Technicians in Energy, Advanced Manufacturing, and Supply Chain Technology (TEAMS) Project

位于宾夕法尼亚州奥克代尔市阿勒格尼县社区学院的能源、先进制造业和供应链技术技术人员（TEAMS）项目旨在弥合宾夕法尼亚州西部能源、先进制造业和供应链技术领域雇主和工人之间的差距。通过该项目，学院将与行业合作，创建与行业相关的机电一体化专业，并开发应用顶点项目，重点关注能源和制造以及供应链流程中必不可少的设计、操作、安装、故障排除和维护技能。宾夕法尼亚州西部Marcellus页岩的油气作业不仅增加了对能源行业的直接就业需求，还增加了对辅助和物流行业（如先进制造和供应链技术）的就业需求。这些工作都需要受过机电一体化教育的技术人员：从马塞勒斯中游页岩气通过管道生产和加工，到裂解装置设备的节能操作和维护，再到用于分销石化产品的供应链技术，再到接收和利用化学品的制造工厂。这个ATE TEAMS项目将通过在社区大学和劳动力市场建立机电一体化职业道路，帮助缩小这些行业雇主和工人之间的差距。该项目确保工人拥有学术和行业认可的技能组合，以满足地区、州和国家的需求。TEAMS项目采用以学生为中心的方法来培养职业技能，为越来越多的非传统成人学生在工作场所取得成功做好准备。阿勒格尼县社区学院机电一体化副学士学位的职业战略和基础核心课程整合了国家认证。这使得学院将重点放在将高等教育与劳动力需求联系起来所需的技能上。教师的发展与技术和教学并重，平衡了劳动力和学术教育和评估。通过TEAMS项目，阿勒格尼县社区学院正在建立一种可移动的课程模式，可以增加农村、退伍军人和其他非传统人群接受高等教育的机会。该项目为这些群体提供中学后STEM教育和个性化支持服务。此外，该项目还增加了获得国家机电一体化相关能力认证的教师和学生的数量。TEAMS项目增加了能够将职业准备与课程中的学术严谨性相结合的教师数量。TEAMS机电一体化学位与当前工作场所的需求保持一致，但也包括适应行业不断变化的需求所需的灵活性。工作队项目包括向全国宣传这项工作的方法和结果。对TEAMS项目的评估将检查项目目标是否已达到。总结性评估将包括有关方法有效性的信息，以建立教师的能力，以应对能源、先进制造业和供应链技术等行业的技术教育需求。项目评估还将为实施机电一体化课程的教育工作者提供信息，以支持直接响应能源、先进制造业和供应链行业区域经济发展的劳动力管道。

The Technicians in Energy, Advanced Manufacturing, and Supply Chain Technology (TEAMS) Project at the Community College of Allegheny County in Oakdale, Pennsylvania aims to bridge the gap between employers and workers in the energy, advanced manufacturing, and supply chain technology fields in Western Pennsylvania. Through this project faculty will collaborate with industry to create industry-relevant mechatronics specializations, and develop applied capstone projects focusing on the design, operation, installation, troubleshooting and maintenance skills essential to energy and manufacturing, and supply chain processes. Oil and gas operations in the Marcellus Shale of Western Pennsylvania have resulted in increased workforce demand not only for jobs directly in the energy industry, but also jobs in ancillary and logistics industries such as advanced manufacturing and supply chain technology. Mechatronics educated-technicians are needed for many of these jobs: from the midstream Marcellus Shale gas being produced and processed through the pipeline, to the energy-efficient operations and maintenance of equipment in the cracker plant, to the supply chain technologies used to distribute the petrochemicals, to the manufacturing plants that receive and utilize the chemicals. This ATE TEAMS Project will help to close the gap between employers and workers in these industries by building mechatronics career pathways through the community college and into the workforce. This project ensures that workers have the right combination of academic and industry-endorsed skill-sets to meet regional, state and national demands. The TEAMS Project utilizes a student-centered approach to develop the occupational skills needed to prepare a growing influx of nontraditional adult students to succeed in the workplace. Career strategies and foundational core courses within the Associate of Science (A.S.) degree at the Community College of Allegheny County in mechatronics integrate national certifications. This creates a focus at the college on the skills needed to link higher education with workforce needs. Faculty development with equal emphasis on technology and pedagogy balances workforce and academic education and assessment. Through the TEAMS Project, the Community College of Allegheny County is establishing a transportable curriculum model which can increase access to higher education by rural, veteran, and other non-traditional populations. The project provides access to postsecondary STEM education and personalized supportive services to these groups. In addition, the project is also increasing the number of teachers and students that are nationally certified in mechatronics-related competencies. The TEAMS project adds to the number of faculty who are able to integrate career readiness with academic rigor in the curriculum. The TEAMS Mechatronics degree aligns well with the current workplace needs but also includes the flexibility needed to adapt to the evolving requirements of industry. The TEAMS project includes efforts to disseminate the methods and results of this effort to a national audience.Evaluation of the TEAMS Project will examine whether project objectives are being reached. Summative evaluations will include information regarding the effectiveness of methods to build the capacity of faculty to respond to technical education needs across the industries of energy, advanced manufacturing, and supply chain technology. The project evaluation will also inform efforts of educators who implement a mechatronics curriculum to support a workforce pipeline that directly responds to regional economic development in the energy, advanced manufacturing, and supply chain industries.