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    STEM Industry RoleRttT conference

    December 11, 2009Baltimore MD

    Charles Fadel

    Global Lead, Education

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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)

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    Everyone:Understanding risk: Personal finance; Health (cancer; airbag; vaccination;cellphones; flying); etcUnderstanding Life: log curve, exp-curve, n-curve, S-curve, Bell-curve, etc

    {poll}

    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 !