The Role of Industry in the Education of Mechanical Engineers

Engineering education should be relevant to the needs of our industry as industry absorbs the large majority of our engineering students, either directly or indirectly. The contact between industry and engineering students has therefore to be stimulated. As no legal obligation exists in Belgium, this is left entirely to the initiative of the professors and the engineers in industry. We will explain how at our university those contacts are developed for the mechanical engineering students. We will explain our aims, our working conditions and circumstances, our results and the role of the research. The art however is to stimulate the students, and to convince the industry of the importance of those contacts in the education of our and their future engineers.     

Publishing issues raised by CD-ROM technology

Many practical issues face information specialists engaged in the preparation of documentation for CD-ROM publication. This article discusses the technologies involved in the production and use of CD-ROM documents and their bearing on issues of document design, preparation, storage, and revision. Mark R. Buckley manages a software development group in Bellcore’s Information Management Services division. He also participates in the Information Products Interchange work group of the Telecommunications Industry Forum where he chairs a subgroup on SGML (the Standard Generalized Markup Language). Address for correspondence     

Design of minimum sensitivity multiple loop feedback bandpass active filters

A method is described for determining multiple loop feedback topologies which yield minimum sensitivities for symmetrical, all-pole bandpass filters. The procedure begins with a follow-the-leader feedback (FLF) topology and additional feedback loops are constructed until minimum sensitivity is achieved. Filters comprised of identical second-order sections and non-identical sections, respectively, are considered.