Engineering Guidance Conference for Boys
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Title
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Engineering Guidance Conference for Boys
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Description
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To cure these ills, for the sake of both the college and engineering education as a whole the engineering departments introduced, in the summer of 1934, an Engineering Guidance Conference for Boys. For two weeks, twenty-one high school students who hoped to go to college gained an insight into the nature of engineering and were offered vocational guidance, including aptitude tests, laboratory practice, and trips to local industries. These conferences continued each summer until the outbreak of World War II. Some students were turned away from engineering as a result of what was probably a sobering experience for them, but others became more interested in the field. In some small way the engineering profession benefited, and in a larger way so did the college as enrollments in engineering increased. In one summer, 1938, of the thirty-eight young men enrolled in the conference, twenty-three became students at Lafayette.' (Gendebien P. 69-70) Summer 1940
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Identifier
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MR45
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Date
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1934-06-01
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Extent
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1940-06-01
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Subject
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Engineering
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Bibliographic Citation
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Gendebien, 1986
