Planning Grant for Regional Center of Excellence in Automation and Process Technology

该项目正在为俄勒冈州威拉米特谷的自动化和过程技术卓越ATE区域中心制定计划。 该中心的最终目标是创造一个受过教育的工人的技能和理解，在今天的计算机化制造环境中茁壮成长。规划工作正在区域社区学院、四年制学院、中学、公司、工业理事会和政府机构之间建立机构联盟并使之正规化。它正在为四个目标制造业部门的工艺技术人员确定共同的、可移植的技能能力，并正在审查和评估现有的教育材料，这些材料将被打包成一个综合的、模块化的先进制造课程，该课程是跨学科的、以能力为基础的，并经过职业验证。 最后，它定义了职业道路，确定了与劳动力市场需求相匹配的职业道路上的明确教育步骤，并促进了学生在高中，社区大学和四年制院校之间的过渡。 形成性评估工作的重点是合作伙伴关系的发展，而总结性工作则是检查在识别通用、可移植技能、审查和评估现有教育材料以及定义与劳动力市场需求相匹配的职业途径方面的成功。 目前正在通过职业和技术教育系主任网络以及俄勒冈州职业和技术教育协会进行宣传。更广泛的影响包括与州长制造业劳动力委员会的支持性关系，该委员会建议扩大社区学院制造业项目，并支持区域公私合作卓越中心。计划中的区域卓越中心将加强社区学院与全州经济发展工作的联系。 该项目特别注重改善代表性不足和服务不足人口的参与。

The project is developing a plan for an ATE Regional Center of Excellence in Automation and Process Technology in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. The ultimate goal of the center is to create an educated worker with the skills and understandings to thrive in today's computerized manufacturing environment. The planning effort is developing and formalizing institutional alliances among regional community colleges, four-year institutions, secondary schools, corporations, industrial councils, and government agencies. It is identifying common, portable skill competencies for process technicians in the four targeted manufacturing sectors, and it is reviewing and evaluating existing educational materials to be packaged into an integrated and modular advanced manufacturing curriculum that is interdisciplinary, competency-based, and occupationally verified. Finally, it is defining career pathways that identify clear educational steps on career paths matched to labor market demand and facilitate student transitions between high school, community college, and four-year institutions. Formative evaluation efforts are focusing on the development of collaborative partnerships, while summative efforts are examining the success in identifying common, portable skills, in reviewing and evaluating existing educational materials, and in defining career pathways that are matched to labor market demand. Dissemination is being carried out through the Professional and Technical Education Deans' Network and the Oregon Association of Career and Technical Education. The broader impacts include a supportive relationship with the Governor's Manufacturing Workforce Committee that is recommending an expansion of community college manufacturing programs and support for regional public-private centers of excellence. The planned Regional Center of Excellence would enhance the connection of community colleges to economic development efforts throughout the state. The project has a special focus on improving the involvement of underrepresented and underserved populations.