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Download full textDavies, Christopher; Arbeit, Caren A.; Yamaner, Michael – National Science Foundation, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered considerable shifts in enrollment patterns for both U.S. citizens and permanent residents and temporary visa-holding graduate students within science, engineering, and health (SEH) fields during the fall 2020. After 3 years of relative stability, full-time enrollment of temporary visa holders in SEH master's…
Descriptors: Science Education, Engineering Education, Health Education, Graduate Study
Wang, Crystal; Looby, Karen – Online Submission, 2018
The Career and Technical Education (CTE) Department in the Austin Independent School District (AISD) administers a national engineering program in middle schools, called Gateway, and in high schools, called Project Lead the Way (PLTW). In this summary, the PLTW courses taken during high school were examined for two cohorts of students who…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, School Districts, Engineering Education, Middle School Students
National Student Clearinghouse, 2017
From 2006 to 2016, degree completion in the so-called "hard sciences" increased in prevalence for both genders. Excluding social sciences and psychology, the percentage of bachelor's degrees accounted for by science and engineering disciplines increased five percentage points for men, and two percentage points for women. This brief…
Descriptors: Science Education, Engineering Education, College Graduates, Graduation
National Student Clearinghouse, 2015
This Snapshot Report presents information on student degree attainment in science and engineering disciplines for 2004 and 2014. It offers data on the following: (1) Science and Engineering Degrees as Percentage of All Degrees; (2) Gender Distribution of Science and Engineering Degrees by Level; (3) Gender Distribution of Bachelor's Degrees in…
Descriptors: College Science, Science Education, Engineering Education, Bachelors Degrees
National Science Foundation, 2012
Science and Engineering Indicators (SEI) is first and foremost a volume of record comprising the major high-quality quantitative data on the U.S. and international science and engineering enterprise. SEI is factual and policy neutral. It does not offer policy options, and it does not make policy recommendations. SEI employs a variety of…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Research and Development, Engineering, Tables (Data)
Direct linkBorden, Victor M. H. – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2011
This article presents this year's Top 100 institutions that conferred the most bachelor's degrees to students of color in academic year 2009-2010. It shows the total number of bachelor's degrees for a specific minority group or for total minorities, with subtotals for women and men in that ethnic group. The author also includes the prior year…
Descriptors: Colleges, Minority Group Students, Bachelors Degrees, African American Students
Chen, Xianglei; Ho, Phoebe – National Center for Education Statistics, 2012
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields are widely regarded as critical to the national economy. To provide a nationally representative portrait of undergraduate students' experiences in STEM education, these Web Tables summarize longitudinal data from a cohort of first-time, beginning students who started postsecondary…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Postsecondary Education, Undergraduate Students, Student Attrition
Gambino, Christine; Gryn, Thomas – US Census Bureau, 2011
This brief will discuss patterns of science and engineering educational attainment within the foreign-born population living in the United States, using data from the 2010 American Community Survey (ACS). The analysis is restricted to the population aged 25 and older, and the results are presented on science and engineering degree attainment by…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Community Surveys, Engineering Education, Science Education
National Science Foundation, 2012
The United States holds a preeminent position in science and engineering (S&E) in the world, derived in large part from its long history of public and private investment in S&E research and development (R&D) and education. Investment in R&D, science, technology, and education correlate strongly with economic growth, as well the development of a…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Engineering Education, Research and Development, Engineering
Roesel, Cheryl, Ed. – National Science Foundation, 2010
The National Science Board (Board) is required under the National Science Foundation (NSF) Act, 42 U.S.C. (United States Code) Section 1863 (j) (1) to prepare and transmit the biennial "Science and Engineering Indicators" ("SEI") report to the President and to the Congress by January 15 of every even-numbered year. The report…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Engineering, Public Agencies, Engineering Education
Lum, Lydia – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2010
This article discusses the initiatives of Purdue University President France Cordova in boosting minority and female representation among administration and students and in improving overall undergraduate performance. Dr. France Cordova is by no means the first college president to declare increasing the presence of women and minorities on campus…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, American Indians, Engineering
Burrelli, Joan; Rapoport, Alan – National Science Foundation, 2008
This InfoBrief investigates the role and relevance of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in enhancing educational opportunities for African Americans by examining the role of HBCUs as baccalaureate-origin institutions of black science and engineering (S&E) doctorate recipients. It examines trends primarily during the past two…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Doctoral Degrees, Educational Opportunities, Bachelors Degrees
Peer reviewedWallace, John S. – CoED, 1984
Describes an Applesoft computer program which determines the shear and moment diagrams for any combination of four different load configurations on a simply supported beam. Examples of different load configurations and the diagrams produced are included. Also included is the program listing. (JN)
Descriptors: Courseware, Diagrams, Engineering, Engineering Education
Burrelli, Joan S. – 2001
This document reports on the enrollment of science and engineering graduate students in the United States in 2000 and reviews data from 1993-1999. Data presented are from the Fall 2000 survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering. The enrollment data are organized by citizenship, race/ethnicity, and field of study.…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Engineering Education, Enrollment, Ethnicity
Burrelli, Joan S. – 2001
Enrollment of science and engineering (S&E) graduate students in the United States increased in 1999 after five consecutive annual decreases. In the fall of 1999, 411,308 students were enrolled in S&E programs at the graduate level, a 2% increase from 404,903 in 1998. The number of full-time students enrolled for the first time in graduate…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Enrollment, Graduate Students, Graduate Study
