The industrial training content of the Electrical Engineering stream of the Imperial College four-year ‘enhanced’ engineering degree course, leading to B. Eng., is described. The component parts, practical and academic, of the pre-university year in industry are dealt with in some detail and possible variations between them discussed.
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