Discusses employee benefits offered to various manufacturing industry workers, especially for chemical professionals. Indicates that in the chemicals and allied products industry, such benefits averaged more than 30 percent of payroll in 1971. (CC)

Discusses the nature of chemical engineering and the duty charged on chemical engineers. Indicates that adequate institutions are available for professional qualification at various levels. (CC)

Discusses the characteristics, especially the commonalities, of four innovative educational methods: audio-tutorial systems, guided design, programed instruction, and the Keller method. Indicates that content materials still play the major role in student learning at present. (CC)

Emergence of four year degree programs in engineering colleges has posed problems for the conventional programs. Attempts have been made to revise and enrich experiences in conventional degree programs. One such program is explained briefly. (PS)

Patrons of an engineering library have technical requirements and idiosyncracies which should be considered by library planners. The results of a survey made by the Mitre Corp. are discussed. (DH)

The challenge to biological and extra biological survival comes down to man's ability to organize man-made environments that exhibit the subtle order found in natural living systems. Because of a misapplication of technology, many self regulating mechanisms are absent in contemporary human settings; they must be designed into future efforts…

Identifies four essential conditions necessary to implement an individualized curriculum. (SB)

Increased use of analog and digital computer simulations by high school students with a broad range of backgrounds is largely due to introduction of Engineering Concepts Curriculum Project (ECCP) into schools. Future expansion to a wide variety of interdisciplinary problems appears promising. Examples of simulations are presented. (DF)

Main focus of the Center is "the application of science and technology to the solution of problems faced by people in less-developed areas of the world. Adapted from paper presented at ASEE Annual Meeting, The Pennsylvania State University, June, 1969. (Author/WM)