• DocumentCode
    1434361
  • Title

    Are engineers obsolete?

  • Author

    Dunning, J. R.

  • Author_Institution
    School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University
  • Volume
    81
  • Issue
    7
  • fYear
    1962
  • fDate
    7/1/1962 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    501
  • Lastpage
    505
  • Abstract
    The engineering profession faces the loss of its leadership in American technology. Signs of distress are many. School enrollment falls steadily while the most gifted shift to “pure” science. Why? Part of the reason is a revulsion of idealistic youth against the brutality of modern weaponry; part lies in the feeling that technology has, in the main, reached its frontiers. Modern engineering must again become an “art” form, stressing the most fruitful interplay of theory and practice, and must not be afraid of creative improvisation
  • Keywords
    Art; Educational institutions; Electrical engineering; Humans; Insulation; Transformer cores; Weapons;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electrical Engineering
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0095-9197
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/EE.1962.6434339
  • Filename
    6434339