Engineering profession education

As the engineering profession developed in the nineteenth century, and its major institutions and educational frameworks were established, a number of groups advocated the cause of engineering science . The Gentlemen of Science of the British Association s early years saw engineering science as a way to institute hierarchical control over engineering by physical scientists, and even by gentlemen whose liberal education included mechanical science. Their representations... 

Davisy [in the] Manchester Lectures thirty years before the coining of the term, presented the essential concept of unit operations, and particularly an understanding of its value for educators that Davis must be given full credit for the initiation of the modem chemical engineering profession that Nortons curriculum was differentiating between the chemistry of an industry which is always specific to that industry on the one handy and the mechanical and physical operations common to many industries on the other (8),... 

Nguyen, D. and Pudlowski, Z. (2007). Issues and challenges in engineering education and future outlook of the engineering profession in Australia, Monash University Research Publications. 

Social Justice and the Engineering Profession Challenging Engineering Education to Move Beyond the Technical... 

Proposal 3 Working closely with industry and professional societies, higher education should establish graduate professional schools of engineering that would offer practice-based degrees at the post-baccalaureate level as the entry degree into the engineering profession... 

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