Education and training: Computers in Engineering Education 1960-1964

ENGINEERING EDUCATORS have accepted computing techniquesas valid subject matter in undergraduate engineering curricula. Acceptance has come about dramatically in the past two years as evidenced by the results of a questionnaire recently sent to deans of accredited engineering colleges. Of one-hundred-thirty schools reporting in the survey, eighty-eight noted that computer training is required in some or all curricula, and forty-one schools, accounting for over 50,000 students, require computer training in all curricula. This poll was conducted by the Project on the Use of Computers in Engineering Education at The University of Michigan. Since 1960 this project has provided training for some 225 professors from 80 engineering schools in the United States and Canada, and through broad-scale dissemination of useful literature, problems, and text, has indirectly sped many decisions to integrate computers into engineering curricula.