Abstract
The purpose of this study was to provide information which the Texas Education Agency could use in planning the development of electronic technology programs in junior colleges. The populations included principal employers of electronic technicians in Texas and junior colleges in Texas which offered electronic technology curriculums. Data were collected concerning (1) relative agreement between school and industrial representatives as to the amount of teaching emphasis which should be given various instructional units, (2) differences in teaching emphasis indicated necessary by representatives from different industries, (3) employers' and school representatives' estimates of the future importance of each unit, (4) adequacy of physical facilities at the various colleges, including plans for expansion, (5) inventories of laboratory and test equipment and hand and shop tools (both available and needed) at the various schools, (5) recently completed and pending course additions or changes in curricular emphasis at the various schools, (7) teachers' comments concerning industrial experience, (8) present numbers of technicians employed and projections of future needs, and (9) employers' assessments of certain general abilities of junior-college-trained electronic technicians. A series of 35 nun color slides representative of present school facilities was assembled. ...
Wright, Jerauld Bruce (1969). An investigation into public post-secondary electronic technology programs in Texas with implications for planning. Doctoral dissertation, Texas A&M University. Texas A&M University. Libraries. Available electronically from
https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /DISSERTATIONS -176202.