Adequacy and standards of engineering education

THE AIM OF THIS report is to present, at least in spirit, the impressions of the committee concerning the adequacy of present-day engineering education and observations relating to what it estimates to be the standards employed by the engineering schools. Any attempt to appraise the present position of engineering education is destined to cause a certain amount of misunderstanding, due largely to the attitude of the reader at the time, and the impression the words convey in the climate provided by that attitude. Specific statements are often too limiting when taken literally, and generalizations are often too vague. An endeavor has been made, however, to present for consideration the committee´s views on the present situation with the hope that, though brief and at times oversimplified and specific, the main observations will be accepted in their intended perspective.