Engineering Technology Instrumentation Project

工程技术仪表项目

• 批准号: 1601442
• 负责人: Tyree Bearden
• 金额: $ 19.95万
• 依托单位: Galveston College
• 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: 2016-09-01 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1601442&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Engineering; Technology; Instrumentation; Project

Employers in the Texas Upper Gulf Coast region, like many areas of the United States, need highly qualified advanced technology employees to meet current and future workforce demand; however, they often find it difficult to find and hire sufficient number of engineering technology graduates technicians to meet their growing needs. This project at Galveston College (GC), a two-year Hispanic-serving community and technical college, is designed to advance desired societal outcomes through increased gainful employment for graduates and economic growth of employers. The goal is to revamp the existing Electrical and Electronics (E/E) Program into an advanced E/E and Instrumentation Program (INT) that will produce highly qualified technicians able to meet current and future workforce demands while substantially increasing the employability of technical graduates from the college program. The disciplinary focus of the project is Engineering Technology with an emphasis on Electronics Technology. Project partners are members of the college Industry and Business Implementation Team (IBIT) and include government agencies, businesses, and industries such as Marathon Petroleum Corporation, Landrys Corporation, Pyramid Instrumentation, SpawGlass, City Electric, Economic Development Division of County of Galveston, and Galveston Independent School District. These partners typify stakeholders providing almost 3000 new E/E & INT job opportunities within the next few years. The project will broaden opportunities for GC technician students, the majority who are from groups typically underrepresented in STEM technician fields, by supporting the social and financial investment needed to stimulate industry-academic partnerships and develop curriculum based on documented workforce needs. The project will advance knowledge and understanding within community colleges of technician education by developing a revised Integrated Curriculum Framework for Technician Education (ICF-TE). The ICF-TE, adaptable to other technician education programs, will build industry-academic partnerships that result in increased interactions between students and employers, increased employability, and improvements in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) technician teaching and learning. It will adapt known strategies to support recruitment, retention, and completion of students; and create articulation agreements with area secondary schools. Critical components of the ICF-TE were established in coordination with the IBIT who will continue to assist with implementation and outreach. These critical components of the ICF-TE include: (1) industry recognized stacked certifications, (2) problem-based teaching and learning, (3) advanced technician skills training through progressive (stacked) modules, (4) work ethics curriculum, and (5) practical training with real-world work experiences. IBIT members will interact directly with students by providing opportunities for employment, supervision, mentoring, and instruction. The primary project focus is on the E/E Associate of Applied Science (AAS) degree and certificate students and associated faculty and administration. Secondary audiences are future STEM technician students recruited from area high schools and current workers seeking to advance their technician skills. The college will expand successful practices and instructional strategies learned from this project to the other STEM technical programs. An evaluation is designed to determine best practices in technician education to meet workforce needs.

与美国许多地区一样，德克萨斯州上墨西哥湾沿岸地区的雇主需要高素质的先进技术员工来满足当前和未来的劳动力需求；然而，他们经常发现很难找到和雇用足够数量的工程技术毕业生技术人员来满足他们日益增长的需求。加尔维斯顿学院（GC）是一所两年制的为西班牙裔服务的社区和技术学院，该项目旨在通过增加毕业生的有酬就业和雇主的经济增长来促进预期的社会成果。目标是将现有的电气和电子（E/E）计划改造为先进的电子/电子和仪器仪表计划（INT），这将培养出能够满足当前和未来劳动力需求的高素质技术人员，同时大大提高大学计划技术毕业生的就业能力。该项目的学科重点是工程技术，重点是电子技术。项目合作伙伴是学院工业和商业实施团队（IBIT）的成员，包括政府机构、企业和行业，如马拉松石油公司、兰德里斯公司、金字塔仪器、SpawGlass、城市电力、加尔维斯顿县经济发展部和加尔维斯顿独立学区。这些合作伙伴是在未来几年内提供近3000个新的电子/电子和信息技术工作机会的利益相关者。该项目将通过支持社会和金融投资来促进行业-学术合作伙伴关系，并根据记录的劳动力需求开发课程，为GC技术学生（大多数来自STEM技术领域代表性不足的群体）提供更多机会。该项目将通过制定修订后的技术人员教育综合课程框架（ICF-TE），促进社区学院对技术人员教育的认识和理解。ICF-TE适用于其他技术人员教育项目，将建立产业-学术合作伙伴关系，从而增加学生与雇主之间的互动，提高就业能力，并改善科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）技术人员的教学。它将采用已知的策略来支持学生的招聘、保留和完成学业；并与地区中学签订衔接协议。ICF-TE的关键组成部分是与IBIT协调设立的，IBIT将继续协助执行和外联工作。ICF-TE的这些关键组成部分包括：(1)行业认可的堆叠认证，(2)基于问题的教学和学习，(3)通过渐进式（堆叠）模块进行高级技术人员技能培训，(4)职业道德课程，以及(5)具有实际工作经验的实践培训。IBIT成员将直接与学生互动，提供就业机会、监督、指导和指导。主要项目重点是E/E应用科学副学士（AAS）学位和证书的学生以及相关的教师和管理人员。二级受众是从地区高中招募的未来STEM技术学生和目前寻求提高技术技能的工人。学院将把从这个项目中学到的成功实践和教学策略推广到其他STEM技术项目。评估旨在确定技术人员教育的最佳实践，以满足劳动力需求。