Some high lights in the evolution of electrical-engineering education

THE CITATION that the Edison Medal committee has so graciously joined with my name couples engineering education with engineering practice. That never before has been done explicitly in an Edison Medal citation. Indeed the phrase “engineering education” never before has been used in such a citation. The use here seems to me significant of the present relation in the field of electrical engineering, where education and practice are now recognized as complementary parts of one whole; and it turns me to the theme of engineering education, to the exclusion (at this time) of directly discussing the science and art of electric-power practice which is the conjoined part of the citation.