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Monday, February 25, 2008
Quiet Crisis in the future of U.S. engineering
Shirley Ann Jackson, the 2004 president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute since 1999was quoted by Thomas Friedman in his book "The World is Flat", as follows: "The sky is not falling, nothing horrible is going to happen today" says Jackson. "The U.S. is still the leading engine for innovation in the world. It has the best graduate programs, the best scientific infrastructure, and the capital markets to exploit it. But there is a quiet crisis in U.S. science and technology that we have to wake up to. The U.S. today is in a truly global environment, and those competitor countries are not only wide awake, they are running a marathon while we are running sprints. If left unchecked, this could challenge our preeminence and capacity to innovate."
A roadmap project on the future of engineering in the U.S. is coming pretty much to the same conclusion.
Full analysis from here
A roadmap project on the future of engineering in the U.S. is coming pretty much to the same conclusion.
Full analysis from here
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