Engineering positions open, filling them is problem
By JOHN LOVEKIN
Finding employees to fill jobs is becoming a major problem in the engineering field.
While the demand for engineers continues to grow, the supply seems to grow smaller. At least this is the view held by Richard Frazier, Wellington junior, in his essay "The Necessary Two-Way Street."
The basis of the problem seems to be that the college educational system is not "producing enough products to meet the consumers' demand."
FRAZIER WRITES, according to a study being made by Charles J. Baer, professor of engineering and architecture, the number of entering freshmen into engineering continues to decrease by the time of graduation.
The conclusions of Baer's study serves to emphasize one important point which is the low supply of graduating engineers could be attributed to the drastic number of students who fall by the wayside during their first two years.
One of the solutions, writes Frazier, is for the engineering department to take a necessary interest in students by various courses and methods of instruction specially designed for freshman engineers.
"The term necessary is appropriate because the engineering department at KU maintains virtually no contact with their students until the second half of their sophomore year at the earliest. But just as important is to give the freshman sufficient enthusiasm."
Frazier writes the student
needs "drive" to get him over "the first two year hump when the embryo engineer is struggling through the drudgery of basic math, physics, and static problems."
There is also a need for actual contact "with the various aspects of the individual's major field. He should be exposed to dynamic and actual processes rather (than) merely movies, static wind-tunnels and non-running combustion engines."
In concluding, Frazier writes,
"At least one remedy is to have
Research head hurt in crash
John W. Rouse, co-ordinator of the CRES program in the electrical engineering department, was injured in a car accident last night at 6th and Indiana streets.
He was struck by a car driven by Andersine Christensen, St. Francis freshman, who was charged with failure to yield the right of way and speeding. Damages to the 1953 Dodge owned by Rouse and a 1967 Barracuda driven by Miss Christensen totaled $700.
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Daily Kansan Thursday, January 19, 1967
a closely supervised and highly organized introductory program for freshmen and sophomores.
"Eventually a curriculum would evolve into a system of pre-engineering, similar to the present pre-med and pre-law programs."
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