Engineering Workforce for the 21st Century

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Engineering Workforce for the 21st Century

• ASEE Engineering Research Council Forum
• March 1, 2004
• Bruce M. Kramer
• Division Director
• Engineering Education and Centers Division
• www.eng.nsf.gov/eec
• bkramer_at_nsf.gov
• Phone [phone]
• Fax [phone]

Directorate for Engineering
Engineering Education and Centers
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Programs for Faculty, Student, and Curriculum
Development (1)

• NSF-wide Programs
• CAREER
• http//www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?nsf02111
  
• ADVANCE
• http//www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?nsf02121
  
• Integrative Graduate Education and Research
  Traineeships
• http//www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?ods_key
  nsf04550
• Partnerships for Innovation
• http//www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?ods_key
  nsf04556
• Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education
• http//www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?ods_key
  nsf04533

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Programs for Faculty, Student, and Curriculum
Development (2)

• Research Experiences for Undergraduates
• http//www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?nsf03577
  
• Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with
  Industry
• http//www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?nsf98142
  
• Multi-Directorate Programs
• Research Experiences for Teachers
• http//www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?ods_key
  nsf03554
• Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Summer
  Internships http//www.nsf.gov/pubs/2002/nsf02109/
  nsf02109.htm
• Dept-Level Reform of Undergrad Engineering
  Education
• http//www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?ods_key
  nsf04523

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Programs for Faculty, Student, and Curriculum
Development (3)

• Division of Undergraduate Education Programs
• Course Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement
• http//www.ehr.nsf.gov/ehr/DUE/programs/ccli/
• STEM Talent Expansion Program
• http//www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?nsf04529
  
• Advanced Technological Education
• http//www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?nsf04541
  
• Distinguished Teaching Scholars
• http//www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?nsf03591

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Programs for Faculty, Student, and Curriculum
Development (4)

• Division of Human Resource Development Programs
• Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation
• http//www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?nsf03520
  
• Alliances for Graduate Education and the
  Professoriate
• http//www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?nsf01138
  
• Centers for Research Excellence in Science and
  Technology
• http//www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?nsf03579
  
• Tribal Colleges and Universities Program
• http//www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?nsf03592
  
• ERCs, I/UCRCs, STCs, MRSECs, SLCs, CLTs, etc.

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NSF Workforce for the 21st Century Initiative

• FY 2005 NSF-wide Initiative
• http//www.nsf.gov/bfa/bud/fy2005/pdf/fy2005_2.pdf
  
• see p. 20 of pdf document (p. 31 of 2005 budget)
• 20 million (1.03 million in Engineering)
• Plan for ramped-up funding in out years
• Kindergarten through Professoriate
• Increase the number of U.S. students receiving
  degrees in SE
• Increase the number of underrepresented minority
  students receiving doctorates in SE

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• Components of Workforce 21
• Integrative Institutional Collaborations
• Fund missing elements to provide a seamless
  route for advancement of students from
  K-Professoriate at a university/group of
  universities
• Initial grants to universities with outstanding
  programs in place to fund catalytic elements
• Make whole more than the sum of the parts
• Faculty for the Future
• Teacher/Faculty development, KProfessoriate
• Research-based development opportunities for
  faculty from MSIs at research-intensive schools
• Workforce Research What works and why?

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• Programs to Learn About/Link With
• Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation
  (LSAMP) 36 Current Awards
• Over 3000 underrepresented minority undergraduate
  engineering students
• http//www.ehr.nsf.gov/EHR/HRD/amp.asp
• Alliances for Graduate Education and the
  Professoriate (AGEP) 28 Current Awards
• Increase numbers of minority doctorates
• http//www.ehr.nsf.gov/EHR/HRD/agep.asp
• Tribal Colleges and Univ Program (TCUP)
• http//www.ehr.nsf.gov/EHR/HRD/tcup.asp

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NSF Division of Human Resource Development (HRD)
Annual Meeting

• March 28-30, 2004
• 300-400 Principal Investigators
• Breakout Sessions for each program with NSF PD
• Art Hicks (ahicks_at_nsf.gov) is the Program
  Director for LSAMP. Hed like some advance
  notice if you plan to attend his breakout.
• Hyatt Regency in Crystal City
• Jessie DeAro of HRD (jdearo_at_nsf.gov,
  703-292-5350) is coordinating the meeting

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Appendix of Data Concerned with Engineering
Workforce and Education
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Engineering Degrees granted are relatively flat
Engineering and Computer Science Bachelors,
Masters and Doctoral Degrees 1991 - 2000


CS BS and MS Data Unavailable for 1999 new
H1-B criteria for FY 2002
Engineering Bachelors Degrees 1973 - 2000
Source 2002 SE Indicators
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Engineering Bachelors Degrees for Women,
Underrepresented Minorities and Foreign
Nationals, 1973 - 2000
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Women as a percentage of the Engineering and
Computer Science Workforces
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Younger women with engineering degrees are more
strongly represented and increasingly represented
with time
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Women as a percent of U.S. engineers, by
engineering occupations 1999
SOURCE National Science Foundation, Division of
Science Resources Statistics, SESTAT, 1999.
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Engineering Jobs
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Are engineering degrees decreasingly relevant to
engineering practice?
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Enrollments seem to be turning up
Source SEI through 1999, AAES Engineering
Technology Enrollments, Fall, 2001, from 2000
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in graduate school, too.
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Source SRS Survey of Graduate Students and
Postdoctorates in SE, 2001
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Underrepresented minorities as a percent of all
U.S. engineers, by age 1999
NOTE Underrepresented minorities are Hispanics,
blacks, and Native Americans. SOURCE NSF/ SRS
SESTAT, 1999.
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Source ASEE