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Profiles Chris L. Sagar, president of RefTec International Inc. Education and training backgrounds of Sagar; Career highlights of Sagar; Views on the immediate heating, ventilation and air conditioning (hvac) engineering concerns and issues.

Profiles John A. Clark, mechanical group manager at Bakke Kopp Ballou and McFarlin, Minneapolis. Educational and training background of Clark; Organizational affiliations; Career highlights; His view on what is the most immediate heating, ventilation, air-conditioning (HVAC) concerns.

Profiles Eduard Royzman as hvacr engineer and senior vice president in Cannon, Washington. Education and training; Organizational affiliations; Career highlights; His opinion about the most immediate hvac engineering concerns.

Presents information about heating, ventilation and air conditioning engineers and firms, including facility engineers, consulting engineers and mechanical constructors. Award received by George Benda of Chelsea Group; Why The Maintenance Team purchased certain assets of Peterson Bros. Mechanical Contractors; Appointed chief financial officer at Mechanical Services of Orlando, Inc.

Profiles Dennis J. Wessel, a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) engineer. His educational background and training; Career highlights; Wessel's opinion on the most immediate concerns of HVACR engineering.

Presents a calendar of seminar, course and meeting for engineers in United States from May 7, to June 12, 1997. Design-Build Health Care Infrastructure seminar in Massachusetts; Fundamentals of Facilities Management course in San Francisco; American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) meeting in Virginia.

Presents some executive officers of engineering firms who are promoted. Positions of the promoted executives.

Reports on the availability of the `1997 Affiliate Member/Product Cross-Reference Wall Chart' from the American Society of Plumbing Engineers (ASPE). Chart features; Contact information.

Comments on the ASHRAE Winter Meeting and IAHR Exposition, and what it offers.

Examines the rules of thumb of experienced engineers. Operation mechanics of quick-check process; Estimate projections.

Editorial. Makes observations concerning the increasing number of engineering graduates in the United States who don't land jobs. Data on unemployment rate of engineering graduates; Imbalance in ratio of supply and demand for engineers; Regard for productivity increases that may mislead prospective engineers.

Editorial. Presents the author's views on the social relevance of engineers. Engineers' roles as social servants.

Editorial. Comments on the contribution of retired engineers to the industry. One hundred year old engineer; Gee and Jenson.

Reports on the refusal of New York City operating engineers to work without a contract after stalled negotiations with employers. General Contractors Association on the expiration of contracts with Locals 14 and 15 of the operating engineers' union; Overtime and work rule issues; Contractors' seeking to relax terms in the expired contract; Contractors' offer of concession on pay in exchange for flexibility in work rules.

Reports on the plans of the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to sign contracts for up to $106 millon in engineering work in the fiscal year that began July 1, 1994. Controversial use of private engineering consultants; Professional Engineers in California Government as exclusive bargaining agent of Caltrans; Expected amount to be spent for outside consultants.

Reports that research engineers in Great Britain is primed to use polymer composites as primary structural material for top sides of oil production platforms. Budget for the Research and Development (R&D) project; Investigation team for the project hired by Marintech Research consortium; Advantages of the reduced weight of the materials.

Editorial. Elaborates on campaigns supporting the introduction of Proposition 224, a bill which is anticipated to assist state engineering. Perceptions of the Professional Engineers in California Government union; Contentions of opponents of Proposition 224.

Editorial. Looks at the concerns of California's Professional Engineers in California Government Initiative, in reference to a sponsored advertisement by the New York State Public Employees Federation in the Legislative Gazette. Indepth look at the Government initiatives; Impact of the advertisement on engineers throughout the United States; Indication that public agencies should have the right to choose who performs engineering and design works for them.

Editorial. Looks at the decisive battle in the war between Professional Engineers in California Government (PECG) and private sector designers. When the battle will occur; Amount of money spent by PECG to get the initiative on the ballot; Further detailed information on PECG and private sector designers.

Opinion. Comments on the issuing of the standard practices for engineers by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). Impact of the standards on engineers; How a plaintiff can benefit from the standards; Information on the need for ASTM to adopt a different attitude.

Opinion. States that engineers are in danger of becoming underpaid technicians. Indication of need for students to obtain practical skills and knowledge needed for the workplace; Function of schools; Suggestion of how to safeguard the status of the engineering profession.

Reports on the use of a specially designed simulator to test-drive highways before they are built, by engineers at the University of Minnesota Human Factors Research Laboratory. Comments from Robert Benke, director of research administration at the Minnesota department of Transporation; Indepth look at the simulator; Comments from Stephen S. Scallen, interim director at the research laboratory.

Opinion. Focuses on the need for engineers to change their perceptions about how they value their work. Reasons behind low fees that engineers are paid; Education of clients about value that engineers add to specific projects.

