Industry 4.0 Seminar Series

该项目旨在通过改进制造业教育工作者的教学实践来服务于国家利益，以实施关于在区域制造业企业采用工业4.0技术的循证和基于行业的实践。东北威斯康星技术学院(NWTC)是一所为期两年的技术学院，旨在通过培养大专教育工作者对工业中使用的新兴技术的知识，使现有和新技术人员具备支持多样化、不断发展的技术基础设施所需的技能集。制造业的未来和雇主的经济竞争力取决于在制造车间连接机械和数字世界的技术的使用。工业4.0的概念在不到十年前才首次引入，并迅速在整个制造业掀起了浪潮，不仅在现有劳动力中造成了技能差距，而且在高等教育领域也造成了技能差距，在高等教育领域，讲师的高级教育和“现实世界”经验早于这种差距。需要新的战略来解决这一知识差距，并制定严格的课程更新，以确保行业拥有在这种智能环境中运营所需的IT和制造技能。工业4.0研讨会系列项目将展示一种模式，以适应高技能技术人员，该模式可在全国以制造业为主的地区以及非制造业部门实施，如运输和物流、建筑设计、能源、医疗保健和公共安全，这些部门越来越多地采用工业4.0技术。工业4.0研讨会系列会议和会议项目将召集来自信息技术(IT)和制造业、工业4.0技术主题专家、商业代表和教学设计师等领域的区域专上教育人员。将通过多节研讨会系列讨论三个问题：区域/国家雇主目前和/或预期将采用哪些技术？工业界是如何应用这项技术的？而且，高等教育如何将这些技术的技能转化为新的和现有的证书、技术文凭和副学士学位课程，以培养出受过培训的毕业生，以满足行业不断变化的需求？这一系列研讨会的结果将用于指导新的教学实践，使其更好地与新兴和不断发展的技术相关的劳动力需求保持一致，确保新员工和现有员工拥有必要的IT和制造技能。该项目由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 project aims to serve the national interest by improving the teaching practices of manufacturing educators to implement evidence- and industry-based practices on the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies in regional manufacturing businesses. Northeast Wisconsin Technical College (NWTC), a two-year technical college, aims to prepare incumbent and new technicians with the skillsets needed to support a diverse, evolving technological infrastructure by building the knowledge of post-secondary educators on emerging technologies utilized in industry. The future of manufacturing and employer economic competitiveness is dependent on the use of technologies that bridge the mechanical and digital worlds on the manufacturing floor. The concepts of Industry 4.0 were first introduced less than a decade ago and are quickly making waves across manufacturing, creating skills gaps not only among the incumbent workforce but also in higher education where instructor advanced education and “real world” experiences pre-date this arrival. New strategies are needed to address this knowledge gap and produce rigorous curricular updates to ensure industry has the IT and manufacturing skillsets needed to operate in this smart environment. The Industry 4.0 Seminar Series project will demonstrate a model for adapting post-secondary program content to upskill technicians that can be implemented in manufacturing-dominate regions of the nation, as well as in non-manufacturing industry sectors, such as transportation and logistics, building design, energy, healthcare, and public safety, where Industry 4.0 technologies are increasingly being adopted.The Industry 4.0 Seminar Series conference and meetings project will convene regional post-secondary educators from the fields of Information Technology (IT) and Manufacturing, Industry 4.0 technology subject-matter-experts, business representatives, and instructional designers. Three questions will be addressed through the multi-session seminar series: What technologies are currently and/or anticipated to be adopted by regional/state employers? How is industry applying this technology? And, how can higher education translate the skillsets of these technologies into new and existing certificate, technical diploma, and associate degree programs to produce graduates trained to meet the changing needs of industry? The results of this seminar series will be used to inform new teaching practices that better align with workforce needs in relation to emerging and evolving technologies, ensuring that new and incumbent workers have the necessary IT and manufacturing skillsets. 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.