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AAES supports public and private action that improves the science and mathematics achievement of the nation's precollege students and motivates them -- with special attention to women and minorities -- to pursue engineering and scientific careers. Challenging young children with math and science education will excite them about learning and provide the opportunity to pursue high-wage engineering, science, and technical careers.

To ensure a high-quality workforce, there must be appropriate public policies and sufficient funding to improve undergraduate engineering education programs, to ensure access to engineering education for all segments of the population, and to increase the attractiveness of engineering graduate study and faculty careers to U.S. students.

AAES encourages the interaction of engineering colleges with industry and federal agencies, including the National Science Foundation and national laboratories, and is committed to policies that treat continuing education as an investment, not a fringe benefit.

Policy Objectives

• Promote strengthening of K-12 mathematics, science, and technology education to support a technologically literate workforce
• Support life-long education and encourage national policies for its promotion, such as Section 127, the tax exemption for employer-paid education benefits at both the undergraduate and graduate levels
• Encourage the education of precollege students, especially women and minorities, about the value of an engineering career
• Encourage enhanced government support for precollege math and science education and for engineering education at the undergraduate and graduate levels
• Encourage alternative routes to certification of engineers as precollege science and mathematics teachers
• Encourage public technological literacy through adult education programs and college curricula
• Foster engineering curriculum development that reflects industry needs and promotes greater integration of engineering and manufacturing
• Support federal, state and local policy development that mandates four years of quality mathematics and science courses for all students at the high school level

Society Statements

ASCE

• Academic Prerequisites for Licensure and Professional Practice (PS 465) : 8/16/02
• Continuing Professional Development (PS 425) : 8/16/02
• Maintaining America's Schools (PS 452) : 8/16/02
• History and Heritage (PS 463) : 8/16/02
• Instruction in Surveying and the Accreditation of Civil Engineering Curricula (PP 127) : 8/15/02
• Taxation of Employee Paid Educational Assistance (PS 314) : 8/15/02
• Civil Engineering Education (PS 140) : 8/16/02
• Educational and Training Needs of Government Engineers (PS 394) : 8/16/02
• Mathematics and Science Education (PS 377) : 8/15/02
• Shared Responsibility for Civil Engineering Education (PS 483) : 8/16/02