Describes management, evaluation, and advantages of a Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) approach with third-year students in engineering mathematics. (JN)

Lists 1981-82 chemistry and chemical engineering degrees awarded by American Chemical Society-approved schools and provides summary degree data for 1978-82 graduate student enrollments. Indicates decline in bachelor's and rise in both master's and doctoral degrees. Also highlights activities/reports of the American Chemical Society Committee on…

Tested the hypothesis that there is a negative relationship between the occupational specificity of academic programs and students' instructional satisfaction with students from three different academic programs. Results supported the negative relationship model with both statistically significant differences and substantial relationships.…

Scholastic aptitude and achievement records of 954 transfer students to the College of Engineering and 2,226 native engineering students were compared by sex, ethnicity, and school background. Generally, academic achievement of native students was supported over that of transfer students, with the exception of academic superiority of female…

Presents a brief history of the chemical industry in Mexico and discusses various aspects of curriculum development in chemical engineering in the past. Offers guidelines for current curriculum development and describes the program (including objectives and curriculum) in chemical engineering at UAM-I (Universidad Autonoma…

Discusses an industrial advisory committee as a means for continuing frequent and relevant interaction between engineering technology faculty and the industrial community. Organizational details are described. (CS)

Describes a course dealing with special functions and their applications to chemical engineering problems. Its major objective is to provide an adequate understanding and appreciation of the usefulness of special functions in the modeling of problems taken from various areas of engineering and applied physics. (Author/SK)

Summarizes findings of a 1980 National Science Foundation survey, indicating that the proportion of recent doctorates on the full-time faculties of science and engineering departments in PhD-granting institutions has continued to decline and that the proportion is below what department heads consider optimal. (SK)

Focuses on labor problems in Japan, including job-hopping, labor shortages, small businesses, working women, unemployment, white collar workers, and conflict between male and female employees. (SK)

Briefly describes an 8085-based controller for use with the Burroughs Self-Scan display, including display and editor hardware and software and the 126-item program. (SK)

Suggesting that physics need not be entirely mathematically oriented, offers examples and personal anecdotes illustrating how the applications of physics in other disciplines can be used to supplement traditional lectures and the physics of everyday phenomena. (JN)

Discusses the production of videotaped courses at the postgraduate level and their use by industry in the U.S. and compares this development with that of educational television in United Kingdom universities. An assessment of the future for this form of open/distance learning is given. Seventeen references are listed. (LLS)

The development of the University of Technology in Baghdad, Iraq, is discussed, illustrating how it has adjusted its work to national needs as expressed in national development plans. As industry in Iraq has broadened its scope, the curriculum in the university has widened. (Author/MLW)

Presents transcripts of freshmen engineering majors solving elementary physics problems to examine some limitations of formula-centered approaches to problem solving. Although students use formulas successfully, the qualitative conception of the underlying physical situation is weak. Results from written tests indicate that this phenomenon may be…

Reports the past use reactions to and experiences of teaching at remote locations through the use of electronic blackboards. Includes discussions of: (1) the equipment and its operation; (2) strengths of the system related to both remote and in-class students; and (3) mechanical, pedagogical, and psychological limitations. (SK)