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2. The Engineering Work Force
2. The Engineering Work Force
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These trends reflect both the impact of new technology on emerging businesses and the need of established industries to use advanced technology to upgrade their productivity and product quality to meet intense international competition. The leading engineering disciplines, in absolute numbers, are electrical/electronic, mechanical, and civil engineering I Figure 3~.
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in part reflects industry's efforts to improve productivity, product quality, and cost competitiveness.2 The growth in the "other" category is due to the emergence of new fields of engineering, such as environmental engineering and bioengineering, while the slower growth in aeronautical engineering results from the relative decline of investment in the aerospace program and in new aircraft systems.
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In any event, the number of people who reported to surveys as computer specialists more than doubled during 1970-1982, to about 750,000 Figure 5J; the growth pattern was about the same for systems analysts and programmers. We know that computer specialists make up a large and growing segment of the technically trained work force, but the specific relationship of this group to the engineering work force is unknown.
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SOURCES: 1960: BLS OCCUpation/Industry Matrix 1960; 1970: BLS Occupation/Industry Matrix 1978; 19741982: BLS Employment and Earnings.
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* Age profiles for chemical and electrical engineers and computer specialists reflect relatively young work forces in these disciplines.
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SouRcE~ 1970: BLS Occupadon/Industry Latex 1978; 1974-1982: BLS Employment and Earnings.
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The ultimate percentage of women in the engineering work force is difficult to forecast, but women entering the field could well counteract a decline in enrollment that might occur because of the falling numbers of college-age males. More than 75 percent of women engineers were employed in business and industry in 1980, according to National Science Foundation
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Thus, blacks and Hispanics are underrepresented in the engineering work force in terms of percentages of the population and percentages of all professional and related workers.~ The foregoing data are from the National Science Foundation; more recent data, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, show that blacks and people of Hispanic origin combined made up 4.9 percent of employed engineers in 1983. It was clear some years ago that blacks and Hispanics were not entering the engineering and technical professions.
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was established and funded by industry to carry out the mandate. The resulting activities included the establishment of scholarships and other types of financial aid; special academic programs, including remedial work at both the secondary and college levels; telling the engineering story to young people unfamiliar with the profession; early recruiting; and social support systems for minorities on university campuses.
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