Developing and Deploying Flipped Classroom Resources for Electrical Engineering, Industrial Maintenance, and Renewable Energy Technicians

该奖项解决了电子，机械，液压和电机控制方面受过良好教育的技术人员的良好记录和不断增长的劳动力需求。该项目的重点是开发在线教育资源，以支持翻转课堂教学技术科目的方法。翻转课堂的方法有几个优点，学生可以在自己选择的时间和地点观看课程，并且课程内容随时可供复习。这为那些有工作和家庭义务的人参加学习项目提供了一定程度的灵活性。翻转课堂资源的好处将是深远的，因为它们可以在全国范围内的其他技术项目中重新利用。在线课程可以用来补充或取代教科书，减少学生的通勤时间和费用。在线资源允许有工作和家庭义务的非传统学生在学习项目中保持注册。哥伦比亚峡谷社区学院（CGCC）提供可再生能源技术课程，为学生在可再生能源技术领域的工作做好准备。技术员使用电气和电子理论来设计、建造、维修、校准,并修改组件,电路,控制,和机械和负责操作、维护和修理设备的发电和输电设施。该内容适用于区域性重大可再生能源发电、电力传输、无人机监视制造、工业化农业和一般工业维护，并可适用于其他方案和地区。之前网上材料开发与NSF吃中心合作创建了一个直接影响CGCC的可再生能源技术项目,允许一个晚上电子实验室。在职员工可以利用晚上的实验室来扩展和更新技能，同时保持就业。

This award addresses a well-documented and growing workforce need for technicians educated in electronics, mechanics, hydraulics, and motor control in a way accessible to those already employed. The focus of this project is to develop online educational resources to support a flipped classroom approach to teaching technical subjects. The flipped classroom approach offers several advantages in that students can watch lectures at the time and place of their choosing and lecture content is always available for review. This allows a degree of flexibility for those with work and family obligations to attend a program of study. The benefits of the flipped classroom resources will be far reaching because they can be repurposed for other technical programs nationwide. The online lectures can be used to supplement or replace a textbook and cut down on student commute time and expense. The online resources allow non-traditional students with work and family obligations to maintain enrollment in a program of study.Columbia Gorge Community College (CGCC) offers a Renewable Energy Technology program that prepares students to work in the field of renewable energy technology. Technicians use electrical and electronic theory to design, build, repair, calibrate, and modify components, circuitry, controls, and machinery and are responsible for operations, maintenance, and repair of equipment at generation and transmission facilities. The content is applicable to regionally significant renewable energy generation, electrical transmission, unmanned aerial surveillance manufacturing, industrial agriculture, and general industrial maintenance, and is adaptable to other programs and regions. Previous online material developed in cooperation with the NSF ATE Center CREATE has had an immediate impact on the CGCC's Renewable Energy Technology program by allowing an evening electronics lab. Incumbent workers can take advantage of the evening labs to expand and update skills while maintaining employment.