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5. The Role of Professional Societies
5. The Role of Professional Societies
Pages 56-61
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National Society of Professional Engineers ASPEN Discussion centered on the following: · the role of professional societies in continuing education; · their means of listing current continuing education programs and the effectiveness of such means; · the gathering of program statistics; 56
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Clearly, professional societies can do more to anticipate trends in technology and build them into continuing education programs based on modern delivery techniques. While conventional delivery methods {e.g., conferences, proceedings, courses, and trade shows)
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Examples of such sources include the following: · industry driven by critical needs; · standing committees' recognition of changes in technology and engineering and, therefore, in the needs of peers; · discipline-oriented special committees; · multidisciplinary and multisociety groups; · academic, governmental, or industrial R&D grants and outputs; and · targeted basic scientific or applied individual or joint research projects. Although these six sources provide the bulk of continuing education programs, they are augmented by various forms of cooperation involving professional societies, industry, academia, and government.
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, the panel sought the following information: · profile analyses of member groups to which programs are directed; · how member needs are determined; · how industrial needs for engineering knowledge are determined; · data on how well needs are being met; · data on programs within industry, academia, professional societies, and government; · future trends in technology and the economy; · listings of gaps in societies' programs, their seriousness, and contemplated corrective measures; · evaluation of the adequacy of present delivery systems for members; and · plans for programs to make cost-effective use of newer delivery technologies E.g., teleconferencing via satellite, video/audio tapes, mobile teaching units, computer-assisted education, and computer home instruction)
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Professional Societies Today Much of the content of this report was already known or suspected by the members of professional society staffs who met in Tanuary 1984. All of them are intimately concerned with professional development, continuing education, and the necessary program development and delivery.
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Recommendation A focused, integrated study should be made of activities and needs in programs of continuing education developed by professional societies. Particular emphasis should be placed on: jlJ early warning of technological advances by the modern means of quick delivery of continuing education; `2J computerization of member profiles and technology data banks; t3J knowledge of the extent of multidisciplinary and multisociety cooperation in program development and delivery; ~4J less costly and more efficient program development and delivery; and ~5J the extent of society, academic, industrial, and governmental cooperation in raising the level of professional competence.
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