Additive Manufacturing: Expanding Futures in Appalachia

增材制造：扩大阿巴拉契亚的未来

• 批准号: 1600081
• 负责人: Eric Wooldridge
• 金额: $ 19.95万
• 依托单位: Kentucky Community & Technical College System
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-08-01 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1600081&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Additive; Manufacturing; Expanding; Futures; Appalachia

Rural colleges are challenged with ways to open doors to advanced technology, novel applications, and innovations for local industries. This project at Somerset Community College (SCC) is designed to stimulate both technological growth in additive manufacturing (AM), known popularly as 3D printing, and employability of technician graduates in high-wage positions in high-poverty rural regions of southeast central Kentucky. This project is geared toward more than just new technologies and skills; its purpose is to create a whole new mindset, a mindset of creative thought and empowerment. Rural entrepreneurs will be able to create and manufacture products in ways that previously would not have been possible. The project has a four pronged approach that simultaneously will engage SCC and Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) students; SCC faculty and staff; and the community including business, industry, local K-12 school district students/teachers, and other stakeholders. The project will serve as a model for other community colleges in Kentucky and across the nation to offer an accredited AM certificate. It involves long-term outreach and sustainability with program dissemination throughout the sixteen colleges of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) and the K-12 Kentucky Department of Education (KDE). These community engagement efforts facilitate expansion using the existing KCTCS online network. Engagement of K-12 faculty and students in existing partner programs with Project Lead the Way and KDE will foster AM student recruitment. Several activities are designed to engage and recruit veterans. Due to the adaptability of AM technology, this project will offer education and employment opportunities to physically limited veterans re-entering the workforce. Evaluation activities will focus on informing the project and all stakeholders about successful practices while providing guidance about improving activities for maximum impact. Initial activities will create a premier regional AM Innovation Laboratory and build awareness of AM with interactive demonstrations, hands-on workshops and presentations. A recently approved certificate program will provide pathways for students to employment. Students preparing to be technicians will connect with industry at college hosted workshops and conferences. Project personnel will attend AM and educator related conferences to facilitate awareness of AM and disseminate project results, as well as establish networking opportunities for future expansion. Students and regional industries will create new products, parts, and medical assisting devices in a few hours for comparatively small material costs. The project is based on work established by the NSF-funded National Resource Center for Material Technology Education and Research at Edmonds Community College, (0903112, 1400619) and current work of the college with 3D printing, scanning, and advanced modeling technologies. The project will provide an added focus on biomedical applications that support the advancement of technicians and existing industries in the rural Appalachian region served by the college. In addition, the project will make a targeted effort to recruit veterans. Medical practitioners and surgeons will have better tools and diagnostics with which to work. Veterans will have a new way to productively support themselves and their fellow soldiers.

农村大学面临着如何为当地产业打开先进技术、新颖应用和创新大门的挑战。萨默塞特社区学院（SCC）的这个项目旨在刺激增材制造（AM）（俗称3D打印）的技术增长，以及肯塔基州东南部贫困农村地区高工资职位技术毕业生的就业能力。这个项目不仅仅是面向新技术和技能;它的目的是创造一个全新的心态，一个创造性思维和赋权的心态。农村企业家将能够以以前不可能的方式创造和制造产品。该项目有一个四管齐下的方法，同时将参与SCC和肯塔基州社区和技术学院系统（KCTCS）的学生; SCC教师和工作人员;和社区，包括企业，工业，当地K-12学区的学生/教师，和其他利益相关者。该项目将作为肯塔基州和全国其他社区学院提供认证的AM证书的典范。它涉及长期的推广和可持续性，在整个肯塔基州社区和技术学院系统（KCTCS）和K-12肯塔基州教育部（KDE）的16个学院的计划传播。这些社区参与工作促进了利用现有KCTCS在线网络的扩展。K-12教师和学生参与现有的合作伙伴计划与项目带路和KDE将促进AM学生的招聘。一些活动旨在吸引和招募退伍军人。由于AM技术的适应性，该项目将为身体受限的退伍军人重新进入劳动力市场提供教育和就业机会。评价活动将侧重于向项目和所有利益攸关方介绍成功做法，同时就如何改进活动以产生最大影响提供指导。最初的活动将创建一个首屈一指的区域AM创新实验室，并通过互动演示，实践研讨会和演示来建立AM的意识。最近批准的证书课程将为学生提供就业途径。准备成为技术人员的学生将在大学举办的研讨会和会议上与行业联系。项目人员将参加与AM和教育工作者相关的会议，以促进对AM的认识，传播项目成果，并为未来的扩展建立网络机会。学生和区域工业将在几个小时内以相对较小的材料成本创造新产品，零件和医疗辅助设备。该项目是基于由NSF资助的埃德蒙兹社区学院材料技术教育和研究国家资源中心（0903112，1400619）建立的工作，以及该学院目前使用3D打印，扫描和先进建模技术的工作。该项目将提供对生物医学应用的额外关注，以支持该学院所服务的阿巴拉契亚农村地区的技术人员和现有产业的发展。此外，该项目将有针对性地努力招募退伍军人。医生和外科医生将有更好的工具和诊断工作。退伍军人将有一种新的方式来有效地支持自己和他们的战友。