Agricultural Robotics and Automation Technologies

农业机器人及自动化技术

• 批准号: 2348815
• 负责人: Keith Olander
• 金额: $ 64.87万
• 依托单位: Central Lakes College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-07-01 至 2027-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2348815&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Agricultural; Robotics; Automation; Technologies

This project aims to serve the national interest by developing a new, industry and college-driven robotics and automation technician curriculum for secondary and two-year college students. The project will also include professional development for teachers which will be developed and aligned with the curriculum. The project will meet a documented industry need for increased numbers of qualified technicians nationwide with robotic competencies to work in both urban and isolated, rural areas. The significance and importance of this project will be reflected in the impact of the project to (1) meet current, pressing workforce needs in agriculture technologies and (2) enable students to potentially gain college credit or concurrent or articulated enrollment with 2- and 4-year institutions. The project will meet the mission of NSF and the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program to advance, define, and disseminate the knowledge and skills that expand the progress of science knowledge and applications.The scope of this project is to prepare students for existing and emerging agricultural technology fields. With input from industry, secondary teachers, and post-secondary faculty, the goals of the project are: (1) to develop, implement, evaluate, and disseminate three agricultural modules with student assessment that will increase the number of students who are skilled robotics and automation technicians and ready for the workforce or post-secondary education; (2) to develop a model of professional development for teachers to implement the modules; and (3) to provide direction and support to bridge the divides between secondary and post-secondary agricultural science education and the workforce which includes developing micro-credentials for the modules. 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.

该项目旨在通过为中学生和两年制大学生开发一种新的、行业和大学驱动的机器人和自动化技术员课程来服务于国家利益。该项目还将包括教师的专业发展，将根据课程发展并与之保持一致。该项目将满足记录在案的行业对全国范围内越来越多的合格技术人员的需求，这些技术人员具有在城市和偏远的农村地区工作的机器人能力。该项目的意义和重要性将体现在该项目的影响上：(1)满足当前迫切的农业技术劳动力需求；(2)使学生有可能获得大学学分，或同时或衔接地进入2年制和4年制院校。该项目将满足NSF和高级技术教育(ATE)计划的使命，促进、定义和传播知识和技能，以扩大科学知识和应用的进步。该项目的范围是为学生为现有和新兴的农业技术领域做准备。在业界、中学教师和中学后教师的参与下，该项目的目标是：(1)开发、实施、评估和传播三个带学生评估的农业模块，这将增加熟练的机器人和自动化技术人员的学生数量，并为劳动力或高等教育做好准备；(2)为教师开发实施这些模块的专业发展模式；以及(3)提供指导和支持，以弥合中学和中学后农业科学教育与劳动力之间的鸿沟，其中包括为这些模块开发微型证书。该项目由高级技术教育计划资助，该计划专注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NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。