Describes MultiTool, a new programming shell for use in developing multimedia education and training applications with microcomputer-based software and videodisk-based images. Examines the objectives of the system and its limitations, analysis and design of a courseware module, and implementation details. (LZ)

Discusses two tools necessary for the successful practice of human performance technology: gathering data and interpreting data. The focus is on what data to gather, how to gather it, and how to interpret the data. (Author/JKP)

Fifty-one manufacturing experts selected 48 competencies that should be included in competency tests for manufacturing technologists and engineers. Areas include mathematics, physics, sciences, engineering drawing and blueprint reading, engineering materials, and statics and strength of materials. (SK)

Discussed is the projected shortage of Ph.D.s in the natural sciences and engineering by the turn of the century. Included are reasons for the shortage and three ways to reduce the projected shortages. Topics discussed include a complete federal strategy, attracting more minorities and women, and institutional reform. (KR)

Reports the results of a survey sent to 15,000 students at 31 top-ranked universities asking students in engineering, business, science, and the humanities if they had cheated during their college career. From the 6,000 responses, business students ranked the highest with 87 percent, engineering 74 percent, science 67 percent, and humanities 63…

Discusses design objectives for a project under development at Cornell University that will marry high-bandwidth networking to digital hypermedia databases to permit engineering students at distant sites on a single campus to work together concurrently and to improve the quality of engineering education. Pedagogical and technical concerns are also…

Describes an activity that looks at employment opportunities available in the fields of science, engineering, and technology. Includes expected outcomes, a student quiz, and descriptions of several occupations. (JOW)

This paper examines how participants in an engineering project, motivated by their existential strategies, unintentionally contributed to maintaining the same organizational factors they experienced as inhibiting their creativity, but were generally unaware of the effects of their actions on the organization's social sphere. Suggestions for…

A control group of 17 engineering students produced 2- and 3-dimensional shapes with manual drafting tools; an experimental group of 12 used computer-assisted drafting. From pre/posttest data, it appeared that computer models were no better at improving spatial visualization or orthographic projection skills. (SK)

Maintains that an understanding of software development models gives insight into the problems of writers and the teaching of technical communication. Focuses on analogies between the two processes and domains, and suggests concrete ways for writers to proceed beyond analysis. (SR)

Argues that community colleges can contribute to the pressing need to educate more scientists, mathematicians, and engineers. (PR)

Responses from 42 of 55 female and 92 of 110 male agriculture teachers revealed traditional preferences for instructional areas, although some equity progress was indicated by females preferring agricultural mechanics. Support for traditional beliefs in the advantages of single-sex classrooms was found, although male teachers acknowledged…

Reviews moments in the history of human factors that are especially relevant to the field of technical communications. Discusses human factors research that is applicable to technical communications. Focuses on qualitative usability research, minimalism, and human activity interface design. (HB)

Presents a protocol that can be used to discover that S. marcescens produces a bright red pigment when exposed to one temperature condition and does not produce this color under other conditions. Enables students to connect gene expression and environmental changes. (DDR)

Models administrative and operating costs surrounding a hypermedia database and identifies seven conditions for the cost justification of hypermedia. Concludes that cost considerations aside, hypermedia offers significant data retrieval benefits in accessing text, video, still pictures, and sound, and provides substantially better human…