1-Reporte de Unesco sobre la carrera de la Ingeniera Civil
The shortage of engineers is a development hazard. This reduction is jeopardizing the contributions of engineering in matters such as climate change and poverty reduction. This is reflected in the first international report on the state of engineering, recently published by Unesco, under the title Engineering: issues, problems and opportunities for development. With the input of over 120 engineering specialists from around the world, this report aims to serve the information platform to better understand the role of engineering, a highly diverse and ubiquitous activity that is an essential factor in the Humanity Since the invention of the wheel. In many countries there is a shortage of considerable engineers. In Germany there is a serious shortage of engineers in many of its production sectors, while a study in Denmark shows that, by 2020, the labor market of this country in a deficit of 14,000 engineers. Although the number of students in engineering specialties has increased worldwide in absolute terms, the percentages of students enrolled in them are decreasing compared to those observed in other study disciplines. Since the late 1990s, Japan, Norway, the Netherlands and the Republic of Korea have seen a reduction in the number of engineering students ranging from 5% to 10%
Integration of Science and Technology with Development: Caribbean and Latin American Problems in the Context of the United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development