Building Scalable and Integrated Pathways to Industry 4.0 for Regional SMEs

50年来，卡莫森学院一直站在大维多利亚州(GV)、不列颠哥伦比亚省(BC)及其他地区学生培养的前沿，服务于勒昆根人和WSANEC人这片传统的不为人知的领地。Camosun Innovates(CI)纳入了卑诗省的第一个技术获取中心(TAC)，自2010年以来一直是Camosun学院的应用研究和技术开发中心。在此期间，CI已成长为应用研究和创新领域的地区领先者，为从制造业和农业到体育和艺术的各种行业提供服务。CI支持学生培训和行业伙伴关系，包括设计思维和构思、复合材料结构和技术、塑料成型/连接/成型、逆向工程、3D打印和扫描、原型和概念验证，以及广义上定义的先进制造的所有方面。通过我们的材料集成研究和创意实验室(MIRACL)、扩展现实研究和创新工作室(XRRAIS)以及新成立的门槛创新应用研究和培训中心(CARTTI)，专注于自动化、机电一体化和工业物联网(IIoT)，我们处于有利地位，将学生和中小企业推向和引入工业4.0。所有这些都表明了Camosun应用研究计划的总体目标，以及我们对商业、社区、文化、创新、学习和研究的核心承诺。最基本的是，Camosun的应用研究议程旨在改善学生的学习，满足商业和工业的需求，解决社区和文化中的不平等问题，减少生态足迹，并让尽可能多的加拿大人的生活更好。这笔赠款将培训更多的学生并改变课程设置，使未来的学习者更好地为未来的工作做好准备，同时也有助于多样化和扩大从事高需求工作培训的学生群体。它将侧重于当地商业部门确定的最重要的关键领域，包括：加强对商业困难的技术、机械、电气和生化解决方案；扩大材料集成在环境挑战中的应用；提高我们为模拟问题提供数字解决方案的能力；以及改善我们在代表性不足的人群中的影响，从残疾人社区和新加拿大人到妇女、第一民族和LGBTQ2+民族。

Serving from the traditional unceded territories of the Lekwungen and WSANEC peoples for 50 years, Camosun College has been at the forefront of student training for Greater Victoria (GV), British Columbia (BC), and beyond. Camosun Innovates (CI), incorporating BC's first Technology Access Centre (TAC), has been the centre of applied research and technical development at Camosun College since 2010. In that time, CI has grown to become a regional leader in applied research and innovation, providing services for industries ranging from manufacturing and agriculture to sports and the arts. CI supports student training and industry partnerships in design thinking and ideation, composites construction and techniques, plastics forming/joining/molding, reverse engineering, 3d printing and scanning, prototyping and proof of concept, and all aspects of advanced manufacturing broadly defined. With our Materials Integration Research and Creativity Lab (MIRACL), Extended Realities Research and Innovation Studio (xRRAIS), and newly formed Centre for Applied Research and Training in Threshold Innovation (CARTTI) focusing on automation, mechatronics, and the industrial internet of things (IIoT), we are well placed to move students and SMEs towards and intro Industry 4.0. All of this points to the overall objectives of Camosun's applied research program, and the core commitments we have to business, community, culture, innovation, learning, and research. At its most basic, Camosun's applied research agenda seeks to improve learning for students, meet the needs of business and industry, address the inequities within communities and cultures, reduce ecological footprints, and make life better for as many Canadians as possible. This grant will train more students and change curriculum to make future learners more ready for the jobs of tomorrow, while aalso serving to diversify and expand the pool of students engaged in training for high0-demand jobs. It will focus on key areas identified by local business sectors as most important, including: enhancing technical, mechanical, electrical, and biochemical resolutions to business difficulties; expanding the applications of materials integration to environmental challenges; increasing our abilities to bring digital solutions to analog problems; and improving our impact among under-represented populations ranging from the disability community and new Canadians to women, First Nations, and LGBTQ2+ peoples.