Manufacturing Talent Development Innovation Laboratory: A Workshop for Manufacturing USA Institute Workforce Development Stakeholders

美国制造业研究所的成立是为了成为技术研究和开发的创新者，从而支持将新颖和先进的技术整合到美国工业中。此外，每个美国制造业协会都肩负着教育和劳动力发展的使命。这一使命包括工业界、学术界和政府的联合，以加强美国劳动力的先进技术技能，支持美国在先进制造业的全球领导地位。该项目将组织一次会议，由8位教育和劳动力发展主任以及区域战略合作伙伴参加。这次会议的目的是建立创新的职业和技术教育途径，以教育工业实施新技术所需的熟练技术劳动力。会议成果将为职业和技术教育界、美国制造业协会和美国先进制造业提供教育熟练技术劳动力的最佳实践和模式。这是美国教育部、国防部和国家科学基金会的一个联合项目。总体目标是协助美国制造业协会成为区域经济发展的推动者，因为他们实施最佳实践和模式来教育国内人才，以确保美国制造业的竞争力。会议将汇集来自8个美国制造业协会的区域团队，以：1)确定/帮助制定目标组织的价值主张，以与协会合作，促进特定区域的制造业劳动力发展；2)识别区域制造业经济体所需的技能，需求的预期增长和满足技能要求的职业；3)确定大企业与中小企业制造业劳动力需求分布的区域运行模式；4)确定涉及整个人才开发管道的策略；5)确定为建立正式和非正式关系而招聘的其他组织和机构；6)探索创新方法，提高技术人员教育和培训的有效性；7)建立利用区域劳动力发展资源的最佳实践。会议成果将包括每个参与的美国制造协会旨在实现上述目标的行动计划。这些计划将分发给整个美国制造业协会社区以及职业和技术教育社区，包括中学和大专院校。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。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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 Manufacturing USA Institutes were created to be innovators in technology research and development, thus, supporting integration of novel and advanced technologies into U.S. industries. Additionally, each Manufacturing USA Institute was tasked with an education and workforce development mission. This mission involves alignment of industry, academia, and government to strengthen the U.S. workforce's advanced technical skills in support of U.S. global leadership in advanced manufacturing. This project will organize a conference that brings together eight of the Education and Workforce Development Directors along with regional strategic partners. The aim of this convening will be to establish innovative career and technical education pathways for educating the skilled technical workforce needed as industry implements new technologies. The conference outcomes will inform the career and technical education communities, Manufacturing USA Institutes, and the U.S. Advanced Manufacturing industries of best practices and models for educating the skilled technical workforce. This is a joint project between the Departments of Education and Defense and the National Science Foundation. The overall goal is to assist the Manufacturing USA Institutes to become drivers of regional economic development as they implement best practices and models to educate domestic talent to ensure U.S. manufacturing competitiveness.The conference will bring together region-based teams from eight of the Manufacturing USA Institutes to: 1) identify/help formulate the value proposition for targeted organizations to partner with the institutes for region-specific manufacturing workforce development; 2) identify the skills demanded by the regional manufacturing economies, expected growth in the demand and occupations that can meet the skill requirements; 3) determine the regional operational patterns of the manufacturing workforce demand distribution between large vs. small/midsized enterprises ; 4) determine strategies to involve the entire talent development pipeline; 5) identify additional organizations and agencies to recruit for formal and informal relationships; 6) explore innovative approaches to increase the effectiveness of technician education and training; and 7) establish best practices to utilize regional workforce development resources. Conference outcomes will include action plans from each participating Manufacturing USA Institute aimed at achieving the above objectives. These plans will be disseminated to the entire Manufacturing USA Institute community as well as the career and technical education communities that include both secondary and post-secondary 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.