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National Industry Advisory Board November 19, 2019

INDUSTRY SITE VISITS

Emerson InSinkErator, Racine, WI

Racine, WI

Bradshaw Medical, Kenosha, WI

Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC

• 1. More robots and more cobots with more functionality, which means

they're more complicated and more connected, are being installed everywhere.

• 2. Most technicians need to know more about digital communication

protocols between equipment.

• 3. More connected and automated robots and machines mean more

challenging troubleshooting situations.

Future of Work Observations from the Site Visits

• 4. Across all the operators and technicians, strong fundamentals in

math, science and technology are key to understanding the new equipment and processes

• 5. Employability skills (or the soft skills) are still extremely important—

maybe even more so today than they have been in the past.

• 6. Business knowledge is a minimal if at all characteristics expected of

technicians and advanced operators

Future of Work Observations from the Site Visits

• 7. Cyber security ( with exception of general behavior awareness,

phones etc) is not a concern as related to technicians and advanced

• perators.
• 8. Industry 4.0 is not a full bloomed reality but is being implemented

almost one sensor at a time.

Future of Work Observations from the Site Visits

WINSTON-SALEM REGIONAL CONVENING

Preparation

▪ Subject Matter Expert review of the knowledge and skills

terms used at the HI-TEC SIG

▪ Partnership with Forsyth Technical Community College ▪ Recruitment of participants from regional ATE projects,

industry, workforce development entities, colleges and universities

Winston-Salem Regional Convening

▪ DATA: Todd McLees, Founder,

Pendio Group and Rethink Ecosystem Hub

▪ DIGITAL: John Sands,

Principal Investigator, NSF ATE Center for System Security and Information Assurance

▪ BUSINESS: Donald McCoy,

STEM Education Consultant; IBM Global Workforce Development (ret.)

Convening Presentations

▪ Small groups given

knowledge and skill lists with working definitions

▪ Each participant asked to

mark if a topic is “taught” or “not taught”

▪ Facilitators guided discussion,

asked probing questions, noted trends

Convening Process

What We Learned:

Taught Not Taught

Data Visualization Data modeling Analytics tools Computational thinking Statistics Data management life cycle Automation/robots Artificial Intelligence Security controls Digital twins Basic programming Edge computing Communication Blockchain Continuous process improvement Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE) Ethics Vertical and horizontal integration

▪ “Teaching methods are out-of-date; professional

development is needed.”

▪ “Make skills more transferrable among/between classes,

across different disciplines.”

▪ “You could build a library on how to teach these topics.” ▪ “Using common terms between educators and industry

would be helpful.”

Feedback for Project Team Follow-up

▪ Information about workforce skills

needed in the future

▪ Information about this Future of

Work project

▪ Information about how to prepare

students for skilled STEM technician careers

▪ Professional development for faculty ▪ Opportunities to network

What NC Regional Convening Participants Value

YEAR 2 OUTREACH PLAN

Year 2 Outreach Plan

Continuing/Repeating: New/Proposed:

▪ Regional Convenings ▪ AACC Conference ▪ Conference Presentations ▪ Manufacturing Technology Conference ▪ Special Interest Groups ▪ STEM for All Video Showcase ▪ FLATE Focus Articles on the

Future of Work

▪ Website, podcast, blog posts ▪ Expanding social media channels ▪ Board outreach materials/strategies

preparingtechnicians.org/board

Next Steps

• Selecting next regional convening sites
• Developing a method for evaluating site visit data
• Begin developing library of lessons for faculty

use around the KSAs

• Continue/expand outreach

BOARD BUSINESS

Proposed Mission Statement Revision

Current: To enable the ATE Community to collaborate regionally with industry partners, within and across disciplines, on the transformation of associate degree programs to prepare US technicians for the Future of Work. Proposed: To enable the ATE Community to collaborate regionally with industry partners, within and across disciplines, on the transformation of associate degree programs to prepare US technicians for the work of the future. Project name and branding will remain the same.

Using LinkedIn to Promote the Project

www.preparingtechnicians.org

An Initiative of the Advanced Technological Education Program