Since 1995, the NCME has developed powerful tools for curriculum development using activity-based learning as a foundation for manufacturing education.

Among the products available to enhance your classes are:

• Novel Curriculum : the basis for the curriculum template and the key to understanding the effectiveness of the modules and learning activities.

• Curriculum Modules: a complete two-year program in Manufacturing Engineering Technology. Using the NCME's unique curriculum architecture, the modules are divided into nine subject-area clusters covering technical skills, soft skills, math, and science. The modules provide learning activities—Authentic Learning Tasks (ALTs)—to develop competencies essential to a manufacturing technician. In addition, each module ends with a Transfer Activity—an activity that has the students apply the competencies acquired through the ALTs to a new scenario. Each module is available in an instructor’s version (Facilitator Guide) and a student’s version (Participant Journal).

• Learning Activities: Authentic Learning Tasks (ALTs) and Transfer Activities from the NCME's curriculum modules. Activities develop competencies in a wide assortment of subjects in manufacturing related technical skills, soft skills, math, and science. View them here through our digital library or search for them in MERC.

• Self-Guided ALT Development Kits: a step-by-step instruction manual and template for creating your own competency-based Authentic Learning Tasks (ALTs). Update your current classroom materials, or develop new ones using the unique NCME curriculum design.

• Build Your Own Materials: the capability to create your own instructional material using any of the NCME's novel learning activities and including any other materials that you have created.