Associate Degree for Manufacturing Technicians

今天，大多数社区大学都不提供广泛接受的便携式制造业副学士学位。该项目将开发可融入现有课程的教学模块，从而为此类学位奠定基础。学生将学习由一个由教育工作者和雇主组成的全国小组于1994年制定的22项通用标准。这些标准主要基于秘书实现必要技能委员会（SCANS）所定义的能力。由数学、科学和技术教师组成的多学科团队将为16个教学模块设计一系列cd - rom和打印材料，并设计第17个基于工作的模块。这些材料将由教育电影中心制作。设计团队将来自五所领先学院，代表五个社区学院联盟，其中包括130多所大学。牵头学院将实施修订后的课程，并将结果分发给联盟成员。两个联盟是州系统——加利福尼亚和新罕布什尔，两个是基于行业的——波音和联盟（美国电话电报公司及其工会），最后一个是制造业竞争力联盟。附属学院也将实施教学模块，目前已有25所学院被提名或表示希望参与。包括美国社区学院协会、全国制造商协会、五大财团、IBM、福特、公共广播系统和辛克莱社区学院等相关机构的代表在内的全国委员会将指导设计和实施活动，并帮助将结果传播给全国的社区学院和雇主。美国研究所将进行形成性和总结性评估。一个成功的项目将对技术教育和美国制造业的竞争力产生重大影响。

Today, most community colleges are not offering a broadly accepted portable associate degree in manufacturing. This project will develop instructional modules that can be infused into existing curricula and, thereby, create the foundation for such a degree. Students will be brought to 22 generic standards developed by a national panel of educators and employers in 1994. The standards are based primarily on the competencies defined by the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS). Multidisciplinary teams of mathematics, science, and technology faculty will design a series of CD-ROMs and print materials for 16 instructional modules and design a 17th work-based module. The materials will be produced by the Educational Film Center The design teams will come from five Lead Colleges representing five consortia of community colleges, which include over 130 colleges. The Lead Colleges will implement the revised curriculum and disseminate the results to consortia members. Two consortia are state systems -- California and New Hampshire, two are industry-based -- Boeing and the Alliance (of AT&T and its unions), and the last is the Consortium for Manufacturing Competitiveness. Affiliate Colleges will also implement the instructional modules and, already, 25 colleges have been nominated or have indicated that they want to participate. National boards, which include representatives of the American Association of Community Colleges, the National Association of Manufacturers, the five consortia, IBM, Ford, the Public Broadcasting System, and institutions at the forefront of related efforts such as Sinclair Community College, will guide the design and implementation activities and help disseminate the results to community colleges and employers across the nation. A formative and summative evaluation will be undertaken by the American Institutes for Research. A successful project will have a significant impact on technical education and on the comp etitiveness of American manufacturing.