Physics in engineering education 1958
DOI: 10.1063/1.3060761
About three years ago a “Progress Report on Physics in Engineering Education” ended with the hope that “through pioneering and experimental, cooperative planning physicists and engineers will now enter enthusiastically and adventurously a new era in the teaching of Physics and in the teaching of Engineering”. This hope was the result of a report of the Committee on Evaluation of Engineering Education by the American Society for Engineering Education in June 1955. At its June 1958 meeting, E. Weber, Chairman of the Follow‐up Committee (ad hoc) on Evaluation of Engineering Education, made a more detailed report of the engineering sciences, which had been merely mentioned in the original report. It consisted of a number of individual reports of special committees, varying from the presentation of broad principles to detailed courses. The subjects were:
Mechanics of Solids
Mechanics of Fluids
Transfer and Rate Processes
Thermodynamics
Electrical Sciences
Nature and Properties of Materials
Engineering Analysis and Design
More about the authors
R. J. Seeger, National Science Foundation.
E. Weber, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.
