Recruiting Rural Students and Veteran Populations into an Aviation Maintenance Associate Degree Program

该项目的目标是满足区域和国家对航空维修技术员的书面需求。梅斯维尔社区和技术学院（MCTC）将制定招生战略和证书计划，旨在吸引农村学生和退伍军人进入MCTC的航空维修副学士学位课程。MCTC将与提供飞机拥有者和飞行员协会或STEM课程的地区高中、机场董事会、实验飞机协会分会和航空维修雇主合作，通过外展活动和将现有高中课程与MCTC航空维修技术副学士学位课程相结合，创建航空维修教育途径。该项目有两个目标：1）通过调整和精简中学、中学后、和成人教育进入劳动力市场的途径2）通过开展参与和外联活动，让区域社区接触教育，满足农村人口进入技术人员方案的有据可查的需求。和航空维修行业的职业机会。计划评估包括用于细化项目活动的形成性评估和用于确定结果的总结性评估，这些结果将用于改善农村学生和退伍军人进入航空维修技术人员计划的招聘。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NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力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 goal of this project is to address a documented regional and national need for Aviation Maintenance Technicians. Maysville Community and Technical College (MCTC) will develop enrollment strategies and a certificate program designed to attract rural students and veteran populations into MCTC’s Aviation Maintenance associate degree program. MCTC will partner with area high schools offering Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association or STEM programs, airport boards, Experimental Aircraft Association chapters, and aviation maintenance employers to create an aviation maintenance educational pathway through outreach activities and by aligning existing high school programs to the MCTC Aviation Maintenance Technology associate degree program.This project has two goals: 1) Address the documented needs of the aviation industry for maintenance technicians by aligning and streamlining secondary, postsecondary, and adult education pathways into the workforce 2) Address the documented needs of rural populations matriculating to technician programs through the creation of engagement and outreach activities for regional community exposure to educational and career opportunities in the aviation maintenance industry. Program evaluation includes both formative evaluation for refinement of project activities and summative evaluation to establish outcomes that will be used to improve the recruitment of rural student and veteran populations into aviation maintenance technician programs. 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.