The impact of modern physics on engineering education

JAN 01, 1957

Many physicists have discusses the role that physics should play in the education of engineers. The following comments on that subject are those of a prominent electrical engineer.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3060225

W. L. Everitt

Research in modern physics has had for engineering a double impact: on the one hand dramatic and public, yet apparently remote; on the other diffuse and specialized, a process of infiltration from pure science. In engineering neither salient has quite been recognized for what it was.

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W. L. Everitt. University of Illinois.

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