Preparing Chemists and Chemical Engineers for a Globally Oriented Workforce : A Workshop Report to the Chemical Sciences Roundtable.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (90 pages)
FrontMatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgment of Reviewers -- Contents -- Introduction and Summary -- Context and Overview -- 1 How Do National Labor Forces Become Global, and Who Should Care? -- The Industrial Perspective -- 2 Major Trends Shaping the Future Workplace -- 3 Boundary-Crossing Technology Networks at Degussa -- 4 Evolving Opportunities- Building a Global, Technical Workforce -- The Academic Perspective -- 5 Does the U.S. Style of Chemical Engineering Education Serve the Nation Well? -- 6 The Itinerant Chemist-Where Will the Jobs Be in 2020? -- 7 Attracting and Preparing Chemists and Chemical Engineers for a Global Workforce -- The International Perspective -- 8 Seeing the World Through a Different Window -- 9 Expanding Boundaries to Advance Medical Research- Lessons Learned at the National Institutes of Health and Ways Forward -- Appendixes -- Appendix A Workshop Participants -- Appendix B Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers -- Appendix C Origin of and Information on the Chemical Sciences Roundtable.
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