The new technologies and new problems of the past 25 years have caused changes in engineering practice. Changes in engineering education have not kept pace with the changes in practice, which has created a demand for more training of professionals. Skills where the demand appears to be greatest are in the areas of written communication, project management, and computer-aided practice. At the present time, the profession does not have an organized framework to ensure that high-quality training is available. Therefore, the profession needs to adopt some standards and develop guidelines for training to ensure that the needs of the profession are met. One path to improvedtraining would be to make better use of the new technology of instructional television. The profession should also ensure that traininginvolves education, not just skill enhancement. This paper appears in transportation research record no. 1305, Finance, planning, programming, economic analysis, and land development 1991.
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