MATERIALS AND MAN'S NEEDS -- PREFACE -- MATERIALS AND MAN'S NEEDS -- Contents -- CHAPTER 7 INDUSTRIAL, GOVERNMENTAL, ACADEMIC, AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES IN MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING -- INTRODUCTION -- MATERIALS IN INDUSTRY -- Principal Materials-Producing Industries -- Metals Industry -- Inorganic Nonmetals Industry -- Plastics Industry -- Examples of Major Materials-Using Industries -- Electronics Industry -- Electric Lamp Industry -- Container Industry -- Automobile Industry -- Building Industry -- Materials and Standards -- MATERIALS IN GOVERNMENT -- Introduction -- Structure and Funding -- Funding -- Governmental Laboratories -- Federally Supported R&D in Universities and Industry -- Research-Support Styles -- National Goals and New Role of Materials Science and Engineering -- Environmental Quality -- Conservation of Resources -- Clean Energy Supply -- Building Materials -- MATERIALS EDUCATION AND RESEARCH IN UNIVERSITIES -- Introduction -- Some Historical Highlights of Materials Education in the United States -- Instructional Activities -- Materials-Designated Departments -- Materials-Related Departments -- Materials Research in the Universities -- Magnitude of Materials Research Effort -- Materials Research Centers (Including Interdisciplinary Materials Research Laboratories) -- Research in Materials-Designated Departments -- Research Interactions with Industry -- Some General Aspects of Materials Science and Engineering at Universities -- MATERIALS MANPOWER AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES -- Materials Manpower -- Professional Activities in the Materials Field -- APPENDICES -- APPENDIX 7A -- APPENDIX 7B Some Examples of New Materials-Science Curricula -- APPENDIX 7C History of the Development of Interdisciplinary Materials Research Centers -- APPENDIX 7D Details of University-Industry Coupling Experiments -- Introduction.

Traditional University-Industry Coupling Patterns -- Present University-Industry Coupling Attempts in the Materials Field.