Chairman´s corner IEEE SAC

A friend, the dean of a medical school, explains the order of education in his field as, “We have to teach them to cut before we can teach them to sew.” We all have such constraints. Engineering, in particular, is tightly structured — as we are reminded during every registration period. We must fit together mathematics, physical sciences, engineering sciences, and engineering design courses, all in the proper sequence. Every profession passes on some body of knowledge — how to do what members of that profession do — that forms the basis of the professional school in the university. For engineers, this process continues well beyond school, probably over the entire lifetime of the engineer.