Collection

2014 Public Policy Colloquium

Authors

Tom Kalil, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

• Unleash a clean energy revolution • Support advanced vehicle technology • Drive breakthroughs in health IT • Address the “grand challenges” of the 21st century Promote Competitive Markets that Spur Productive Entrepreneurship • Promote American exports • Encourage high-growth and • Support open capital markets that innovation-based entrepreneurship

Collection

2014 Public Policy Colloquium

Authors

Auditi Chakravarty, The College Board

Do Women Select Engineering?  79% of female engineering majors decided to pursue engineering in their junior or senior year of high school  Majority identified specific classes, curricular, or co- curricular activities as when they learned about engineering as a major or professionLehr, J.L., Finger, H., Kwang, B. (2012) When, Why, How, Who – Lessons from First Year FemaleEngineering Students at Cal Poly for Efforts to Increase Recruitment. (Annual Conference of the 8Pacific Southwest Section of the American Society for Engineering Education)Students who took an AP Exam in a particular content area were more likelyto major in a related discipline in college than students