Regional Technical Workforce Based Student Projects Development

该项目正在开发和举办两个讲习班，每年一个，帮助建立区域技术劳动力雇主和新墨西哥州两年制社区学院教师之间的合作。在这些研讨会期间，教师和区域行业人员将开发所需的工程技术人员和工程技能，行业赞助的学生项目，并为当前的工程技术人员和工程师短期培训班的主题成果为基础的措施。这个项目利用新墨西哥州的农村土著美国人和西班牙裔学生的自然资源管理的文化价值观，以项目为基础的工作，以帮助他们取得成功。行业赞助的学生项目和正在开发的教学活动结合了现实世界的行业问题，技术，实地研究和学生项目工作，以变革的方式吸引新墨西哥州农村两年制社区大学的学生。该项目的智力价值在于使技术教育的严格性与农村社区大学生相关，并使这些学生为不断增长的区域技术劳动力服务做好准备。一个永久性的行业咨询委员会的建立有助于保持新墨西哥州州立大学（NMSU）赠款，其他新墨西哥州两年制社区学院和区域技术劳动力雇主之间的联系，使NMSU赠款金和新墨西哥州的工程技术人员和工程计划的持续相关性和增长。通过分发学习成果、材料和行业项目，以及通过参加年度会议与新墨西哥州两年制社区学院教师和更广泛的ATE社区接触，正在实现该项目的更广泛影响。

This project is developing and hosting two workshops, one each year of the project, that are helping build collaborations between regional technical workforce employers and New Mexico two-year community college faculty. During these workshops, faculty and regional industry personnel will develop outcome-based measures of needed engineering technician and engineering skills, industry sponsored student projects, and topics for short training classes for current engineering technicians and engineers. This project leverages New Mexico's rural Native American and Hispanic students' cultural values of natural resource stewardship in project based work to help them succeed. The industry sponsored student projects and instructional activities that are being developed are combining real-world industry problems, technology, field research, and student project work in transformative ways to engage rural New Mexico's two-year community college students. This project's intellectual merit is in making the rigors of technical education relevant to rural community college students and preparing these students to serve in the growing regional technical workforce. The establishment of a permanent Industry Advisory Committee helps maintain a connection between New Mexico State University (NMSU) Grants, other New Mexico two-year community colleges, and the regional technical workforce employers in a way that enables continued relevance and growth of NMSU Grants' and New Mexico's engineering technician and engineering programs. The broader impacts of this project are being realized through the distribution of the learning outcomes, materials, and industry projects and contacts with New Mexico two-year community college faculty and the broader ATE community through annual conference participation.