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4 Enabling a More Robust Aerospace Workforce
4 Enabling a More Robust Aerospace Workforce
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At present, we do not have a national aerospace consensus to help guide policies and programs. This contributes to unfocused federal and industrial investments spread over a variety of long-range research programs and their associated aging infrastructure.
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(CFUSAI, 2002) The following are some of the trends characterizing the current state of the aerospace workforce of the United States: · A decline of 60 percent from the 1964 peak in the overall federal investment in R&D as a percentage of GDP, in particular for the physical sciences and engineering, even though the DoD depends heavily on the application of these fields to develop new warfighting and peacekeeping capabilities.
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SOURCE: CFUSAI, 2002. 450 400 350 300 ersity Univ 250 per 200 150 Enrollment age 100 ervA Undergraduate Enrollment 50 0 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 Academic Year Beginning FIGURE 4-3 Average aerospace undergraduate enrollment per university (37 universities)
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may be the failure of mathematics and science education in the K-12 system (Figure 4-5) , which may be a more pertinent reason for declining engineering enrollments and not unique to the aerospace discipline (Figures 4-6 and 4-7)
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SOURCE: NSB, 2003. 140,000 120,000 100,000 80,000 Enrollments 60,000 40,000 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 Social Sciences Natural Science Engineering Math & Computer Sciences FIGURE 4-7 Graduate enrollment in science and engineering fields, 1992-1999.
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The next two sections in this chapter discuss the two findings of the committee on the aerospace workforce and the respective recommendations. Finding 4-1 explains the DoD and NASA attempt to address the problem of the rapidly aging aerospace workforce and the resulting loss of technical knowledge by implementing a human capital management system.
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To address this and other workforce trends, NASA formed the agency-wide Strategic Human Capital Plan and the Strategic Human Capital Implementation Plan (NASA, 2003a; NASA, 2003b)
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. From information obtained by the committee, the URETIs include undergraduate and graduate student collaboration with university and industry partners and access to national facilities, including the NASA Glenn Research Center, the NASA Langley Research Center, the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Naval Air Warfare Center, and the Arnold Engineering Development Center.
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NAI should encourage lifelong learning and individualized instruction, especially in government laboratories, to attract and retain aerospace workers (NRC, 2003)
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2003. The National Aerospace Initiative Office, Congressional Report on the National Aerospace Initiative: In Response to the Senate Armed Services Committee Report Accompanying the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004 (S.R.
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