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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
MEMORANDUM
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Senate
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Chair, SCAP'
Subject:
Ph.D. Program in Engineering Science
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May 17, 1990
Action undertaken by the Senate Committee on Academic Planning/Senate Graduate
Studies Committee gives rise to the following motion:
Motion:
"That Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board of Governors
as set forth in S.90-37 the proposed Ph.D. Program in Engineering Science."
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The proposed Ph.D. Program in Engineering Science was
approved by the Senate Graduate Studies Committee, at its
Meeting on May 7, 1990, and is now being forwarded to the
Senate Committee on Academic Planning for apnroval.
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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DEAN OF GRADUthE 'STUDIES.
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Ph.D. PROPOSAL
I am pleased to present:the proposal submitted by the School of
Engineering Science for the in
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Science Ph.D.
program. This proposal, the first draft of which
was received on 12 January 1989, hs been sent out for external
review. The external reviewers were
1. Dr. V. Bhargava, Dept. of Electrical and Computer'
Engineering, University of Victoria
2. Prof. .,J. Hayes, Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Concordia University
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Dr. H. Kobayashi, Dean of School of Engineering,
Princeton University
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Dr. B. Peters, Chairman and C.E.O., NEXUS Engineering
Corporation, Burnaby
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Dr. D.L. Puifrey, Professor of Electrical Engineering,
University of British Columbia
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Dr. G.S. Rordan, Dean of Engineering Science, Carleton
University
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Dr-.-M. Salcudean, Professor and Head, Department of
Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia
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Dr. A.S. Sedra, Chairman of Electrical Engineering
Department, University of Toronto
The comments of the external reviewers are given in Appendix 5;
the response of the School of Engineering Science is in Appendix
6. As a result of the external review and subsequent internal
deliberations, several modifications were made to the original
proposal.
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The Assessment Committee for New Graduate Programs approved the
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The Assessment Committee
for New
Graduate Programs, a
sub-committee
of the S,.G.SC., had the
following membership:
Chair
B.P. Clayman
Faculty of Arts
R.
Jennings
Faculty of Applied Science
M.
Làba
Faculty of
Business Administration
E.
Love
Faculty of Education
A.
Barrow
Faculty of
Science
A.
Lachlan
SGSC (faculty)
T.
Perry
SGSC (faculty)
P.
Percival
SGSC (student)
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D.
Miller
Secretary ?
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N.
Hunter
Registrar's Office
M. McGinn
I recommend approval of this proposal.It gives the University.
an
excellent
opportunity to continue to
build on our strengthsin
a very important area and, in so doing,
to
help Canada meet a
shortage of personnel.
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SIMON FRASER'UNWERSITY ?
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE ?
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Dr.
Bruce Clayman
Dean of Graduate Studies
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Vl2climir
Cuperman
Director, Graduate Progrm
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March 1, 1990
Subject: ?
Amended Comprehensive Requirement for Ph. D. Proposal
Please find enclosed the pages which include a1. the changes made in the Ph.D.
proposal after the approval by the Assessment Committee for New Programs. The
amended sections and the corresponding old ones are highlighted on the new and original
drafts The reasons for these changes are as follows
The original version was found to have two 'drawbacks.
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First, requiring a
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comprehensive examination in Signals and Systems for all students allowed too little
flexibility. Other Ph.D. progranis allow a choice of areas for the comprehensive
examinations. Second, the comprehensive in Signals and Systems was found unsuitable for
Microelectronics students.
In the new version of the comprehensive, the area of Signals and Systems is
included among the comprehensive for the Communications and the Intelligent Systems and
Control options, but not for Microelectronics. To increase the flexibility and recognize the
importance of Computing as an area of study, a comprehensive in this area has been
introduced. Now all students will choose 3 exams in 3 out of 4 areas. One of them is
declared a major, the other two are minors.
We believe that these changes improve our program and do not change- the essence
of the proposed Ph.D. program in Engineering Science.
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY'
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Bruce Clayman, Dean
Graduate Studies
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Joseph Peters, Chair
Applied
Sciences
Graduate Studies Committee
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March 15, 1990
Subject: ?
Engineering Science
Ph.D. Proposal
At a meeting on February 23,
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the Faculty of Applied Sciences Graduate Studies
Committee approved the School of Engineering Science Ph.D. proposal subject to changes.
Those changes have now been incorporated into the proposal.
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V. Cuperrnan, Engineering Science
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Engineering Science Ph. D. Proposal
January 26 1989
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Ph. D. Program
Proposal.
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General information.
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Need for the program.
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Program outline.
1. Objectives of
proposed
program.
2. Personnel and core areas.
3. Academic requirements.
4. New courses.
IV.
Research facilities.
V.
Enrolment and sources for supporting
Ph.D. students.
VI.
Graduate calendar entry.
Appendix
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Personnel and Graduate
Courses - School of
Engineering.
Appendix 2. - New
Courses.
Appendix
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Library Collections.
Appendix
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Resumes of Faculty Members.
Appendix
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Comments of External Reviewers
Appendix
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Response to Reviewers' Comments
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GENERAL INFORMATION.
1.
Title of the program
Ph. D., Engineering.
2.
Credentials to be awarded to graduates
Doctor of Philosophy,
3.
Faculty or school to offer the program
School of Engineering Sciences
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Schedule for implementation
September 1990 - AdmiSsion of first intake.
August 1993 - Graduation of first intake.
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U. NEED FOR THE PROGRAM.
Our future as an advanced industrial nation depends on our ability to sustain
innovation. Several studies have identified the shortage of trained people as the main
impediment to growth. The Science Council of B.C., for example, in its 1988 SPARK
(Strategic Planning for Research and Knowledge) reports, states:
"The development of the required number of people with appropriate skills
and motivations is the most significant factor in achieving the science-based
vision for the year 2000. Without trained researchers, technologists,
tradespeople, entrepreneurs, managers, marketers and enthusiastic technology
receptors', we cannot get there."
We spoke to Dr. Robert Kavanaugh, Director General of NSERC's Scholarship
and International Programs, who warned that there is an impending serious shortage of
research scientists, especially in the area of Electrical Engineering. He went on to point
out that we cannot expect to make up the shortfall by hiring trained personnel from other
countries - the shortage is worldwide, and those countries, particularly the United States,
will themselves be trying to lure our own graduates away with attractive job offers.
Quantifying demand is a notoriously risky business as it depends on both economic
conditions and technological trends. However, from discussions with Bell-Northern
Research, a major national technology-based company, we were able to make some indirect
estimates.
Bell-Northern Research in Ottawa employs 4342 employees with a Bachelor's
degree or higher, of whom 272 hold a doctorate (1986-87 figures). The disciplines in
which SFU Engineering Science plans to offer
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a PhD program, 'which BNR designates as
"Electrical Engineering" account for 124 of the PhD holders. The company currently hires
about 75-100 people with advanced degrees each year, of whom 15-20 would hold a PhD
in Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.
In a recent speech to the Canadian Association of University Business Officers, A.J.
de Grandpre, Chairman of Bell Canada Enterprises Inc. the parent company of
Bell-Northern Research, stated:
"In the next five years Northern Telecom will invest hundreds of millions of
dollars in R&D facilities, buildings and equipment. It will have to hire some
1,000 researchers a year to do the essential job of maintaining its leadership.
The financial resources are there, but the brain power will not be available in
Canada. We will have to go abroad. What a pity. Strong links between
industry and the university must continue. In tomorrow's jobs, workers will
need lots of training to get started - and still more to stay employed. The
interaction between educational institutions and the workplace is bound to
increase as emerging jobs call for higher levels of skill."
On a smaller scale, a local company, MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates, employs
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a total of 600 technical, nontechnical and support people. Of them, 19 hold PhDs. MDA
hires about 1 or 2 PhDs per year. The importance of advanced degrees to MDA is clearly
evidenced by an internal scholarship fund which provides employees returning for graduate
study $12,000 per year for 2 years.
At present Canadian universities do not train enough PhD students to meet the
demand. For example, there were only 78 PhD degrees awarded in Electrical Engineering
in 1987 (Canadian Association of Graduate Schools Statistical Report 1988). Of this
number, approximately
25%
were visa students, leaving about 60 graduates eligible to join
the work force. As we saw above, Bell-Northern Research would absorb between
one-quarter to one-third of the graduates.
While this shortage of PhDs creates a seller's market in industry, it makes hiring
good engineering faculty generally difficult and in some areas almost impossible. The
competition from industry and among universities is indicated, by the numerous, long-
running 'Position Available" notices in the engineering section of the CAUT Bulletin.
Of course there are other reasons for establishing a PhD pr,ogram than satisfying the
demand for graduates. As we
all
know, much research is conducted and many innovated
ideas generated by PhD students working with other graduate students, undergraduates and
faculty members. We therefore believe that having a PhD program is essential to the
intellectual health of both graduate and:' undergraduate studies in Engineering Science.
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PROGRAM OUTLINE.
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1. Objectives of proposed program.
The objective is to produce specialists in three core areas:
- Communications and Signal Processing.
- Microelectronics.
- Intelligent Systems and Control.
The proposed program will add strength to Canada's postgraduate engineering programs
due to:
- Strong interdisciplinary emphasis and breadth of knowledge.
- Strong industrial orientation.
- Choice of core areas as specialization areas of peak demand.
2.
Personnel and Core Areas.
At present the School of Engineering Sciences employs 19 tenure-track faculty
members: six full professors, seven associate professors, and six assistant professors. No
additional faculty is needed for the proposed Ph.D. program.
Engineering Science is
in
a strong position to begin supervision of doctoral students
Three of its senior faculty members - Don George, Tom Calvert and
Cavers
Jim -a
have
among them 67 years of academic experience, including the supervision of 53 Master's
students and 19 Ph.D..students In addition, many of its faculty members have joined the
university from senior positions in industrial.,or government research laboratories Their
many years of experience in supervising research teams and individuals give's
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unique foundation on which to build the Ph.D. program. Only 6 of the 19 faculty
members in Engineering Science have joined directly following doctoral or postdoctoral
work, and we are confident that they will benefit from the supervision of more experienced
faculty. The resumes of faculty members are included in Appendix 4.
The proposed Ph.D. program will be organized around three core areas:
Communications and Signal Processing, Microelectronics, and Intelligent Systems and
Control. The table shown below illustrates how the existing faculty's area of specialization
and research interest fulfill the requirements for successful implementation of the program.
Core Area: Communications and Signal Processing.
J. Bird, J. Cavers, V. Cuperman, D. George, S. Hardy, P. Ho, S. Stapleton.
Core Area: Microelectronics.
G. Chapman, J. Deen, S. Hardy, R. Hobson (associate member), A. Leung,
S. Stapleton, M. Syrzycki.
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Core Area: Intelligent Systems and Control.
T. Calvert, J. Dill, K. Gupta, W. Havens, D. Ingraham, J. Jones, T. McGeer,
A.
Rawicz, M. Saif.
The research interests of faculty members are given in Appendix 1. A significant
part of current research work brings together members of different core areas, giving a
strong interdisciplinary emphasis to the entire program. This integration is reflected by
the fact that several faculty members work in more than one core area.
