MTI
Program Goals
Materials Aspects of Manufacturing Technology
An NSFAdvanced Technology Education (ATE) Program
NSF Grant DUE ATE 9602360
The Materials Aspects of Manufacturing
Technology Institute (MTI) is aimed at developing a set of instructors with sufficient
background and understanding of manufacturing technology who will serve as leaders in the
effort of enhancing technology education in the U.S. It is also aimed at providing a model
interactive program involving high school and community college instructors and students
to assist in program articulation and to assist in the transition for technology students
across the high school-community college boundary.
This Institute has been developed by the
University of Washington and Edmonds Community College in partnership with high schools,
community colleges and industry in the Pacific Northwest. The Institute provides
instructors at the high school and community college level an understanding of the
principles and applications of materials as they are used in the manufacturing technology
field in a highly interactive, laboratory-oriented format, introduces them to available
curricula in materials technology, provides them with the broad perspective of materials
and manufacturing as fields of study and as a potential career for their students, and
aids them in adapting available curricular modules for introduction directly into their
courses.
The institute is also designed to enhance
cooperation between high schools and community colleges through the development of
interactive curricula and joint student projects with industrial mentors to provide a
natural linkage between high school and community college for the students. Students will
also be involved in interactive laboratory activities, field trips and internships, and as
demonstrators to other students in open houses and related activities.
This program is the outgrowth of 20 years of
interaction between the University of Washington and local schools and community colleges,
and with Pacific Northwest National Labs, in the areas of curriculum development, teacher
training and student programs. In particular, the academic portion of the program is built
on a successful Faculty Enhancement Program (1993-95) for community and 4-year college
teachers in the materials area, and on successful teacher enhancement programs developed
through the Washington Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement program.
Program funding
is provided through the National Science Foundation Advanced Technology Education (ATE)
Program under grant DUE ATE 9602360. Additional and in-kind funding has been provided by
the University of Washington, The Boeing Company, Fluke Manufacturing, K2 Ski Co. and
Primex Corporation.
For further information about the MTI Institute contract Professor Thomas Stoebe (stoebe@u.washington.edu)
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