Enhancing Welding Technician Education through the Transition of the National Center for Welding Education to a Resource Center

通过将国家焊接教育中心转变为资源中心来加强焊接技术人员教育

• 批准号: 2000539
• 负责人: Monica Pfarr
• 金额: $ 138.79万
• 依托单位: Lorain County Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-07-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2000539&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enhancing; Welding; Technician; Education; through

Welding and materials joining are basic requirements for most types of manufacturing. Welders and welding technicians are employed in diverse fields, including energy, mining, construction, agricultural equipment manufacturing, and ship and automotive manufacturing. The complexity of the welding field continues to advance and change. For example, to do their work, today's welding professionals need knowledge in chemistry, metallurgy, materials science, physics, mathematics, codes and standards, and inspection techniques. A report from the Economic Modeling Specialists predicts a clear need for skilled welders, partly because of retirements in the existing workforce. The Welding Education and Training (Weld-Ed) Resource Center will address the changing welding industry and the need to disseminate current industry data to welding instructors and industry professionals. It will also support welding programs with competency-based curricular materials, professional development activities for teachers and faculty, and the development of an accreditation program for two-year institution welding programs.To complement and enhance its portfolio of services to improve welding technician education, the Weld-Ed Resource Center aims to achieve the following goals: continue to offer professional development workshops at ten regional partner sites; develop new instructional modules for instructors and an online Welding Simulation activity for high school students; develop a Resource Guide to Outreach Events that will provide guidelines and examples to assist partners in creating additional events; develop STEM lessons for faculty to deliver to students in grades 7 through 9; develop a welding technology application for smart devices; and encourage partners to develop activities that will increase the enrollment of underrepresented populations in all levels of welding technology and welding engineering programs. Examples of these activities include a collaboration with the Society of Women Engineers, providing technical assistance to welding instructors in the Job Corps program, and development of a new series of Students in Welding videos featuring diverse students preparing for welding careers. This project is funded by the 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.

焊接和材料连接是大多数制造类型的基本要求。焊工和焊接技术人员在不同的领域工作，包括能源、采矿、建筑、农业设备制造、船舶和汽车制造。焊接领域的复杂性不断提高和变化。例如，为了完成他们的工作，今天的焊接专业人员需要化学、冶金、材料科学、物理、数学、规范和标准以及检测技术方面的知识。经济建模专家的一份报告预测，熟练焊工的明显需求，部分原因是现有劳动力的退休。焊接教育和培训（Weld-Ed）资源中心将解决不断变化的焊接行业以及向焊接讲师和行业专业人士传播当前行业数据的需求。它还将为焊接课程提供基于能力的课程材料，为教师和教职员工提供专业发展活动，并为两年制机构焊接课程制定认证计划。为了补充和加强其服务组合，以改善焊接技术人员的教育，焊接教育资源中心旨在实现以下目标：继续在十个区域合作伙伴地点提供专业发展研讨会；为教师开发新的教学模块，并为高中生开发在线焊接模拟活动；制定《外联活动资源指南》，提供指导方针和范例，协助合作伙伴举办更多活动；为教师开发STEM课程，传授给7至9年级的学生；开发智能设备焊接技术应用；并鼓励合作伙伴开展活动，增加各级焊接技术和焊接工程项目中代表性不足的人口的入学率。这些活动的例子包括与女性工程师协会的合作，为就业团项目中的焊接教师提供技术援助，以及开发一系列新的焊接学生视频，其中包括不同学生为焊接职业做准备。该项目由先进技术教育计划资助，该计划侧重于为推动国家经济的先进技术领域培养技术人员。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。