Understanding the Educational and Career Pathways of Engineers (2018)

Chapter: Appendix F: Workshop Program

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Appendix F

Workshop Program

WORKSHOP ON PATHWAYS FOR ENGINEERING TALENT
Understanding the Engineering Education-Workforce Continuum Committee
November 19-20, 2014
National Academies, Lecture Room
2101 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC

AGENDA

Wednesday, November 19, 2014
All workshop activities will take place in the Lecture Room unless otherwise noted.
1:00 Welcome and Overview of Workshop Objectives:
Jean-Lou Chameau, President, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST)
1:10 Opening Remarks
C. D. Mote, Jr., President, National Academy of Engineering
1:30 Session 1: The Educational and Career Pathways of Engineering Talent
Moderator: Rod Adkins, Senior Vice President, IBM
Presenters:
  • Donna Ginther, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Kansas
  • Shulamit Kahn, Professor, Department of Finance and Economics, School of Management, Boston University
Respondent: Julia Lane, Senior Managing Economist, American Institutes for Research
Presenter: Samantha Brunhaver, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
Respondent: Nicole Smith, Research Fellow and Senior Economist, Georgetown University
3:15 BREAK
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3:45 Session 2: Recruiting and Employing Engineering Talent
Moderator: Sheri Sheppard, Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Education, Stanford University
Panelists:
  • Jeri L. Buchholz, Assistant Administrator for Human Capital Management, NASA
  • Dianne Chong, Vice President, Engineering, Operations & Technology, The Boeing Company
  • David Nagel, Executive Vice President Emeritus, BP
Framing Questions:
  • Where and how do employers in different industries or sectors recruit engineering talent? Are employer recruiting and career development practices changing for engineering talent? If so, how?
  • How is engineering talent used within different industries or sectors?
  • How well do skills and knowledge of new engineering talent match the skill/knowledge needs of employers?
  • How are missing or new workplace skills/knowledge acquired by new hires and by employed engineering talent over time?
  • Are career advancement pathways for engineering talent within different industries and sectors changing?
4:45 Session 3: Educating and Providing Career Services to Engineering Talent
Moderator: Gary S. May, Dean, College of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Panelists:
  • Constance J. Pritchard, President, The Pritchard Group/National Career Development Association
  • Darryll Pines, Farvardin Professor and Dean, Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland
  • Michael McKenzie, Managing Director, Career Learning and Experience, Center for Career Services, George Washington University
Framing Questions:
  • Where are engineering graduates finding jobs? What industries/companies and other employers recruit from your institution?
  • How, if at all, have the occupational opportunities and choices of engineering graduates changed over the past decade? How well aligned are these opportunities aligned with the expectations of students and parents?
  • What career identification/placement and related services are institutions of higher education and others provide engineering students and how have these services evolved in recent years?
  • What impact, if any, have changing occupational opportunities and choices for engineering graduates had on the undergraduate engineering education experience—curricular and extra-curricular?
6:00-8:00 PM Working Reception in the Great Hall

Thursday, November 20, 2014

8:00 Breakfast available in East Court, Outside the Lecture Room
8:30 Recap of Day 1 Major Themes/Issues
Jean-Lou Chameau, President, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST)
Rod Adkins, Senior Vice President, IBM
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8:45 Session 4: Factors Influencing the Educational and Career Decisions of Degreed and Practicing Engineers
Moderator:Nadya A. Fouad, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Presenters:
  • Sylvia Hurtado, Director, Higher Education Research Institute, UCLA
  • Kevin Eagan, Researcher, Higher Education Research Institute, UCLA
Panelists:
  • Steven Brown, Professor, Counseling Psychology Program, Loyola University Chicago
  • Andrew Gillen, Senior Researcher, Education Program, American Institutes for Research
  • Amy Javernick-Will, Assistant Professor, Construction Engineering & Management Program, University of Colorado
Framing Questions:
  • What factor or factors most explain BS engineering graduates’ choice of occupation (engineering, engineering-related, and non-engineering-related), and how do these factors and their influence change over time?
  • Are these factors the same as or different than those influencing the entrance of non-engineering-degreed workers into the engineering workforce?
  • Are those with engineering degrees choosing willingly or being diverted unwillingly to engineering-related and non-engineering-related work?
  • How if at all does the specific engineering discipline influence or align with occupational choice and career development?
10:15 BREAK
10:45 Session 5: Implications of Current Educational and Career Pathways of Engineering Talent for Engineering Educators, Employers, and Other Stakeholders
Moderator: Jennifer Hunt, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Microeconomic Analysis, US Department of Treasury
Panelists:
  • Larry Bucciarelli, Emeritus Professor of Engineering and Technology Studies, MIT
  • David Knight, Assistant Professor of Engineering Education, Virginia Tech
  • Hal Salzman, Professor and Senior Faculty Fellow, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University
11:55 Session 6: Innovative approaches to data-gathering and analysis to support decision-making by students/parents, educators, employers, and state and federal governments concerning engineering talent and careers
Moderator: Richard K. Miller, President, Franklin W. Olin College
Presenters:
  • Isabel Cardenas-Navia, Founder, Alta Vision Consulting
  • Jason Owen-Smith, Barger Leadership Institute Professor of Organizational Studies and Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
12:55 Introduction to Working Group Sessions
Eric Ducharme, Vice President, Global Technology, General Electric Company (invited)
1:00 Working Group Sessions & Lunch
Lunch will be picked up in East Court, Outside the Lecture Room
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3:00 BREAK
3:15 Session 7: Reconvene and Reports of Working Groups and General Discussion
Moderator: Eric Ducharme, Vice President, Global Technology, General Electric Company
4:30 Closing Remarks: Key Workshop Take-Aways
Jean-Lou Chameau, President, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST)
Rod Adkins, Senior Vice President, IBM
5:00 Adjournment of Workshop
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