The document outlines a project to better align engineering career requirements with education. It proposes using a standardized job description resource to define career requirements, then aligning those requirements to technical education curricula, certifications, and career placements. The goal is to build regional talent pipelines by leveraging social media and web technologies to classify career data and improve how education prepares students for industry needs.

1. Engineers to Energy
The HESS Club
Wednesday, 20th October 2010
Gulf Coast
Engineer Talent Pipeline Project
Nancy Tootle / Project Director / H-GAC
Michael Brown / Project PI / SkillsNET
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Experience

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Experience

4. Basic Solution:
Industry Requirements must have some association and impact to education
and labor market (Talent Pipeline).
Basic Formula:
Use common language metrics to define the career, design readiness courses /
programs to build regional capacity.
Basic Approach:
Leverage emerging Social Media and Semantic Web technologies to classify
and cluster unstructured processes.
Basic Problem:
People, Politics, Parochialism, and Performance!
A systems thinking approach is needed!!
The Vision
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5. First: Build an industry-driven/validated job talent requirements
resource using a customized Texas version of DOL O*NET
Detailed Work Activities.
Second: Establish industry level performance and learning difficulty
metrics for job DWAs.
Third: Align the DWAs to TEA CTE-TEKS student expectations
(learning objectives) as means to benchmark current
alignment and automate rewrite for future releases.
Fourth: Align the DWAs to post-secondary CTE Skill Certificates.
Fifth: Align the DWAs to industry career certifications.
Sixth: Utilize metrics to improve career placement (labor exchange)
Seventh: Design and implement State-Wide Career Opportunity
Reference model and provide Web 2.0/3.0 capability for users.
The Method
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6. The Talent Grid Landscape
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8. Unit of Analysis
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9. Chemical Engineers Sample DWAs
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10. Wind Energy Engineer Sample DWAs
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11. Industry Driven
Petro-Chemical Industry Worksheet
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13. Sample CTE TEKS Worksheet
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Sample CTE and WECM Alignment Worksheet

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