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Lifelong Learning and Today's Engineer
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... cease – especially The problem is that American engineering institutions and policies focus not for engineers, primarily on the traditional 18- to 24-year-old student, while, as noted by Tony because the world Carnevale of Georgetown University, "Lifelong learning has become an around us keeps applause line in everybody's stump speech but has yet to become a line item of changing. The any consequence in public budgets."4 community has so Changing the postdegree learning culture among engineers in the United many ways – States is a tall order.
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... LIFELONG LEARNING OUTSIDE UNITED STATES THE The need to improve the lifelong learning infrastructure for engineers has been addressed outside the United States. In 2004, the European Commission proposed a Decision of the European Parliament and Council to establish an integrated action agenda called the Lifelong Learning Programme.
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... and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to assess current practices in lifelong learning for engineering professionals, reexamine underlying assumptions behind those practices, and explore strategies for addressing unmet needs. In 2009, an NAE workshop organizing committee chaired by Linda Katehi, then Provost at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was appointed to provide advice on the design of a project-framing workshop organized by NAE Scholar in Residence Debasish Dutta (Appendix A)
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... By definition, a system of lifelong T H E L I F E L O N G L E A R N I N G I M P ER A T I V E P R O J E C T : F I N D I N G S learning will The authors arrived at the following findings from their study and the require deep, long- conversations at the 2009 and 2011 workshops: term collaboration 1. A rudimentary lifelong learning infrastructure exists in the United States.
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... The New York Times reported that, based on a recent Battelle Memorial Institute study, Chinese spending on research and development will likely match US spending in 2022.12 The article goes on to say that "if US government labs, university departments and corporate researchers aren't already on top of the next generation of breakthroughs, the country will very likely fall behind in 10 or 20 years when those innovations become marketable products." Such a scenario is possible but not likely if American engineers, who are motivated to maintain and upgrade their skills, find it straightforward to access lifelong learning. 12 Adam Davidson.
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