Bridging the Gap in Automated and Connected Vehicle Technology Education

缩小自动化和互联汽车技术教育的差距

• 批准号: 1700383
• 负责人: Justin Morgan
• 金额: $ 75.3万
• 依托单位: Sinclair Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-04-15 至 2022-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1700383&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Bridging; Gap; Automated; Connected; Vehicle

Profound developments in research and resources are feeding technological advancements that will soon make self-driving vehicles commonplace. Today's leading-edge, semi-autonomous connected vehicles utilize technology that includes radars, cameras, lidar, multi-domain controllers, wireless vehicle-to-vehicle communications, and software applications, to name a few. The proposed postsecondary faculty professional development project, focused on automated and connected vehicle technology, will serve the NSF's mission of promoting the progress of science by creating industry-supported workshops and college-level educational resources to academically strengthen postsecondary automotive technician degree programs. Project activities such as summer institutes and professional development webinars for faculty will be designed to advance the field of vehicle technology education across the country by informing the educators of future technicians about the new generation of vehicles that are radically changing the automotive and transportation industries. In addition to professional development, the autonomous vehicles and other materials purchased through the grant will also be used to provide outreach activities in secondary schools, including creating a toolkit comprised of interactive demonstrations designed to orient secondary school students, teachers, and counselors to automotive technician educational pathways and careers. Auto technician education must keep pace with the complexity of vehicles that incorporate aspects of robotics, machine learning, computer vision, and mechanical engineering. The goal of the proposed project is to increase the autonomous vehicle technology experience and knowledge of automotive technology educators throughout the nation and address the growing need for qualified, knowledgeable technicians with capacity to maintain and repair autonomous vehicles. The project will provide a week-long professional development session, webinars, and other learning events for 40 community college faculty annually. The project will also conduct outreach activities in secondary schools to impart information about the high wage, high-tech nature of the work of automotive technicians, important since many secondary school students skilled in science, math, and technology are not choosing automotive technician careers due in part to their misconceptions about what the work entails. The project will also monitor and document the skills and knowledge needed by the future automotive technician who will repair and maintain vehicles using a new set of skills not taught today. The project outcomes will be useful to other institutions with automotive technician education programs that need to update their curriculum to meet the changing needs in the industry or are struggling to diversify their student population interested in automotive technology careers.

研究和资源方面的深刻发展正在推动技术进步，这些进步很快就会使自动驾驶汽车变得司空见惯。今天的尖端半自动互联汽车利用的技术包括雷达、摄像头、激光雷达、多域控制器、无线车载通信和软件应用程序等。拟议的专上教师专业发展项目专注于自动化和互联汽车技术，将通过创建行业支持的研讨会和大学级别的教育资源来服务于NSF促进科学进步的使命，以在学术上加强专上汽车技师学位课程。暑期研修班和教师专业发展网络研讨会等项目活动将旨在通过向未来技术人员的教育工作者介绍正在从根本上改变汽车和交通行业的新一代汽车来推动全国汽车技术教育领域的发展。除了专业发展，通过赠款购买的自动驾驶汽车和其他材料还将用于在中学开展外联活动，包括创建一个工具包，其中包括旨在引导中学生、教师和辅导员了解汽车技师教育途径和职业的互动演示。汽车技师教育必须跟上车辆的复杂性，这些车辆融合了机器人学、机器学习、计算机视觉和机械工程的各个方面。拟议项目的目标是增加全国汽车技术教育工作者的自动驾驶汽车技术经验和知识，并满足对具有维护和维修自动驾驶汽车能力的合格、有知识的技术人员日益增长的需求。该项目每年将为40名社区学院教师提供为期一周的专业发展会议、网络研讨会和其他学习活动。该项目还将在中学开展外联活动，传播有关汽车技术员工作的高薪、高科技性质的信息，这一点很重要，因为许多掌握科学、数学和技术技能的中学生没有选择汽车技术员职业，部分原因是他们对工作所需内容的误解。该项目还将监测和记录未来汽车技术员所需的技能和知识，他们将使用今天没有教授的一套新技能来维修和维护车辆。该项目的成果将对其他拥有汽车技师教育项目的机构有用，这些机构需要更新课程以满足行业不断变化的需求，或者正在努力使对汽车技术职业感兴趣的学生群体多样化。