Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Center for Industrial Innovation is scheduled for completion in 1986 and will provide instruction and research in four areas: interactive computer graphics; manufacturing, productivity, and technology transfer; integrated electronics; and industrial engineering. The Center is a joint university, industry, and…

Computerization, a new mood of interinstitutional cooperation, and the emerging triad of university, business, and government will create major changes in what universities will have to manage and in how they will manage it. Universities must begin to plan now for the substantial changes brought by cooperative research programs. (MSE)

In 1979, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM) initiated a program to investigate methods of making Landsat (satellite imagery) technology available to private sector firms through a network comprising NASA, a university or research institute, local community colleges,…