ORGANISATION OF ENGINEERING DESIGN DEPARTMENTS--PILOT NUMERICAL COMPARISONS.

To look for patterns in the organisation of engineering design departments, a pilot comparison has been made of numerical information on the employment of engineers, draughtsmen and technicians on design and supporting development in a variety of firms. The results indicate patterns in the distribution of designers by salary level and in the proportion of designers engaged in co-ordination of design. Some pattern also appears in the relative costs of design, but none of the results appears to have any relation to the duration of design or to the number of engineers relative to the number of draughtsmen and technicians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]