Spartan Daily, October 2, 1975

Volume 65, Issue 15https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/6000/thumbnail.jp

Formative influences of engineering extension on industrial education at Iowa State College

At Iowa State University, engineering educators promoted and established industrial education under the guidance of the College of Engineering. Until about 1890, several professors provided training for non-engineers. Such training became a major concern of several national organizations. Engineers in the American Association of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations established the Mechanic Arts Section. Within the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, a Committee on Industrial Education sought ways for engineers to influence the growth of industrial education;John B. Johnson, Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, began artisan training in 1901. It grew into an extensive engineering extension program, led after 1906 by Louis E. Reber. In Iowa, the Iowa State Manufacturers Association and Anson Marston, Dean of Engineering at Iowa State, won funding for an extension department. Two organizations also affected that development, the YMCA and the Land Grant College Engineering Association. Between 1913 and 1917, the extension engineers in Ames conducted programs which provided industrial education to thousands of Iowans. World War I and the Smith-Hughes Act altered the extension efforts, placing the vocational work under the Iowa State Board for Vocational Education. The Trades and Industries department, started in 1919, took over the teacher training work, and by about 1925, industrial teacher preparation stood as the sole function of the department. That also indicated that many direct ties to industry had been broken. The teaching mission characterized the Industrial Education department for several decades

Time-domain green's function-based parametric sensitivity analysis of multiconductor transmission lines

We present a new parametric macromodeling technique for lossy and dispersive multiconductor transmission lines. This technique can handle multiple design parameters, such as substrate or geometrical layout features, and provide time-domain sensitivity information for voltages and currents at the ports of the lines. It is derived from the dyadic Green's function of the 1-D wave propagation problem. The rational nature of the Green's function permits the generation of a time-domain macromodel for the computation of transient voltage and current sensitivities with respect to both electrical and physical parameters, completely avoiding similarity transformation, and it is suited to generate state-space models and synthesize equivalent circuits, which can be easily embedded into conventional SPICE-like solvers. Parametric macromodels that provide sensitivity information are well suited for design space exploration, design optimization, and crosstalk analysis. Two numerical examples validate the proposed approach in both frequency and time-domain

ALIA LIS research environmental scan report

Executive summary: An environmental scan of Australian Library and Information Studies (LIS) research was undertaken focusing on the period 2005–2013. This was in response to a brief from ALIA that sought such an analysis to inform its decisions in relation to content of a future research agenda, support, advocacy, and future funding. The investigation was expected to include research priorities of other library and information organisations, topics of research undertaken in Australia, types of research, persons/organisations undertaking research, and how research activities are funded, communicated and applied. The report took into account: research priorities of LIS professional associations both within and outside Australia production of higher degree theses over the period publication by practitioners and academics in both Australian and international publications and grant or other support for research or investigatory projects. METHODOLOGY AND LIMITATIONS: Methodologies employed included: Website analysis for research priorities of LIS organisations Database searching using Trove for higher degree theses Database searching using multiple databases for publications In the case of research in progress and resourcing via grants, methods employed were database searching, consultation and by survey methods The limitations in these approaches are explained in each related Section or Appendix. However, the major limitations were: Poor response to the online survey despite its wide dissemination through ALIA and other associations Inconsistent responses to individual surveys directed specifically at academic departments Coverage of publications by databases, particularly of material outside periodicals Difficulties in categorising document

The oversight of the UK Intelligence and Security Services in relation to their alleged complicity in Extraordinary Rendition.

Allegations that the UK Secret Intelligence Service and Security Service were complicit in extraordinary rendition in the “War on Terror” raise concerns about the effectiveness of the existing UK intelligence oversight framework. This thesis analyses the response of oversight institutions to the allegations, and considers their ability to provide meaningful intelligence oversight, both individually and holistically. It considers an oversight framework based on the separation of powers, in which the state institutions have complementary roles. This thesis argues that the existing legislative oversight framework is outdated and that although due weight should be afforded to national security concerns, the current balance lies too far in favour of the executive. Both the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) and judiciary require greater powers to provide meaningful oversight. There is also an increasing role for civil society and transnational organisations, especially given the difficulties international intelligence cooperation poses for domestic intelligence oversight. The thesis considers: (1) the legislative oversight framework and law relating to extraordinary rendition; (2) the global intelligence landscape in which the UK intelligence and security agencies operate, and effect of increasing international intelligence cooperation; (3) executive oversight and the relationship between the executive and the UK agencies; (4) the structure and powers of the ISC, and its reports concerning extraordinary rendition; (5) the role of the judiciary within intelligence oversight, and judgments made in the context of extraordinary rendition; (6) the increasing role for non-traditional actors, including Non-Governmental and Transnational Organisations and the Press

Special Libraries, November 1949

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International Campaign to Ban Landmines-Cluster Munition Coalition Annual Report 2013

2013 has been a challenging year with use, or alleged use, of antipersonnel landmines and cluster munitions. In addition to strong condemnation, the CMC and the ICBL played a crucial and unique role in ensuring all of the confirmed and alleged instances of use were brought to light and kept on states’ agenda, investigated, widely condemned and that pressure would be put on the states in question to halt use of these weapons

Special Libraries, July 1978

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The NASA Scientific and Technical Information Program: Exploring challenges, creating opportunities

The NASA Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Program offers researchers access to the world's largest collection of aerospace information. An overview of Program activities, products and services, and new directions is presented. The R&D information cycle is outlined and specific examples of the NASA STI Program in practice are given. Domestic and international operations and technology transfer activities are reviewed and an agenda for the STI Program NASA-wide is presented. Finally, the incorporation of Total Quality Management and evaluation metrics into the STI Program is discussed