Citation

Winfrey R. Traffic Q. 1957; 11(4): 557-572.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1957, Eno Transportation Foundation)

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Abstract

Science and technology bring forth improved ways of accomplishing the material and intellectual needs of today's complex society. The labor force today is the largest in the history. To supply the labor to manufacture labor-saving devices and to operate these new industries, it has been necessary to transfer workers form rural areas and from occupations that produce the products to occupations that produce research, tools, and devices by which our operations can be achieved. Colleges and universities are moving into a type of engineering education that stresses the fundamental physical sciences, related to engineering, and certain phases of the humanistic social group of studies. The civil engineering curriculum no longer contains course in office practice that simulate the type of work engineers would do when they hired out to consulting engineers, government or industry. This article discusses how training and education are considered somewhat interchangeable. Training suggests exercise or practice to gain skill, endurance, or facility, while education may be considered primarily with the instilling in the mind of knowledge about a particular subject.