Discusses a video simulator microcomputer system used to provide real-time demonstrations to strengthen students' understanding of process dynamics and control. Also discusses hardware/software and simulations developed using the system. The four simulations model various configurations of a process liquid level tank system. (JN)

Discusses the nature of and steps required in building an expert system. Includes comments by students given an assignment to choose a suitable topic and develop a small expert system related to that topic, as well as favorable faculty comments on the strategy. Also includes a student-developed expert system on rock-blasting. (JN)

Describes research investigating potential effect of input multiplicity on multivariable chemical process control systems. Several simple processes are shown to exhibit the possibility of theoretical developments on input multiplicity and closely related phenomena are discussed. (JN)

Discusses the need for North American assistance for chemical engineering education in Third World countries. Also discusses problems that Third World engineering teaching institutions face and suggestions for possible solutions to the problems, including international cooperation between developed and still-developing countries. (JN)

Presents results of a survey of chemical engineering departments regarding computer usage in senior design courses. Results are categorized according to: computer usage (use of process simulators, student-written programs, faculty-written or "canned" programs; costs (hard and soft money); and available software. Programs offered are…

Cites data on engineering enrollment, graduation, and employment for years 1952 to 1979. States that attempts to predict future student numbers and employment from examination of this data provides little guidance in arriving at conclusions. (CS)

Presents excerpts from an invited address given at the 1980 American Society for Engineering Education College-Industry Education Conference. Expresses viewpoints concerning priorities for the 1980s in engineering education. (CS)

Describes a one-semester, three-credit hour course integrating the fundamentals of kinetics and the scientific/engineering principles of heterogeneous catalysis. Includes course outline, list of texts, background readings, and topical journal articles. (SK)

Provides a checklist for microprocessor laboratories and outlines the programs offered at Milwaukee School of Engineering, where students are introduced to two microprocessor elective courses. (CS)

Describes a specific senior design course and its objectives. Explains the basic deficiencies and problems for design education in agricultural engineering. Also stresses the effect the project advisor has on students' attitudes toward design and the applications of the course. (SMB)

Shows that upon incorporating an irreversible step into an otherwise reversible Carnot Cyclic process there results a diminution of thermodynamic efficiency and a simultaneous augmentation of the entropy of the universe. (Author/HM)

Describes an Illinois Institute of Technology program that will promote scholarship and study of ethical issues to prepare students for engineering and other professions. (MLH)

Describes an interactive computer program that can solve most common control problems arising in chemical engineering. (MLH)

Discusses positive effects of using a personalized system of instruction, including self-pacing and modular curriculum, with classes of fewer than 30 members. (MLH)

Presents an engineering design problem that can be solved with the application of relatively simple mathematical concepts. The problem involves the design of a bulk liquid chemical storage facility. Students are told to store a given volume of liquid while considering wall height, thickness, and maintenance access. (DDR)