Innovate, Design, Engineer, and Accelerate Career Pathway

研发投入高、以创新为动力的先进制造业在地区和全国范围内不断扩大和壮大。由于美国的制造业已经从传统模式过渡到先进制造业，社区大学的制造业项目必须发展，以适应不断变化的行业环境。帕特里克·亨利社区学院(PHCC)是弗吉尼亚社区学院系统中的一所农村两年制大学，该项目与行业合作伙伴合作确定高级技术教育需求，旨在提高社区学院高级制造项目的知识和理解。它将提供一个以创业心态进行创新工作的模式，并通过动员大学教职员工和行业代表共同努力促进教学、培训和学习来审查、修订和更新高级技术教育课程。将扩大该地区农村和低收入人口的参与，并广泛传播项目成果，以增进对科学、技术和教育的了解，并为代表不足群体的学生提供服务。该项目建立在其成功的AACC MentorLinks项目的基础上，该项目帮助扩大了大学制造实验室在先进制造业教育和培训中的使用。该项目的主要目标是开发和实施一条具有嵌入式认证的创新、设计、工程和加速(IDEA)职业道路。它将使个人拥有一条职业道路，为他们准备大学学分、证书和先进制造业认可的技能，以及被证明有助于培养行业领导者确定的基本技能的创业和设计技能。评估活动将侧重于哪些活动最适合学生和行业。该IDEA计划将引入新的课程，注入创业精神和最先进的制造技术员职位所需的核心技能方面的教育和培训。它将为技术人员职位的参与者做好准备，并刺激先进制造业领域的创新和新业务发展。Idea Career Path还将为双录高中生提供职业和技术培训，从高中到副学士学位课程，再到学士学位，并在地区范围内实现预期增长的职业生涯。学生在高中期间将有可能获得最多24个学分，以及嵌入的证书，所有这些学分都可以申请到大学通用工程技术(GET)的副学士学位，该学位可以转移到四年制学位路径。该项目将与新学院研究所、高级学习和研究所、三所区域高中合作进行，并与区域行业领导者密切合作并不断提供反馈。该项目将为大学教师提供专业发展，使他们能够成功地实施IDEA计划的课程。该项目还将通过修订支持批判性思维、科学推理和创新设计的课程来加强大学生的知识基础。

The Advanced Manufacturing industry, which has a high rate of research and development investment and is fueled by innovation, continues to expand and grow regionally and nationally. Because manufacturing in the United States has transitioned from traditional models to advanced manufacturing, community college manufacturing programs must evolve to meet these changing industry environments. Working collaboratively with industry partners to determine advanced technical education needs, this project at Patrick Henry Community College (PHCC), a rural two-year college in the Virginia Community College System, is designed to advance knowledge and understanding within community college advanced manufacturing programs. It will provide a model for working innovatively with an entrepreneurial mindset and review, revise, and update advanced technical education curricula by engaging college faculty and industry representatives in a collaborative effort to promote teaching, training, and learning. The participation of the rural and low-income population in the region will be broadened, and the project results will be widely disseminated to enhance scientific, technological, and educational understanding and to serve students from under-represented groups. The project builds on its successful AACC MentorLinks project, which helped to grow the use of college Fab Lab for advanced manufacturing education and training. The primary goal of this project is to develop and implement an Innovate, Design, Engineer, and Accelerate (IDEA) Career Pathway with embedded certifications. It will equip individuals with a career pathway that prepares them with college credit, certifications, and skills recognized by the advanced manufacturing industry and entrepreneurial and design skills proven to assist in building basic skills identified by industry leaders. Evaluation activities will focus on which activities work best for students and industry. This IDEA program will introduce new curriculum infused with education and training in entrepreneurship and core skills needed in most advanced manufacturing technician positions. It will prepare participants for technician positions and spur innovation and new business development within the advanced manufacturing sector. The IDEA Career Pathway will also provide dual enrolled high school students in career and technical training a pathway from high school to an associate degree program to a baccalaureate degree and towards a career with predicted growth regionally. Students will have the potential to earn up to 24 credits while in high school, along with embedded credentials, all of which credits can be applied to Associate Degree in General Engineering Technology (GET) at the college, which is transferable to four year degree pathways. This project will be conducted in collaboration with the New College Institute, the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research, three regional high schools, and in close collaboration and with ongoing feedback from regional industry leaders. This project will provide professional development to college faculty so that they can successfully implement curriculum for the IDEA program. The project will also strengthen the knowledge base of college students through revised curricula that support critical thinking, scientific reasoning, and innovative design.