Nov / Dec 2019
CAAT TRACKS
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Save the Date for the 2020 CAAT Conference!
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Preparing Technicians for Autonomous Technologies
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Friday, May 8, 2020
Macomb Community College
Center Campus, University Center, Assembly Hall
The
2020 CAAT Conference
will be held on
Friday, May 8
at Macomb Community College in
Clinton Township, MI.
Save the date now to be sure you don't miss this popular and free automotive conference!
The theme of this year’s conference is
Preparing Technicians for Autonomous Technologies
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Opening remarks will be made by Macomb Community College president, Jim Sawyer.
Our tentative speaker lineup includes:
- Keynote Speaker: Amit Kapoor, Vice President, Business Unit - Advance Driver Assistance Systems, North America, Continental Automotive Systems, on the State of Autonomy
- Michele R. Mueller, Senior Project Manager, Connected and Automated Vehicles, Michigan Department of Transportation
- Jessica Robinson, Executive Director, Michigan Mobility Institute, on the State of Mobility
- Michele Economou Ureste, Executive Director, Workforce Intelligence Network, on the Technician/Technologist Labor Market
- National Center for Autonomous Technologies (NCAT)
- Jonathan Beck, Director, NCAT (Autonomous Air Technologies)
- Chris Hadfield, Director, Minnesota State Transportation Center of Excellence (Autonomous Land Technologies)
- Jill Zande, President and Executive Director, Marine Advanced Technology Education Center (Autonomous Sea Technologies)
CAAT is also planning to provide an opportunity for attendees to visit with various local STEM-based organizations.
New Location:
Due to facility renovations at our south campus conference center, the 2020 conference will be held at Macomb’s
Center Campus in Clinton Township, MI
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The event will be held in the University Center’s Assembly Hall.
While the conference is free to attend, registration will be required. Stay tuned for additional information on this free professional development opportunity! We will have more information in our next CAAT Tracks newsletter.
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Attention Automotive Instructors: Save the Date for the Spring 2020 Michigan Automotive Teachers Association Conference
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The spring 2020 Michigan Automotive Teachers Association (MATA) conference will be held
March 19 from 1:00 to 5:00 PM and March 20 from 8:00 AM to 4:00
PM, at
Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan.
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The conference will include:
- industry updates
- technical training classes
- trade show
- live technical demonstrations
- networking opportunities
- raffles
Those attending the conference will receive certificates for
up to 10
ASE Education Foundation
credits. A continental breakfast and lunch will also be provided.
Save the date and apply for a substitute now so you can attend this free professional development conference!
The conference is free to attend, but registration will be required. Additional information, including hotel and registration information, will be provided soon. In the meantime, please visit our
MATA page
for updates.
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National Apprenticeship Week
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National Apprenticeship Week (NAW) took place November 11-16. It’s a national celebration that offers leaders in business, labor, education and other critical partners a chance to demonstrate their support for apprenticeship. National Apprenticeship Week (NAW), now in its fifth year, is a nationwide celebration that gives businesses, communities, and educators the opportunity to showcase their apprenticeship programs and apprentices.
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Free IN-Classroom STEM Labs for Middle School Classrooms - Sign Up Today!
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Over the past four school years, the CAAT's highly successful (and free)
in-classroom STEM labs
have reached more than 14,000 middle school students in Michigan!
The CAAT’s in-classroom labs will transform the typical classroom by encouraging a curriculum that is driven by problem solving, exploratory learning and planning, building using hands-on skills, testing, and observing and evaluating. The labs begin with a short presentation on why STEM is important, how it will impact students in the future, a description of the STEM lab, and instructions for completing the lab. A worksheet containing all the technical details is provided for the students to fill out during the lab, which requires the students to use higher-order thinking skills.
After completion of the hands-on project, a new STEM reflection sheet is handed out. The questions on the reflection sheet require students to think about the best feature of their design and consider why it is the best feature, as well as determine the most challenging problem they had to solve and how they could improve upon their design.
Choose from among the following labs to best meet your classroom curriculum goals:
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- Career Class
- Lift it with a Lever
- Mini-Marshmallow Shooters
- Art Wiggle Bot
- Buoyancy Lab
- Hovercraft
- Safety Helmet
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- Newton's Car
- Balloon-Powered Racing Car
- Lunar Buggy
- Catapult
- Rubber Band Racers
- Space Shuttle Launch
- Wind-Powered Car
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All students will benefit from the CAAT's in-classroom STEM labs because the labs teach independent and team innovation, allow students to explore engineering by using the skills needed to become leaders.
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Auto STEAM Days Event Draws More Than 2,000 Middle and High School Students
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The CAAT and Macomb Community College hosted their
Auto STEAM Days
event for 6
th
-12
th
grade students on December 4 & 5 at Macomb's Sports and Expo Center in Warren, MI. More than 2,000 students from 16 middle schools and 19 high schools attended the event to learn about careers in automotive design, robotics, manufacturing, and the technology behind it all. Each day offered a morning and an afternoon session.
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Automotive Design and Engineering
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Manufacturing and Technology
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The event also featured an exciting car show (presented jointly by FCA and Ford) that gave students the unique opportunity to sit behind the wheel and talk to some of the industry's best automobile designers and engineers. FCA provided a Jeep J6, a Jeep Nacho, and a Jeep Safari. Ford provided an Escape, a Ranger, an Edge, an Explorer, a Mustang Shelby, and a Lincoln Aviator. Macomb Community College had a Bolt EV on display so the students could learn about electric vehicles.
