When handling hazardous gases, it is necessary to know their properties, precautions that can be taken to protect workers, and proper first aid. This article gives everyday rules for handling gas cylinders, and a brief first aid guide for 12 common toxic gases and vapors. (BB)

In 1978, this field was dominated by human needs projects such as rapid transportation, energy production, and waste disposal. (BB)

The area of geological mapping in the United States in 1978 increased greatly over that reported in 1977; state geological maps were added for California, Idaho, Nevada, and Alaska last year. (Author/BB)

Magnetohydrodynamics is a technology that could utilize the nation's most abundant fossil fuel and produce electrical energy more efficiently and cleanly than present-day turbines. A national research and development program is ongoing in Butte, Montana at the Montana Energy and MHD Research and Development Institute (MERDI). (Author/RK)

Guidelines are presented for recruitment, employment, professional development, and termination and transfer. (BB)

The three cases discussed involve the hiring of an engineer who had committed a crime and served a prison term, the formation of an engineering firm, between a professional engineer and a non-professional engineer, and a conflict of interests case. (BB)

Reports on a workshop held in Chicago in March, 1978 by the National Society of Professional Engineers. The workshop addressed the task of planning a program of development of professional schools of engineering. (BB)

Analyzes the field of process control in terms of academic and industry, and the relationship between the two. (CP)

This section is concerned with engineering services. It is an alphabetical listing of companies and consultants offering services including analytical testing services. Addresses are included in section six. (MA)

This paper describes an experimental course which integrates engineering and sociology. The course examines social systems with a social science and mathematical/computer approach. (JR)

The Soviet Union has established industry-based higher technical schools to fulfill the political principle of integrating education and productive labor, to increase efficiency and productivity, and to socialize students. (MSE)

Describes (in separate articles) 25 developments in science, technology, and medicine that have potential impact on the near future. They include discoveries related to space butterflies, drugs, twenty-first century software, experimental mathematics, brain drugs, egg development, ultrasmall microchips, the biology of birth, cancer-causing genes,…

Describes a course (titled Structures and Machines in Urban Society) designed to examine some leading ideas in engineering developed since the Industrial Revolution. Includes course content (covering four time periods, each characterized by a major technological development), course requirements, grading policy, and comments on computational…

Describes ways to reduce computer screen glare in schoolrooms with lighting arrangements originally designed for reading the printed page. Suggested readings are listed for additional information on the topic. (LRW)

Examines various types of private industry optical disk installations in terms of business requirements for digital image systems in five areas: records management; transaction processing; engineering/manufacturing; information distribution; and office automation. Approaches for implementing image systems are addressed as well as key success…