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From page 44... ... Figure 1 depicts changes in engineering enrollment, and their primary causes, over a nearly 40-year period. Engineering schools and departments of engineering have to cope in different ways with both of these stresses, usually under conditions of declining resources and diminishing faculty. Read the entire page →
From page 45... ... MANAGING CHANGE IN THE INFORMATION AGE 120,000 105,000 90,000 111 us 75,000 6 60,000 En 111 g 45,000 30,000 15,000 45 First-Year Enrollments /? / 10 1 ~ 9 , / ,9 I\ / BS Degrees 3~/ _ _/ MS Degrees _ PhO Degrees 1945 1950 1955 1960 1965 YEAR 7 1970 1975 1980 1985 1 Retu rn i ng WW I I vetera ns 2 Diminishing veteran pool and expected surplus of engineers 3 Korean War and increasing R&D expenditures 4 Returning Korean War veterans 5 Aerospace program cutbacks and economic recession 6 Vietnam War and greater space expenditures Increased student interest in social-program careers 8 Adverse student attitudes toward engineering, decreased space and defense expenditures, and lowered college attendance Improved engineering job market, positive student attitudes toward engineering, and entry of nontraditional students (women, minorities, and foreign nationals) Read the entire page →

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... Figure 1 depicts changes in engineering enrollment, and their primary causes, over a nearly 40-year period. Engineering schools and departments of engineering have to cope in different ways with both of these stresses, usually under conditions of declining resources and diminishing faculty.

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... MANAGING CHANGE IN THE INFORMATION AGE 120,000 105,000 90,000 111 us 75,000 6 60,000 En 111 g 45,000 30,000 15,000 45 First-Year Enrollments /? / 10 1 ~ 9 , / ,9 I\ / BS Degrees 3~/ _ _/ MS Degrees _ PhO Degrees 1945 1950 1955 1960 1965 YEAR 7 1970 1975 1980 1985 1 Retu rn i ng WW I I vetera ns 2 Diminishing veteran pool and expected surplus of engineers 3 Korean War and increasing R&D expenditures 4 Returning Korean War veterans 5 Aerospace program cutbacks and economic recession 6 Vietnam War and greater space expenditures Increased student interest in social-program careers 8 Adverse student attitudes toward engineering, decreased space and defense expenditures, and lowered college attendance Improved engineering job market, positive student attitudes toward engineering, and entry of nontraditional students (women, minorities, and foreign nationals)

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