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The Engineering Workforce of the Future: Challenges, Key Leverage Points, and Innovative Strategies

June 19, 2024 by Mike McMeekin

This virtual summit explored the workforce of the future for the engineering community, exploring systemic forces that will shape the future workforce as well as key leverage points and innovative strategies for confronting present and future workforce challenges. The summit discussions explored such questions as …

  •  Given the looming enrollment cliff facing higher education, how will the engineering community confront the ‘grand challenge’ of attracting, educating, and retaining talented individuals to meet workforce needs in the next decade?
  • How can the engineering community attract and retain a disproportionate share of young people into engineering education programs and ultimately to practice?
  • How can universities move beyond 20% and 15% in terms of bachelor’s degrees awarded for women and under-represented minorities in engineering education programs?
  • How do we transform the culture of engineering organizations to be more welcoming to women and under-represented minorities and to embrace purpose-driven practice?

Agenda

  • The Engineering Workforce of the Future Agenda
  • Summit Recording

  • The Engineering Workforce of the Future
  • Provocateur Presentations

  • Jenna Carpenter – Weaving In Not Weeding Out:  Engineering Education for the 21st Century
  • Rebecca Bates – Empowering Students Through Integration
  • Olga Pierrakos – Reimagining the Engineering Workforce of the Future
  • Anita Cobb – Best Practice from the Private Sector
  • J. Goosby Smith – Creating an Inclusive Culture in School and Practice
  • Bill Oakes – The Answers May Be in Our Backyards:  Attracting and Equipping Future Leaders with Community-Engaged Learning
  • Summit Reports

  • Workforce of the Future Summit Overview
  • View Workforce of the Future Summit Report

     

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