The SMART Center: Creating the Next Generation of Credentialed, Skilled Technicians for the Maritime and Transportation Industry

东南海运和运输(SMART)中心处于有利地位，将增加在我国至关重要的海运和运输行业工作的受过教育的、有资历的技术人员的渠道。SMART中心将致力于改变学生和教育工作者对海运和运输行业的看法，以及通往高薪、高技能职业的教育途径。提高行业领导者对建立一支更高素质和更有资质的劳动力队伍的潜力的认识，将促进雇主和大学之间的伙伴关系。增加退伍军人、妇女、第一代大学生和代表性不足的少数民族的数量是拟议工作的第一个目标。通过SMART学院将教育工作者与雇主联系起来，将增加注册和完成学术项目成为合格技术人员的学生数量。SMART中心的四个高级目标是：目标1：职业意识--通过复制和教授职业道路来提高职业意识，以培养更多越来越多样化的学生进入海运和运输业管道，并以学术和行业价值的证书离开。目标2：确定课程的行业标准--扩大SMART中心与注册学徒中嵌入的课程和证书相关联的行业能力的数字存储库，并在海运物流和新兴的海事依赖的离岸地区建立相关途径。行业。目标3：专业发展--在现有合作伙伴关系的基础上，提供经行业验证的可扩展专业发展模式，包括扩展SMART学院模式，创建一个SMART教育者-大使网络。目标4：伙伴关系--建立有效的行业和教育者伙伴关系，以保持国家对海运和运输业劳动力需求的关注，并影响联邦、地区和州政策和路径的形成，以满足这些需求。SMART中心将扩大建立在注册学徒模式基础上的SMART海事技术路径，该模式结合了需求旺盛的行业认证和授予大学学位学分的学术课程。工作将包括将成功的SMART中心职业道路工具应用于以下四个海运行业：(1)造船和船舶维修，(2)海运/船舶运营，(3)海运物流/港口服务，以及(4)新兴的依赖海运的离岸行业。SMART中心将通过确定学术和行业资格所需的能力并创建相关课程，为新兴的依赖海洋的海上风能行业建立可复制的教育模式。

The Southeast Maritime and Transportation (SMART) Center stands well-poised to increase the pipeline of educated, credentialed technicians working in our country's vitally important maritime and transportation industry. The SMART Center will build on work to change students' and educators' perception of the maritime and transportation industry and the educational pathway leading to highly-paid, highly-skilled careers. Increasing industry leaders' awareness of the potential to build a more highly-qualified and credentialed workforce will catalyze partnerships between employers and colleges. Increasing the number of veterans, women, first-generation college students and under-represented minorities is the first goal of the proposed work. Connecting educators to employers through the SMART Institutes will increase the number of students enrolling in and completing academic programs to become credentialed technicians.The SMART Center's four high-level goals are:Goal 1: Career Awareness -- Increase career awareness by replicating and teaching career pathways to produce a greater number of increasingly diverse students entering the maritime and transportation industry pipeline and exiting with academic and industry-valued credentials.Goal 2: Identifying Industry Standards for Curriculum -- Expand the SMART Center digital repository of industry competencies linked to courses and credentials embedded in registered apprenticeship and building related pathways in maritime logistics and emerging maritime-dependent offshore industries.Goal 3: Professional Development -- Deliver scalable models of industry-validated professional development built on existing partnerships, including expansion of the SMART Institute model, to create a network of SMART educator-ambassadors.Goal 4: Partnerships -- Model effective industry and educator partnerships to maintain national focus on maritime and transportation industry workforce needs and to influence formation of federal, regional and state policies and pathways to meet those needs.The SMART Center will scale the SMART Maritime Technologies pathway built on the registered apprenticeship model which incorporates in-demand industry certifications and academic courses that confer college credit toward degrees. Work will include adaptation of successful SMART Center career pathway tools to each of the four maritime transportation industry sectors: (1) shipbuilding and ship repair, (2) seagoing/vessel operations, (3) marine logistics/port services, and (4) emerging maritime-dependent offshore industries. The SMART Center will build a replicable education model for the emerging maritime-dependent offshore wind energy industry by identifying competencies needed for academic and industry credentials and creating relevant courses.