The core areas are well supported by the existing and the new graduate course
offerings. The table below shows the graduate course offerings related to each core area.
Course descriptions are given in Appendix 1 for existing courses and in Appendix 2 for
new courses.
Communications and Signal Processing.
ENSC 801*
Linear Systems Theory.
ENSC 802*
Stochastic Systems.
ENSC
805
Techniques of Digital Communications.
ENSC 832
Mobile and Satellite Communications.
ENSC 833
Network Protocols and Performance.
ENSC 834
Optical Processing and Communications.
ENSC 810
Digital Signal Processing.
ENSC 815
Signal Processing Electronics.
ENSC 861
Source Coding for Speech and Images.
Microelectronics.
ENSC 801*
Linear Systems Theory.
ENSC 802*
Stochastic Systems.
ENSC 851
Integrated Circuit Technology.
ENSC
852
Analog Integrated Circuits.
ENSC 853
Digital Semiconductor Devices and Circuits
ENSC
855*
Passive Microwave Circuits.
Courses offered by other departments:
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PHYS 810
PHYS 861
CMPT
750
CMPT 851
CMPT 852
(*) New course.
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Fundamental Quantum Mechanics.
Introduction to Solid State Physics.
Computer Architecture.
Fault Tolerant Computing and Testing.
VLSI Systems Design.
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Intelligent Systems and Control.
ENSC
801*
Linear Systems Theory.
ENSC
802*
Stochastic Systems.
ENSC 881
Engineering Modelling of Dynamic Processes.
ENSC
883*
Optimal Control Theory.
ENSC
887*
Vision for Robots.
ENSC
888*
Finite-Element Methods in Engineering.
ENSC
889*
3-1) Object Representation and Solid Modelling.
Courses offered by
BUS 820
CMPT 720
CMPT 815
CMPT 821
CMPT 822
CMPT 827
CMPT 853
KIN 885
MATH 851
(*) New courses.
other departments:
Analysis of Dynamic Processes.
Artificial Intelligence.
Algorithms of Optimization.
Robot Vision
Computational Vision.
Expert Systems
Computer-Aided Design/Design Automation for
Digital Systems
Seminar on Man-Machine Systems.
Numerical Solutions to Ordinary Differential Equations
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3. Academic requirements.
To qualify for admission to the Ph.D. program a student must have a Master's
degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Computer Science or a
related field, have submitted evidence that he or she is capable of undertaking substantial
original research in Engineering Science, and have identified a faculty member willing to
act as Senior Supervisor.
The school does not encourage students to proceed to a PhD without first
completing a Master's degree. However, a student may be admitted after at least 12
months in the M.A.Sc. program if he or she has completed all the Master's course work
requirements with a CGPA of 3.67 or better, has shown outstanding potential for
research, and has the apDroval of his or her Supervisor
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Committee, the Graduate
Drogram Committee, and the Senate Graduate Studies Committee.
The minimum course requirement for the Ph. D. program is six semester hours of
graduate course credit beyond those taken for the Master's degree. No Special Topics or
Directed Studies courses may be counted towards this requirement.
Within 12 months of admission to the Ph. D. program, students will take a
qualifying examination in which they must demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of
material normally associated with undergraduate and first level graduate studies. This
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examination will be organized by the Departmental Graduate Studies Committee in the
Spring semester so that students
will
take the qualifying examination between the 6th and
the 12 months after enrolment in the Ph.D. program. Written examinations will be set in
each of four subjects, the scope of which can be conveniently defined by associating them
with selected courses, plus any other material to be announced by the Departmental
Graduate Committee:
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communications: ENSC 327, ENSC 429, ENSC 382, ENSC 426, ENSC 428,
ENSC 801, ENSC 802;
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453,
ENSC
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439, ENSC 438, ENSC 436, ENSC 480, ENSC 801, ENSC 802;
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computing: CMPT 205, CMPT 300, CMPT 307, ENSC
385,
CMPT
351,
CMPT 412, CMPT 720, CMPT;390;
With the approval of the Supervisory Committee students select three examinations: one is
declared a major (specialty) area, while the other two are minor areas. The written
examination in the major area is based on all of the courses listed above and is followed
shortly by an oral examination in which the scope can range from undergraduate to first-
level graduate material. The material required for the minor area examination is based on
the first two courses listed for communications, electronics and intelligent systems and
control, and the first three courses listed for computing.
Outcomes of the qualifying examination are pass, marginal (student may be required
to take more courses and is permitted a second and last attempt to pass the full qualifying
exam within 12 months, and fail (the student withdraws from the Ph.D. program). The
outcomes are given for
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the full qualifying exam.
The main requirement of the Ph.D. program is a thesis based on original research to
be defined by the student in consultation with the Supervisory Committee. Students'
progress will be reviewed every 12 months by a Supervisory Committee of no fewer than
three faculty members. At the first such review, which takes place within 14 months of
admission,. the student will present a thesis proposal defining the intended research topic.
Students not
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- making satisfactory progress on their research topic, or who fail to
demonstrate satisfactory knowledge and understanding of recent publications in the general
area of research, or who fail to have their revised thesis proposal approved by the
Supervisory Committee within 18 months of admission, may be asked to withdraw, as per
section 1.8.2 of the General Regulations.
All the general requirements outlined in the Graduate Calendar apply. For details,
see the proposed calendar entry (section VI).
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4. New courses.
We consider that the existing graduate courses offered by the School of
Engineering represent a strong basis for the proposed program. For the Communications
option the course ENSC 800 was replaced by two new courses, ENSC 801 and ENSC 802.
These courses will give more depth in linear systems and stochastic systems, including
such topics as Estimation Theory and Detection Theory; ENSC 801 and ENSC 802 are
considered as basic preparatory courses for the Ph.D. research in this area. These courses
will not be waived any more for M.Eng. students; a calendar change to this effect will be
introduced for the 1990/91 year. For the Microelectronics option, a course on "Passive
Microwave Circuits", to be called ENSC
855,
represents an enhancement of the existing
program (see Appendix 2).
Intelligent Systems and Control is a new option in our graduate program. Three
new courses are proposed for this option and described in Appendix 2: ENSC 887, ENSC
888, and ENSC 889. This brings the total of graduate offerings for this option to sixteen,
seven offered by the School of Engineering and nine by other departments. Some other
topics, such as Classical Dynamics, Advanced Manufacturing Systems, and Reliability will
be covered by Special Topics courses. The title of ENSC 883 has been changed and the
content improved.
The course denomination for the thesis will be "ENSC 899 Ph.D. Thesis".
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IV. RESEARCH FACILITIES.
Thesis research is carried out in the School's laboratory, in interdisciplinary
laboratories, and in external laboratories.
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Additionally, research is' supported by the
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University's Centre for Systems Science, and by the Computing Services facilities. The
Centre for Systems Science (CSS) provides support for specialized laboratories such
as
the
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,. and the Laboratory for Computer and Communications
Research, while Computing Services provides a UNIX service plus access to a main frame.
Descriptions of the School's major facilities follow. CSS also provides the School with
an extensive Sun-based research network which includes SUN
350
workstations and
SPARC workstations. Each graduate student has access to these workstations.
Device Electronics.
The device electronics, group currently has capabilities for both static and dynamic
characterization and DC and pulsed stressing of semiconductor as well as superconductor
devices. The equipment includes an
HP4145A
semiconductor parameter analyzer, an
electrometer, several sensitive digital multimeters, a C-V meter, a high speed pulse
generator, a low frequency spectrum analyzer, several power supplies, and a closed cycle
helium refrigerator with temperature range from 4.5K to 400K. Most of the equipment is
automated with a PC-AT computer used as the central controller for data collection and
analysis.
The group has also developed' custom software for semiconductor parameter
extraction of short channel and narrow width devices. SPICE is also used for circuit
simulation.
VLSI/Computer Design.
The Microelectronics Research Group has available, within the School of Computing
Science, a Tektronix DAS 9100 system for board and system testing, plus oscilloscopes and
other logic analysis equipment. A Wentworth probe station and HP test equipment are
available for IC testing. Facilities for VLSI design include SUN workstations and an HP
plotter. A variety of software for VLSI design and simulation is available. This Research
Group has, 'within the School :of Engineering Science, software tools for design,
simulation, layout, and circuit extraction, including tools provided by Mentor Graphics, and
SDA. Access to the VLSI Technology silicon compiler tool set is also available through
Microtel Pacific Research, located 'within the University's research park.
Microelectronics Fabrication.
The School currently has 'a complete facility for producing semicustom bipolar
arrays and CMOS gate arrays. This facility includes photoresist application and processing
equipment, a laser direct-write system for exposing resist on integrated circuit wafers, a wet
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chemical processing station, and an annealing furnace. This equipment is housed in a class
• 100 clean room. The equipment complement also includes, two wafer probing stations for
testing integrated circuits on the wafer level, and a packaging facility which includes a
diamond scriber, wafer fracturer, die bonder and a semi-automatic wire bonder for
packaging integrated circuits. The FABRICS statistical process simulator is available for
design and optimization of IC fabrication processes and for statistical characterization of
IC performance. The School has access to the CMOS full custom fabrication service
provided by the Canadian Microelectronics Corporation.
Microwave Electronics
In microwave electronics there are currently capabilities for both passive and active
microwave characterization of devices and circuits. The group has access to a vector
network analyzer, signal generators, power meters, VSWR meters and spectrum analyzers.
The group also has a number of PC-AT computers, Apollos and SUN workstations for
designing GaAs Monolithic Microwave Integrated circuits. The group has access to
IC-EDITOR, PSPICE, and TOUCHSTONE, CAD tools for circuit design, performance
analysis, and mask design of microwave circuits.
Communications and Signal Processing.
The Communications and Signal Processing :Group's computer Signal Analysis
Facility (CSAF) consists
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,of a network of SUN workstations supported by a SUN-3/260
with analog input/output and a SUN-4/260 with floàtiñg point accelerator and 800 MB hard
disk for signal data-bases. The existing data-bases include speech data-bases for research
on speech coding and recognition and signal data-bases for research on modulation
techniques and error correcting codes.
Research on signal processing hardware is supported by a number of PC (XT and
AT) based DSP workstations and development systems for such DSP chips as TMS320C25
(TI), Data Flow Processor (NEC), Motorola
56000,
DSP 32 (AT&T), Transputer (Inmos).
The available signal processing software includes standard software such as DADiSP
and DFDP (by ASP Inc.) as well as an extensive library of in-house developed software
for speech coding and recognition, vector quantization, modulation techniques, error
correcting codes, and signal enhancement.
Communications Networks.
Facilities available to support this research include discrete-event simulation software
(GPSS and SIMSCRIPT
11.5,
PC and SUN versions) and custom software for performance
evaluation of ring and bus networks. Hardware resources include protocol analysis
instrumentation, a high speed pattern generator, and access, through local firms, to mobile
radio data communications measurement instrumentation.
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Underwater Communications.
