TAMU will soon offer a new and
ique doctoral program oriented
the actual practice of engineer-
!g, rather than research.
“Changes in engineering in the
ars since World War II and the
inlands of a technologically
iented economy have brought en-
neering education to a cros-
oads," said Engineering Dean
ed J. Benson.
“The engineering profession is
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nternship replaces dissertation
Engineering doctorate to stress the practical
under attack for its failure to antici
pate the effects of its products and
processes on the environment and
on society,” Benson said.
“There is a need for engineering
graduates trained to consider these
matters.”
To better meet the needs for en
gineers to perform in the industrial,
political and social arenas, the Col
lege of Engineering of TAMU will
begin accepting students in a new
doctor of engineering program this
September.
Educators at TAMU think it’s
time to bring engineering education
into focus. They say engineering
graduates have been too narrow, in
terested only in technical problems.
A team of TAMU administrators
and professors have set out to end
this with the new program for stu
dents interested in the professional
practice of engineering application
and design. The program combines
engineering courses with business
management and other courses
needed by the practicing engineer
to solve a multitude of problems in
our society.
“The emphasis of the program
will be on complex engineering
problem solving, rather than re
search. In addition to the academic
program with breadth in engineer
ing, business and professional
courses, we’ve included a one-year
engineering internship in industry
or government, instead of a disser
tation,” Dean Benson explained.
“The talents of these graduates
will be applied broadly in their
selected field of engineering, Gen.
J. F. Thorlin, a member of the plan
ning team, said. “They will have a
depth of knowledge in all critical
phases of their field of engineering:
the managerial—the legal—the
financial—and the technical. They
will be equally at home in the Board
Room or out on the job site with
craftsmen and technicians. They
will be able to communicate with
personnel at any level, grasp their
problems and recommend in un
derstandable terms the most practi
cal solutions.”
The program is based on recom
mendations made by top industry
executives who have beqn in indus-
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try for up to 50 years. The goal is to
lay the rudiments of 30 years of ex
perience in the mind of each
graduate. The idea is to produce
more engineers who are available
for complex tasks earlier in their
lifetime. These same people will be
able to advance fester because they
are better equipped to meet the
challenges. The longer program is
one way to give students the added
knowledge they need.
A committee member. Professor
Edwin S. Holdredge explained,
“Essentially the degree will require
two years of college level pre
professional education plus four
years of professional training topped
by a year internship in engineering
work.”
“It’s unique,” he said. “There’s
nothing exactly like it in the coun
try. It’s more relevant to the needs
of industry today and tomorrow.”
Lime run
road rally
set tonight
A “lime run” rally will follow the
Texas A&M Sports Car Club meet
ing Wednesday at the old College
Station City Hall.
TAMSCC President Bill Wil
liams said the meeting starts at 7:30
p. m. The lime run, a simplified type
rally, will start immediately after
ward. Rally entry is 50 cents per
team, and visitors are welcome to
participate.
In a lime run, printed instruc
tions are replaced with spots of lime
on the roadway for competing teams
to follow. The team, of driver and
navigator, that most skillfully fol
lows the correct route wins.
The event follows public roads
with all traffic regulations in force.
Lime runs usually cover about 40
miles, but a lost team may go farther
so a full gas tank is a must, Williams
said.
Other requirements are an
odometer, normal safety equipment
for night driving, including seat
belts and functional lights and good
tires.
Vocational
education
developed
A project headed by Dr. G. Dale
Gutcher, Industrial Education pro
fessor at TAMU, will develop a
framework for structuring coopera
tive vocational education program,
for students at TAMU.
Gutcher said the project will in
volve personnel and students of
several Texas community colleges
with cooperative programs.
In cooperative vocational educa
tion, a student attends classes half a
day and gets on-the-job skill experi
ence the other half.
“The value of the cooperative
program is that the student gains
general knowledge from classroom
work,” Gutcher said, “and, in the
economically depressed com
munities, acquires working skills
without the expense of equipped
technical training programs.”
Gutcher’s research will involve a
series of special tests to determine
the effectiveness of occupational
skills development. Comparisons
will be made between structured
and unstructured cooperative ex
perience programs.
Eight students each at four com
munity colleges will be given 64
tests of the National Occupational
Competency Testing Program, cur
rently administered by the Educa
tion Testing Service.
An industrial education graduate
assistant, Delman Thompson, a re
tired Air Force officer, will assist
Gutcher with the project.
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