Comprehensive Integration of Advanced Manufacturing Competencies throughout an Associates Degree and a Stackable Certificate Curricula

伯灵顿县的罗文学院正在与罗文大学合作开展一项名为“在整个副学士学位和可堆叠证书课程中全面整合先进制造能力”的项目。这个项目的动机来自直接的观察和经验，支持这样一个事实，即区域和国家对毕业生拥有行业所重视的技能和能力的巨大需求。该项目利用过去NSF资助的工作以及新的劳动力发展倡议，强调支持先进制造课程和行业所需的关键技能和能力。该项目的目标是加强和扩大工程技术计划，并作为创建计划和教育途径的渠道，以满足该地区和全国未得到满足的培训需求和新兴高增长行业的需求。这些目标将通过在整个课程中突出技术和非技术技能来实现，通过开发一个将作为课程资源的应用程序库来纳入相关原则的直接例子，通过创建和加强工业咨询委员会，并通过创建包括学位和证书课程以及设施在内的新的先进制造业教育途径。该项目涉及教育、工业和专业合作伙伴之间的密切合作，以开发灵活的教育途径、全面和战略性的区域网络以及可获得和有效资源的交换中心，所有这些都是为了让学生做好准备，以满足先进制造业雇主的需求。

Rowan College at Burlington County, in partnership with Rowan University, is conducting the project entitled "Comprehensive Integration of Advanced Manufacturing Competencies throughout an Associates Degree and a Stackable Certificate Curricula." The motivating rationale for this project stems from direct observations and experiences supporting the fact that there is a tremendous regional and national need for graduates to possess the skills and competencies valued by industry. This project leverages past NSF-funded work as well as new workforce development initiatives to emphasize the critical skills and competencies needed to support advanced manufacturing curricula and industry. The goals of this project are to strengthen and expand an Engineering Technology program and to serve as a conduit for the creation of programs and educational pathways that address unmet training needs and the needs of emergent high growth industries, both in the region and nationally. These goals will be accomplished by highlighting technical and non-technical skills across the curriculum, by developing an applications library that will serve as a curriculum resource to incorporate direct examples of relevant principles, by creating and strengthening industrial advisory committees, and by creating new advanced manufacturing educational pathways including degree and certificate programs, and facilities. This project involves the close collaboration between educational, industrial, and professional partners to develop flexible educational pathways, a comprehensive and strategic regional network, and a clearinghouse of accessible and effective resources, all for the purpose of preparing students to meet the needs of advanced manufacturing employers.