Collaboration of Midwest Professionals for Logistics Engineering Technology Education

The Collaboration of Midwest Professionals for Logistics Engineering Technology Education (COMPLETE) project is a consortium of community colleges in the Midwest that are leaders in the logistics field. The project aims to expand career pathways for next-generation logistics engineering technicians (LET) in the region. Columbus State Community College (Columbus, Ohio), Oakton Community College (Des Plaines, Illinois), and Sinclair College (Dayton, Ohio) are collaborating with university and high school partners and several industry representatives across the Midwest.

The COMPLETE project integrates three key components of industry knowledge: technology applications (e.g. programming, data mining, and simulation modeling) with engineering systems (e.g. automation systems, control logic, and electro-mechanical and industrial engineering) and how these technologies integrate into supply chain (warehouse, transportation, and procurement) operations.

The main project goal is to provide technician education by expanding career pathways for logistics engineering technicians to support the increasingly complex technology needs of the supply chain sector.

Project Objectives:

• To expand on current logistics engineering technology curriculum and establish replication framework
• To develop an innovation network that focuses on LET emerging technologies in logistics
• To lead a professional development initiative for high school and college faculty about LET programming and careers
• To create a best practices protocol for returning learner outreach and use of prior learning assessment

What is ATE?

The Collaboration of Midwest Professionals for Logistics Engineering Technology Education project is being funded by a National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Grant (DUE 1800188). With an emphasis on two-year colleges, Advanced Technological Education program focuses on the education of technicians for the high-technology fields that drive our nation's economy. The program involves partnerships between academic institutions and industry to promote improvement in the education of science and engineering technicians at the undergraduate and secondary school levels. The ATE program supports curriculum development; professional development of college faculty and secondary school teachers; career pathways to two-year colleges from secondary schools and from two-year colleges to four-year institutions; and other activities.