Nowadays information is acknowledged as a key factor for success. For engineers, especially, it is a tool for keeping their knowledge up to date and improving their professional skills in a wide variety of areas. In order to adapt their curriculum, engineering educational institutions have to set up and implement teaching in the use and management of information. The experiments which have been conducted in this field, show the advantages of such training and also the difficulties encountered. Their results allow us to formulate some proposals to set up efficient teaching including both training in use, production and communication of information. The ideal would be to integrate the different parts of the information training programme into scientific and technical specialities curricula. However, that supposes innovative pedagogical methods. Teaching staff have to take into account these circumstances to meet the information challenge of the 1990s.