ENABLING A STRONG U.S. ENGINEERING WORKFORCE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION: A NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP IN GRADUATE PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION WITH INDUSTRY TO ENHANCE U.S. COMPETITIVENESS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

摘要

Investing in America's Future through Engineering. This is the first of four invited papers prepared for a special panel session of the National Collaborative Task Force on Engineering Graduate Education Reform that is focusing its efforts on the deliberate advancement of professional engineering graduate education to enable a strong U.S. engineering workforce for competitiveness and national security purposes. Initiated in 2000 by the ASEE-Graduate Studies Division, College Industry Partnership Division, and Corporate Members Council, the National Collaborative Task Force is a coalition of key leaders from innovative universities and industry who are working in a unique collaboration to respond to the urgency for reshaping the U.S. system of engineering graduate education to better serve the needs of modern engineering practice to strengthen the nation's capability for technology development and innovation.