Scientific Glassblowing Technology: A Suggested Two-Year Post High School Curriculum

New Brunswick, New Jersey: The State University, 1972. — 101 p.This curriculum guide, designed as an aid in planning and developing a 2-year post-secondary curriculum in scientific glass technology, provides guidelines for the use of administrators, supervisors, and teachers. Developed by a regional group of faculty and staff at a technical institute, this suggested curriculum outline would also be applicable for a part-time program for employed adults. A program rationale, resource lists, and descriptions of laboratory experiments are included. General program development considerations are detailed, emphasizing the role of library facilities and the use of equipment characteristic of scientific glassblowing technology. Course descriptions for four semesters of 15 class hours and 15 lab hours each are presented, grouped into the following categories: technical courses, mathematics and science courses, auxiliary or supporting technical courses, and general courses. Based upon the experience of educators and industrialists with experience in scientific glassblowing technology, this guide should prove valuable for developing similar programs to meet local and national manpower needs in this field.The technological revolution of our age is built upon thousands of hours of scientific research. Painstaking laboratory experimentation is the necessary prerequisite for every small step in the process of discovery. Because of the unique properties of .glass, most laboratory apparatus is constructed of this material. The scientific glassblowing technician is the man who designs an d develops the laboratory glass apparatus essential to the work of experimentation. Consequently, he is a vital member of the research team. As we increase car scientific efforts to understand man and to place him in harmony with his environment, the role of the scientific glassblowing technician in modern research will grow to even greater stature. This suggested curriculum guide was prepared to aid in planning and developing programs for educating highly skilled scientific glassblowing technicians. It is designed primarily as a two-year post high school program. However, the guidelines given would also be useful in planning a part-time educational program for employed adults. The guide is intended for the use of school administrators, supervisors, and teachers in planning and promoting new programs in scientific glassblowing technology. It contains suggested curriculum, course outlines, lists of textbooks and references and laboratory recommendations. The courses are carefully inter-related and designed especially for this program. Particular attention is given to the supplies, tools, and equipment characteristic of scientific glassblowing technology. Library facilities, content, and use are stressed. The curriculum guide was developed under the direCrion and supervision of Benjamin Shapiro, Curriculum Specialist of the New Jersey Department of Education, Division of Vocational Education. Preparation of all materials was under the sponsorship of the Vocational-Technical Curriculum Laboratory at Rutgers, New Brunswick, New Jersey. The guide was prepared by faculty members of Salem County Technical Institute, Penns Grove, New Jersey, with the assistance of their scientific glass industrial advisory committee. The Institute has graduated scientific glassblowing technicians for more than 10 years. This experience was the foundation upon which these suggested guidelines were built. It is evident, however, that an institution planning any new program would do so only after careful evaluation of its own community's needs andresources and that its program would be carefully tailored. This curriculum guide is based upon the efforts of educators and industrialists with successful experience in scientific glassblowing technology. As such, it should serve as a guide in developing similar programs to meet local as well as national research manpower needs.