Recruitment and Training Support for Diverse Populations in Mechanical and Architectural Manufacturing Technologies (RTS-MT)

在全国范围内，制造商努力填补需要一定水平的技术培训，应用技能，许可或认证的中等技能工作。到2030年，估计将有210万个制造业工作岗位空缺，这可能使美国经济损失高达1万亿美元。尽管妇女几乎占全国劳动力的一半，但制造业专业人员中妇女不到三分之一。该项目的目标是开发一个教育管道，为有资格填补中等技能制造业工作的多样化学生群体做好准备。这一目标将通过部门合作伙伴关系和职业发展途径来实现，并扩大匹兹堡技术学院（PTC）的机械工程技术（MET）计划，改进PTC的建筑工程技术（AET）计划，以满足不断增长的劳动力需求。该项目将建立在以前的经验，工作在集成软件和机器实验室教学（ISMI）项目，提高了高中提供MET教育的能力。PTC将通过实施以下目标和目的来满足国家和地区填补中等技能职位的需求：（1）增加MET和AET的非传统（女性），多样化和退伍军人学生的数量;（2）修改建筑课程，以更加注重设计原则;（3）为高中学生和教师提供指导和指导;（4）为PTC教师提供专业发展培训和设备;（5）扩大中学的双招生计划。受这些活动影响的主要受众将是中学生和教师、两年制大学生和PTC的教员以及非传统和退伍军人。项目评价的基础将是通过应用项目管理技术确定形成性成果，以及通过应用逻辑模型确定关键评价问题确定项目活动的总结性成果，数据源和连接到该项目的更广泛的影响，建立一个强大的制造业部门和加强区域经济。该项目是由先进的技术教育该奖项反映了NSF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。

Nationally, manufacturers struggle to fill middle-skills jobs that require some level of technical training, applied skills, licensing, or certification. Through the year 2030, there are an estimated 2.1 million manufacturing jobs that will be unfilled, which could cost the U.S. economy up to $1 trillion. Even though women represent almost half of the national workforce, less than one third of manufacturing professionals are women. The goal of this project is to develop an educational pipeline that will prepare a diverse population of students qualified to fill middle-skill manufacturing jobs. This goal will be accomplished using sector partnerships and career pathways and expanding Pittsburgh Technical College’s (PTC) Mechanical Engineering Technologies (MET) program and improving PTC’s Architectural Engineering Technology (AET) program to meet the growing workforce demand. This project will build upon prior experience gained working on the Integrating Software and Machine-Lab Instruction (ISMI) project that has enhanced the ability of high schools to deliver MET education. PTC will address the national and regional need for filling middle-skill positions by implementing the following goals and objectives (1) increase the number of non-traditional (women), diverse, and military veteran students to both MET and AET; (2) modify the architectural curriculum to include more focus on design principles; (3) provide mentoring and instruction to high school students and faculty; (4) provide professional development training and equipment for PTC faculty; and (5) expand dual enrollment programs at secondary schools. The primary audiences affected by these activities will be secondary school students and teachers, two-year college students and instructors at PTC, and non-traditional and military veteran populations. Project evaluation will be based on the identification of formative outcomes through the application of project management techniques, and summative outcomes of project activities through the application of a logic model to identify the key evaluation questions, data sources and connections to the project’s broader impacts of building a strong manufacturing sector and strengthening the regional economy.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.