In the early part of January, 1993, engineers and historians at Georgia Tech joined together to draft a proposal to SUCCEED, a national engineering education coalition funded by the National Science Foundation. This mvel collaboration of academics who do not ususally work together;imagined an evenmental course that would integrate humanities and engineering education in order to provide a braod context for understanding the role of engineering and the engineering profession in modem society. Primarily aimed at beginning students in electrical engineering, this pilotproject would develop a set of modular units, each one of which incorporate materials on engineering design or on issues related to engineering professionalism, and which would link that information to economic, political or social considerations. In this fashion, the creative work of engineers, past and present9 could be analyzed both in terms of technical detail and in terms of the human context in which engineering always takes place. The course was presented at Georgia Tech for the$rst time in the Spring Quarter of 1995, and it will be repeated in the Winter Quarter, 1996. We present here a progress report that describes the planning, organization and objectives of the course, and that concludes with some observations on the work yet to be done in order to make the course materials we have developed usable by others.

Effective Business Letters. By E. H. GARDNER. New York: TheRonald Press, I9I5. Pp. xii+376. This is by far the best book on the subject of correspondence which has come to the notice of the writer. It is really a complete manual for business correspondence, equally suitable for the business man and the high-school student of correspondence.One thing differentiates this volume from its many predecessors as a highschool textbook and that is the absence of the numerous exercises in grammar. A knowledge of grammar is presupposed, and the time of the student, and of the teacher, is not wasted in needless review of elementary principles of grammar, which should be confined to the first or second year of the high-school course. The chapter on "Mistakes in Language" will serve to call the attention of the student to the usual grammatical errors found in business letters. This book aims to place the study of correspondence where it really belongs, in the third or fourth year of the high-school course.The exercises provided by the author afford every opportunity for outside work on the part of the student. These exercises aim to bring to the attention of the student the principles of correspondence as actually applied in practical business. The letters shown in the text as illustrations are very valuable, and give the student an idea of what actual business letters, of the various types discussed, really look like as they come from the offices of business concerns.One feature of the author's plan is not shown in the text-outline plans for the high-school teacher, giving full and complete illustrations of the method of procedure for some forty lessons. This feature of the book will make it of great value, especially to the teacher who has a good knowledge of English but who has not had experience as a teacher of correspondence. The exercises, while they may look to be very much beyond the ability of the average "highschool Junior or Senior," are, in fact, no more difficult than those found in a half dozen or more correspondence texts now used in many high schools. These exercises aim to develop the judgment of the student as to what a good business letter should be in every detail. The author's aim is to have the student learn how to write "effective business letters" by actually writing letters of the various types studied.All in all, this book is so far ahead of every other correspondence textbook on the market that it ought readily to find a place on the list of high school textbooks.