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Appendix F

Workshop Program

WORKSHOP ON PATHWAYS FOR ENGINEERING TALENT
Understanding the Engineering Education-Workforce Continuum Committee
November 19-20, 2014
National Academies, Lecture Room
2101 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC

AGENDA

Wednesday, November 19, 2014
All workshop activities will take place in the Lecture Room unless otherwise noted.
1:00	Welcome and Overview of Workshop Objectives:
	Jean-Lou Chameau, President, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST)
1:10	Opening Remarks
	C. D. Mote, Jr., President, National Academy of Engineering
1:30	Session 1: The Educational and Career Pathways of Engineering Talent
	*Moderator*: Rod Adkins, Senior Vice President, IBM
	*Presenters*:
	Donna Ginther, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Kansas Shulamit Kahn, Professor, Department of Finance and Economics, School of Management, Boston University
	*Respondent*: Julia Lane, Senior Managing Economist, American Institutes for Research
	*Presenter*: Samantha Brunhaver, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
	*Respondent*: Nicole Smith, Research Fellow and Senior Economist, Georgetown University
3:15	BREAK

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3:45	Session 2: Recruiting and Employing Engineering Talent
*Moderator*: Sheri Sheppard, Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Education, Stanford University
*Panelists*:
Jeri L. Buchholz, Assistant Administrator for Human Capital Management, NASA Dianne Chong, Vice President, Engineering, Operations & Technology, The Boeing Company David Nagel, Executive Vice President Emeritus, BP
Framing Questions:
Where and how do employers in different industries or sectors recruit engineering talent? Are employer recruiting and career development practices changing for engineering talent? If so, how? How is engineering talent used within different industries or sectors? How well do skills and knowledge of new engineering talent match the skill/knowledge needs of employers? How are missing or new workplace skills/knowledge acquired by new hires and by employed engineering talent over time? Are career advancement pathways for engineering talent within different industries and sectors changing?
4:45	Session 3: Educating and Providing Career Services to Engineering Talent
	*Moderator*: Gary S. May, Dean, College of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
	Panelists:
	Constance J. Pritchard, President, The Pritchard Group/National Career Development Association Darryll Pines, Farvardin Professor and Dean, Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland Michael McKenzie, Managing Director, Career Learning and Experience, Center for Career Services, George Washington University
	Framing Questions:
	Where are engineering graduates finding jobs? What industries/companies and other employers recruit from your institution? How, if at all, have the occupational opportunities and choices of engineering graduates changed over the past decade? How well aligned are these opportunities aligned with the expectations of students and parents? What career identification/placement and related services are institutions of higher education and others provide engineering students and how have these services evolved in recent years? What impact, if any, have changing occupational opportunities and choices for engineering graduates had on the undergraduate engineering education experience—curricular and extra-curricular?
6:00-8:00 PM	Working Reception in the Great Hall

Thursday, November 20, 2014

8:00	Breakfast available in East Court, Outside the Lecture Room
8:30	Recap of Day 1 Major Themes/Issues
	Jean-Lou Chameau, President, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST)
	Rod Adkins, Senior Vice President, IBM

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8:45	Session 4: Factors Influencing the Educational and Career Decisions of Degreed and Practicing Engineers
*Moderator:*Nadya A. Fouad, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
*Presenters*:
Sylvia Hurtado, Director, Higher Education Research Institute, UCLA Kevin Eagan, Researcher, Higher Education Research Institute, UCLA
*Panelists*:
Steven Brown, Professor, Counseling Psychology Program, Loyola University Chicago Andrew Gillen, Senior Researcher, Education Program, American Institutes for Research Amy Javernick-Will, Assistant Professor, Construction Engineering & Management Program, University of Colorado
Framing Questions:
What factor or factors most explain BS engineering graduates’ choice of occupation (engineering, engineering-related, and non-engineering-related), and how do these factors and their influence change over time? Are these factors the same as or different than those influencing the entrance of non-engineering-degreed workers into the engineering workforce? Are those with engineering degrees choosing willingly or being diverted unwillingly to engineering-related and non-engineering-related work? How if at all does the specific engineering discipline influence or align with occupational choice and career development?
10:15	BREAK
10:45	Session 5: Implications of Current Educational and Career Pathways of Engineering Talent for Engineering Educators, Employers, and Other Stakeholders
	*Moderator*: Jennifer Hunt, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Microeconomic Analysis, US Department of Treasury
	*Panelists*:
	Larry Bucciarelli, Emeritus Professor of Engineering and Technology Studies, MIT David Knight, Assistant Professor of Engineering Education, Virginia Tech Hal Salzman, Professor and Senior Faculty Fellow, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University
11:55	Session 6: Innovative approaches to data-gathering and analysis to support decision-making by students/parents, educators, employers, and state and federal governments concerning engineering talent and careers
	*Moderator:* Richard K. Miller, President, Franklin W. Olin College
	*Presenters*:
	Isabel Cardenas-Navia, Founder, Alta Vision Consulting Jason Owen-Smith, Barger Leadership Institute Professor of Organizational Studies and Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
12:55	Introduction to Working Group Sessions
12:55	Eric Ducharme, Vice President, Global Technology, General Electric Company (invited)
1:00	Working Group Sessions & Lunch
1:00	Lunch will be picked up in East Court, Outside the Lecture Room

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3:00	BREAK
3:15	Session 7: Reconvene and Reports of Working Groups and General Discussion
3:15	Moderator: Eric Ducharme, Vice President, Global Technology, General Electric Company
4:30	*Closing Remarks: Key Workshop Take-Aways*
	Jean-Lou Chameau, President, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST)
	Rod Adkins, Senior Vice President, IBM
5:00	Adjournment of Workshop