DOCUMENT RESUME ED 097 828 HE 005 982 TITLE Perspectives and Plans for Graduate Studies. 11. Engineering 1974. D. Mechanical Engineering. Report No. 74-21. INSTITUTION Ontario Council on Graduate Studies, Toronto. Advisory Committee on Academic Planning. PUB DATE 74 NOTE 180p. AVAILABLE FROM Council of Ontario Universities, 130 St. George Street, Suite 8039, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2T4 ($5.00) EDRS PRICE MF-$0.75 HC-$9.00 PLUS POSTAGE DESCRIPTORS Career Opportunities; College Faculty; Course Evaluation; Doctoral Programs; Educational Planning; Educational Quality; Employment Opportunities; Engineering Education; Enrollment Trends; *Foreign Countries; Foreign Students; Graduate Students; *Graduate Study; *Higher Education; Labor Market; *Mechanical Skills; Program Evaluation IDENTIFIERS *Canada; Ontario ABSTRACT On the instruction of the Council of Ontario Universities, the Advisory Committee on Academic Planning in cooperation 'with the Committee of Ontario Deans of Engineering has conducted a planning assessment for doctoral work in mechanical engineering. This report presents as overview of the recommendations for each of the assessments conducted in various areas of doctoral work. Following this overview, emphasis is placed on the assessment of mechanical engineering in relation to the number and quality of students, an analysis of mechanical engineering education at the doctoral level, and general observations. The section concerning the number and quality of students reviews the supply of students, foreign students, employment opportunities for graduates, student concern about career opportunities, and quotas on the number of students. Analysis of mechanical engineering education at the doctoral level reviews course requirements, doctoral theses, thesis work outside the university, part-time studies, coverage of wechanical engineering at the grad'uate level, strengths and weaknesses of graduate programs, and industrial research institutions. General observations discuss the minimum size of a group, metallurgy/matrial science. faculty age distribution, staff mobility, financial support for graduate work, and an overview of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ottawa and the Institute of Aerospace Studies at the University of Toronto. (MJM) Council of Ontario Universities Conseil .des Universitiis de l'Jntario PERSPECTIVES AND PLANS FOR GRADUATE STUDIES U S DEPARTMENT OF NEALTH EDUCATION & WELFARE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION S pOCUMF041HA', REEKtof' Pio(' C;uCEIF FAAC IL V AS fit CF ivf toOm 'HE PERSON OR ORE,A04.1AE ION ow AT .0vG IT POINTS vF W 0f4 OPtIN0ONS %WEDno NOTNECESSARIE v NEPA( NT Or iAL OvAtiONA1 N5'0TUTE 01 E PoC AT ION POSI T004 OW ROICv 11, ENGINEERING 1974 D. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Advisory Committe42 on Academic Planning Ontario Council on Graduate Studies 74-21 The status of this report given in Item 2 ofthe statement of principles, on page 1. Reports in Print (October 1974) f. 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Holdings Limited ENGINEERING 1974 D: Mechanical Engineering TABLE OF CONTENTS Page FOREWORD i REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE COUNCIL OF ONTARIO UNIVERSITIES - PART I 1-9 PART II 10-11 REPORT OF ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON ACADEMIC PLANNING 1-46 APPENDICES Appendix A: Report of Mechanical Engineering Consultants Al-A38 Appendix B: Discipline Group Response B1-33 Appendix C: University Comments C1-C34 Appendix D: Procedure of Planning Study and Terms of Reference D1 -D7 Appendix F.: Discipline Group Membership El Appendix F: Roles of ACAP and of Discipline Groups Fl-F4 Appendix G: Curricula Vitarum of the Consultants G1 -G4 Appendix H: Response of the Committee of Ontario Deans of Engineering 111-1114 This report deals with a planning study of doctoral work in engineering, which was conducted in several portions corresponding to the various disciplines within engineering. The report is in six volumes. Volume A deals with chemical engineering, B with electrical engineering,C with metallurgical and materials engineering, D with mechanical engineering, E with industrial engineering, and F with civil engineering. Each volume contains the COU and ACAP reports for engineeringas a whole together with the consultants' report and other material appropriate toone of the disciplines. The COU report will he in three parts: Part I dealing with recommendations approved in June 1974 and dealing with most of the fields, Part II approved in September 1974 and dealing with mechanical and industrial engineering, and Part III to appear later dealing with civil enOneering. This volume printed in the fall of 1974 contains Parts I and II. FOREWORD As a consequence of a study of engineering education in Ontario (described in more detail in. the subsequent ACM report) the Council of Ontario Universities called for a planning assessment of PhD programmes in engineering to be carried out by ACAP in cooperation with CODE. The Advisory Committee on Academic Planning (ACAP), as presently constituted, was established by the Ontario Council on Graduate Studies at the request of the Council. of Ontario Universities in January, 1471. The Advisory Committee's terms of reference were directed broadly toward the effective planning and rationalization of long -term graduate development in Ontario's universities both at the level of Individual disciplines and at a more general level:The Advisory Con-.ttee's activities are based on the premise that graduate work is tf.eone area of university activity in which specialization among univeries, cooperative arrangements and comprehensive planning are most necessary.' The disciplinary planning process involves a discipline group composed of one representative from each university with an interest in graduate work in the planning area. In the case of engineering, CODE was also involved in a way, described in the ACAP report.' The ,discipline group assists in defining the precise academic boundaries of each study, and prepares a commentary on the consultants' report. The final decision on consultants for the planning study is made by ACAP. The consultants are requested to make recommendations on Programmes to he offered in Ontario, desirable and/or likely enrolments, the aivision of responsibility for programmes among universities, and the desirable extent of collaboration with related disciplines. While the consultants' report is the single largest element in the final report on the planning study, ACAP considers the statement of each university's forward plans to be most significant.These forward plans are usually outlined prior to the planning study, and are used as a basis for comments from the universities concerned on the consultants' report. On receipt of the consultants' report, and comments on it from the disicpline group and the universities, ACAP begins work on its own recom- mendations for submission directly to the Council of Ontario Universities. CM considers thr input from all sources, and prepares the position of the Ontario university community. The following report is one of a series of disciplinary planning studies carried out by the Advisory Committee on Academic Planning and to he oublished by the Council Ontario Universities. The emphasis of the report is on forward planning, and it is hoped that the implementation of COU's recommendations will help to ensure the more ordered growth and development of graduate studies in Ontario's universities. Council of 9ntario Universities Conseil des Universites de l'Onario Report and Recommendations concerning Doctoral Studies in Engineering - ?art I On the instruction of the Council of Ontario Universities,the Advisory Committee on Academic planning, in cooperation with the Committee of OntarioDeans of Engin- eering, has conducted a planning Assessment fordoctoralleork in engineering.. This arose from the need to re-examine the recommendations concerning PhDwork which appeared in Ring of Iron, The background to the study, the procedures followed and the planning techniques usedare described in the ACAP report and are not repeated here. The resultant report from ACAi' is attached togetherwith the consultants' reports,-the comments by the disciplinegroups, the comments of the individual universities, and the comments of CODE. It is important for the reader to read the attachments in order toup rstand the recommendations in this Report from COU. COU will issue subsequent partso this report dealing with mechanical, industrial and civil engineering. L The Council received the ACAV report and supportingdocumentation on April 11, 1974. The content of the ACAr documentwas debated on April 11, on May 3, and on June 7, 1974. As a result of these