AMP It Up! Advanced Manufacturing Partnerships: Education and Industry Working Together to Develop Highly-Skilled 21st Century Technicians

亚拉巴马地区汽车制造中心联盟（CARCAM）是由加兹登州立社区学院领导的一个地区NSF ATE中心，是亚拉巴马的11所社区学院与行业和州政府合作，专注于汽车相关行业的先进制造。 CARCAM与行业一起开发了汽车技术课程和副学士学位，并毕业了行业所需的学生。 专业发展提供给在职工人和教师。 该项目的学生获得亚拉巴马汽车制造商协会奖学金的比例很高。新的学位课程涉及清洁能源，精益制造，质量控制，安全机器人和汽车行业关注的工作场所道德等新兴领域。 随着航空航天和航空公司进入亚拉巴马，与汽车制造相关的新课程和项目正在开发中。 新的重点包括开发新的职业途径、与亚拉巴马州教育部进行行业联络、充当有前途的实践中心、引领向雇主需求的新领域的扩展、为教职员工提供专业发展以及扩大对少数族裔、妇女和退伍军人的参与。 CARCAM的目标是实施一个课程差距分析模型，以更新课程，反映区域行业的需求，为教师和教师提供专业发展，教育技术人员，受到行业的高度追捧，并创建由国家机构和专业组织在亚拉巴马和邻国的价值网络。 评价的重点是提供证据，说明这些目标在多大程度上得到实现。 CARCAM正在成功地发展一个合作社区学院联盟，与汽车工业和国家机构合作，为亚拉巴马和邻国的经济发展做出贡献。

The Consortium for the Alabama Regional Center for Automotive Manufacturing (CARCAM), a regional NSF ATE Center led by Gadsden State Community College, is a collaboration of eleven community colleges in Alabama working with industry and state government to focus on advanced manufacturing in the automotive-related industry. Together with the industry, CARCAM has developed courses and an Associate's degree in automotive technology and graduated students needed by the industry. Professional development is offered to incumbent workers and faculty. Students in the program have a high rate of getting scholarships from Alabama Automotive Manufacturers Association. The new degree programs address new and emerging areas of clean energy, lean manufacturing, quality control, safety robotics and workplace ethics of concern to the automotive industry. As aerospace and aviation companies are moving into Alabama, new courses and programs related to automotive manufacturing are being developed. New emphases include the development of new career pathways, engaging the industry liaison with the Alabama Department of Education, serving as a hub for promising practices, leading expansion into new areas of employer needs, providing professional development for faculty and teachers, and broadening participation to minorities, women and veterans. The goals for CARCAM are to implement a Curriculum Gap Analysis Model to update curriculum that reflects regional industry needs, provide professional development for faculty and teachers, to educate technicians that are highly sought after by industry and to create networks that are valued by state agencies and professional organizations in Alabama and neighboring states. The evaluation concentrates on providing evidence of the extent to which these goals are achieved. CARCAM is successfully developing a consortium of collaborating community colleges that works with the automotive industry and the State agencies to contribute to economic development in Alabama and neighboring states.