Impacts of electronics on engineering education

The all-important contribution of electrical engineering education has been to build up a professional group whose technical ideology is that of analytical thoroughness and correctness in detail, all in one extremely significant, yet very restricted, area of applied science. This thoroughness of training has achieved depth with great success. The advent of electronics, however, demands a broader outlook. Having achieved depth in the past, the engineering schools will be compelled by the impacts of electronics to achieve breadth in the future, and they must find a way to do so without sacrificing the strength to be found in depth.