Logistics Engineering Technology Work Study (LETWS)

国家供应链部门对高技能工人的需求日益增长，以管理运营管理、跟踪、库存和货物分销的先进技术。为了满足这一需求，哥伦布州立社区学院(CSCC)将与大学、高中和地区雇主合作，培养下一代技术人员在物流行业工作。该项目将扩展CSCC的物流工程技术(LET)副学士学位课程，增加为学生提供付费工业学习经验的勤工俭学部分。新的实验室演示将在课程中开发和实施，以加强学生对俄亥俄州中部物流业使用的最先进设备的体验。因此，学生将把课堂演示中的知识与工作现场应用程序结合起来，这样他们就可以无缝地进入实际工作环境。该项目将为成人学习者，特别是就业不足的现有工人或退伍军人创造一个程序，正式承认并将以前的培训或经验应用于副学士学位。针对服务不足和代表性不足的群体的具体宣传将确保在该计划中招收和留住不同类型的学生。还将开展暑期项目，让高中生学习物流技术。该项目将帮助建立一支多元化的物流工程技术人员队伍，并加强这一重要的高增长国民经济部门。让课程将技术应用(例如编程、数据挖掘和模拟建模)与工程系统(例如自动化系统、控制、随机过程、计算机辅助设计、机电和工业工程)与供应链原理相结合。该项目的智力贡献将是创造教育途径，增加：1)付费的真实世界体验式学习部分，利用经过验证的勤工俭学模式并使其适应不断增长的区域物流业。在该项目的第二学年，他们将每周上两天的课，剩下的三天在工作中学习。2)具有自动化工作单元的创新实验室，用于模拟区域公司使用的智能传送带。该系统将包括由机械传动学习系统控制的扁平皮带输送机和切屑皮带输送机，为学生提供安装、操作和维护工业中使用的技术的体验。3)满足成人学习者，特别是失业、未充分就业的在职工人和退伍军人的需求的过渡性计划，其中包括对先前学习的评估，承认过去培训的正式程序，以及帮助这些学习者重新融入高等教育的学习模块。还将为高中高年级学生创建勤工俭学暑期学院，参与者在为期一周的物流工程技术密集介绍期间获得津贴。将对项目成果进行广泛评估，并向全国受众传播，以供推广。

An increasing demand in the nation's supply chain sector exists for highly-skilled workers to manage advanced technologies for operations management, tracking, inventory, and distribution of goods. To address this demand, Columbus State Community College (CSCC) will collaborate with universities, high schools, and regional employers to educate next-generation technicians to work in logistics industries. The project will expand CSCC's associate degree program in Logistics Engineering Technology (LET) to add a work study component with paid industrial learning experiences for students. New laboratory demonstrations will be developed and implemented in the curriculum to strengthen students' experience with the type of state-of-the art equipment used in the Central Ohio logistics industry. Thus, students will combine knowledge from classroom demonstrations with worksite applications so that they can move seamlessly into real work environments. The project will create a process for adult learners, particularly under-employed existing workers or military veterans, to formally recognize and apply previous training or experience toward the associate degree. Specific outreach to underserved and underrepresented groups will ensure that a diverse set of students are recruited and retained in the program. Summer programs will also be conducted to engage high school students in logistics technologies. This project will help build a diverse technician workforce in logistics engineering and strengthen this important high-growth sector of the nation's economy.The LET curriculum will combine technology applications (e.g. programming, data mining, and simulation modeling) with engineering systems (e.g. automation systems, controls, stochastic processes, computer-aided design, electro-mechanical and industrial engineering), with supply chain principles. The intellectual merit contributions of the project will be creation of educational pathways that add: 1) A paid real-world experiential learning component that leverages a proven work study model and adapts it to the growing regional logistics industry. During students' second academic year in the program, they will take classes two days per week and learn on-the-job the remaining three days. 2) An innovative laboratory with an automated work cell to simulate a smart conveyer used in regional companies. The system will contain a flat belt conveyor and chip belt conveyer controlled by a mechanical drive learning system to give students experience installing, operating, and maintaining the technologies used in industry. 3) A bridge program to address the needs of adult learners, especially the unemployed, under-employed incumbent worker, and military veterans, and that includes assessments of prior learning, a formalized process to recognize past training, and learning modules to help reintegrate these learners into higher education. A Work-Study Summer Institute for high school seniors will also be created, in which participants earn a stipend during an intensive one-week introduction to logistics engineering technology. The project outcomes will be extensively evaluated and disseminated to a national audience for replication.