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1999 Annual Conference
Authors
Gordon Silverman
along with this tendency is recognition that over the pastcentury there have been significant shifts in the domain encompassing EE: Power transmission/rotating machinery to electronics; Vacuum tube technology to semiconductors; Discrete circuits to integrated circuits; Analog electronics to digital electronics; Fixed devices to programmable digital hardware.By natural extension, the design of computer architectures, with relevant concepts andtheories, and concurrent ‘hands on’ practice are considered a part of the educationalexperience of students needed to ensure success in the modern industrial/corporateenvironment. Hence the rise of CompE with its ‘classic’ complement of subject matter: basicscience and
Collection
1999 Annual Conference
Authors
Martin P. Mintchev; Brent J. Maundy
convert a personal computer into a virtual electronic development site and thussignificantly simplify the applicability of these CAD systems in academic environment. The aimof this study was to compare both qualitatively and quantitatively the student utilization of two ofthe most popular CAD systems available on today’s market, Electronics WorkBench andPSPICE. Twenty-nine second-year students and thirty four fourth-year students takingintroductory and advanced courses in Electronics (Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering at the University of Calgary) volunteered to participate in the study, which examinedthe efficiency of their usage of the two systems in various assignments. The majority of juniorstudents favored exposure to both
Collection
1999 Annual Conference
Authors
S. Kant Vajpayee
,workholding, factory automation, and quality assurance. The article is aimed at manufacturinginstructors who often update course contents to reflect what is happening on the shop floors.The presented overview is divided into three major sections: metalcutting, metalforming, andancillaries. The former two also include advances in the respective machine tools.MetalcuttingPC Rules. To use a personal computer (PC) to communicate with the computer numericalcontrol (CNC) system of the machine is now standard practice in most new machine tools. ThePC-CNC interface is effective even with older CNC machines. The newer machines are moreintelligent and capable of self-diagnosis. They incorporate 64-bit processors to boostprogramming and information transfers to
Collection
1999 Annual Conference
Authors
Ernest Tollner
typical soil andwater conservation topic outline to a more theoretically rigorous level, inclusion of problems andlabs relating to problems at the rural-urban fringe, including some additional topics relevant tothe rural-urban fringe and moving from an implied farm scale to a more explicit problem scalethat lies between the bench and the region is the essence of the transformation from “Soil andWater” to “Natural Resources Engineering” advocated herein. A more rigorous approach andviewing problems from a perspective of scale instead of production agriculture is a validfoundation for an engineering discipline which will command respect and be genuinely relevantfor years to come.2. IntroductionWith the demographic change in the “Agricultural
Collection
1999 Annual Conference
Authors
John E. Shea; Thomas M. West
3257 EVOLUTION OF AN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUM John E. Shea, Thomas M. West Oregon State UniversityIntroduction At the beginning of this decade, the structure of engineering curricula at most colleges anduniversities had existed since the early 1950’s, and reflected an emphasis on a solid foundation inmath, science, and engineering science as expressed in the Grinter Report of 19551. Therequirements for accreditation by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET) reinforced this traditional structure of the