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which form is correct in the following paragraph?

...his training as an industrial engineer...

...his training as industrial engineer...

The Scholarship in Petroleum’s program is certainly the best chance Dilia has to learn new techniques and technologies that are not available in our country to take advantage of one of the main sources of energy for human use. Using this source is necessary but it needs to be done carefully to avoid draining it all, which is the reason I think his training as an industrial engineer can be complemented with this Master's to form a researcher with the capability to find sustainable alternatives of use.

Greybeard · Accepted Answer

Engineer is a countable noun: all singular countable nouns must have an appropriate qualifying determiner* (a/an, the, my, John's, any, etc.)
*There are exceptions but these need not concern us here.

tomofv · Answer

I think you left out the "a" in "2....his training as industrial engineer.." but either way, 1 is correct.
Try searching Google for "using a or an" next time.

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