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）中心随时准备增加在我国至关重要的海事和运输行业工作的受过教育的、有资格证书的技术人员的管道。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的看法，以及通往高薪，高技能职业的教育途径。提高行业领导者对建立一支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伙伴关系。增加退伍军人、妇女、第一代大学生和代表性不足的少数民族的人数是拟议工作的第一个目标。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的学生人数，使他们成为有资格的技术人员。SMART中心的四个高层次目标是：目标1：职业意识--通过复制和教学职业途径来提高职业意识，以培养更多日益多样化的学生进入海事和运输行业管道，并以学术和目标2：确定课程的行业标准-扩大SMART中心与注册学徒制中的课程和证书相联系的行业能力数字库，并在海运物流和新兴的依赖海运的离岸产业中建立相关途径。专业发展-在现有合作伙伴关系的基础上提供经行业验证的可扩展专业发展模式，包括扩展SMART研究所模式，创建一个智能教育大使网络。目标4：伙伴关系-建立有效的行业和教育工作者伙伴关系，以保持国家对海事和运输业劳动力需求的关注，并影响联邦的形成，区域和国家的政策和途径，以满足这些需求。SMART中心将扩大SMART海事技术途径建立在注册学徒模式，其中包括-要求行业认证和学术课程，授予大学学分的学位。工作将包括成功的SMART中心职业途径工具的调整，以适应四个海上运输行业的每一个：（1）造船和船舶维修，（2）航海/船舶运营，（3）海上物流/港口服务，以及（4）新兴的海上依赖离岸产业。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，为新兴的海上依赖型海上风能行业建立可复制的教育模式。