Continuing Engineer Education in the Hitachi Group

This paper describes the basic concepts, purposes, curricula, educational methodology and evaluation procedures of the new continuing education for engineers being conducted within the Hitachi Group. This Continuing Engineer Education comprises three courses, i.e., design engineer training, production engineer training and quality assurance engineer training, for experienced personnel. Each of these courses involves a four week sojourn at a lodge for intensive education as the core of the program. These curricula place emphasis on lectures by corporate executives as well as on dialogues with them. They also include case studies at plants and laboratories in addition to class work on the technologies of various special fields.