The underwater. acoustics test-bed (UAT) is a unique facility designed for research
related to underwater communications and sonar. The UAT is a portable, programmable
system whereby the researcher may project carefully controlled acoustic pulses into the
water and record the result. This system is used for fundamental research on acoustic
propagation as well as for prototyping candidate communications and sonar systems.
Intelligent Systems and Control.
Facilities available to support research in this area include Apollo and SUN
workstations (including, a Apollo DN
590
high performance engineering/graphics
workstation), IRIS 2400 Turbo Graphics workstations (2), one Symbolics 3650 Al/Graphics
workstation, Excalibur six-axis robot manipulator,
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Roland milling machine, Fishertechnick
Workcell modeling set, PCVision hardwaie and software, miscellaneous video equipment,
plus a well-equipped machine shop.
Software includes
RobCAD,
a SUN-based robotic workcell modelling and simulation
package, PC-MATLAB for numerical linear algebra, EXCEL+ manufacturing system
simulator, ChronOS real-time operating system, Autocad and CADKEY 3D MCAD
packages, Neural Network software, and Mentor Graphics tools for electronics design and
manufacturing.
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V. ENROLMENT AND SOURCES FOR SUPPORTING PH.D. STUDENTS
Our target for steady-state graduate enrolment in Engineering Science is an average
of about 2 1/2 graduate students per faculty member, of whom about 1/3 would be Ph.D.
students. This produces a target enrollment of about 12 to 14 Ph.D. students at any time.
As a relatively young school, we are far from steady state. Our newer faculty
members are still in the process of establishing their research programs and funding.
Moreover, the development of a reputation which would encourage sufficient numbers of
good graduate applicants takes some time. We expect to reach our target numbers in three
to five years.
Funding sources are much the same as those we currently tap at the Master's level:
NSERC and B.C. Science Council Scholarships, Research Assistantships drawn from
research grant or contract funds, SFU Graduate Scholarships and Entrance Scholarships,
and a small number of Teaching Assistantships. A significant part of the funding for
Research Assistantships comes through the Center for System Sciences (CSS) and through
industrial cooperation with local companies.
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VI. CALENDAR ENTRY.
Admission Requirements - Ph. D. Program.
To qualify for admission to the Ph.D. program a student must have a Master's
degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Computer Science or a
related field, have submitted evidence that he or she is capable of undertaking substantial
original research in Engineering Science, and have identified a faculty member willing to
act as Senior Supervisor.
See the graduate general regulations for admission requirements for entry to the
Ph.D. program.
Admission from the M ster's Program to the Ph.D. Program.
The school does not encourage students to proceed to a PhD without first
completing a Master's degree. However, a student may be admitted after at least 12
months in the M.A.Sc. program if the student has completed all the Master's course work
requirements with a CGPA of 3.67 or better, has shown outstanding
p
otential for
research, and has the approval of the student's Supervisory Committee, the Graduate
Program Committee and the Senate Graduate Studies Committee.
Degree Requirements - Ph. D. Program.
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Course Work.
The minimum course requiiement is 6 semester hours of graduate course credit
beyond those 'taken for the Master's degree. No Special Topics or Directed Studies courses
may be counted towards this requirement. Courses are selected in consultation with the
Senior Supervisor. Some students may be required to supplement their graduate studies
with undergraduate courses, or to take more than 6 semester hours of graduate course
credit.
Qualifying exmination.
The student will take a qualifying examination at a time determined by his/her
Supervisory Committee, normally between the 6th and the 12th month from admission to
the Ph.D. program. The student must demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of material
normally associated with undergraduate and first level graduate studies. There will be
written examinations set in each of the following four subjects:
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The material for the comprehensive examinations will be determined by the Departmental
. Graduate Committee. With the approval of the Supervisory Committee students select
three subject areas to be covered by examinations, as follows: one is declared a major
(specialty) area and the other two are minor areas. The written examination in the major
area is followed shortly by an oral examination.
Outcomes of the qualifying examination are pass; marginal (student may be required
to take more courses, and is permitted a second and last opportunity to take the full
qualifying exam within 12 months); fail (the student withdraws from the Ph. D. program).
The outcomes are given for the full qualifying exam.
Research.
Students are to define and undertake a program of original research, the results of
which are reported in a thesis. The Examining committee will be formed as defined in
section 1.9.3 of the General Regulations. Students will conform to residence requirements
as outlined in section 1.7.3 of the General Regulation. The Senior supervisor shall be an
ENSC faculty member approved by the Departmental Graduate Program Committee.
The student's progress will be reviewed each 12 months by a Supervisory
Committee of not fewer than three faculty members. At each annual review the student
presents the summary of his/her work to date. At the first such review, which takes place
within 14 months of admission, the student will present a thesis proposal defining the
intended research topic. Students not making satisfactory progress on their research topic,
• or who fail to demonstrate satisfactory knowledge and understanding of recent publications
in their general area of research, or who fail to have their revised thesis proposal approved
by the Supervisory Committee within 18 months of admission, may be asked to withdraw,
as per section 1.8.2 of the General Regulations.
Research Seminar
A graduate student enrolled in the Ph.D. program is required to present at least one
research seminar per year as a part of regularly organized departmental seminars, including
one based on completed or nearly completed thesis work. Students are expected to attend
all the research seminars of the School.
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Personnel and Present Graduate Programs and Courses
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GRADUATE PROGRAM
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Location:
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Director: ?
Donald A. George, B.Eng. (MeG.), M.S. (Stan.), Sc.D (MIT),
P. Eng.
Graduate Program
Chairman: ?
Vladimir Cuperman, M.S. (Polytechnic of Bucharest), M. S.,
Ph.D. (Calif.)
Faculty and Areas of Research
John S. Bird ?
statistical signal processing, system performance analysis,
underwater acoustics and optics, radar, sonar and
communications applications
Thomas W. Calvert ?
information processing in man and machines, biomedical
applications, computer graphics and animation
James K. Cavers ?
mobile communications, signal processing, network protocols
Glenn H. Chapman microelectronics (fabrication, defect avoidance techniques,
device physics), laser processing of materials, ULSI/wafer
scale integration, computer aided engineering.
Vladimir Cuperman ?
signal processing, speech coding and recognition, digital
communications, digital signal processing structures and
hardware
M. Jamal Deen ?
microelectronics, low temperature electronics, semiconductor
devices, device reliability, IC technology
John C. Dill ?
computer graphics, computer aided engineering, design and
manufacturing
Donald A. George ?
adaptive signal processing for communications and remote
sensing systems
Kamal K. Gupta
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computer vision, robotics, interpretation of 3-D scenes,
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motion planning, spatial reasoning
R.H. Stephen Hardy ?
computer networks, VLSI implementation of communications
protocols, interaction between network and device
technologies and network performance
Paul K.M. Ho ?
modulation techniques, signal processing, communication
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theory, adaptive error control techniques
Diane V. Ingraham
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adaptive systems including neural network theory, flexible
manufacturing systems
John D. Jones
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applications of artificial intelligence to engineering
design, design for manufacturing, finite-element analysis,
heat transfer and thermodynamics
Albert M. Leung
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microelectronics, integrated circuit technology, integrated
sensors
Tad McGeer ?
robotics, automatic control, aircraft design, bipedal
locomotion
Andrew H. Rawciz
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reliability physics and engineering, VLSI reliability,
physical transducers, integrated sensors, film technology,
nonlinear optics, materials processing in microelectronics
Mehrdad Saif
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control theory, large scale systems, optimization theory and
application to engineering systems
Shawn Stapleton ?
passive RF/microwave circuits, GaAs monolithic microwave
integrated circuits, nonlinear RF/microwave devices, active
RF/microwave circuits
Karek Syrzycki ?
microelectronics, semiconductor devices, digital and analog
VLSI design, integrated circuit technology, integrated
sensors, IC fabrication defects, yield and reliability
of VLSI IC's
DEGREES OFFERED
Engineering Science offers two distinct programs of study, leading to a Master of
Engineering (M.Eng.), or Master of Applied Science (M.A.Sc.). The M.Eng. program
is designed for part-time study by practicing engineers and is based on a set of
courses, normally offered in the evenings, plus a project performed in industry.
The principal areas of study offered in the M.Eng. program are electronics,
communications and signal processing. The M.A.Sc., on the other hand, is a
full-time program in which primary emphasis is on the thesis, rather than course
work. It is more exploratory than the M.Eng., and hence the areas of study cover a
greater range.
Admission
The normal admission requirement to the M.Eng. and M.A.Sc. program is a Bachelor's
degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, engineering science or a
related area, with a cumulative C.P.A. of at least 3.0 (B) from a recognized
university, or the equivalent. Note that the size of the faculty limits the number
of M.A.Sc. students.
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Course Work
M. Eng. candidates are required to complete a minimum of 24 semester hours course
work, at -least 20 of which must be at the graduate level. Of the courses listed
below, ENSC 805, 810, and 820 are required. The prerequisite ENSC 800 will be
waived if the student has equivalent preparation.
A key component of the M. Eng. program is a significant industrial project which
integrates knowledge gained during the course of the student's graduate studies.
This project is to be performed in the workplace, typically in industry or
government laboratories. An appropriate level of design, documentation and
reporting responsibility is required. The project would be expected to take a
minimum of two person-months.
During the project, the student will receive academic supervision, as required,
from the student's senior supervisor at the university, and day-to-day supervision
from the student's manager, or a designated associate, in his or her place of work.
The industrial supervisors, who will sit on the student's Supervisory Committee,
will be appointed by the Faculty. In the case of very small companies, alternative
arrangements will be made for supervision.
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DEGREE REQUIREMENTS - M.A.Sc. Program
M.A.Sc. candidates are required to complete 30 semester hours work, as a minimum of
12 semester hours course work, plus a thesis with a weight of 18 semester hours.
The courses will, in consultation with the Senior Supervisor, normally be selected
from the list below. Additional courses may be required to correct deficiencies in
the student's background. The M.A.Sc. thesis is to be based on an independent
project with a significant research component. The student is required to defend
the thesis at an examination, in accordance with general university regulations.
1. M. A. Sc. - Thesis work in industry
In addition to the Degree Requirements for the M. A. Sc. Program the following
conditions will apply if a student wishes to undertake thesis work in
industry.
a)
Proposal. The proposal must be approved by the Supervisory Committee and by
the Graduate Committee. The proposal must include the following:
- justification for undertaking the work in industry
- agreement regarding intellectual property and publications
- funding arrangement
b)
On Campus Presence. During the thesis work in industry the student must
spend one day per week (or equivalent as approved by the Graduate Committee)
on campus to meet with his/her supervisor and attend regular seminars. This
is in addition to time spent on campus for course work.
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Oral Presentations. A minimum of two oral presentations for the Supervisory
Committee (not including the thesis defence) on the progress of the student's
work will be given during the duration of the thesis.
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Failure to Comply.
See
General Regulations
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Calendar.
Transfer from
M. Eng.
Program to
K. A.
Sc.
Normally transfer from M. Eng. Program to M. A. Sc. Program will be considered
under the following conditions:
a)
Undergraduate CPA. Minimum undergraduate cumulative CPA. of 3.3 required.
b)
M. Eng. CPA. On at least 2 courses, 'a minimum cumulative CPA of 3.5.
ENGINEERING SCIENCE GRADUATE COURSES
(ENSC)
ENSC 800-3 ?
