STEM workforce needs of the U.S. Department of Defense: Background data

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STEM workforce needs of the U.S. Department of
Defense Background data
Rolf Lehming NAE/NRC August 1, 2011 National
Science Foundation National Center for Science
and Engineering Statistics www.nsf.gov/statistics/
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NSE natural sciences and engineering
underrepresented minorities Black, Hispanic,
American Indian/Alaska native SOURCE NSF?NCSES,
WebCaspar data system.
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Life sciences
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• DOD STEM employment
• DOD major employer of STEM workers,
  especially IT both hard- and software
• DOD civilian workforce is getting more NSE
  intensive
• Between 15 and 30 of physical scientists and
  IT specialists are retirement eligible

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• NSE bachelors degrees
• Modest increases in engineering and physical
  sciences degrees over 15 years, big increases in
  life sciences, computer science degrees slipping
  broadly after Y2K peak
• Physical sciences and engineering bachelors
  degrees closely mirror college-age cohort size
• Blacks and Hispanics earn NSE bachelors
  degree percentages well below their population
  share. Asians exceed it, as do Whites to a lesser
  extent

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• NSE masters degrees
• A quarter of U.S. NSE masters degrees are
  earned by temporary visa holders
• Nearly half in engineering, half in
  math/computer science, 60 in electrical/electroni
  c engineering
• U.S. majority whites earn sharply lower shares
  of NSE masters degrees, 10 percentage points or
  more below 1995 levels
• Exception is physical sciencesstable share

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• NSE doctorates
• More than one-third of U.S. NSE doctorates
  are earned by temporary visa holders
• 57 of those in engineering and well above
  half in electrical engineering and computer
  science
• Recently the percentage of NSE doctorates
  earned by temporary visa holders has declined
• More than half of temporary visa holders
  earning a U.S. doctorate choose to stay in the
  U.S., and many of them eventually remain here

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Questions? Rolf Lehming rlehming_at_nsf.gov 703-29
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