Resource, 1995, July

Features

• A Hollywood Model for Engineering
  It was similar to how a Hollywood producer puts together a movie by merging the efforts of actors, a director and special effects people to produce a single product. We were a virtual company, with a design and development branch, a software branch, and a manufacturing branch - located all over the world. Information technologies were the key to its success.
• A Contemporary Vision of Biological Engineering Education
  Approaching a vision of excellence in biological engineering will require developing new teaching methods. It means more than adding biology to existing agricultural engineering curricula; it calls for a fundamental reorientation of existing disciplinary curriculum.
• Taking a Position on Nonpoint Source Control
  Based on more than 20 years of professional experience with federally sponsored water pollution control programs, ASAE members make recommendations for reauthorization of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.
• Understand GATT's Impact on Patents
  United States patent law is undergoing major changes to conform to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Formulating new patent strategies will be important, since many approaches used in the past are no longer valid.

Inside ASAE

• ASAE's Name Revisited
  John Walker, ASAE past-president and chair of the Commission to Study the Society's Name, describes the evolution of "ASAE, the Society for engineering in agricultural, food, and biological Systems."
• New Staff
  Introducing Susan Buntjer and Joe Walker, new key staff members at ASAE headquarters.
• ASAE Historic Landmark
  Pole-framed building is commemorated as ASAE Historic Landmark.
• Engineers are the Key to Sustainability
  NSF Director encourages engineers to set sights high.
• ASAE Awards
  Kudos to the recipients of the ASAE 1995 Awards.
• ASAE Fellows
  Eight honored for years of distinguished service.
• Members
  John Herr, James Miller, Steve Kimes, Kenneth Renard, Robert Ward. Six ASAE members elected to new University of Nebraska Hall of Fame.
• Communities
  News from the Institute of Biological Engineering and the Puerto Rico Section.
• Professional Development
  Wetlands conference shaping up. Sustainable ag conference report available.
• Events Calendar