OHIO STEM Call-to-Action Forum Ohio Aerospace Institute Perspectives On STEM

Accelerating Innovation

Michael L. Heil, Ph.D., P.E.

President and CEOOhio Aerospace

[email protected]

(440) 962-3001

OHIO STEM

Call-to-Action Forum

Ohio Aerospace Institute

Perspectives

On STEM

Accelerating Innovation 2

Ohio STEM Call-to-Action ForumThe Ohio Aerospace Institute

October 1-2, 2014

• Video Welcome from Ohio Governor John Kasich

• Video Welcome from Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown


Ohio: The Aerospace State

"The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.“

Bill Gates, CEO, Microsoft Corporation.


The Ohio Aerospace Institute • Private, not-for-profit

501 (c) (3) founded in 1989 • First NASA-associated collaborative

Institute chartered to foster relationships between universities, aerospace industries, and government organizations

• Strong support from: – NASA Glenn Research Center– Wright Patterson Air Force

Base - Air Force Research Laboratory– Ohio research universities – State of Ohio – Aerospace industry

• More than $286M in secured funding • More than 360 federal awards • Revenue $14.5M (FY ’13) • More than 65 employees in two locations

– Cleveland HQ (Adjacent to NASA Glenn) – Dayton – adjacent to Wright-Patterson AFB

OAIDayton


OAI Mission Enhancing our partners’ aerospace

competitiveness through research and technology development, workforce preparedness, and engagement with global networks for innovation and advocacy.

Research & Technology Development

Education & Training

Collaboration + Innovative Solutions


OAI Support for Aerospace Workforce Development

• Ohio Aerospace and Aviation Council• Internships• Scholarships and Fellowships• STEM Education Outreach• Student Project Opportunities• Faculty Engagement• Short Courses• OAI University Membership Program


Air Force Research Laboratory Capstone Program

• University senior engineering students address AFRL-defined technical challenges

• Program designed to improve AFRL Outreach– Identify talented students and faculty for future hiring or

collaboration– Give academia a new perspective on AFRL’s activities and

interests– Find innovative solutions to AFRL problems– Expand AFRL researchers’ scope of experts and

approaches• 14 projects completed/underway to date by University of

Kentucky, Michigan State, Ohio Northern University, Wright State University, Case Western Reserve University, Vanderbilt University, Brigham Young University, others

• www.afrlstudentchallenge.org

OAI STEM Outreach:FIRST Robotics Buckeye Regional

• FIRST Robotics Competition– National initiative

started by inventor Dean Kamen and others

– Engage HS students in intensive 6-week robot build from standard kit, followed by regional/national competition

– Teamwork, problem solving, gracious professionalism• Community partnership with NASA GRC• OAI chairs planning committee and leads fundraising for

this annual event (over $150K raised per year)


OAI STEM Outreach:The Ohio Space Grant Consortium

• 23 Ohio institutions of higher learning– More than $4.1M in scholarships

and fellowships to date • Supports students pursuing degrees in

Science, Technology, Engineering & Math and allied education

• Over 500 undergraduate scholarships awarded since inception

• Over 150 graduate fellowships awarded since inception

• OSGC has touched every Ohio county and Congressional district

• www.osgc.org


STEM: Worrisome Indicators• In 1999, 69% of US 5-8th-grade students received instruction from a

mathematics teacher who did not hold a degree or certification in mathematics.

• 2003 study: Fewer than one-third of US 8th-grade students performed at or above a “proficient” level in mathematics; “proficiency” was considered the ability to exhibit competence with challenging subject matter.

• About one-fifth of the 4th graders and one-third of the 8th graders lacked the competence to perform basic mathematical computations.

• US 15-year-olds ranked 27th out of 39 countries that participated in a 2003 administration of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) examination, which assessed students’ ability to apply mathematical concepts to real-world problems.

• The proportion of bachelor's degrees in physics to total degrees awarded was twice as high the year before Sputnik, deemed a time of dangerous educational neglect, as in 2004

• In 2001, US industry spent more on tort litigation than on research

Note: As reported in Rise Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future, The National Academies Press, 2005


More Worrisome Indicators• 52% of PhD Engineers in the US workforce under 45 are

foreign born– Security clearance issues

• Percentage of undergraduate degrees in science and engineering:– Germany: 36%– China: 59%– Japan: 66%– USA: 32%

• Engineers graduated in 2004:– China: 500,000– India: 200,000– USA: 70,000

Note: As reported in Rise Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future, The National Academies Press, 2005


Another Worrisome Indicator:

For every Ph.D. graduate in the physical sciences, the USA produces 50 MBAs and 18 lawyers.

Source: Forbes, 6/7/10


To maintain world leadership in aerospace, America must attract our best and brightest young minds to STEM education and aerospace• Aerospace is a high-tech enterprise

– A quality STEM education is essential for aerospace leaders• Aerospace is not a mature industry in decline- the best days of

aerospace are ahead of us, not behind– Explosive growth in commercial aviation: Airlines will need over

34,000 airplanes valued at $4.8 Trillion between now and 2033– Quiet supersonic business jets– Supersonic and hypersonic intercontinental travel– Global connectivity- cargo, people, information– Energy solutions– Understand our planet

• Environment, weather, climate change, agriculture…– Understand and explore our universe– Move beyond our planet– Safe, reliable, affordable, routine access to space


Final Thoughts

• Engineering is the heart of aerospace

– “Scientists study the world as it is, engineers create the world that never has been” Dr. Theodore Von Karman

– “If you list the top problems that America has to deal with- the environment, energy, national security, homeland security, the economy, water supplies, and to some degree health care, the answers are going to come from engineers, not lawyers, bankers or accountants.” Norm Augustine, AWST, May 11, 2009

• America’s aerospace enterprise will require educated, STEM literate employees.

• Education is the key… We must appeal to the sense of wonder and capture our youth’s interest at an early age.


How to Succeed in Business: Get an Engineering Degree

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“The most common educational background of CEOs in the S&P 500 companies … the nation’s most successful, most powerful corporations …

is not business, it’s not finance, it’s not economics—it’s actually engineering.”

President ObamaWhite House Science Fair

October 2010


Recommendations

• Get Involved – First Robotics– Science Fairs– Mentoring, role model

• Speak up– Op Eds, letters to the editor, articles– Talks to schools, Rotaries, community groups…

• Stand tall- be proud of the aerospace community and what it has done (and will do) to improve the world

• “Troops to teachers” model– Get retired aerospace professionals into K-12

classrooms to teach STEM disciplines


Michael L. Heil, Ph.D., P.E.

President and CEOOhio Aerospace

[email protected]

(440) 962-3001

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Ohio Aerospace Institute

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On STEM

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