Future Supply of Undergraduates in Engineering--Workshop Organized by Engineering Deans Council, ASEE

未来20年，工科学生的供应对国家经济、国家安全和生活质量都很重要。美国工程教育学会工程院长委员会举办了一个关于未来工程本科生供应的研讨会。讨论的问题是：人口变化；大学前准备不足；以及少数族裔和女性在本科工程教育中的地位。讲习班的一个主要目标是查明增加学生人数的障碍。进一步的目标是改进为工程项目招收有能力的学生的方法。另一个目标是提高新生的保留率。研讨会的目的是报告、建议和指定所有本科工程项目应采取的行动。

The supply of engineering students over the next two decades is important to the nation's economy, national security, and quality of life. A workshop on the future supply of undergraduates in engineering is undertaken by the Engineering Deans Council of the American Society for Engineering Education. The issues addressed are: demographic changes; inadequate precollege preparation; and minorities and women in undergraduate engineering education. A major objective of the workshop is to identify barriers to increasing the number of students. A further objective is to improve methodologies for recruiting able students to engineering programs. Another objective is to improve retention rates of incoming students. The workshop is to report, recommend and specify actions to be taken by all undergraduate engineering programs.