JOURNAL OF MATERIALS EDUCATION

Volume 19, Nrs. 4-6, 1997

Materials Education Without Boundaries, page 1
M.F. Petrou, A. Bailey, and B.D. Brown 
University of South Carolina, Columbia

Teaching Report Writing Using Materials Science and Engineering Laboratories, page 7
William D. Callister, Jr. 
University of Utah, Salt Lake City

How a Heat Pack Works, page 11
Robert A. McCoy 
Youngstown State University

Further Developments in The Computer - Aided Design and Construction of a Composite Sandwich Beam, page 17
A. Greasley, D. Gosnell, P. Legdard 
The Open University 
Milton Keynes, UK

Introducing Engineering Design in Materials Science, page 29
Kenneth J, Kauffman, David G. Rethwish, 
The University of Iowa 
Iowa City

Comparison of the Chemistry and Morphoogy of Volcanic Ash and Lava By Scanning Electron Microscopy, page 39
Matthew J. Kasdan 
RJ Lee Group, Inc. 
Monroeville, PA

Microwave Sintering of Ceramics, Composite, Metals, And Transparent Materials, page 49
Dinesh Agrawal 
The Pennsylvania State University 
University Park

Introduction to Specific Surface Area and Porous Structure of Solid States, page 59
Ludwik Domka 
University of A. Michiewicz 
Pozna, Poland

Simulation of the Thermal Cycles in a Steel Plate During a Welding: A microcomputer Program, page 73
J-F Zimmermann, B. Masson, S. Dufour, J-C Cuillere 
Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Electricite et de Mecanique 
Nancy, France 
Universite du Quebec a Trious-Rivieres, Canada

Fractols in he Material Science of Polymers: A Primer , page 89
Valery P. Privalko 
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv

Review: A Half-Century of the Journal of Polymer Science, page 101
John Wiley and Sons, Herbert Morawets 
Polytechnic University 
Brooklyn, NY