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Engineers to Energy

The HESS ClubWednesday, 20th October 2010

Gulf Coast Engineer Talent Pipeline Project

Nancy Tootle / Project Director / H-GACMichael Brown / Project PI / SkillsNET

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Experience

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Experience

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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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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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The Talent Grid Landscape

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Unit of Analysis

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Chemical Engineers Sample DWAs

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Wind Energy Engineer Sample DWAs

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Industry Driven

Petro-Chemical Industry Worksheet

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Sample CTE TEKS Worksheet

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Sample CTE and WECM Alignment Worksheet

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