Committee on Minorities in Engineering, 1977.

Institution	National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. Assembly of Engineering.
Titel	Committee on Minorities in Engineering, 1977.
Quelle	(1977), (19 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Advisory Committees; American Indians; Coordination; Engineering; Engineers; Financial Support; Industrial Personnel; Mexican Americans; Minority Groups; National Organizations; Program Administration; Program Development; Student Recruitment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Beratungsstelle; American Indian; Indianer; Koordination; Maschinenbau; Finanzielle Förderung; Hispanoamerikaner; Ethnische Minderheit; Programmplanung
Abstract	At a two-day symposium, 250 engineers, educators, and university and industrial leaders gathered to discuss various approaches to the recruitment, training, and financial support of minority students in engineering. It was decided to increase the nation's minority engineers within a decade by raising the annual number of graduates from 500 to 5,000, and to establish a committee to explore with industry, education, and government representatives how to deal with issues raised at the synposium. In February 1974, the National Advisory Council on Minorities in Engineering composed of chief executives of leading corporations, universities, engineering societies, and minority organizations and Federal officials held its first meeting. The Committee on Minorities in Engineering was established in April 1974 to coordinate efforts in increasing monority participation. Today the committee works on the decision-making level with interested organizations, institutions, and groups that set goals, initiate proposals, allocate resources, and influence other efforts to increase minority representation in engineering. Priority is usually given to those activities that hold promise of becoming an integral part of existing educational structures or other institutional systems. The committee also provides workshops, conferences, meetings, and task forces in which problem holders are brought together with problem solvers. Through its work, as part of the Assembly of Engineering in the National Research Council, the committee serves as a catalyst for a community of interests concerned with mobilizing students from minority groups into the engineering profession. (NQ)
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