This article addresses the importance of oral communication and many of its fundamental underlying principles. Emphasis is placed on oral presentations, particularly those used in science and engineering. Following this, the author provides a brief outline of an elective graduate level oral communications course that was developed and utilized to…

Sophomore liberal arts and engineering students enrolled in a course to learn and practice some basic chemical engineering side by side. The course was developed around the theme of indigo dyeing, which has an interesting history, fascinating chemistry and is accessible to all students. The students participated in a variety of active learning…

Course objective was to enable students to practice engineering by realistically involving them in the solutions of unstructured problems similar to those they will encounter in their professional careers. Several past schemes are described and suggestions are presented to guide the potential user. (DF)

This report describes an undergraduate course in digital subsystems. The course is divided into two major parts. Part I is entitled Electronic Circuits and Functional Units. The material in this part of the course proceeds from simple understandings of circuits to the progressively more complex functional units. Early emphasis is placed on basic…

Important points are that invention and innovation are important elements of technological change, that creative engineering and innovation can be encouraged, and that understanding of the innovation process can be taught on an interdisciplinary base. Course involves developing a project to solve one of the important problems in the world today.…

Provides a course description for a one-semester introductory unit in the fundamentals of surface interactions and their relationships to absorption and catalysis. (CP)

A new required course for freshmen including participating seniors and industrial consultants in presenting and evaluating actual creative design problems facing their industry is put together with a creative engineering design project. Student responses were positive and enthusiastic. (DF)

Discusses the process design sequence at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, including course content, student assignments, textbooks used, and student projects. Author (now in industry) indicates that he sees the sequence differently than when he taught it. (JN)

Describes a course to enable students involved in research to gain deeper insight into some of the important areas in engineering. A working knowledge of FORTRAN was the only prerequisite. (DF)

In this course, half the time is devoted to presentations by industrial equipment vendors and half to presentation of equipment specification and selection manuals prepared by the students. (BB)

The syllabus of a one-quarter undergraduate level course in electrochemical engineering is presented. (CP)

The syllabus for a one-semester undergraduate course in biochemical education is provided. (CP)

Addresses the interrelationships between polymer science and education and describes a series of graduate courses to instruct the topics. (CP)

Described the chemical engineering graduate program at Texas Tech University for non-chemical undergraduate majors. Typical course schedules and syllabi are presented. (CP)