An Industry Perspective on STEM Education for the Future: Workshop

本次研讨会旨在综合行业对STEM教育的结构和内容的看法，这将是未来国家STEM劳动力所需要的。该项目应对工作行为和商业模式的加速破坏性变化，预计这些变化将影响工作的性质，工作所需的技能以及国家劳动力的组成。该项目将探讨满足当前和未来行业需求的挑战，并将寻求确定当前STEM学位在支持能力和技能发展方面的有效性不足。该项目的目标是为全国关于未来STEM教育的讨论提供信息，并推动全国STEM教育结构和内容的必要变革。该项目将侧重于未来的工作环境和工作规则，工作所需的专业知识类型，以及首选的发展模式。它将审查行业驱动的认证系统，包括标准，基准和徽章，以及技能验证的行业实践。该项目还将研究当今行业使用的人才管道以及未来的趋势，例如实习，学徒，入职，持续专业发展和终身学习，行业休假学习以及利用高级工人的知识和经验。这个项目将研究学生的发展方面的技术技能和软技能，需要无论学科。 它还将研究学术机构如何看待行业准备的价值和信誉，如认证和徽章与学术课程。该项目将聘请具有深厚行业经验的行业专家和研究人员，提供有关劳动力再培训和教育趋势的行业观点。活动将包括进行广泛的行业调查，召集行业思想领袖以确定需要探索的主题，与一部分参与者进行一对一访谈以验证调查结果和随后的分析，并将结果汇编成正式发布的报告。 该项目由NSF改善本科STEM教育计划（IUSE）：教育和人力资源（EHR）支持。 IUSE计划支持提高所有本科生STEM教育有效性的项目。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This workshop aims to synthesize an industry perspective about the structure and content of STEM education that will be needed by the nation's STEM workforce in the future. The project responds to the accelerating disruptive changes to work behaviors and business models, which are expected to affect the nature of work, the skills needed on the job, and the composition of the nation's workforce. The project will explore challenges to meeting current and future industry demands and will seek to identify shortcomings in the effectiveness of current STEM degrees in supporting development of competencies and skills. The goal of the project is to inform the national discussion about STEM education for the future, and to motivate needed changes in the structure and content of STEM education nationally. The project will focus on the future work environment and work rules, the types of expertise needed on the job, and preferred formats of development. It will examine industry-driven certification systems, including standards, benchmarks, and badging, as well as industry practices of skills validation. The project will also examine talent pipelines used by industry today and the trends for the future, such as internships, apprenticeships, onboarding, continuing professional development and life-long learning, industry leaves for study, and leveraging senior workers' knowledge and experience. This project will examine student development in terms of both technical skills and soft skills that are needed regardless of discipline. It will also examine how academic institutions view the value and credit-worthiness of industry preparation such as certification and badging versus academic courses. This project will engage industry experts and research faculty with deep industry experience to provide industry perspectives on workforce re-skilling and educational trends. Activities will include conducting a broad survey of industry, a convening of industry thought leaders to identify topics in need of exploration, one-on-one interviews with a subset of participants to validate the survey results and subsequent analysis, and compilation of results into a formal published report. This project is supported by the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education Program (IUSE): Education and Human Resources (EHR). The IUSE Program supports projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all undergraduate 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.