Engineering is important to the UK economy, and engineering education is ipso facto important. There has been a lot of debate over the last few years, but little action has resulted. In a series of articles, Professor Ray Wild, Director of the Brunei University/Henley Administrative Staff...

In this second article, Ray Wild talks about one scheme which is tackling the problem of producing better engineers. He gives some of the background and details of the collaboration in which he is personally involved.

Readers will already know the broad basis of the so‐called ‘elitist’ engineering programmes, and have considered the views of the various parties on their value. In this article I propose to give some details of the Special Engineering Programme (SEP) of Brunel University in conjunction...

The principal hypothesis of this article is that because of changes taking place in the nature of manufacture in industry, the type of engineers and managers required for such work will also change.