Adapted from a paper presented at the European Federation of Chemical Engineering Conference on Chemical Engineering Education, Churchill College (Cambridge, U.K., July 10-12, 1968).

This paper proposes that the key to a quality graduate organizational behavior education is developing skills and a critical analytical student attitude for evaluating organizational behavior research. The appropriateness of this attitude and skill development with different student populations are discussed, and guidelines proposed for developing…

This nine-point plan for reducing the engineer shortage includes a paper outlining the significance of the problem and points toward major causes. Section 1 discusses the American Electronics Association's (AEA) education program. It overviews cause of the problem at the undergraduate and graduate levels and outlines these nine mechanisms: (1)…

This study has as its main object the formulation of an approach, as global and comprehensive as possible, to the multiple aspects of the engineer's needs for scientific and technical information. The basis of the study is an analysis of the engineer's role, its characteristics, different specialties, levels of training, and categories of…

Jargon, when used properly, defines precisely and concisely the concepts peculiar to a profession. Within a profession, it meets the criteria for clear, brief, specific communication. When used outside that profession, however, it tries to impress rather than to express. Engineers and other professionals need to be taught when--and when not--to…

This study investigated alternative instructional delivery modes in two different short courses for professional engineers and scientists. Two math-oriented courses were taught to 130 participants. Each course was taught twice, once using the blackboard exclusively and once using extensive view graph projections (20 to 40 transparencies per…

This document provides statistical data concerning the national human resources of scientists and engineers. It presents an integrated overview of current utilization and supply patterns for U.S. scientists and engineers in 1978, continues with a detailed examination of the status of doctoral scientists and engineers, and concludes with an…

A survey of 531 electrical engineering graduates of the University of Alabama who had received bachelor's degrees in the years 1950 through 1974 showed that the educational needs of a majority of the respondents could have been adequately served by the mathematics levels present in the engineering technology program. In addition, certain subjects…

Forty persons attended this workshop, designed to identify consultants and orient them to the needs of community colleges and technical institutes when developing, revising or upgrading mechanical technology programs. Presentations by some of the nation's leading technical educators were followed by discussion periods and critique, both of which…

This programed textbook was developed under a contract with the United States Office of Education as Number 5 in a series of materials for use in an electrical engineering sequence. It is divided into three parts--(1) capacitors, (2) voltage-current relationships, and (3) simple resistance-capacitance networks. (DH)

A two-week orientation program designed to acquaint pre-freshman engineering students with material relevant to their subsequent curriculum was successful in boosting the students' chances for survival in both engineering and other academic programs. Verified by carefully drawn samples from three separate entering classes, it was found that the…