Materials-Joining: Advanced Technologies for Tommorrow's Manufacturing Workforce

波特兰社区学院的“材料-加入：面向未来制造业劳动力的先进技术”项目是一种创新手段，旨在帮助两年制技术和高中学生及其教师为不久的将来更复杂和高度自动化的工作环境做好准备。具体来说，其目的是通过将制造业中最新的连接工艺与数学、物理、材料科学和计算机科学的课堂学习相结合，向社区大学和高中学生展示金属连接技术的先进概念。为了实现这一目标，正在开发几门新课程，以题为“加入科学的进步”的实验室经验为上限。这个顶点的经验是让学生熟悉基本的金属连接原理和实践。该项目采用灵活的交付系统，强调情境化学习。因此，通过具体的科学平台研究新技术的实践方法为学生提供了一种探索再工程概念的独特方式。

The Portland Community College "Materials-Joining: Advanced Technologies for Tomorrow's Manufacturing Workforce" project is an innovative means to prepare two-year technology and high schools students and their faculty for the more sophisticated and highly automated workplace environments of the near future. Specifically, the intent is to expose community college and high school students to advanced concepts in metals joining technology by integrating the newest joining processes in manufacturing with classroom studies in mathematics, physics, materials science, and computer science. To achieve this goal, several new courses are being developed, to be capped by a laboratory experience entitled "Advances in Joining Science." This capstone experience is familiarizing students with fundamental metal joining principles and practices. The project employs a flexible delivery system, with emphasis on contextualized learning. A hands-on approach to investigating new technology with a concrete science platform is thus being offered students as a unique way of exploring re-engineering concepts.