In-Service Graduate Training

IT IS generally recognized that professional experience really begins when the college or university graduate accepts employment with some agency such as a research or development laboratory. At the best, a college or university can only make a beginning in the student's intellectual and professional proficiency. Even if it could be admitted that maximum competence had been realized at graduation, the rapid growth of science and technology makes it almost impossible for even a specialist to keep abreast of the developments in his particular field of interest. Hence, continuous supporting study becomes necessary for even the most alert and active individuals. It is also recognized that creative thinking develops only in a stimulating environment where there is a philosophical attitude toward research and a quest for new knowledge. Hence, in addition to the important problem of providing further instruction with respect to scientific laws and relations and the interpretation of accumulated data, there is the still more important problem of developing minds eager to explore the frontiers of knowledge. Recognizing the necessity for providing conditions which foster continuous intellectual growth and development, many industrialand governmentresearch laboratories are now providing programs of in-service training for their scientific, technical, and administrative employees. These programs may be seminars provided by the agency itself or regular graduate courses arranged in co-operation with a neighboring college or university. They are designed to overcome the deficiencies in the training of the employee, to keep him abreast of the developments in his special field of activity, and to ensure that his competence be maintained at the highest possible level. They are also intended to foster creative thinking, without which the extension of the frontiers of knowledge is impossible. Because of the recent rapid changes in science and technology, the success of a research laboratory is determined by the employees' ability to analyze and to understand complex and intricate problems, and this ability is contingent on superior fundamental training, well-integrated thinking, sound judgment, and scientific imagination

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