22nd Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Harrogate, UK, 28 August - 1st September, 2000
Paper ICAS 2000-1.7.1

CHANGING EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS FOR DESIGN ENGINEERS

D. P. Coldbeck (1), L. Smrcek (2)
(1) BAE Systems, UK; (2) University of Glasgow, UK

Keywords: education, design engineers, aerospace

The Engineering Council in it’s SARTOR report [1] recognised the need to emphasise group design activities within undergraduate courses and the “Dearing” report [2] stressed the need to address the lack of communication and interpersonal skills that employers had noted in their graduate employees (Figure 1). This paper describes the major initiatives taken by the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Glasgow to address these needs at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and an

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