Course too scientific

NZSPA Reporter

Christchurch: Engineering courses were becoming too scientific, the Canterbury Chairman of the Institute of Engineers, Mr. P. G. Scoular, has claimed.

The Canterbury courses were becoming so scientific that the BE degree could more properly be called bachelor of engineering science, he told the annual meeting of the branch.

Graduates were not adequately equipped for practical work after they left university. Mr. Scoular claimed too much theory was given students, compared with practical training.

He urged graduates to become registered and to join the Institute to overcome this inadequacy.

Management training was too often neglected and Mr. Scoular felt it was better for engineers to manage engineering companies than administrators.

Administrative training, however, he fell, should be given by management, rather than at university.