Continuing education of professional engineers in the Caribbean - Current issues and future strategies
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Jul 1994
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This paper briefly reviews some of the recent developments in the provision of continuing education of professional engineers in the Caribbean, and discusses some of the current issues facing the engineering education in the Caribbean, with particular reference to the cost-effective use of the latest telecommunications technologies and other information technology (IT)-based educational methods for continuing engineering education (CEE). The paper concludes that the recently established Engineering Institute and the Continuing Education Centre in the Faculty of Engineering, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, have a pivotal role to play in defining and implementing effective strategies for ensuring industry-university cooperation in the provision of quality CEE