Profiles of Technical Workforce Programs and Students at Two-Year Colleges

两年制学院技术劳动力项目和学生概况

• 批准号: 2000587
• 负责人: Joseph Roy
• 金额: $ 79.03万
• 依托单位: American Society For Engineering Education
• 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: 2020-04-15 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2000587&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Profiles; Technical; Workforce; Programs; Students

To maintain and expand the nation’s skilled technical workforce, it is essential to understand how technician education programs at two-year institutions support students’ academic and career pathways. However, significant gaps exist in the data needed to build this understanding. To address this gap, this project will develop and test a centralized system to collect the needed data. It will also develop a state-of-the-art visualization system to display and explore this data. These resources are intended to: (a) support peer, regional, national, and impact analyses of engineering-oriented technician programs; (b) make data available to federal and state agencies and researchers focused on STEM workforce issues; and (c) create a national digital directory of engineering-oriented technician programs at two-year colleges. This effort builds on the American Society for Engineering’s Profiles of Engineering and Engineering Technology Colleges Survey, which focuses on programs at four-year institutions. In addition, it responds to the National Science Board’s call for filling such data gaps, described in its report: The Skilled Technical Workforce: Crafting America’s Science and Engineering Enterprise. The goals of the project are to: (1) develop and test a survey instrument and administration process for standardizing and collecting information on engineering-oriented technician programs at two-year institutions; (2) augment primary data collection with existing data sources; (3) design a common taxonomy and directory describing the types of two-year engineering degrees and certificates offered nationally; and (4) create and maintain an interactive data visualization system to analyze engineering-oriented technician programs at two-year institutions for peer, regional, and national comparisons. The project will implement a centralized data gathering effort that includes survey design/administration, sampling, and item analyses for reliability and validity. Additional data acquisition activities include linking existing data files to other data repositories and to primary survey data, including development of the algorithms required to accomplish linking of these independent data sources. Data visualization activities include the use data analytics and other approaches to facilitate the understanding of large, complex data sets. A national Advisory Board will guide project activities and evaluate their impact. 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.

为了保持和扩大国家的熟练技术劳动力，必须了解两年制院校的技术人员教育计划如何支持学生的学术和职业道路。 然而，在建立这种认识所需的数据方面存在重大差距。 为了弥补这一差距，该项目将开发和测试一个收集所需数据的中央系统。 它还将开发一个最先进的可视化系统来显示和探索这些数据。 这些资源的目的是：（a）支持同行，区域，国家和工程技术人员计划的影响分析;（B）使数据提供给联邦和州机构和研究人员专注于STEM劳动力问题;（c）创建一个两年制学院工程技术人员计划的国家数字目录。 这一努力建立在美国工程学会的工程和工程技术学院概况调查的基础上，该调查侧重于四年制院校的课程。 此外，它还响应了国家科学委员会在其报告《熟练的技术劳动力：打造美国的科学和工程企业》中提出的填补此类数据空白的呼吁。 该项目的目标是：（1）开发和测试一种调查工具和管理程序，用于标准化和收集两年制院校面向工程的技术人员方案的信息;（2）利用现有数据源扩大原始数据收集;（3）设计一个通用分类和目录，描述全国提供的两年制工程学位和证书的类型;和（4）创建和维护一个交互式数据可视化系统，以分析两年制院校的工程技术人员课程，进行同行、地区和国家比较。 该项目将开展集中的数据收集工作，包括调查设计/管理、抽样和项目可靠性和有效性分析。其他数据采集活动包括将现有数据文件与其他数据储存库和原始调查数据相链接，包括开发实现这些独立数据源链接所需的算法。 数据可视化活动包括使用数据分析和其他方法来促进对大型复杂数据集的理解。 一个国家咨询委员会将指导项目活动并评价其影响。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NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。