Diversity in engineering: managing the workforce of the future

On October 29-30, 2001, the National Academy of Engineering Committee on Diversity in the Engineering Workforce brought together representatives of corporations that have been recognized for their successful diversity programs and members of the NAE Forum on Diversity to participate in a workshop entitled ''Best Practices in Managing Diversity''. The purpose of the workshop was to identify and describe corporate programs that have successfully recruited, retained, and advanced women and minorities in engineering careers and to discuss metrics by which to evaluate diversity programs.