Leveraging Supply Chain and Logistics Emerging Technologies to Serve Industry Needs

物流与供应链(L/SC)专业人员寻找原材料和成品的来源并进行分销。由于缺乏合格的L/SC技术人员，导致劳动力缺口越来越大，目前每聘用一名技术工人就有六个可用的工作岗位。行业官员将劳动力短缺与五个关键因素联系在一起：对L/SC新人才的需求不断增长，L/SC的人才缺口，供应链动态的变化，教育和培训新人才的能力有限，以及该行业在千禧一代劳动力中的糟糕形象。为了满足行业需求，社区学院必须与行业合作伙伴合作，修订现有的L/SC专业，或开发新的课程，以培养下一代L/SC专业人才。帕洛阿尔托学院(德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥)的这个项目旨在更好地满足地区企业和行业特定的L/SC劳动力教育需求。该计划的目标是：在L/SC课程中增加科学、技术、工程和数学内容和技能培训；扩大L/SC的招生规模；提高L/SC的学生技能和STEM知识；并完善L/SC的教育和劳动力管道。该项目将结合L/SC行业劳动力评估和对千禧一代学生职业期望的研究。通过吸引千禧一代对新技术的兴趣，并利用不断发展的供应链技术格局，该项目有可能改变千禧一代学生对L/SC职业的看法。因此，新一代工人可以被招募到一个具有全国和全球重要性的行业。由于帕洛阿尔托学院是一所为拉美裔学生服务的机构，而且两个学分合作伙伴的学区拥有大部分拉美裔学生，因此该项目的另一个成果是使L/SC行业多样化的潜力。它还将服务于在STEM教育和培训中代表性通常较低的学生群体。该计划将包括基于技术的实践课程模块、微型案例竞赛、招聘努力、行业实习以及发展活跃的学生组织。该项目的总体目标是创建一个从高中到两年到四年的L/SC教育流水线，同时将机器人和其他新兴的供应链技术纳入项目课程。该项目旨在通过以下方式培养和培养更多合格的(L/SC)技术人员：(1)对大学物流副学士学位和证书进行行业审查；(2)创建四个L/SC新兴技术课程模块；(3)与三所高中(南区高中、西南遗产中学和退伍军人纪念馆)建立双学分计划，学生可以获得L/SC副学位；(4)有针对性地开展招聘活动，对学生进行L/SC职业生涯的教育；(5)为中学教育工作者创建发现物流培训模块；以及(6)在帕洛阿尔托学院和德克萨斯A&M圣安东尼奥大学(TAMUSA)四年制L/SC项目之间签订转学协议。该项目还计划为合作高中创建并主办一年一度的L/SC微型案例竞赛。以STEM为基础的招聘活动将努力服务于1,000多名高中生，而双学分计划和课程模块的目标是服务于大约150名高中生和100名L/SC大学生。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Logistics and Supply Chain (L/SC) professionals find sources of and distribute both raw materials and finished products. A shortage of qualified L/SC technicians has resulted in a growing workforce gap of six available jobs for every currently employed skilled worker. Industry officials have linked the workforce shortage to five key factors: increasing demand for new L/SC talent, L/SC talent gaps, changing dynamics of supply chains, limited capacity to educate and train new talent, and the poor image of the profession with the millennial workforce. To meet industry needs, community colleges must work collaboratively with industry partners to revise current L/SC programs or develop new programs that prepare the next generation of L/SC professionals. This project at Palo Alto College (San Antonio, Texas) aims to better serve the specific L/SC workforce education needs of regional businesses and industries. The program aims to: increase the science, technology, engineering and mathematics content and technical training in its L/SC programs; increase L/SC student enrollment; improve L/SC student technical skills and STEM knowledge; and improve L/SC educational and workforce pipelines. The project will combine an L/SC industry workforce assessment with research on the career expectations of millennial students. By appealing to the millennials' interest in new technologies and leveraging the evolving technological landscape of supply chains, the project has the potential to change the perception of L/SC careers among millennial students. As a result, a new generation of workers can be recruited into an industry with national and global importance. Because Palo Alto College is a Hispanic Serving Institution and the dual credit partner school districts have a majority Hispanic student population, an additional outcome of this project is the potential to diversify the L/SC industry. It also will serve a student group that is typically underrepresented in STEM education and training. The program will include hands-on technology-based lesson modules, mini-case competitions, recruitment efforts, industry internships, and development of an active student organization. The overall objective of the project is to create a high school to two-year to four-year L/SC educational pipeline, while incorporating robotics and other emerging supply chain technologies into the program curriculum. The project aims to educate and train more qualified (L/SC) technicians to meet workforce needs by: (1) conducting an industry review of the college Logistics associate degree and certificates, (2) creating four L/SC emerging technology course modules; (3) establishing a dual credit programs with three high schools (Southside, Southwest Legacy, and Veterans Memorial) where students can earn an L/SC associate degree; (4) conducting targeted recruitment activities to educate students about L/SC careers; (5) creating a Discover Logistics training module for secondary school educators; and (6) establishing a transfer agreement between Palo Alto College and the Texas A&M San Antonio (TAMUSA) four-year L/SC program. The project also plans to create and host an annual L/SC mini-case competition for partner high schools. STEM-based recruitment activities will strive to serve more than 1,000 high school students, while the dual credit program and course modules will aim to serve an estimated 150 high school students and 100 L/SC college students.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.