• DocumentCode
    1236396
  • Title

    The Essential Focus of Engineering Education-The Individual Student

  • Author

    Balabanian, Norman

  • Volume
    12
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1969
  • fDate
    3/1/1969 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    This paper presents the radical view that training manpower to satisfy the needs of industry or government is not the purpose of engineering education. Rather, the focus is the individual student, his needs, his development, his fulfillment. Often the needs of the individual are not compatible with the needs of the corporation or of government; in such cases the latter should yield. The curriculum should be designed with this outlook.
  • Keywords
    Appraisal; Educational institutions; Educational programs; Engineering education; Government; Humans; Industrial training; Sociology; Waste materials;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Education, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9359
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TE.1969.4320430
  • Filename
    4320430