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5. Resilience of the Work Force
5. Resilience of the Work Force
Pages 31-33
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The engineering community appears to have reacted with relative dispatch in both cases. On-the whole, it can be argued that in no instance since World War II have deficiencies in the quantity or quality of the engineering effort constrained the development of new, high-priority technologies for technically based programs or the application of new or existing technologies; social, political, and economic factors have posed far more serious constraints.
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Both companies and individual engineers can become technologically obsolescent. Engineering schools update their programs and curriculums in response to academic and industrial R&D that produces significant changes in technology, but the process is protracted and has little immediate effect on the engineering work force.
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In today's fastpaced, worldwide competition, however, it is increasingly recognized that a technological edge is a prerequisite for the development of successful products and services. In view of their need to do continuously useful work today, technological obsolescence for engineers must be recognized as a problem.
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