The new home of Temple University's College of Engineering Technology features an identical floor plan on all of its nine stories. (Author/MLF)

Reports on a workshop held in Chicago in March, 1978 by the National Society of Professional Engineers. The workshop addressed the task of planning a program of development of professional schools of engineering. (BB)

Reviews socio-political, economic, and other non-technological training for engineering students in the Soviet Union. (SL)

Discusses an introductory chemical engineering course in which mathematical models are used to analyze experimental data. Concepts illustrated include dimensional analysis, scaleup, heat transfer, and energy conservation. (MLH)

Discusses an introductory engineering design course in which students construct models to illustrate process or building design. (MLH)

Analyzes the field of process control in terms of academic and industry, and the relationship between the two. (CP)

Reports progress made in increasing minority enrollment in engineering. Minority enrollment in engineering has increased from one percent to 3.9 percent since 1971, while the total number of engineering graduates has decreased 13 percent over the same period. (SL)

The Soviet Union has established industry-based higher technical schools to fulfill the political principle of integrating education and productive labor, to increase efficiency and productivity, and to socialize students. (MSE)

Describes a mathematical salary-growth model which serves as the basis of an objective conversion procedure (providing a more equitable merit-pay plan). Also demonstrates how this procedure was used and discusses additional benefits (particularly pertinent to institutions using arbitrary criteria to determine pay increments and have lock-step…

Shows how a problem from engineering thermodynamics is used to teach process design. Advantages of using this method are noted. (JN)

Examines topics and issues related to training engineers of joint programs for the European aerospace industry. Forms of cooperation, European educational systems, and skills needed to successfully work as an engineer in a joint program for the European aircraft industry are the major areas addressed. (JN)

Explores three fundamental questions related to the young engineer's scientific mission in developing countries: (1) Why go? (2) What results can he or she hope to achieve? (3) What type of training is necessary? (JN)

British publications have been using the German term Technik. A comparison of the historical roots of the 19th-century education of engineers in Great Britain and in Germany shows differences in the origins of higher technical education in the two countries. The term Technik has a different meaning in Germany. (Author/RM)

Describes an experimental program to examine flow curve determination for non-Newtonian fluids. Includes apparatus used (a modification of Walawender and Chen's set-up, but using a 50cc buret connected to a glass capillary through a Tygon tube), theoretical information, procedures, and typical results obtained. (JN)

Presents results of the 1985 National Engineering Student Employer Preference Survey, comparing them to results of l983 and l98l surveys. Includes the top 25 employer choices (overall and by discipline), reasons for employer preferences, demographic variations, how employer images are formed, and other areas. (JN)