Technology and Innovation in Manufacturing and Engineering (TIME) Center

时代中心在确保马里兰州的中学和高等教育项目跟上制造业从大规模生产、以产品为基础的行业向定制生产、以知识为基础、以需求为驱动的行业的快速转型方面发挥了重要作用。时代中心的目标和目标集中在教育制造和工程技术人员（MET），以满足区域劳动力需求，并提高新老技术人员的先进技术技能。区域性的MET职业正在发展，需要更广泛和更深层次的技能，并更多地整合新兴和融合的技术。这些目标、目的和活动扩展了中心已经开始的工作。目标1：在需求驱动的项目领域发展和加强中学/大专制造和工程技术（MET）课程。目标2：为中等和中等以上的MET教师提供专业发展机会，增强他们的技术知识，提高他们的教学技能，拓宽他们对MET和STEM职业的认识。目标3：与合作伙伴和关键利益相关者团体合作，提高能见度，改善制造和工程技术作为可行职业选择的形象。目标4：采用创新方法改善和加强MET学习，提供更广泛的MET学习机会，更好地将合作院校的努力与所在地区的经济发展需求结合起来。

The TIME Center has been instrumental in ensuring that Maryland's secondary and post-secondary programs keep pace with the rapid transformation of manufacturing from a mass-production, product-based industry to a customized production, knowledge-based, demand-driven industry.The TIME Center's goals and objectives are focused on educating manufacturing and engineering technicians (MET) to meet regional workforce demands and enhancing the advanced technical skills sets of new and incumbent technicians. Regional MET careers are evolving to demand broader and deeper skills and more integration of emerging and converging technologies. The goals, objectives and activities extend the work the Center has begun.Objective 1: Developing and enhancing secondary/post-secondary manufacturing and engineering technology (MET) curricula in demand-driven program areas.Objective 2: Providing professional development opportunities for secondary and post-secondary MET faculty that enhance their technical knowledge, improve their pedagogical skills and broaden their awareness of MET & STEM careers. Objective 3: Collaborating with partners and key stakeholder groups to increase the visibility and improve the image of manufacturing and engineering technology as viable career options.Objective 4: Implementing innovative approaches to improve and enhance MET learning, providing broader access to MET learning opportunities and better integrating partner college efforts with economic development needs in their regions.