Engineering Defence Training Program (EDT)

Title: Engineering Defence Training Program (EDT)
Description: 'In the spring of 1941, VENDT was replaced by the Engineering Defense Training Program (EDT), a higher-level twelve-week program of evening courses for qualified men from the community who wanted to upgrade their skills. Professor William S. Lohr, placed in charge, made a study of the needs of local industry and developed the program to meet them.' (Gendebien, p. 159) 'In the fall of 1941, EDT was expanded both in title and substance. It was now called the Engineering Science and Management Defense Training Program (ESMDT) and offered thirty-one courses. The total enrollment in this program, which was taught by twenty-five members of the faculty, was nine hundred fifty-one. The Engineering Science and Management Defense Training Program was continued, after war was declared, as the Engineering Science and Management War Training Program (ESMWT).' (Gendebien, p. 159-60)
Identifier: MR55
Date: 1941-01-01
Subject: Engineering
Bibliographic Citation: Gendebien, 1986