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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 056 658 HE 002 658 TITLE Design For Technological. Education. INSTITUTION Organisation for Econom_c Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). Centre for Educational Research a&I Innovation. PUB DATE 69 NOTE 313p. EDRS PRICE MF-$0.65 HC-$13.16 DESCRIPTORS *Career Education; *Educational Innovation; Foreign Countries; *Higher Education; *Innovation; *Technical Education IDENTI2IERS *Spain ABSTRACT The recommendations contained in this report, and the sugclestions for implementing them, should make it possible to set up an engineering school which is better adapted to the needs ofmodern Spain. The primary objective is to produce top-level staff who can make an effective contribution to industrial development; and to train students at the Seville School of Engineering to use the equipment placed at their disposal, to organize production, and to run a firm. Their education will be quite different from that provided by the other Escuelas Tenichas Superiores; and a period of adaptation will doubtless be necessary. (HS) design for technological education THE ESCUELA TiCNICA SUPERIOR DE INGENERIOS INDUSTRIALES OF SEVILLE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, U CATION & WELFARE ICE OF EDUCATION JMENT HAS BEEN REPRO- CTLY AS RECEIVED FROM THE l'I_HSON OR ORGANIZATION ORIG- INATING IT. POINTS OF VIEW DR OPIN- IONS STATED DO NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENT DFFICIAL OFFICE OF EDU- CATION PDSITION OR POLICY. ORGANISAT'ON FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development was set up under a Convention signed in Paris on 14th December 1960 by the Member countries of the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation and by Canada and the United States. This Convention provides that the OECD shall promote policies designed: to achieve the highest sustainable economic growth and employ- mmt and a-,sing standard of livingin Member countries while niainta,,:ing financial stability, and thus to contribute to the worhr economy; tocontribu:etosound economic expansionin Member as well as non- lember countriesinthe process of economic development ; to contrib ,tec, the expansion of world trade on a multilateral, non-discrit: ',:eito:ybasisinaccordancewithinternational obligations The legal pers.4:lity possessed by the Organisation for European Economic Co-opertabn continues in the OECD which came into being on 30th September 1961. The member ( OECD are Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, the Ferlt !Republic of Germany Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lu:- -tb-urg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerh Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. The activity which has resulted in this report was undertaken by the Directorate for Scientific Affairs, for and in co-operation with the Programme and Operations Division, of the Development Department. Thc Directorate for Scicntific Affairs has been established within OECD to take chargeof thc activities of the Organisation relating to scicntific research and to the expansion and rational utilization of the scientific and technical personnel available so as to meet the needs arising from economic growth. The Programme and Operations Divisionisresponsible for the preparation and implementation of the technical assistance programme of the Organisation intended for certainofitsMember orAssociatedcourwies (Greece,Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Yugoslavia). y 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword 5 Preface 7 Introduction 11 Part one - Objectives of the Seville School I - Number of graduates 19 II - Fixing educational objectives 25 Part two - Teaching methods III - Analysis of the objectives 41 IV - Organization of studies 45 V - Teaching methods 51 Part three - Syllabuses VI - Description of the syllabuses 65 VII - Economics and social sciences 67 VIII - Scientific and technical subjects, first year 93 IX - Scientific and technical subjects, second and third years 103 X - Scientific and technical subjects, fourth and fifth years 143 Part four - Means XI - Organization of the school 199 XII - The teaching staff 205 XIII - Buildings 215 XIV - Equipment 217 Conclusion 219 ANNEXES I - The technical co-operation programme 222 II - Mission sent to Madrid in December, 1964 to collect information: list of experts 223 III - List of persons consulted for the preparation of this report 224 IV - List of recommendations 227 V - The economic and social development plan (1964-1967) 230 VI - Structure of secondary educatir- (1964) 231 VII - Acts concerning the reorganization of technical education 232 VIII - Changes in the structure technical education 260 IX - Level of students on admission to the first-year course 261 X - Decrees of 20th August, 1964 and 29th May, 1965 (extracts) 262 XI Extract from the Statutes of tbe Escuelas Tecnicas Superiores 266 XII - Extract from the act of 17th July, 1965 concerning the organization of the Faculties 279 XIII - Extract from the decree concerning the "Patronatos" for 'he Escuelas Tecnicas XIV - Breakdown of the active population 284 XV - Breakdown of engineers 286 XVI - Net output per capita in 1962 288 XVII - Industries in the Andalusian provinces employing more than 500 people . 