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Report of the Committee on Forces Shaping the U.S. Academic Engineering Research Enterprise: Introduction
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... Fortunately, most of this money was restored by House-Senate conference committee. Because research universities are neither listed on stock exchanges nor subjected to the scrutiny of financial analysts, the general public and policymakers have been largely unaware of the shock wave of apprehension currently traveling through academia.
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... The report makes several recommendations to ensure there is sufficient appropriately trained technical talent to meet national social and economic goals, to maintain a position of U.S. leadership in the global economy, and to preserve and enhance the nation's engineering knowledge base: • Some important stakeholders, including industry and government, have abandoned or reduced their stewardship of fundamental engineering research.


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