Funds for study of engineering education

The Carnegie Corporation on October 30th set aside the sum of $108,000 “for the purpose of making possible a study of engineering education under the direction of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education” to be available during the next three years. This realizes a project which has been developing with the Society during the past year and a half. A Development Committee was initially appointed to formulate an answer to the question, “What can the Society do in a comprehensive way to develop, broaden and enrich engineering education?” The Committee recommended the appointment of a Board for conducting an active campaign for the promotion of engineering in the light of the needs of the future as these needs may be developed. A general plan was proposed in which the engineering schools and engineering societies would be called upon to take an active part. The plan was submitted to the schools and received cordial endorsement. The project was then presented to Dr. Henry S. Pritchett of the Carnegie Corporation under whose direction a former study of engineering education was undertaken. This, was the outcome of a movement inaugurated by the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education continued by a joint committee from various societies in which the A. I. E. E. was represented; the result was the Report by Dr. C. R. Mann, issued five years ago.