The Engineering Skills Assessment Program (ESAP) A Professional Development Tool

Abstract

Keeping up and finding the way to keep up is an almost insurmountable challenge for the engineer, industry and academia in today's environment. The timely finding, sifting through and determination of required knowledge, as well as the conveyance of that knowledge from the industrial needer to the educator to the professional doer defies the inertia and resources of industrial and academic institutions and the engineer. IEEE has developed a system with "short circuit" paths for passing s and knowledge, requirements between industry, academia and the engineer. The system provides for self assessment guidance, in and out of the field, and is a viable means channeling in lifelong learning. The name of the system is ESAP, or THE ENGINEERING SKILLS ASSESSMENT PROGRAM. The price of this system is the time of the volunteers who are needed to produce the compendiums of duties, tasks, skills and knowledge, along with a minimal amount of travel and meeting costs.