Describes the environmental education program at the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources. Discusses the roles of environmental education, advocacy, and communication in the overall scope of the program. Outlines the school's academic programs in environmental education at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels. (TW)

Describes the academic program in natural resources and environmental economics at the University of Wyoming. Differentiates natural resources economics from general economics. Discusses the emphasis of the program on public policy issues. (TW)

Describes the programs of the Department of Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). Focuses on the graduate degrees offered in environmental biology. Lists research interests and courses in plant biology, entomology, forestry, civil engineering, and landscape architecture. (TW)

Describes the evolution of the long-standing environmental education efforts of the New Jersey School of Conservation, a division of Montclair State College. Discusses the various formal and nonformal programs underway, including the environmental education training provided to undergraduate elementary and secondary education majors, and…

Describes the programs of Huxley College (Washington) which were designed to provide an environmental studies thread through all of its academic endeavors. Addresses the development of the curriculum of both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Discusses its research focal points and its prospects for the future. (TW)

Describes the programs of the University of Washington's Institute for Environmental Studies which enables the university to interface between science and public policy. Discusses the Institute's courses (though no degree programs are offered) along with its efforts in interdisciplinary research and policy analysis. (TW)

Describes the environmental studies program of the University of Vermont, which has at its core a rigorous undergraduate environmental studies degree program. Discusses the development of the undergraduate program, as well as the research and service aspects of this fifteen-year-old effort. (TW)

Presents some of the work currently under way in the development of microgravity chemical processes. Highlights some of the opportunities for materials processing in outer space. Emphasizes some of the contributions that chemical engineers can make in this emerging set of technologies. (TW)

Describes some of the features of Lehigh University's (Pennsylvania) process modeling and control program. Highlights the creation and operation of the Chemical Process Modeling and Control Center (PMC). Outlines the program's philosophy, faculty, technical program, current research projects, and facilities. (TW)

Reports on a study designed to determine the relative effectiveness of different instructional approaches on chemistry laboratory achievement. Investigated differences in achievement in spectrophotometry among college freshmen who received either traditional, learning cycle, or computer simulation instruction. Results indicated that students…

Highlights science learning activities and experiences from elementary and middle schools. Includes "Highest Tech Science," an innovative science lab; "Swap Meets," lessons exchanged by mail by two schools; "Students Ahoy," an outdoor experience at the shore; and two cooperative programs between colleges and elementary schools. (CW)

Concentrates on describing the implementation of the hardware systems based on the BBC microcomputer. Describes the electronic systems used to amplify the signals from the detector and to convert the signal to digital format. Discusses the software that must be used and the system performance. (CW)

Argues for a legitimate role of manually expressed engineering graphics within engineering education as a needed support for computer-assisted drafting work. Discusses what and how students should learn as well as trends in engineering graphics education. Compares and contrasts manual and computer drafting methods. (CW)

Discusses some of the concepts that are central to the courses offered by the Department of Technology and Society at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Emphasizes the integration of technology concepts into courses dealing with problem solving, space technology, military technology and environmental studies. (TW)

Reports on a study into the perceived problems that foreign graduate students in engineering pose to engineering faculty, as well as the solutions to those problems. Summarizes survey responses relating to communication and language difficulties, program and academic performance, and social and cultural factors. (TW)