“Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of all federal funding for engineering schools across the country. So the threat was and is real.” ImportantRealCountrySchoolSupportResearchPercentStressThreatDefenseEnormousBudgetsDepartmentEngineeringFunding Author:Charles M. Vest
“My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine.” IfsTryingImportantWarMightFeltSubjectsParticularMedicineUniversityPhysicsLatterEngineeringGlamorousScience Physics Author:John Henry Carver