The author describes an engineering and architecture course for junior high school students. It is a nonmathematical approach to understanding why buildings and bridges stand up and, basically, covers the same content as that of an architecture course he offers to Columbia University graduate students. (Author/KC)

Describes how to use patents as teaching tools in engineering courses. These documents can illustrate a field's historical and technological development as well as its current frontiers. (WB)

Presents the history, curricula, and faculty accomplishments of Notre Dame's chemical engineering program from its inception in 1909 to the present. (WB)

Summarizes the state of the art and speculates about future trends in chemical process control research and education in the United States. Most chemical engineering departments will continue to offer only basic courses, while the industry is likely to go its own way. (WB)

Describes a specific senior design course and its objectives. Explains the basic deficiencies and problems for design education in agricultural engineering. Also stresses the effect the project advisor has on students' attitudes toward design and the applications of the course. (SMB)

Contains ten basic teaching principles formulated from the author's past experiences. Each of the principles is illustrated by relevant observations in order to increase understanding and aid application. The author states that use of these principles will increase teaching success. (SMB)

Discusses different existing definitions for the rate of reaction. Application to common reacting systems and to isothermal recycle reactors is also discussed. (HM)

Presents three problems that can be used in classroom to motivate chemical engineering students at the college level. (HM)

Shows that upon incorporating an irreversible step into an otherwise reversible Carnot Cyclic process there results a diminution of thermodynamic efficiency and a simultaneous augmentation of the entropy of the universe. (Author/HM)

This issue is devoted to a report on engineering college research. The results of a survey of 209 colleges of engineering are presented. Information is presented on the officers, number of faculty, graduate degree requirements, extension centers for graduate study, library, research areas, and research expenditures. (BB)

Students of the Problem-Solving Project Group report on the results of a two-year study of how they solve problems. (BB)

Interviews with engineering freshmen show they are drawn to the profession by specific common interests, but their notion of what engineering actually entails remains hazy. (Author/BB)

Describes an Illinois Institute of Technology program that will promote scholarship and study of ethical issues to prepare students for engineering and other professions. (MLH)

Describes an interactive computer program that can solve most common control problems arising in chemical engineering. (MLH)

A report is given of different levels of degrees granted in engineering in 1975-76, summarized according to curriculum, minority group, and school. Technology degrees also are reported, categorized by school, kind of program, and degree level. (DT)