see fashion while exposing them to design and fabrication techniques which are currently being used in many microsystems industries.