Close on the heels of the PSAC Report, the American Society for
Engineering Education (ASEE) initiated the study, Goals of Engineering Education - The
"Goals Study" - is probably the most ambitious, authoritative, and
comprehensive study of engineering education ever undertaken. However, it
suffered the misfortune of having been compiled during the very crest of the
growth wave stimulated by the PSAC Report. As a result, it followed the
prevailing philosophy of the time, used the latest data available
(1966), and projected that the growth trends in engineering education would
continue; it did so almost precisely at the time that the growth was in fact on
the verge of being reversed.
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