Diversity in Engineering Managing the Workforce of the Future (2002) / Chapter Skim
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But we will get over that. What's scary, though, is the long-term trend in the information technology industry toward huge shortages of engineers and scientists.
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I know the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference, and I know some others, but not as intimately as I know NACME, which is in my blood after 10 years. I also know that NACME is one of the most organizationally competent organizations in this community.
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First let me talk from a NACME perspective. As some of you might know, I spoke at the closing banquet of NACME's "Forum 21" in Baltimore on Saturday night, and my charge to the organization and to John Slaughter was simple.
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I think now is a good time for us to think about ways of getting our agendas moving in the same direction. John Slaughter understands this and is moving in this direction.
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One is the Women in Technology Council; the other is called the Multicultural People in Technology Council. IBM created these two groups for technical people to give them a forum for expressing their ideas.
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Questions and Answers Gary Downey (Virginia Tech) : As someone who works in a world of technical people, what is your take on engineering education in this country today?
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But I also think there is a need for corporations to get together in a coalition to provide some building blocks to attack systemic problems in cities. For example, in Washington, there are at least half a dozen corporations, but their lead line is here is my product, we want you to use it, rather than let's identify problems and see how we can pool our resources and make changes and then use our products as a way of demonstrating or a way for students to practice how to improve and move forward with the change.
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We give grants for things that a university does for us, so, we do share in some university research projects. But I don't want to see a Nick Donofrio Gymnasium or a Lou Gerstner Memorial Auditorium Ray Mellado (Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference)
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It was either that or you listened to everybody's conversations, because most telephone connections were party lines. Computer literacy will disappear because natural interfaces will develop.
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Technical excellence is a better vehicle for technical people to become executives than for them to try to bend themselves into something else and climb the management ladder. We hear from technical people that they are being forced up the management ladder and that they don't like it, that they would prefer to have careers on the technical side.
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