July 1995
Volume 1, Number 1

Features

Physicists help build the next generation
Government, academia and the Big Three, as partners, design high-performance automobiles for the next century – Scott Fosgard

Problem solving with dimensional analysis
Small-scale experiments can accurately simulate large-scale events impossible to recreate in the laboratory
– Robert Schmidt and Kevin Housen

News

News and views
Burning bridges — the demise of a critical link between universities and industry – John Rowell

Technology policy
Frontier's end? Impact of budget cuts, from a speech by Senator Jeff Bingaman, at a National Research Council conference

Job prospects in flat panel display
Jobs — but tough choices — exist in market whose total world sales may exceed $20 billion by the year 2000

Departments

Editorial: Reinventing ourselves – Charles Harris

Letters to the Editor

Careers: How to fireproof your career – Anne Baber and Lynne Waymon

Equipment: Picking the perfect cryostat – Munir Jirmanus

Forum: Forum on industrial and applied physics takes off – Neville Connell

Business: You, too, can be an entrepreneur – Milton Chang

New Products