CAAT thanks our Auto STEAM Days financial partners for their generosity and ongoing support:
View the media coverage of the event:
Check out our social media posts from the Auto STEAM Days event!
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CAAT Sponsors Event for Students and Parents to Explore Careers in Manufacturing and Technology
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Students who attended the Auto STEAM Days event with their teachers during the day were encouraged to bring their parents, family, and others to a related evening event,
Explore Careers in Manufacturing and Technology,
held on Thursday, December 5. And many of them did! Nearly 350 people
at
tended this free and informative event.
The event was offered to provide students and their parents an opportunity to enjoy hands-on exhibits and activities, including a mini car show put on by Ford Motor Company and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.
The event provided participants a chance to connect with industry insiders to:
- Discover a career pathway right for them
- Hear from recent grads who found good paying career employment
- Meet local businesses and learn who they are hiring
- Learn about job skills that are in high demand
- Learn about apprenticeship programs including the Michigan Apprenticeship Program Plus (MAP+)
The interactive session included:
- Welcome and opening remarks by CAAT PI, Don Hutchison
- Industry of the Future (presented by Magna)
- Getting into an Apprenticeship (presented by MAP+ and TK Mold and Engineering)
- Career Options and Outlook (presented by Macomb/St. Clair Workforce Development Board)
Throughout the event, attendees were able to visit the Auto STEAM Days exhibits (see article above) and visit with industry and educational representatives from the following companies/organizations who provided information on their educational and career opportunities.
- Macomb Community College: Career Services, MAP+, Automotive, Admissions and Outreach, M-TEC/Workforce and Continuing Education, and Engineering and Advanced Technology
- Ferris State University and Wayne State University
- Michigan Works!, Alta Equipment, Axalta coating systems, TK Mold and Engineering, Rave Cave Center for Immersive Real Time Virtual Environments, and PTM Corporation.
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Automakers and suppliers face opportunities and challenges as they move towards automated machinery and artificial intelligence. The number one challenge reported by manufacturers is finding enough qualified, skilled employees to fill open manufacturing jobs. Educational institutions and industry need to partner with one another to close this talent gap for the future workforce.
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Utilizing Bluetooth as a common link, serial communication can control a servo motor
to
operate a robotic arm with a phone application. Students build on what they learned in the Arduino
Make and Control a Servo Arm with Your Computer
activity in which students
controlled a servo motor with a computer.
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This study explores the major factors that will affect the evolution of personal motorized vehicles leading up to 2050 and beyond. It provides a detailed review of alternatives to internal combustion engine vehicles, including hybrid gasoline-electric, plug-in hybrid electric, battery-electric, and hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles.
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Automotive manufacturers and supporting operations face disruption from advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, real-time computing, mobility and connectivity. To succeed during this automotive technology transformation, mastery of six core competencies have been identified as essential:
• Management of large amounts of data
• Agility of partnerships and mergers
• Extending the digital supply chain
• Mastering finances to focus on innovation
• Focus on the customer experience
• Workforce agility
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The safety benefit of autonomous vehicles (AVs) depends on technological advancements and the rate of their adoption. This paper explores the perceptions of AV safety across 51 countries. Higher AV safety perception among the most risk-taking road users and in developing countries coincide areas facing the greatest road safety challenges and most need of improvement.
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Understanding the cause of passenger motion sickness can guide autonomous vehicle design and evaluate future strategies to avoid motion sickness.This report focuses on the need for repeatable and reliable methods to measure how passengers respond to acceleration in different directions, and tasks unrelated to driving such as reading or using a handheld device.
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In an effort to understand the cyber attacks targeting connected vehicles and systems, this report analyzes more than 170 cyber attack incidents and their impact on smart mobility. A full list of documented attacks is provided.
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This resource explains how vehicle to everything (V2X) technology connects cars with each other and their surrounding environment. The V2X message provides the exact position, heading, and velocity
of a vehicle
enabling the prediction of its future position. Automatically exchanging real-time information between vehicles offers improved traffic safety, environmental protection, and supports autonomous driving.
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Detroit's big three automakers are driving toward an all-electric future, but each will take a distinct approach.
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AdaSky used Detroit's steamy streets to demonstrate how thermal camera sensors could prevent pedestrian accidents.
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The DryCycle: a fully enclosed, electric pedal-assisted quadricycle bike that features a polycarbonate bubble for riding to work or school in inclement weather.
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Five Lawrence Tech students will assist in the development of 10 self-driving taxis that will transport guests from the 2020 North American International Auto Show to Detroit hotels.
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Ford engineer provides thoughts on autonomous driving, which he deems “the most ambitious technical endeavor since the dawn of the automobile.”
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Michigan-based Priva will use intelligent tires to identify tire maintenance needs that will reduce vehicle downtime.
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... the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is gearing up to bring driverless race cars to its track as part of the Indy Autonomous Challenge, which will take place in October 2021 and fetch a $1 million prize? Developers created the challenge to foster the development of software that will enable driverless cars to race at the speedway.
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... Ford recently introduced their first all-electric SUV, marking an avalanche of battery-powered vehicles coming from major OEMs over the next couple of years?
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... a 14 year old girl won a $25,000 science fair award for inventing a solution to eliminate blind spots for cars?
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… GM has patented a smart stop/start system that uses GPS to reduce drivers' annoyance?
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… a new AI-powered device uses radar and machine learning to prevent children from dying in hot, locked vehicles?
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