Description: Tacoma Community College offers a Logistics course program, funded in part by the National Science Foundation, to provide students with the professional skills necessary to succeed in warehouse, inventory, and supply chain management. Logistics 102, Transportation and Distribution,...
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Tacoma Community College offers a Logistics course program, funded in part by the National Science Foundation, to provide students with the professional skills necessary to succeed in warehouse, inventory, and supply chain management. Logistics 104, “Applied Warehouse and Inventory...
Advancing Manufacturing through Applied STEM Education
Project/CenterCollaborating with rural secondary schools, representatives from the manufacturing industry, and a learning technology company, Chippewa Valley Technical College (CVTC) is developing a Mobile Simulation Laboratory and associated curricula to bring advanced manufacturing equipment and simulation...
This project is to enhance advanced, automated manufacturing and processing education at the College of the Canyons by aligning, expanding, and upgrading three manufacturing technology related programs: Manufacturing Technology, Electromechanical Systems Technology, and Welding (automated robotic...
Intelligent Infrastructure Systems Education Project
Project/CenterThe Intelligent Infrastructure Systems Education Project (I2SEP) is a, multi-interdisciplinary, advanced technological education (ATE) project that is improving Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) related undergraduate education primarily in the electronics technology (ET) area....
Collaborative Research: Neutron Monitor Observations of Cosmic Rays from Jang Bogo and McMurdo
Project/CenterThis award focuses on a specific research program that will be using data from the neutron monitor at McMurdo (which will be then moved to Jang Bogo) and from other worldwide locations. The research program is based on a unique southward cosmic rays "viewing direction" of the subject monitor for...
Laser and Fiber Optics Regional Center
Project/CenterThe LASER-TEC Resource Center supports efforts to increase the lasers, optics, photonics, and fiber optics (LOPFO) technical workforce. The Resource Center will update and maintain educational services and materials and provide open access these resources to secondary, post-secondary, and industry...
Jobs for the Future (JFF) partners with Owensboro Community and Technical College (OCTC) and the WGBH Educational Foundation to develop and field test a work-based learning (WBL) approach for manufacturing technician education for incumbent production workers lacking an Associate degree. New WBL...
The National Network for Pulp and Paper Technology Training (npt)2 is an organization devoted to developing curriculum and standards within the pulp and paper industry. They were established in 2004 with the goal of working with the "American Forest and Paper Association's Agenda 2020 initiative to...
Formative Assessment Systems for ATE (FAS4ATE)
Project/CenterPrincipal investigators and evaluators of grants funded by the NSF Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program have identified a need for access to valid, reliable, useful, and accessible, real-time evaluative data for decision making in their projects and centers. However, limits on time,...
Integrating Expert Knowledge and Simulation-Based Assessment for Wastewater Management Training
Project/CenterThis project is designing and implementing an innovative approach to improving the statewide training of wastewater technicians at the South Carolina Environmental Training Center. The integrative approach includes 1) cognitive task analyses of industry experts to elicit both explicit and tacit...
Edugaming: Student-Teacher Collaborations to Strengthen the STEM Pipeline through Educational Game Development
Project/CenterThis project builds on a previous ATE project which created four associate degree programs in Computer Game and Simulation Development with foci on game programming and digital arts. In this new project, the STEM education and workforce pipeline is strengthened in several ways. Workshops are being...
The University of Oklahoma and the American Institute of Biological Sciences, in collaboration with key national biological societies, will articulate a shared vision of how best to prepare biology students and scientifically literate citizens. This project, entitled Preparing to Prepare the 21st...
Regional Advanced Machining Partnership (RAMP)
Project/CenterCentral Maine Community College and stakeholders from the manufacturing sector of the New England region are creating a Regional Advanced Machining Partnership (RAMP) to: 1) develop an advanced machining certificate; 2) provide faculty development in advanced machining; and 3) disseminate proven...
SECURE-IT Cybersecurity Project
Project/CenterThere is a growing demand for cybersecurity knowledge and skills in organizations of all types. To meet this need, this project is adapting and implementing cybersecurity curricula, strengthening the recruitment and retention of students in information technology (IT), and providing professional...
This project is developing innovative simulation games for teaching and learning building science, integrating them into existing courses at Santa Fe Community College (SFCC), pilot testing them at SFCC and three other community colleges in New Mexico, and evaluating their educational effectiveness...
Understanding, Supporting, and Creating Curriculum Pathways for Industrial Automation Careers
Project/CenterThis project is supporting and creating curriculum pathways to increase the number of qualified technicians in the areas of operation, troubleshooting, design and integration of automated manufacturing systems (industrial automation). The curriculum pathways include a series of courses and learning...
Collaborative Project: Technology-Based Logistics: Leveraging Indiana's Role as the Crossroads of America
Project/CenterIndiana offers convenient access to products for two-thirds of the U.S. population. Ivy Tech and the Purdue University College of Technology (CoT) collaborate to develop a technology-based logistics program designed to meet the growing demands of Indiana's employers. Four primary objectives include:...
Collaborative Project: Geospatial Connections Promoting Advancement to Careers and Higher Education
Project/CenterThis collaborative project by Mesa Community College and Northern Arizona University is developing career and educational pathways in geospatial technology (GST) from secondary schools through two-year colleges and universities. Components include a) course and curriculum development that integrates...
Technicians in Engineering, Automation and Machinery
Project/CenterThis project is focusing on the issue of declining student enrollment in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields by offering a retooled Applied Associate of Science (AAS) Engineering Technology (ET) degree to meet the needs of Iowa employers for highly qualified ET workers....
Richland College, the only Center of Academic Excellence for Information Assurance 2-Year Education and Training (CAE/2Y) in Texas, is expanding its Associate in Applied Science (AAS) degree Digital Forensics and Information Assurance (DF/IA) program to address a critical nationwide need for as many...
The National Academy of Engineering undertakes a consensus study of the status, role, and needs of engineering technology education in the United States. The three goals of the study include an analysis of (1) the 'production' and employment of engineering technicians; (2) employer perceptions...
Stackable Training for Laboratory Science and Quality Technicians in Biopharmaceutical and Biomedical Manufacturing
Project/CenterWorking with a team of industry partners, this project is developing four competency-based stackable credentials that lead to a new Associate Degree in Analytical and Quality Technology (AQT) at Mount Wachusett Community College. The project is preparing diverse, rural community college students for...
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