Making Engineering Appealing to the Next Generation

Engineering faces a challenge in appealing to the next generation.   Young people see other career fields as either contributing more to the health and welfare of their communities, or providing comparable compensation with less effort.  Drawing on his personal background, ASEE Executive Director Norman L. Fortenberry will highlight the challenges and opportunities that were presented to him as indicative of the types of challenges faced by many others, draw general lessons about key challenges facing engineering educators, and discuss the importance of engineering playing a leading role in pre-college education.

Speaker // Norman Fortenberry

Dr. Norman L. Fortenberry is the executive director of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), a global society of individual, institutional, and corporate members founded in 1893. ASEE advances innovation, excellence, and access at all levels of education for the engineering profession. ASEE is broadly concerned with instruction, research, public service, professional practice, and societal awareness. Previously, Fortenberry served as the founding Director of the Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education (CASEE) at the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). He served in various executive roles at the National Science Foundation (NSF) including as senior advisor to the NSF Assistant Director for Education and Human Resources and as director of the divisions of undergraduate education and human resource development. Fortenberry has also served as executive director of the National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science, Inc. (The GEM Consortium) and as a faculty member in the department of mechanical engineering at the Florida A&M University – Florida State University College of Engineering. Dr. Fortenberry was awarded the S.B., S.M., and Sc.D. degrees (all in mechanical engineering) by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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