Engineering Technology Supply Chain Automation

为了更好地服务于不断增长的国家和全球供应链劳动力环境，新人才必须参与计划机会，以解决新兴技术人员职业中的技能差距。位于佛罗里达州中部的巴伦西亚大学工程技术供应链自动化ATE项目旨在通过新的课程框架和创新的供应链自动化(SCA)教学方法，推动工程技术(ET)劳动力教育有效实践的研究。对该项目的需求是在与国家供应链自动化中心协商后提出的，并得到了国家公认的地区雇主的意见，这些雇主加强了国家和地区的劳动力短缺问题。新的SCA专业将寻求为全国各地的社区大学提供一个模式，为企业和行业在分销和供应链自动化实践中提高效率做出贡献。作为佛罗里达州提供的第一个项目，与当地商业、工业、公民和政府合作伙伴密切合作，该项目计划吸引和毕业各种学生，包括代表不足的少数族裔(URM)和女性，以适应日益增长的供应链技术员工作领域。该项目旨在证明ET副学士学位(A.S.)中的SCA专业该计划是一个可行的两年制学位选项，将通过与行业合作为社区服务，在高需求的职业中带来高薪就业机会，并产生关于行业确定的技能和能力的新知识，以满足SCA的劳动力需求。经过严格的评估后，巴伦西亚将与其他ATE中心和项目以及合作者分享最佳实践、课程和见解，以增加知识，使整体受益。该项目将支持在人口结构中建立一支强大的劳动力队伍，这将影响受过技术培训的劳动力的未来活力。通过可复制的模式，该项目旨在开发这种新的SCA专业化认证和大学证书，并提供严格的技术课程，这些课程将以创造性的方式教授，使用已被证明吸引所有学生的方法。项目目标是(1)在州立大学副学士学位课程框架内开发和实施新的专业；(2)为教师和中学教育教师提供专业发展，旨在改善教学实践和学习成果，并让教师获得行业认可的证书；以及(3)与高中合作，以循证的教学实践为基础开发一条通往SCA专业的途径，以增加不同学生对ET途径的早期认识和接触。项目可交付成果的目标是：(A)加强行业联系，(B)开发新的SCA专业和大学证书，(C)增加中等教育伙伴关系，(D)每年至少为8名参加SCA培训的高中教师提供专业发展，以学习有关URM和女学生参与ET途径的最佳做法，以及(E)对至少四名将完成培训的教师进行培训，以准备好教授SCA课程所需的技能和资格。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已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。

To best serve the growing national and global supply chain workforce environment, new talent must be engaged in programmatic opportunities to address the skills-gap in emerging technician occupations. The Valencia College Engineering Technology Supply Chain Automation ATE project located in Central Florida aims to advance research on effective practices in engineering technology (ET) workforce education through a new curriculum framework and innovative approaches to teaching supply chain automation (SCA). The need for the project was driven in consultation with the National Center of Supply Chain Automation and with input from nationally recognized regional employers who reinforced the national and regional labor shortage. The new SCA-specialization will seek to provide a model for community colleges across the country, contributing to a growing movement for businesses and industries to become more efficient in distribution and supply chain automation practices. As the first program offered in the state of Florida, working closely with local business, industry, civic, and government partners, the program plans to attract and graduate a diversity of students, including underrepresented minorities (URMs) and women, to the growing field of supply chain technician jobs. The project is designed to demonstrate that the SCA-specialization within the ET associate degree (A.S.) program is a viable two-year degree option that will serve the community through partnerships with industry, leading to high wage employment opportunities in high-demand occupations, and generating new knowledge on the skills and competencies identified by industry to meet the workforce needs in SCA. Following a rigorous evaluation, Valencia will share best practices, curriculum and insight with other ATE centers and projects and collaborators to add knowledge to benefit the whole. The project will support building a robust workforce within demographics that will impact the future vitality of the technically-trained workforce. Through a replicable model, the project aims to develop this new SCA-specialization and college certificate and offer rigorous technical courses that will be taught in creative ways, using approaches proven to engage all students. Project objectives are to (1) develop and implement the new specialization within the state ET associate degree curriculum framework; (2) provide professional development for faculty and secondary education teachers aimed at improving instructional practices and learning outcomes, and having faculty obtain industry-recognized credentials; and (3) collaborate with high schools to develop a pathway to the SCA specialization with evidenced-based teaching and learning practices that increase early awareness and exposure to ET pathways for a wide diversity of students. Project deliverables will target (a) increased industry connections, (b) the development of a new SCA-specialization and college certificate, (c) increased secondary education partnerships, (d) professional development for a minimum of eight high school teachers a year who participate in the SCA trainings to learn best-practices on the engagement of URM and female students in ET pathways, and (e) faculty preparation for a minimum of four faculty who will complete the trainings to be prepared with the necessary skills and credentials to teach the SCA curriculum.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.