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Download full textShedd, A. Neal; Scott, Anita K.; McCullough, James M. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961
Because of the growing importance of the sciences in the society and the increasing interest of young people in pursuing scientific careers, the Congress of the United States enacted Public Law 85-875. One purpose of the law as stated in Section 2(a) (4) is "to develop an awareness of the satisfactions to be derived through a career devoted…
Descriptors: Educational History, Annotated Bibliographies, Science Careers, Mathematics
Swiggett, Glen Levin – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1920
The Commissioner of Education authorized the specialist in charge of commercial education of the Bureau of Education to confer with a small group of administrative professors in engineering and commerce for the purpose of discussing ways and means whereby a larger number of students in engineering and commerce might be prepared better for…
Descriptors: Business Education, Managerial Occupations, Engineering, Housing
Layton, Edwin T., Jr. – 1986
In examining the history of American engineering, this book emphasizes professionalism, social responsibility, and ethics. It explains how some engineers have attempted to express a concern for the social effects of technology and to forge codes of ethics which could articulate the profession's fundamental obligation to the public. The document's…
Descriptors: Business, Civil Engineering, Engineering, Engineering Education
