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Appendix E: Report on the Role of the Federal Government in the Education ...
Appendix E: Report on the Role of the Federal Government in the Education ...
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration MASAI cutback of more than a decade ago still serves as a strong reminder of the disruption that can occur in engineering employment following a sudden change in federal spending priorities. Direct and indirect support of engineering education by federal agencies had taken a variety of forms-research contracts and grants; student scholarships, fellowships, and work-study programs; job and guaranteed loans; equipment and facility grants; summer or longerterm employment of faculty in government laboratories; curriculum development grants; funding of specialized research and training institutes; travel grants; faculty incentive grants; and specialized studies of various facets of the engineering education system.
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And the National'Aeronautics and Space Administration, which is second only to DOD in direct employment 'of engineers, has an estimated 50,000 non-civil' service engineering positions tied to its research and development contracts. Based on the 1981 data, therefore, the number of engineering employees partially or totally supported by the federal government was not simply the 91 jO00 civil service positions listed in Table E-1, but
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In any event, the postcensal data indicate that the absolute number of engineers employed in jobs partially or totally supported by the federal government is about 600,000, assuming that the 301,452 positions shown in Table E-3 are the response from half the engineering work force and represent the situation in the total work force. In summary, although there is uncertainty regarding the absolute number of engineering jobs with federal support, it seems reasonable to believe that the percentage of such jobs reported by engineers in the postcensal survey is approximately correct.
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, in which the engineering colleges report annual research expenditures broken down by source of support. Figures for the federal FY 1983 and for the 19821983 university year should be comparable, but the sum of basic and applied research support for FY 1983 as given in Tables E-4 and E-6 is $389 million, while the engineering colleges report in the ASEE surveys an expenditure in 1982-1983 of $761 million from federal government sources.
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Another form of aid to undergraduate students in engineering is the support of a substantial number of undergraduate research assistants by federally funded research contracts and grants in the engineering colleges. The amount of this support is not available and lies embedded in the figures given earlier for support of engineering research and devel .
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Assuming students were employed on the research projects in proportion to dollars available gives an estimated 16, 600 graduate research assistants with federal government support. Also involved in engineering research at universities are postdoctoral fellows, although postdoctoral appointments are not nearly as common in engineering as in the sciences.
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Continuingeducation programs include both those presented by universities and technical engineering societies and those presented by the federal agencies themselves. The level of resource commitment by the federal government to continuing education of its engineering employees is probably very substantial.
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Department of Energy Environmental Protection Agency Tennessee Valley Authority Other 56,473 992 3,306 473 3,058 8,819 748 4,653 2,813 1,618 3,922 4,038 NOTE: Data indicate full-time permanent employees only. SOURCE: National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Studies.
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Allowance for Fellow to conduct research at NASA-Laboratory. TABLE E-9 Estimated Annual Direct Support of Engineering Education by Agencies of the Federal Government Category Research and development contracts and grants Undergraduate student aid (graduate fellowships]
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