Describes a direct attempt to deal with creative abilities of students in design courses. Conceptual blocks (perceptual, emotional, cultural, imaginative, environmental, intellectual, and experience) appear and ways to overcome them are discussed. Creativity is enhanced when discomfort is minimized as in a classroom atmosphere of openness, humor,…

There is a need in engineering for adult education. Continuing Engineering Studies (CES) is trying to fill that need responsibly and conscientiously. (MR)

The interdisciplinary program at the University of Oklahoma combines the Schools of Industrial Engineering and Library Science. (Author)

Engineering libraries and information courses should be better utilized so that engineering literature ceases to stand apart from lectures, laboratory and practice. (IR)

References serving as introduction to the concept of programed instruction for engineering education. (IR)

Describes the use of programmable calculators in a linear algebra course at the University of Kansas. Reports that these calculators can exploit the opportunities of personal computing and allow students to concentrate on how to apply new mathematical principles to real-world applications. (JRH)

Motivates the use of feminist, critical, and radical pedagogies in engineering education and presents their application in an engineering thermodynamics course. Discusses assessment approaches and the limitations of liberative pedagogies in an engineering context. (Contains 40 references.) (Author/NB)

Embraces a communication in the disciplines (CID) theoretical framework and explores meanings associated with speaking competently as an engineer. Indicates five important features of speaking in engineering: simplicity, persuasiveness, result-oriented, numerically rich and visually sophisticated - all of which invoke the skill of translation.…

This article provides an overview of the accomplishments of Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Treena Livingston Arinzeh. It describes her exemplary work on stem cell research; her educational roots; and her work helping develop undergraduate and graduate curricula for the fledgling biomedical…