Survey of the relevance of mechanical engineering course curricula to the professional mechanical engineers

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A number of mechanical engineering courses in the British Isles were reviewed and the literature was scanned for the different views and criticism of the available teaching systems. A survey of the opinions of engineers in Ireland about the academic engineering education which they had received was earned out by using a mail questionnaire formulated to obtain information about the industrial training component of the education process and the relevance of the ancillary and basic subjects 425 IEI members returned back the questionnaire, of which 282 member were mechanical engineers, and 70 I Mech E have also responded. This makes up 28% response rate. The respondents were from different age groups, courses backgrounds and occupying different jobs The majority of the respondents were satisfied with the education they received in general and they believe that it helped them in performing current duties. However, a large proportion of the respondents (49%) expressed their views on some wea

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