Transfer of math, physics, and communication skills into the entry-level photonics workforce

将数学、物理和沟通技能转移到入门级光子学劳动力中

• 批准号: 1432578
• 负责人: Benjamin Zwickl
• 金额: $ 39.93万
• 依托单位: Rochester Institute of Tech
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1432578&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Transfer; math; physics; communication; skills

The Rochester Institute of Technology will implement a small focused research project that is designed to provide a better understanding of how academic content and communication skills transfer into the entry-level workforce. It is adapting foundational research on learning in an academic setting to the workplace and provides multiple perspectives of the "skills gap" between higher education and the workplace. Specifically, the researchers propose to examine the use of mathematics, optics, and physics content knowledge and communication skills within the Rochester-region optics, photonics, and imaging community. They will conduct two interrelated studies. The first study will produce evidence about the skills required to obtain, keep, and succeed at a job in optics with immediate relevance to local colleges and universities focused on optics education. The second study will expand on the first by examining the employee perspective in more detail. The PIs will use data-based deduction research to integrate the two studies within a higher education framework. The project will reveal differences in skill sets between academia and industry and provide evidence regarding whether or not a common curricula can serve each path. Rochester is an ideal location for the study. Xerox, Kodak, and Bausch and Lomb made Rochester the optics and imaging hub in the nation.

罗切斯特理工学院将实施一个小型重点研究项目，旨在更好地了解学术内容和沟通技能如何转移到入门级劳动力中。它正在使关于学术环境中学习的基础研究适应工作场所，并提供高等教育和工作场所之间“技能差距”的多个视角。 具体来说，研究人员建议在罗切斯特地区的光学，光子学和成像社区内研究数学，光学和物理内容知识和沟通技能的使用。 他们将进行两项相互关联的研究。第一项研究将提供有关获得，保持和成功从事光学工作所需技能的证据，这些技能与当地专注于光学教育的学院和大学直接相关。第二项研究将在第一项研究的基础上进行扩展，更详细地研究员工的观点。PI将使用基于数据的演绎研究，将这两项研究纳入高等教育框架。该项目将揭示学术界和工业界之间的技能差异，并提供证据，说明是否有一个共同的课程可以服务于每一个路径。罗切斯特是一个理想的地点进行研究。施乐、柯达、博士伦使罗切斯特成为美国的光学和成像中心。