Dimensional Metrology Certification Project

尺寸计量认证项目

• 批准号: 1502011
• 负责人: Harold Halliday
• 金额: $ 89.56万
• 依托单位: Navajo Technical University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-10-01 至 2018-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1502011&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dimensional; Metrology; Certification; Project

Through this project American Indian students are gaining knowledge and experience by applying cutting-edge metrology techniques using data capturing equipment to improve manufacturing quality. Students are learning equipment operation and maintenance skills and how to analyze and solve complex metrology problems. Students are directly applying the technology in meaningful and relevant projects, thereby growing in competence, comfort, and self-confidence to work successfully as technicians in the high tech manufacturing disciplines. NTU is introducing metrology technology to teachers and students at secondary schools with majority American Indian student populations through workshops and demonstrations to cultivate the STEM pipeline. Investigators are conveying how technologies are used in engineering, manufacturing, architecture and geographic information systems fields and providing learning opportunities for high school students. By developing ties with high tech organizations and educating Navajo students in cutting-edge STEM technology fields, this project is aiming to communicate new education and employment potentials in STEM, which for Navajos living on the reservation was previously considered unattainable.Navajo Technical University's (NTU) Dimensional Metrology Certification Project is incorporating formal training within various STEM curricula to provide industry standard certifications in advanced metrology technologies, specifically Laser Scanner, Laser Tracker, and Portable Coordinate Measuring Machine. NTU is partnering with industry to develop educational materials and standards leading to certifications and training primarily in the area of Dimensional Metrology data capture and related technical hardware and software operations. NTU students are learning these technologies through culturally relevant metrology technology education materials, problem-based learning methodologies, internships and peer mentoring. The project's evaluation effort will take a mixed-method approach (quantitative and qualitative analysis) to assess and to develop an understanding of what changes in faculty and student learning take place as a result of project activities and the contextual circumstances associated with these changes. In so doing the investigating team will add to the knowledge base of how projects of this type contribute to the improvement of technician education in tribal colleges, thereby offering a model for other similar institutions.

通过这个项目，美洲印度学生通过使用数据捕获设备应用尖端的计量技术来提高制造质量，从而获得知识和经验。学生正在学习设备操作和维护技能，以及如何分析和解决复杂的计量问题。学生直接将技术应用于有意义且相关的项目中，从而在能力，舒适性和自信心上不断提高，以成功地担任高科技制造学科的技术人员。 NTU通过研讨会和示范培训STEM管道，向中学的教师和学生介绍计量技术。调查人员正在传达如何将技术用于工程，制造，建筑和地理信息系统领域，并为高中生提供学习机会。 By developing ties with high tech organizations and educating Navajo students in cutting-edge STEM technology fields, this project is aiming to communicate new education and employment potentials in STEM, which for Navajos living on the reservation was previously considered unattainable.Navajo Technical University's (NTU) Dimensional Metrology Certification Project is incorporating formal training within various STEM curricula to provide industry standard certifications in advanced metrology technologies, specifically Laser Scanner,激光跟踪器和便携式坐标测量机。 NTU正在与行业合作开发教育材料和标准，导致认证和培训主要是在维度计量数据捕获以及相关的技术硬件和软件操作领域的领域。 NTU学生正在通过与文化相关的计量技术教育材料，基于问题的学习方法，实习和同伴指导来学习这些技术。该项目的评估工作将采用混合方法方法（定量和定性分析），以评估和了解由于项目活动以及与这些变化相关的上下文环境而发生的教师和学生学习的变化。在这样做的过程中，调查团队将增加这种类型的项目如何有助于提高部落学院技术人员教育的知识基础，从而为其他类似机构提供模型。