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

Madisonville社区学院和霍普金斯县职业技术中心正在合作提供一个制造证书项目，为学生参加制造技能标准委员会(MSSC)的认证生产技术员考试和受雇为工艺技术员做准备。该项目的智力价值在于吸引高中生进入制造业教育，研究表明，他们和他们的父母目前没有考虑这一点。双学分制造项目正在让学生熟悉现代制造，并改变他们对现代制造作为职业的可取性的看法。该项目的更广泛影响包括传播改进的营销技术，这些技术正在增加注册参加以STEM为基础的大专制造项目的学生数量，进入STEM劳动力大军，并追求进一步的STEM教育。该项目还在评估模块化课程和混合在线教学模式，该模式有效地在中等和大专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。这种模式对那些人力和财政资源有限的农村地区较小的中等和大专院校来说尤其有影响，他们希望推出创新的技术方案。该项目正在评估MCC向高中生推销其制造课程的有效性，并根据需要进行调整。它还在评估行业指导等体验式建议技术的使用。此外，它还对双积分计划使用“混合”在线交付模式，以影响双方合作伙伴的运营利益。最后，它促进了合作伙伴在解决工作场所准备技能方面的现有努力，如有效的自我管理、沟通技能、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.