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The Engineering Workforce of the Future
Challenges, Key Leverage Points and Innovative Strategies
June 18, 2024, 10 a.m. CT
Virtual Summit
SPONSORED BY THE LEMELSON FOUNDATION / ENGINEERING FOR ONE PLANET
Are you thinking strategically about the workforce of the future for your organization? Is purpose increasingly an important consideration for the workforce of your organization? Is the culture of your organization optimal for attracting and retaining your workforce? This virtual summit will explore the systemic forces that will shape the future workforce as well as key leverage points and innovative strategies for confronting present and future workforce challenges. This session will explore 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 schools move beyond 20% in terms of enrollment of women and under-represented minorities in engineering educational 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?
Registration fee: $200
Register nowWho should attend:
- Organizational leaders.
- Strategic planning or innovation teams.
- Human resources and recruiting professionals.
- Young professionals and emerging leaders interested in the culture of engineering organizations.
- Academics who are concerned about attracting and retaining young people into engineering programs.
What attendees will leave with:
- Innovative ideas and strategies for addressing current and future workforce challenges across the entire engineering community.
- Enhanced understanding of inclusive cultures.
- Knowledge of proven approaches for attracting women and under-represented minorities in the workforce.
- Current information on non-traditional pathways that can “grow” the engineering community.
Provocateurs:
Jenna Carpenter. Jenna is Founding Dean of Engineering at Campbell University and Immediate Past President of ASEE. Jenna will kick-off the summit with her perspective on shifting engineering education from a culture of “weeding out” to one of “weaving in.”
Rebecca Bates and Olga Pierrakos. Becky, Professor at Minnesota St. University Mankato, and Olga, NSF Program Director STEM Education, will offer their experiences in leading innovative educational programs that are confronting the grand challenge of attracting, educating, and retaining talented individuals in engineering programs.
Anita Cobb. Anita is the Market Leader for Aviation Equity Strategies at Mead & Hunt. She will address attracting and retaining young professionals to the engineering community through purpose-driven practice.
Jaye Goosby Smith. Jaye, who is Vice President Community Belonging and Chief Diversity Officer at Pepperdine University, will offer the results of her research on inclusive cultures as a key element in overcoming the barriers to progress in attracting and retaining women and minorities to the engineering community.
Bill Oakes. Bill, Director of the EPICS Program at Purdue University and a member of the Board of Directors of Engineers Without Borders USA, will offer his perspective on the links between purpose, community engagement, and the attraction of women and minorities to the engineering community.
Student Panel. The program will also include a panel of students and recent graduates who will engage in a discussion of purpose-driven practice and the role of the engineering community in addressing climate change as a “primary attractor” of young people.
Please contact us with any questions.
Focused Initiatives
To get involved in an initiative, contact us. For more information on activities related to the initiatives, see the individual summit reports.
Engineering Education
Imagine if, guided by educators and mentors who understand emerging technologies, every student was prepared and excited to address challenges/problems by applying science and math concepts, using an engineering approach. What would that look like?
ECL-USA is collaborating with other engineering organizations to examine how the Engineering Community can increase its effectiveness in support of K-12 STEM education.
In addition our 2023 Exploring Engineering Education summit focused on the future of engineering education at the university level.
Future of Consulting Engineering
Imagine that engineering firms are thriving in the future. What would that look like? The Engineering Firm of the Future summit explored several aspects of this question.
Our Engineering Workforce of the Future summit in June 2024 will explore an issue important to all engineering firms.
New Model for Engineering Licensure
How will our current model for engineering licensure adapt to the threats posed by new, multi-disciplinary areas of practice involving emerging technologies? The Licensure Models for the Fourth Industrial Revolution summit offered a look at what is needed.
Work on this initiative is being guided by a Steering Committee which includes representatives of NCEES and NSPE. The Steering Committee selected mobility engineering as an example of this type of practice. At a workshop held in June 2023, we developed a draft framework for a certification model for mobility engineering. The final results of our examination of mobility engineering and its implications for other areas of multi-disciplinary practice were presented at a virtual briefing in February 2024. Links to the mobility engineering research reports and the presentation from the virtual briefing are available at the links below.
Thank you to NCEES for their financial support of the Future of Licensure initiative.
Mapping Technological Driving Forces Impacting the Engineering Community
Imagine that engineers lead the embrace and acceptance of integrated technologies to drive business. What would that look like? This group will be exploring disruptive technologies that might drive new forms of delivering the engineering community’s work and transform (or diminish) traditional business models and models of practice.
