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Bosch's Peter Fouquet on changing young people's perceptions of engineering

90,000 plus Engineering students. No problem with quantity then, just quality. Last year out of more than 600 applications, we could not get sufficient quality candidates to fill eight places. I'm talking about examples of "first class" MEng Mech/ Aero graduates who cannot calculate the stress in a simply supported beam. Add to that the zero practical skills now required to graduate (and reach CEng for that matter), and I remain very skeptical. I now have to view MEng as being below the old BSc standard, and wonder when we'll need PhD's as the minimum entry standard.

3 Apr 2012

1:51 pm