Data Center Operations Program Development: A National Approach to Improving Capacity for Data Center Education

数据中心运营计划开发：提高数据中心教育能力的国家方法

• 批准号: 2300978
• 负责人: Josh Labrie
• 金额: $ 64.99万
• 依托单位: Northern Virginia Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-01 至 2026-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2300978&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Data; Center; Operations; Program; Development

The economic activities of enterprises that rely on Internet services require a significant data center infrastructure to ensure continuity of services. In turn, data centers require significant capital investment, ongoing operational maintenance, and the technical workforce capacity to support various center operations. As data center capacity continues to expand in the Northern Virginia (NOVA) region and the country at large, a trained engineering technology workforce is necessary to meet the growing demand for skilled workers. At present, community and technical colleges lack the instructional capacity to offer programs and coursework to support this rapidly emerging technological field. This project intends to address the lack of workforce issue by developing a sustained professional development program. The proposed Data Center Operations Program Development (DCO PD) has the potential to prepare engineering technology faculty to integrate DCO skills into their teaching practice, conduct national outreach to administrators and educators, and establish professional networks with data centers and their operators regionally and nationally. The project has three primary components. First is a sustained professional development fellowship for faculty, including a three-day workshop series at NOVA Community College's data center training facility and a five-day externship at an operational data center. Second is an awareness and recruitment campaign at national conferences including project presentations, data center site visits, and hands-on skills workshops. Third, and finally, is a data center education digital resource hub serving as a repository of curriculum, industry contacts, career information, and a map of growing data center markets. The project intends to advance the understanding of industry externships and site visits as a tool for facultu professional development. Instructional materials would be disseminated through publications of the Association for Career and Technical Education's Techniques magazine, the career and technical education Journal, The Science Teacher, and Technology and Engineering Teacher. Results of the project will be submitted to peer-reviewed journals and presented at various conferences. 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.

依赖互联网服务的企业的经济活动需要一个重要的数据中心基础设施来确保服务的连续性。反过来，数据中心需要大量的资本投资、持续的运营维护和技术人员能力来支持各种中心运营。随着北方弗吉尼亚州（NOVA）地区和整个国家的数据中心容量不断扩大，需要训练有素的工程技术人员来满足对熟练工人不断增长的需求。目前，社区和技术学院缺乏教学能力，无法提供支持这一迅速崛起的技术领域的项目和课程。该项目旨在通过制定持续的专业发展计划来解决劳动力缺乏的问题。拟议的数据中心运营计划开发（DCO PD）有可能准备工程技术教师将DCO技能整合到他们的教学实践中，对管理员和教育工作者进行全国性的推广，并与数据中心及其运营商建立专业网络。该项目有三个主要组成部分。首先是为教师提供持续的专业发展奖学金，包括在NOVA社区学院的数据中心培训设施举办为期三天的系列研讨会，以及在运营数据中心进行为期五天的实习。其次是在全国性会议上开展宣传和招聘活动，包括项目演示、数据中心现场参观和动手技能研讨会。第三，也是最后一个，是数据中心教育数字资源中心，作为课程、行业联系人、职业信息和不断增长的数据中心市场地图的存储库。该项目旨在促进对行业实习和现场访问的理解，作为教师专业发展的工具。将通过职业和技术教育协会的《技术》杂志、《职业和技术教育杂志》、《科学教师》以及《技术和工程教师》的出版物传播教学材料。该项目的结果将提交给同行评审的期刊，并在各种会议上发表。该项目由先进技术教育计划资助，该计划侧重于推动国家经济的先进技术领域的技术人员的教育。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。