National Center for Autonomous Technologies

该ATE国家中心旨在满足国家在自主技术领域培养和保持一支熟练的技术劳动力的需求。自主技术有可能彻底改变全球人民的生活、工作、旅行和学习方式。它们还对国家经济以及国家安全和保障产生关键影响。国家自主技术中心将专注于自主技术的三个领域：无人驾驶飞机系统、互联自动飞行器和无人水下机器人。这些自动驾驶车辆将对全国各地从农村到城市社区的人类生活质量产生巨大影响，也将对农业、生物圈和海洋生命的维持产生巨大影响。自动驾驶汽车的成功部署需要高技能、灵活的技术人员，他们可以为车辆的设计、监控、控制、使用和维修提供支持。国家自主技术中心的使命将是协调和领导努力，教育熟练的技术劳动力自主技术。该中心旨在通过协调一致的全国性努力来实现其使命，开发和传播教育资源，以满足当前和未来的劳动力需求，并广泛吸引来自行业、政府和相关ATE项目和中心的利益相关者。该中心旨在通过进行研究和分析来设计高质量的课程和内容，以满足无人机系统、联网自动飞行器和无人水下航行器自主技术不断发展的需求，从而改善学生学习和技术员教育。该中心还旨在支持农村和代表性不足的学生在与自主技术相关的职业中的招聘和成功，同时开发可复制的模式，增加所有学生进入这些职业的机会。这项工作将建立在与部落服务学院和整个北部平原地区的高中现有合作的基础上。该中心的具体目标包括：1)为教育工作者和行业设计、开发、协调和实施专门和协作的自主技术讲习班；2)通过提高STEM劳动力的质量和多样性，扩大对STEM和自主技术的参与；3)开展服务性学习活动，支持社区参与，提高自主技术职业的知名度和实用性；以及4)建立自主技术教育资源中心，重点是外联和扩大伙伴关系。国家自主技术中心旨在通过与ATE中心(例如CAAT、CA2VES、Geotech、Mate和Spacec)、ATE项目、行业和政府建立伙伴关系来实现其使命。通过支持这些利益相关者之间的合作，该中心希望开发和传播培训自主技术职业技术人员所需的内容和工具。该项目由NSF高级技术教育计划资助，该计划专注于为推动国家经济的先进技术领域培养技术人员。该奖项反映了NSF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。

This ATE National Center aims to serve the national need for developing and maintaining a skilled technical workforce in the field of autonomous technologies. Autonomous technologies have the potential to revolutionize the way people across the globe live, work, travel, and learn. They also have critical implications for the national economy, as well as national safety and security. The National Center for Autonomous Technologies will focus on three areas of autonomous technology: unmanned aircraft systems, connected automated vehicles, and unmanned underwater vehicles. These autonomous vehicles will have tremendous impact on the quality of human life across the nation, from rural to urban communities, as well on understanding of agriculture, the biosphere, and sustaining life in the oceans. Successful deployment of autonomous vehicles requires highly skilled, agile technicians who can support vehicle design, monitoring, control, use, and repair. The mission of the National Center for Autonomous Technologies will be to coordinate and lead efforts to educate the skilled technical workforce in autonomous technologies. The Center aims to achieve its mission through a concerted national effort that will develop and disseminate educational resources to meet current and future workforce demands and broadly engage stakeholders from industry, government, and related ATE projects and centers. The Center aims to improve student learning and technician education by conducting research and analysis to design quality curricula and content that meets the evolving demands of autonomous technologies in unmanned aircraft systems, connected automated vehicles, and unmanned underwater vehicles. The Center also aims to support recruitment and success of rural and underrepresented students in careers related to autonomous technologies, while developing replicable models that increase access to these careers for all students. This work will build upon existing collaborations with Tribal Serving Colleges and with high schools throughout the Northern Plains region. The Center's specific objectives include to: 1) design, develop, coordinate, and implement specialized and collaborative autonomous technology workshops for educators and industry; 2) expand engagement in STEM and autonomous technologies by increasing the quality and diversity of the STEM workforce; 3) employ service learning activities that support community engagement and increase the visibility and utility of careers in autonomous technologies; and 4) establish an education resource hub for autonomous technologies with a focus on outreach and expanded partnerships. The National Center for Autonomous Technologies aims to achieve its mission through partnerships with ATE Centers (e.g., CAAT; CA2VES; GeoTech; MATE; and SpaceTEC), ATE projects, industry, and government. By supporting collaborations among these stakeholders, the Center expects to develop and disseminate the content and tools needed to educate technicians for careers in autonomous technologies. This project is funded by the NSF Advanced Technological Education program that focuses on the education of technicians for the advanced-technology fields that drive the nation's economy.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.