| Journal Call no. | TA1.H6 |
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| Author | Wong, Samuel. |
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| Article Title | General engineering degrees / Samuel Wong. |
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| Is Part Of | Asia engineer : the journal of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers ; v.24, no.1, Jan 1996, p.48, illus. |
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| Abstract | A decade ago the British Engineering Council devised a syllabus for a general engineering degree. Professor Alan Sim recommends a national curriculum for engineering degrees. His proposal is that engineering undergraduate courses should be restructured around a common national engineering syllabus designed to cover all the fundamental areas of science encountered in the major engineering disciplines. Specialist research and training should only be carried out at post-graduate level, producing multi-skilled engineers with a common technical language. In this article, the author asks: Is this an area where Hong Kong should show the initiative and go it alone? Should we be the first to have a national policy to produce general multi-skilled engineers? It would require great entrepreneurial co-operation between the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, the universities and industry and why not? Hong Kong is noted for this kind of approach. |
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