ccarter
November 13th, 2010, 12:36 PM
Request to all,
I need your help in locating and involving a few SME's (Subject Matter Experts) who can help our college put together a Wireless course as part of a DOL (Department of Labor) initiative. Under DOL guidelines, the course will be made available to other colleges for their use.
The tricky part is most of the work has to be completed by volunteers, as DOL did not fund us to pay for expert help directly, or even to handle much more than local travel for a few folks. (In the same way, I had to agree to volunteer my time to supervise the initiative, get simulators designed and constructed, contracting the DACUM group, obtaining test equipment, and perform myriad other duties.) On the other hand, if you can help, you can also be assured that your efforts will have a direct impact on the quality of students in particular and Technical education in general for years to come.
We are on the front end of the process and hope to begin teaching the course to our college students in late 2011. The course will be directed primarily towards college instrumentation students. The plan is to build the course to help Instrumentation and Control technicians to install, test, troubleshoot, and maintain wireless in their plants. The course is not expected to deal heavily with the engineering or device design side of the business, but rather to take a user's perspective.
A key part of the course's design calls for us to hold a DACUM (Design A Curiculum) process. The DACUM normally involves getting SMEs together (either on site or via various media) who then help the DACUM corridinator to determine required topics, level of instruction, evaluation methods, skill standards, and the like.
The course will bring in various wireless standards, methods, etc, but I want to ensure it also addresses Foundation Fieldbus wireless as best it can at the time the course is released. Of course we also have a process to add or modify the course as new technological applications emerge, and the course will grow as the technology does. To be sure, Foundation is not the only topic, as we want to cover as many methods, standards, systems, as is reasonable so anyone having experience in non-Fieldbus Wireless applications are just a critical to the course's developmental success.
Right now, we have a projected date of December 9 in Baytown, Texas for the first meeting. What I need is contact information for anyone who is willing to lend a hand in this laudable endeavor. Remeber that on-site attendance, while prefered for many, is not abolutely necessary. Most of the work will take place via email, teleconference, and other means. So as not to take up valuable space in the FUN site (unless it involves a Fieldbus item), feel free to contact me by phone or email and of course accept my deep appreciation up front for any assistance you can give.
Chuck Carter
Center Director
The Fieldbus Center at Lee College
281-450-1839 cell
281-425-6473 office
ccarter@lee.edu
I need your help in locating and involving a few SME's (Subject Matter Experts) who can help our college put together a Wireless course as part of a DOL (Department of Labor) initiative. Under DOL guidelines, the course will be made available to other colleges for their use.
The tricky part is most of the work has to be completed by volunteers, as DOL did not fund us to pay for expert help directly, or even to handle much more than local travel for a few folks. (In the same way, I had to agree to volunteer my time to supervise the initiative, get simulators designed and constructed, contracting the DACUM group, obtaining test equipment, and perform myriad other duties.) On the other hand, if you can help, you can also be assured that your efforts will have a direct impact on the quality of students in particular and Technical education in general for years to come.
We are on the front end of the process and hope to begin teaching the course to our college students in late 2011. The course will be directed primarily towards college instrumentation students. The plan is to build the course to help Instrumentation and Control technicians to install, test, troubleshoot, and maintain wireless in their plants. The course is not expected to deal heavily with the engineering or device design side of the business, but rather to take a user's perspective.
A key part of the course's design calls for us to hold a DACUM (Design A Curiculum) process. The DACUM normally involves getting SMEs together (either on site or via various media) who then help the DACUM corridinator to determine required topics, level of instruction, evaluation methods, skill standards, and the like.
The course will bring in various wireless standards, methods, etc, but I want to ensure it also addresses Foundation Fieldbus wireless as best it can at the time the course is released. Of course we also have a process to add or modify the course as new technological applications emerge, and the course will grow as the technology does. To be sure, Foundation is not the only topic, as we want to cover as many methods, standards, systems, as is reasonable so anyone having experience in non-Fieldbus Wireless applications are just a critical to the course's developmental success.
Right now, we have a projected date of December 9 in Baytown, Texas for the first meeting. What I need is contact information for anyone who is willing to lend a hand in this laudable endeavor. Remeber that on-site attendance, while prefered for many, is not abolutely necessary. Most of the work will take place via email, teleconference, and other means. So as not to take up valuable space in the FUN site (unless it involves a Fieldbus item), feel free to contact me by phone or email and of course accept my deep appreciation up front for any assistance you can give.
Chuck Carter
Center Director
The Fieldbus Center at Lee College
281-450-1839 cell
281-425-6473 office
ccarter@lee.edu