Describes a highly user-oriented conversational linear programing package for simulated laboratory experiences. The system allows easy problem entry, solution and changes, accepting free form statements of the problem and a few key words to describe each kind of input. (Author/TS)

Laboratory activities give students an opportunity to interact with computers in modes ranging from remote terminal use in laboratory experimentation to the direct hands-on use of a small digital computer with disk memory and on-line plotter, and finally to the use of a large computer under closed-shop operation. (Author/TS)

Four prepared computer programs are used as teaching and design aids in a senior-year course. They incorporate more than half of the mathematical models and analysis developed throughout the course. (Author/TS)