The Necessity for Individual Engineering Libraries and for Continuing Study After Graduation (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Necessity for Individual Engineering Libraries and for Continuing Study After Graduation I might cite many more such examples, but I think abundant have been presented to convince you that the technical education must be carried on vigorously and continuously after graduation, if positions much higher than those of skilled workmen are to be attained. \vithout exception, the men mentioned in the individual examples I have just cited were graduates of Eastern engineering schools of the highest standing. They had every advantage which you have now or will have when you graduate, unless you possess the energy and foresight to acquire and to study thoroughly and persistently a library of the best books, periodicals, and technical society papers which relate to your specialty and its allied branches. If you avoid this work and try to cope unaided with the many problems which will confront you, you must inevitably fail and occupy through life a very subordinate or at best a secondary position. Let us examine the undergraduate course carefully in order to determine what it accomplishes, what are its limitations, and how you may, while still in school, strengthen yourselves against the day when you are turned out into the world to sink or swim professionally, when you no longer have within reach instructors ready to help you over the rough places and to guide and direct you at need. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.