GI Bill Workshop

该奖项支持一个研讨会，以探索工程专业学生和学校的机会，这是由新的GI法案提出的。《9/11后退伍军人教育援助法案》（2008年6月30日）授权扩大9/11后服役退伍军人的教育福利（参考文献1）。退伍军人事务部（DVA）于2008年12月公布了实施扩大权利的建议指导方针（参考文献2）。新的福利计划将于2009年8月生效。退伍军人事务部预计，2009年8月将有多达12.5万名新申请失业金（参考文献3）。更广泛的影响学生对工程和科学兴趣的最新趋势，未来十年大量工程师和科学家的预期退休，以及大部分非美国公民的科学和工程毕业生，都表明未来美国工程和科学劳动力将面临严重问题（参考文献4）。《退伍军人权利法案》为教育机构提供了一个机会，可以组织定制的工程和科学课程，这对有意提高教育水平的退伍军人尤其有吸引力。例如，工程学院可以为退伍军人提供有监督的研究或实习经历，以获得学分。与此同时，如果安排得当，从事科学和工程的工业和政府组织可以解决未来的劳动力需求，同时通过开发与这些教育机构合作的项目来帮助退伍军人。国家科学基金会可以在帮助教育机构创新和组织方面发挥特殊作用，为退伍军人提供有吸引力的项目，国家科学基金会可以与公司和政府组织合作，促进与教育社区合作的指导方针和协议的建立。本提案的目的是举办一个研讨会，将学术界、工业界和政府的适当代表聚集在一起，为《退伍军人法案》工程和科学增强计划的组成部分提出想法。该计划旨在引导更多退伍军人进入工程和科学领域，并探索政府和行业在吸引退伍军人进入该领域和丰富退伍军人的工程和科学教育方面可能发挥的作用。研讨会的成果将是一份报告，其中包括NSF、学术机构、其他政府组织和行业对一系列创新努力的建议。特别是，NSF的建议将旨在帮助教育机构制定自己的量身定制的计划，包括与工业和政府组织合作。该报告还将包括NSF的成本估算，以及参与该项目的工业企业和政府组织所需要的承诺。

This award supports a workshop to explore the opportunities for engineering students and schools which is presented by the new GI bill. The Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act (June 30, 2008) authorizes a major expansion of educational benefits for veterans who served post-9/11 (Ref 1). The Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) published proposed guidelines for implementing the expanded entitlement in December 2008 (Ref 2). The new benefits are scheduled to go into effect in August 2009. The VA anticipates as many as 125,000 new applicants for benefits in August 2009 (Ref 3).Broader ImpactsRecent trends in student interest in engineering and science, the expected retirement of large numbers of engineers and scientists during the coming decade, and the large proportion of science and engineering graduates who are not U.S. citizens suggest serious problems for the American engineering and science workforce in the future (Ref 4). The GI Bill provides an opportunity for educational institutions to organize customized programs in engineering and science that would be especially attractive to veterans interested in advancing their education. For example, engineering schools could provide veterans with supervised research or internship experiences for academic credit. In parallel, if properly orchestrated, industrial and governmental organizations engaged in science and engineering can address future work force needs while helping veterans by developing programs to work with those educational institutions. The National Science Foundation can play a special role in helping educational institutions to innovate and organize themselves for providing attractive programs tailored for veterans, and NSF can work with firms and government organizations to facilitate the stablishment of guidelines and protocols for working with the educational community.Intellectual MeritThe objective of this proposal is to conduct a work shop that brings together appropriate representatives of academia, industry and government to develop ideas for the ingredients of a GI Bill Engineering and Science Enhancement Program. The program would be designed to direct more veterans toward engineering and science, and to explore the possible roles that government and industry can play in attracting veterans to the sector and enriching the engineering and science education of veterans. The product of the workshop would be a report that includes recommendations for a set of innovative effortsby NSF, academic institutions, other government organizations, and industry. Inparticular, the recommendations for NSF will be aimed at helping educational institutions to develop their own tailored programs, including partnerships with industrial and government organizations. The report will also include estimates of cost for NSF and commitments needed from industrial firms and government organizations that would participate in such a program.