Scientific ManpowerThe Foundation, 1961 - Engineers Includes the papers of the 5th (1956)- Conference on Scientific Manpower held at the 123rd- annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, other selected papers given during the year 1956- , an account of highlights of significant developments during the year, . |
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Page 11 - In 1964, the economics profession was included for the first time as part of the National Register of Scientific and Technical Personnel of the National Science Foundation.
Page 4 - ... the world markets and serves as an underpinning for our overall economic well-being. The Defense Department must seek RDT & E. appropriations only for defense purposes, but at the same time we should all understand the vital defense contribution to the national R. & D. process. I will work with the National Science Foundation, Atomic Energy Commission, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration to assess our national technological position and to help insure that the military and civilian...
Page 21 - In 1958 a special advisory panel to the National Science Foundation and the President's Committee on Scientists and Engineers prepared a report entitled "A Program for National Information on Scientific and Technical Personnel.
Page 18 - Forecasting Manpower Needs for the Age of Science, Organization for European Economic Co-operation, Paris, September 1960. [16] Galbraith, John Kenneth, Economic Development in Perspective, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1962. [15] Frank, Andrew Gunder, "General Productivity in Soviet Agriculture and Industry: the Ukraine,
Page 1 - An exhaustive study of research and development expenditures, conducted for the National Science Foundation by the Bureau of Labor Statistics...
Page 11 - This paper refers primarily to the National Science Foundation's program in the area of establishment surveys of scientific and technical personnel. There are many organizations, both Government and private, which have contributed much to our knowledge of the Nation's resources of scientists and engineers. Some of the surveys made by these organizations have been supported financially by the Foundation...
Page 19 - ... industry's product under these economic conditions. It was found that employment in such important technical-personnel-employing industries as electrical equipment, metal products, machinery, instruments, and chemicals is expected to increase rather more than the average for all industries. In each sector past trends in the ratio of scientific and technical personnel to total employment were examined. We had data on employment of scientific and technical personnel by industry covering only a...
Page 21 - a large sample of persons recorded in the 1960 census enumeration as college graduates or as persons currently or last employed in scientific and technical positions, whether college graduates or not, to determine relationships between training and subsequent occupation.
Page 23 - Therefore, each respondent will be asked selected items of information on his first full-time job held after reaching age 25. It should be stressed that these materials will not be complete job histories, since it is not uncommon for civil engineers, for example, to have had so many jobs in so many places that a complete job history would require a lengthy questionnaire. Rather, it is planned to get brief overall characterizations of the mobility history since finishing school sufficient to separate...