Tools for Interest in Manufacturing Careers
Advanced manufacturing offers exciting career opportunities that today’s young people can be passionate about. Help point your students in the right direction. Use the tools found throughout this site to get your students plugged into an industry where they can find great, high-paying careers they can be proud of!
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Professional Development
Preparing the next generation of technicians to meet the expectations of a highly technological workforce can be a challenge for educators. Often, the demands of teaching within a set curriculum prevent educators from broadening their students' knowledge of workplace requirements because they need to familiarize themselves with those expectations. Educators who participate in these professional development programs can engage their students in more active learning experiences and become part of those experiences themselves.
MFG Your Future
Outreach Materials and Resources
Manufacture Your Future teacher’s guide and accompanying YouTube series are designed to introduce prospective students to contemporary manufacturing processes and products and encourage them to pursue rewarding, high-skill careers. We encourage you to help your students explore the opportunities manufacturing offers!
You Belong: Women in MFG
Outreach Materials and Resources
You Belong: Women in Manufacturing teacher’s guide and accompanying YouTube series are designed to introduce women to contemporary manufacturing processes and products and encourage them to pursue rewarding, high-skill careers. We encourage you to help your female students explore the opportunities manufacturing offers!
You Belong in MFG: Shelley; Operations Manager
You Belong in MFG: Myrna; Applications, Research and Development Engineer
You Belong in MFG: Jessica; Welder
Podcasts
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National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education Proposal Writing Mentoring Programs
Mentor-Connect’s peer mentoring facilitates knowledge transfer from the more experienced to the less experienced. Peer mentoring also stimulates the engagement of STEM educators, broadens participation in the ATE Program, and develops a next generation of leadership to ensure the advancement of technician education to support our nation’s economy.
The purpose of this project is to increase the number and quality of proposals submitted annually to NSF ATE for technician education with community colleges in leadership roles.
The PTI Grant-Seeker Academy offers professional development and technical assistance for potential grantees pursuing ATE funding. College teams will not only be mentored on developing competitive proposals but also encouraged to incorporate BILT’s essential elements into their approach. BILT model adoption will ensure new ATE projects benefit from strategic employer engagement from the outset.
The MentorLinks: Advancing Technological Education program, supported by the National Science Foundation is designed to help colleges develop or strengthen technician training programs in STEM fields through mentoring, professional development opportunities, and technical assistance; to establish connections for colleges to identify new ideas and relationships through networking opportunities at program meetings and Advanced Technological Education (ATE) National Conferences; and to help colleges gain insight about support for building and sustaining new programs.
Project Vision is a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded initiative to help colleges discover and match innovative ideas with NSF funding opportunities led by a seasoned team of NSF ATE experts, former senior college administrators, and former NSF program officers. The goal of Project Vision is to provide two-year colleges with expertise to generate ideas and subsequently support capacity building at each college so that these colleges can regularly submit proposals when appropriate to DUE.
The FORCCE-ATE Faculty Development and Mentoring-Coaching program is designed to educate participating community college teams about the National Science Foundation ATE program, to empower them to write competitive grant proposals, and to mentor/coach them through the otherwise daunting writing process. FORCCE-ATE includes many areas of cybersecurity and computing education, such as information technology, computer science, digital forensics, Cloud, IoT, data science, bioinformatics, AI/machine learning, and others.