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Page 10 - SEC. 3. (a) The Foundation is authorized and directed — (1) to initiate and support basic scientific research and programs to strengthen scientific research potential and science education programs at all levels...
Page 60 - Engineering Education and Practice in the United States: Foundations of Our Techno-Economic Future, Washington, DC : National Academy Press, 1985.
Page 1 - The deterioration of collegiate science, mathematics and engineering education is a grave long-term threat to the nation's scientific and technical capacity, its industrial and economic competitiveness, and the strength of its national defense.
Page 21 - It is well known that undergraduate interest in basic science has recently plummeted. Within a decade the percentage of American undergraduates intending to major in science fell by 33 percent, with the absolute number of such intended majors dropping by almost 40 percent Only slightly more than one in twenty freshmen on American campuses intends to major in science today, down from a high of one in ten in the late 1960s.[ S.
Page x - Education found that serious problems, especially problems of quality, have developed during the past decade in the infrastructure of college-level education in the US in these fields.
Page iii - The National Science Board Task Committee on Undergraduate Science and Engineering Education...
Page 28 - Mathematics is both an enabling force and a critical filter for careers in science and engineering. Without quality education in mathematics, we cannot build programs in science and engineering. The National Science Foundation policy for science and engineering education -- both precollegiate and collegiate — must be built on this central fact: Mathematics is not just one of the sciences, but is...
Page 26 - Let me share a few of the highlights of that report with you. -7First, there are strong indications that the quality of undergraduate science and engineering laboratory instruction has deteriorated significantly in recent years. Reports and testimony to the committee indicated that much instrumentation in undergraduate laboratories throughout the US is either worn out or obsolete in the face of rapid advances in science and technology.
Page 5 - April 15. 1988 APPENDIX B The Committee recommends that National Science Foundation annual expenditures at the undergraduate level in science, mathematics, and engineering education be increased by $100 million. Such an enhanced level of expenditure would be consistent with the funding goals recommended by the NSB Commission, and with the level of present Foundation support of research ($1,300 million). At this time, the recommended distribution of this increased annual expenditure is: • Laboratory...
Page 1 - The only way that we can continue to stay ahead of other countries is to keep new ideas flowing through research; to have the best technically trained, most inventive, and adaptable work force of any nation; and to have a citizenry able to make intelligent judgments about technically-biased issues.