ABSTRACT
The development of engineering on the continent of Europe owes much to Napoleon. The educational process was envisaged as needing certain common linking elements for all kinds of engineer, in particular a common acquaintance with current workshop technology and materials engineering. In the late '40s there were a substantial variety of routes to engineering qualification through part-time study, which could be undertaken concurrently with working in the profession. The design problem, though the subject of many previous, less incisive reports, was perhaps most clearly and constructively discussed in the Lickley Report, published by the Science and Engineering Research Council in 1983. Finniston recognized that the needs of the industry required, for some, a longer graduation period than three years, for which university engineers had long been pressing, whilst for others the three-year route should still be adequate.
