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Should engineers be taught at university in the same way as scientists ? In what follows, the author expands on a talk to the Midlands Branch of the Institution of Chemical Engineers at Loughborough University on February 22.
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JOHNSTONE, R. From Practice to Theory and Back. Nature 213, 1177–1179 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2131177a0
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