Use of engineering talent is subject of white house release

In July the President released a report entitled “Toward Better Utilization of Scientific and Engineering Talent.” The report is one requested by President Kennedy in 1962, through his Science Advisor, because of increasing concern as to whether the technical manpower base was adequate to meet the Nation´s complex needs. These questions arose particularly from three related considerations — manpower requirements for a rapidly growing Federal research and development enterprise, especially for the space effort; the Soviet Union´s production of engineers with Ph.D. and B.S. degrees at a rate much greater than that of the United States; and the decline in U.S. enrollments in engineering schools.