Educating knowledge engineers on knowledge acquisition

Even though many universities are offering programs in knowledge engineering, it´s a rarity that a course on knowledge acquisition is included in the knowledge engineering curriculum content. At George Washington University, a course on knowledge acquisition is required as part of the Master of Science program in Applied Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems. This paper describes the need for more university courses on knowledge acquisition, which then can contribute to improving the state-of-the-art in expert systems development