This study describes the characteristics of Victorian college engineering students. Ninety percent of the second-year full-time engineering students filled out a questionnaire and provided information on: country of birth, age, sex and marital status, type of secondary school attended, subjects passed at leaving and matriculation level,…

Subject Headings for Engineering (SHE) is an alphabetical list of terms currently in use by Engineering Index, Inc. (EI) technical specialists as a controlled vocabulary for indexing transdisciplinary literature of engineering and related sciences. SHE is the basic tool for indexing using the nomenclature derived from the literature of the many…

This document reports available statistics relevant to science and technology in Great Britain. The 52 tables are arranged in nine sections: (1) Scientific Research and Development in the United Kingdom, (2) Central Government Expenditure on Scientific Research and Development, (3) Overseas Technological Royalty Transactions, (4) New Supply of…

Basic geographic, demographic, economic, historical, and marketing facts and figures for cable television are presented in this short booklet. The data is succinctly arranged for easy reading and is intended to provide background information for state and local officials who might possibly be required to make public interest decisions in regard to…

In many industrial tasks a complex, interactive process must be controlled by a human operator in real-time, with or without the aid of a computer. In order to allocate functions between man and machine at the design stage, a model of human behavior and performance in such tasks is required. Progress towards such a model is analyzed. (Author)

This article discusses in tabular form the position descriptions and recommended income ranges for engineers as developed by the National Society of Professional Engineers. (CS)

A discussion of the history and current state of the art of anchors is presented. (BB)

Research and development (R & D) have been a fundamental of the human performance technology heritage. This treatise is intended to refocus the profession on the importance of R & D, presenting a classification scheme of purposes, methods, and categories for embracing multiple views of R & D. (Author/JOW)

Described is recent history related to polymer science and engineering. Developments from 1920 to the current time are discussed. (RH)

Describes the major aspects of a 20-lecture introductory course for environmental science students, showing how microcomputers can help teach dynamic systems concepts. Also discusses the continuous stirred tank reactor as a simple dynamic system, higher order systems, frequency response, nonlinear systems, and feedback control. (JN)

Expands on a previous discussion of FORTRAN 77 by describing one of its more powerful innovations--the block IF as the basic implementation for the control structures used in writing structured code. Also shows use of DO-loop as a natural substitute for the black IF in implementing control structures. (JN)

Is artificial satisfaction of our need for pleasure something we should develop? Article considered some of the possibilities. (RK)

Ergonomics is the science of work and workplace design. As an example of how an educational ergonomist would approach a learning situation, 23 questions on the use of an overhead projector are posed. (BD)

Following a widespread national trend, in 1996, a new two-credit hour course titled "Introduction to Civil Engineering" was introduced at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC). The class has a one-hour lecture per week, and a two-hour lab or small group session. One reason for the introduction of this class was to provide earlier…

To use the concept of probability and uncertainty estimation is a common practice in daily life. To assist students in learning the fundamentals of probability and statistics, not through the usual class and note taking, a group-learning and practical "statistical system" was designed. By connecting with the main statistical center, students not…