National Engineering and Science Manpower Act of 1982

Summary

National Engineering and Science Manpower Act of 1982 - Directs the President to establish a special Coordinating Council on Engineering and Scientific Manpower to coordinate Federal efforts in science and engineering education and to assess the needs for trained personnel in the public and private sectors. Permits the Council to use voluntary labor. Terminates the Council after five years. Establishes within the National Science Foundation a special Engineering and Science Manpower Fund to promote and develop the quality of the U.S. technical, engineering, and scientific manpower resources. Directs the Council to consider the current and predicted supply and demand for trained manpower when administering the Fund. Requires the expenditure of moneys through matching grants. Terminates the Fund after five years. Directs the Foundation to report to Congress at least biennially concerning the Fund. Establishes within the Foundation a special program for the modernization of instructional equipment and facilities for postsecondary education in the technical, engineering, and scientific areas. Directs the Director of the National Science Foundation to carry out a pilot high-technology technician training program under which community colleges, using Federal and community industrial support, will provide training in technical competencies in strategic high-technology fields. Requires such programs to emphasize on-the-job training intermixed with technical occupational training and to place recruiting emphasis on people whose skills need upgrading. Requires the participating colleges to establish an associate degree training program in designated fields according to the Director's guidelines. Requires the Director to: (1) determine the necessary fields; (2) identify economic areas with high-technology industries; (3) selected accredited community colleges; and (4) appoint a National Advisory Council on High-Technology Technician Training to advise him on the program. Requires the Director to report to Congress annually on the program. Establishes within the National Science Foundation the Presidential science and engineering young investigators awards program to encourage young scientists at the university level to pursue careers in academic research. Requires that the program be administered in cooperation with the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Requires the Director of the Foundation to select recipients from among untenured faculty members in mathematics, the physical or biological sciences, or engineering at universities with established doctoral research programs. States that such award shall consist of a base research support grant of $25,000 per year for five years. Permits the Director to make an additional award for five years which requires the matching of the Federal share on a two for one basis, up to a $75,000 annual total. Establishes within the Foundation a presidential science and mathematics improvement program to improve the skills of precollege science and math teachers. Requires the coordination of this program with each State. Provides stipends for eligible teachers Requires State and local school authorities to nominate participants to be selected by the Foundation. Requires half the stipend money to come from non-Federal sources. Directs the Foundation to assess particular problems of science and engineering manpower, including teacher shortages and retraining of workers. Requires the Foundation to submit these assessments to the House Committee on Science and Technology and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation before the Presidential budget submission for FY 1984. Establishes a Federal program for university research facilities and science and technical manpower improvement to upgrade academic research for the physical and biological sciences. Authorizes specified Federal agencies to make grants. Directs the Foundation to establish guidelines for agency participation. Requires the Director to submit such guidelines to the aforementioned committees before such budget submission. Requires the Director to report at least annually to such committees. Terminates such program after five years. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983-1987.

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• Reported to House amended, Part II

  summary · EN · 3 December 1982

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 16 September 1982

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