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3. The Role of Industry
3. The Role of Industry
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{Whether to include in this definition advanced degree programs, in which one may enroll after finishing formal education and entering industry, presents something of a quandary. Some education of this type meets the criteria for continuing education, and some is intended strictly to complete a formal process of education.
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· Providing appropriate lifelong educational experiences for engineers at the workplace requires close collaboration among engineering schools, industry, and professional societies. · The development of lifelong education for working engineers and the creation of the necessary supporting environment at the workplace will require the leadership and personal attention of top executives in industry and in academia.
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One conclusion that can be drawn from the data is that companies' programs and their goals vary greatly, although there is common agreement that training must improve job performance and be efficient and flexible. Types of Programs Significant company programs of continuing education for engineers that have been reported in the literature are discussed below.
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Most of its educational programs are organized on company time, and the corporation is committed to providing an environment that supports personal growth and learning, which includes discussion programs such as the familiar Great Books course. In addition, the Systems ResearchInstitute, in New York City, offers graduatelevel education programs in the computer sciences.
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All courses are offered on company time. Texas Instruments' continuing technical education programs have been designed for the specific benefit of employees with at least 10 years of service with the company.
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Goals andAssessments Company education programs vary from those that have been totally developed internally to those that depend solely on outside courses. Based on the goals and objectives of the programs, each scheme has merit, but it is difficult to compare them by means of any objective measurement.
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conducted a longitudinal study of the relationship of participation in continuing education to job performance of 110 engineers in three different organizations. His data show that the number of graduate-level courses taken early in a career strongly related to job performance in research and development environments only.
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Current developments in continuing education in specific industries, the relationships developed between industry and universities to provide continuing education, and some attempts to measure effectiveness have also been discussed. In each case the major conclusion is that without clearly
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The panel decided, therefore, to determine how corporate leaders who have already subscribed to large continuing education programs within their companies view some of its values and how they see their educational programs being integrated into the corporate culture in long-range and short-range business plans. The Pilot Study The model used for continuing education in this report {see Chapter 1)
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3. The continuing education programs that seem most successful are those that are developed with a clear commitment to the company's Objectives.
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Research must be initiated to develop tools for linking continuing education to the performance of engineers and for evaluating the impact of continuing education programs on the competitiveness of the organization.
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