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Computing & Control Engineering Journal

Volume 1, Issue 4, July 1990

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Volume 1, Issue 4

July 1990

Personal computing—the tool of the mind
Book review: High Tech 1992
Management view. Information technology
Interactive computing: a revolutionary medium for teaching and design
  • Author(s): A.G.J. MacFarlane
  • Source: Computing & Control Engineering Journal, Volume 1, Issue 4, p. 149 –158
  • DOI:  10.1049/cce:19900045
  • Type: Article
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    Interactive computing is examined from a particular epistemological point of view which emphasises both the key split between subjective and objective forms of knowledge and the importance of feedback in learning and design. It is argued that the progressive and widespread introduction of intensely-supportive computer-based environments for design, and for teaching and training, is inevitable, and that this will have profound and far-reaching implications for the future of education and training at all levels.
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Continuing education and training
  • Author(s): Frederick Crawford
  • Source: Computing & Control Engineering Journal, Volume 1, Issue 4, p. 159 –161
  • DOI:  10.1049/cce:19900046
  • Type: Article
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    This article, which is concerned mainly with the graduate workforce, is based on a presentation to the British-North American Committee (BNAC) Working Group on ‘Living and Working Issues’, of which the author is Chairman. The Working Group's intention is to produce a report of interest to BNAC members and a wider audience of employers and unions, offering recommendations for action and best practice. The article is written to stimulate discussion on issues such as:• How should local needs for continuing education and training be determined, and strategies be defined at the graduate, nongraduate, professional, vocational and general education levels?• What modes of provision are available, at what locations, e.g.at the workplace, at home, on campus, and at what relative cost?• How should optimum levels of expenditure on continuing education and training be determined (are there analogies with R&D)?• Since both the employer and employee benefit, should there be coinvestment; i.e.should costs be shared between them?• How can the success of continuing education and training programmes be evaluated (are there analogies with R&D)?
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Contracts & Orders
Engineering and the Single Market
  • Author(s): John Drew
  • Source: Computing & Control Engineering Journal, Volume 1, Issue 4, p. 163 –166
  • DOI:  10.1049/cce:19900048
  • Type: Article
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    The European Community is now well on its way to becoming an integrated single market. By the end of 1992, goods, services, capital and people will move freely across the internal borders of the 12 Member States to create a unified market of some 320 million people. The implications of the single market will have profound effects both for the members of the Community and their trading partners, especially their main competitors: the USA and Japan. This article provides industrial awareness of important issues by highlighting specific areas that will present implications for the engineering industries. It then suggests ways in which companies can evaluate their current position to take account of future changes. There are many new and exciting opportunities, but preparation is needed now so that such opportunities can be capitalised upon.
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Mobile robotics: moving away from the intellectual
Neurons, N-tuples and faces
Computer science and technology at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
  • Author(s): Wang Erqian ; Li San Li ; D.R. Wilson
  • Source: Computing & Control Engineering Journal, Volume 1, Issue 4, p. 184 –186
  • DOI:  10.1049/cce:19900051
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    Chinese technical education was severely curtailed during the cultural revolution, when senior professors often experienced great difficulties. However, ten years after the open-door policy was initiated, radical changes to computing and engineering curricula had been completed. The new computing curricula are modelled on ACM/IEEE recommendations, albeit set in a Chinese cultural environment, and in general Tsinghua is supported by modern US technology. This article is based on a recent visit (December 1989) by the UK author
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Book review: Road Traffic Monitoring
Detecting faults in fermentation processes
  • Author(s): N.F. Thornhill
  • Source: Computing & Control Engineering Journal, Volume 1, Issue 4, p. 187 –192
  • DOI:  10.1049/cce:19900053
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    Fermentation processes are involved in the production of pharmaceuticals (e.g. antibiotics), chemicals and bulk enzymes (e.g. citric acid, washing-powder enzymes), numerous foods and beverages, waste water treatment and in agriculture (e.g. silage). There are problems, particularly of process complexity and variability, that make fault detection and analysis in fermentation somewhat more difficult than in other process industries. The intention of this article is to illustrate present industrial practices of ‘high-value’ fermentation processes, to survey the techniques that are beginning to be applied and to highlight what seem to be the most relevant developments.
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