The NSF Advanced Technological Education Resource Center for Advanced Automotive Technology

今天，汽车业的变化比100年来都要快。这些变化颠覆了这个行业的许多传统方面。例如，网络安全现在是致力于自动驾驶汽车的汽车制造商面临的主要安全挑战，目前的预测是，到2020年，将有25亿辆联网汽车上路。随着这些变化，对汽车技术人员的需求预计将增加，同时工作变得更加技术复杂。在NSF的支持下，先进汽车技术中心(CAAT)对这一就业领域不断增加的就业机会做出了回应，该领域提供可持续的工资就业。在这一角色中，CAAT充当了教育和工业之间的沟通渠道和连接器，扩大了汽车行业技术人员的范围和可获得性。2018年，CAAT过渡为NSF先进汽车技术高级技术教育资源中心(RCAAT)。RCAAT旨在支持工业和教育跟上汽车行业技术进步的步伐。RCAAT的领导团队将与汽车制造商及其供应商密切合作，确定新兴的教育需求，并确保通过RCAAT共享的材料能够培养出一支满足汽车行业雇主需求的熟练技术劳动力。通过会议、会议和报告，RCAAT将继续是学术界、政府和行业之间的重要连接点，以提供和传播重要的先进汽车技术教育资源。今天，未来汽车工业所需的劳动力需要接受适当和有效的教育。RCAAT旨在通过扩大其经行业审查和行业批准的课程和学习资源库，为满足这一技术教育需求做出贡献。此外，该中心将继续为支持快速发展的汽车行业的项目中的教育工作者提供专业发展的协作网络。该项目由NSF高级技术教育计划资助，该计划专注于为推动国家经济的先进技术领域培养技术人员。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The auto industry is changing faster today than it has in 100 years. These changes disrupt many traditional facets of this industry. For example, cybersecurity is now a major safety challenge for automakers working on automated vehicles, and current projections are that a quarter billion connected vehicles will be on the road by 2020. With these changes, the need for automotive technicians is expected to increase while the work becomes more technically complex. With support from NSF, Center for Advanced Automotive Technology (CAAT) responded to increasing employment opportunities in this employment segment, which offers sustainable wage employment. In this role, CAAT served as a communication conduit and connector between education and industry to expand the scope and availability of technicians and technologists in the automotive sector. In 2018, CAAT transitioned to become the NSF Advanced Technological Education Resource Center for Advanced Automotive Technology (RCAAT). RCAAT aims to support the ability of industry and education to keep pace with the technological advances in the automotive industry.RCAAT's leadership team will work closely with auto manufacturers and their suppliers to determine emerging education needs, and to ensure that the materials shared through RCAAT can prepare a skilled technical workforce that meets the needs of automotive industry employers. Through meetings, conferences, and reports, RCAAT will remain an essential connection point between academia, government, and industry to provide and disseminate vital advanced automotive technology education resources. The workforce necessary for tomorrow's automotive industry needs access to appropriate and effective education today. RCAAT aims to contribute to meeting this technological education need by expanding its library of industry-reviewed and industry-approved curricula and learning resources. In addition, the center will continue to provide a collaborative network for professional development for educators in programs supporting the rapidly evolving automotive industry. This project is funded by the NSF Advanced Technological Education program that focuses on the education of technicians for the advanced-technology fields that drive the nation's economy.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.