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A STIRRING SOCIETY
WHEN THE National Economic Development Council met for the first time on 7th March 1962, its objects were outlined as follows:
Notes and News
“At the time theirs must have appeared an act of startling originality — not to say folly; yet it is by such imaginative gestures to the future that the march of mankind is…
PARLIAMENTARY REPORT: The Expansion of the Training Centres
During the Budget debates, the Minister of Labour gave details of the expansion of the Government Training Centres, Of the total of 18 new centres, six would be in Scotland — in…
A PROGRAMME FOR PROGRAMMED INSTRUCTION
G. Harry McLaughlinBRITAIN'S NEWEST industry is now going full‐speed ahead — towards the rocks! Hardware manufacturers fight to sell teaching machines — many without programmes, and very few with…
The Impending Bill on Industrial Training —The Certification Issue
John WellensAs with most of the issues to be included in the forthcoming Training Bill, the issue of certification of young workers sounds pretty straightforward and simple. Experience in the…
Power in their Hands
H.V. GowersA JOINERY APPRENTICE, eighteen years old, relieved the struggling teacher of the power tool, and moved it with easy skill over the face of the work. The teacher stood back and…
Mechanical Engineering Laboratories —their design, equipment and use: 1 A TIME FOR EXPERIMENT
R.J. HartlesThe equipment of mechanical engineering laboratories in almost any college seems to lag behind that of electrical engineering laboratories both in sophistication and freshness of…
2 MODERN INSTRUMENTATION IN MECHANICAL LABORATORIES
Members of the Staff of Mechanical Engineering Department, Rugby College of Engineering TechnologyMethods in Thermodynamics Experiments. Instrumentation in a thermodynamics laboratory can be divided into three categories: measurement of flow, of pressure and of temperature…
3 SOME EXPERIMENTS ON MATERIALS
S.A. JacksonThere are two main areas in which the laboratory experience of many HNC students is deficient when they have completed their courses. The first of these is in the application of…
4 VIBRATIONS EXPERIMENTS
Members of the Staff of the Mechanical Engineering Department, Leeds College of TechnologyThe section of laboratory work which involves vibrations is often confined to simple spring‐mass systems, the vibrations being counted and timed by stopwatch. This must leave many…
5 APPLIED THERMODYNAMICS LABORATORIES: — some basic considerations on layout
W.N.C. MooreOne's freedom in planning an Applied Thermodynamics laboratory in any existing building is limited by the siting of supplies and services. Equipment associated with the use of…
6 LABORATORY NOTEBOOKS
R.W. SteedEvery student of mechanical engin‐eering has to do laboratory work. Very often, students record laboratory data, including results, on a loose sheet of paper which is destroyed…
PRACTICAL WORK IN THE NEW ENGINEERING COURSES … 7: Mechanical Engineering Technicians‐Part 3
J. LongdenTHOSE WHO have been involved in the teaching and organisation of Workshop Practice at the final stage of the Machine Shop Engineering course, will know of many fine examples of…
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