Engineering education

FOR THE PAST several years there has been considerable discussion concerning the 5-year engineering curriculum, and during that time several schools have adopted such a curriculum. The proposal to be presented in this article is a suggested alternative to the 5-year curriculum, and it is believed that it overcomes certain disadvantages of such a curriculum — namely, the stereotyping of the cultural subjects into such a mass-production plan that enthusiasm would be stifled for a majority of the students who might relish the opportunity of studying some cultural subjects.