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Appendix A: Pilot Study for a Survey of Policymakers' Attitudes...
Appendix A: Pilot Study for a Survey of Policymakers' Attitudes...
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The questions it contains are based on discussions of the National Research Council's Panel on Continuing Education and the Committee on Education and Utilization of Engineers. The Panel's interest lies in field testing the protocol to determine if a formal survey of values is feasible and will yield useful information.
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The target for interviews are chief executive officers or an executive with primary responsibility for policy and resources bearing on career development of engineers. It is especially important to the Panel that this level of general ~nanagement, as opposed to human resources staff, be addressed.
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Item 4 is predicated on the idea that the CEO'S values about education stem partly from professional experience. Items 5 and 6 address the issue of how technical change and human resources development are recognized explicitly in policy and planning, on the assumption that such recognition is important at times.
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Engineers and Their Expertise A variety of studies on technical obsolescence of engineers have been issued by universities such as MIT and by national commissions. Most maintain that obsolescence is a problem because of the rapid rate of technical and scientific innovation.
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To what extent do you believe that the productivity of the company's engineers depends on their technical currency? Explain: If you had to summarize your belief about the claim that engineers' productivity depends heavily on technical currency on a scale from 1 to 5, how would you rate it?
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CareerPaths Prefer not Believe it to ratestrongly Career paths of engineers vary a great deal from one company to another and within companies, of course. The company's role in structuring career paths in each varies, too.
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Why are they important? How are they related to assuring technical health of the company and technical currency of engineers?
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Interviewer Name Company Name Phone Document 4: Information for Policymakers Information about this effort will be provided to the policymaker you've identified as a respondent in two forms. First, a formal letter will be sent to the individual from the Panel.
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The Pilot Survey is a small field test of an interview protocol. The protocol is designed to determine whether and how well we can obtain information about top management views of continuing education for engineers.
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A The test is being undertaken as part of a larger research project of the National Research Council's Committee on Engineering Education and Utilization.
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If the information produced in the pilot test is a reasonable characterization of top management views and helps to understand values about when, how, and why continuing education may be important, then a formal survey with a large sample will be considered by the Panel. Will r~.~,lt~ of the pilot test be made available to interviewers or to Q _ ~ executive level policymakers?
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