Closed shop ‐ closed minds the CEI exams and the colleges

The CEI examinations represent an important development in the history of engineering education. In trying to assess their impact on technical colleges, one must say that the views that follow are the author's and do not represent the views of any committee or organization with which he is connected. Yet they are views that, in part, one has heard discussed ‘in the trade’ as it were; making allowance for selective listening, they go in some ways beyond what any one person might say.