The Engineering and Technicians Project ( E2T)

机电一体化是机械工程，电子工程和软件工程的协同组合。机电一体化服务于控制先进的混合动力系统的目的，并已与许多不同的领域，包括制造，运动控制，机器人，智能控制，系统集成，振动和噪声控制，汽车系统，自动化技术，建模和设计，能源管理系统和微型设备。总结其目的和价值，机电一体化通过集成促进和促进创新。VWCC的工程技术人员工程（E2 T）通过在工业，社区学院教师和中等职业和技术教育（CTE）实体之间建立协同作用，解决了学生进入这个不断发展的跨学科工程技术领域的不足，以简化机电一体化的职业途径。该项目有三个主要目标：1）在暑期学院实施由中学和中学后教师创建的行业驱动的基于项目的学习（PBL）模块; 2）通过扩大机电一体化和预工程夏令营，年度技术峰会和STEM职业探索活动，为代表性不足的学生群体加强学生的项目活动;以及3）增加代表性不足人口的区域高级技术学院入学人数。另一个项目目标是提高中等技术教育和工程预科教师实施PBL的能力，最终提高课堂上问题分析、自主学习和基于解决方案的学习的能力，特别注重从代表性不足的人群中招收学生进入机电一体化领域。

Mechatronics is the synergistic combination of mechanical engineering, electronic engineering and software engineering. Mechatronics serves the purposes of controlling advanced hybrid systems and has been associated with many different areas, encompassing manufacturing, motion control, robotics, intelligent control, system integration, vibration and noise control, automotive systems, automation technology, modeling and design, energy management systems and micro devices. To sum up its purpose and value, Mechatronics promotes and fosters innovation through integration. The Engineering of Engineering Technicians (E2T) at VWCC addresses the student deficiencies entering this growing interdisciplinary engineering technology field by building synergy between industry, community college faculty, and secondary career and technical education (CTE) entities to streamline a career pathway in Mechatronics. The project has three major goals: 1) to implement industry driven project based learning (PBL) modules created by secondary and post-secondary faculty in the summer institute; 2) to enhance project based activities for students by expanding summer Mechatronics and pre-engineering camps, the annual Technology Summit, and STEM Career Exploration events for underrepresented student populations; and 3) to increase the Regional Academy in Advanced Technology enrollment of underrepresented populations. An additional project objective is to enhance the ability of secondary technical education and pre engineering teachers to implement PBLs that ultimately lead to elevated proficiency in problem analysis, self-directed learning and solution based learning in the classroom with particular focus to recruit students from underrepresented populations into the Mechatronics field.