Agricultural Robotics and Automation Technologies

该项目旨在为国家利益服务，为中学和两年制大学生开发新的工业和大学驱动的机器人和自动化技术人员课程。该项目还将包括教师的专业发展，这将与课程相一致。该项目将满足记录在案的行业需求，即在全国范围内增加具有机器人能力的合格技术人员，以便在城市和偏远的农村地区工作。该项目的意义和重要性将反映在该项目的影响，以（1）满足农业技术当前迫切的劳动力需求，（2）使学生有可能获得大学学分或与2年制和4年制院校并行或衔接入学。该项目将满足NSF和先进技术教育（ATE）计划的使命，以推进、定义和传播知识和技能，扩大科学知识和应用的进步。该项目的范围是为学生准备现有和新兴的农业技术领域。在工业界、中学教师和中学后教师的投入下，该项目的目标是：（1）开发、实施、评估和传播三个农业模块，并进行学生评估，这将增加熟练的机器人和自动化技术人员的学生人数，并为劳动力或中学后教育做好准备;（2）制订教师专业发展模式，以推行有关单元;以及（3）提供指导和支持，以弥合中等和中等后农业科学教育与劳动力之间的差距，包括发展微型农业，模块的凭证。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。

This project aims to serve the national interest by developing a new, industry and college-driven robotics and automation technician curriculum for secondary and two-year college students. The project will also include professional development for teachers which will be developed and aligned with the curriculum. The project will meet a documented industry need for increased numbers of qualified technicians nationwide with robotic competencies to work in both urban and isolated, rural areas. The significance and importance of this project will be reflected in the impact of the project to (1) meet current, pressing workforce needs in agriculture technologies and (2) enable students to potentially gain college credit or concurrent or articulated enrollment with 2- and 4-year institutions. The project will meet the mission of NSF and the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program to advance, define, and disseminate the knowledge and skills that expand the progress of science knowledge and applications.The scope of this project is to prepare students for existing and emerging agricultural technology fields. With input from industry, secondary teachers, and post-secondary faculty, the goals of the project are: (1) to develop, implement, evaluate, and disseminate three agricultural modules with student assessment that will increase the number of students who are skilled robotics and automation technicians and ready for the workforce or post-secondary education; (2) to develop a model of professional development for teachers to implement the modules; and (3) to provide direction and support to bridge the divides between secondary and post-secondary agricultural science education and the workforce which includes developing micro-credentials for the modules. 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.