Pan-Organizational Summit on the U.S. Science and Engineering Workforce Meeting Summary (2003) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix A: Keynote Speaker Addresses
Appendix A: Keynote Speaker Addresses
Pages 203-217
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There are more than 30 organizations participating at this summit, and even more in attendance each concerned with, and working on, the issue of developing the United States' scientific and technological workforce of the future. I currently serve with three of these organizations: · With our hosts, the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR)
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· We know that the average age of the science and engineering workforce is rising. And we know that the total number of retirements among science- and engineering-degreed workers will dramatically increase over the next 20 years.
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Fewer young people are studying nuclear science, nuclear engineering, and related fields at the university level, and a growing number of universities are giving up their nuclear education programs altogether, due to a lack of interest and perceptions that the nuclear power industry is fading. Yet, ironically, the nuclear power industry is recording better performance than in any time in its history.
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I am not talking about predictions of numbers of specific jobs in specific fields, but rather, national capacitynational capacity that has brought the United States, and I dare say, the world, to the degree of advance and progress we have reached todaynational capacity to ensure our future and to provide hope to those beyond our shores. I will not presume to suggest specific answers, or even to summarize all good ideas after all, that is what this summit is about.
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The generation of students studying and learning now in DC classrooms constitutes our talent pool, and each time we delay engaging them, nurturing them, educating them, teaching them, we delay our future. The case could be made that delaying McKinley Tech sets back homeland security, postpones increased nuclear safety and security, delays energy production, curtails nuclear medicine and industrial radiology, and strikes at the heart of our economic security and global competitiveness.
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When we are all moving toward the same goal, the nation is in the strongest possible position, with the capacity to maintain our economic security, national homeland security, and the American way of life. Building science and engineering talent is a cumulative process requiring commitment and participation over time, but beginning now, of all elements government, industry, education, the media, the public, everyone.
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The industry is also changing. The new transportation reality requires technical and managerial skills, and abilities beyond traditional backgrounds.
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Transportation leaders representing federal and state transportation agencies, academia, industry, labor unions, professional associations, and consulting firms participated in the program. The National Workforce Summit was the first ever, fully coordinated workforce initiative focused on developing the people necessary to preserve and advance our nation's transportation system.
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Transportation Research Board (TRB) data research reinforce the GAO data, citing institutional constraints, human resources, and an aging population as critical issues.
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ISSUES AND PRIORITIES The Summit participants focused on three critical components of transportation workforce development: · Workforce Pipeline: identify new opportunities and approaches to ensure a trained, motivated, and diverse workforce to deliver transportation programs. · Training and Professional Development: characterize processes to ensure that transportation workers are able to apply new technologies and bring new skills to effectively manage projects in a more demanding work environment.
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The group identified the need for industry partners to coordinate closely with educational institutions K-12, technical schools, community colleges, and universities to raise the awareness of transportation as a rewarding career. These cooperative programs must be complemented with an aggressive marketing and outreach campaign to create excitement about transportation careers beyond the traditional engineering focus.
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Approaches would include: · developing a clearinghouse of transportation-related training, educational and developmental programs that can be shared and used by the entire community; · developing programs that use the latest training and development technologies (e.g., Web-based training, distance learning) to make training more accessible and effective; · investing in existing programs that have served as successful mechanisms for providing new skill development in the transportation sector; and · finding ways to support programmatic and cultural changes in the transportation industry that encourage investment in learning and development.
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A NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP The National Workforce Summit was designed to create an industrywide partnership and foster the cooperative spirit that will carry forum results to implementation. The Summit concluded with each partner transportation agencies, industry and association representatives, academics, and union representatives signing a charter: "A Partnership for Educating, Training and Developing the Nation's Transportation Workforce." With this charter, the participants committed their support to an effort that will improve workforce development through new initiatives in the academic and transportation communities and may have implications for reauthorization.
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