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DUE Division Of Undergraduate Education |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | August 4, 2022 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | August 14, 2023 |
| Award Number: | 2232622 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
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Virginia Carter
vccarter@nsf.gov (703)292-4651 DUE Division Of Undergraduate Education EDU Directorate for STEM Education |
| Start Date: | August 15, 2022 |
| End Date: | July 31, 2024 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $49,600.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $49,600.00 |
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| NSF Program(s): | Advanced Tech Education Prog |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.076 |
ABSTRACT
The industrial and professional world is undergoing rapid technological advances. These advances comprise Industry 4.0, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, defined as the convergence of digital, biological, and physical technologies so as to disrupt manufacturing, agriculture, healthcare, and all industries around the globe. Currently, educators and training providers view Industry 4.0 technologies in segregated silos. To succeed in Industry 4.0, educators will be required to radically rethink their models, methods, and offerings to meet the needs of industry and a rapidly changing society. The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) launched a multi-year dialog among industry, academia, policymakers, professional societies and accreditors on the desired content knowledge and practices needed to prepare graduates of engineering, engineering technology, and engineering technician programs for Industry 4.0 and beyond. These efforts culminated in a series of webinars and an in-person Summit. To capitalize on the momentum of the new ideas and relationships the webinars and Summit helped spark, the next step will be to distill and communicate the key observations and findings from the events.
This project will broadly disseminate the findings of these webinars and the Summit among the nation?s community and technical colleges and engineering and engineering technology departments. Policymaker briefings will summarize the key findings regarding the challenge of, and opportunity for, meeting US engineering and skilled technical workforce needs, and a Practitioner White paper will provide a more detailed PDF-format summary of the work presented at the webinars and Summit. These materials will include observations, suggestions, and the examples of best practices on the following: Policies for Building Skilled Technical Workforce for High-Value Manufacturing; Community Colleges and ATE Program Addressing Workforce for Industry 4.0; Alternate Pathways, Platforms, and Policies: Educating Engineers and Skilled Technical Workforce; Scaling Up Industry-Education Collaboration; Industry 4.0 Education, Policies, Perspectives, and Pandemics; A Call for Action for Education 4.0 Pathways; Leveraging New Partnerships and Work/Learn Opportunities for Workforce Development; Expanding Equitable Access to Engineering and Technical Education; Role of Funding Agencies and Influencers in Improving and Enhancing Education and Training Programs; and Preparing the Workforce to Meet Societal & Corporate Responsibilities. 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.
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
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The Industry 4.0 Workforce Summit, which was held in Washington DC in April 2022, was a project initiated by the Corporate Member Council (CMC) of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) to develop consensus recommendations for engineering educators to ready future engineers for Industry 4.0 -- the transformation of industry by massive scaling of data processing power, the introduction of human-machine interaction, and improvements in robotics. The goal of the Summit was to develop consensus recommendations for how the transformation in education and credentialing could meet the emerging needs of Industry 4.0.
The primary objective of disseminating the Industry 4.0 Summit findings was to improve existing workforce training programs offered by ATE institutions so that the graduates of the programs will be better equipped and be ready to address and meet the needs of industry as it adjusts to the demands of the Industry 4.0 movement.
As a part of this dissemination project, ASEE has produced a comprehensive Practitioner White Paper, an Infographic Policy Maker Briefing, and Executive Summary of the findings from the Summit. In response to social landscape, project dissemination also includes a a series of short video clips and a summary “Sizzle Reel” that capture the highlights of presentations by various invited industry experts at the Workforce Summit. ATE institutions, other key stakeholders, and members of the public, can access these reports, clips, and infographics on the ASEE’s Industry 4.0 Workforce Summit website (https://workforcesummit.asee.org/).
Industry experts identified technologies and processes that will continue to impact their business operations, including manufacturing processes, supply chains, product distribution, and customer relations. Almost all speakers emphasized that manufacturing facilities are and will be led by emerging operations technologies such as Human Augmentation, Transformative Computing, Intelligent Machines, Advanced Design Synthesis, Designer Materials, and Cognitive Assistants. They further emphasized that a new paradigm of engineering and technical operations, engineering and the enterprise, and engineering and partnerships will drive successful manufacturing enterprises in the future. Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and keeping up with new software will be the most critical competencies for their business success.
Keywords: Leadership, Project Management, Learning Agility, Problem-Solving, Business Modeling, Business Skills, Virtual Communication, Collaboration and communication skills, Emotional Intelligence, Teamwork / Multidisciplinary Work, Curiosity and Persistent, and Desire to Learning were mentioned as the business processes and practices that would impact their operations, survival and profitability under the current trend of Industry 4.0.
Last Modified: 10/24/2024
Modified by: Rachel D Koroloff
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