3068507
Engineering
Cultures
- British
model
- Public
Schools
- focus on
classical
literature
- Lack of
technical
training
- Finniston
Report
- need for improved
standards for
engineers
- Better
accreditation and
licensing
- More government
led incentives
- More theoretical education
- Diversification of education, goal to produce
more well rounded engineers
- Leads to Engineering Technical Standard, 2003
- need for improved
standards for
engineers
- Samuelson Committee
- "relationship between industrial decline
and lack of adequate technical education"
- "relationship between industrial decline
and lack of adequate technical education"
- Finniston
Report
- Accessible
to
wealthy
only
- Class division Rich vs Poor
- focus on
classical
literature
- apprenticeships
- more hands on, lack of
respect due to "look" of
manual labor
- Specialized in one
field, very early on
- more hands on, lack of
respect due to "look" of
manual labor
- Public
Schools
- French model
- Pre-French Revolution 1789
- Ancien regime
- clergy
- nobelmen
- third etat
- clergy
- Corps des Pointes et Chausses 1716
- Ecole Polytechnique
- Grand Ecoles
- Limited access to poor and foreigners
- Technical methods, pure mathematics
- Technical methods, pure mathematics
- Ecole Centrales des Artes et Manufactures
- Even higher tuitions
- more industrial orientation
- entrance exams less strict
- second tier
- Even higher tuitions
- Ecoles d"Arts et Metiers
- third tier
- artisans, mechanics,
supply of mechanical
engineers
- not recognized as
engineers until twentieth
century
- not recognized as
engineers until twentieth
century
- third tier
- Three tiers create class structure within fields
- Limited access to poor and foreigners
- Grand Ecoles
- Ecole Polytechnique
- Ancien regime
- Technocracy
- Big ideas more acceptable to
public (Nuclear power in France)
- Big ideas more acceptable to
public (Nuclear power in France)
- Less emphasis on sciences, labs
- Pre-French Revolution 1789
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