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

这个ATE区域中心（CREATE）的目的是通过生产高技能和受过良好教育的技术人员来更好地满足国家和地区在信息和制造技术领域的劳动力需求，以满足工业作为一个多县联合体的需求。在CREATE社区学院的技术教学培训制度化方面，中心正在完成以下目标：在海峡群岛加州州立大学在线和现场完成第一批2+2信息技术学士学位学生；在北岭加州州立大学（California State University, Northridge）进行第一个2+2机电一体化/工程技术学士学位的可行性研究；增加高中外展工作，包括针对ESL和外来务工高中生的营地和讲习班；与行业合作伙伴一起，对妇女开展性别外展；根据CREATE与业界焦点小组合作开发的技能地图，改革多校区课程和教师专业发展，以更好地满足新兴行业的需求；完成教学促进者项目在州外传播的第一阶段；并继续对教师培训和学生学习的纵向研究以及2+2+2途径的发展。由7所地区性社区学院组成的CREATE团队，9年来每月举行一次会议，共同制定课程，共享设备和专业知识，开展联合专业发展，并与雇主合作，为学生和项目谋福利。三个学士学位项目中有两个是加州首创的。CREATE还开发、调整并向其他需要支持的学院传播课程和材料，主要是在安全和无线信息技术以及基于项目的制造和机电技术领域。评估和评估小组使CREATE能够验证当前目标的影响，并开始对CREATE的技术教师培训对学生和教师学习的影响进行全面的纵向研究。更广泛的影响CREATE中心的学院及其合作伙伴作为区域技术研讨会的示范点，对新课程和教学系统进行试点测试，加强对代表性不足的学生群体的教学，并进行创新的专业发展。共有17,735名学生完成了至少一门由create开发的学分课程。所有CREATE课程都适用于学位或证书。来自多个州和国家科学基金会中心的参与者的增加是由于要求在全国范围内扩大教师培训。

The purpose of this ATE Regional Center (CREATE) is to address the needs of industry as a multi-County consortium, by producing highly skilled and educated technicians to better meet national and regional workforce demands in the fields of information and manufacturing technologies. The Center is completing the following objectives in the institutionalization of technical teaching training across the CREATE community colleges: completing the first cohort of 2+2 B.S. in Information Technology students both on-line and on-site at California State University, Channel Islands; conducting a feasibility study on the first 2+2 B.S. in Mechatronics/Engineering Technology at California State University, Northridge; increasing high school outreach efforts, including targeted camps and workshops for ESL and migrant worker high school students; along with industry partners, conducting gender outreach to women; revamping multicampus curricula and faculty professional development to better meet emerging industry need based on CREATE's skills mapping developed with industry focus groups; completing the first phase of out-of-state dissemination for the teaching facilitator programs; and continuing the longitudinal study of faculty training and student learning and development of 2+2+2 pathways.Intellectual MeritThe CREATE team, formed from seven regional community colleges, has met monthly for nine years to develop curricula, share equipment and expertise, conduct joint professional development, and work with employers for the benefit of their students and their programs. Two of the three BS programs are the first of their kind in the State of California. CREATE also develops, adapts, and disseminates curricula and materials to other colleges needing support, primarily in the areas of security and wireless information technology and in project-based manufacturing and electromechanical technologies. The assessment and evaluation team have enabled CREATE to validate the impact of the current objectives and begin a comprehensive longitudinal study on the impact of CREATE's technical teacher training on student and faculty learning.Broader ImpactThe CREATE Center colleges and their partners act as demonstration sites for regional technical workshops that pilot test new curricula, delivery systems, enhance delivery to underrepresented student populations, and conduct innovative professional development. A total of 17,735 students have completed at least one CREATE-developed credit course. All CREATE courses apply to a degree or certificate. The addition of participants from multiple states and NSF Centers has resulted from requests to expand the teacher training nationally.