Engineers for Metallurgy? — the results of an opinion survey conducted among students at Dagenham

In recent years there has been a substantial increase in the number of Engineering students who are studying Metallurgy. Considerable thought has been given to the syllabus content offered to these students both by metallurgists and engineers, but the writer felt that a direct approach to the students themselves may provide some interesting results. With this aim in view a questionnaire was prepared and sent out, together with an explanatory letter, to every Engineering student who had taken Metallurgy at the South‐East Essex Technical College since September 1957, i.e. four academic years. The number of students totalled 328 and of these exactly 50 per cent returned their completed questionnaire. This it was considered was an acceptable statistical sample. The answers given have all been carefully analysed and the results noted, and from these we have endeavoured to draw some general conclusions.