Pivots: Reskilling Education Via Advanced Manufacturing Practicum

最近的技术进步使制造业难以以足够的速度提高现有员工的技能或寻找新员工，以跟上新的发展。通过先进制造实践进行再技能教育（REVAMP）项目旨在通过帮助传统上代表性不足的STEM人群转向制造业的成功职业来支持这些行业。特别是，参与者将是那些在STEM方面有一定背景的人，但是，由于经历了重大的生活事件，他们要么失业了一段时间，要么需要提高技能才能在这个部门工作，包括退伍军人，新美国人和留在家里的父母。每个学员将在一个夏天内通过实践学习模块接受专业发展和先进制造的各个方面的培训，然后在当地制造公司进行30周的实际工作经验。通过提供技术和核心技能，该项目将有助于满足当地和全国在可预见的未来对制造业的需求。许多新制造业和脱碳工业能力投资的中位运营日期约为2025年。总的来说，预计这些新的制造业活动将在辛辛那提一天的车程内创造超过50，000个就业机会。因此，美国五大湖和高地南部地区必须加倍努力，在未来五年内重新培养制造业劳动力。REVAMP项目旨在协助这一努力。该项目的结构将遵循科尔布的经验学习理论作为框架和内容主题将涵盖包括可持续性，添加剂模式和计算工具。项目评估数据和分析将有助于阐明体验式学习如何为寻求提升技能的个人创造和提供信息，以在先进制造业工作，并确定参与的障碍和参与者获得变革性经验所需的资源。该项目与由NSF TIP和EDU董事会资助的NSF ExLENT计划保持一致，因为它旨在为来自不同专业和教育背景的个人提供体验式学习机会，以增加他们对以下内容的兴趣和访问：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进行评估，被认为值得支持和更广泛的影响审查标准。

Recent technological advances have left manufacturing industries struggling to upskill current or find new employees at a sufficient pace to keep up with new developments. The Reskilling Education Via Advanced Manufacturing Practicum (REVAMP) project aims to support these industries by helping traditionally underrepresented populations in STEM pivot into successful careers in manufacturing. In particular, the participants will be those who have some background in STEM, but, due to experiencing major life events, have either remained unemployed for some time or require upskilling to work in this sector including veterans, new Americans, and stay-at-home parents. Each cohort will be trained in various aspects of professional development and advanced manufacturing through hands-on learning modules over a summer followed by 30 weeks of practical work experience with local manufacturing companies. By providing technical and core skills, the project will aid in filling this need for manufacturing that will exist both locally and nationally for the foreseeable future.The median operational date for many investments in new manufacturing and decarbonized industrial capability is approximately 2025. In total it is expected that these new manufacturing activities will create over 50,000 jobs just within a day’s drive of Cincinnati. Therefore, it is critical to the Great Lakes and Upland South regions of the U.S. to redouble efforts to reskill a manufacturing workforce within the next five years. The REVAMP project aims to assist in this effort. The project structure will follow Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory as a framework and the content topics to be covered include sustainability, additive modalities, and computational tools. The project evaluation data and analysis will help to elucidate how experiential learning creates and informs pathways for individuals seeking upskilling to work in advanced manufacturing and determine the barriers to participation and the resources necessary for participants to have a transformative experience. This project aligns with the NSF ExLENT Program, funded by the NSF TIP and EDU Directorates, as it seeks to support experiential learning opportunities for individuals from diverse professional and educational backgrounds to increase their interest in, and their access to, career pathways in emerging technology fields.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.