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Project Name
AM Jobs

Project Description

This project brought together CAST and America Makes, part of the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining and one of 16 Manufacturing Innovation Institutes designed to ensure a strong domestic advanced manufacturing innovation ecosystem. Together, CAST and America Makes worked with educators and industry partners to create a free digital resource to attract individuals to career pathways in the additive manufacturing industry.

AM Jobs is an innovative career guidance tool created to provide educators and students in middle school, high school, and those engaged in adult education programs with a means to understand the many careers possible in additive manufacturing and to align their talents and interests with these careers. This project leveraged CAST’s experience designing curriculum and education technology across educational, professional, and community settings to create a flexible resource that can be used by individuals and groups from diverse backgrounds and varying stages of life.  

Effective career guidance is a complex cycle that includes exposure to available careers, career interest discovery, creating the capacity to document industry-aligned skills and knowledge, and supporting education/career milestone achievement (Salisbury & Kraft, 2020). Students and adults alike will benefit from the opportunity to learn about and understand additive manufacturing in order to make clear and informed education and career choices in the industry. 

This tool was made fully accessible through the application of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles and methods. Accessibility is a foundational component of UDL– specifically referenced in the UDL Guidelines–and serves as an essential element of each of the three core UDL principles: provides multiple means of engaging in challenging tasks; multiple ways of action and expression; multiple formats of information (Rose & Gravel, 2013).  

Learn more in the press release at Digital Engineering 24/7.

Timeline

August 2022 – December 2023

Funders & Partners

America Makes
National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining

Project Leadership

Sam Johnston, Principal Investigator (PI), CAST 
Josh Cramer, Co-PI, National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining, America Makes

Contact

For more information about this project, please contact Monica Pascoa.

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