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STEM Industry RoleRttT conference
December 11, 2009Baltimore MD
Charles Fadel
Global Lead, Education
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!OOD MORNING
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This Panel
Why is Industry so engaged in STEM ?
What is Industrys role ?
What is STEM to Society and our personal lives ?
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4 Tiers of STEM Competency
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Top Tier: STEM Professions Have a PositiveImpact on Innovation Economies
Countries with the highest concentrations of engineers grow faster, [thosewith] lawyers grow slower
National Bureau of Economic Research, K. Murphy, A. Shleifer et al
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STEM for the other 95%
Influential Professions:Journalists (misleading representations)Financiers (probabilities should be mandatory on Wall Street !)Lawyers (a lot of billable time spent on low-probability outcomes)Politicians (non-linearities associated with global warming)Doctors (probabilities and statistics)
{poll}
Everyone:Understanding risk: Personal finance; Health (cancer; airbag; vaccination;cellphones; flying); etcUnderstanding Life: log curve, exp-curve, n-curve, S-curve, Bell-curve, etc
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Support Functions:Marketing, Sales, etc (in support of High-Tech, Finance, etc)Trade professions (Certifications, HVAC, car mechanics, etc)
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Social Factors need to be addressed
Fear of Math & Science teacher- and parent-dependent
Scorn of geek society-dependent
The social factors are the largest {poll}
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Math or Numerology ? Cosmology or Mythology ? Evolution or Creationism ? etc.Push back creeping obscurantism
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The Panelists
Kim Adams [Lockheed]: workforce shortages
Cheryl Carrier [Ford]: relevance and community engagement
Rich Rosen: [Battelle]s experiences and practices
Cathleen Barton [Intel]: Now is the time for Systemic change
Then panel and audience Q&A
Thank you !