Modeling Student Interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math

BHEF Vice Chair and Raytheon Chairman and CEO Bill Swanson commissioned teams of Raytheon engineers to create a tool to help policymakers, educators, and researchers better understand the complex nature of the U.S. education system and identify potential solutions that could help the nation strengthen its leadership in STEM. With the assistance of BHEF and other experts, Raytheon engineers developed a prototype systems dynamics model.

 

These Raytheon teams identified a number of promising approaches to test their potential for increasing the number of STEM-capable students and the number of STEM college graduates. In the next phase of the work, Raytheon will partner with BHEF, its members, and others on further model development, testing, refinement and analysis, and transition the model to open source use for the public.

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