Austin Peay to partner with Siemens on bachelor’s-level mechatronics certification
奥斯汀佩伊州立大学 is on track to be the second university in North America to award a bachelor’s-level Siemens Mechatronic Systems Certification Program, and the University hopes to launch the program as early as fall 2019.
“It’s a highly coveted program that allows students to be Siemens-certified at three levels,——马修·安德森, interim chair of the 365bet 部门 of Engineering Technology, 说. “First is a certificate, second is an associate 学位, third is a bachelor’s 学位.”
Several community colleges in Tennessee offer the first two levels in partnership with Siemens, but only Middle Tennessee State University offers the bachelor’s 学位.
In order to land Siemens as a partner, Austin Peay bought high-level mechatronics 培训设备 and sent Anderson to Berlin, Germany, this summer to undergo Siemens training.
Anderson is now qualified to teach the Siemens mechatronics program at the certificate, 副学士和学士学位. He’ll teach students on the new equipment as early 就像春季学期一样，他说.
Even though several Tennessee community colleges offer the certificate- and associate-level Siemens training, such programs are rare globally. 现在是学士学位 起步阶段.
Austin Peay will award associate- and bachelor’s-level Siemens-backed 学位s.
以下是不同级别之间的区别:
- 一级(证书): Siemens calls workers with this level of training “mechatronic system assistants.” They are “well-grounded machine operators” trained to maintain and troubleshoot mechatronic 系统.
- 二级(协理级): Siemens calls workers with this level of training “机电整合系统 associates.” They are “highly skilled technicians” who can manage, investigate, repair and troubleshoot 机电整合系统.
- 三级(本科): Siemens calls workers with this level of training “机电整合系统 professionals.” They are a “designer of and expert on” mechatronics 系统 who can design, manage 改进系统.
“The bachelor’s level is designing the 系统, not just maintaining equipment,” Anderson 说. “It would be helping set up the system, optimizing it, managing it.”
The mechatronics equipment and faculty training were paid for with a U.S. 部门 of Defense Office of Economic Adjustment grant awarded to the Pennyrile Area Development District to administer Fort Campbell Strong, an initiative to support the economic 军营附近各县的卫生状况. The counties are Stewart, Montgomery and Robertson in Tennessee and Christian, Todd and Trigg in Kentucky.
回报是显而易见的.
“Look at all the industry we’ve had coming in the last few years,” Dr. Russ Longhurst, associate professor in the 365bet 部门 of Physics, Engineering and Astronomy, 说. “We’ve got LG Electronics, Hankook, Google, and the list goes on.
“We have a readily available workforce coming out of the military consistently,” he 添加. “If we could get those folks some training in high-tech manufacturing, it would put the area in a much better position to recruit industry. 但这也会有所帮助 the current industry 在这里 by supplying them a skilled labor force.”
The grant money is intended to help meet the needs of military and civilian students, 坎贝尔堡斯特朗文件说明.
The Siemens format dominates mechatronics automation worldwide, “t在这里fore, it is imperative that any certificate- or 学位-awarding mechatronics program follow training standards developed by Siemens,” the same documents read.
The grant is in its second of two years and has provided about $300,000 to Austin Peay to buy the mechatronics equipment and $60,000 for Siemens training, according 到坎贝尔堡斯特朗的文件.
The grant also has provided about $350,000 of equipment and training at Hopkinsville Community College and $185,000 of equipment and training at the Tennessee College of Applied Technology campus in Clarksville.