A Profession Now
All around the world agricultural engineering had developed as a profession in its own right, universities were providing high quality engineering courses in this field and this was a trend that he felt New Zealand would have to follow, Professor J. R. Burton, professor of agricultural engineering at Lincoln College, said recently after returning from a visit to eight overseas countries.
There was. he said, a very definite swing towards the provision of professional engineering degree courses in agricultural engineering.
At present in New Zealand he said that only a smattering of engineering was being provided for students whose basic training was in agriculture, and while these men were useful and would continue to be so, from now on it would be necessary to ensure a supply of men well trained in engineering with enough knowledge of agriculture and biological science to indicate the sort of problems in agriculture to which they would need to apply their engineering knowledge.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30901, 6 November 1965, Page 10
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162A Profession Now Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30901, 6 November 1965, Page 10
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