Engineering Research and America's Future Meeting the Challenges of a Global Economy (2005) / Chapter Skim
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In the future, engineering research will generate technological innovations to address grand challenges in the areas of sustainable energy sources, affordable health care, sufficient water supplies, and homeland security. Unfortunately, U.S.
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Increasing the overall number of American students pursuing degrees in physical sciences and engineering will be essential to meeting the future chal lenges facing the nation, but it will not be enough. We must also increase diversity by recruiting more women and underrepresented minorities in technical fields to ensure that we have the intellectual vitality to respond to profound and rapid change.
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We must take action immediately to overcome existing imbalances in support for research to address emerging critical challenges. These actions must include both changes in direction by key stakeholders in the engineering research enterprise and bold new programs designed specifically to promote U.S.
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Considering the importance of technological innovation to the nation, a major effort should be made to increase the participa tion of American students in engineering. To this end, the committee endorses the findings and recommendations of a 2005 National Academy of Engineering report, Educating the Engineer of 2020: Adapting Engineering Education to the New Century, which calls for system-wide efforts by professional societies, industry, federal agencies, and educators at the higher education and K12 levels to align the engineering curriculum and engineering profession with the needs of a global, 4
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should place a high priority on encouraging women and underrepresented minorities to pursue careers in engineering. Increasing diversity will not only increase the size and quality of the engineering workforce, but will also introduce diverse ideas and experiences that can stimulate creative approaches to solving difficult challenges.
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As experience with academic medical centers and other large research initiatives has shown, discovery-innovation institutes would stimulate significant regional economic activity, such as the location nearby of clusters of start-up firms, private research organizations, suppliers, and other com plementary groups and businesses. On the federal level, the discovery-innovation institutes should be funded jointly by agencies with responsibilities for basic research and missions that address major national priorities (e.g., National Science Foundation [NSF]
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We can either continue on our current course -- living on incremental improvements to past technical developments and gradually conceding technological leadership to trading partners abroad -- or we can take control of our destiny and conduct the necessary research, capture the intellectual property, commercialize and manufacture the products, and create the high-skill, high-value jobs that define a prosperous nation. The United States has the proven ability and resources to maintain the global lead in innovation.
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Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press. NCMST (National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century)
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