Dual Enrollment Technician Pathways and Careers in Electronics Engineering and Computer Integrated Machining

该项目旨在招收农村高中学生参加社区大学技术学位课程，这些课程与该地区的制造业工作有关。项目活动包括：1)制定新的电子工程技术双招生计划；2)提高高中和大学辅导员、教师、教师、家长和学生对电子工程和计算机集成加工技术人员的内容和职业潜力的认识；3)提供包括夏令营在内的活动，以增加男女高中生参加双招生技术计划的人数。4)通过实习和重返行业项目，对高中和大学辅导员进行技术职业培训。智力优势：该项目通过建立计算机集成加工双注册技术人员试点项目，提高了学生在工程技术人员项目中的学习能力。它正在采用来自佛罗里达州、康涅狄格州和南卡罗来纳州的ATE中心的材料、方法和营销材料。为了增加学生在制造业从事高薪工作的机会，该项目将重点放在目前在该领域代表性不足的群体，特别是女性。有强有力的制度支持，并与公立学校系统、制造商和经济发展社区建立了强有力的伙伴关系。更广泛的影响：为了满足区域制造商面临的技能差距，该项目正在为区域制造商开发和加强熟练员工的管道，而不依赖于在职工人的再培训。在制造商、社区大学和高中之间建立密切的伙伴关系，是对制造业技术变化的一种回应，以确保他们的长期盈利能力。双招生项目的扩大为学生提供了以前不了解的新的职业选择，并通过同时关注女性和男性，将管道扩大了一倍。从长远来看，该项目的成功将有助于开发更多的技术人员双招生项目，并为高中学生创建一个可被其他农村社区采用的模范职业学院。

This project is designed to recruit rural high school students into community college technician degree programs that are linked to manufacturing jobs in the region. The project activities include: 1) developing a new Electronics Engineering Technology dual-enrollment program, 2) creating awareness among high school and college counselors, teachers and faculty, parents and students on the content of and career potential for Electronics Engineering and Computer-Integrated Machining technicians, 3) providing activities including summer camps to increase the recruitment of female and male high school students to dual enrollment technology programs, and 4) educating high school and college counselors on technician careers through externships and return to industry programs. Intellectual Merit: The project is improving student learning in engineering technician programs by building on a pilot dual enrollment technician program established in computer-integrated machining. It is adapting materials, methods, and marketing materials from ATE Centers in Florida, Connecticut, and South Carolina. To increase opportunities for students to work in high paying jobs in manufacturing, the project is focusing on groups that are currently underrepresented in the field, particularly females. There is strong institutional support and there are strong partnerships with the public school system, manufacturers, and the economic development community. Broader Impact: In order to meet the skills gap faced by regional manufacturers, the project is developing and strengthening a pipeline of skilled employees for area manufacturers that is not dependent on incumbent worker retraining. The creation of a close partnership between manufacturers, the community college and the high schools is providing a response to changing technology in manufacturing to ensure their long term profitability. The expansion of dual enrollment programs is affording students new career options not previously understood and doubling the pipeline by focusing on both females and males. Long term, the success of the project is enabling the development of additional technician dual enrollment programs and creating a model Career Academy for high school students that can be adapted by other rural communities.