duates who are gaining experience.There is so much to be learned on the job and it is necessary for the inexperienced person to start at a low level and advance to more responsibility as experience is gained. Very much to the point is the following statement by the chief engineer of a large corporation: "Many of the male and female engineering students whom we interview have the impression that if they go to work at the drafting board, they will be only draftspersons doing routine work. This impression is completely erroneous. All of our engineers work at the board at least occasionally. Actually, drawing is only one phase of responsibility, which includes site evaluations, engineering calculations, cost estimates, preliminary layouts, engineering specifications, equipment selection, complete drawings (with the help of detailers), and follow-up on construction and installation. "Our policy is to promote from within, and it is our normal practice to hire engineers at the time they finish school, and to give them the opportunity for growth and development by diversified experience. These newly hired engineers without experience are assigned to productive work at a level, which their education and experience qualify them to handle successfully. The immediate requirement is for the young engineer to obtain practical engineering experience, and to learn our equipment and processes. In design work, these initial assignments are on engineering details in any one of several fields of engineering study (structural, mechanical, electrical, etc.). Our experience has shown that it is not wise to give a newly graduated engineer without experience a problem in advanced engineering, such as creative design, on 'the assumption that quick sketches or layouts can be made and then have them detailed by someone else. Rather than start a young engineer at an advanced responsibility level where he or she may fail or make costly mistakes, we assign the engine...
