Engineering colleges and secondary schools

Engineering colleges are increasingly accepting an important role in secondary education-both to control more humanely the flow of students into engineering education and to initiate the development of public technological literacy. This interaction with precollege education must be designed within the contraints imposed by the secondary school system which has frequently been described as homeostatic. Even in a period of falling enrollments, heavy teaching schedules, and limited resources for change, relatively modest efforts by the engineering colleges (possibly in cooperation with industry) can yield significant results.