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language, wliioh was a serious liaiulicap, as at least 

 one-third of the reports of metalhirgical research 

 pubHshed in recent yeai's have appeared in German 

 periodicals. In most engineering schools, students of 

 ferrous metallurgy spend 75 to 100 hours in a steel 

 plant; frequently they have a good idea of the opera- 

 tion of a blast furnace before they even calculate a 

 heat balance. 



In 1936-37 there were 1,630 students in metallurgy 

 in 53 colleges in the United States, out of a total of 

 7,190 students registered in all branches of mineral 

 tcciinology," or nearly 23 percent. Of these, 131 were 

 graduate students who made up 30 percent of those 

 working for an advanced degree. Owing to a shortage 

 of experienced metallurgists in this country, registra- 

 tion has increased considerably in the past or S years; 

 in the 53 schools surveyed by Plank, 937 were registered 

 in metallurgy in 1933-34 and 1,630 in 1936-37. 



" I'lank. William B. Mineral technology schools continue to grow. Mining and 

 MetaUurgy, IS, 414 (September 1937). 



There has been consideral)lc tiiscussioii in recent 

 years on whether or not metallurgical education in the 

 United States sets as high a standard as it is reasonably 

 possible to attain in a 4-year course. According to 

 Stoughton, "the characteristics most conducive to 

 success and of most service to industry which a stu- 

 dent can gain in college and which ho did not have 

 before are judgment and self-con fitlencc based on a 

 knowledge of fundamentals." In this, American metal- 

 lurgical education apparently has not been wholly 

 successful, as is evident from a reading of some of the 

 publications of the Society for the Promotion of 

 Engineering Education." The chief difficulty seems to 

 be that the world has changed so fast that metallurgical 

 curricula have not kept pace. It is generally recognized 

 now '^ that in addition to fundamentals of metallurgy, 



" See for example, Collected papers of the session on mining and metallurgical 

 engineering. Societij for the Promotion of Engineering Education, Bulletin 11, 1-90 

 (March 1934). 



i> Lcscohier, D. D. The place of the social sciences in the trainioR of cnRincers. 

 See footnote 14, or Journal of Engineering Education, H, 414-21 (FebrUMry 1934). 



llGURE 42. — Vacuum E.xlractiou Apparatus for Control of O.xidcs in tilccl, Republic Steel Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio 



