Creating Advanced Manufacturing Pathways Program

为了满足该地区对熟练技术劳动力日益增长的需求，阿肯色州立大学纽波特分校（ASUN）是一所两年制综合性社区大学，在阿肯色州东北部设有三个校区。该大学将整合来自雇主的最新见解、正在进行的职业和技术教育研究，以及一项已建立的认证计划，以加强其先进的制造项目。ASUN创建先进制造途径计划（CAMPP）旨在重新调整现有的ASUN先进制造计划，以满足当前和新兴的区域工业需求。这包括需要增加区域先进制造业劳动力的多样性，以包括来自代表性不足的人口群体的学生。最后，ASUN将为先进制造业的在职工人提供新技术的再培训和提升技能的机会。该计划将根据区域工业的需求重新调整ASUN的先进制造计划，部分是由该计划的教师和顾问委员会进行的一项调查得出的。大约一半的受访者认为，新员工的教育水平存在差距，对在职培训的支持不足。为了解决这些问题，亚利桑那州立大学的教师将与先进制造业咨询委员会合作，确定课程改进的机会，重点是将美国制造业的当代工具纳入培训。为了招收多样化的新生，ASUN将通过邀请参加行业赞助的年度制造日庆祝活动等活动，将广泛的推广工作整合到地区初中和高中，并集中精力招募，指导和培训在制造业劳动力中代表性不足的学生。ASUN还将与在职员工合作，参加从自动化和机器人到3D打印和增材制造等相关和方便的课程。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。

In an effort to address the growing regional need for a skilled technical workforce, Arkansas State University Newport (ASUN), a comprehensive two-year community college with three campuses in northeastern Arkansas, will consolidate current insights from employers, ongoing research in career and technical education, and an established credentialing program to strengthen their advanced manufacturing program. The ASUN Creating Advanced Manufacturing Pathways Program (CAMPP) seeks to realign the existing ASUN advanced manufacturing program to meet the current and emerging needs of regional industry. This includes the need to increase the diversity of the regional advanced manufacturing workforce to include students from underrepresented demographic groups. Finally, ASUN will provide reskilling and upskilling opportunities in new technologies for incumbent workers in advanced manufacturing. The plan to realign ASUN’s advanced manufacturing program with the needs of regional industry was partially informed by a survey conducted by the program’s faculty and advisory board. Roughly half the respondents felt that there were educational gaps for new employees, and there was insufficient support for on-the-job training. To address these concerns, ASUN faculty will work with the advanced manufacturing advisory board to identify opportunities for curricular enhancements with a focus on incorporating training on contemporary tools in American manufacturing. To recruit a diverse population of new students, ASUN will integrate an extensive outreach effort to area middle and high schools through invitations to events such as the industry-sponsored annual Manufacturing Day festivities and focused efforts to recruit, mentor, and train students underrepresented in the manufacturing workforce. ASUN will also work with incumbent workers to participate in relevant and convenient courses on topics ranging from automation and robotics to 3D printing and additive manufacturing. 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.