Integrated, Application-Based Curriculum in Adv Mfg

先进制造中的基于应用的课程(IACAM)项目培养学生具有集成制造技能，并使他们能够满足21世纪工作场所的能力要求。该项目正在开发一个集成制造技术员课程模式，创建一个“真实世界”的制造环境学习实验室，通过与中学教师和指导顾问的指导机会为大学教师提供发展机会，他们正在共同努力，以更好地了解制造技术员的需求。课程模式以学生为中心，招募、保留和促进课程完成，并跟踪和衡量注册、完成和安置数据。学生们通过完成课程，完成证书，获得副学士学位，并获得进入学士学位课程的转学机会，在他们的教育道路上取得了进步。在课程中，学生首先学习执行复杂任务的特殊机器；电力作为单一最大电力提供者的角色；以及控制、收集、处理、分发和存储关于机器和过程的关键信息。自动化的作用是通过集成可编程逻辑控制器、计算机网络系统和机器人来教授的。这些技能的传授是通过雇主和教职员工基于应用项目和现实生活的综合知识和经验来促进的。知识的价值植根于课程的综合性和整体性，即将所有利益攸关方聚集在一起。项目材料和成果，包括学生的学习成果，正在通过在州和全国会议上的演讲、学院网站和主流媒体广告进行传播。更广泛的影响体现在对工作人员的宣传努力和适当培训上。

The Application-Based Curriculum in Advanced Manufacturing (IACAM) project prepares students with integrated-manufacturing skills and enables them to meet 21st century workplace competency requirements. The project is developing an Integrated Manufacturing Technician curriculum model, creating a 'real-world' manufacturing-environment learning-lab, to provide development opportunities for college faculty through mentoring opportunities with secondary school teachers and guidance counselors who are working together to gain a better understanding of manufacturing technician needs. The curriculum model features a student-centered program, which recruits, retains, and facilitates program completion, and tracks and measures enrollment, completion, and placement data. Students are advancing through their educational pathways by finishing courses, completing certificates, earning associate degrees, and achieving a transfer option into a bachelor's degree program. Within the curriculum, students begin by studying specialized machines performing complex tasks; electricity's role as the single largest provider of power; and controlling, collecting, processing, distributing and storing critical information about machines and processes. The automation's role is taught through integrating of Programmable Logic Controllers, computer networking systems, and robots. Teaching these skills is facilitated through integrated, applied projects-based and real-life knowledge and experience of employers and faculty. Intellectual merits are rooted in the comprehensive and integrated nature of the curriculum that is to bring all stakeholders together. Project materials and results, including student learning outcomes, are being disseminated through presentations at state and national conferences, through the College website, and through mainstream media advertising. Broader impacts are evidenced in the dissemination efforts and appropriate training of the workforce.