Discusses the approach taken to introduce computers/computing into the curriculum at Brighton Polytechnic's Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering. Also lists aims of computing and microprocessor work, shows a typical computer exercise, and discusses polynomial approximation for a cam. (JN)

In this team teaching effort, the psychology teachers planned the course together, prepared the exams together, and most important, when one instructor was lecturing, the other attended the class acting as an observer-participant. (RM)

Describes a course for chemical engineers, chemists, and petroleum engineers that focuses on colloid and surface science. Major topic areas in the course include capillarity, surface thermodynamics, adsorption contact angle, micelle formation, solubilization in micelles, emulsions, foams, and applications. (JN)

A special-topics course in polymer processing has acquired regular course status. Course goals, content (including such new topics as polymer applications in microelectronics), and selected term projects are described. (JN)

Describes a course designed to show similarities between electrochemistry and corrosion engineering and to show graduate students that electrochemical and corrosion engineering can be accomplished by extending their knowledge of chemical engineering models. Includes course outline, textbooks selected, and teaching methods used. (JN)

Describes a college course which examines fundamental issues concerning governmental regulation. Topics covered include: the development of regulatory agencies, their functions, both intended and unintended impact, and suggested reform of federal regulation. (RM)

Describes a course that uses a network of microcomputers to teach students machine language and assembler programing. The course is intended to teach what the computer can do and what its limitations are, understandings that are often obscured when students work in high-level programing languages. (Author/IRT)

Presents a course, Physics and Time, that centers on a few topics that students with limited mathematics training and no previous science can explore in depth. Discusses concepts of time, measuring time, arrows of time, and linearity versus nonlinearity. (JRH)

An instructional robotics laboratory that is unique in the United States was created in 1984 at the University of New Mexico. Descriptions of the laboratory, course work offered, student projects, and other areas are provided. (JN)

The organization and contents of a linear algebra course for chemical engineers are described. The course, which emphasizes both abstraction and application, meets twice a week for two hours and runs largely as a lecture, although active student participation is encouraged by frequent questions from the instructor. (JN)

Describes the major aspects of a 20-lecture introductory course for environmental science students, showing how microcomputers can help teach dynamic systems concepts. Also discusses the continuous stirred tank reactor as a simple dynamic system, higher order systems, frequency response, nonlinear systems, and feedback control. (JN)

Under faculty supervision, a college student enrolled in a "Sensation and Perception" course constructed a light box, which generated some surprising and interesting color effects. (RM)

Suggests that having political science college students perform in class Machiavelli's play "Mandragola" is an excellent way to expand student's appreciation of Machiavelli. Article provides a synopsis of the play, discusses Machiavelli's intent, examines the meaning of the play, and presents classroom logistics. (RM)

Describes an animal laboratory course using male Siamese fighting fish which is inexpensive, compact, and permits students to conduct a wide variety of behavioral investigations. (Author/CK)

The article describes organizing a seminar in the humanities as a "metalogue" where the object of study is both a text and the occasion itself, as well as the conscious analogical relation between the two. Two examples of the seminar as metalogue are offered. (Author/DB)