Abstract
This paper sets out the increasing need for broadly based training and engineering practice in the whole spectrum of modern industry.
It indicates the breadth of requirements required: first, in the design of the product itself, both for functional and production suitability; secondly, that needed for the physical arrangements for manufacture; thirdly, that required in the complex business of administration and control of production, and finally, that required for the effective sale and distribution of the product.
It underlines the need that the basic training will ensure adequate sympathy and interplay in these fields and that specialization should be in ultimate practices rather than basic training.
It deals with the dual responsibilities of the academic and industrial sides of education and the necessity for the effective means by which the industrial part of training can be validated with the same authority as can be achieved in the academic field.
It concludes with the plea that every effort must be made during the period of training to encourage those who may be gifted in the fields of innovation and change, whether these be inventions of mechanical contrivances, or the development of new methods and means in production or management.
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