Maryland Center for Manufacturing Education Excellence

四所服务于马里兰州选区的社区学院正在合作创建马里兰州制造业卓越教育中心（MCMEE）。在私营企业、行业协会、高等教育、中等教育、政府机构和评估专家的参与下，该中心旨在通过发现、利用和传播国家技能标准委员会、制造技能标准委员会和ATE中心等智力资源，为制造业教育提供信息和改进。巴尔的摩县社区学院（CCBC）将在南马里兰学院、哈福德社区学院和ww - wic社区学院的协助下领导这项工作。项目目标、活动和可交付成果代表了一项全面的战略，以增加制造技术人员的数量，以满足当地劳动力的需求，并提高这些工人的技术技能。该中心将把精力集中在四个项目领域：(1)课程开发和调整：为了解决马里兰州多样化的制造业基础，合作伙伴正在设计一个模块化的、灵活的项目，可以重新配置和调整，以满足高中或大学水平的各种劳动力教育需求。该模型将13个行业分为三个主要部分：加工、制造和电子/仪器仪表。课程围绕WorkKeys系统定义的核心工作技能集群（例如，应用技术，团队合作，观察）和项目团队确定的核心技术技能（例如，仪器校准，工业测量，过程控制）构建，这是大多数行业共同的。(2)技能评估和劳动力/计划改进：雇主需要可靠的方法来评估求职者的关键技术和工作技能；教育工作者寻求类似的技能衡量标准，以确保他们的学生在毕业时为工作做好准备。为此，MCMEE正在构建一种评估方法，其基础是新创建的课程与当地雇主对在职表现的期望之间存在强烈的正相关关系。有了这些新仪器，中心可以评估当前和未来制造工人的技能。评估数据正在被汇编、汇总、分析，并报告给教育者和雇主，以用于质量改进工作。(3)加强对制造业职业的招聘：改变制造业工作负面形象的双管齐下的方法既针对教育工作者，也针对学生。来自高中和大学的教师和职业顾问正在参加在线技术课程，参观和介绍生产设施，参加讲习班和全国会议，并参加当地公司的实习。吸引学生进入制造业的创新举措包括巴尔的摩工业博物馆的新体验，以及为高中生开设的密集夏季讲习班。(4)电子通信和服务集成：基于web的门户是获取制造业相关服务和信息的中心资源，包括基于技能的职业探索和工作匹配；网上职位发布和申请的工作交流；促进教育和培训机会；教员、雇主、服务提供者和其他受众之间的联系；以及项目和评估信息的在线发布。

Four community colleges serving constituencies throughout the state of Maryland are collaborating to create the Maryland Center for Manufacturing Education Excellence (MCMEE). With the participation of private industry, trade associations, higher education, secondary education, government agencies, and assessment experts, the Center aims to inform and improve manufacturing education through discovery, utilization, and dissemination of intellectual resources such as the National Skill Standards Board, the Manufacturing Skill Standards Council, and the ATE centers. The Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) will lead the effort, with assistance from College of Southern Maryland, Harford Community College, and Wor-Wic Community College. The project objectives, activities and deliverables represent a comprehensive strategy to increase the number of manufacturing technicians to meet local workforce demands, and to improve the technical skills of those workers. The center will focus its energies in four program areas: (1) Curriculum development and adaptation: To address Maryland's diverse manufacturing base, the partners are designing a modular, flexible program that can be reconfigured and adapted to address varied workforce education needs at the high school or college level. The model arranges thirteen industries into three primary segments: processing, fabrication, and electronics/instrumentation. The curriculum is structured around a cluster of core workplace skills as defined by the WorkKeys system (e.g., applied technology, teamwork, observation) and core technical skills (e.g., instrument calibration, industrial measurements, process control) identified by the project team as common to a majority of the industries.(2) Skill assessment and workforce/program improvement: Employers are demanding reliable methods to assess critical technical and workplace skills of job applicants; educators seek similar skill measurements to ensure that their students are work-ready upon graduation. To that end, MCMEE is constructing an assessment methodology grounded in the strong positive correlation between the newly-created curricula and on-the-job performance expectations of local employers. With those new instruments, the Center can assess the skills of current and future manufacturing workers. Assessment data is being compiled, aggregated, analyzed, and reported to educators and employers for use in quality improvement efforts.(3) Enhanced recruitment to manufacturing careers: A two-pronged approach to change the negative image of manufacturing jobs targets both educators and students. Faculty and career counselors from both high schools and colleges are participating in on-line technical courses, tours and presentations at manufacturing facilities, attending workshops and national conference, and participating in internships at local companies. Innovative efforts to attract students to manufacturing include new experiences at the Baltimore Museum of Industry and intensive summer workshops for high school students. (4) Electronic communication and integration of services: A web-based portal is a central resource for accessing services and information related to manufacturing, including skills-based career exploration and job matching; a job exchange for on-line job postings and applications; promotion of education and training opportunities; linkages among faculty, employers, service providers, and other audiences; and on-line dissemination of project and assessment information.