Advanced Programmable Logic Controllers, Robotics, and Networking

据《华尔街日报》报道，制造业高管表示，尽管每个制造业职位空缺都有两名失业的制造业工人，但他们很难找到具备现代工厂运营所需技能的工人（Sussman，2016），因为由于技术进步的步伐加快，传统与当前和未来的行业要求之间存在知识差距。在与行业合作伙伴的合作下，德克萨斯州孤星星星学院大学公园（LSC-UP）的这个名为高级PLC，机器人和网络的项目旨在更好地培养技术人员操作和维护现代工厂机器，并在未来的数字工厂中工作，从而提高毕业生的就业能力，并发展多样化，具有全球竞争力的科学，技术，工程，和数学（STEM）劳动力。项目活动将包括编制课程和教材、评价课程和传播所获知识。它将帮助员工，因为他们变得更有就业能力，并接受尖端行业标准设备的培训。这将使未来的雇员能够提高他们的个人福祉和他们的家庭，同时通过确保雇员教育和培训与雇主需求保持同步，并与行业技能需求保持一致，提高美国的经济竞争力。从该项目中获得的知识将允许传播行业驱动的课程，以改变技术人员的教育和培训，以适应技术的进步，并通过能源制造研究所将课程制度化，从而长期加强学院的技术人员教育。这些课程将通过一份供出版的文件、会议介绍和提交给《劳动力教育课程手册》（WECM）来传播，为了满足行业对多技能技术人员在未来制造工厂工作的需求，未来制造工厂将严重依赖使用真实的-时间和历史数据，以有效和安全地运行，学院将堆栈计算机网络课程，其目前的机电一体化技术人员的教育和培训计划。两个新的机电一体化课程将开发纳入计算机网络，以更好地为现代数字工厂的技术人员做好准备。这些新的网络课程将为学生提供必要的知识，技能和能力，以利用分布式控制系统来控制连续或批量导向的制造过程，以及用于远程监测和控制的监控和数据采集（SCADA）系统技术工作场所。该项目将通过确定雇主雇用机电一体化课程毕业生的新需求来促进技术人员教育和培训方面的知识。这些课程将由行业合作伙伴进行评估，以确定其符合机电一体化计划支持的职业的当前和预计需求，如工程技术人员，工艺技术人员和机电一体化技术人员。

According to the Wall Street Journal, manufacturing executives indicate that they struggle to find workers with the required skills to operate in the modern factory, despite the presence of two unemployed manufacturing workers per manufacturing job opening (Sussman, 2016), because there is a knowledge gap between traditional and current and future industry requirements due to the accelerated pace of technological advances. In collaboration with industry partners, this project at Lone Star College University Park (LSC-UP) in Texas entitled Advanced PLC, Robotics, and Networking is designed to better prepare technicians to operate and maintain modern factory machines and work in the digital plant of the future, thus enhancing the employability of graduates and developing a diverse, globally competitive science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce. Project activities will include curriculum and educational materials development, the evaluation of curriculum, and dissemination of the knowledge gained. It will assist employees as they become more employable and are trained on cutting edge industry standard equipment. This will allow future employees to enhance their personal well-being and that of their families while increasing the economic competiveness of the United States by ensuring that employee education and training keeps pace with employer demand and is aligned with industry skill needs. The knowledge obtained from this project will allow for the dissemination of industry driven curricula to transform the education and training of technicians to account for advancing technology and lead to long term enhanced technician education at the college as the courses are institutionalized through the Energy & Manufacturing Institute. The curricula will be disseminated through a paper for publication, conference presentations, and submission to the Workforce Education Course Manual (WECM), impacting the education of technicians at higher education institutions across the state and the country.To address the industry needs for a multi-skilled technician to work in the manufacturing plant of the future that will rely heavily on integrated and intelligent ecosystems that use real-time and historical data to run efficiently and safely, the college will stack computer networking courses upon their current Mechatronics Technician education and training programs. Two new Mechatronics courses will be developed to incorporate computer networking to better prepare technicians for the modern digital plant. These new networking courses will provide students with the knowledge, skills, and competencies necessary to utilize the distributed control systems used to control manufacturing processes that are continuous or batch-oriented as well as the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems used for remote monitoring and control in technical workplaces. This project will advance knowledge regarding technician education and training by identifying the emerging needs of employers hiring graduates of Mechatronics programs. The curricula will be evaluated by industry partners to ascertain its compliance with the current and projected needs of the occupations supported by Mechatronics programs, such as engineering technicians, process technicians, and mechatronics technicians.