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| E8 World-Class Concurrent Engineering Don P. Clausing 4 color videotapes, 3 hours English $795 World-Class Concurrent Engineering reveals why U.S. companies must develop
a profoundly different insight - the "process" insight - into
the nature of industrial activity. Management, labor, and technical staff
will learn the new way of developing products together, with departments
working in parallel rather than serially in isolation. Applied concurrent
engineering results in one multifunctional team forming one set of decisions
in one decision trade-off space.
This new understanding and know-how will allow managers and engineers to "work smarter, not harder." They will be able to:
Topics covered include:
This 4-volume videotape set comes complete with one (1) Video Course
Program Guide. |
| E9 The Dynamics of Innovation
in Industry with James M. Utterback 5 color videotapes, 5 hours English $560 This new course is designed for managers, engineers and personnel in R&D and manufacturing. The course teaches the importance of technological change in the life of the corporation. Findings in fields as diverse as the history of technology, corporate strategy, and the dynamics of innovation have reached a common and disturbing conclusion. With success in one generation of technology comes narrowing and vulnerability to competitors championing the next generation. If these findings are correct, then we are in the midst of a period of great peril for established but highly focused firms, which may be swept away by the opening of many new fields of commercial endeavor for which they are ill equipped. How are major corporations to meet the growing need to renew their core businesses? The message in these videotapes is that failure to innovate is a prime source of business failure. During periods of revolutionary change nearly all established competitors fail. The purpose of this program is to clarify the importance of technological change in the life of the corporation, both as a creative force in the growth of the corporation, and as a destructive force making it vulnerable to competitors. Our plan of attack is to look at a number of products and industries as they have developed over time to see whether or not we can begin to understand the process of innovation and its importance to business in a larger and dynamic context. By understanding the dynamics and learning how to observe, predict, and rapidly apply product and process innovations, your organization will develop the proper conditions for increased levels of output and productivity. It will also gain competitive advantage. Topics covered include: Tape 1: Dominant Product Design The effects of dominant product design. Tape 2: Products and Industries Several products and industries from past to present. Examples of innovation in industries such as refrigeration, lighting, rayon, and flat glass. Tape 3: Patterns of Innovation How technology change occurs in an organizational, market, and manufacturing context. Tape 4: Technological Changes How product innovation, process innovation, and organizational structure become linked as an organization evolves. Tape 5: Technological Changes (continued) How innovation in products
and processes affects a firms competitive viability. |
| E16 Digital Signal Processing
with Alan V. Oppenheim 22 color videotapes English Complete set $2,200.00 Individual Tapes - $110.00 Also available on DVDs, call for pricing Videotape Manual- Digital Signal Processing $275.00 The textbook by A.V. Oppenheim and R.W. Schafer, "Discrete-Time Signal Processing" is available through Amazon.com This course begins with a discussion of the analysis and representation of discrete-time signals and systems, including discrete-time convolution, difference equations, the z-transform, and the discrete-time Fourier transform. Emphasis is placed on the similarities and distinctions between discrete-time and continuous-time signals and systems. The course proceeds to cover digital network structures for implementation of both recursive (infinite impulse response) and nonrecursive (finite impulse response) digital filters. Prerequisites: Advanced calculus and familiarity with introductory complex variable theory. Previous exposure to linear system theory for continuous-time signals, including Laplace and Fourier transforms, is required. No experience with discrete-time signals, z-transforms, or discrete Fourier transforms is assumed. Topics Covered Include:
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E17 2-D
Signal Processing and Image Processing with
Jae S. Lim E18
Image Processing: The Analysis and Design of Systems That Transmit and
Reproduce Real-World Images with William F. Schreiber
E19 Introduction to VLSI Designwith Jonathan
Allen E21 Automatic
Speech Recognition and Understanding with Victor Zue E24 New Parallel Architectures
and Languages with Arvind E25 Structure and Interpretation
of Computer Programs: E26 lex and yacc: Designing
and Developing Tools and Languages in the UNIX Environment
with Steven Lally |
| E20 Microlithography Strategy
For Future ULSI with Henry I. Smith 5 color videotapes English $540 At the present time, the dominant method of microlithography used in manufacturing very-large-scale integrated circuits (VLSI) is UV optical projection. This technology, though well entrenched, faces increasingly difficult tasks as line widths shrink from 0.8 µm to 0.25 µm (i.e., ultra-large-scale integration, ULSI). Although such resolution is achievable with optical projection in a laboratory setting, the attendant decreases in process latitude and depth-of-focus may make alternative technologies, such as proximity x-ray lithography, more cost effective. Because of these uncertainties, research directors and managers of IC fabrication facilities will be forced to make strategic decisions while some of the information necessary for those decisions is either "soft" or unavailable. This course will cover the basic knowledge needed to evaluate the alternative
