Sustainability in operations, production, and consumption continues to gain relevance for engineers. This trend will accelerate as demand for goods and services grows, straining resources and requiring ingenuity to replace boundless supply in meeting the needs of a more crowded, more prosperous world. Industrial engineers are uniquely positioned…

This paper reports a problem-based learning model for the training of university students in the area of industrial energy efficiency, and discusses its context, contents, and the results from its implementation. The impact has been significant, with hundreds of university graduates trained and many of them now working in industry, leading their…

Part 1 of a two-part series. Article includes material from the author's forthcoming new book, Innovative Programs in Industrial Education.

Project Open is an industrial-arts curriculum development effort designed to open up opportunities for West Virginia students to study the nature of technology and its effect on man and society. (Author)

These materials inform school administrators of the rationale of the Detroit Galaxy Plan and provide procedures for implementing the Plan. This program of occupational education for secondary Grades 7 through 12 is planned for students who intend to enter college, apprenticeships, or employment after high school. The Plan, developed by 24…

Contains tabulated results of a study on the similarities and points of divergency of seven contemporary programs in industrial education. Interpretations of the findings are summarized as: (1) identifiable curriculum elements, (2) general agreement between leaders about the programs, and (3) general agreement among programs. (GR)

Over the past several decades, there has been considerable concern for improving industrial arts education. The process of program and curriculum improvement involves not only the improvement of instructional content, but also the improved utilization of available information concerning the growth conditions of the learners a program is intended…

An approach used in reflecting industry in the industrial arts shop through preprinted instructions called resource units. (GR)

Project World of Work took place in Contoocook Valley School District, New Hampshire, over a three-year period, 1970-1973, with the objective of increasing the student's foundation of information, activities, and observations which would help them understand the American world of work. It was also hoped the project would assist them in securing…

To plan a curriculum for a vocationally based community school in Navajo, New Mexico, the Navajo Department of Education (with assistance from the American Institutes for Research) surveyed the nation for vocational education programs which had been developed or adapted specifically for use with American Indians or Alaska Natives. State directors…

Napier College offers a degree program that is science-based, but that includes courses in industrial studies and the social sciences within industrial studies. The aim and structure of the program, an outline of the curriculum, and the entering qualifications and employment prospects of the students are discussed. (JMD)

An innovative industrial education program for exceptional students, stresses salvation of the potential dropout. (GR)

Describes Wisconsin's cooperative education service agency program organized to help groups of small rural schools get special industrial education expertise that would be too costly for a single school to support. Presents K-12 curriculum descriptions for a cluster of five school districts with sequenced course content. (MF)