A Report on Engineering Education at Lafayette College, 6 October 1976

Title: A Report on Engineering Education at Lafayette College, 6 October 1976
Description: A report on engineering education at Lafayette was written by Robert S. Chase, Jr., Dean of the College, Revised 10/14/76. 'The decision to study engineering education at Lafayette occurred because of elements in the Long-Range Plan. As a prelude to developing a program for the College for the next ten years, the Academic Council of the faculty studied the cost and benefits of the several degree programs. A number of these curricula were shown to have costs per student well in excess of the all-college average, but there were factors which caused engineering to receive special attention' : enrollments had dropped from 581 in 1968-69 to 363 in 1972-73; accreditation 'has the effect of setting, or at the very least influencing, minimum staff levels and, therefore, minimum fixed costs for a specific program'; a number of retirements within the engineering faculty were anticipated; metallurgy, with three faculty members was anticipating one retirement in 1982 and two in 1986; consideration of 'the deletion of the Department of Metallurgical Engineering'; the report in response to the Board
Identifier: MR78
Date: 1976-10-14
Subject: Engineering
Bibliographic Citation: Chase, 1976