Diversity in Engineering Managing the Workforce of the Future (2002) / Chapter Skim
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Clearly, the solution to our problems is to generate more engineers and more scientists, to encourage people to focus on careers that can literally generate more real wealth in the world. My bona rides are pretty straightforward 34 years with IBM.
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I know the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference, and I know some others, but not as intimately as I know NACME, which is in my blood after 10 years. I also know that NACME is one of the most organizationally competent organizations in this community.
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First let me talk from a NACME perspective. As some of you might know, I spoke at the closing banquet of NACME's "Forum 21" in Baltimore on Saturday night, and my charge to the organization and to John Slaughter was simple.
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That is why I like NEW. It lets me, lets us, lets IBM, lets all of you who participate get back into the schools and show kids what can happen, how real wealth is generated, how exciting being an engineer can be from a math and science perspective.
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One is the Women in Technology Council; the other is called the Multicultural People in Technology Council. IBM created these two groups for technical people to give them a forum for expressing their ideas.
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Questions and Answers Gary Downey (Virginia Tech) : As someone who works in a world of technical people, what is your take on engineering education in this country today?
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What do you think about a coalition of companies coming together to attack systemic problems and investing their resources in a way that puts their names up front? Nick Donofrio: I would have to agree with you.
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We give grants for things that a university does for us, so, we do share in some university research projects. But I don't want to see a Nick Donofrio Gymnasium or a Lou Gerstner Memorial Auditorium Ray Mellado (Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference)
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I think the issue of computer literacy will eventually disappear because everybody is going to be naturally dealt with at the computer front end. I think computer literacy is terribly important, but the concept will be eradicated.
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Technical excellence is a better vehicle for technical people to become executives than for them to try to bend themselves into something else and climb the management ladder. We hear from technical people that they are being forced up the management ladder and that they don't like it, that they would prefer to have careers on the technical side.
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