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2014 Public Policy Colloquium

Authors

Auditi Chakravarty, The College Board

related careers. 3AP CS Principles  New Computer Science course/assessment being developed in collaboration with NSF to broaden participation in CS, especially by women and underrepresented minorities  Anchors the CS10K Project, which aims to prepare 10,000 CS teachers in 10,000 high schools across the US  AP CS courses serve as a focal point for efforts by code.org, Google, and HE institutions to support policy and teacher prep 4 ASEE/CB Survey: Five-Year Goals for Engineering Program How important are the following goals …? Other Goals Indicated: Funding

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2014 Public Policy Colloquium

Authors

Pramod Khargonekar, National Science Foundation

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National Science Foundation

 Education and Career Development  Interdisciplinary Research  Innovation Ecosystem 6Advanced Manufacturing Historically NSF has supported frontier research that has led to transformational advances in manufacturing  Additive manufacturing grew out, in part, from basic research investments in the 70’s and 80’s  MEMS enabled by fundamental research in late 80s (NSF & DARPA) Present research extends traditional advances and builds upon convergence of trans-disciplinary advances  National Robotics Initiative (NRI): towards autonomous systems  Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS