Audio‐visual engineering training

Abstract

I have been a University teacher of Engineering for thirty years, and I cannot recall any previous time when more interest was being shown in the whole business of technical education than there is now. To some extent this is due to the ever‐quickening rate of technological change. It is not so long ago that a technician or an engineer in the Western World could complete his education and training in his early twenties, in the confident expectation that he would then be equipped to deal with the technical problems likely to arise in most, if not all, of his career. Changes and innovations there would be, to be sure, but these could be assimilated in the normal course of professional develop‐ment. The current position is entirely different. Within the span of a single lifetime, technological development may sweep away whole areas of existing practice and replace them with new concepts scarcely imaginable during the educational period of those most directly affected.

Citation

Markland, E. (1980), "Audio‐visual engineering training", Education + Training, Vol. 22 No. 7, pp. 222-224. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb016758