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

该项目正在产生一个以成果为导向的研讨会，由大学-产业示范伙伴关系（UIDP）召集，该研讨会将解决在工程研究中心（ERCs）定义的新兴领域满足培养熟练劳动力需求的挑战。自成立以来，美国国家科学基金会工程研究中心项目已经支持了许多进行高质量研发的中心，这些中心已经导致了产生全新技术领域的变革性进步。这些推动需要各种教育水平的熟练劳动力，然而，现有的（以及毕业的）ERCs已经受到挑战，以满足随后的需求增长。本次研讨会旨在评估当前NSF研究委员会为应对培训个人在这些新兴领域工作的挑战所采用的策略，并就加强这些努力的方法提出建议。本次研讨会汇集了来自不同领域的战略实践者和思想领袖，他们拥有所需的技能和互补的经验，以评估当前的方法，提取成功项目的关键方面，并提出新的战略/试点，以满足劳动力需求。将编制和评估有效的方法，以确定和量化对ERC技术领域熟练劳动力的新兴/迫切需求。将审查满足这些需求的现有和经过验证的国内和国际方法，并提出非联邦和联邦合作的战略。研究结果将通过书面报告和参加有关的专业会议来传播。

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.