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Title: Aligning NSF Advanced Technology Education (ATE) Center Programs with the Workforce System


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Aligning NSF Advanced Technology Education (ATE)
Center Programs with the Workforce System
  • NCATC 2008
  • October 2, 2008
  • Ken Smith Weld-Ed National Center

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NSF ATE Program Overview
  • The National Science Foundations Advanced
    Technological Education (ATE) program uses
    educators from two-year colleges to lead
    initiatives that improve the skills of
    technicians and the educators who teach them.
  • The ATE program invigorates technician education
    programs with competitive grants to innovative
    educators who work at or in collaboration with
    two-year colleges.
  • Public community and technical colleges provide
    most of the postsecondary education available to
    technicians in the United States.

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What are ATE Centers?
  • ATE Centers have broad missions as change agents
    in their fields. The centers, the flagships of
    the ATE program, have strong connections with
    regional and national employers of technicians.
  • The programs they develop with colleagues in
    secondary schools, universities, and industry
    serve as models that others can use to respond
    more effectively to national, regional, and local
    economic and educational challenges.

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The Advanced Technological Education program
  • Delivers well-qualified technicians to the
    workforce saving employers time and money
  • Influences changes in the hiring practices of key
    industries
  • Improves STEM curricula and instruction at
    community and technical colleges, and secondary
    schools using current research
  • Saves school systems and higher education
    institutions time and money revising curricula
    and creating new programs for emerging
    technologies
  • Encourages the participation of women and
    underrepresented groups in STEM fields
  • Reaches out to middle school and high school
    students to inform them of technical career
    opportunities
  • Increases enrollments in mathematics and science
    courses that prepare students for careers in
    advanced technology fields
  • Works across disciplines to invigorate teaching
    and address student recruitment and retention

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The Advanced Technological Education program
  • Overall, the ATE program boosted the academic
    momentum of technicians and the technological
    know-how of the nation during a six-year survey
    period by
  • Developing more than 5,000 different educational
    materials that were aligned with workforce needs
    and industry standards
  • Creating more than 2,000 two-year college
    programs, 16,800 two-year college courses and
    1,500 secondary school courses, 150 baccalaureate
    programs and 800 courses, and 2,000 articulation
    agreements
  • Offering programs at approximately 4,900
    locations that reached 320,000 two-year college
    students, 48,000 secondary school students, and
    6,000 students at baccalaureate institutions
  • Providing professional development opportunities
    to more than 80,000 educators

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Weld-Ed History
  • ATE project with Ohio State University
  • Curriculum
  • ATE Center planning grant
  • Plan out need for, and operations of, the Center
  • Industry participation and feedback
  • ATE Center Proposal 0703018

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Weld-Ed Center Grant
  • Initial four year grant
  • 5,000,000
  • Possibility for 3-4 year extension
  • Reduced level of funding (50 of initial)
  • Sustainability beyond NSF
  • Business plan
  • Projects
  • Other sources of funding
  • Industry associations
  • Membership

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Weld-Ed Mission
  • Vision
  • Weld-Ed is a national partnership of colleges,
    universities, professional societies, government,
    and private industry committed to increasing the
    number and quality of welding and materials
    joining technicians to meet industry demand.
  • Mission
  • Weld-Ed strives to improve the quality of
    education and training services to address the
    hiring and professional development needs of the
    welding industry.

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Weld-Ed Partners
  • Lorain County Community College - Lead
  • Educational partner institutions
  • Provide for dissemination of Weld-Ed educational
    products and provide information to the center
    from local business and educational contacts
  • Industry partners
  • Other collaborators (NSF, national organizations)

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Educational Partners
  • Grant years 1 through 4
  • Ferris State University
  • Pennsylvania College of Technology
  • Texas State Technical College
  • North Dakota Science College
  • The Ohio State University
  • Years 3 4
  • An additional 4 colleges/universities will be
    added

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Educational Partners(cont.)
  • Partner criteria included
  • current program makeup
  • industries served
  • degrees awarded
  • affiliation and involvement with AWS
  • potential for addressing industry needs

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Industry Partners
  • Caterpillar
  • Northrop-Grumman
  • US Army / Marine Corp Aberdeen
  • US Navy Joining Center
  • Lockheed Martin
  • Nelson Stud Welding
  • Welding equipment manufacturers
  • Others to be included as appropriate

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Industry Associations
  • American Welding Society (AWS)
  • WEMCO and RWMA groups of AWS
  • National Council for Advanced Manufacturing
    (NACFAM)
  • National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)
  • Manufacturing Skills Standards Council (MSSC)

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Other Collaborators
  • NSF ATE Centers
  • NCME manufacturing resources
  • CAPT (Captech) processing industry
  • CARCAM automotive manufacturing
  • MatEd materials science
  • SpaceTec aerospace technicians
  • Additional Centers are linked as needed
  • CORD (Center for Occupational Research and
    Design)
  • NCATC (National Coalition of Advanced Technology
    Centers)
  • American Association of Community Colleges (AACC)
  • League for Innovation in the Community College

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Weld-Ed Goals
  • Goal 1 - Increase the number of welding
    technicians to meet workforce needs.
  • traditional and non-traditional individuals
  • Goal 2 - Make significant gains towards the
    comprehensive reform of welding education.
  • Share best practices and curriculum
  • Goal 3 - Enhanced faculty professional
    development and continuing education.
  • Many welding educators are not degree holders

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Weld-Ed Goals continued
  • Goal 4 - Ensure the effective and efficient
    management of the Weld-Ed Center and operations.
    Establish effective reporting and evaluation of
    program objectives.
  • Goal 5 - Ensure the sustainability of Weld-Ed
    and its operations beyond the NSF grant period.

