Integrating Electric Vehicle Technology in Legacy Automotive Programs

田纳西州在美国东南部电动汽车制造方面排名第一，自2013年以来，该州生产了超过16.2万辆电动汽车。自2020年以来，通用汽车和福特都宣布了在田纳西州生产电动汽车的重大新投资。随着电动汽车技术的快速发展和道路上电动汽车数量的不断增加，有必要在整个州建立多种培训计划，包括独立的计划和整合到传统汽车计划中的计划。这将满足全州及其他地区对电动汽车维护和维修技术人员日益增长的需求。东北州立社区学院培养汽车技术人员已有50多年的历史，其汽车服务技术项目平均每年招收60名学生。该项目将研究将电动汽车技术整合到传统汽车培训项目中的有效性，并记录相关的独特挑战。这一努力的成果将包括教师专业发展、工作技能分析和课程修订，所有这些都将改善这一高需求领域学生的成果。东北州立大学将利用与行业合作伙伴的现有关系以及最近与国家电动汽车联盟（NEVC）的合作关系，确保教师的专业发展，开展工作任务分析，以确定关键的电动汽车维护和维修技能和能力，审查现有的电动汽车维护和维修课程，制定课程以解决差距，试点课程，并进行有针对性的招聘，以增加女性在该计划中的代表性。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。

Tennessee ranks first in the Southeastern United States for electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing, with more than 162,000 electric vehicles manufactured in the state since 2013. General Motors and Ford have both announced major new investments in EV production in Tennessee since 2020. As EV technology continues to advance at a rapid pace and the number of electric vehicles on the road continues to increase, it will be necessary to establish multiple training programs throughout the state, including stand-alone programs and those that are integrated into legacy automotive programs. This will address the growing need for EV maintenance and repair technicians statewide and beyond. Northeast State Community College has trained automotive technicians for more than fifty years, enrolling an average of sixty students each year in its Automotive Service Technology program. This project will study the effectiveness of and document the unique challenges associated with integrating EV technology into a legacy automotive training program. Outcomes of this effort will include faculty professional development, a job skills analysis, and curricular revisions, all of which will improve outcomes for students in this high need area.Northeast State will leverage existing relationships with industry partners and a recent partnership with the National Electric Vehicle Consortium (NEVC) to secure faculty professional development, conduct a job tasks analysis to identify critical EV maintenance and repair skills and competencies, review existing EV maintenance and repair curriculum, develop curriculum to address gaps, pilot the curriculum, and conduct targeted recruitment to increase representation of women in the program. 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.