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The article presents information on the aircraft parts plant built by Laurance A. Cooper for Rheem Mfg. Co. at Downey, California. It states that the president of Rheem gave Cooper all the power without any restrictions to complete the project. It mentions the reason behind Cooper's purchase of the beet field in California to install the plant. It mentions the technology and machinery used by Cooper to complete his aircraft project.

The article informs about United Western Investigation study program that is done by the U.S. Department of Interior's Bureau of Reclamation. It intends to get the water across Southwest of the U.S. which calls for rerouting water from Columbia river to arid California. The engineers admit that they can build a water system of any length if enough money is allocated to them. Supporters of Columbia river project feel that if California got the Columbia water it would solve the political issues.

The article reports on Project Enterprise, an entrepreneurship course offered at the Graduate School of Management at the University of California at Los Angeles, California. It states following the slump in the aerospace engineering sector, number of the out-of-work engineers are swelling, which have forced the engineers to focus on entrepreneurship. It reports 11 Los Angeles entrepreneurs with David Menkin, president of Menda Scientific Products Inc. will be heading the course.

The article reports on the municipal railway system in San Francisco, California. The railway system runs in a spinning flywheel which works on a principle wherein the weighted wheels serves as a highly useful reservoir of energy. It mentions that engineers use the technology in flywheel for less polluting transportation. It notes that the railway system uses two-third of its energy in climbing the hills of San Francisco which is recovered on the run down. It mentions that Swiss designers have created a flywheel-powered bus called Electrogyro which is used in Europe and Africa

The article reports that engineers have finished cutting across a wide range of sand-swept dunes in southern California as part of the construction of the All-American Canal under the direction of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

The article focuses on the professional achievements of 67-year old Joseph Baermann Strauss, an engineer, who has built around four hundred bridges so far. On May 28th, 1937, he will have another engineering achievement to his credit with the opening of Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California as the world's longest single spanner. His most important contribution to the field of bridge building is a concrete counterweight bascule lift to replace the old turnstile bridges.

Reports on the questioning of the security clearance of an engineer by the U.S. Defense Department in California. Effect of the agency intervention on the state sex laws; Effort of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California to eliminate the State Penal Code sections 288a and 286; Criminal propensity of employee Allan Rock.

Reports on the hearing set on the case of gay engineer Allan L. Rock who faces the revocation of his security clearance in San Francisco, California. Refusal of the U.S. Department of Defense to give the press and public the right to observe an earlier hearing; Responsibility of Rock in managing the Advanced Systems Laboratory and the Target Systems Laboratory; Statement given by his former wife Elizabeth Lionie Simpson in an affidavit.