In:
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, SAGE Publications, Vol. 170, No. 1 ( 1956-06), p. 747-772
Abstract:
The initial practical training of the graduate apprentice has been largely a matter of workshop experience and training in craft skills. Such activities do not continue the training of the graduate in the way to which he is accustomed and by which he could best absorb the new knowledge required in industry. The paper describes experiments in methods of instruction for the topics which could be included in the initial three months' graduate training period in any works of which a machine shop is a dominant feature. The methods used followed the typical university teaching pattern of lectures, exercises, and preparation of reports. The topics included the study of the machine shop technology and the study of the machine shop as an operating unit together with the office work, or pre-production activities, concerned with its operation. The experimental methods have been tried out in a factory with a group of twelve undergraduates during a total period of twelve weeks. It is concluded that training which gives the graduate an opportunity to exercise the special learning abilities he has developed at the university is not only possible but the quickest way to give him the basic knowledge of the technology and organization of production necessary for any mechanical engineering career.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0020-3483
,
2058-1203
DOI:
10.1243/PIME_PROC_1956_170_067_02
Language:
English
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
Publication Date:
1956
