Machine Tool Advanced Skills Technology Educational Resources (MASTER) Program

本提案为支持美国机械加工和机床工业的15个职业领域的学生学习先进技能技术开发课程和实验室材料的多州努力寻求资金支持。机床高级技能技术教育资源（硕士）项目将为机械加工和金属相关技术的AS/AAS学位选择设计、开发、测试和传播新的课程材料。由于这些职业领域一般需要某种形式的学徒或实习，这些教育材料也将被设计和规定供工业伙伴使用。该项目解决的问题是：(1)学校和大学使用过时的课程材料；(2)进入航空航天、金属和制造业等对国家经济非常重要的职业领域学习的学生减少；(3)新型多任务机床的迅速发展已经超出了许多现有技术人员的能力；(4)缺乏严格的大学水平的课程，这些课程需要为知识型工人的目标受众提供高级解决问题的技能。硕士课程将解决四个关键目标：(1)提供更多的技术毕业生，在新的加工工具和支持相关技术的多技能；(2)提高这些对我国的成功至关重要的技术领域的课程和实验室；(3)对现有行业从业人员进行大专水平的培训，使他们能够使用先进的新设备，掌握多种技能；(4)为大学和工业合作伙伴建立切实可行的机会，以验证能力要求，为具有规定的实验室工作经验的学徒/实习准备一个国家模式；(5)在全国范围内推广新课程和教材。这一合作将全国六所领先的两年制大学聚集在一起，这些大学地理位置分散，位于高需求地区，并与确定的公立学校和行业合作伙伴合作。重要的国家成果可能是许多关键行业和技术工作的生存。

This proposal solicits funding to support a multi-state effort to develop curricula and laboratory materials for student learning in advanced skills technologies for fifteen occupational areas supporting the American machining and machine tool industries. The Machine Tool Advanced Skills Technology Educational Resources (MASTER) Program will design, develop, test and disseminate new curricula materials for AS/AAS degree options in machining and metals related technologies. Since these occupational areas generally require some form of apprenticeship or internship, these educational materials will also be designed and prescribed for use with industry partners. The problems addressed by this project are: (1) the use of outdated curricula materials by schools and colleges; (2) fewer students entering programs of study in these career fields that are highly important to the nation's economy in aerospace, metals, and manufacturing; (3) the rapid evolution of new multi-task machine tools that have reached beyond the capabilities of many existing technicians; and (4) the lack of rigorous college level programs that are needed to prepare a target audience of knowledge based workers in advanced problem solving skills. Four key goals will be addressed by the MASTER Program: (1) to provide more technical graduates that are multi-skilled in new machining tools and support related technologies; (2) to upgrade curricula and laboratories in these technical fields which are critical to the success of our nation; (3) to offer college-level training to existing industry employees to become multi-skilled with new and highly advanced equipment; (4) to establish realistic opportunities for college and industrial partners to validate competency requirements, prepare a national model for apprenticeship/internship with prescribed laboratory work experiences; and (5) to disseminate the new curricula and educational materials nationally. This collaborative effort brings together six of the nation's leading two-year colleges, geographically dispersed, in areas of high demand, with identified public school and industry partners. Significant national outcomes can be the survival of many critical industries and technical jobs.