Linear Systems Dynamics
A unified presentation of systems and signals analysis techniques. Linear algebra
up to Cayley-Hamilton. Linear systems: superposition, convolution for
differential and difference equations. State variables: canonic forms, modal
decomposition. Transforms: Fourier, Laplace, Z. Random processes: discrete time
processes, AR and ARMA models, least squares estimation. Communication signals and
their representation.
Prerequisite: undergraduate degree in engineering, mathematics or physics.
ENSC 805-3 Techniques of Digital Communications
Modulation, detection and synchronization techniques for digital transmission.
Decision theory and optimum detectors. Channel impairments: random phase, random
gain, restricted bandwidth, nonlinearities. Comparison of signal sets. Carrier
and bit synchronization. Precoding for dispersive channels. Adaptive equaliza-
tion. Sequence decoding by Viterbi algorithm.
Prerequisite: ENSC 800
ENSC 810-3 ?
Digital Signal Processing
Techniques for digital processing of one and two dimensional signals. Filter
design. Finite word length effects. Canonical forms, lattice filters. Estimation
of power spectrum. Homomorphic signal processing.
Prerequisite: ENSC 800
ENSC 815-3 ?
Signal Processing Electronics
Hardware implementation tools and design techniques. CCDs, switched capacitor
filters. Noise and dynamic range in sampled analog circuits. Special purpose and
general purpose digital signal processors. Signal processing architectures: pipe-
line, systolic arrays, data flow architectures.
Prerequisite: ENSC 800
ENSC 820-3 Engineering Management for DeveloDment Projects
This course focuses on the management and reporting activities of typical
engineering development projects. Through seminars and workshops it builds the
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student's skills at estimating project cost and schedule, keeping a project on
track, and handing over the completed project to a customer or another team. A
writing workshop emphasizes techniques for writing proposals, and writing and
controlling documentation.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
ENSC 832-3 Mobile and Satellite Communications
Propagation phenomena, modulation techniques and system design considerations for
mobile and satellite networks. Topics include: fading and shadowing, noise and
interference effects, analog and digital transmission, cellular designs, multiple
access techniques.
Prerequisite: ENSC 800
ENSC 833-3 Network Protocols and Performance
Practical techniques of design and performance analysis of data networks up to
layer 3 of the Open System Interconnection protocol hierarchy. Point to point and.
polling data links. Networks of queues: stochastic and mean value analysis.
Packet networks: loading, transit time, routing strategies.
Prerequisite: ENSC 800
ENSC 834-3 Optical Processing and Communications
This course will give an overview of fibre optics communications and integrated
optics, with emphasis on the latter. The discussion will include multimode and
. single-mode technology, semi-conductor sources, photo detectors, communications
systems and fibre optic sensors.
Prerequisite: ENSC 800
ENSC 851-3 ?
Integrated Circuit Technology
Review of semiconductor physics. Technology of semiconductor devices and
integrated circuits: material evaluation, crystal growth, doping, epitaxy,
oxidation, thermal diffusion, ion implantation, lithography and device patterning,
and thin film formation. Design and fabrication of active and passive
semiconductor devices, packaging techniques and reliability of integrated circuits.
Prerequisites: Permission of the Instructor.
ENSC 852-3 Analog Integrated Circuits
Integrated-circuit (IC) technology, IC component models and analog circuit
configurations. Computer aided design tools for circuit simulation and physical
layout of ICs. Students are required to complete a project in which he/she will
design, layout, fabricate and test a semicustom IC using the fast turnaround IC
fabrication facility at the School of Engineering Science. (Limited enrolment.)
Prerequisites: ENSC 321 or equivalent.
ENSC 853-3 ?
Digital Semiconductor Circuits and Devices
MOS device electronics. Second Order Effects in MOS transistors. BJT device
electronics. Static and transient analysis of inverters. Digital gates, circuits
and circuit techniques. Speed and power dissipation. Memory systems. Gate
arrays, semicustom and customized integrated circuits. CAD tools. Students are
required to complete a project.
Prerequisites: Permission of the Instructor.
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Source. Coding for S
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Source characterization and rate-distortion functions. Sampling and quantization:
uniform, optimal, adaptive. Entropy coding, variable length codes. Predictive
encoding, optimal linear predictors, noise feedback coding. Tree and trellis
coding, search techniques. Transform coding, optimal and suboptimal transforms,
subband coding, bit allocation algorithms. Vector quantization. Analysis-
synthesis techniques. Speech coding at 2.4 to 16 kbps. Image coding at 0.25 to I
bit/pixel.
Prerequisite: ENSC 800
ENSC 881-3
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Engineering Modelling of Dynamic Processes
Effective design requires a good model of the system you work with. This course
uses case studies and labs to introduce the student to systematic techniques of
modelling: simplification and approximation of dynamical mechanisms, expression in
appropriate mathematics, and comparison of mathematical results with observed
phenomena. Topics include modelling philosophy and strategy; classification of
mathematical models; dimensional analysis; approximate solutions of dynamical
equations; perturbation methods; approximate physical models; experiment design;
accuracy bounds on models and measurements. Examples are drawn from mechanical,
electrical, thermal, fluid, and biological systems.
Prerequisites: ENSC 800
ENSC 883-3 O
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This is a second control course for students with a background in classical
control. The course begins with a discussion of the philosophy and process of
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optimization. This includes a review of objectives in optimization and figures of
merit. Both variational and numerical methods are introduced, and applied to
component design and trajectory planning problems. Appropriate and inappropriate
applications are critically reviewed. The discussion then turns to control of
dynamic systems. Alternative design techniques are developed and compared:
classical linear design; 'modern' linear design; trajectory optimization; hybrid
techniques.
Prerequisites: ENSC 382 or equivalent.
ENSC 891-3 ?
Directed Studies I
ENSC
892-3
Directed Studies II
ENSC
894-3
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Of particular interest to graduate students in Engineering Science are the
following courses, for which complete descriptions can be found elsewhere in the
University Calendar.
BUS 820 Analysis of Dynamic Processes.
CMPT 720 Artificial Intelligence.
CMPT 750 Computer Architecture.
CMPT 815 Algorithms of Optimization.
CMPT 821 Robot Vision
CMPT 822 Computational Vision.
CMPT 827 Expert Systems
CMPT 851 Fault Tolerant Computing and Testing.
CMPT 852 VLSI Systems Design.
CMPT 853 Computer-Aided Design/Design Automation for Digital Systems
KIN 885 Seminar on Man-Machine Systems.
MATH 851 Numerical Solutions to Ordinary Differential Equations
PHYS 425/821 Electromagnetic Theory.
PHYS 810 Fundamental Quantum Mechanics.
PHYS 861 Introduction to Solid State Physics.
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State-space analysis of finite dimensional continuous and discrete time linear systems. Linear vector
spaces, linear operators, normed linear spaces, and inner product spaces. Fundamentals of matrix
algebra, induced norm and matrix measures, functions of a square matrix, Cayley-Hamilton and
Sylvester's Theorems. Analytical representation of linear systems, state-space formulation, solution
of the state equation and determination of the system's response. Controllability, observability,
duality, canonical forms, and minimal realization concepts. Stability analysis, Lyapunov's method,
and design of feedback regulators.
Instructor:
Dr. M. Saif
M. Saif holds a doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in systems and
control. His research and publications are in the general area of analysis and control of linear
dynamical systems.
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STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS
TEXT "Probability, Random Variables, and Stochastic Processes", by Pa-
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Calendar Description
Review of elementary probability theory, random
variables, and stochastic processes : autocorrelation, power spectral
density, white noise. First order systems with stochastic inputs : AR
and ARMA models, random walk. Point processes : Poisson and re-
newal processes, counting process. Discrete random processes : birth-
death processes, markov chains, elementary queuing theory. Introduc-
tion to estimation theory : parameter estimation, linear estimation,
spectrum estimation, Kalman filtering.
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1.
Review of Probability
Discrete probability, intersection and union of events, continuous probability,
conditional probability and Bayes rule, transformation of random variables,
expectation, moments, moment generating functions, complex and multidi-
mensional variates. Decorrelation by similarity transform (KL) and by Gram
Schmidt.
2.
Review of Elementary Continuous Random Processes
Definitions, stationarity and ergodicity, autocorrelation and power spectra for
continuous and discrete time, steady state effect of arbitrary linear systems,
white noise, complex random processes.
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Finite Order Systems with Stochastic Inputs
Rational power spectra, AR and ARMA models, spectrum factorization,
whiteners, minimum phase filters, evolution of first and second order statis-
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Poisson and renewal processes, counting processes, convergence of pooled
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Birth-death processes, continuous time and discrete time Markov chains,
transient behavoir, flow balance steady state solutions, first passage times
elementary queueing theory.
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Introduction to Detection and Estimation Theory
Simple binary hypothesis tests, M hypotheses, and composite hypotheses,
detection in white and non-white Gaussian noise, signals with unwanted
parameters. Parameter estimation, criteria, bias and consistency. Linear
estimation and multivariable regression analysis with projection theorem.
Kalman filtering. Rational power spectrum estimation.
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Competence of the lecturers
Both Dr. Ho and Dr. Bird are well trained in the subject area, as indicated
by their research areas (which include digital communications, information
theory, detection and estimation theory, radar/sonar) and publications.
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Dcription: Review of Electromagnetic Theory,. Transmission Lines and Waveguides,
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Dr. Saif's research and publications are in
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Facilities: SFU library holds an adequate number of books
and journals in the subject area, the notable
ones are noted below:
JOURNALS HOLDINGS
1)
International Journal of Control
2)
International Journal of Systems Science
3)
SIAM Journal of Control and Optimization
4)
Journal of Optimization Theory and Application (JOTA)
5)
Automatica-Journal of the International Federation of
Automatic Control (IFAC).
5. ?
Optimal control
a) Minimum time
b) Minimum fuel
c) Optimal Line
problems
d) Minimum time
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6)
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
7)
IEEE Transactions on Circuits, and Systems
8)
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cypernetics
There are a number of good books on the subject available in
the library some of which are mentioned below:
BOOK HOLDINGS
1)
Sage, A. and White, C.C. Optimum Systems Control, Prentice
Hall, 1977.
2)
Kirk, D.E. , Optimal Control Theor
y
, Prentice-Hall, 1970.
3)
Athans, M. and Falb, P.L. Optimal Control, McGraw Hill,
1966.
4)
Russel, D., Mathematics of Finite Dimensional Control
S y
stems, Marcell-Dekker, 1978.
5)
Anderson, B.D.O. and More, J.B., Linear O
p
timal Control,
Prentice-Hall, 1971.
6)
Lewis, F.L. , O
p
timal Control, Wiley, 1986.
7)
Lee, B. and Markus, L.W., Foundations of O
p
timal Control
Theory,
8)
Bryson, A. and Ho, Y.C., A
pp
lied Otima1 Control,
Hemisphere, 1975.
9)
Stengel, R.F. , Stochastic Optimal Control, Wiley, 1986.
