Tech-4 Electronic Workforce Development System

具有国际竞争力的美国电子工业需要准备充分的劳动力。沿着佛罗里达州中部“4号州际公路走廊”（坦帕-奥兰多-代托纳）的许多社区学院和大学与工业界合作，提供工程技术/电子领域的编程；快速发展的产业需求和日益有限的资源导致了一个教育-商业联盟的建立，被称为Tech-4高科技产业教育联盟。Tech-4将利用ATE资金和超过100万美元的实际现金价值产业匹配，加强个性化机构的努力，设计和交付一个协作的、可复制的电子劳动力发展系统，通过协调共享产业和教育资源，最大限度地提高中学和低年级学生的学习效率。跨越三个ATE领域（课程和教学材料、教师和教师发展以及实验室发展）的界限，八个侧重于电子工业不同方面的模块将分布在整个地区，作为协作资源中心；教学方法将基于教学法和内容的最新趋势。通过教育和行业代表之间的广泛合作，将开发或修改明确的课程和活动（以MATEC NSF ATE中心为模型）。结果将包括入学率、保有率、结业率和安置率的增加。将鼓励成千上万的学生，包括相当数量的特殊群体学生，通过加强课程和职业意识，在大型制造商和较小的支助服务公司从事工程/工程技术职业，继续接受高等教育。社区学院毕业生可以选择立即进入就业和/或高年级学习。中学/社区大学教师将通过专业发展提高他们对教学相关性的理解。

An internationally-competitive US electronics industry requires a well-prepared workforce. Many community colleges and universities along the Central Florida "Interstate-4 corridor" (Tampa-Orlando-Daytona) work with industry to offer programming in the engineeringtechnology/electronics field; rapidly-evolving industry demands and increasingly-limited resources have led to the establishment of an education-business alliance known as the Tech-4 High-Technology Industrial Education Consortium. Tech-4 will utilize ATE funding and over $1million in substantially cash value industry match to enhance individualized institutional efforts to design and deliver a collaborative, replicable Electronics Workforce Development System that maximizes learning for secondary and lower-division students through coordinated sharing of industry and educational resources. Crossing the boundaries of three ATE areas (Curriculum and Instructional Materials; Teacher and Faculty Development; and Laboratory Development), eight modules focusing on different aspects of the electronics industry will be located across the region to serve as collaborative resource centers; instructional approaches will be based on the latest trends in pedagogy and content. Articulated courses and activities will be developed or modified (using the MATEC NSF ATE Center as a model) through extensive collaboration among education and industry representatives. Outcomes will include increased enrollment, retention, completion, and placement rates. Thousands of students, including a significant number of special population students, will be encouraged to pursue higher education studies through enhanced coursework and career awareness focusing on engineering/engineering technology careers at large manufacturers and smaller support service companies. Community college graduates may elect to immediately enter employment and/or upper division study. Secondary/community college instructors will increase their understanding of instructional relevancy through professional development.