Pan-Organizational Summit on the U.S. Science and Engineering Workforce Meeting Summary (2003) / Chapter Skim
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Statement on Workforce Issues
Statement on Workforce Issues
Pages 23-28
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is pleased to submit comments on educational and societal forces that affect the engineering workforce in the United States. Our purpose today is to share data and ideas related to chemical engineering workforce issues that are important to potential policy development.
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. ng major areas: · Review the past and present status of diversity within the Institute and the profession, including a review of statistics describing undergraduate and graduate students · Assess future professional needs of chemical engineers · Assess future professional diversity needs of the profession · Recommend long- and short-term strategies to meet such needs Here is what we know so far with respect to gender: In light of the number of undergraduate chemical engineering degrees earned by women, chemical engineering is often described as a "female friendly" discipline.
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As can be seen in Figure 1, increases in the number of African-American and Hispanic chemical engineering graduates have been recorded since 1990, but the relative numbers are still very low. TRENDS IN INDUSTRY Trends in industry are occurring that significantly affect the employment of chemical engineers.
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Please note, however, that these BLS numbers are projected based on surveys, not on actual unemployment filings, and that sample sizes are relatively small when broken out for the disciplines. The chemical engineering workforce is aging, and our recent salary and employment survey indicates that it is taking longer for older workers to return to the workforce, and that those in older age groups are more likely to be under- or unemployed.
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To help encourage the understanding of engineering at the high school level AIChE, in partnership with NSF and others, is developing a new high school chemistry curriculum, "Active Chemistry," which presents sciences in the context of open-ended challenges. Engineering approaches and problem solving are the key to this new curriculum, which also includes challenges related to using science and engineering to address sustainable development issues of providing adequate food and water for our world's population.
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PAN-~CANIZAHONAL SUMMIT ability of engineering skills transferable among various industry sectors should also be studied. In conclusion, AIChE looks forward to developing programs that ensure a well-educated engineering workforce that is broadly utilized as we seek to address world problems.
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