Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing

康涅狄格州社区学院系统通过其技术学院(COT)正在开发一个ATE下一代制造区域中心(RCNGM)。该中心是培训灵活的制造业劳动力的区域协调中心，这些劳动力能够熟练地实施技术进步并能够满足制造业不断变化的需求。关键是要充分宣传先进制造业和新兴技术的就业机会，并对学生进行教育，以满足现代制造业的需求。人们普遍认为，制造业是肮脏、嘈杂、愚蠢的装配线，没有发展的机会，这种看法必须改变。高技术、高技能、高工资的制造业对我们国家的经济未来至关重要，这个区域中心正在创建先进制造业教育项目的典范。RCNGM是社区学院技术学院与全国制造商协会制造研究所、康涅狄格州工商协会(CBIA)教育基金会、康涅狄格州先进技术中心、政府机构以及中等和高等教育机构的合作伙伴关系。RCNGM建立在合作伙伴收到的几笔ATE、CSEMS和CCLI赠款的成功基础上。根据2003年CBIA成员调查，制造商预计69%的劳动力将在未来10年内退休，这创造了对新的职业道路和新的教育计划的迫切需求。RCNGM是：建立制造业学习基础设施和知识交付系统，其中包括基于网络的混合教学和加强的2+2+2无缝途径；让行业参与，就技能需求、课程要求、职业道路和获得用于教育的行业最佳做法和设施提供持续指导；开发和调整坚实的基础核心课程，开设技术和行业选修课，确保就业和职业发展的最新技能；推销高科技制造业职业和职业道路，并招收学生；在行业和大学环境中创造社区学院和中学教师发展机会，以及学生实习；促进以学生和工人为中心的协作基础设施，以支持终身学习，并鼓励知识共享和持续的专业发展。该计划的智力优势在于课程内容，以及用于培养精密机械加工、光子学/激光应用、燃料电池/清洁能源和医疗器械仪器方面的技术劳动力的各种课程交付方法。该下一代制造中心的更广泛影响反映在它为行业和高等教育开发的合作模式中，以共同培养熟练和多样化的制造业劳动力。它通过与不结盟运动以及其他ATE国家和地区中心和项目的独特伙伴关系产生全国影响。

The Connecticut Community College System through its College of Technology (COT) is developing an ATE Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing (RCNGM). The Center is the regional focal point for the education of an agile manufacturing workforce skilled in the implementation of advances in technology and capable of meeting the changing needs of the manufacturing industry. It is critical that career opportunities in advanced manufacturing and emerging technologies be well publicized and that students be educated to meet the needs of modern manufacturing. The widespread perception of manufacturing as dirty, noisy, mindless assembly lines, with no opportunities for advancement, must be changed. High tech, high skill, high wage manufacturing is critical to our nation's economic future, and this regional Center is creating a model for advanced manufacturing education programs. The RCNGM is a partnership of the Community Colleges' College of Technology with the Manufacturing Institute of the National Association of Manufacturers, the Education Foundation of the Connecticut Business and Industry Association (CBIA), the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, government agencies, and secondary and higher education institutions. The RCNGM builds on the successes of several ATE, CSEMS and CCLI grants received by the partners. According to a 2003 CBIA member survey, manufacturers expect 69% of their workforce to retire in the next 10 years, creating an urgent need for new career pathways and new educational programs. The RCNGM is: Establishing a manufacturing learning infrastructure and knowledge delivery system that includes web-based, blended instruction, and a strengthened 2 + 2 + 2 seamless pathway; Involving industry to provide on-going guidance on skills needs, curriculum requirements, career pathways, and access to industry best practices and facilities for use in education;Developing and adapting a solid, foundational core curriculum, with technology and industry electives that will assure up-to-date skills for employment and career development;Marketing high tech manufacturing careers and career pathways and recruiting students; Creating community college and secondary school faculty development opportunities in industry and university settings, and student internships; Facilitating a student- and worker-focused collaborative infrastructure that sustains life- long learning, and encourages knowledge sharing and on-going professional development. The intellectual merit of this program resides in the curriculum content, as well as in the variety of curriculum delivery approaches utilized to prepare a technical workforce in precision machining, photonics/laser applications, fuel cells/clean energy and medical device instrumentation. The broader impact of this Center for Next Generation Manufacturing is reflected in the partnership models it develops for industry and higher education to work together to prepare a skilled and diverse manufacturing workforce. It has national impact through the unique partnership with NAM, and with other ATE national and regional Centers and projects.