Creating a High School Pipeline for the Next Generation of Manufacturing Employees

麦迪逊维尔社区学院和霍普金斯县职业技术中心正在合作提供一个制造证书课程，为学生准备制造技能标准理事会（MSSC）认证生产技术员考试和就业过程技术员。该项目的智力价值在于吸引高中生参与制造业教育，而研究表明他们及其父母目前并未考虑这一点。双学分制造计划是熟悉现代制造业的学生，并改变他们的看法，关于其可取的职业生涯。该项目的更广泛的影响涉及传播改进的营销技术，这些技术正在增加参加中学后STEM制造项目的学生人数，进入STEM劳动力队伍，并进一步追求STEM教育。该项目还评估了一个模块化课程和混合在线交付模式，该模式在中学和中学后教育机构之间有效地共享复杂、昂贵的技术人员培训资源，并有效地分配教师的时间和精力。这一模式对人力和财力有限、希望开展创新技术方案的农村地区较小的中等和高等教育机构特别有效，该项目正在评估MCC向高中生推销其制造课程的有效性，并作出必要的调整。它还在评估经验咨询技术的使用情况，如行业指导。此外，它正在使用一种“混合”在线交付模式进行双重信贷方案编制，为双方合作伙伴带来业务利益。最后，它推动了合作伙伴目前为解决工作场所准备技能问题所做的努力，这些技能包括有效的自我管理、沟通技能、团队精神、可靠性和职业道德。

Madisonville Community College and the Hopkins County Career Technology Center are collaboratively delivering a manufacturing certificate program that prepares students for the Manufacturing Skill Standards Council's (MSSC) Certified Production Technician exam and employment as process technicians. The project's intellectual merit lies in attracting high school students into manufacturing education, which research suggests they and their parents are not presently considering. The dual credit manufacturing program is familiarizing students with modern manufacturing and changing their perceptions regarding its desirability as a career. The project's broader impact involves the dissemination of improved marketing techniques that are increasing the number of students enrolling in postsecondary STEM-based manufacturing programs, entering the STEM workforce, and pursing further STEM education. The project is also evaluating a modularized curriculum and hybrid online delivery model that effectively shares complex, expensive technician training resources between secondary and postsecondary educational institutions and efficiently allocates faculty time and effort. This model is especially impactful for smaller secondary and postsecondary institutions in rural settings with limited human and fiscal resources who wish to launch innovative technical programming.The project is evaluating the effectiveness of MCC's marketing of its manufacturing curricula to high school students and making adjustments as necessary. It is also evaluating the use of experiential advising techniques such as industry mentoring. Additionally, it is using a "hybrid" online delivery model for dual credit programming that effects operational benefits for both partners. Finally, it advances the partners' existing efforts to address workplace readiness skills such as effective self-management, communication skills, teamwork, dependability and work ethic.