Abstract
An Internet survey was conducted with the purpose of elucidating the status of skill improvement in engineers and useful specialized lectures delivered at universities, and responses were obtained from 800 participants. The results revealed varying trends in the proportion of respondents who considered specialized lectures at universities to be useful, and in the specific titles of lectures cited as useful or presumed useful, if attended, depending on the specialization of the engineers. In addition, the results of the analysis revealed that about half of the respondents obtained support at the workplace for skill improvement. Moreover, the results suggest that the more voluntary learning was appreciated at the workplace, the better was the support for skill improvement.
