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Education for Future Engineering

An educator replies to the question — Should the master’s degree be the first professional engineering degree?

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In January of this year, Journal of Metals published an article entitled “The Great Engineering Implosion,” by Douglas Ragland of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, in which he proposed that the mater’s degree be the first professional engineering degree. This subject was sub sequently discussed at the Metallurgical Education Session of the AIME Annual Meeting in Dallas and evoked replies from a number of metallurgical educators; the following is one such response

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Schuhmann, R. Education for Future Engineering. JOM 15, 935–938 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03397273

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