A case is presented for professional development citing a University of Wisconsin continuing engineering education program and several supporting studies. (MDR)

Presents the 1978 edition of Professional Women and Minorities designed by the AAAS to provide statistical manpower information on professional workforce in the United States and availability data for women and minorities within this professional workforce. Data show uneven progress for women and minorities in science and engineering. (HM)

A recent pilot study of nearly 400 engineers in the San Francisco area, conducted for the National Science Foundation, has shown that participation in continuing education programs is a more reliable indicator of job advancement than is inherent ability and drive. (Author/BB)

Reported here are the responses of a group of chemical engineering educators to questions relating to the use of a series of undergraduate chemical engineering modules developed by the CHEMI Project. (BB)

The set-up and checking-out of a simulated chemical pilot plant as part of a chemical engineering technology lab is described. (BB)

Reports that the High School for Engineering Professions in Houston, Texas, has graduated its first class of 20 students. The high school is the first of 100 planned to help get minorities into the engineering profession. (CP)

Long-term planning for professional training of electric-power specialists in Russia will have to (1) recognize the need for specialists to adapt to unforeseen developments in the field, (2) include new mathematics, physics, and computer technology, and (3) be prepared for changes in methods of production and transformation of energy. (AV)

Points out the growing role of computer technology in the Soviet economy and discusses the need for future electronics specialists to design and produce circuits using integral microelectronics. Specialists also will need to adjust quickly to changes in science and technology. (Author/AV)

Due to emphasis on problem-solving research in national concern areas, community college growth, and support from the federal government, community colleges can now secure additional support for science and engineering programs by forming cooperative arrangements with universities, neighboring industries, surrounding communities, local…

Summarizes the graduate enrollment trends in pollution control engineering and related areas for the period of 1970 to 1976. (BB)

The validity of the Test of English as a Foreign Language was examined in relation to prediction of success of fifty Asian students in engineering, chemistry, or mathematics. The test was significantly correlated with grade point average. (Author/JKS)

Two approaches to vocational reintegration of handicapped workers are described: (1) adapting the disabled to the working environment through treatment, therapy, counseling, selective placement, and prostheses, and (2) adapting the working environment to particular handicaps, with the assistive device fitted to the machine or tool rather than to…

Describes projects of the Whitney, Texas, vocational agriculture students, exhibited at the Future Farmers of America Farm Mechanics Project Show (at the Heart o' Texas Fair in Waco) in several categories for livestock equipment, farm machinery, farm and yard conveniences, farm electrical projects, gates, and woodwork. (MF)

Reports that recent studies indicate the demand for and salaries of chemical engineers is rising and is ahead of most other engineering disciplines. (SL)

Discusses the growing need for the inclusion of engineering liability into engineering education programs. (SL)