E-learning for the Automotive Industry

On Friday I found myself in a discussion with someone from an automotive engineering research organisation. We had been talking about e-learning techniques and the comment was: "but I couldn't include this in my engineering research report, as it is not about engineering". This didn't seem correct to me, surely the issue of how to train automotive engineers and then how to train others in the industry to use what the engineers came up with would be of interest. A quick search for "blended e-learning in the automotive industry ", found 315 scholarly references and 14,000 general references. This would seem particularly relevant in new and emerging automotive industries in China and India.