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1 The Challenge
Pages 4-7

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... "Statement on the Engineering Mission of the NSF Over the Next Decade as Adopted by the National Science Board at Its 246th Meeting on august 18-19, 1983.] With the appearance of this external challenge, a challenge of another kind was manifesting itself, namely, the accelerating pace of technological development, which poses new problems vis-a-vis the appropriate education of scientists and engineers, especially at the graduate level.
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From page 5...
... The entire design and manufacturing process is being transformed into a substantially automated activity, and methods of conducting business are being~revolutionized by the advent of electronic mail. Interestingly, the rapid advance in computer capabilities has also stimulated experimental research, because our ability to model natural phenomena on a computer has in some cases outrun our knowledge of nature itself.
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... Nuclear engineers are presently dealing with the statistics of highly improbable events; this implies a kind of mathematics not found on the conventional graduate student course menu. Nuclear engineering education faces the additional problems of scarcity of graduate students who are U.S.
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From page 7...
... Several common themes emerge from the foregoing descriptions of new areas in important engineering disciplines and their impact on graduate education, namely: · the importance of large-scale computation and the resultant problems for academic institutions, · rapid advances in available (usually expensive instrumentation arid its importance for experimental work and model validation, and · the significance of interdisciplinary research and instruction et the forefront of many of these fields. Funding for computers and instrumentation must be found, whether through government or private sources, and in some fields only regional or national entities can possibly address the problem.
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