Describes an optimized learning activity which benefits students, faculty, and administration. Through a self-study program of minicourses, students can work at their own pace to meet performance objectives and take competency tests as often as they think they are ready. (Author/TS)

The teacher's role changes from a presenter of content to a diagnostician of learning experiences in individualized instruction. Common objections to the use of individualized instruction are discussed with reasons to overcome each objection. (Author/TS)

With the present knowledge about how the need for achievement is learned and how it operates, it is possible to design technical courses to stimulate this motive in engineering students and to develop desirable engineering action strategies for a wide variety of content. A sample application is presented. (Author/TS)