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Responding to the Changed Environment for Academic Engineering Research
Responding to the Changed Environment for Academic Engineering Research
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In recent years, the academic research enterprise has often been judged by engineers and managers outside academia to be too narrow and detached from application and practice. The concern over the relevance of academic engineering research is especially strong because the enterprise is being asked both to move closer to short-term problems and to justify itself mainly on the basis of near-term contributions.
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New and Newly Formulated University-Industry Collaborative Activities Engineering research serves private for-profit institutions as well as the public interest in such areas as economic development, environmental protection, national defense, and health care delivery. In engineering, perhaps more than any other technical discipline in a university, there can be great value in joint university-industry activities on a long-term basis.
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New models of collaboration cannot be spelled out in detail here; however, it is clear that among their necessary conditions are long-term commitment, personnel exchange, and recognition that academic engineering research is a component of the education of the nation's technical talent pool for the next generation. Tien (this volume)
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Therefore, the committee recommends that the engineering community coordinate and focus more effectively the many voices speaking for engineering. Government leaders in Washington and the public at large must understand the important differences between scientific and engineering research.
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