Abstract:During these stressful economic times, institutions of higher learning are getting less of their budgets from gifts, in the case of private institutions, and less from their state legislatures, in the case of public institutions. The solution to this problem is for programs to get funding from alternate sources. Sources can include grants from government and private sources, patent royalties by the faculty, and grants from foundations. Due to their contacts with industry, engineering and engineering technology… Show more
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