This study involved approximately 1,000 girls and 300 boys from the seventh; eighth, and ninth gr... more This study involved approximately 1,000 girls and 300 boys from the seventh; eighth, and ninth gradeb, of five Michigan j4n3or*high:schools. The girls were randomly dixidedinto five groups. Group A received live presentations by women engineers; Group B participated in, four, engineering projects;,. Group C received only printed materials; Group D received no special instruction, but their parents received printed materials, as did the parents of students in Groups A, B, and C; and Group E was the control group. A test instrument designed to measure awareness and attitudes toward engineering was administered before and after the study to all girl participants,'coritrols, parents and faculty. The analysis portion of the study hal not been completed at the time of this report. (MLH)
This paper traces the history of computer architecture courses in U. S. electrical engineering de... more This paper traces the history of computer architecture courses in U. S. electrical engineering departments. Data from the Fall 1972 survey of U. S. and Canadian electrical engineering departments by the COSINE Committee of the Commission on Education of the National Academy of Engineering are given to show current computer architecture course offerings and texts. Computer architecture courses offered in 1972-73 are analyzed, compared with ACM and COSINE recommendations, and classified into five categories: introductory computer engineering courses with a computer architecture flavor, software -oriented computer organization courses, hardware-oriented computer organization courses, case study courses, and topical seminars Future trends in computer architecture education are predicted.
This study involved approximately 1,000 girls and 300 boys from the seventh; eighth, and ninth gr... more This study involved approximately 1,000 girls and 300 boys from the seventh; eighth, and ninth gradeb, of five Michigan j4n3or*high:schools. The girls were randomly dixidedinto five groups. Group A received live presentations by women engineers; Group B participated in, four, engineering projects;,. Group C received only printed materials; Group D received no special instruction, but their parents received printed materials, as did the parents of students in Groups A, B, and C; and Group E was the control group. A test instrument designed to measure awareness and attitudes toward engineering was administered before and after the study to all girl participants,'coritrols, parents and faculty. The analysis portion of the study hal not been completed at the time of this report. (MLH)
Chapters 4 through 12 consist of coding examples covering a wide variety of routines. Most are si... more Chapters 4 through 12 consist of coding examples covering a wide variety of routines. Most are simple things, such as 16-bit addition, masking, generating one's complement, etc. A few, such as conversions between hexidecimal, decimal, and ASCII, serial to parallel conversions, and multiple precision arithmetic, are useful enough to be included in most pr-ers' subroutine libraries. Chapter 12 covers the often neglected subject of interrupts. The fact that this matter is covered at all is to the author's credit However, the serious assembly language programmer will fmd a lack of depth in this area. Chapter 13, devoted to program design, discusses modular, s t r u e tured, and topdown programming techniques. Although not probed in depth, the different programming techniques are well introduced and accompanied by good examples. Flowcharting, which the author views
An undergraduate research site in the area of modeling and simulation of GaAs-based high-speed ci... more An undergraduate research site in the area of modeling and simulation of GaAs-based high-speed circuits is described. Undergraduate students worked with electrical engineering graduate students and faculty members for ten weeks on projects ranging from designing & study of GaAs-based circuits using MAGIC and L-Edit to modeling the very high-frequency effects and parasitic capacitances in the GaAs-based VLSI interconnections to computer simulations of GaAs-and SOI-based devices and circuits using the semiconductor TCAD tools. In this paper, the undergraduate research projects carried out by the REU students are summarized
In this paper, the research projects carried out by the women undergraduate students selected for... more In this paper, the research projects carried out by the women undergraduate students selected for the NSF funded undergraduate summer research sites established at the department of Electrical Engineering at Michigan Technological University in the areas of design, modeling and simulation of GaAs-based very high-speed integrated circuits are outlined. It is widely accepted that active research experience is one of the most effective techniques for training and motivating undergraduate students for careers in science and engineering. National Science Foundation (NSF) recognizes this and supports undergraduate research under two "Research Experiences for Undergraduates" (REU) programs: a) Under their "REU Supplements" program, NSF encourages principal investigators of NSF-funded research grants to include one or two undergraduate students in their existing projects; b) Under their "REU Site" program, NSF provides funds to set up undergraduate research sites consisting of nearly ten students to work on state-of-the-art research projects under the supervision of a faculty member. Recent advances in the integrated circuit technology have resulted in smaller transistor dimensions, larger chip sizes and increased complexity. There is an increasing demand for circuits with higher speeds and higher component densities. Because of its semi-insulating property and the fact that the mobility of electrons is an order of magnitude higher in Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) substrate than in the widely used Silicon substrate, GaAs has emerged as a preferred substrate for the development of very high-speed integrated circuits. In fact, during the last few years, GaAs technology has emerged rapidly from basic research to device and circuit development. In addition, growth of GaAs on silicon (Si) substrate has met with a great deal of interest because of its potential applications in the new hybrid technologies. GaAs-on-Si unites the high speed and optoelectronic capability of GaAs circuits with the low material cost and superior mechanical properties of the Si substrate. The heat sinking of such devices is better since the thermal conductivity of Si is three times more than that of GaAs. This technology is expanding rapidly from material research to device and circuit development. Functional GaAs SRAMs of up to 1K in complexity have been demonstrated on Si sub-
In this paper, the research projects carried out by the women undergraduate students selected for... more In this paper, the research projects carried out by the women undergraduate students selected for the NSF funded undergraduate summer research sites established at the department of Electrical Engineering at Michigan Technological University in the areas of design, modeling and simulation of GaAs-based very high-speed integrated circuits are outlined.
In this paper, the research projects carried out by the ten undergraduate students selected for t... more In this paper, the research projects carried out by the ten undergraduate students selected for the NSF funded undergraduate summer research site established at the department of Electrical Engineering at Michigan Technological University in the areas of design, modeling and simulation of GaAs-based very high-speed integrated circuits are outlined.
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