Online Instructional Resources for Material Science Technology Education

在过去的一百年里，材料科学家们极大地改进了传统材料。 他们还取得了技术突破，产生了新的纳米级，生物，智能和复合材料。该项目将支持国家材料技术教育网络。 该网络将包括教育机构、行业和专业协会。 该项目的长期目标是确保材料技术教育符合行业标准，并培养出为不同制造部门的工作做好充分准备的技术人员。 为了实现这一目标，该项目将开发和共享在线资源，以支持学生和在职工人的材料技术教育。该项目建立在埃德蒙兹社区学院材料技术教育国家资源中心的经验和基础设施之上。 它的目标是支持材料科学教育社区的教学资源的开发。全国网络成员来自社区学院、四年制院校、行业合作伙伴、社区组织和专业协会。该项目的具体目标包括：改善和扩大国家获得高质量教学资源的在线收集，包括基于能力的模块，演示，实验室和演示;实施传播战略，促进提高对在线资源的认识，支持伙伴关系，并扩大材料科学教育界的战略机会;并利用合作国家伙伴的专门知识，实现教学资源的战略可扩展性。在该项目期间，将查明技术人员的技能差距，开发解决技能差距的教学模块，并通过网络成员的共同努力编写材料技术教育手册。项目评估将提供有关教学资源如何影响国家教育机构网络中学生的见解。该项目由先进技术教育计划资助，该计划侧重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价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Over the last one hundred years, material scientists have greatly improved traditional materials. They have also made technological breakthroughs that produced new nanoscale, biological, smart, and composite materials. This project will support a national network for materials technology education. The network will include educational institutions, industry, and professional societies. The long-term goal of the project is to ensure that materials technology education meets industry standards and produces technicians who are well prepared for work across different manufacturing sectors. To achieve this goal, the project will develop and share online resources to support the materials technological education of students and incumbent workers.The project builds upon the experience and infrastructure of the National Resource Center for Materials Technology Education at Edmonds Community College. Its goal is to support the development of instructional resources for the materials science education community. National network members come from community colleges, four-year institutions, industry partners, community organizations and professional societies. The specific aims of the project include: to improve and expand national access to an online collection of high-quality instructional resources including competency-based modules, presentations, labs, and demonstrations; to implement dissemination strategies that promote increased awareness of online resources, support partnerships, and expand strategic opportunities for the materials science education community; and to leverage the expertise of collaborating national partners to achieve strategic scalability of instructional resources. During this project, technician skill gaps will be identified, instructional modules that address the skill gaps will be developed, and a handbook on materials technology education will be written through a joint effort of network members. The project evaluation will provide insights on how the instructional resources impact students in the national network of educational institutions. This project is funded by the 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.