A new professional development of engineers is proposed. The engineer in industry is needed to own literacy besides his/her expertise. This literacy is divided in the following kinds; 1) General literacy such as foreign language and information skill, and 2) Literacy directly relatives to his/her own special field on history of industry and technology, future strategy of industry and technology, resources/energy/environmental problems, patent, ethics etc. This literacy should be introduced during academic education and enhanced by continuing professional development.

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A survey regarding the necessity awareness of general education and an evaluation of the current major system has been carried out for the undergraduate students of the mechanical engineering departments of the National Universities in the Chugoku-Shikoku area. The results showed that the students tended to have opposing opinions; the first being that general education is merely a part of the preliminary education process taken before the major, while the second is common sense. In spite of their opposing opinions, most of the students wanted a little more freedom in their choices of lectures and courses. It was considered that this trend was related to the existence of "General Students." In consideration of the desire of students to have more flexibility in course selections, we may need to seriously consider making changes to the current education system and evaluation.

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In this paper, the contents of the assignment of the Technical Communication (TC) course, which has been continued from 1994 at K ogakuin University, and the educational effects obtained by this course are explained. The TC is a method to communicate the technical information in order to understand easily. In this course, we gave to the students the assignment that they should create user's manual about a mechanical pencil or a stapler which they know how to use very well.
As a result, it is recognized that employing above assignment is effective to understand the TC and this course is necessary for students.
It is concluded that our trial brought educational effects a great deal.

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The latest graphing calculators possess the feature of computer algebra system, which is available in colleges of technology or engineering departments of universities. We will introduce some concrete examples of the use of an algebraic calculator in applied mathematics and applied physics, and then state its effectiveness in egineering education.
If excellent students learn engineering subjects with these calculators, each of them can deepen their understanding of engineering. On the other hand, these calculators will be very helpful for students with poor marks to understand engineering subjects. We can expect that the use of algebraic calculators for engineering education is considerably effective, for mathematics is indispensable for engineering.

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The definition of engineering ethics, science, technology and engineering, and profession are attempted to be defined prior to the discussion on the consistency of engineer's ethics education and engineering education. Particularly, although the engineering ethics has been systematically developed in Europe, many countries in Asia, America and Africa have been suffered for a long time by Western countries' invasion with modern developed engineering results. So, the doubts are caused to apply Western ethics for Japanese engineering education. The definitions of"engineer", "science", and "technology" are also discussed for their high importance. Two prerequisites are required to realize the engineering ethics in daily business of the engineers employed by private company. One is the higher ability of engineering which can be acquired in his university and the other is the guarantee of his status in his company. An educational system in the university, the graduate school, JABEE and Professional Engineer systemswere also discussed.

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Todays engineers are required to have ability to make technical documents about their products and to present them to the customers. Hence, the education programs to train such skills as planning, writing and presentation of technical documents are needed in engineering education. Particularly, such education programs are indispensable to the students who have majored in computer engineering because the products such as computer programs and software are illustrated with documents. However, there are few programs to educate such skills systematically in today's engineering curriculum. This paper reports a new method to achieve such ability using information technology. The students evaluation to this program was made in department of system and information engineering of Hachinohe Institute of Technology, and a positive feedback was obtained from students.

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