Resource Center for Advanced Automotive Technology (CAAT)

汽车行业继续向新技术的彻底转型，开发互联/自动（自主）车辆，提高燃油效率，最大限度地减少环境影响，并提高汽车设计的安全性。随着这一持续转型，行业预计汽车就业人数将从2013年至2018年增长10.8%。 汽车技术人员在整个汽车行业中的比例预计也将增长，即使工作在技术上变得更加复杂。这些就业预测强调了汽车技术人员教育计划的重要性，这些计划包含了最新的创新，使计划毕业生能够满足汽车行业日益增长的需求和期望。先进汽车技术中心（CAAT）建议过渡到一个资源中心，该中心将维护由区域CAAT中心开发和/或支持的组件。CAAT将继续维护、发展和分发其开源、行业认可的课程资源库，这些资源与当今汽车行业技术人员所需的知识和技能保持一致。 CAAT的领导团队将与汽车设计师，制造商和零部件供应商密切合作，以确定新的教育需求，以确保通过CAAT共享的材料继续教育满足雇主需求的毕业生。CAAT还将利用中学和中学后的外联活动，增加对先进汽车技术感兴趣的个人的人才库。作为一个资源中心，CAAT旨在加强教育和工业之间的桥梁，使技术人员教育计划包括影响当今和未来车辆的最新和有前途的新技术。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The automotive industry continues its radical transformation into new technologies driven by developing connected/automated (autonomous) vehicles, increasing fuel efficiency, minimizing environmental impact, and increasing safety in car design. With this continued transformation, the industry expects automotive employment to increase by 10.8% from 2013-2018. The proportion of automotive technicians within the overall automotive industry is also expected to grow, even as the work becomes more technically complex. These employment projections highlight the importance of automotive technician education programs that incorporate the latest innovations, so that program graduates can meet the growing needs and expectations of the automotive industry. The Center for Advanced Automotive Technology (CAAT) proposes to transition to a Resource Center that will maintain components developed and/or supported by the Regional CAAT Center. CAAT will continue to maintain, grow, and distribute its library of open source, industry approved curriculum resources that are aligned with the knowledge and skills needed by today's technicians in the automotive industry. CAAT's leadership team will work closely with auto designers, manufacturers, and parts suppliers to determine emerging education needs, to ensure that the materials shared through CAAT continue to educate graduates who meet employer needs. CAAT will also use outreach at the secondary and post-secondary level to increase the talent pool of individuals interested in advanced automotive technologies. As a resource center, CAAT aims to strengthen the bridge between education and industry, so that technician education programs include the most recent and promising new technologies that affect the vehicles of today and tomorrow.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.