The SMART Center: Creating the Next Generation of Credentialed, Skilled Technicians for the Maritime and Transportation Industry

SMART 中心：为海事和运输行业培养下一代有资格、熟练的技术人员

• 批准号: 1501449
• 负责人: Thomas Stout
• 金额: $ 298.78万
• 依托单位: Tidewater Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-15 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1501449&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SMART; Center; Creating; Next; Generation

The Southeast Maritime and Transportation (SMART) Center stands well-poised to increase the pipeline of educated, credentialed technicians working in our country's vitally important maritime and transportation industry. The SMART Center will build on work to change students' and educators' perception of the maritime and transportation industry and the educational pathway leading to highly-paid, highly-skilled careers. Increasing industry leaders' awareness of the potential to build a more highly-qualified and credentialed workforce will catalyze partnerships between employers and colleges. Increasing the number of veterans, women, first-generation college students and under-represented minorities is the first goal of the proposed work. Connecting educators to employers through the SMART Institutes will increase the number of students enrolling in and completing academic programs to become credentialed technicians.The SMART Center's four high-level goals are:Goal 1: Career Awareness -- Increase career awareness by replicating and teaching career pathways to produce a greater number of increasingly diverse students entering the maritime and transportation industry pipeline and exiting with academic and industry-valued credentials.Goal 2: Identifying Industry Standards for Curriculum -- Expand the SMART Center digital repository of industry competencies linked to courses and credentials embedded in registered apprenticeship and building related pathways in maritime logistics and emerging maritime-dependent offshore industries.Goal 3: Professional Development -- Deliver scalable models of industry-validated professional development built on existing partnerships, including expansion of the SMART Institute model, to create a network of SMART educator-ambassadors.Goal 4: Partnerships -- Model effective industry and educator partnerships to maintain national focus on maritime and transportation industry workforce needs and to influence formation of federal, regional and state policies and pathways to meet those needs.The SMART Center will scale the SMART Maritime Technologies pathway built on the registered apprenticeship model which incorporates in-demand industry certifications and academic courses that confer college credit toward degrees. Work will include adaptation of successful SMART Center career pathway tools to each of the four maritime transportation industry sectors: (1) shipbuilding and ship repair, (2) seagoing/vessel operations, (3) marine logistics/port services, and (4) emerging maritime-dependent offshore industries. The SMART Center will build a replicable education model for the emerging maritime-dependent offshore wind energy industry by identifying competencies needed for academic and industry credentials and creating relevant courses.

东南海事和运输 (SMART) 中心已做好准备，增加在我国极其重要的海事和运输行业工作的受过教育、有资格的技术人员的输送渠道。 SMART 中心将致力于改变学生和教育工作者对海事和运输行业以及通向高薪、高技能职业的教育途径的看法。提高行业领导者对建立更高素质和更有资格的劳动力队伍的潜力的认识，将促进雇主和大学之间的合作伙伴关系。增加退伍军人、女性、第一代大学生和代表性不足的少数族裔的数量是拟议工作的首要目标。通过 SMART 学院将教育工作者与雇主联系起来，将增加注册和完成学术课程以成为有资格的技术人员的学生数量。SMART 中心的四个高级目标是： 目标 1：职业意识——通过复制和教授职业路径来提高职业意识，以培养更多日益多样化的学生进入海事和运输行业并获得学术和行业价值的证书。目标 2：确定行业标准 课程 - 扩展 SMART 中心行业能力数字存储库，这些能力与注册学徒制中嵌入的课程和证书相关，并在海运物流和新兴的依赖海运的离岸行业中建立相关途径。目标 3：专业发展 - 在现有合作伙伴关系的基础上提供经过行业验证的可扩展的专业发展模型，包括扩展 SMART 学院模型，以创建 SMART 网络 教育者大使。目标 4：伙伴关系——建立有效的行业和教育者伙伴关系，以保持国家对海事和运输行业劳动力需求的关注，并影响联邦、地区和州政策和途径的形成，以满足这些需求。SMART 中心将扩展建立在注册学徒模式基础上的 SMART 海事技术途径，该模式包含急需的行业认证和授予学位大学学分的学术课程。工作将包括将成功的 SMART 中心职业道路工具应用于四个海运行业领域：(1) 造船和船舶维修，(2) 海运/船舶运营，(3) 海运物流/港口服务，以及 (4) 新兴的依赖海运的离岸行业。 SMART中心将通过确定学术和行业证书所需的能力并创建相关课程，为新兴的依赖海事的海上风能行业建立可复制的教育模式。