Engineering Education and Professional Development in Germany, France and United Kingdom-Examples for Establishing Continuing Professional Development of Engineers in Japan

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Rapid technological development, internationalization of enterprises and globalization of world economy impose to Na-tions to "produce" the best graduates, especially in science, technology and in economics. In particular companies are more inclined to recruit the best engineers and/or scientists whatever their nationality. For different reasons various Japanese or-ganizations have proposed the establishment of an Integrated System to support Professional Development of Engineers (PDE). This system will cover engineering education, training and practice, professional certification and Continuing Profes-sional Development (CPD). One of the targets is to have a national and an international recognition of the professional com-petences of Japanese engineers. Another target is to promote CPD to maintain engineers professional qualification and/or to give them the opportunity of career development by adding competences in different fields. In order to establish such modifications it has been decided to study what others Nations are doing in these fields and to propose "the Japanese way" which must integrated the cultural aspect of Japanese Society. This paper analyzes the situation in three European Countries, France, Germany and United Kingdom, having strong influence in the world economy. It also analyzes the recent evolution linked to the Bologna Declaration.
2003-03-31