Adapted from an Address to the ASEE Pacific-Southwest Section in December 1966.

The author's experiences in preparing for the BBC an ETV series to assist in technical education and training illuminate many of the issues confronting the writer-producer of any ETV series. (LS)

The precollege career choices of National Merit Scholars and the extent to which these choices remained stable or changed 7 to 8 years after these students entered college were determined. From 1956 through 1960, the students' vocational plans were obtained from a personal data form completed during their senior year in high school. These same…

This guidebook is intended to assist engineers and applied scientists who have recently entered the United States to accept professional employment or to undertake graduate study. It is not intended to encourage professional people to leave the country in which they now practice, but rather to welcome and advise engineers who have already made…

Included are four papers presented at a 1969 meeting of the Engineering Manpower Commission concerning moral issues important to engineers and technologists. Helfgott discusses the social effects the development of a technological society has had, and advocates using engineering, natural science and social science knowledge and techniques to…

In 1964, the Engineers' Council for Professional Development appointed a standing subcommittee to establish a basis for accrediting programs of technical institute type--now designated as engineering technology. Curricula in the following educational institutions were considered: technical institutes (endowed or publicly supported), junior…

Contained are the procedures, results, and conclusions of a survey of the salaries of engineering technicians in the United States in 1969. A three-part questionnaire form was used on which respondents indicated the number of individuals in appropriate boxes of the salary versus experience matrix. The questionnaires were sent to the Engineering…

Issued by the National Academy of Science, this directory is a comprehensive source of information available on membership societies. In it can be found staffing, location, size, objectives, and other aspects of more than 500 organizations primarily committed to the study, development, and dissemination of knowledge. Included is a full…

Presents quotations concerning engineering education taken from the 1901 and 1926 published records of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). (MLH)