Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas G. Stanford; Donald Keating

in-place graduate engineers in industry, it is now evidentthat there are nine stages of growth, proficiency, and levels of responsible professional leadership in engineeringpractice beyond undergraduate pre-professional entry level education. These levels of growth range from beginning Page 4.75.7project engineer through executive engineer leadership levels of professional responsibility, value judgement,program making, and technology policy making.As Wickenden noted, “… virtually all engineering problems fall on some one of three fairly distinct levels: (1)the level of known laws and data; (2) the level of technical

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Russel C. Jones

publications of international engineering education are critical in providinginformation and stimulation to educators who cannot participate in person. Theparticipants in this Congress recommended that the output from such conferences shouldbe made available in both printed hard copy and via the World Wide Web. The lattershould make the material available more broadly, and at more reasonable cost, to those indeveloping countries.Some discussion at the Congress focussed on the articulation between advancedengineering education programs and lower level feeder schools that helped to preparestudents to succeed in the engineering institutions. Feeder systems often operate within agiven country, but there are good examples of feeder schools in developing