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ENGINEERING IN AN INCREASINGLY COMPLEX SOCIETY 131 Michal McMahon, Historical Consultant and Department of Humanities and Communication, Drexel University, "Engineering Education as 'Best Practice': Historical Reflections on the Crisis" Nathan Reingold, Editor, Joseph Henry Papers, Smithsonian Institution, "Vannevar Bush, Applied Mathematics, and the Nature of Engineering" Martin Reuss, Civil Works Historian, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, "Politics, Technology and the Development of Hydraulic Engineering: The Influence of Andrew A. Humphreys" Alex Roland, Department of History, Duke University, "The Race to the Moon: The Experience at NASA" Jeffrey L. Sturchio, Department of Humanities, New Jersey Institute of Technology, "Crisis in Industrial Chemistry: Synthetic Organic Chemicals and World War I" Neil Wasserman, Research Associate, Harvard Business School, "The Development of an Engineering Organization at AT&T" Committee Members* George S. Ansell, Dean of Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Chairman, Panel on Engineering Interactions With Society Jordan J. Baruch, President, Baruch Associates, Washington, D.C. Erich Bloch, Vice-President, Technical Personnel Development, IBM Corporation Dennis Chamot, Assistant Director, Department of Professional Employees, AFL-CIO Aaron J. Gellman, President, Gellman Research Associates, Inc., Johnstown, Pa. Helen Gouldner, Professor of Sociology and Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Delaware Jerrier A. Haddad, Chairman and Study Director, Committee on the Education and Utilization of the Engineer Lawrence M. Mead, Jr., Senior Management Consultant, Grumman Aerospace Corporation M. Eugene Merchant, Principal Scientist, Manufacturing Research, Cincinnati Milacron, Inc. Robert M. Saunders, Acting Dean, School of Engineering, University of California, Irvine *Titles and affiliations are as of the time of the conference.