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Some Specific Features of the Future Study for Training Forestry and Wood-Technology Engineers

To discuss the present education of graduated engineers means to consider the position of key factors of the Croatian economy. And to talk about forestry and wood industry, and hence also about the present study of forestry and wood-technology, by which engineers acquire the required education, means the obligation to take into consideration many specific features. In each individual case, each study component must be considered separately. Maybe then the answer will become clearer to the question: should the five-year study be divided in any case or, what should be the place of the second-degree study (graduated engineers) and first-degree study (un- dergraduate engineers). The analysis of programme structure of the higher forestry education at the verge of its 144th year of existence, and 57th year of existence of wood-technology, definitely shows some patterns. So, e.g. only during the period of four-year forestry study (1909 – 2004), which made part of bio-technological sci- ences, the biological component was doubled, while the technological one became 2.5 times lower. At the same time the natural-science component became approxi- mately 1.6 times lower, while the other percentage shares of study (mathemati- cal/graphical, economic/organisational, economic in general and others) ranged be- tween 0 and 10 %. In the past, wood-technology study was about 2.6 or 1.6 times shorter compared to two-, three- and four-year study of forestry, which also shows two clear trends: 1.8 times higher share of the so-called wood-technology component and approximately 1.65 times lower share of engineering component. In this event, too, the share of other study components range between 0 and 10 %. These few data confirm the trends of university degree of forestry and wood-technology studies at the Faculty of Forestry, University of Zagreb, and possible guidelines for their re- structuring and adaptation to the requirements for engineers in the 21st century

study of forestry; study of wood-technology; specific features; study curriculum and programme

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