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6 The Doctor's Degree
6 The Doctor's Degree
Pages 83-92
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These experts command high starting salaries in industry relative to academia and are often given challenging assignments with access to the most modern facilities and equipment. Regarding the nature and purpose of a doctoral program, the Council of Graduate Schools in the United States has stated: s3 The doctoral program is designed to prepare a student for a lifetime of intellectual inquiry that manifests itself in creative scholarship and research, often leading to careers in social, governmental, business, and industrial organizations as well as the more traditional careers in university and college teaching.
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degree by the Council of Graduate Schools does not specify a foreign language requirement, and in fact scarcely mentions the topic.s3 Graduate schools generally require two years in residence for doctoral programs, in order to provide an appropriate degree of studentfaculty interaction and supervision of the thesis research. The result of the residence requirement is usually that a candidate must forgo fulltime employment and become a full-time student.
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However, data collected by the National Research Council show that the average "registered" time between these two degrees for engineers is 5.8 years, and the average total elapsed time is 7.5 to 7.9 years;~4 i5 These periods of time are greater than the minimum time, because few graduate students proceed directly from the baccalaureate to the doctor's degree with unbroken full-time study. There is often a period of employment before graduate school; also, doctoral students are frequently employed on a part-time basis by their universities as postgraduate researchers or as teaching assistants; furthermore, students often are required to take course work beyond the minimum in order to fill in gaps in their backgro~ds; and, finally, there is the classic reason, which is that the thesis takes longer than expected.
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Engineenng College Research and Graduate Study, Engineenng Education, March 1984. data in these categories, and in other cases the data did not match the totals given for the entire engineering school; in such cases, N/A {"not available" ~ is shown.
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Provision will need to be made also for major upgrading in research equipment, coming in part from the research contracts themselves. A different approach to this same topic may be taken by examining research support data for the Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation.
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For graduate students, in addition to classrooms and support facilities there is a substantial need for research laboratories. For one research university, the University of California, the space standards provide for 200 square feet of laboratory space per graduate student, and 300 square feet of lab space per faculty member, plus another 220 square feet of office and clerical support space per faculty member.
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The-traditions of the National Science Foundation have been productive for the sponsorship of academic research in engineering, although other government agencies have also found effective ways to sponsor academic research within their operating guidelines. Increased emphasis on engineering research within the National Science Foundation, a process that is already occurring, would be a strong stimulus toward the objectives outlined in this report.
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Increased emphasis OF engineering research within the National Science Foundation is strongly encouraged.
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