Pivots: Reskilling Education Via Advanced Manufacturing Practicum

最近的技术进步使得制造业很难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。通过先进制造业实习的再技能教育（REVAMP）项目旨在通过帮助传统上代表性不足的STEM人口转向制造业的成功职业，来支持这些行业。特别是，参与者将是那些有一些STEM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领域工作，包括退伍军人、新美国人和全职父母。每个队列将在一个夏天通过动手学习模块在专业发展和先进制造的各个方面进行培训，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，该项目将有助于在可预见的未来满足当地和全国制造业的需求。许多新制造业和脱碳工业能力投资的运营日期中位数约为2025年。总的来说，预计这些新的制造业活动将在距离辛辛那提一天的车程内创造超过5万个就业岗位。因此，美国五大湖和南部高地地区在未来五年内加倍努力重新培训制造业劳动力是至关重要的。改造项目旨在协助这方面的努力。项目结构将遵循Kolb的体验式学习理论作为框架，涵盖的内容主题包括可持续性、附加模式和计算工具。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先进制造业工作技能的个人创造和提供途径，并确定参与的障碍和参与者获得变革体验所需的资源。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，以增加他们对新兴技术领域职业道路的兴趣和机会。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。

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.