Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Centers, The MITRE Corporation; Michael A Balazs; Titilayo Ogunyale

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP)

) appear to have increased in their share of thetotal agency investments in STEM education over that same time frame. Also revealed from thisvisualization is how highly-invested agencies tend to have a handful of highly invested programsand then multiple smaller efforts. Because most STEM investments are funded via multipleappropriations from Congress, this graphic demonstrates that the approximately one billion dollarincrease in Federal STEM education funding is being utilized by multiple entities and notnecessarily just the few whose missions more closely overlap with achieving effective STEMeducation.Top funded programs listed in the inventory can be seen in Table 5. Of these ten investments,which encompass nearly 39% of fiscal year 2021’s STEM