In the other direction, Sen. Max Baucus has proposed: “free college tuition for math and science majors as part of a $25 billion education incentives package”

Reinstated UW Petroleum Engineering Program to Graduate First Students
Just two years after the University of Wyoming reinstated an undergraduate degree program in petroleum engineering, 12 students will receive bachelor of science degrees in the discipline. Commencement is scheduled May 10.
“That (reinstating the B.S. degree) was a good decision,” says H. Gordon Harris, who heads the [...]

A Closer Look at Minorities in Engineering
“We find ourselves at this moment in history with the number of engineering graduates at one of its lowest levels of the past 20 years, and yet a time when the demand for young people prepared to work in America’s high-technology industries has never been higher,” wrote John Brooks [...]