NCME’s Mission
The NCME serves as a source of materials, support services, and professional development opportunities for educators and industry professionals. The NCME, an NSF National Resource Center, is a leader in manufacturing engineering technology education and offers a variety of products and services to both academic and industry professionals including: curriculum modules in nine subject areas covering technical skills, soft skills, math, and science; a self-guided curriculum development kit with a step-by-step instruction manual and template for creating competency-based activities; grant proposal development; grant management and evaluation; and professional development workshops in activity-based learning and authentic assessment. Most recently, the NCME has established the Manufacturing Education Resource Center (MERC) to serve as an electronic clearinghouse for high quality materials and best practices in manufacturing education.

NCME’s History
The NCME began as a workforce development partnership between Sinclair Community College, Ohio’s largest and most affordable two-year college, and the University of Dayton, a small, private Catholic university. In 1995, the NCME was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under their Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program as a National Center of Excellence in manufacturing education. With NSF and other funding, the NCME produced a two-year manufacturing technology education degree program. In addition, we developed powerful tools for curriculum development using activity-based learning as a foundation for manufacturing education.

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