Building Tomorrow's Leaders: Bridging workforce development in ERCs to meet demand for a skilled workforce

该项目正在举办由大学-工业示范伙伴关系(UIDP)召集的注重成果的讲习班，该讲习班将解决在工程研究中心(ERCs)确定的新兴领域培养熟练劳动力的需求这一挑战。自成立以来，NSF工程研究中心计划已经支持了许多进行高质量研发的中心-这导致了革命性的进步，催生了全新的技术领域。这些工作需要各种教育水平的熟练劳动力，然而，现有的(以及毕业的)雇员再培训中心面临挑战，以满足随后的需求增长。该研讨会旨在评估当前NSF ERC为应对培训个人在这些新兴领域工作的挑战而采用的策略，并就如何支持这些努力提出建议。该研讨会汇集了来自不同领域的具有战略意义的从业者和思想领袖，他们拥有必要的技能和互补的经验，以评估当前的方法，提取成功计划的关键方面，并提出新的战略/试点来满足劳动力需求。将汇编和评估确定和量化ERC技术领域对熟练劳动力的新出现/迫切需求的有效方法。将审查满足这些要求的现行和行之有效的国内和国际办法，并提出非联邦和联邦合作战略。结果将以书面报告形式公布，并通过参加有关的专业会议予以公布。

This project is producing an outcomes-oriented workshop, convened by the University-Industry Demonstration Partnership (UIDP), which will address the challenge of meeting the needs for developing a skilled workforce in emerging areas defined by Engineering Research Centers (ERCs). Since its inception, the NSF Engineering Research Centers program has supported numerous centers that perform high quality R&D - which has led to transformative advances that spawn entirely new technological fields. These thrusts require a skilled workforce at a variety of educational levels, however, existing (as well as graduated) ERCs have been challenged to meet the subsequent growth in demand. The workshop is crafted to assess strategies being employed by current NSF ERCs to meet the challenge of training individuals to work in these emerging areas and make recommendations for ways to bolster these efforts.This workshop is bringing together a strategic set of practitioners and thought leaders from diverse fields who possess the required skills and complementary experiences to evaluate current approaches, extract key aspects of successful programs, and propose new strategies/pilots to meet workforce needs. Effective methods to identify and quantify emerging/acute needs for a skilled workforce in ERC technological areas will be compiled and evaluated. Current and proven domestic and international approaches to meet these demands will be reviewed and strategies for non-federal and federal cooperation will be proposed. The results will be disseminated both in a written report and through participation in relevant professional meetings.