技術者の在り方と品質工学の教育とのかかわりの検討

抄録

A study was made of education and the ideal engineer in relation to quality engineering. Education is essentially a stimulus process, in which it is important to maintain a balance with the transmission of knowledge. The importance of the stimulus process was elucidated by observing students, responses in quality engineering education at universities. Through a series of discussions, our research group members have come to an understanding that quality engineering rests on the balance between methodologies and perception (philosophy) of technology; thus it is wrong to attach too much importance to either of them, A study of quality engineering research results based on this understanding revealed that such research results are born not from organizational activities but from the abilities or understanding of individual members of the organizations. This study also revealed that about one in every ten students actually engages in research and development activities after receiving a university education, which agrees with previous research results.