Engineers and Engineering in the United States, Japan, and Germany -- A Proposal for the U.S. Component of a Comparative Study

这项研究提出调查的因素，占“良好的工程”，使工程师的“高性能”，这些因素已收到远远低于研究的关注“最佳做法。“该项目将对五个行业的制造公司进行案例研究，以确定和审查将工程师定义为“高绩效”的标准;对高同行最重要的教育和工作经验（由“高绩效”工程师及其管理人员确定）;以及在工程教育方面的优势和不足。目前的建议是一项跨国研究的美国部分，与日本和德国的研究小组协调，用一组共同的核心问题来研究这些相同的问题。

This research proposes to investigate the factors that account for "good engineering" and make an engineer a "high performer," factors that have received much less attention than studies of "best practices." The project will undertake case studies of manufacturing firms in five industries to identify and examine the criteria that define an engineer as a "high performer"; the education and work experiences that are most important for high peerformance (as identified by "high performing" engineers and their managers); and where the strengths and deficits are in enegineering education. The present proposal is the US component of a cross-national study, coordinated with research teams in Japan and Germany examining these same issues with a common core set of questions.