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FRA.R UNIVERSITY
New
Craduate
Course Pronosal !or
CALENDAR IFORtAT!ON:
Se
partnent: ?
School of Engineering Science
?
Course Number: ENSC 887
Title:
VisionfoRbotic..c
Description:
AdvancedMachineVisionTechniquesasApplicableinRobotics
Credit
Hours:3
?
Vector:
?
30 0
?
.Prerequisite(s) if any:
EY;;OLLMENT AND SCHEDULING:
Estimated Enrollent:
?
10
t.hen will the course first be offered: Spring 1991
Hcw often will the ccurse be offered:
?
Once a year
JUSTIiCATION:
For
automation,
?
vision
is
?
one of
?
the
?
strongest
?
"sensing"
?
candidates
--
•bso1ute
_ must ?
for ?
Intelligent
Systems
& Control students.
RESOURCES:
'hich Faculty reber will norally teach the course:
?
K. Gupta
are the budgetary i
p
lications of nounting the course:
Machinetime on existing Suns
Are there sufficient Library resources (aot,end details):
?
Yes
Appended: a) Outline of the Course
?
-
b)
An indication of the coetence of the Faculty rer.ber to give the course.
c)
Library resources
Approved: Departmental Graduate Studies Co.ittee:
?
t//
Date:_
. ?
Faculty Graduate Studies Coittee: ____Date:______________
Faculty:
?
Date: ?
t;t
Senate Graduate Studies Conittee: ____—...flate:____________
Vision for Robots
?
Course Outline
1. A review of basic philosophy of machine vision - 2 weeks
2. Intermediate levels of processing, representation, 2-1/2 D sketch - 2-3 weeks
3. Some basic paradigms in machine vision: -
4-5
weeks
(a)
Shape from shading
(b)
Stereo
(c) Motion
4. Models of representing 3-D Objects - Surface/Volumetric descriptions. Simple Polyhedral
Representations. - 2-3 weeks
5. Pick and Place Tasks Using Vision (partially based on projects)
Instructor: Dr. Kamal Gupta
Dr. Gupta's research interests and publications are in the areas of robotics and machine vision.
Library Facilities:
SFU library holds adequate number of books, conference proceedings and journals in the general
area of vision and robotics. A tentative list of the ones intended to be used in the course is given
below:
B.K.P. Horn: Robot Vision
David Marr: Vision
IEEE journal on pattern analysis and machine intelligence (PAMI)
IEEE journal on robotics and automation
International Journal of RoboticsResearch (IJRR)
Proceedings of IEEE robotics and automation conference
Proceedings of the international symposia on robotics research (MIT Press).
Proceedings of the international conference on computer vision
Proceedings of the computer vision and pattern recognition conference
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Nev Graduate Course Pronosal Fore
CALENDAR 1NFORi.AT104:
Department: ?
Engineering Science
?
Course Number:
?
ENSC 888
Title:
F
inite- ElementMethods in Engineering
Description:Finite - ElementMethodsare_examined from the viewpoint of the
user (rather than the mathematician); the objective of the course is that
thestudentshouldbeableto
use
FEMwithanintelligentgraspofits
limitations.
Credit Hours:
?
3 ?
Vector:3-0-0
Prerequisite(s) if an
y
: ?
None
ENROLLMENT
AND
SCHEDULING:
Estimated Enrollment:
?
10
?
When
will
the course first be offered:
?
Fall 1991
How often
will
the course be offered:
E
ither annually or biennially
?
4
I
JUSTIFICATION:
Any practicing engineer will either use Finite-Element methods or rely on
someone else to do it.
?
In either case, it is essential that he or she
have some idea of the method's basis, potential and limitations.
vrcniivrrc-
1,
7
hich
Faculty member will normally teach the course:
?
John Jones
What are the
budgetary
implications of mounting the course:The only cost will be some
computer time on PC's; it would be useful, though not essential, to
bu
y
several hundred dollars worth of reference books for the library.
Are there sufficient Library resources (a
pp
end details):
S
ee Appendix III
Appended: a) Outline of the Course
b)
An indication of the com
p etence of the Faculty member to give the course.
c)
Library resources
Approved: Departmental Graduate Studies Committee:
?
Date: /0
0 ?
Faculty Graduate Studies Cotittee:
7-
.Date:
Faculty: ?
.J ?
Date:______________
Senate Graduate Studies Cocmittee:
\ç"
OUTLINE OF COURSE ON FINITE - ELEMENT METHODS IN ENGINEERING
?
0
I Overview; FEM as one of a family of approximate methods,
which also include finite differences,
boundary integral methods, etc.
II Suitable problems for FEM; classification of physical
problems as discrete (e.g., several masses linked by
springs) or continuous (e.g. , heat flow in a
block).
?
FEM is not applied to a physical problem,
but ?
to ?
an ?
idealization ?
of the
?
problem;
?
considerations in developing the idealization.
III Mathematical foundations. of FEM: Calculus of
variations; trial functions; the Galerkin method;
solution of the global matrix
IV ?
Limitations of FEM:
?
checking for convergence;
?
estimation of error
V
?
FEM in practise: ?
pre-processing, processing and
post-processing. ?
Mesh generation. Review of
?
available tools for these tasks.
VI Worked example: students are then assigned mini-
projects to solve using NISA or other PC-based
program.
.
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COMPETENCE OF FACULTY MEMBER
I have worked with FEM in an industrial setting for four
years; during this time I have used commercially available
packages such as NASTRAN and NISA. I have also written my
own finite-element package, together with a pre and post-
processor.
?
Some of this work is described in the
publications listed below.
1.
C.C. Ashcraft, G.M. Shook and J.D. Jones, "A
Computational Survey of Conjugate-Gradient
Preconditioners on the Cray l-S", Proceedings of
the 1986 SIAM Conference, Boston, MA, June 1986.
2.
J.D. Jones, "Shuttle Heat Transfer in the Insulated
Diesel", Proceedings of the Eighth International
Heat Transfer Conference, August 1986, San
Francisco, CA, USA.
3.
J.D. Jones, "Application of the Galerkin Method to
Analysis of Heat Transfer in a Low-Heat-Rejection
Diesel Engine", Proceedings of the Fourth
International Conference on Numerical Methods in
Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal,
June/July 1987.
4.
J.D. Jones, "Heat Transfer Proceses in Low-Heat-
Rejection
?
Diesel ?
Engines", ?
Heat ?
Transfer ?
Engineering, 8.3. 1987.
5.
A. Alkidas and J.D. Jones, "An Experimental and
Theoretical Evaluation of Thermal Loading in an
Uncooled Open-Chamber Diesel Engine", Heat Transfer
Engineering, 8.2. 1987.
6.
J.D. Jones, "Use of the Galerkin Method to
Calculate Temperature in a Body Exposed to
Periodically Varying Boundary Conditions", Int. J.
for Num. Methods in Engr. . 26.
pp
1311-1323, 1988.
7.
J.A. Gatowski, J.D. Jones and D.C. Siegla,
"Evaluation of the Fuel Economy Potential of the
Low-Heat-Rejection Diesel Engine for Passenger Car
Application", Transactions of the SAE. 96. pp
5.317-5.329. 1987,
LIBRARY RESOURCES
The library has a small number of books on FEM. This course
requires $500 to purchase additional texts.
4/5,
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Nev (raduate Course
Prorosa1
Form
CALEDAR
1FOR(ATION:
?
C
Department: ?
Engineering Science
?
_Course Number:
ENSC889
Title: ?
3DObject_Roprosontatinn
and_Snlid_Mtdi.1Hng
Description:
?
Description of current approaches. limitations. Avoli-cations
in manufacturing and engineering.
Credit Hours: ?
3 ?
Vector: ?
3_0 _O
?
Prerequisite(s) if an
y
:ENSC 439
CMPT 351
E'OLLtENT AND SCHEDULING:
Estimated Enrollment:
?
10 ?
when will the course first be offered: Fall1990
How often
will
the course be offered:AlternateYears(onsufficientdemand)
JUSTIFICATION:
Solid modelling is used increasingly in advanced CAE/CIM SYSTEM in indus
It is a fundamental part of the design for manufacture concept.
lThich Faculty meber will noral1y teach the course:
?
J. Dill
hat are the budgetary iplications of mounting the course:
?
Library tesource
acquisition plus use of existing com
p
uter work stations
plus
some.
software cost (Acquisition: approx $5K; ongoing: ap_prox $600/yr)
Are there sufficient Library resources (aoøend details): No
?
(see appended)
Appended: a) Outline of the Course
b)
An
indication of the coetence of the Faculty member to give the course.
c)
Library resources
Approved: Departmental Graduate Studies Corittee: _Date:____________
Faculty Graduate Studies Cotittee: _Date:
?
/L/$-
Faculty: ?
__Date:
Senate Graduate Studies
?
Date: ?/c/y,
#Z
I
3-D Objeèt Representation and
Solid Modelling
Outline of Course
Review of geometric principles
?
2 weeks
Solid models versus surface models
?
1 weeks
Mathematical basics of solid models
?
3 weeks
Descriptions of current systems
?
2 weeks
(PADL, TIPS, Ceomod)
Applications, limitations
? 2 weeks
2.
Competence of Faculty Member
John Dill's area of expertise is in applications of computer
graphics, including CAD/CAE and solid modeling.
3.
Library Resources
The library has little material on solid modelling. It is estimated
that $300-$400 worth of books are needed. This will be covered by the
existing Library funding for Engineering aquisitions.
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APPENDIX 3
9
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Library Collections
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4137
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
?
V
***
V?40RANDUM
****************
TO: ?
Vladimir Cuperman ?
FROM: ?
Sharon Thomas, Head,
School of Engineering
?
Collections Management Office
Science
SUBJECT: ?
Ph.D. Program Proposal
?
DATE:
?
February 3, 1939
The present proposal for a Ph.D. program in Electrical
Engineering falls well within the Library's collection policy
for Engineering Science and, with a few fairly minor excep-
tions, would not require us to begin collecting materials
in areas in which we are not already committing resources.
However, the Engineering Sciences collection is young and has
been developed in an era of restraint and tight library
budgets. Consequently the question is not whether or not the
collection is wide enough in scope but whether or not its
depth is sufficient to support a doctoral program.
During the summer of 1983, after discussions between
the Head of the Library's Science Division and the Dean of
• Engineering Science, the Library undertook to take the
following steps, as soon as funding permitted, in order to
support the new program:
1) Electrical and Electronics Abstracts
Begin a current subscription and purchase backfiles
ari indexes back to 1977. The cost was estimated to be
approximately
$7,500
with continuing annual subscrip-
tion costs of $700. per year.
2)
Computer and Control Abstracts
Complete backfile holdings back to 1977 at an estimated
cost of $2,300.
3)
IEEE Transactions and Journals
Increase our membership to full coverage at an annual
cost of approximately $340.
4)
Implement approval plan profiles which would ensure the
automatic acquisition of monographs in those subject
areas defined as p.irL -f t-ie Engineering Science Core A
areas of concentration: that is; computing, micro-
electronics and communications. Furt'c e '
cpansion of
the journal collection was deferred pending development
of the Engineering Science Faculty.
