A Rand evaluation of activity and products of gaming, model-building, and simulation carried out under the auspices of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency aimed not only to assess the usefulness of gaming in military-political policymaking, but also to contribute to the definition of common standards and the refinement of objectives for…

Describes a four-week summer program designed to attract women into the engineering curriculum and ultimately into an engineering career. (MLH)

Describes the results of survey of librarianship students in the United Kingdom who graduated from college in the years 1969 to 1977. Tables displaying type of degree, professional position, and year graduated are included. (JVP)

The author suggests that there are five issues relating to career entry for minority professionals: decisions relative to ethnic character of possible work settings, validation of competence, level of profile, focus of effort, and role of intimacy. These five issues are discussed. (Author)

Reviews the occupation of professional meteorologist and discusses possible routes in this career field. (SL)

In this paper, the author lists and summarizes the responses of thirty-four large companies on questions concerning the industrial positions held by mathematics majors and company preferences in applicant academic backgrounds. (MN)

The author discusses beliefs or assumptions that have been prominent concerning counseling. He then discusses cultural and economic characteristics of the United States that would seem conducive to the development of a profession which embodies these beliefs or assumptions. (Author/JEL)

Educational implications for the future role of architecture are discussed, including considerations of architectural training itself, human use of buildings, the economics and politics of building and housing, and training in the aesthetics of popular culture. (LBH)

Characterizes the crisis in history instruction as resulting from low student interest and high unemployment among historians. Suggests actions by historians which might mitigate this crisis, including expanding course offerings to include subjects of global interest, offering innovative courses, stressing basic patterns of human experience, and…

Reports that total research and development (R&D) spending for the United States is expected to reach $40.8 billion in 1977, up 9 percent from 1976, according to National Science Foundation (NSF) figures. Employment opportunities for scientists and engineers should be improving. (SL)

Reviews jobs for chemists outside the laboratory, including production, sales, management, market research, patent law, personnel, public relations, science writing, and library science. (SL)

The percentage of black pharmacy graduates who returned to practice in areas similar to the neighborhoods in which they were raised was investigated using a 15-item questionnaire distributed to the 42 black graduates of the University of Illinois College of Pharmacy graduating between 1960 and 1975. (LBH)

Analyzing the different perceptions and controversies revealed in the papers prepared for the meeting on conceptual frameworks, the author presents a proposal for a unitary conception of practice with operational definitions of key elements. (Author)

Reviews topics from editorials in "Graduating Engineer" in the 1980's. Discusses the state of the economy at present, as well as new technology and jobs in engineering fields. Cites manufacturing excellence as a present theme in the engineering field. (CW)

Discusses development inadequacies of recent scholarship on professionalism. In the last four decades historians and social scientists have developed increasingly negative opinions of and approaches to the professions. They falsely attribute historical trends to the ascendence of professions in American society. (PS)