Archive for September, 2007

$1 Million Grant for National Engineering Education Initiative

Posted by John Hunter on September 24th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Motorola Supports National Engineering Education Initiative with $1 Million Grant

The Motorola Foundation today announced $1 million in support of the National Academy Foundation’s (NAF) Academy of Engineering initiative, which will help create 110 academies in high schools across the country to inspire young people to study science and engineering. In collaboration with Project Lead the Way and the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, NAF’s Academy of Engineering initiative will ultimately prepare students for careers in engineering to meet a growing market demand.
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According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, jobs requiring science, engineering, or technical training will increase 24 percent to 6.3 million between 2004 and 2014, creating greater demand for critical thinkers fluent in technology. Yet over the past decade, the NAF has seen declining enrollment and graduation rates in post-secondary engineering programs that can be largely attributed to fewer high school students showing an interest in engineering and technology.

Filed under Education, The Economy


High Tech Worker Shortage Threatens Economy

Posted by John Hunter on September 14th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Worker Shortage Called Maryland, USA Threat by Phillip McGowan, Baltimore Sun:

A shortage of workers with high-tech and other skills needed to fill defense and homeland security jobs threatens not only Maryland’s economic development but also the nation’s war on terrorism, according to a report released yesterday.

The Fort Meade Alliance, a group of business leaders that lobbies on behalf of the Army post in Anne Arundel County, argued that Maryland isn’t doing enough to steer students to engineering, math and scientific fields, and the college graduates it is producing lack basic skills in communication, teamwork and leadership.
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Though the United States produces about 72,000 engineers a year, up nearly 10,000 from the 1980s, those numbers “aren’t enough to soak up all the demand,” said Bob Black, deputy executive director of the American Society for Engineering Education.

Start them young “To get a greater supply, we have to make structural changes to our education to get more people in the K-12 science and engineer pipeline earlier,” said Black, echoing remarks of panelists in May.

Filed under Education, The Economy, The National Interest, Work


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