. ?
5) Purchase urgently required, previously published
reference and research materials at an estimated cost
of $3,600.
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Page 2.
Recommendations 2 - 5 were fully implemented but no monies
were available for Electrical and Electronics Abstracts. If,
as you suggest, it would now be sufficient to purchase back-
files from 1981-1988 and indexes from 1977 to 1980, the total
cost would be approximately $l4,5
?
now and $1,675 per year
for the new subscription.
The next development occurred during the fall of 1986 when
approval plan profiles were expanded to include proposed areas
of concentration identified as Core B: that is, industrial
automation, control and robotics, and computer-aided design
and manufacturing.
T
here have been no substantial changes to our collecting
policy for Engineering Science since that time and the
increased costs associated with the acquisition of these
materials as reflected in the following figures can be largely
attributed to price increases and currency fluctuations.
ENGINEERING SCIENCE EXPENDITURES
Serials
?
Monographs ?
Total
1988/89 ?
$9,000
(est)
?
$21,000
(est) $30,000(est)
1937/88 ?
6,764 ?
18,848 ?
25,612
1986/87
?
5,568 ?
17,254 ?
22,822
1985/86 ?
6,797 ?
12,468
?
19,265
14/85 ?
4,349 ?
12,402 ?
16,751
1983/84
?
11,634 ?
6,771 ?
18,405
$132,855
The situation with respect to journals is not quite as
positive. The School of Engineering Science was established
just as te Library, experiencing the first effects of fiscal
restraint, halted the previously steady expansion of its
journal collection. Since that time there have been virtually
no funds available for new journals and new titles have only
been added by cancelling existing subscriptions - a very
difficult situation for new and developing departments.
The
review of existing serials which is now underway through the
various faculty library committees has identified a number of
journals previously required by other departments which are no
longer of interest to them but which are now of primary
concern to Engineering Sciences.
.
.
C
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Page 3.
These titles include:
Medical Electronics
Pattern Recognition
Automatica
Journal of Medical Engineering and Tehvlogj
Mechanical Engineering
Ocean Engineering
These titles, along with the complete output of the IEEE,
now constitute the Library's journal holdings in Engineering
Science.
I have also received requests for subscriptions to:
lEE Proceedings. Port F. Communications, Radar, and
Signal Processing
Current Contents in Engineering Technology and
Applied Sciences
.
?
?
Present budgeting levels allow for the annual acquisition?
of some
300
new monographs added to an existing collection of
about 2,200 titles and current subscriptions to 70-75
journals,
?
of them published by the IEEE. The Library
would require additional funding in order to correct the
deficiencies identified above and to provide the normal
support for four proposed new courses.
We would need a one-time grant to cover the following
accessions:
Electrical and Electronics Abstracts
(backfiles and indexes from 1977 to 193
?
$14,500
Additional resources for proposed new courses 3,000
$17,500
In addition, the annual cost for three new subscriptions
(in 1988 dollars) is as follows:
Electrical and Electronics Abstracts
? 1,675
TEE Proceedings. Part F.
?
150
Current Contents in Engineering Technology
?
350
$2,175
.
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Page 4.
?
.
Tn Other wor1s, we would require $19,675 in 1989 and $2,175
of that would be added to the base for future years:
$17,500 ?
2,175 ?
$19,675
t the goals
adequate support
One time expenditure
Recurring annual costs
This allocation would allow the Library to me
estabi.i ;-.?d "-
a 1 -
?
ayd to provide modest but
for
the Core
?
a
?
areas of concentration.
The superimposition of a Ph.D program in electrical
engineering could, in my opinion, be accommodated by the newly
augmented collection (luring the early phases of its develop-
ment. We would expect to provide enhanced Interlibrary Loan
support to the program as it acquires doctoral candidates
and to cooperate with the faculty in order to facilitate
access to secondary collection materials. However, the
continued growth of the program over the next decade will
certainly create pressures for a more comprehensive journal
collection and approval of the Ph.D. Program in Engineering
Science should be seen as a commitment to support future
requirements for an expanded primacy collection and improved
access to the infinitely larger secondary collection.
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APPENDIX
5
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Comments of External Reviewers
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ACNGP-89-A2
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EXTERNAL REVIEWER FOR PHD
IN ENGINEERING SCIENCE
Dr. V. Bhargava
Dept. of Electrical and
Computer Engineering
University of Victoria
P.O. Box 1700
Victoria, B.C.
V8W 2Y2
Phone: ?
604 - 721-7211
FAX: ?
604 - 72.1-8676
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5-4
Report on the Ph.D. Program Proposal of the School of Engineering
?
Sciences, Simon Fraser University.
ifi. PROGRAM OUTL
1.
Objectives of the proposed program
The stated objective to produce specialists in three core areas, namely
Communications
and
Signal
Processing, Microelectronics, Automation is a
worthy one
given the National and B.C. demand for specialists in these areas.
The referee though disagrees with
the strong interdisciplinary emphasis and breadth
of
knowledge. A
strong Ph.D. Program emphasizes specialization and depth given the
strong research component of a Ph.D. and the need to advance the state of the art.
Awareness of developments in other disciplines is also necessary, but breadth cannot
substitute for depth of knowledge.
A strong Ph.D. program should also emphasize academic and research excellence.
A
strong industrial orientation is not contruiy to to
these objectives, but it is a subsequent
raLlier
than a prerequisite. The intention
Lu
have strung industrial links is certainly a goud
one.
The choice of core areas as specialization areas ofpeak demand will
make the
program attractive
and
attract good students.
2.
Personnel and Core areas.
The reviewer found
that the
proposed courses in the three core area cover the
current state of the art. However, the reviewer would like to propose some
changes/additions which to his
opinion
would enhance the program.
Communications and Signal Processing
A course dealing with probability theory and random variables is a must in any
modern Communications discipline.
Automation ?
-
A sequence of courses in modem controlcovering such topics as nonlinear
systems, stochastic control, adaptive control etc. is desirable.
A course covering the fundamentals of robotics (i.e. Robot dynamics, kinematics,
path
planning etc.) is
desirable.
A course in
numerical analysis is also desirable. This may be offered through
Mathematics
or Computer Science.
3.
Academic Requirements
The reviewer found that the stated academic requirements and procedures conform
with the established practises in most such programs.
N. RES4RCH FACILITIES
The included list of Research Facilities is certainly adequate to support the proposed
Ph.D. program.
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August 9, 1989
Dear Dean Clayman:
Attached is my report on the proposed
Ph.D.
program in
Electrical Engineering at Simon Fraser University. As you see, it
is fairly concise. I would be happy to amplify on any of.the
points that I made. I have studied the documentation that you
provided fairly carefully; consequently, I am reasonably firm in
the view that I express.
Sincerely yours,
C
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Jeremiah F. Hayes
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PropOsal for Doctoral Program Simon Fraser University
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J. F. Hayes
Department of Elecrtrical and Computer Engineering
Concordia University
One may consider a Ph. D. program to have three different
aspects: the course work, the research culminating in a thesis and
the administrative detail covering items such as the formulation
of a committee and qualifying examinations. I would like to deal
with each of these aspect in what I deem to be increasing order of
importance.
Administration
The procedures that have been set up for the program appear
to be quite sound. The format of the qualifying examination and
the review of progress are similar to those used in the other Ph.D.
programs with which I am familiar. The admissions standards also
seem to be in conformity with other programs as well. This aspect
of the program may reflect the administrative experience of many
of the members of the department.
Graduate Courses
I should begin my consideration of the graduate courses in
each of the core areas by commenting on ENCS 800, Linear Systems
Dynamics and ENCS 820, Engineering Management for Development
Projects. The former contains material which is covered at the
undergraduate level in most institutions. At best, it is a first-
year graduate course for students with weak backgrounds. ENCS 820
may be appropriate for the M. Eng. degree but it has no place in
• Ph.D. program.
?
I might say that listing these courses creates?
• negative impression; they look like padding.
Of the three core areas, Communications and Signal Processing
has the largest number of courses which are directly relevant to
the area. Of the two sub areas, Communications seems to have the
most courses, five out of seven. The problem is that all of the
course are at the introductory level and are quite practically
oriented. The is a real lack of higher level courses which would
form a suitable prelude to research. For example, there is nothing
on the theory of detection and estimation. Where does the student
learn Wiener and Kalman filtering, for example? Moreover, there is
neither a course on Error Correcting and Detecting Codes nor on
Information theory. Where does a student learn about such
important new developments as channel trellis coding? While there
is a course on Networks and Protocols, the range of topics is vast
and the student would hardly have the background to begin research.
There should be separate courses on performance models and on
51
protocol development and testing. My perception of the Signal
Processing side of this core is even more critical from the point-
of-view of a Ph.D. program. The are only two courses one of which
implementation oriented. This simply is not enough to bring the
student to a research level.
Of the three core areas, I am least familiar with
Microelectronics; however, it seems to have the greatest depth,
primarily because of the offerings in Physics and Computer Science.
In the department there are three basic courses. While ENSC 855
is related, it is stretching things to call it microelectronics.
My impression is that the three courses are fairly basic. As in
the previous core, there does not seem to be any in-depth material
which would be appropriate to a Ph.D. program.
Of the three cores, Automation seems to be the most deficient
in course offerings. There is some depth in Computer Vision but
this is only one aspect of Automation. There is only one basic
level course in control. No where are the complex issues of
stability and controllability treated. There is no material on
robotics. Finally, it is difficult to see how ENCS Finite-Elements
fits into an automation core. Could this be another example of
padding?
Thesis Research
. With respect to the third aspect of the program I take the
orthodox position that, in order to guide students, the faculty
members must be successful researchers themselves. As evidence of
competence there is no substitute for publication in refereed
journals. Further evidence would be support for fundamental
research, whether theoretical or practical, in the form of external
funding. I feel that the NSERC Operating grant is an important
indication of the viability of a research program. I recognize
that there is a alternative point-of-view which holds that
industrial contracts and reports are also valid measures of
productivity.
A fundamental problem is that many of the senior professors
have not published very much recently in refereed journals. Of the
six Full Professors only two have recent journal publications;
only three have NSERC operating grants, at modest level
s.
One of
those without recent publications has been heavily involved with
industry. The merit of this particular work is attested to by the
fact that he has an NSERC CRD grant. At the Associate Professor
level there is more evidence of recent activity although the record
is not strong. Of the six dossiers examined, there was no statement
of an NSERC operating grant, although two or three of the
individuals have records which could indicate support. I may be
accused of placing too much emphasis on the operating grant as an
indicator; however, even the alternative point-of-view yields the
•
?
?
same result. There seems to be only one senior professor who has?
active participation with industry.
I
WSJ
At the level of Assistant Professor, the picture is much
brighter. Of the six dossiers examined, four indicate quite good
performance. These four Assistant Professors hold NSERC operating
grants, for example. As a group, the Assistant Professors are
certainly up to the standard of good young people at any of our
universities.
I would like to close with a mild complaint about the
documentation that was provided. It would have been very convenient
if there were a summary of funding, publications and other
accomplishments for the whole department. It was difficult to get
an overall picture since each of the individual dossiers had
different formats and contained varying amounts of information.
