Conference Session

Engineering Librarians: Impacting the Past, Present, and Future

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J White, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

as an afterthought. Until the study of engineering literature is recognized to the extent of being installed in the regular curriculum, so that the student may understand it to be part of his require course and think of it in these terms, there is a sound psychological reason for his regarding it lightly.”53In the mid-1920s, growing public concern about the perceived erosion of quality in engineeringeducation programs prompted SPEE to undertake a multi-year study of the problem. In 1926,SPEE issued its report, which recommended, among other things, that engineering schoolsinclude more courses on “humanistic” subjects and economics.54 The issue continued to fester inthe late 1920s and early 1930s.55 Even President