lithography strategies and present criteria that need to be factored into
making strategic decisions on future microlithography systems. It is intended
for executives in VLSI or ULSI manufacturing responsible for purchasing
improved microlithography tools; managers and operators of IC fabrication
lines; researchers in microlithography or advanced devices and circuits. Topics Covered Include:
This 5-volume videotape set comes complete with one (1) Video Course
Program Guide. |
| E22 Understanding Lasers and
Their Applications with Shaoul Ezekiel 9 color videotapes English $990 Lasers are essential to an incredibly large number of applications. Today, they are used in bar code readers, compact discs, medicine, communications, sensors, materials processing, computer printers, data processing, 3D-imaging, spectroscopy, navigation, non-destructive testing, chemical processing, color copiers, laser "shows," and the military. There is hardly a field untouched by the laser. This video course uses simple language to explain the basic characteristics of lasers. Specially prepared demonstrations help you visualize and understand the basic phenomena that govern the behavior of lasers and their properties. The course is designed for engineers, scientists, medical personnel,
and others who work with lasers, or who anticipate working with and using
lasers, yet have little or no background in laser basics. It focuses on
fundamentals and emphasizes a physical intuitive interpretation of laser
phenomena and their applications. Because the mathematics is kept to a
minimum, topics are easily understood, even by someone without a strong
technical background.
This 9-volume videotape set comes complete with one (1) Video Course
Program Guide. |
| E23 Video Demonstrations in
Lasers and Optics with Shaoul Ezekiel 10 color videotapes English $990 These vivid and exciting demonstrations were developed primarily for
use by instructors in universities and colleges and trainers in business
and industry who need to illustrate the fundamental phenomena in lasers
and optics. The experimental setups are made simple enough to follow and
ample references are given for background reading. In addition, several
puzzles are left for the viewer to solve. Demonstrations in Physical Optics Polarization of Light and Polarization Manipulation Reflections at Dielectric Interfaces Two-Beam Interference Multiple Beam Interference Fraunhofer and Fresnel Diffraction Propagation in Optical Fibers Demonstrations in Laser Fundamentals Simple Laser; Light Amplifier; Polarization of Laser Light; Spectrum of Laser Light Optics of Laser Beams; Laser Transverse Modes; Laser Linewidth Single Frequency Selection with Étalons; Multiwavelength Laser; Widely Tunable Laser; Laser Induced Fluorescence in Atoms and Molecules This 10-volume videotape
set comes complete with one (1) Video Course Program Guide. |
| E27 Electronic Feedback Systems with James K. Roberge 20 color videotapes English $2,100 Electronic Feedback Systems presents material that practicing engineers need for the effective design and analysis of electronic and electromechanical systems that utilize feedback. The course emphasizes the ways in which common design methods can be applied to a variety of diverse configurations. Prerequisites: Participants are expected to have a good command of such elementary linear-system concepts as s-plane manipulations and the qualitative effect of pole and zero locations on the associated transient and frequency response. Knowledge of more advanced material, such as the detailed calculation of the transient response of a high-order system by means of a partial-fraction expansion, will not be assumed. An ability to determine the ideal close-loop gain of a simple operational
amplifier connection is also expected.
This 20-volume videotape set comes complete with one (1) Video Course
Manual, and one (1) Textbook by J.K. Roberge, "Operational Amplifiers:
Theory and Practice". |
| E28 Al and Knowledge-Based
Expert Systems for Managers with Randall Davis 21 color videotapes English $4,900 Complex systems demand more from computers than simple number crunching to solve problems. Conventional technology is no longer adequate. More and more, computers must make qualitative decisions that until now could be done only through human expertise. Voice recognition, natural-language understanding, vision recognition and understanding, and expert-system problem solving and applications demand more than traditional programming techniques. This course will help you understand, manage, and use the new technologies
of artificial intelligence. It offers an overview of the nature and applications
of many facets of Al, then focuses on knowledge-based expert systems.
You will learn how to select commercially available applications that
fit your needs, determine the necessary resources (people, hardware, and
software), create an action plan for getting started, and run an Al project.
Knowledge-Based Systems
Managing Knowledge Systems Development
Aid to the Facilitator
This 21-volume videotape set comes complete with one (1) Workbook, and one (1) Facilitator's Guide. |
