Smartphone apps have lately emerged as a potent instructional aid for teaching engineering courses. Teaching engineering courses often involve explaining complex problems that require creative solutions to students who are typically tech-savvy. This article reviews 10 smartphone apps that have been developed to teach engineering courses. The apps…

A discussion of possible uses of computer simulation in high schools and colleges when direct experimental experience is not available to the student. Sample runs of three simulation programs are also presented. (AK)

At the State University of New York at Buffalo researchers have developed a method designed to eliminate the disadvantages, but to retain and improve the advantages of unit teaching. A large Computer-Based Resource Unit coded to students' individual characteristics and objectives facilitates teacher decision-making. (Author/ER)