Faculty Professional Development in Design, Construction, Assembly and Analysis of a solid body electric guitar

这个ATE专业发展项目是来自巴特勒县社区学院(巴特勒，宾夕法尼亚州)、普渡大学(西拉斐特，IN)、辛克莱社区学院(代顿，俄亥俄州)、文图拉学院(文图拉，加利福尼亚州)、红杉学院(加利福尼亚州尤里卡)的STEM教职员工团队以及每个相关州的高中STEM教职员工之间的合作。各个地点的教师团队正在合作设计、制造和分析实体电吉他，以此作为学习科学、技术、工程、数学的应用概念和了解产品生命周期管理的手段。这一体验为教师和学生提供了对商业和工业中常规使用的协作设计和快速制造过程的准确模拟。来自高中和社区大学的150多名STEM教职员工参加了为期五天的暑期专业发展计划，并开展了广泛的学年后续活动。教师参与者在课堂上使用这些过程和模拟来增强STEM实验室学习体验。近5000名学生正在学习跨学科STEM问题解决方法，这对新的设计技术人员来说变得越来越重要。一名外部评估员正在审查专业发展活动的有效性。正在通过在地方、区域或国家专业协会会议上的发言来传播从该项目中吸取的成果和经验教训。所有课程和实验室活动都是通过自备的便携式课程包提供的。以高于吉他成套成本的价格出售吉他，为维持这一活动提供了手段。项目信息通过http://www.guitarbuilding.org/，网站提供，该网站由辛克莱社区学院制造业教育资源中心(MERC)托管。

This ATE professional development project is a collaboration between STEM faculty teams from Butler County Community College (Butler, PA), Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN), Sinclair Community College (Dayton, OH), Ventura College (Ventura, CA), College of the Redwoods (Eureka, Ca.), as well as high school STEM faculty in each of the states involved. Faculty teams at the respective locations are working together to design, build, and analyze solid body electric guitars as a means of learning applied concepts of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and as a means of understanding product lifecycle management. This experience is providing teachers and students an accurate simulation of the collaborative design and rapid manufacturing processes routinely used in business and industry. Over 150 STEM faculty members from high schools and community colleges are participating in an intense five-day Summer Professional Development Program and are having extensive academic year follow-up activities. The teacher participants are using these processes and simulations in their classrooms to enhance the STEM laboratory learning experience. Nearly 5000 students are learning about cross-disciplinary STEM problem solving that is becoming increasingly important for new design technicians to experience. An external evaluator is examining the professional development activities for their effectiveness. The results and lessons learned from the project are being disseminated through presentations at local, regional, or national conferences of professional associations. All lessons and laboratory activities are being made available through self-contained portable curriculum kits. Selling the guitars for more than the guitar kits cost is providing the means for sustaining this activity. Project information is being made available through the website http://www.guitarbuilding.org/, which is being hosted by the Manufacturing Education Resource Center (MERC) at Sinclair Community College.