Mathematical Sciences:Mathematics in Industry: Opportunities and Educational Requirements

小行星9303983 工业与应用数学学会（SIAM）将开展一个项目，为那些希望提高数学研究生匹配度的教育工作者提供指导方针（硕士和博士）的业务，工业，通过确定成功的数学实践者所拥有的技能和属性来描述数学在这些部门的用途和用户，非学术数学，沟通这一信息的雇主和教育工作者，并发起和促进改革教育的硕士和博士生的职业生涯在工业数学。 从选定的毕业生，他们的雇主和他们的教师的调查和采访数据将进行分析，并制定适当的建议和指导方针。 该项目的目标是：（1）确定对在数学科学方面受过硕士和博士培训的个人的需求，以及在工业中利用培训的方式;（2）确定成功的非学术数学从业者所拥有的技能和属性，以及当前数学毕业生的任何可察觉的弱点;（3）为希望使数学研究生更好地适应工业需要的教育工作者制定指导方针;（4）建立一个持续的程序来监测数学研究生在工业中的进展，并向教育工作者传播这一信息;（5）开展活动，提高行业管理人员对如何有效地利用数学和计算分析来改进产品设计、制造过程和其他工业功能的理解;（6）评估美国各行业中有影响力的经理人所认为的数学价值。 该项目包括三个任务：（1）一个书面调查与电话跟进最近的数学毕业生和他们的雇主和相关的教师;（2）现场访问的工业组织和联邦实验室;（3）在行业的决策者的调查有关的当前和潜在的未来价值的数学产业。

9303983 Block The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) will conduct a project that will provide guidelines for those educators who desire to improve the match of their mathematics graduate students (master's and doctoral) to the needs of business, industry, and government by characterizing both the uses and users of mathematics in those sectors by identifying the skills and attributes possessed by successful practitioners of nonacademic mathematics, by communicating this information to employers and educators, and by initiating and promoting reform in education for those master's and doctoral students bound for careers in industrial mathematics. Data from surveys and interviews of selected graduates, their employers, and their faculty will be analyzed and appropriate recommendations and guidelines developed. The objectives of the project are to (1) characterize the demand for individuals with training in the mathematical sciences at the master's and doctoral levels and the ways in which training is utilized in industry; (2) characterize the skills and attributes possessed by successful practitioners of nonacademic mathematics as well as any perceived weaknesses of current mathematics graduates; (3) formulate guidelines for educators who desire to improve the match of mathematics graduate students to the needs of industry; (4) create a continuing process to monitor the progress of mathematics graduates in industry and to disseminate this information to educators; (5) initiate activities to increase among industry managers understanding of how mathematical and computational analysis can be used effectively to improve product design, manufacturing processes, and other industrial functions; and (6) assess the value of mathematics as perceived by influential managers in a cross- section of U.S. industries. The project consists of three tasks: (1) a written survey with telephone follow-up of recent mathematics graduates and their employers and relevant faculty; (2) site visits to industrial organizations and federal laboratories; and (3) a survey of decision makers in industry about the current and potential future value of mathematics to industry.