It is customary for engineering syllabuses to include a substantial amount of mathematics, a fact traditionally justified through their usefulness in the analysis and resolution of many technological problems. In other words, usually the role of mathematics in engineering is emphasized. Nevertheless, the opposite viewpoint could be considered as…

A method for incorporating community­-based oral presentations into the undergraduate chemical engineering unit operations laboratory experience is described. Examples are given of appropriate topics and how these presentations can be incorporated into the experiment sequence. Course evaluations reflect the fact that these presentations are an…

The main points made in a larger case study report of Technician Education Council (TEC) curriculum development in engineering design are summarized in this document. It includes background to the setting up of a Committee for Engineering Design by TEC, with a remit to produce guidelines and model programs for a Higher National Certificate for…

Agricultural engineering, an important new branch of engineering in Nigeria, is discussed in relation to available training programs, diploma and certificate courses, and evaluation of training programs. (Author/PG)

The fall 1976 survey of engineering freshmen is the third of a series of five surveys seeking to determine the characteristics and attitudes of male and female engineering students, and the changes in these areas as students proceed through their first two years in engineering programs. Fourteen schools participated in the 1976 survey. An 80-item…

A course in materials selection at the University of Florida is described. The course is designed to teach the student how to select materials for the construction of different types of engineering hardware and how to translate the operational requirements of engineering equipment into purchasing specifications. An outline of the course and sample…

At the request of the California Coordinating Council for Higher Education, a questionnaire on engineering education and technology programs was distributed to all public junior colleges in the state. Responses indicated the number of students who transferred to 4-year engineering programs upon completion of junior college. Four areas wherein…

Enrollment projections are vital to the planning of any educational system where capacity and growth are important elements. As a portion of a study of engineering education in Ontario, this document presents enrollment projections up to academic year 1980-81, that size and number of engineering schools to be needed might be established. Tables…

Recent developments in science and engineering indicate the need for systems approach to problem solving in the widest sense. Following the explication of the concept of a system, the scope of system theory and systems engineering is discussed and operationally defined, with characteristic features of the methodology of systems science and…

At the present time, nine of the fourteen provincially-assisted universities in Ontario, Canada offer programs leading to degrees in the field of engineering, and two others offer 2-year curricula in the field. This document presents a study of engineering education in Ontario, covering both the undergraduate and graduate fields, and examining…

This survey is the third in a series of studies of the salaries of engineering technicians conducted by the Engineering Manpower Commission of the Engineers Joint Council. The basic format for the salary presentations is maturity curves in which salary appears as a function of years of experience. Median salaries of all engineering technicians in…

Describes an experiment that utilizes a Joule-Thomson Demonstrator to show the floating nature of the pinch-point in a heat exchanger. (MLH)

Several types of equipment are described and sources of materials given. Included are a teaching calculator, a training oscilloscope, a bench-top testing machine, an electrical machinery laboratory and a microcomputer. (RH)

Reports on efforts by the Institute for the Certification of Engineering Technicians and the Engineering Technologists Certification Institute to construct job task inventories for all major fields of engineering technician/technologist occupations. (CP)

Provides a course description for a one-semester introductory unit in the fundamentals of surface interactions and their relationships to absorption and catalysis. (CP)