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...people, engineers. Particularly in the fast-moving fields of computer science and electrical engineering, former whizzes who are now middle-aged were described as fighting a losing battle to keep from falling behind intellectually. All too often, M.I.T. Electrical Engineering Professor Louis Smullin told the Oct. 2 symposium, engineers "are washed up by the time they are 35 or 40, and new ones are recruited from the universities." Said C. Gordon Bell, vice president at Digital Equipment Corp.: "The young engineers coming in are sharper than older engineers. Sometimes they blow the older engineers away...
...technologically obsolescent. Yet by 1985 the U.S. is expected to suffer from a shortage of more than 100,000 engineers. This gap cannot be closed by increasing the output of engineering schools, which are at their production limit. As Ray Stata, president of Analog Devices, told the M.I.T. symposium, "Our only viable strategy for coping is for industry to increase the productivity, retention and competence of those engineers already engaged in the profession...
...this end, the symposium considered a yearlong study by a four-man M.I.T. committee chaired by M.I.T. Professor of Engineering Robert M. Fano. The committee's conclusion: "The problems we are facing cannot be solved simply by incrementally improving and expanding current educational programs. A quantum jump is needed, amounting to a revolution in engineering education." The committee proposed a new alliance between industry and academe under which, on company time and at company expense, engineers would continue their graduate-level education in at least one 15-week course per year. Universities should adopt residency requirements flexible enough...
Leder, who was speaking at a session of Harvard Medical School's Bicentennial Scientific Symposium, refused to comment further on his findings until the results are published in December...
...absolutely shocked by the news," said Vane, speaking for the group. "We will hold a symposium" on how to use the $157,000 prize, Bergstrom later added...