Engineering Manpower and Training Needs of the Various Industries Vis-à-vis Curricular/Training Programs in Selected Engineering Schools

The study is based on the result of a survey conducted among establishments in mining and quarrying, manufacturing, electricity, gas and water; construction; transport, storage and communications and banking located in Regions 4,7,10,11 and NCR. The study shows that: (a) engineering graduates are mostly employed either in management/administrative or are doing low level technologies’ work and only a fraction of them are employed in work that requires engineering skills such as design and research and development; (b) engineering education is perceived to be either adequate or inadequate depending on whether the operation of the company is specialized or not; (c) most companies provide for the training needs of their newly-hired engineering graduate especially in management or in specialized technical skills, through on-the-job or in-house trainings; and (d) companies still deem that the following must be effected to uplift engineering education: more time for on-the-job trainings, improve facilities, improve curriculum and improve teaching faculty.