ECL-USA’s Augmenting the Engineering Workforce and Tech Stewardship summits explored two aspects of the technological driving forces impacting the Engineering Community.
Our Moving from Cybersecurity to Cyber Resilience summit in March 2024 will continue our exploration of these issues.
Engineering Equitable Communities
The history of engineering is full of the positive contributions that we have made to society. There is, however, another part of our history that is not always discussed, and that is our history of contributing to inequity. For more perspective on this issue, see this link.
As an outcome of the 2021 Engineering Ideas Institute, ECL is leading a pilot project that will explore this issue and look to develop strategies on how the engineering community can change to contribute to creating more just and equitable communities.
The first phase of the pilot project was a workshop for engineering practitioners that focused on urban development and urban infrastructure in the Denver area. Participants included representatives of ECL and local and national engineering organizations. See this link for a summary of the workshop and stay tuned for more information.
Major sponsors of the workshop included the National Society of Professional Engineers, ACEC Colorado and the ACEC Colorado Foundation, and Ulteig Engineers. Other sponsors include EFCG, Felsburg Holt & Ullevig, HDR, KL&A Engineers & Builders, Martin/Martin Consulting Engineers, and Muller Engineering Company.
Engineers and Public Policy
Imagine if engineers used their knowledge and skills to have a positive impact on society through engagement in public policy. What would that look like? Session 4 of our 2020 Engineering Ideas Institute explored the leadership aspects of public policy involvement (2020 EII Session 4 Report). Our recent Engineering & Public Policy Leadership summit re-visited this topic.
2023 Engineering Ideas Institute: Imagining the Future of the Engineering Community Update
The 2023 Engineering Change Lab – USA (ECL) Engineering Ideas Institute will examine the future of engineering through scenario thinking. Participants will develop several alternative futures that explore critical challenges facing society and then examine the role of the engineering community in these futures. Scenario thinking will help to build important strategic thinking skills.
- Learning to identify “signals of change” in the world that offer clues to the future.
- Recognizing future forces already in motion to take appropriate action today.
- Improving decision-making skills by creating “memories of the future.”
- Developing strategies to position engineering organizations and the engineering community to influence future events and to elevate our contributions to the inevitable challenges of the future.
Meet the Provocateurs
To increase knowledge, challenge assumptions, and stretch imaginations regarding the future, this year’s Institute programming will feature a set of provocateurs offering their perspectives on important signals of change and future forces…. Read More
What Are We Learning?
An important development that is evident in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic is that scientists, for the most part, are leading the way in formulating the public policy responses to the pandemic. Scientists are not just in the background advising other leaders. They are in the public eye, serving a major role in communicating to the public the science behind the pandemic; the potential risks of infection; the statistical facts regarding the spread of the virus; the projections regarding the potential future impacts of the virus on people and on the health care system; and the scientific basis for staying home, social distancing, and wearing masks…. Read More
Sharing Good Work
ECL-USA appreciates the good work being done by other organizations that we have collaborated with to advance the future of engineering. See below for three recent examples.
Engineering for One Planet
The Engineering for One Planet (EOP) Initiative has launched a new website as a resource for the global engineering education community. Mobilized by The Lemelson Foundation and VentureWell in collaboration with hundreds of stakeholders, EOP seeks to establish environmental sustainability as a core tenet of engineering education. The site provides a curricular framework and other toolkits for educators, and additional resources, information and events for the community. The curricular framework is currently being piloted by five universities: ASU’s Polytechnic School, Oregon State University College of Engineering, UCF College of Engineering & Computer Science, University of Maryland – A. James Clark School of Engineering, and Villanova University College of Engineering. Visit the site for more resources and information, and to sign up for updates: http://bit.ly/3qmKsHc
American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Circular Economies for Food and Agricultural Systems Initiative
ASABE’s new initiative is intended to “promote circular agricultural and environmental systems in the food industry in order to best meet the increasing demands of the growing global population while sustaining availability of natural resources and the health of ecosystems.”
https://www.asabe.org/News-Detail/partners-add-momentum-to-asabe-initiative-on-circular-economies
Seattle Infrastructure Week
For those of you in the Pacific Northwest, check out Infrastructure Week 2021, a week to highlight the importance of Seattle’s infrastructure, its workforce and the role of public engagement.