Abstract
The rapid development of the technological world has created a tense situation between engineering educators and the ‘engineering consumer’. Industry sometimes develops faster than educators and students are able to respond. This paper considers some aspects of this situation in terms of systemology, indicating certain directions for maintaining adequacy between the systems in cooperation and providing internal homeostatic conditions. Examples are given for predicting bottle-necks in the near future in the relations between practical engineering world and the world of learning.