Graduate Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education

Team Leader: Terrence S. Millar

Project goal: Changes in science and technology and in the needs of employers are requiring adjustments in the U.S. science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (SMET) graduate education system. The system currently is undergoing a great deal of re- examination and change. Higher education institutions are experimenting with ways to link students to the industrial and other sectors, to provide teaching experiences for students, and to broaden graduate education through innovatively increasing the diversity of their student bodies.  

Products: The NISE, the UW-Madison Graduate School, and the Interacting with Professional Audiences Team conducted a Graduate Education Forum in June 1998 in Washington, DC. The Forum was shaped by three primary purposes: to share what has been learned through featured promising practices for strengthening SMET graduate education, to share alternative strategies for successfully implementing promising practices, and to discuss the relevance of these promising practices and the various change strategies to the future of the graduate education enterprise. Speakers charted key successes and failures of previous efforts to initiate and implement innovation and examined recent national reports calling for change.

NISE Publications of the Graduate Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education Team