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An experience in teaching “cobol?” to graduate engineers

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Texas A&M University was involved for ten years in a program to train civilian engineers for the US Army. The engineer, the program's product, was to be capable of moving into positions of management and middle management within the civilian employment force of the Army. Most of the participants held various undergraduate degrees in engineering, science, or mathematics, and a few held degrees in technology or business. The structure and tenure of the program made it feasible for the participants to earn a Master's degree in Industrial Engineering.

Once on the job, many of the engineers found they were faced with large data file manipulation and information retrieval tasks. To many, this meant time consuming efforts and often additional training or help from other departments.

The authors believe that some of the engineer's job frustrations were inherent in the manner in which the computer's growth and application has influenced the pedagogy of computer courses related to engineering curricula. The authors also believe they have found one solution to the problem within the confines of the above mentioned Army civilian engineer training program.

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            cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
            ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 9, Issue 1
            Special issue seventh technical symposium on computer science education
            Feb 1977
            187 pages
            ISSN:0097-8418
            DOI:10.1145/382063
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              SIGCSE '77: Proceedings of the seventh SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
              February 1977
              187 pages
              ISBN:9781450374071
              DOI:10.1145/800104

            Copyright © 1977 ACM

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