Educational reform, industry

Based on this consistency, industrial leaders in the United States successfully lobbied government agencies to fund science and engineering education reform, persuaded professional societies to revise accreditation standards, and created... 

The educational structure of industrial society. The needs of the dye industry stimulated educational reforms that were already under way at the university level so that at the end of the nineteenth century, Germany had the finest system of scientific and engineering education worldwide—and this system influenced higher learning in all parts of the world ... 

The introduction of more student derived costs will certainly affect the student population at least in the short run as the economy re-adjusts to such a change. As the British government has committed itself to increasing the number of students in higher education and to improving the industrial R D environment it is faced with a political dilemma. It is still too early to predict the impact of these educational reforms, but if these new measures do reduce the number of high quality science... 

Following a brief but influential career as an industrial chemist for Monsanto Corporation, Clark Landis began his academic career at the University of Colorado, Boulder, moving to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990, where he is currently a Professor in Inorganic Chemistry. Professor Landis was co-PI of the New Traditions Systemic Reform Project in Chemical Education and is co-author of Chemistry ConcepTests A Pathway to Interactive Classrooms and a companion video tape. He has long served as a consultant to Dow Chemical Company and is a member of its Technical Advisory Board. 

Chapter 7 is the climax of the book Here the educated student is asked to apply all that he/she has learned thus far to deal with many common practical industrial units. In Chapter 7 we start with a simple illustrative example in Section 7.1 and introduce five important industrial processes, namely fluid catalytic cracking in FCC units in Section 7.2, the UNIPOL process in Section 7.3, industrial steam reformers and methanators in Section 7.4, the production of styrene in Section 7.5, and the production of bioethanol in Section 7.6. 

A very interesting exception was Su ez Incl n, a prominent member of the earlier mentioned Comision Protectora de la Produccion Nacional and expert on the chemical industry. He played an important role in post-war industrial policy. See his project on nationalization in Felix Suarez Incldn, Industrias esenciales. Organizacion economica del Estado (Madrid Imprenta R. Velasco, 1922), where he proposed a complete reformation (Germanization) of the educational system and the nationalization of strategic industries such as explosives, dyestuffs and pharmaceuticals. 

Shizuishan On the one hand, the traditional industries like coal, electric power and metallurgy were reformed and promoted on the other hand, the new featured industries such as new materials, nonferrous metal, equipment manufacturing and fine chemistry were cultivated and expanded. Funds were invested, many kinds of jobs were set up, the reemployment and social security of the whole city were propelled actively, vocational education was developed vigorously and let the vocational education promote employment. The reformed and cultivated industries of new features have achieved 2.88 billion yuan worth of added value for the whole city by the end of 2007. It has created a stable social environment for economic transformation. During 5 years, it has achieved jobs for 870,000 people in town and has taken the lead in the implementation of the new rural cooperative medical care and basic medical insurance system for urban residents in Ningxia. 

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