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Challenges to the welding industry
  • Turnover / retirements
  • Even with automation, skilled welders still
    needed (500,000 over the next 5 years)
  • Average age is 56
  • Approximately 95 of all manufactured products
    require some sort of welding / materials joining
  • Infrastructure growth will require more skilled
    welders nuclear power plants

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Challenges to the welding industry
  • Image problems
  • Misconceptions about todays welding / materials
    joining industry
  • Misconceptions about manufacturing in general

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Developed by Ernest Levert of Lockheed Martin
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What is a skill panel?
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Skill panels are
  • A group of local individuals representing various
    aspects of the workforce system
  • Industry representatives
  • Educational representatives
  • High schools/vocational schools
  • Community colleges
  • Economic development representatives
  • Local WIB members
  • Local government representatives

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Purpose of the Skill Panel
  • The purpose of the skills panel is to gather
  • forward industry workforce needs data.
  • Weld-Ed focuses
  • Welders
  • Welding operators
  • Welding technicians
  • Welding Inspectors
  • Welding engineers

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What are the differences?
  • Advisory Boards
  • Historical data
  • Follows someone elses lead
  • Guidance based
  • Program focused
  • Skill panels
  • Forward data
  • Members lead the discussion
  • Activity based
  • Industry focused

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National Weld-Ed Skill Panel Meeting 1
  • The first meeting of the Weld-Ed National Skill
    Panel occurred in Washington, DC at the National
    Center for Higher Education on March 27, 2008.
  • The day long meeting resulted in a course of
    action that the Skill Panel will follow a period
    of 18 months.
  • The highlights of the meeting follows.

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Questions to be answered
  • Identify short Term hiring needs of the welding
    industry (up to 2 years).
  • Identify mid-term hiring needs of the welding
    industry (3-6 years).
  • Identify long-term hiring needs of the welding
    industry (7 years).
  • What impact are baby boomer retirements having on
    the welding workforce?

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Questions to be answered
  • What technological improvements or new
    welding/material joining techniques will impact
    future employment?
  • What technological advancements in welding
    equipment will impact future employment?
  • What other factors will impact the future of the
    welding and materials joining industry?

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Questions to be answered
  • What other national trends will impact the
    industry?
  • What domestic factors impact competitiveness in
    the welding/materials joining industry?
  • What global factors impact competitiveness in the
    welding/materials joining industry?

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Questions to be answered
  • What role could economic development play in
    improving the industrys competitiveness?
  • What role could government sponsored programs
    such as those from the U.S. Department of Labor
    play in improving competitiveness?
  • Have there been any educational programs offered
    by colleges, universities, or equipment
    manufacturers that have significantly impacted
    your industry?

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How the informationwill be used
  • The employment information that is gathered will
    be analyzed and the identified needs will be
    matched against existing welding and materials
    joining courses and programs that are offered by
    the education community.
  • The employment information will also be shared
    with the educational community to create
    awareness of the industrys need.

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How the informationwill be used
  • The employment information will also be shared
    with government and foundations to make them
    aware of the needs of the industry.
  • New curricula that is needed will result in
    Weld-Ed or one of its educational partners
    seeking funds from NSF or other sources to
    develop the curriculum.

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How the informationwill be used
  • The economic development information will form
    the basis for strategies for the economic
    development/chamber of commerce community to
    support the needs of the industry.
  • That information will also be used to help
    facilitate and inform an on-going dialogue
    between the industry and economic development
    community.

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How the informationwill be used
  • The information that is gathered about trends,
    domestic and international factors that influence
    competitiveness will be analyzed and used to
    inform the industry, government and legislators
    regarding positive and negative influences on the
    industry.
  • It is hoped that this information will also form
    the basis for on-going dialogues between AWS, the
    industry, related associations, and appropriate
    federal government agencies and Congress.

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How the informationwill be used
  • The overall information will be used to form the
    basis for the report on the State of the Welding
    Industry in the United States.
  • The report will also include regional information
    that will be gathered by the five regional skill
    panels.
  • This effort will take 18 months starting from
    March 08.
  • The national panel will meet two more times in
    person as well as by conference call every 4-6
    weeks.
  • We also anticipate breaking the Panel into
    subcommittees to address some of the issues and
    activities as we move through the Skill Panel
    process.