A particular deficiency on a number of them was external funding.
One is led to suspect that in those cases there is none or little.
Finally, there is repeated material on pages 8 and 14 of the
proposal.
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School of Engineering and Applied Science
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The Engineering QuidrangIe
Princeton, New Jersey 08544
6091987-288()
Ifisish i Kobayashi,
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July 20, 1989
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Professor
B.P. Clayman
Dean of Graduate Studies
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia
Canada V5A 1S6
Dear Dean Clayman:
This is in response to your letter of June 8, inquiring about.
my
opinion concerning the proposed Ph.D. program in Engineering
Science graduate program at Simon Fraser University. First of
all, I was somewhat surprised to learn that a Ph.D. program in
Electrical Engineering or Engineering Science has not already been
offered at your institution. I find the proposed program to be a
S ?
very solid and viable one, and recommend strongly that it be
approved and implemented, in view of the increasing importance of
the subject fields to respond to the national and regional needs
of Canada.
Your School of Engineering Science corresponds to the
departments of electrical engineering in many institutions
including ones at Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, etc. The
faculty size of 18 is comparable to what we have in our electrical
engineering department (although we plan to grow to the level of
25 during the next several years), and a graduate Ph.D. program is
feasible, if we focus on selected fields.
The three core areas -- i.e. communications and signal
processing, microelectronics, and automation -- are excellent
fields to focus on. As a matter of fact, our electrical
engineering department also covers three core areas --
information sciences and systems, electronic materials and
devices, and computer engineering -- and the first two roughly
correspond to the first two in your proposal.
As far as the faculty is concerned, I think that you have a
very good group of people in the proposed areas, and the proposed
program size -- i.e. 12-14 Ph.D.s per year -- should certainly be
manageable. I don't know the size of the undergraduate majors and
corresponding loads, but two and a half graduate students per
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faculty sounds to me a little too modest. If you can attract
enough qualified applicants, and the faculty can get sufficient
research grants, three to four Ph.D. students per faculty will be
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more desirable in terms of the research productivity and the
effectiveness of the program. There will be no question that the
demand for graduating Ph.D.s in electrical engineering will grow
enormously internationally. As you know, there is an tremendous
shortage of engineers and scientists predicted in the United
States. (Please see the enclosed articles from Science and The
New York Times.) A real challenge will be whether you can attract
a sufficient number of qualified candidates, and secure enough
financial
resources that will allow the School to compete
effectively with other universities in Canada and the United
States.
Let me comment on some specifics and raise questions,
although they are rather minor issues.
Communications and Signal Processing
My overall impression is that this set of ENSL 800 series
courses cover a significantly broad range of communications and
signal processing applications, and all the chosen course subjects
and their syllabi are relevant and up to date. However, the core
curriculum lacks more fundamental and theoretical courses such as
"Introduction to Communication and Information Theory" (EE525 in
Princeton catalog, p. 249), "Information Theory"
(EE528,
ibid p.
249), and "Theory of Detection and Estimation" (EE530, ibid p.
249). In fact, if you compare the courses listed in our catalog
with those in your proposal, you will notice that we offer much
fewer courses in application fields, and perhaps that is our weak
point. Nevertheless, I believe it is important to teach
fundamental and basic theories followed by some selection of
application fields of current interest.
It will be useful to identify some courses in the mathematics
and statistics department that may serve as a mathematical
foundation for communications and signal processing. For example,
courses in probability and stochastic processes, statistical
inference theory, real analysis and measure theory. Students
should be encouraged to take some of these courses, and you may
wish to include mathematics as one of the optional minors.
Microelectronics
I think that the idea of
including
physics and computer
science courses as part of the core courses is excellent. The
missing component in this core curriculum is a course on
electronics (and optical) materials. The future of
microelectronics depends on advances in materials as well as
fabrication processing technologies. I am not familiar with
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contemporary microwave technology, but, to me, photonics and opto-
electronics will be more important subjects as a new course.
Automation
The word "automation" sounds rather old-fashioned and
unappealing because automation carries a connotation of assembly-
oriented manufacturing plants of generations ago. Today's
important technologies relevant to system design and manufacturing
are machine intelligence, man-machine interface, processing
technology, and large systems software. The core courses in the
suggested area cover many aspects of the above, whereas the title
"automation" implies a rather narrow subject field. I would
rather prefer such titles as "Dynamic Systems and Control" and
"Intelligent Systems and Control."
Again, the joint listing of related courses of computer
science is commended. "CMPT 820-3 Artificial Intelligence" should
be worth considering as another course to be listed. As for a new
course, this department and the computer science department may
want to introduce "Expert Systems Shell and Applications." In
order to carry out strong research programs in the "automation"
area, researchers have to have a working knowledge of computer
systems software. It is not so clear from this menu of courses,
how students will have the proper exposure to computer engineering
and software aspects.
Additional Remarks
The research facilities described in the document seem
reasonable, but graduate study and research facilities largely
depend on the scale of sponsored research. The level of sponsored
research (government contracts, industry grants, etc.) in the
range of $200,000 per year per faculty should be the target for
those who are involved in experiments and implementation. The
institution has to provide budgets for new spaces, renovation and
matching funds for equipment. These costs easily add up to
millions of dollars, but the university (and the provincial
government) must make such an investment in order to create and
develop human resources necessary for the future of Canada and
British Columbia.
In closing, I should mention that many of the research
activities of the School of Engineering Science fall in the domain
of B.C.'s ASI (Advanced Systems Institute) for which I serve as a
member of the International Scientific Advisory Board, and with
which Professor Thomas Calvert and Professor Nick Cercone are
involved as key members. I recommend that the faculty of
Engineering Science take advantage of the ASI program as a funding
source as well as a source of intellectual stimulation that can be
achieved by interactions with other leading institutions and
industries in the region.
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I am afraid that my comments and remarks might be somewhat
off the mark, since I am not familiar with various constraints --
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olitical, historical, resource, etc. -- under which the School of
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irieering Science is currently operating. To recapitulate, the
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exp
editiously. It will certainly strengthen the most important
component of
your engineering division, and will serve the nation
most e ffectively. I hope that my observations and recommendations
will be of some value to you. If you have any questions, I can be
reached at
609/987-2880
before September 1, 1989 and 609/258-2880
after
September 1, 1989.
Si.ereiy yours,
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P.P. Clayman
Dean of Graduate Studies
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C.
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Dear Dr. Clayman:
Thank you for your letter of June 8, 1989, requesting comment on
the proposed Ph.D. Graduate Program in Engineering Science at SFU.
I strongly support the program concept. I have examined the
proposed curriculum and I am quite familiar with the capabilities
of the faculty from my many years of association as an adjunct
professor with the school.
I very strongly support the focus of the program on communications,
signal processing and microelectronics. As the application states,
there is a critical shortage in Canada of post-graduate level
electrical engineers. The technological platform in radio
frequency communications is of vital importance to Canada. Its
growth and enhancement will become increasingly limited in the
years to come as the demand for new graduates exceeds the ability
of the existing programs to supply.
This problem has been exacerbated in the disciplines of microwave
and radio frequency
communications
electrical engineering. The
growing sophistication and attractiveness of digital
microelectronics has meant that fewer excellent candidates. have
focused on analog work. Yet the communications industry continues
to demand more of these graduates.
As you may know, a task force of key industry executives,
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university academics, and various departments and agencies of the
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Federal and Provincial Governments have devoted thousands of hours
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over the last three years to bring into being the National Wireless
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Communications Research Foundation. The Foundation's aim is to
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develop a core of radio frequency communications expertise in
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Vancouver to further enhance Canada's competitiveness in this key
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. area. One of the key motivations for the development of the
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Foundation is its capability to significantly add to the pool of.
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microwave ?
engineers. ?
Thus, ?
the
establishment of a Ph.D. program focusing on communications, signal
processing and micro electronics will be of great benefit.
I, ?
and other senior executives at Nexus Engineering Corp.
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have
worked ?
Drs. ?
Cavers, ?
Cuperman, ?
Stapleton, ?
and Ingraham and are
familiar with the work of the other members of the faculty.
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With
their combined decades of experience in these narrowly focused
fields, ?
I believe that there is excellent potential for them to
develop skilled graduates.
I believe the faculty is well positioned to market its program
effectively and attract the best students. ?
I believe that the
presence of an excellent research facility supported by adequately
equipped ?
labs, ?
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successfully
attracting the best students.
As indicated above, the demand for graduates of this program cannot
be under estimated. ?
Nexus Engineering could use as many as a dozen
Ph.D.
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Canada has similar unfulfilled requirements. ?
The
Ph.D. ?
graduates will be in heavy demand across the country and
particularly here in British Columbia.
I hope the Assessment Committee will carefully consider Canada's
need for experience graduates in microwave engineering and support
the school of Engineering Science in its proposal to develop a
Ph. D.
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program.
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October 12, 1989
Dr. B.P. Clayman
Dean of Graduate Studies
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C.
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Dear Dr. Clayman:
My apologies for being late with my comments on the Engineering Science
Ph.D. program proposal. However, I hope that you and your committee
will find the following of use.
The program has merit in that training more Ph.D.'s in electrical
engineering is a laudable aim, for the reasons cited in Section II.
The courses listed appear to be at a level suitable for Ph.D.
candidates, but their focus is extremely narrow. However, as Ph.D.
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students would be taking only 6 semester-hours beyond M.A.Sc., this
should not be viewed as a deficiency in the program. There comes a
time when severe specialization is necessary, and it can be argued
easily that such a time is during Ph.D. studies. My concern in this
regard is that Ph.D. students entering from the S.F.U. Master's program
would have already been restricted to this same pool of courses. Their
entire graduate-level course background would, therefore, be very
narrow. Such an esoteric, as opposed to eclectic, background may pose
problems regarding flexibility of choice of future employment. It also
means that the demand for S.F.U. Ph.D.'s in Engineering Science is
likely to come from a very small and specialized segment of the
community.
With respect to the appeal of the program to graduate students, I
imagine that, at first, there will be considerable demand. The focus
on current "hot topics" will be particularly attractive to students
from countries with little development in these areas, e.g. P.R. China.
How useful these students will be to Canada, and how good any of the
students in the Program will be are further questions. Regarding the
latter, it is my experience that the best students are good in a
variety of areas and like to keep their options open as long as
possible. Such students may well find the proposed program
emasculating.
The physical resources appear to be adequate for modest research
efforts in the areas indicated. The Microelectronics Fabrication
facility seems to be rather euphemistically described on page 10. The
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facility is "complete" only in the sense that it can pattern the top
level metallization in gate arrays. This is but a small part of the
chip fabrication
process,
so research in the broad area of
microelectronics technology could not be attempted in such a facility.
On the human resources side it is most disappointing that so very few
of the faculty can offer demonstrable proof of real research activity.
The publication (archival papers) records of most of the faculty are
very poor, as are the extents of N.S.E.R.C. grants and the numbers of
M.A.Sc. students supervised to completion. These are the yardsticks by
which Ph.D.-type work is traditionally judged. Instead of
concentrating on these, some of the faculty have sought industrial and
B.C. Science Council grants, which are geared towards development work.
