Addresses key issues facing universities which plan to establish instructional computer graphics facilities, including computer-aided design/computer aided manufacturing systems, role in curriculum, hardware, software, writing instructional software, faculty involvement, operations, and research. Thirty-seven references and two appendices are…

Describes advantages and disadvantages of undergraduate research in chemical engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Also describes a five-year program designed to eliminate disadvantages and complement the graduate program. (SK)

Reviews National Science Foundation's (NSF) functions defined by the Congress and outlines the budget request for fiscal year 1982 and associated proposed rescissions for fiscal year 1981. Reviews the role of the National Science Board in assisting the President by establishing policies and priorities, and by guiding NSF activities. (Author/SK)

Discusses the importance of improving the communication skills of engineering education graduates. (HM)

The Finniston Report, which states that Britain has been unable to meet the engineering industry's requirements for professional and technical engineers, is discussed. The response is that the national government has been remiss in allocating funds to support quality professional engineering education. (MSE)

Describes a competency-based, modular laboratory course emphasizing the synthesis and characterization of polymers and directed toward senior undergraduate and/or first-year graduate students in science and engineering. One module, free-radical polymerization kinetics by dilatometry, is included as a sample. (CS)

Describes the cooperative engineering internship program of the University of Louisville's J. B. Speed Scientific School. The mandatory and highly organized program features preparation in technical communications, and mid-internship evaluations. (WB)

Describes the consequence of increasing undergraduate engineering enrollments on undergraduate engineering programs, including heavier teaching loads, reduced research activity, tighter operating budgets, reduced student-faculty contact, use of nonfaculty personnel, fewer requirement and course offerings, and facilities and equipment inadequacies.…

Describes the mandatory continuing education requirements, for professional engineers that have been enacted into law in some states. The requirements could be satisfied by taking a certain number of professional development hours (PDH), continuing education units (CEU), or any other activities acceptable to the state board. (GA)

Describes the process dynamics and control program developed by the chemical engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Undergraduate and graduate control courses and real-time computing courses are included. (HM)

Described is a graduate course in the process control curriculum at the University of Wisconsin that integrates real-time computing into process control teaching. Lecture topics and recent graduate laboratory projects are presented. (BT)

Described is a graduate and senior level course utilizing the case study approach in chemical engineering at the University of Delaware that stresses the function and economics of the chemical processing industry. A history of the course development, course outline, and teaching methods used are included. (BT)

Technical schools can be the basis of a new liberal arts education that breaks down artificial distinctions between classical liberal arts and technology. (Author)

Describes the development of product design engineering, a successful student-centered interdisciplinary elective that blends critical thinking with curriculum integration, authentic assessment, practical problem solving, and hands-on engagement in a Virginia high school. The goal is to analyze the meaning of engineering as a profession and…

At the heart of the Royal Air Force's revised basic engineering training is competency based assessment. Discusses the need for: new technologies, different skills, new competences, appropriate expectations, systems awareness, and skills integration. Examines training requirements; approach used (task analysis, final criterion test, interim tests,…