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Forces Shaping the U.S. Academic Engineering Research Enterprise
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The way in which academic engineering research is financed is chang- ing at an unprecedented rate. So, too, are public expectations for the out- comes of such research. One can relate these changes to the overlap of two unrelated occurrences: the end of the Cold War—expected to cause a drop in support for defense-related research in universities and an immediate loss of appetite for highly trained engineers in the defense industry; and a real- ization in corporate America, over a more extended time period, that many major U.S. producers of technological products were not competitive in a global economy. Both of these factors have affected greatly the nation’s economy. Nowhere are these effects taken more seriously than in the ad- vanced education of engineers and scientists, and not without good reason. For example, while senior officials at the Department of Defense (DOD) have declared their intention to maintain DOD support for university basic research in spite of large reductions in the overall defense budget (Adams, this volume), the U.S. House of Representatives cut almost $1 billion in DOD funds for university research in its version of the 1995 appropriations bill. Fortunately, most of this money was restored by House-Senate conference committee.
NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS - Organizational Body
0-309-52048-7
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Computer Science
English
1995
1-144
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