This publication, one of a series of instructional manuals for industrial arts education, is designed to assist teachers as they plan and implement new courses to create environments that integrate classroom learning with students' real life experiences. The material is organized in seven instructional units. Each unit consists of objectives, key words (vocabulary), teaching aids (including transparencies), suggested references, a sentence outline of the unit, materials for students (such as exercises, charts, and graphs), suggested student activities, tests, and test keys. The seven units cover the following topics: introduction to computer applications, industrial computer applications, management information systems, computer-aided manufacturing, computer-aided drafting, computer numberical control, and robotics. Computer programs for various applications are printed in appendixes to the document. (KC)