289 XVIII - Breakdown of the Andalusian population by size of locality 292 XIX - Breakdown of teaching duties by department and type of activity; s-:Ildent schedule 293 XX - Modifications to buildings recommended by the experts ...... 296 FOREWORD The report on the Seville School of Engineering which is given here in final form clearly shows the value of the work done by OECD under its technical co-operation programme. When the Spanish Authorities asked the Organization for assistance in implementing the reforms they were proposing for higher tecbnical education, the matter was particularly urgent and important for two reasons. First, the introduction of the first National Plan for ficonomic and Social Development had shown that Spain would need an increasing number of high-level engineers in the coming years and that highly qualified personnel, on whose train- ing the development plans depend,.were essential.to the economy. Furthermore, the 1964 Act on the reorganization of technical education entailed a basic revision of the curricula and duration of courses in the engineering schools, in order to take into account the latest theories and experiments in this age of continuous technical progress. A remarkable team of notable personalities and experts, to whom we are sincerely gra- teful, worked on this report, which deals with a Higher Technical Education Centre. Among the engineering schools already created under the first Development Plan, now in its closing phase, this Centre, owing to its geographical position and range of special subjects, will certainly have the greatest influence in Spain. The recommendations in this report certainly inyo' chacs and important innovations in the pres,^nt ^Alla and _gher t nIcal schools in Spain. The 0_ _cu Technical Education however ensured that all of them were adopted, in their most essential aspects, so as not to detract from the 'value and scope of the results -han can be expected from this set of reforms. In point .-LffE--ct, so far as the Seville Schocl is concerned, the educational programmes in this repc were fully approved by a Ilinistry of Education and Science Decree of 28th July, 1967; an,. '> principles and methods it recommends will be applied, as from the 1967-68 school y, the second-year course. A great deal is expected from this type of pilot experiment ree.y started in Seville. Ail that new remains is to await its full development in order to as es:_the results, which, we are convinced, will lead to the applications of these principles .n :-ther technical training centres both in Spain and abroad. MAU- T November 1967 er RUBIO Director of aller Technical Education Ministry o:3ducation and Science PREFACE Modern society is transforming itself so rapidly that the institutions set up to ensure its development are no longer able to adaptthemselves to the requirements of the present-day world. The field of education, particularly at the higher level, is astriking example of this phenomenon. Science, it has been said, has advanced more within the past ten years than since the beginning of civilization. Technological progress, at any rate, hasrevolutionized living conditions in the most-highly developed countries within recent years.Industry has come to be of paramount importance in the sphere of humanactivity, and is obliging society to adopt its methods and efficiency. The establishmentsresponsible for training the people who give impetus to and at the same time implement such progresshowever have apparently not kept pace with this evolution. In the most advanced countries, schools of engineering werefoun,_ Lhe nine- teenth century in order to train young men to apply the laws of physicsand chemis ry to an industry in its infany. Since that time, industry has developed enormously;its needs and its relatioship with society have evolved considerably and yet the programmes and teaching methods used in engineering schools have remained virtually unchanged.Clearly, these must be brought up to date if technological, economic, and social progressis to continue. It is common knowledge that the system of education is hard pressed toproduce the ever-increasing numbers of engineers and technicians required to meet theneeds of the eco- nomy; industry, in order to meet its own requirements, must call on menwho, despite their experience, do not always have the proper training for management
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