Discusses a controversy in California over outsourcing, a practice that government employees are opposing. Hearing with transportation department officials on November 13, 1997; Showdown between Caltrans and the Professional Engineers in California Government union; Unconstitutionality of 1993 state law broadening Caltrans' contracting-out authority declared by state Supreme Court.

Opinion. Comments on the role of engineers in pushing for sustainable development. Need for the incorporation of sustainable development principles in the code of ethics for engineers.

Presents obituaries for three construction industry personalities. Holly A. Cornell; Paul J. Morganti; Vinton W. Bacon.

Presents an obituary of Blair Birdsall, a noted bridge engineer and executive in the United States. Career history; Work on bridge designs including the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and the Forth Road Bridge in Scotland; Pioneering work in prestressed concrete in linear structures.

Presents an obituary for Mario G. Salvadori, one of the outstanding structural engineers in the United States. Career history; Books written; Teaching work at Columbia University in New York, New York.

Reports on the opposition of engineers to the model architectural law proposed by National Council of Architectural Registration Boards in the United States. Boundaries on the practice of engineering in the proposal; Tension between the two professional groups.

Editorial. Comments on the relevance of celebrating the 1997 Engineers Week to promote the cause of engineering in the United States. Changes needed to improve the profession; Groups initiating improvement efforts.

Editorial. Reports on the activities by the academe that are in consonance with the celebration of the 1997 National Engineers Week. National Society of Professional Engineers as founders; Hands-on activities and visual props in classrooms; Exhibits at the shopping malls, libraries on the practical applications of math.

Editorial. Comments on the implications of mass transfer of engineers from one construction to another in the United States. Mass transfer of BE & K Inc. industrial process division; Functional consulting groups; Company setbacks; Reconsideration of building and training of special units; Handling trade secrets or proprietary documents.

Opinion. Argues that architects and engineers can benefit by redefining their role in the rapidly growing design-build method of project delivery in the construction industry. Need for the design professional to form a strategic alliance with a financially sound or bonded general contractor; Commissions; Major risks in professional-led design-build.

Presents an obituary for Richard C. Elstner, an engineer from the United States who died of cancer on September 15, 1996.

Discusses the need to restore the dominant role of engineers in policy debates. Description of typical engineers; Engineers' social involvement; Benefits of engineer social visibility.

Editorial. Comments on how construction engineers are perceived by the American public. Engineers' contribution to society; Need for truth in media publications.

Reports on the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE). Decrease in membership; Reorganization plans; Estimated expenses of reorganization.

Opinion. Focuses on the difficulty for the design and construction industry of the United States to adapt to change. Issue on the authority of engineers to perform building design services; Implications of client demands and market efficiencies on the issue.

Reports that many engineers, architects and environmental consultants in the United States pay their employees overtime as straight time rather than time-and-a-half. Information from survey done by Zweig White & Associates Incorporated; What the Labor Department could do; Example of what the Labor Department did.

States that the United States Justice Department will not act on the National Society of Professional Engineers' (NSPE) antitrust complaints against architects. Comments from key persons; NSPE complaints that architects and their associations illegally conspired to limit the role of engineers in building design; NSPE allegations against the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards; How state statutes are viewed.

Reports that proposals for eventual cross-border licensing of engineers under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) are gaining strength. Concerns over the different licensing procedures in NAFTA countries; Approval of a mutual recognition document by professional engineering organizations in North America.

Editorial. Focuses on the opposition by engineers working for Central Artery/Tunnel project in Boston, Massachusetts against a proposal to use the New Austrian Tunneling Method (NATM) in the city's soft soil. Savings from the method; Concern on the failure of the method in Munich, Germany and London, England.

Reports on British engineers' installation of the `Osprey' sea-based wave energy machine off the north Scottish coast. Features of the project; Features of the device; Cost of the device; Comment by Allan Thomson, Applied Research managing director.

Reports that the National Society of Professional Engineers's board of directors voted to participate in the Mutual Recognition Document covering licensing of engineers. Agreement to grant temporary licenses to engineers of the United States, Canada, and Mexico to practice in each other's jurisdiction.

Reports that the California Department of Transportation has awarded a number of consulting contracts to seismically upgrade six toll bridges in the state. Professional Engineers in California Government's lawsuit against the agency in order to block its plan to lay off hundreds of engineers; Awardees of the contracts.

Reports on American Consulting Engineers Council (ACEC) president, Richard G. Weingardt's claim that engineers have lost social, economic and political ground and must fight to get it back. View that consulting engineers are not generally thought of as leaders or as being needed in leadership roles.

Editorial. Comments on the National Society of Professional Engineers' (NSPE) call on the US Department of Justice to conduct an antitrust investigation into an alleged conspiracy by architects to dominate building design. Debate between architects and engineers over their respective roles in designing buildings; NSPE's failure to consult with other organizations before making its request.