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Mobilizing Oregon A Partnership to Build a 21st Century Technology Workforce

Agenda for quality and growth. AeA presentation Bob Dryden January 10, 2002. Mobilizing Oregon A Partnership to Build a 21st Century Technology Workforce. AeA presentation Bob Dryden January 10, 2002. Today’s Presentation. Mission of the Vice Chancellor of Engineering and Computer Science

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Mobilizing Oregon A Partnership to Build a 21st Century Technology Workforce

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  1. Agenda for quality and growth AeA presentation Bob Dryden January 10, 2002 Mobilizing OregonA Partnership to Build a 21st Century Technology Workforce

  2. AeA presentation Bob Dryden January 10, 2002 Today’s Presentation • Mission of the Vice Chancellor of Engineering and Computer Science • An agenda for quality and growth • Today’s funding realities

  3. AeA presentation Bob Dryden January 10, 2002 What is a Vice Chancellor of Engineering and Computer Science? • State wide – cross industry view • ETIC • Partner with high technology leadership • Connect with and listen to engineers • EE, CS, SWE • Civil • Mechanical • Metallurgical • Support engineering institutions • Promote engineering education • Manage multi-institutional programs

  4. AeA presentation Bob Dryden January 10, 2002 How to Build a Partnership for the 21st Century… An Agenda for Quality and Growth

  5. 2002 initiatives AeA presentation Bob Dryden January 10, 2002 Agenda for Quality and Growth • Invest in quality faculty • Invest in first-class facilities • Attract and train the best students • Identify and serve industry’s workforce needs • Demand and measure outcomes • Communicate results • institutions, industry, students, public, civic leaders and media

  6. Agenda for quality and growth AeA presentation Bob Dryden January 10, 2002 Link High Tech Workforce Education to Workplace Needs • ETIC • Streamline procedures • Stimulate deeper industry participation • Develop 2003-05 investment plan • Monitor current investment progress • Communicate results and benefits

  7. Agenda for quality and growth AeA presentation Bob Dryden January 10, 2002 Listen to customers • Market research program • Quantitative benchmark studies of industry and student needs and trends • Provide data to institutions and industry • Use data to drive new programs • Engineering Education E-Roundtable • Engineering managers • Human Resource managers • Training managers

  8. Agenda for quality and growth AeA presentation Bob Dryden January 10, 2002 Promote Engineering Education and Research • Vice Chancellor’s Web site • WWW.OregonEngineer.org • Outreach to potential engineering students and high school teachers and advisors • Repository for engineering and computer science faculty research publications • Newsletter to state’s engineering community highlighting success and benefits - not process

  9. Agenda for quality and growth AeA presentation Bob Dryden January 10, 2002 Fill the Pipeline • OCATE statewide • Deploy selected OCATE programming beyond Portland • Grow Oregon Master of Software Engineering program • Build new scholarship and internship opportunities • Improve connections with high schools and community colleges

  10. Agenda for quality and growth AeA presentation Bob Dryden January 10, 2002 Vice Chancellor’sObjectives • Focus activities to: • Demonstrate need, target investments and measure results with research • Deliver educational capacity to achieve real and measurable results • Fill Oregon engineering education pipeline • Communicate benefits of engineering education for Oregon…to Oregonians

  11. Agenda for quality and growth AeA presentation Bob Dryden January 10, 2002 How AeA Can Help • Share insights on our market research • Advocate for investments linked to demonstrated needs and realistic goals • Reward results • Expand sponsored scholarship and internship opportunities • Support institutions through partnerships

  12. 2002 budget choices AeA presentation Bob Dryden January 10, 2002 OUS Funding Realities • Oregon faces $850 million budget shortfall • State of Washington same magnitude with double the budget base • University engineering programs have improved quality and output • New faculty • Higher enrollments • Preserving core programs – top priority

  13. 2002 budget choices AeA presentation Bob Dryden January 10, 2002 Setting Engineering Investment Priorities for Quality and Growth • Existing ETIC commitments held harmless • Invest in doubling undergraduate and graduate engineering output by 2007 • Invest in multi-institutional quality improvement programs

  14. Agenda for quality and growth AeA presentation Bob Dryden January 10, 2002 Mobilizing OregonA Partnership to Build a 21st Century Technology Workforce

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