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SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING WORKFORCE
Science and Engineering Activities
- Preliminary survey of outreach and internship programs across federal agencies
- Dissemination of best practices in measuring outcomes of such programs
- Collaboration with OPM (and others) to develop internship web site for all federal agencies
- Pan-Organizational Summit on the U.S. Science and Engineering Workforce, with written position papers from over 30 organizations
Science and Engineering Workforce Outcomes
- Incorporation of many GUIRR working group participants into National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) Subcommittee on Education and the Workforce. This multi-agency subcommittee was also co-chaired by a GUIRR member.
- Summit generates significant press coverage (Nature, Chemical and Engineering News, LA Times, Science’s Next Wave, AIP FYI, The Edge, EE Times, IEEE USA News, ASME News)
- Summit forces new recognition that the “demand” side of the science and engineering workforce issue (competitiveness of U.S. S&T industry; availability of future jobs) may be as pressing as the “supply” side (availability of future scientists and engineers). This perspective is ultimately echoed in the 2004 PCAST report, “Sustaining The Nation’s Ecosystem.”
- Launch of new government web site, “E-Scholar,” with internship/scholarship programs from multiple agencies consolidated into one site.
Long Term Outcomes
No one organization in isolation can take credit for major federal or national trends. Nevertheless, we note that several of the GUIRR member agencies have since asked for, and at least one has received, authorization for new scholarship programs to educate scientists and engineers.
Science and Engineering Workforce : Op Eds, Reports and Publications
- Marye Anne Fox, Pan Organizational Summit on the U.S. Science and Engineering Workforce, Meeting Summary. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2003.
- Shirley Jackson, Envisioning a 21st Century Science and Engineering Workforce for the United States. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2003.
- Jerome Grossman, America Must Invest More Human Capital in Scientific, Technical Fields (2002)
- Op Ed by Harold Schmitz, “Tech Transfer Is A Crucial Part of National Security Debates”
- Op-Ed: Sean O’Keefe, “Seeking Scientists,” Government Executive Magazine, March 2003.
- Op-Ed: Shirley Jackson, “Our Emerging Crisis: The Graying of American Science,” Research USA, April 2003.
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