Strategies the American Society for Engineering Education and Colleges of Engineering Can Use to Meet the Need for Engineering Graduates

Abstract

In our increasingly technological world the need for well-educated engineers continues to rise. In the United States the President’ s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness has declared a national goal of graduating 10,000 more engineers a year. Currently only a little more than seventy thousand engineering bachelor’ s degrees are awarded each year down from almost eighty thousand degrees awarded in 1985. The reasons for this are many including increasing tuition especially in public schools due to declining state funding, and recruitment and retention issues.