GREAT SUCCESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 200, 24 August 1937, Page 10

GREAT SUCCESS.

TECHNOLOGY IN U.S.A. FACTORY CO-OPERATION. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. Auckland Rotarians were told eomething yesterday of the methods adopted by American educationists in co-ordinat-ing the scientific study of the classroom with actual work in factories. The speaker was Dr. Parke R. Kolbe, head of the Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia. Denning technology ae the application of science to industry, Dr. Kolbe first explained irhat the bulk of the colleges and universities in the United States were privately endowed institutions, the Drexel Institute coming in this category. Students, he eaid, were taken in at about 18 years of age for a five years' (course. After a year in the classroom those being trained in an engineering course would be divided into pairs before commencing on studies carried out in factories. Student A would take the first quarter in the classroom while B went to a factory. At the end of a quarter their positions would be revised and this alternate method of allocating their studies would be adhered to for the remainder of their course. The work in the college itself wae definitely corelated to the work of the particular factory where the practical work was going on. The student was an ordinary employee in the factory, receiving and expected to earn the usual wages. At first, said Dr. Kolbe, employer* looked askance at the idea of admitting collejre students to their factory benches, but the plan had been so successful that there were more vacancies than students.