Several types of equipment are described and sources of materials given. Included are a teaching calculator, a training oscilloscope, a bench-top testing machine, an electrical machinery laboratory and a microcomputer. (RH)

Several teaching aids including a microcomputer system, a process control laboratory, a mechanics laboratory, and a teaching polariscope are described. (RH)

This report presents information from phase I of a survey designed to develop quantitative indicators of the current national stock, cost/investment, condition, obsolescence, utilization, and need for major research instruments in academic settings. Data for phase I (which focused on the physical and computer sciences and engineering) were…

According to the General Accounting Office (GAO), scientific leaders estimated in 1982 that between $1 and $4 billion was necessary to update university research equipment. Because of this large cost variance, GAO was requested to assess how well past studies have defined the nationwide deficiency in university research equipment and to suggest…

The analysis of data from the baseline cycle of the National Science Foundation instrumentation survey has two principal objectives, namely, to construct and examine a variety of quantitative statistical indicators describing major characteristics of the current national stock of academic research equipment and to document differences among…