Abstract
The Soviet Union has more engineers — some three million — employed in its national economy than does any other nation in the world. In the past, increasing the quantity of trained professional engineers has been considered so crucial for national economic and technological development that an emphasis on the sheer numbers of engineers graduated from technical institutes may be said to have led to an overweighting of the labor force with engineers. But in recent years, shifts in economic policy toward an intensive use of specialized labor resources, and away from an earlier reliance on the extensive use of unskilled as well as skilled labor, have served to counterbalance the traditional Soviet emphasis on numbers of trained engineers. Currently, there is much discussion in the USSR about the quality of scientific manpower, and consequently about the quality of engineering education provided by technical institutes.
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