Engineering is important to the UK economy, and engineering education is ipso facto important. There has been a lot of debate over the last few years, but little action has resulted. In a series of articles, Professor Ray Wild, Director of the Brunei University/Henley Administrative Staff...

In this second article, Ray Wild talks about one scheme which is tackling the problem of producing better engineers. He gives some of the background and details of the collaboration in which he is personally involved.

Readers will already know the broad basis of the so‐called ‘elitist’ engineering programmes, and have considered the views of the various parties on their value. In this article I propose to give some details of the Special Engineering Programme (SEP) of Brunel University in conjunction...

The principal hypothesis of this article is that because of changes taking place in the nature of manufacture in industry, the type of engineers and managers required for such work will also change.

Changing manufacturing policy and manufacturing technology has had serious implications for production managers. A survey to identify the nature and extent of the impact of changes in manufacturing technology on the jobs of production or manufacturing managers shows that managers are concerned...

Presents a personal view from a business school perspective on some of the issues in an era of rapid change and internationalization of business, facing management development – defined here as programmes and activities specifically provided to enhance the knowledge, abilities and achievements...

Discusses management education and development – and in particular the role of business schools. Outlines some personal views on how and why business schools have evolved, and how they will do so in the future. Offers a simple, general model to describe evolution to date and to set the scene...

Some factors which relate to manpower planning procedures will be examined briefly in the context of the selection, placement and retention of manual production workers. The research studies cited for this purpose will be confined to those of which the author has first hand knowledge.

This paper summarises some of the points arising from a recent study of developments in mass production systems. The study conducted during 1972 and 1973, was concerned with engineering mass production, in particular the mass production of relatively complex discrete items such as domestic...

An operating system utilises resources to convert inputs into outputs in the form of goods or services. Conventionally, operations management is defined as the task of designing, establishing, planning, running, controlling, maintaining and improving such systems. As the output of such systems...