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4. Quality of the Work Force
4. Quality of the Work Force
Pages 28-30
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Industrial decline can have many interrelated causes in addition to inadequate engineering. They include shortsighted management; national priorities that have assigned a large percentage of highly skilled engineers to defense and space programs rather than to industrial production; investment in foreign countries having relatively cheap labor; and many others.
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The conceptual level of that knowledge and, consequently, the complexity of engineering practice also are rising significantly, but at a more moderate rate. Historically, the engineering community has kept pace with the scope and amount of available knowledge through professional literature, computers and technical course work, and by means of its own growth in numbers.
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Opinions of the quality of the engineering work force are varied, as we have seen, and necessarily subjective. Nevertheless, the issue is critical and warrants continuing serious attention.
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