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Industry Competency Models DOL
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Industry Competency Models DOL
  • The panel will work with the staff to complete
    the fourth and fifth tiers of the competency
    pyramid (we will be a beta test group for this
    activity).
  • We complete those tiers for three specific
    occupations welders welding technicians and,
    welding engineers.
  • We will also work to complete tiers 6, 7 and 8
    which primarily address management related to the
    three occupations with our university partners.
    This will be done by completing a career ladder
    lattice.

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Industry Competency Models - MSSC
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Industry Competency Models MSSC
  • Fits into the fourth tier of the DOL competency
    model.
  • Developed specifically for the manufacturing
    industry.
  • Defines knowledge, skills, and performance needed
    by frontline workers.
  • Standards reflect the needs of high- performance
    best practice workplaces.

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Initial Research
  • Weld-Ed Webinar Meeting
  • May 29, 2008

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Factors to Consider
  • Long-term demand for workers
  • Short-term demand for workers
  • Supply of trained workers
  • Other considerations affecting balance
  • Wages
  • Retirements
  • Industry image
  • Availability of instructors

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Welding Occupations
  • Welders
  • Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers
    (51-4121)
  • Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters,
    Operators, and Tenders (51-4122)
  • Welding Technicians
  • Engineering Technicians, Except Drafters, All
    Other (17-3029)
  • Welding Inspectors
  • Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and
    Weighers (51-9061.00)
  • Welding Engineers
  • Materials Engineers (17-2131)

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Short-Term Projections
  • Short-term projections have been derived from
    information from the Job Central employment
    database.
  • This database replaced Americas Job Bank and
    is operated with funds from Fortune 1000
    companies.
  • 47 of the 50 states have their employment
    opportunities listed on this database as part of
    their public workforce development system.

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Short-Term Projections
  • The following jobs snapshot is from Job Central
    on May 9, 2008
  • Welders 5,500 listed on an average day, 950 new
    jobs listed per week
  • Welding Technicians 440 listed on an average
    day, 70 new jobs listed per week
  • Welding Inspectors 150 listed on an average
    day, 20-25 new listings per week
  • Welding Engineer 365 listed on an average day,
    60 new listings per week.

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National Long-term Outlook
  • Welders (data for both welding occupations)
  • Employment Growth of 5
  • Projected Employment 484,100 by 2016
  • Annual Average Openings 11,910 (due to growth and
    replacement needs
  • Average Wage 16.00 per hour/ 33,00 annually

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National Long-term Outlook
  • Engineering technicians, except drafters
  • Employment Growth of 2
  • Projected Employment 83,400 by 2016
  • Annual Average Openings 1,760 (due to growth and
    replacement needs
  • Average Wage 26.08 per hour/ 54,200 annually
  • Estimated that Welding Technicians make up about
    35 of the occupation

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National Long-term Outlook
  • Welding Inspectors
  • Negative Employment Growth of -7
  • Projected Employment 456,800 by 2016
  • Annual Average Openings 7,280 (due to growth and
    replacement needs)
  • Average Wage 15.86 per hour/ 32,980 annually

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National Long-term Outlook
  • Welding Engineers
  • Employment Growth of 4
  • Projected Employment 22,500 by 2016
  • Annual Average Openings 590 (due to growth and
    replacement needs
  • Average Wage 37.90 per hour/ 78,840 annually

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Short-term Outlook
  • National short-term projections not available
  • State short-term projections vary by
  • Availability
  • Time frame
  • Industry vs. occupational

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Short and Mid-term Outlook
  • Short-term outlook is best indicated by
    observable factors
  • Planned economic development activity
  • Industry growth/decline
  • Planned infrastructure revitalization
  • Natural disasters

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Welding Industry
  • 2 out of 3 welding jobs or 66 are found in
    Manufacturing
  • Fabricated Metal Product (232)
  • Metal Working and Machinery (233)
  • Transportation Equipment (236)
  • Another 10 are found in Construction
  • Specialty Trade Contractors (238)

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Supply of Trained Workers
  • Welding Technologies Programs
  • 692 Schools in 47 States reported
  • 9658 program completers
  • Apprenticeship Programs reported1890 completers
  • Approximate total of 10,000 trained per year

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Supply/DemandComparison
  • National openings over 12,000
  • National program completers 10,000
  • Programs in Welding Technologies also is part of
    the supply for Welding Technicians and Inspectors

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Most Reported Program Completers
  • Kentucky
  • Washington
  • California
  • Illinois
  • Arkansas
  • Georgia
  • Texas
  • Oklahoma
  • Florida
  • North Carolina

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Welding Skills Comparison
  • Common and advanced types of welding
  • Variety of materials
  • Automated welding
  • Cutting
  • Brazing and Coating
  • New technologies

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Contact Information
  • Ken Smith Weld-Ed PI/Center Director
  • ksmith_at_lorainccc.edu
  • 440-366-7027
  • Robert Visdos Workforce Institute
  • rvisdos_at_workforceinstitute.com
  • 571-214-5239
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