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Session V: Challenges for Materials in the 21st Century (cont.)
Session V: Challenges for Materials in the 21st Century (cont.)
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Appleton, Oak Ridge National :Laboratory; Daniel Arvizu, San dia National Laboratories; and Roger Lewis, Department of Energy This final session began with a pane! discussion on technology transfer activities in the national laboratories.
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The role of engineering education is to develop in students the intellectual skills and knowledge that will equip them to contribute to society with productive and satisfying careers as innovators, decision makers, and leaclers in the global economy of the 21 st century. What the survey results really mean is that the universities are encouraging overspecialization in many ways, and aren't really teaching their students the broad spectrum of skills that is so necessary for them to survive in the marketplace.
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research university will be reinvented to meet the challenges facing us in the years ahead. Engineering Education in the 21st Century, Raymond Orbach, University of California at Riverside The last 50 years have been anomalous in our experience as Americans.
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The number of minorities who go into the engineering professions is so small as to be embarrassing and is limiting the capacity of our society in terms of its own goals. The very nature of the engineering curriculum is acting as a deterrent to enrollment and successful completion by women and minorities in the engineering programs.
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