1990 IEEE C&D Mag, No 6: Letters...New Education Tools: Iași Polytechnic Magazine (IPM), International Center for Engineering Education (ICEE), Iași, România

Adrian Adascalitei

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## Tooling Up for Education...

Ron Rohrer's thought-provoking article, "Taking Circuits Seriously," (July issue), raises several valid—even painful—points. Amen to his criticism of rote memorization. Amen to his sharp denouncement of teaching the wrong things. We have all seen students attack a two-node resistive problem with SPICE, a modern version of Dante's inferno: "Abandon all thinking, all who have access to a computer."

A double Amen to his description of the rampage among publishers, who, in their greedy haste to make money, abandon every good pedagogical step. What most publishing houses need badly are responsible and knowledgeable professors to serve as editorial consultants. Their current editors are, by and large, promoted salespersons.

One last point that deserves rebuttal: Ron advocates the total elimination of the introductory circuits course as a required course, and its dispersion among later "relevant" courses (digital electronics, power, etc.). There simply isn't time and space to teach basic circuit theory in a course on digital electronics. To make the necessary room, what will you omit? Pulse and large-signal models? Sequential circuits? Op amps? Oscillators? To teach Kirchhoff's laws and phasor analysis in power systems, will you abandon the per-unit calculations? Transmission line modelling? Transformers? Even more objectionable, and beyond the impracticality of this solution, is the notion that electrical engineering students will graduate without a required course in basic circuits. When everything has come and gone, when professional fads have blossomed and withered, there are still two areas that qualify and define electrical engineering completely: basic circuit theory, and EM waves and fields. In the past, in the present, and in the future, a student who knows these two areas will excel in mastering digital electronics, laser communications, solid-state materials — anything that the profession will develop. Without these two, a student has a choice of titles, but not electrical

engineering, to go by.
—Shlomo Karni
University of New Mexico

## ...and New Education Tools

Please extend me the favor of sharing this letter with your readers. I am writing to inform the international technical community of a fairly new quarterly magazine devoted to engineering (particularly electrical engineering) education.

The principal aims of the Iasi Polytechnic Magazine are to promote textbooks, reference works, and software tools (especially for the IBM PC XT/AT); to show the relationship of these tools to engineering practice; and to help with the application of new technologies in developing countries.

We will be covering virtually all aspects of engineering education: teaching of fundamentals, computer-aided design, computer-aided teaching, computer-aided manufacturing, computer-aided testing, machine intelligence, robotics, biomedical and clinical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, chemical and mechanical engineering, and space sciences. Regular departments will include book reviews, a software survey, thesis abstracts, conference and symposium proceedings, and a list of standards. We would welcome letters inquiring into submitting articles for publications, and we invite the unsolicited submission of books and software for review.

The Iasi Polytechnic Magazine is published by the International Center for Engineering Education, an academic, non-governmental, non-profit organization whose goals are reflected in those of the magazine.

I hope to hear from many of the readers of *Circuits and Devices Magazine* in the months ahead.

—Adrian A. Adascalitei
Book and Software Review Editor
Circuits Laboratory
Polytechnic Institute
University of Iasi
P.O. Box 132, Iasi 1
RO 6600 Romania

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## ...and New Education Tools

Please extend me the favor of sharing this letter with your readers. I am writing to inform the international technical community of a fairly new quarterly magazine devoted to engineering (particularly electrical engineering) education.

The principal aims of the Iasi Polytechnic Magazine are to promote textbooks, reference works, and software tools (especially for the IBM PC XT/AT); to show the relationship of these tools to engineering practice; and to help with the application of new technologies in developing countries.

We will be covering virtually all aspects of engineering education: teaching of fundamentals, computer-aided design, computer-aided teaching, computer-aided manufacturing, computer-aided testing, machine intelligence, robotics, biomedical and clinical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, chemical and mechanical engineering, and space sciences. Regular departments will include book reviews, a software survey, thesis abstracts, conference and symposium proceedings, and a list of standards. We would welcome letters inquiring into submitting articles for publications, and we invite the unsolicited submission of books and software for review.

The Iasi Polytechnic Magazine is published by the International Center for Engineering Education, an academic, non-governmental, non-profit organization whose goals are reflected in those of the magazine.

I hope to hear from many of the readers of *Circuits and Devices Magazine* in the months ahead.

—Adrian A. Adascalitei

Book and Software Review Editor

Circuits Laboratory

Polytechnic Institute

University of Iasi

P.O. Box 132, Iasi 1

RO 6600 Romania

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# 1990 Index
## IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine
### Vol. 6

This index covers all technical items — papers, correspondence, reviews, etc. — that appeared in this periodical during 1990, and items from previous years that were commented upon or corrected in 1990.

The *Author Index* contains the primary entry for each item, listed under the first author's name, and cross-references from all coauthors. The *Subject Index* contains several entries for each item under appropriate subject headings, and subject cross-references.

It is always necessary to refer to the primary entry in the *Author Index* for the exact title, coauthors, and comments/corrections.

