The Positive Sum Strategy Harnessing Technology for Economic Growth (1986) / Chapter Skim
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I was asked originally to discuss engineering education; however, just as the world of economics has more participants than economists, so does technology have more participants than engineers. Hence, this chapter discusses technological education in a broader sense, although it focuses on the edllcation of engineers since Heirs is a leadership role.
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considerations in engineering practice." Finally, there must be at least ~/z year in the humanities and social sciences, not counting subjects like ROTC or language-skills courses. Economics is especially mentioned as an appropriate subject in the social sciences.
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E Howland, The engineer in industry and government, Engineering Education, March 1966:237-259.
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TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN JAPAN Japan is the formidable competitor of the United States in technological innovation, economic grown, and success win manufactured products in He world marketplace The recent success of Japan in world markets for high technology products has been a matter of study and concern in the United States; since the era * Engineenng degrees granted, 1983, Engineering Education 74 (Apnl 1984)
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Of course there are over aspects of Japanese competition win He United States that do not derive from engineering education, nor can Hey be overcome Trough engineering education alone. For instance, in Japan Here has been much better cooperation among labor, industry, and government, evidently built on a national consensus to succeed in He international marketplace.
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Unfortunately, the supply is greatly influenced by the positive or negative impressions gained by young people and Heir parents from the newspapers as to the apparent future need of society for engineers. There is a special problem at the present time in the United States.
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industry and our total society utilize fewer engineering graduates than does Japan, where there are twice as many engineering graduates per capita, and where the percentage of bachelor's graduates majoring in engineering is several times higher than in the United States. There is currently a force in the United States opposing any change, a small but strident group in the engineering profession who say that we should not increase the number of engineering graduates, that an increase in supply would merely drive salaries down.
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I think we need many more people in our society who have had an analytical, rigorous cumculum preferably in We application of science to society, which typifies the best of engineering education. In conclusion, I would say that we face a future with more pervasive, more complex technology, with tools quite beyond the capacity of the user to comprehend in detail, let alone to make for himself.
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