Views the teaching of materials as content oriented, while teaching design is process oriented. Advocates the integration of design teaching with materials teaching through design problems in which the materials component plays a large part. (GS)

This issue of "Investigations In Science Education" (ISE) contains abstracts and critical analyses, prepared by science educators, of research reports published in professional journals. The 11 reports discussed involve instruction, problem solving, process skill development, teacher education and behavior, and attitudes. Each abstract includes…

Reported is an examination of the effects of a newly devised science course upon the logical thought processes of college freshmen. Five tasks designed to determine whether the student did thinking logically when presented with problems of conservation of volume, reversible operations, reconciliation of irrelevant variables, and elimination of…

Students are learning too many facts, and not enough emphasis is being placed on observational skills. An activity is suggested for college students which shows how observations are made and problems formulated from them. (BB)

Describes the basic concept of university-based innovation centers, which are sponsored by the NSF, to involve the students in the process of innovation and entrepreneurship. Gives numerous examples of success where the final outcome has been a new product or even a new company. (GA)

Describes the active role which regional Japanese laboratories are playing in specific fields of applied research such as: (1) pollution of the sea; (2) developing methods of coping with the exceptional variety of natural disasters; and (3) preparing for earthquake. (HM)

Second part of an article describing the use of programmable calculators to solve complex physics problems. (SL)

Defines and investigates a moment of inertia tensor for a quantum mechanical wave packet. (SL)

Develops a graphical method for studying the parallel susceptibility of an antiferromagnetic material. (SL)

Presents a simple model whereby the work per cycle done on an external agent, and a sand reservoir, by a reversible heat engine can be analyzed explicitly. (Author/SL)

Discusses the use of Problem-Solving Laboratory (PSL) courses for giving engineering students authentic design experience and knowledge of how to go about solving real world problems. (SL)

A historical analysis reveals that the journal has become increasingly the organ of college and university science educators, fewer women now contribute articles, and that Dewey's focus on reflective thinking and problem solving has continued to appeal to science educators. (CP)

Describes challenges to presenting a course in problem solving. (SL)

A Drinking Bird toy is used to stimulate scientific questioning and problem solving. Suggestions are given for using the bird to explore scientific concepts including evaporation, work, systems, density and dynamic equilibrium. 32 questions you can use to stimulate student investigations are listed. (AJ)