## AUTHOR INDEX

### A

Adascalitei, Adrian A. Tooling up for education...and new education tools; CD-M Nov 90 3

derson, Lisa R., see Foo, Simon Y., CD-M Jul 90 18-26

Araseki, Takashi, see Niwa, Kunihiko, CD-M Jan 90 27-33

### B

Baker, Marc A. Review of 'Digital System Design Using Programmable Logic Devices' (Lala, P. K.; 1990); CD-M Sep 90 58

Bergh, Arpad A. American optoelectronics: Pavement for a bumpy economic road; CD-M May 90 32-38

Bouldin, Donald W. VLSI designer's interface; CD-M Jan 90 7

Bouldin, Donald W. VLSI designer's interface; CD-M Mar 90 6

Bouldin, Donald W. VLSI designer's interface; CD-M May 90 6-7

Bouldin, Donald W. VLSI designer's interface; CD-M Jul 90 6-7

Bouldin, Donald W. VLSI designer's interface; CD-M Sep 90 8-10

Bouldin, Donald W. VLSI designer's interface; CD-M Nov 90 7-9

Bovik, A.C. Review of 'Introduction to Digital Filters, 2nd Edn.' (Terrell, T. J.; 1988); CD-M Sep 90 59

Brannon, James H. Excimer-laser ablation and etching; CD-M Sep 90 18-24

Brews, John R., see Ng, Kwok K., CD-M Nov 90 33-38

Buzak, Thomas S. Plasma addressing for flat-panel displays; CD-M Sep 90 14-17

### C

Campbell, James E., see Yost, Frederick G., CD-M May 90 40-44

Cathey, Thomas, see Lih, Marshall M., CD-M Mar 90 37-41

Celik-Butler, Zeynep. Review of 'Semiconductor Fundamentals Modular Series on Solid State Devices, vol. 1, 2nd Ed.' (Pierret, R. F.; 1988); CD-M Jan 90 50

Chang, Hwa-Yea, Vena Margo, and Delores M. Etter. Design methodologies for simulation translators (with a case study); CD-M Jan 90 8-13

Chapman, Bill. Review of 'Manufacturing Intelligence' (Wright, P. and Bourne, D.; 1988); CD-M Nov 90 63

Christianson, Paul V., see Lih, Marshall M., CD-M Mar 90 37-41

Corle, T. R., see Kino, G. S., CD-M Mar 90 28-31, 34-36

Cotler, Tina J., and Michael E. Elta. Plasma-etch technology; CD-M Jul 90 38-43

Creedon, Theodore G., see Grueb, Hans J., CD-M May 90 16-25

### D

Dandridge, Anthony. Fiber optic sensors make waves in acoustics, control, and navigation; CD-M Nov 90 12-19

Datta, Supriyo, see Lundstrom, Mark, CD-M Jul 90 32-37

Davies, Anthony C. Review of 'Circuits, Signals and Devices' (Julian, M.; 1988); CD-M Jul 90 63

### E

Elshabini-Riad, Aicha, and F. William Stephenson. Hybrid microelectronics: Old hat for new times?; CD-M Mar 90 42-47

Elta, Michael E., see Cotler, Tina J., CD-M Jul 90 38-43

Etter, Delores M., see Chang, Hwa-Yea, CD-M Jan 90 8-13

### F

Filanovsky, I. M. Designer's casebook—A simple voltage-to-frequency converter; CD-M Sep 90 47

Foo, Simon Y., Lisa R. Anderson, and Yoshiyasu Takefuji. Analog components for the VLSI of neural networks; CD-M Jul 90 18-26

Fouquet, Julie. Lasers and electro-optics; CD-M Nov 90 56-58

Friedman, Vladimir. Oversampled data conversion techniques; CD-M Nov 90 39-45

### G

Gallagher, William J. High-T<sub>c</sub> superconductivity seeks a digital home; CD-M Nov 90 29-32

Ghate, P. B. Review of 'VLSI Microstructure Science: Vol. 15, VLSI metallization' (Einsprich, N. G. et al. Eds.; 1987); CD-M May 90 58

Giuliano, Concetto R. Review of 'Fundamentals of Nonlinear Optics of Atomic Gases' (Delone, N. B., and Krainov, V. B.); CD-M Jul 90 62-63

Grabel, Arvin. Walking backwards into the future; CD-M Mar 90 25

Grabel, Arvin. Walking backwards into the future; CD-M May 90 15

Grabel, Arvin. Walking backwards into the future; CD-M Jul 90 10

Grabel, Arvin. Walking backwards into the future; CD-M Nov 90 61

Grueb, Hans J., Jack F. McDonald, and Theodore G. Creedon. FRISC-E: A 250-MIPS hybrid microprocessor; CD-M May 90 16-25

### H

Hirai, Yuzo, see Masaki, Akira, CD-M Jul 90 12-17

Hohn, Fritz J. Review of 'Electron and Ion Optics' (Szilagyi, M.; 1988); CD-M Nov 90 62

Hu, Yu-Hen. Review of 'VLSI Signal Processing: A Bit Serial Approach' (Denver, P. and Renshaw, D.; 1986); CD-M Nov 90 62

Huelsman, Lawrence P. Personal computer programs for electrical engineering; CD-M Jan 90 4-6

Huelsman, Lawrence P. PCPEE; CD-M Mar 90 3-5

Huelsman, Lawrence P. PC programs for engineers; CD-M May 90 3-5

Huelsman, Lawrence P. PC programs for engineers; CD-M Jul 90 3-5

Huelsman, Lawrence P. PC programs for engineers; CD-M Sep 90 4-6

Huelsman, Lawrence P. PC programs for engineers; CD-M Nov 90 4-6

### K

Karni, Shlomo. Comments on 'Taking circuits seriously' by R. Rohrer; CD-M Nov 90 3 (Original paper, Jul 90 27-31)

Kino, G. S., and T. R. Corle. Scanning optical microscopes close in on submicron scale; CD-M Mar 90 28-31, 34-36

Kirschman, Randall K. Low-temperature electronics; CD-M Mar 90 12-24

Koelling, Todd K. Evaluating programmable logic devices; CD-M May 90 45-48

Kumar, K. B., and T. Wong. Application of SPICE is solving systems of equations (Short p.); CD-M Mar 90 8-10

Kumar, K. B. Negative inductors and capacitors for SPICE simulation; CD-M Nov 90 10-11