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Air Force-wide Needs for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Academic Degrees
Lisa M. HarringtonLindsay DaughertyS. Craig MooreTara L. Terry
出版Rand Corporation, 2014
主題Education / Vocational & TechnicalHistory / Military / GeneralHistory / Military / StrategyScience / Study & TeachingTechnology & Engineering / Engineering (General)Technology & Engineering / Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades
ISBN08330871269780833087126
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=QxzHBAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In evaluating the health of its science, technology, engineering, and mathematics workforce, the U.S. Air Force has focused on functional areas where STEM degrees are mandatory. To date there has been no rigorous review of the needs for STEM academic degrees in other functional areas. Understating the needs for officers and civilians with STEM degrees can diminish the Air Force's ability to maintain the technical skills it heavily relies upon to support air, space, and cyberspace operations. Analysis must begin with a definition of STEM versus non-STEM degrees. RAND researchers established a set of broad academic disciplinary groups that should be considered in the set of STEM degrees, as well as disciplines at the most detailed levels of Air Force degree codes. This categorization has been approved as the Air Force definition of STEM. Career field managers across the Air Force were interviewed and asked to identify the STEM academic degrees necessary now and in the future for particular missions in their functional areas. Senior functional authorities at the two- and three-star level reviewed and in some cases revised what their own career field managers identified as STEM needs and validated the overall direction and the numbers of these degree requirements. Although this approach lacks a method to determine the magnitude of future STEM needs in the programs identified, it does point to specific areas that the Air Force should review for emerging STEM needs, especially in light of force management actions in key technology areas.