Tomorrow´s engineer — In preparation

WE HAVE ALL heard much, in the past 2 years, of the present and future shortage of engineers. Many professional and technical societies, including the AIEE, have been actively concerned with studying the problem, and have made specific recommendations to help alleviate this condition. There has been a rather general feeling that we must substantially increase the numbers of graduates to meet more nearly the present demand of industry, which is estimated variously from 30,000 a year up. Such activities are certainly desirable to counteract the previous opinion of the public — that engineering is an overcrowded profession. We in engineering, however, should know more of the problem — should know whether, in fact, we can produce as many graduates as industry requires.