Ensuring a Strong U.S. Engineering Workforce for Technology Innovation and Competitiveness: A Partnership between Academia and Industry

摘要

This is the first of four invited papers prepared for the special session of the National Collaborative Task Force on Engineering Graduate Education Reform. This paper presents an overview of the National Collaborative initiative, its purpose, and the unique partnership that is occurring between academia and industry in advancing professional graduate engineering education for engineering practice in order to strengthen the innovative capacity of the U.S. Engineering Workforce in industry for world-class competitiveness and national security purposes.