Plans for housing sites and entire communities should integrate and detail all the complexities of an area such as land contours, soil, vegetation, drainage, and ownership. Designers' personalized styles may create distorted effects when transferred to the three-dimensional environment. People living in the communities should be involved in…

Through intensive student recruitment, faculty planning, new undergraduate programs and acquisitioning of research and endowment money PINY, previously close to bankruptcy, is now approaching its goal of becoming the great technological university of New York. (KE)

After summarizing the Rasmussion Report, the author reviews the probabilistic portion of the report from the perspectives of engineering utility and risk assessment uncertainty. The author shows that the report may represent a significant step forward in the assurance of reactor safety and an imperfect measure of actual reactor risk. (BT)

Presents an analysis of the erosion of professional autonomy in the engineering schools. Outlines the dilemma of appropriate independence from academic tradition while at the same time keeping the educational and cultural nourishment of a university. (GS)

The article reports the thinking of various industry spokesmen related to the improvement of the national fuel picture. Estimates are stated in reference to recovery efficiency. Only 30 percent improvement in yield is estimated or expected. Techniques, such as Marathon Oil's Maraflood process, are briefly described. (EB)

This paper examined the responses of second and third year engineering students in the University of Melbourne to a number of open-ended exercises which tap problem-solving skills in engineering design. (Editor/RK)

Students in four biochemical and biological engineering courses for upper-­level undergraduates and graduate students were required to write a research proposal. Breaking the requirements down into segments (such as a summary with specific aims, rough draft, and final draft) due on different dates helped make the assignment more manageable for the…

The experiment described is an excellent opportunity to apply theoretical concepts of distillation, thermodynamics of mixtures and process simulation at laboratory scale, and simultaneously enhance the ability of students to operate, control and monitor complex units.

This guide describes the 1985 National Science Foundation programs. Proposals are accepted from education institutions and others; the criteria for selection of the most meritorious research projects are presented. The programs are listed by major category: (1) mathematical and physical sciences; (2) engineering; (3) biological, behavioral, and…

These articles deal with the proceedings of a 1974 symposium on the use of wet scrubbers for the control of fine particle air pollutants. Various wet scrubbers, their engineering, performance, efficiency, and future are discussed. Tables, formulas, and models are included. (TK)

Recent developments made preengineered buildings attractive -- both aesthetically and from a cost standpoint. (Author)

Any man-environment system is made up of subsets of the sets man, nature, artifacts, and symbols, and the set of interactions among these elements. (Author)

Efforts in recent years to combine technology with art have overturned previous attitudes toward man's conception of artistic imagery. (Editor/JR)

Describes the first published results of a study entitled "Selected Characteristics of Persons in the Fields of Science or Engineering: 1974." Eight fields were surveyed: computer specialists; engineers; mathematical specialists; life, physical, environmental, and social scientists; and psychologists. Statistics include male to female ratios,…