Trends in Trainings on Engineering Standards

[anoop_gupta]

TL;DR Summary

I am trying to understand how the corporates are dealing the problem of skill gap in engineering industry and are they focusing on training of their engineers to speed up their learning curve?

Hi,

Could anybody please help me with the following information:

1) Frequency of engineers receiving trainings on standards/competencies set by organizations such as ASME, IEEE, ASTM, etc.? Average number of trainings per engineer per year?

2) Corporates spend per year per engineer on trainings for standard-based certifications and compliances? Is this spend increasing or decreasing and how much has been the year-on-year growth in spend in the last five years? Also, is this spend expected to grow in future? If yes, then how much growth is expected?

3) Key challenges faced by corporates/engineers in maintaining standards compliance, acquiring or retaining certifications, and understanding and applying appropriate standards to designs?

Any help would be of highly appreciated.

 

[anorlunda]

I don't think anyone could produce numbers like that for all corporations in all countries. Companies are likely to consider that data confidential.

Not all fields of engineering require use of such standards or certification of engineers. State of the art software in particular is often years ahead of standards.

 

[anoop_gupta]

I don't think anyone could produce numbers like that for all corporations in all countries. Companies are likely to consider that data confidential.

Not all fields of engineering require use of such standards or certification of engineers. State of the art software in particular is often years ahead of standards.

Thanks for replying. I do understand that company-specific data is confidential but I am looking for industry average spend on engineers' training. Many independent research providers publish average annual training spend across employee class based on their survey with industry. However, they do not talk specifically about engineers. Hence, if someone could share the industry average spend based in their knowledge and experience, I would be really grateful. Thanks