Discusses five major challenges to improving technical communication skills of engineering students. A communication course which has been used at McMaster University is also described. (HM)

Describes the activities of the Writing Center Program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The article also discusses the basic principle behind the tutoring technical writing services offered by the center. (HM)

Describes a laboratory scale reactor that determines the kinetics of a gas-solid catalytic reaction. The external recycle reactor construction is detailed with accompanying diagrams. Experimental details, application of the reactor to CO oxidation kinetics, interphase gradients, and intraphase gradients are discussed. (CS)

Discusses implications of a new administration report on science and engineering education that warns of immediate shortages of engineers and computer professionals and of a trend toward scientific and technological illiteracy in the population at large. (CS)

Describes graduate and undergraduate program in Plant Engineering at Loughborough University of Technology, England. Central theme of program is that of failures which occur on plant. Almost all topics are related to deviation, maloperation, or failure in some way. (Author/JN)

Examines differences in unemployment rates and salaries between comparable men and women in science and engineering. Analyzes the current job market in science and engineering, explains the impact of federal appropriation decisions in this area, and predicts the supply and demand imbalances among scientists and engineers for the forseeable future.…

Describes a cooperative Ph.D. program at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, in which industrial and governmental employers participate with the Department of Chemical Engineering in training chemical engineers. (CS)

Ranks highest subject training needs for professional careers in industry as identified by respondents in the engineering profession. A competency inventory of a professional engineering program is proposed and discussed. (CS)

Details a proposal to establish an associate degree engineering technology program to prepare students to enter a state university system. This would solve the problem of articulation between a community college and a state-related university. (JOW)

Reviews findings of a government report commissioned by the White House to evaluate the quantitative and qualitative adequacy of professional scientists and engineers at all degree levels, as well as the capacity of the United States educational system to provide good scientific and technical education for all Americans. (CS)

Explores minority achievement and employment in the sciences and engineering, and offers a general outline of a counseling model for increasing the number of minority students in the sciences and engineering. (Author)

Discusses how recent regulations, standards and litigation have resulted in additional important constraints upon the design process. Presented are corresponding new objectives and areas of study in engineering design education. (WB)

Contending that present measures of student gains resulting from changed teaching methods are ineffective, the author proposes on "automated examining machine" that would enable students to monitor their own progress. This system would allow teachers to become friendly consultants instead of bosses or judges. (Author/WB)

Describes using undergraduates as student advisers to free faculty from routine counseling tasks in undergraduate engineering programs at Purdue. Describes how advisers are selected and trained. (Author/DS)

Describes characteristics of the master teacher which include dedication, scholarship, honesty, and service to others. Also describes the challenges, constraints, and rewards of teaching. (DS)