ABSTRACT
Compton, Karl Taylor There are two principal reasons for increasing training in scientific principles and the more fundamental aspects of engineering, as opposed to going farther into the field of specialization in the training of engineers. The first of these reasons is to be found in the development of the engineering specialties themselves, starting first with simply applied science followed next by the branching off into the various engineering fields, such as electrical, mechanical, civil, etc, until with further discoveries and developments there arose subdivisions of these fields, such as radio, hydraulic, refrigeration engineering, etc. Now even these subdivisions are becoming so highly specialized as to indicate the need of still further subdivision in the direction of specialization.
