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Work-Ready Electronics |
contact |
Joseph Mattoon (District Office) Joseph.Mattoon@domail.maricopa.edu |
credits |
Louis Frenzel, Curriculum Manager, Austin Community College (Texas) John Olson, Multimedia Production Manager, MATEC Michael Lesiecki, Task Force Chair, MATEC Manny Griego, Co-Principle Investigator, Glendale Community College Roger Harlow, Co-Principle Investigator, Mesa Community College Michael Midgley, Co-Principle Investigator, Austin CC (Texas) Palmerino Mazzucco, Faculty Curriculum Developer, Mesa CC John Bentley, Faculty Curriculum Developer, Mesa Community College Ui Luu, Faculty Curriculum Developer, Glendale Community College Carlos Nunez-Noriega, Faculty Curriculum Developer, Glendale CC Laura Marmolejo, Faculty Curriculum Developer, Austin CC (Texas) Michael Wilson, Faculty Curriculum Developer, Austin CC (Texas) |
college(s) |
District Office |
discipline(s) |
Electronics, Technology |
summary |
Work-Ready Electronics engenders unique opportunities for productive collaboration among community colleges and industry and is fulfilling a critical need to update, revise, and modernize electronics curricula at Maricopa colleges and community colleges across the nation. |
details |
(This initiative is the Maricopa Community Colleges District Office 2004 Innovation of the Year.) Work-Ready Electronics (WRE) originated, and is currently being funded, as a National Science Foundation, Advanced Technology Education grant to the Maricopa Community Colleges District. WRE is managed and executed through the Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC). WRE engenders unique opportunities for productive collaboration among community colleges and industry and is fulfilling a critical need to update, revise, and modernize electronics curricula at Maricopa colleges and community colleges across the nation. The processes, strategies, and methods used by the WRE Team are not restricted to electronics curricula. Although devised to address the needs in technology programs, the same type of student and faculty resources may be applied in almost any discipline. For example, “threaded discussions” in art history could be just as valuable to humanities students as technical discussions among electronics students. WRE provides an open, web-based forum for this purpose. The interactive graphics, “drill-down” exercises, Questor learning games, and other web-based resources designed for WRE would also be effective for enriching learning, faculty and student teaming, and independent study across many other disciplines. WRE was conceived to meet a nation-wide need within AA and AAS degree programs. Electronics is the mainstay of hi-tech fields such as semiconductor manufacturing, computers, and automation. Graduating students are eligible for a variety of interesting and lucrative jobs. Only six states do not contribute to the nearly 1,000 electronics degree programs in the U.S. But, electronics instructors and publishers of educational materials are in trouble—they cannot keep up with the rapid advancement of technology. The electronics industry has communicated that many graduating students searching for jobs do not have the knowledge and skills needed by modern industry. Faculty have testified that they cannot keep up with hi-tech advancement and that the textbooks continue to exclude some of the most important topics, knowledge, and skills that new employees need. To help alleviate this problem, the WRE Team has devised processes that provide for parallel evolution of curricula and technology/industry advancement; workshops for faculty professional development in electronics; and a World Wide Web delivery platform that affords 24-7 access to up-to-date electronics instruction and teaching tools across diverse populations of students and instructors. Note! As a professional courtesy to the owner of this package, if you use some aspect of this package or have some thoughts about it, please share your feedback via the comments form below. |
web links |
http://www.work-readyelectronics.org/ http://matec.org/index.htm http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/innovate/ |
supplements |
Download the complete description in PDF format (document) Note! As a professional courtesy to the owner of this package, if you use some aspect of this package or have some thoughts about it, please share your feedback below. |
comments |
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On Tue Jul 26, 2005 at 1:12PM Jamie Thurman <jamiethurman006@yahoo.com> said: |
shareback |
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extra |
Last modified: Nov-18-2004 Date created: Apr-01-2004 Visitor count: 4084 Dublin Core Metadata record  This package is included in the Innovation of the Year Awards 2004 special collection. |
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