1. Staff, Committees, and individual members from various technical societies have supported NEW: Update in a variety of ways including publicizing the annual events, providing travel support to participants, conducting plenary sessions of important topics, featuring segments from the workshops, and continuing dialogue of curriculum reform at societies' annual conferences. In a like manner, NEW: Update has provided an effective forum for societies to dispense their ideas and information on services and products to educators.Google Scholar

2.National Educators' Workshop: Update 96; Standard Experiments in Engineering Materials Science and Technology, NASA Conference Publication 3354, compiled by Gardner, J.D., Freeman, G.L., Jacobs, J.A., and Parkin, D.M.. Proceedings of a workshop held in Los Alamos, New Mexico, October 27-30, 1996; p. 133.Google Scholar

3. NASA, the Department of Energy, NIST, and NSU have provided major funding for these workshops. Joining in the support are ASEE, ASM International, American Society for Testing & Materials, Batelle, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Boeing Airplane Company, Ford Motor Company, Martin Marietta Energy Systems Inc., the Materials Education Council of the United States, and MRS.Google Scholar

4. For information on NEW: Update 98, contact Jim Jacobs, School of Technology, Norfolk State University, 2401 Corprew Avenue, Norfolk, VA 23504; phone 757-683-8109,8060, or 8712.Google Scholar

5. To order departmental or individual copies of EMSET CD ROM, ISBN 0-13-648486-7, contact Prentice-Hall Inc., Order Processing Department 200, Old Tappan Road, Old Tappan, NJ 07675; phone 1-800-922-0579; website http://www.prenhall.com/.Google Scholar