Distance-Enabled Industry-Led Data Analytics Technician Pathway (ILDAP)

该项目旨在为国家利益服务，通过创建一个远程工业数据分析技术途径（ILDAP），以填补西部山区农村信息技术和制造业熟练数据技术人员的严重短缺。数据正在改变经济和社会的各个领域。所有类型的企业都需要能够收集、清理、分析、理解和可视化数据的技术人员。由于经济的急剧增长和数据分析领域的最新发展，Intermountain West正在努力满足对中级技能数据技术人员的极端需求。该项目将为在职员工提供获得数据分析技能的途径，并改变女性在家获得高需求分析技能的方式，以便重新进入劳动力市场。该项目有可能为技术学院如何与当地行业合作提供知识，以远程提供高效、引人入胜和有效的数据分析指导，同时为参与者的工作晋升和/或进入大学做好准备。在强劲的行业投入的推动下，ILDAP项目旨在通过以下方式解决山间西部对中等技能数据分析技术人员的需求：(1)建立数据分析业务行业领导团队；(2)通过专业发展提高讲师的专业知识；(3)开发远程数据分析课程，以覆盖在职工人和在家的女性；(4)招聘和留住女性从事数据分析工作。通过强有力的行业合作，该项目将开发出可在当地和全国共享的精致课程和项目资源。项目团队计划分享拟议的课程和从代表性不足的群体中招收学生的做法。项目成果将分享给当地的工业界和三个当地学区。项目团队计划通过年度实践社区会议向七所州内技术学院传播结果。为了广泛接触感兴趣的各方，项目团队将在全国各种会议上展示他们的工作，并在atecentral.net上分享项目产品。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。

This project aims to serve the national interest by creating a Distance-Enabled Industry-Led Data Analytics Technician Pathway (ILDAP) to fill the critical shortage of skilled data technicians in information technology and manufacturing sectors in the rural Intermountain West. Data is transforming the economy and society across all sectors. Businesses of all types need technicians who can collect, clean, analyze, understand, and visualize data. Due to dramatic economic growth and the recency of the data analytics field, the Intermountain West is struggling to meet the extreme demand for middle-skilled data technicians. This project will create an avenue for incumbent workers to gain data analytics skills and transform how women at home will gain high demand analytical skills in order to reenter the workforce. The project has the potential to generate knowledge of how technical colleges can partner with local industry to produce efficient, engaging, and effective data analytics instruction at a distance to simultaneously prepare participants for job advancement and/or a pathway towards college.Driven by robust industry input, the ILDAP project intends to resolve the need for middle-skilled data analytics technicians in the Intermountain West by: (1) developing a Data Analytics Business Industry Leadership Team, (2) increasing instructor expertise through professional development (3) developing distance-enabled data analytics courses to reach incumbent workers and women at home, and (4) recruiting and retaining women into data analytics. Through robust industry collaborations, this project will develop a refined curriculum and programmatic resources that can be shared locally and nationally. The project team plans to share the proposed curriculum and practices in recruiting students from underrepresented groups. The project results will be shared locally to industry and three local school districts. The project team plans to disseminate results with seven in-state technical colleges regionally through the yearly community of practice meeting. In order to reach the wide breadth of interested parties, the project team will present their work nationally at various conferences and share project products at atecentral.net. 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.