Creating a High School Pipeline for the Next Generation of Manufacturing Employees

麦迪逊维尔社区学院和霍普金斯县职业技术中心正在合作提供制造证书课程，为学生准备制造技能标准委员会（MSSC）认证生产技术员考试和工艺技术人员的就业。该项目的智力优势在于吸引高中生进入制造业教育，而研究表明，他们和他们的父母目前还没有考虑到这一点。双学分制造课程使学生熟悉现代制造业，并改变他们对其作为理想职业的看法。该项目更广泛的影响包括传播改进的营销技术，这些技术正在增加参加基于STEM的高等教育制造项目的学生人数，进入STEM劳动力市场，并继续接受STEM教育。该项目还在评估一种模块化课程和混合在线交付模式，这种模式可以有效地在中等和高等教育机构之间共享复杂而昂贵的技术人员培训资源，并有效地分配教师的时间和精力。这种模式对人力和财政资源有限的农村地区规模较小的中学和高等教育机构尤其有影响，这些机构希望开展创新的技术方案编制。该项目正在评估世纪挑战集团向高中生推销其制造课程的有效性，并在必要时进行调整。它还在评估行业指导等经验咨询技术的使用情况。此外，它还使用“混合”在线交付模式进行双重信用规划，从而为合作双方带来运营效益。最后，它推动了合作伙伴现有的努力，以解决工作场所准备技能，如有效的自我管理、沟通技巧、团队合作、可靠性和职业道德。

Madisonville Community College and the Hopkins County Career Technology Center are collaboratively delivering a manufacturing certificate program that prepares students for the Manufacturing Skill Standards Council's (MSSC) Certified Production Technician exam and employment as process technicians. The project's intellectual merit lies in attracting high school students into manufacturing education, which research suggests they and their parents are not presently considering. The dual credit manufacturing program is familiarizing students with modern manufacturing and changing their perceptions regarding its desirability as a career. The project's broader impact involves the dissemination of improved marketing techniques that are increasing the number of students enrolling in postsecondary STEM-based manufacturing programs, entering the STEM workforce, and pursing further STEM education. The project is also evaluating a modularized curriculum and hybrid online delivery model that effectively shares complex, expensive technician training resources between secondary and postsecondary educational institutions and efficiently allocates faculty time and effort. This model is especially impactful for smaller secondary and postsecondary institutions in rural settings with limited human and fiscal resources who wish to launch innovative technical programming.The project is evaluating the effectiveness of MCC's marketing of its manufacturing curricula to high school students and making adjustments as necessary. It is also evaluating the use of experiential advising techniques such as industry mentoring. Additionally, it is using a "hybrid" online delivery model for dual credit programming that effects operational benefits for both partners. Finally, it advances the partners' existing efforts to address workplace readiness skills such as effective self-management, communication skills, teamwork, dependability and work ethic.