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Scientific Manpower: A Dilemma for Graduate Education

Scientific Manpower: A Dilemma for Graduate Education

Schwartz, Brian B.
Brown, Sanborn C.

Paperback

Series: MIT Press Classics

History & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 0262524082
ISBN13: 9780262524087
Publisher: Mit Pr
Published: Mar 17 2003
Pages: 194
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.60 Width: 8.40 Depth: 10.80
Language: English

Discusses how and why universities might restructure their graduate programs toward a greater sensitivity to society's needs.

When aerospace engineers, laid off from the space program, feel lucky to find employment as manual laborers; when physics Ph.D.s, ready and willing to teach, find themselves at the end of waiting lists hundreds of names long for positions at little-known colleges and even high schools--then clearly the problem of making proper use of those with advanced education, and of giving them proper scope, is already at a critical point.This book brings together from the universities, industry, and government a group that is knowledgeable and concerned, ex officio and as individuals. In their presentations and discussions they consider numerous aspects of the problem and several means of resolution.In their preface the editors write, In an attempt to convene various experts who had written in the scientific manpower field, a symposium was organized at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the title The Supply, Need, and Utilization of Graduate Scientists and Engineers and was held on May 12 and 13, 1970. This report is an edited and restructured summary of discussions held at that time, with particular emphasis on the effect of the manpower utilization problem on graduate education. It clearly points to the urgency of manpower planning on a national scale and the necessity for universities to restructure their graduate programs toward a much greater sensitivity to society's utilization of the products of their educational programs.The Symposium was jointly sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Commission on MIT Education.

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