EAGER: Scenario-based COMET Training for Careers in the Weather, Water and Climate Industry

天气、水和气候几乎影响着经济的每一个部门。 在未来几年中，大气科学领域的就业岗位预计将以高于平均水平的速度增长，私营企业的就业前景最好。 然而，传统的大气科学课程往往福尔斯缺乏培养学生在私营部门就业所需的技能。 通过强调针对工业和社会需求的培训内容，该项目将编制教育材料，以改变大气科学劳动力的教学，并促进一批准备满足社会不断变化的需求的大气科学毕业生，他们具有解决私营部门工作类型的技能。该项目的总体目标是开发在线和课堂培训材料，使大学生接触天气，水和气候企业私营部门的职业生涯，并使他们能够在现实世界的行业场景中应用相关技能。 该项目是一项合作努力，涉及大学大气研究公司，国家大气研究中心的研究应用实验室，私营行业主题专家和大气科学教师。该项目的预期成果是解决大气科学工作人员最关键的技能差距和需求，并促进更多地使用和采用以奥斯陆为基础的教学方法，以提供在线、主动的学习机会。 针对进入大气科学/气象学专业的学生的入门级课程材料的开发将包括：1）每个行业主要履行哪些职能及其服务的重要性，2）天气，水和气候信息通常如何用于这些职能，3）这些职能中最常见的职位负责履行哪些职能; 4）哪些额外的技术和权力技能使工作人员能够成功履行这些职能。 入门课程材料将包括专题专家介绍私营部门多样性的视频短片。 将开发一个学习资源，供高年级本科生在现实世界的行业场景中应用相关的技术和电力技能。 上层材料将涉及广泛影响许多行业的天气事件的选择，作为案例研究，学生可以承担几个行业专业人士之一的角色。 情景课堂练习的材料可能包括但不限于：1）用于事件气象分析的典型天气案例数据包，2）包含服务交付任务提示的四至八个多媒体行业场景，3）每个场景的补充行业特定数据包，4）一套行业主题专家服务交付经验和对每个场景的解释，和5）该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过使用评估来支持的。基金会的学术价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

Weather, water, and climate impact nearly every sector of the economy. In the coming years, jobs in the atmospheric sciences are expected to grow at a faster rate than average and the best job prospects are expected to be in private industry. However, the traditional curriculum in atmospheric science often falls short of developing in students the skillsets necessary for private sector employment. By emphasizing training content specific to industry and societal needs, this project will produce educational materials to transform the instruction of the atmospheric science workforce and promote a cohort of atmospheric science graduates prepared to meet the evolving needs of society with the skills to address the types of work in the private sector. The overall goal of this project is to develop online and classroom training materials that expose university students to careers in the private sector of the weather, water, and climate enterprise and allow them to apply relevant skills within real-world industry scenarios. The project is a collaborative effort involving the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s Research Application Lab, private industry subject matter experts, and atmospheric science faculty. The expected outcomes of this project are to address the most critical skill gaps and needs of the atmospheric science workforce and promote greater use and adoption of scenario-based pedagogical approaches in providing online, active learning opportunities. Development of introductory level course material aimed toward students entering the atmospheric sciences/meteorology major will cover: 1) what function(s) each industry primarily performs and the importance of their services, 2) how weather, water and climate information are generally used in these functions, 3) what the most common positions in these functions are responsible for performing and 4) what additional technical and power skills enable staff to succeed at these functions. The introductory course material will include video vignettes from subject matter experts representing the diversity of the private sector. A learning resource for upper-level undergraduate students to apply associated technical and power skills within a real-world industry scenario will be developed. The upper-level material will involve selection of a weather event that broadly impacted many industries to serve as a case study in which students can assume the role of one of several industry professionals. Materials for the scenarios classroom exercise may include, but are not limited to: 1) a package of typical weather case data for meteorological analysis of the event, 2) four to eight multimedia industry scenarios that contain service delivery task prompts, 3) a package of complementary industry-specific data for each scenario, 4) a set of industry subject matter expert service-delivery experiences and explanations for each scenario, and 5) an instructor’s guide with instructions and course integration and adaptation tips.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.