Co‐operative Engineering Education in the US

Abstract

“The College of Engineering puts the utmost premium on the development of your intellectual powers and your creative imagination, rather than on the learning of information, valuable though this may be. The faculty will encourage and assist you to: 1. think in terms of fundamental principles 2. recognise the “problem” and isolate it from unnecessary information 3. acquire self‐confidence through the statement and solution of increasingly complex problems 4. study and learn by yourself 5. develop and exercise your creative imagination 6. absorb and practise the concepts of professionalism Because an engineering education teaches you to search out the truth, to think clearly, and to formulate conclusions based upon a solid foundation of fact, engineers are being called upon more and more to occupy positions of responsibility in the management of our great industrial enterprises. Even in such diverse fields as banking, public health, and public administration, the so‐called engineering approach is in demand.”

Citation

Finnigan, J. (1961), "Co‐operative Engineering Education in the US", Education + Training, Vol. 3 No. 7, pp. 10-13. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb015000