Electronics and the universities

Abstract

There is only one profession older than that of education and it is timeless and unchanging. By contrast educators, particularly in recent decades, have been indulging in a frenzy of self-criticism, discussion and innovation. It must be observed that change does not necessarily bring improvement, as witnessed by the fact that our schools seem to be turning out a larger proportion of illiterate and innumerate young people than ever before. Nevertheless educators cannot be accused of being complacent or indifferent to the needs of the country. This is particularly so at university level and in engineering where the syllabus is a constant topic of conversation. In my own department we rarely seem to teach the same material two years running, such is the rate of progress at the present time. In this respect electronics probably suffers more than any other engineering discipline, and in order to appreciate the magnitude of the problem it is worthwhile mentioning some of the current developments.

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