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2. Forces Affecting the Engineering Community
2. Forces Affecting the Engineering Community
Pages 13-20
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External Influences Some of the major external factors influencing the engineering community include { 1 ) the supply of and demand for engineering students and graduates isee Appendix By, {2)
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Additional supply factors include the available educational resources and the standards of quality for admission to and retention in engineering courses of study. The extent to which the engineering community assimilates individuals who do not have engineering degrees and retains those with engineering degrees or equivalent experience continues to affect the demand for .
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For example, cold and hot wars and peace and disarmament all have major implications for the work activities of the engineering community. And issues such as environmental protection, world energy supplies, national defense, industrial productivity, space exploration, transportation, communications, health, and agricultural productivity continue to be major societal concerns that can generate demands on the resources of the engineering community.
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Its ambivalence about the role of engineering technologists can be seen in the efforts by some engineering societies to exclude technologists from engineering organizations and to minimize their voice in regard to science, engineering, and technology. Perhaps the most important internal factors affecting the engineering community are its own actions, primarily through the engineering societies, to define the community, to influence standards for credentialing, to set standards for education and ethical standards for practice, and to guide young people into engineering careers.
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These changes are also carried into the industrial environment. {The biggest subgroup within the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers [IEEEJ is the computer society, certainly an expression of the increasing computer content in this profession's activities.J It would lie a serious omission, therefore, if we did not consider tasks related to computer systems as engineering activities, their products as engineering designs, and their practitioners as part of the engineering community.
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· The engineering community will become more sensitive to the rapid developments that are taking place in computer science, information systems, industrial technologies, and other related disciplines. Those disciplines are developing curricula and training programs as well as career development programs independent of the engineering community.
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· Increasingly, undergraduate engineering education will become a new form of general education for a technological age. Engineering education and the engineering community will face growing inside pressures for improvements in basic and engineering science education as well as in design and practice.
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These will range from two-year associate degree engineering technician and four-year bachelor's of engineering technology programs through bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree engineering programs to advanced and professional degree programs in science and management. Mobility between and within engineering-related disciplines will continue to increase.
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