Engineering Workshop Machines and Processes: A Handbook for the Use of Students and Other Taking the Workshop Training Recommended by the Institution of Civil Engineers

Excerpt from Engineering Workshop Machines and Processes: A Handbook for the Use of Students and Other Taking the Workshop Training Recommended by the Institution of Civil Engineers

The report of the Committee appointed by the Institution of Civil Engineers to consider the best methods of training and educating engineers contains the following sentence: "The Committee reaffirm the conviction expressed when they issued their inquiry, that the sympathetic assistance of employers is essential to improvement in engineering education and training" (p.194).

In Germany, the employers co-operate with the men responsible for the technical training of engineers, and there is a well organised and definite scheme whereby the young men spend one year in the workshop before proceeding to the University or High School; this twelve months' practical work is called the "Practical year," and the young men taking it are known as "Volunteers."

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