ASEE-NSF Summit on Transitioning Veterans to Engineering-Related Careers

这个工程教育研究项目将为政府、工业界和学术界的高层决策者提供一个研讨会，探讨如何协调不同群体的利益，帮助退伍军人从军队服役过渡到工程职业。研讨会将向各组织的政策制定者广泛传达结果，并产生若干有助于指导未来政策的档案立场文件。该项目更广泛的意义和重要性源于对工程和STEM劳动力的潜在影响。通过寻求兵役和学术课程之间的一致性，可能有办法在利用以退伍军人为代表的人才库的同时，提高美国的STEM劳动力。该项目与NSF的战略目标重叠，即通过培养具有新能力和专业知识的工程人才来改变前沿。此外，NSF为社会创新的目标是通过创造对社会有用的结果和研究，为教育政策和实践提供信息。

This engineering education research project will support a workshop for high level decision makers across the government, industry, and academia to explore how to align the interests of various groups to help veterans transition from military service into careers in engineering. The workshop will widely communicate the outcomes to policy makers across organizations and produce several archival position papers that can help guide future policy.The broader significance and importance of this project arises from the potential impact on the engineering and STEM workforce. By seeking alignment between military service and academic course work, there may be ways to boost the nation's STEM workforce while drawing on the talent pool represented by veterans. This project overlaps with NSF's strategic goals of transforming the frontiers through preparation of an engineering workforce with new capabilities and expertise. Additionally NSF's goal of innovating for society is enabled by creating results and research that are useful for society by informing educational policy and practices.