This report consolidates information on the engineering population - numbers, employment patterns, educational levels, personality, technical obsolescence - and probes the implications of current social and employment trends. Included are: data and analyses of the engineering education system seen in the context of the changing world; the conclusions that the committee drew from this information and from its own knowledge; and the recommendations, which are directed to schools of engineering, to funding agencies, and to institutions concerned with certification and research. Among the recommendations are: that clinical experience should be provided as a significant and integral part of engineering education; that more schools should offer a "bachelor of engineering" program for students planning graduate study in the professions, and institutions must be evaluated as rigorously as possible. (Author/MLH)