{"title":"Using computer-generated graphics to make engineering documents and presentations more effective","authors":"S. Feinberg","doi":"10.1109/COLLOQ.1990.152806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COLLOQ.1990.152806","url":null,"abstract":"The author explains how computer-generated graphics can be integrated into text to produce effective and persuasive technical reports and presentations. Integrating graphics into text allows the graphics to be proportioned so that the illustration appears on the same page with the text describing the graphics. When text and graphics appear on the same page, the reader follows the explanation of the graphics; when a reader has to turn to the end of the report to see the graphics, the reader loses the coherence of the report. To integrate graphics and text, information about graphics terminology as well as details about word-processing and graphics programs and printers are needed. The author discusses these topics, as well as preparing slide presentations from graphics.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":432127,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1990 IEEE Colloquium in South America","volume":"235 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132909058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Engineering project management system for large and/or many small projects","authors":"R. Begun","doi":"10.1109/COLLOQ.1990.152808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COLLOQ.1990.152808","url":null,"abstract":"A special software package to manage the engineering staff of a project of 500 technical persons and additional smaller projects totalling an additional 500 engineering persons was put in place at a large defense manufacturer's plant manufacturing military vehicles. The manufacturing art of the project was not originally included in the system. The theory of the management system and the events occurring in the six months prior to and 18 months following introduction of the system are described.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":432127,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1990 IEEE Colloquium in South America","volume":"24 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122452971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Power electronics today","authors":"P. Thollot","doi":"10.1109/COLLOQ.1990.152827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COLLOQ.1990.152827","url":null,"abstract":"More electric power is being used today than ever before. Billions of kilo-watts of electric power are being re-processed every day in order to provide the kind of power needed by the sophisticated loads which our advanced technology is producing. Power electronics is the engineering discipline which converts electrical power from one form to another.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":432127,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1990 IEEE Colloquium in South America","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115179146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The use of neural networks in optimization problems in communication networks","authors":"A. Ephremides","doi":"10.1109/COLLOQ.1990.152799","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COLLOQ.1990.152799","url":null,"abstract":"The authors outline how Hopfield Neural Networks can be used to solve combinatorial optimization problems that arise in the design of radio networks.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":432127,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1990 IEEE Colloquium in South America","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113956219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The evolution of microcomputer-based medical instrumentation","authors":"W. Tompkins","doi":"10.1109/COLLOQ.1990.152785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COLLOQ.1990.152785","url":null,"abstract":"The evolution of the microprocessor from its early beginnings in 1971 as a primitive central processing unit to the powerful component of today has made a significant impact on the design of biomedical instrumentation. More computing power and memory are being squeezed into fewer integrated circuits to provide increasingly more powerful instruments. The PC itself has become a powerful tool in biomedical computing applications. In the future, it will be possible to develop new medical instruments to address problems that were previously not solvable. This possibility exists because microprocessor-based systems continuously increase in computing power and memory and concurrently decrease in size, cost, and power consumption.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":432127,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1990 IEEE Colloquium in South America","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116094933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some technical aspects in the development of Chilean Central Interconnected System","authors":"J.F. Doggenweiler","doi":"10.1109/COLLOQ.1990.152820","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COLLOQ.1990.152820","url":null,"abstract":"The author addresses some technical aspects experienced in the Chilean Central Interconnected System. A brief description of the degree of development is also given, together with a future vision of expansion possibilities.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":432127,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1990 IEEE Colloquium in South America","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127290732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maximum likelihood estimator image reconstruction for emission tomography in nuclear medicine","authors":"J. Llacer","doi":"10.1109/COLLOQ.1990.152814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COLLOQ.1990.152814","url":null,"abstract":"Emission tomography is a technique which allows the three-dimensional representation of radioisotope labelled chemical compounds that have been inroduced into the human body for the purpose of studying metabolic processes, for the detection of tumors and/or the diagnosis of a variety of diseases. There are two principal methodologies: single photon emission tomography (SPET) and positron emission tomography (PET). Both methods of emission tomography can benefit from a new method of image reconstruction. This method, the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) method of reconstruction, has the practical advantage that the image noise is smaller in regions of low radioisotope concentration, instead of the rather uniformly distributed noise obtained with conventional filtered backprojection (FBP) reconstruction methods. The author describes the most important mathematical ideas underlying the MLE method and show some results obtained with it, in comparison with FBP results.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":432127,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1990 IEEE Colloquium in South America","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126517804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Energy management systems (EMS): use in emergency conditions","authors":"O. Moya","doi":"10.1109/COLLOQ.1990.152824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COLLOQ.1990.152824","url":null,"abstract":"Power systems in emergency conditions are analized together with the control possibilities arising from the support of energy management systems. Main conditions include loss of generation in a power system and power deficit in industrial distribution systems. Use of EMS in data recording, processing and updating tables according to real-time conditions are then examined and interaction with load-shedding relay setting is proposed. Attention is also given to detection of sudden power flow changes, islanding in both types of systems and slow control of overloads through generation rescheduling and load-shedding.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":432127,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1990 IEEE Colloquium in South America","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131358594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gerald F. Harris, L. Benson, S. Riedel, K. Acharaya, D. V. Matesi, E. A. Millar
{"title":"Biomechanical assessment techniques in rehabilitation","authors":"Gerald F. Harris, L. Benson, S. Riedel, K. Acharaya, D. V. Matesi, E. A. Millar","doi":"10.1109/COLLOQ.1990.152789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COLLOQ.1990.152789","url":null,"abstract":"A set of quantitative instruments has been developed for monitoring the surgical and rehabilitative progress of children and adolescents with cerebral palsy. The set includes biomechanical devices, electrophysiological equipment, and automated clinical test series, and functional assessment instrumentation. Data from the multiple tests is accessed through a centralized data base management system. Design considerations as well as results from a clinical study of neuroelectric stimulation are presented. An instrument is described which is used to quantitatively evaluate wrist joint control during active and passive motion. Results from tests of spastic children undergoing flexor tendon transfer are presented. A method of measuring and analyzing the magnitude and frequency content of reaction forces at six discrete points under the foot is described. An analysis of the reaction forces and frequency content during normal gait is provided.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":432127,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1990 IEEE Colloquium in South America","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115930051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Six models for technology managers","authors":"A. Cavanagh","doi":"10.1109/COLLOQ.1990.152811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COLLOQ.1990.152811","url":null,"abstract":"The author gives six perspectives on the environment of engineering management. It is addressed to engineers seeking to make the transition to management, whether as entrepreneurs or as members of structured organizations, and to managers at all levels who want to gt the job done effectively. The first model describes the evolution of a manager from an engineer; the second, the evolution of a technology. The third describes the evolution of a product, the fourth, the evolution of an enterprise or industry. The fifth describes the strategic process. The sixth and final 'model' contains a set of simultaneous constraints that limit management influence.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":432127,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1990 IEEE Colloquium in South America","volume":"69 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116253076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}