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... Learning throughout an engineer's career involves three general mechanisms: experience on the job; informal learning {reading journals, attending technical meetings, and similar effortsJ; and formal education and training programs. This report is devoted to the formal education and training programs referred to as continuing education, a relatively small but important part of an engineer's career-long deliberate learning process.
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... Neither the institutions nor their faculties have significant incentives to participate in continuing education programs. · Professional societies in recent years have sharply expanded their efforts in continuing education, but they could do much more in designing and presenting professional development programs to their members.
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... Recommendation In addition to the detailed recommendations in the body of this report, the panel has developed from its findings and conclusions the following overriding recommendation: The National Science Foundation (NSFJ or other appropriate organization should undertake a program designed to establish the spectrum of values and objectives of continuing education for individual engineers, industry, and academia and to describe how continuing education could or should operate in the engineering world of tomorrow. Because most universities do not have the resources (and most faculty lack theincentivesJ toproduce qualitycontinuing educationprograms, the NSFproject should examine the impact of industry's assumption of this responsibility.
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