This publication presents the final report of the Meeting of Experts on Environmental Aspects of Engineering Education and Training held in Paris, June 17-21, 1974. Convened by UNESCO in cooperation with the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), this meeting was part of a series of activities that UNEP is undertaking or assisting, aimed…

Described is a three-year study which concentrated on determining why freshmen in college remain in or leave engineering programs. Three aspects of the study are reviewed, and one of them is analyzed in depth. The latter compares the perceptions of 2,600 freshmen while still in engineering to their status as sophomores. The categories of academic…

A selective bibliography of materials published in the area of commercial radio and television engineering covers relevant areas as well as some described as peripheral including lighting, management, and microwave transmission theory. Reference materials are grouped alphabetically by case studies, circuits, current awareness services,…

This paper describes a program in which engineering students enrolled in a technical writing course at Newark College of Engineering wrote science textbooks that were donated to the Plainfield Public Library and were read by third and fourth graders. The course emphasized the importance of considering the intended audience in technical writing.…

The guide, intended for use by training officers and field instructors in highway maintenance management, contains five courses with a combined total of 17 units of instruction for maintenance engineers and supervisors. The curriculum incorporates management concepts and practices of State, county, and city maintenance agencies which have…

This is the seventh in the fourth series of general bibliographies developed to disseminate information on documents analyzed at the ERIC Information Center for Science and Mathematics Education. Reported are 48 citations on Science and Society, of Science and Mathematics Education, 46 on Science and Mathematics History, and 49 citations of…

A national data program for the marine environment is recommended. Volume 1 includes: (1) description of the current marine data network, (2) analysis of current and future requirements, (3) delineation of priority marine data and products, (4) requirements and impact of technological change on marine data management, (5) evaluation of…

A national data program for the marine environment is recommended. Volume 2 includes: (1) objectives, scope, and methodology; (2) summary of the technical development plan; (3) agency development plans - Great Lakes and coastal development and (4) marine data network development plans. (Author)

Contained are the results of a survey designed to determine the demand for engineers and technicians in industry, education and government in June-July, 1968. Questionnaire returns from 926 organizations employing a total of 270,617 engineers and technicians constituted the basis for the analysis. Some of the major findings are that (1) large…

Developed by a subject matter specialist, this suggested curriculum guide is intended to assist school administrators, advisory committees, supervisors, and teachers in planning and developing new programs or evaluating existing ones in agricultural equipment technology. The guide provides suggested course outlines, including examples of texts and…

After a brief discussion of the position the Technion, Israel's institute of Technology and its only engineering school, occupies in the country and of Israeli high schools and the matriculation examination, this paper focuses on the successful and unsuccessful applicants to the Technion in the academic years 1967/68 and 1968/69. It discusses the…

The publication is aimed at providing school administrators, architects, engineers and production personnel with useful information in the planning of educational television productions. Contents include--(1) types of educational television, (2) preliminary administrative considerations for planning a television facility, (3) architectural…

A series of papers and deliberations of the conference are presented which--(1) identify the policies, practices, and procedures of the various agencies, (2) identify and discuss unresolved problems related to value engineering, and (3) derive conclusions regarding the future course of value engineering programs in federal construction agencies.…

The Atomic Energy Commission's survey of nuclear engineering degrees granted during the 1971-72 academic year shows a continuing increase in bachelor's recipients, a slight increase in the number of master's, but a continuing decline in new Ph.D.'s. If the present rate of decline persists, by 1974 the number of new Ph.D.'s in the field will be…

Social control and human engineering are vital factors in providing balanced, controlled, planned directions for educational decisionmaking. Designed to encourage individual growth, these factors are morally neutral; the way in which they are implemented determines their worth. (Author)