California Regional Consortium for Engineering Advances in Technological Education (CREATE) Center for Information & Manufacturing Technologies

Create Center是由7所社区学院、5所大学和50多家雇主以地区性的方式共同努力，在各种高需求的信息和制造技术方面向劳动力提供新技术进步的教育。财团成员服务于加州沿海和中部的大部分地区，面积超过9000平方英里，代表着100多万人口。NSF-ATE之前的两个项目已经为4000多名学生提供了教育，开发和实施了30个新的学位课程和105个新课程，并通过创新的行业和大学伙伴关系促进了100多万美元的额外资金。该中心的目标是：1.增加信息技术和制造技术方面的训练有素的教师队伍。峡谷学院的获奖培训计划(Hesburgh卓越证书)已被调整为三年制模式，以培训来自行业的兼职教师，使其具有强大的教学能力和熟练的课堂教师。在高中阶段增加教养计划。为高中教员举办的暑期实践讲习班和学年辅导使高中教员可以轻松地使用电子工具包/模块将其整合回学校。增加学士级别的转学课程，这些课程既有明确的内容，也可以通过新的技术副学士学位课程进行访问。五所大学正在与CREATE合作，不仅在所有课程之间建立强有力的衔接，而且还开始在社区大学校园现场提供BS课程，大学中心的概念已经在峡谷学院和艾伦·汉考克学院成功试行。创建一个有组织的系统，用于开发、记录和实施信息技术和制造技术的现场实习经验。制定、调整和实施网络安全、无线和电信技术以及更多基于问题的、模块化的制造技术课程和标准化的地区性计划6。评估和对比在线(以学习者为中心)和课堂形式完成技术认证的学生的学习情况、工作场所能力和行业认证项目的通过率。实施模型评估，跟踪过去和未来的学生进入和参与工作场所和/或转业，以纵向衡量所有利益相关者(包括大学、学生和雇主)的教育经验的成功。Create Center学院及其合作伙伴充当课程实施、地区会议和教师培训的示范点，并继续促进联盟合作伙伴关系，为该地区培养最优秀的熟练技术人员。在技术和教师培训中开发的所有课程和材料都可供任何愿意根据自己的需要进行调整的大学使用。传播包括会议演示文稿、出版物和中心网站。

The CREATE Center is a joint effort between seven community colleges, five universities, and over fifty employers in a regional approach to educate the workforce in new technological advances in a wide range of high demand information and manufacturing technologies. The consortium members serve a large portion of coastal and central California of over 9,000 square miles, representing a population of over one million. Two previous NSF-ATE projects have educated over 4,000 students, developed and implemented 30 new degree programs and 105 new courses, and facilitated more than a million dollars in additional funding through innovative industry and college partnerships.The goals of the Center are:1. Increase pools of trained teachers for both Information Technology and Manufacturing Technology. An award winning training program (Hesburgh Certificate of Excellence) at College of the Canyons has been adapted to a three-year model to train part-time teachers from industry to be pedagogically strong and adept classroom teachers.2. Increase feeder programs at the high school level. Summer hands-on workshops for high school faculty and academic year mentoring give high school faculty easy to use electronics kits/modules to incorporate back at their schools.3. Increase Bachelor's level transfer programs that both articulate and are accessible with the new technology Associate degree programs. Five universities are working with CREATE to not only develop strong articulation between all the programs, but to also begin to offer BS programs on-site at the community college campus, a University Center concept already successfully pilot tested at College of the Canyons and now at Allan Hancock College.4. Create an organized system for developing, documenting (through student portfolio), and implementing work site internship experiences for both Information Technology and Manufacturing Technology.5. Develop, adapt, and implement regionally programs in network security, wireless and telecommunications technologies and more problem-based, modularized manufacturing technology curricula and standardization6. Evaluate and contrast the learning, workplace competencies, and pass rate in industry certification programs of students who complete technical certifications in on-line (learner-centered vs. traditional) vs. in-class formats.7. Implement a model evaluation that is going to follow both past and future students as they enter and participate in the workplace and/or transfer to measure longitudinally the success of the educational experience for all stakeholders, including colleges, students, and employers.The CREATE Center colleges and their partners act as demonstration sites for curricula implementation, regional meetings, teacher training, and continue to foster the consortium partnerships to deliver the best set of skilled technicians for the region. All curricula and material developed both in technical and teacher training is available to any college who would like to adapt them to their needs. Dissemination includes conference presentations, publications, and center web site.