This is an excellent course to follow for M.A.Sc. projects, but where,
then, is the evidence of completed M.A.Sc. students? For Ph.D.
projects a more fundamental basis is desirable.
To be confident that the faculty could attract high-calibre Ph.D.
candidates and administer true, Ph.D.-quality research programs, I
would have liked to have seen more evidence of scholarly papers in the
last 5-10 years, more M.A.Sc. students graduated recently, and a higher
profile in N.S.E.R.C. grants. The latter are often small compared to
the sums dispensed by B.C.S.C., but they are only awarded after a very
thorough peer review, so that they set a national standard against
which research effectiveness or potential can be judged.
Perhaps before Ph.D.-type research programs can materialize one needs
Ph.D. students. Therefore, we have to be careful to avoid setting-up a
"chicken and egg" or "catch-22" situation. Being aware of this I am
inclined to endorse the proposed program, but regret that I can only do
so with the reservations expressed in this letter.
Yours sincerely,
D.L. Puifrey, Ph.D., P.Eng.
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Dr. B. P. Clayman,
Dean of Graduate Studies,
Simon Fraser University,
Burnaby, B.C.
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Re: Appraisal of Proposed Ph.D. Program in Engineering
Dear Bruce:
Attached is a copy of my appraisal of the proposed doctoral program in
Engineering Science. I hope that it will be useful to you in pursuing the
matter of its establishment.
Thanks to you and your colleagues, Bruce, I found my visit t:o Simon Fraser
both enjoyable and informative. There is no doubt that you have a very
good doctoral program in the making.
With best wishes,
Yours sincerely,
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Room 360 0 C.J. Mackenzie Building (613) 788-5645
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APPRAISAL OF?
PROPOSED PH.D PROGRAM IN ENGINEERING?
J. S. Riordon
1. General
Prior to visiting Simon Fraser University, I reviewed the
documentation associated with its proposed Ph.D. program in
Engineering. Documentation included the proposal with
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three
appendices dated 26 January 1989, with revisions to 16 May 1968.
Also included were the resumes of 18 faculty members associated
with the program.
The visit to the School of Engineering Science took place on
28, 29 August 1989. At that time additional written information
was provided concerning the graduate program. A list of people
interviewed is contained in appendix A. I should like to express
my thanks to all of those whom I met for their cordiality and
openness.
2.
University and Faculty Context
a) School of Engineering Science
The administrative context of the
School
of Engineering
Science at Simon Fraser University differs somewhat from that of
more conventional Faculties of Engineering. The School is a unit
within the Faculty of Applied Science and is not itself subdivided
into departments. The first two years are common at the
undergraduate level, while six options are offered during the final
two years. There are 18 faculty members.
As stated in the 1988/89 calendar, the
School
envisages the
development of three major areas of concentration:
Core A:
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Computing, microelectronics, communications;
Core B:
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Industrial automation, control and robotics,
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computer aided design and manufacturing;
Core C:
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Chemical ?
and ?
biochemical ?
processing ?
and
biotechnology.
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At the graduate level the School offers programs leading
to
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the M.A.Sc. and M.Eng. degrees. Although the degrees are not
designated as to branch, courses offered are oriented primarily
towards electrical engineering, specializing in communications,
microelectronics and control systems. To date, four M.A.Sc.
students have graduated; two of these are in the communication;
and signal processing area, two in microelectronics.
b)
Cognate Faculties/departments
The nature of the proposed program calls for close cooperation
with the School of Computing Science, especially in the areas of
microelectronics (VLSI design) and computer graphics. The
requirement has been met in part through the placement of that
School within the new Applied Science Building along with the
School of Engineering Science. This proximity is important, and
will prove a valuable ingredient in the continuing cooperation
between the two units. It is evident as well that such cooperation
is already established in the form of joint research projects and
joint supervision of graduate students.
Some cooperation exists with the Department of Physics in the
semiconductor area, although it was much less apparent than the
Computing Science link. The notable orientation of Physics towards
the solid state area suggests that full advantage of cooperative
possibilities should be sought by engineering researchers in
microelectronics. Joint research with some members of the
Department of Mathematics in the areas of communications and
controls is a further possibility to be explored.
c)
Special features of the program
Features claimed for the program making it "distinct from
other Canadian programs in the field" (proposal, page 6) are:
i)
strong interdisciplinary emphasis and breadth of
knowledge;
ii)
strong industrial orientation;
iii)
choice of core areas as specialization areas of peak
demand.
The authors of the proposal have weakened it by overstating
the case. Not only do major departments in large Canadian
universities provide broader coverage in the fields chosen, hut
there exist a variety of interuniversity programs and research
consortia engaging the efforts of scores of faculty members in
joint academic programs and research. Typically, leading programs
of a corresponding nature would involve cooperation between several
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departments such as electrical engineering, mechanical engineering
and computer science.
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Similar remarks apply to the matter of industrial involvement.
To demonstrate a unique position here would be difficult for any
university in Canada, given the success of consortia such as le
Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montreal, the
Telecommunications Research Institute of Ontario, the Computer
Research Institute at the University of Waterloo, the Ottawa
Carleton Research Institute, the Alberta Telecommunications
Research Centre and the Manufacturing Research Centre of Ontario.
An unusual, if not unique, feature of the program is its
organizational structure. In the absence of traditional
departmental barriers, an integrated team exists already to address
topics which might require the expertise of faculty drawn from
different departments, faculties, or even universities in a more
conventional environment. This inherently holistic structure is
valuable in terms of the integration of research efforts. It is
fully effective, however, only with small size. It can probably
be maintained with a staff up to double the present number - say,
35 faculty. ?
Beyond that, compartmentalization is extremely
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difficult to resist.
d) The University View
The successful inauguration of a Ph.D. program in Engineering
is seen as an important step in the continuing development of Simon
Fraser University. Dr. Ross Saunders, Associate Vice President
(Academic), regards it as one of the top two priorities within the
University. The intent is to launch the program with three
designated specialities, and then to add to these as appropriate
in the future under the general banner of the Ph.D. in Engineering.
3. Graduate studies?
a) Areas
Three research areas are planned for the Ph.D. program:
communications and signal processing, microelectronics, and
automation. The first two of these areas fall within "core A
ll
of
the faculty's major areas of concentration, while automation falls
within "core B".. According to the 1988/89 calendar (page 57) "core
A is fully operational and the first students have been enroled in
core
B".
It may be useful to place the research areas in the context
of more traditional academic groupings. In these terms, the first
two areas lie primarily within the domain of electrical
engineering. Communications is of particular importance within the
Canadian context, while microelectronics is an underlying feature
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and driving force in a vast range of modern technologies and
enterprises. Automation is by its nature a somewhat more
interdisciplinary field, encompassing automatic control, robotics
and computer integrated manufacturing. Automatic control theory
grew out of electrical and mechanical engineering; much the same
theory is found in process control within chemical engineering
departments. Robotics lies within the purview of electrical
engineering, mechanical engineering and computer science. Computer
integrated manufacturing tends to find its home as a discipline
within mechanical engineering departments, with some elements
relating to electrical engineering, computer science and business.
b) Courses
When the proposed new courses have been introduced, a total
of 18 one semester courses will be in place. Two courses, ENSC
800 Linear Systems Dynamics and ENSC 820 Engineering Management
for Development Projects, are common to all three streams. In
addition to these two, it is planned to offer seven courses in the
communications and signal processing area, four in microelectronics
and five in automation.
The seven courses unique to the area of communications and
signal processing appear to be well chosen to give coverage and a
• reasonable breadth. Necessarily there is an absence of depth,
although this can be compensated for through directed studies
courses.
The four courses available specifically in the
microelectronics area give a minimal coverage of integrated
circuits and solid state devices. These are reinforced by six
other courses given in the Department of Physics and the School
of
Computer Science. The overall result seems adequate.
The area of automation appears to be the least well defined.
While the five specialist courses are bolstered by four additional
ones from the School of Computer Science, the result is an uneven
coverage. There is no course in robotics although there is one on
robot vision and another on computational vision. There is little
or no coverage of manufacturing methods, including MRP, JIT,
machine control, manufacturing databases and flexible manufacturing
systems. Some of these subjects may be touched upon in directed
studies or special topics courses.
C)
Academic Requirements and Regulations
As stated in the proposal, the academic requirements and
regulations are generally appropriate. In addition to a fairly
rigorous entrance requirement (A- or higher), the student is
required to pass a written and oral comprehensive examination and
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to present a thesis proposal. Each doctoral student is expected
to
series.
present
Doctoral
a research
examination
seminar
procedures
annually
and
within
residence
the
requirements
School seminar
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will adhere to the general regulations on pages 211-214 of the
1988/89 calendar.
Two observations may be made concerning the comprehensive
examinations. First, some concern was expressed that the
requirement of three examinations in engineering was out of step
with that in computing science, in which five areas must be
addressed. Second, the rationale for the requirement that all
students write the Signals and Systems examination is not apparent.
It is not necessarily central for many students in microelectronics
and computer graphics, for instance.
The course requirements for the doctoral program are somewhat
light by national standards at six semester hour credits or,
assuming lectures of three hours per week, two one semester
courses. This is within the normal range found internationally
within Faculties of Engineering, however.
d) Coordination with UBC
If this proposal is implemented, there will be two Ph.D.
programs in engineering operating within the Vancouver environs.
Unnecessary duplication should be avoided and some degree of
synergy can be realized through suitable coordination with the
University of British Columbia's Faculty of Engineering. As a
minimum, such coordination implies some rationalization of course
offerings and the ready availability of courses to students at the
"other" university. At present, transfer of credits is possible,
but there appears to be little active research cooperation between
the two universities.
4. Research
In an overall sense, the University's Centre for Systems
Science funds a range of projects within Engineering Science and
Computing Science. As well, each of the areas in the proposed
program undertakes substantial research acitivity on the basis of
outside grants and contracts. Fifteen of the 18 faculty members
in the School have received external research funding during 1989.
The Communications group is highly respected nationally for
its research in mobile radio at both the circuit and system level.
Work in modulation techniques and speech encoding is especially
notable. Also under investigation is the area of underwater
acoustics, particularly appropriate in view of the location. The
group has strong ties with external agencies. These include Mobile
Data International, Orcatron Manufacturing, Microtel Pacific
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Research, Glenaryre Electronics and Nexus Engineering. Total
industrial funding over the past five years is well over $600,000,
exclusive of NSERC, BC Research Council, etc. During the current
year this group has been awarded approximately $460,000 in research
grants. Two M.A.Sc. theses have been produced in this area.
With the completion of the new building, the microelectronics
group now has a first class facility for simulation, design,
fabrication and testing of medium scale integration circuitry. The
"quick chip" system, in particular, is an impressive innovation
which allows the production of semi-custom chips with a turnaround
time of as little as 24 hours. Low temperature research is another
area of notable activity. Several members of the group work
closely with faculty in the communications area, producing the kind
of powerful research and development team which should be
encouraged. Microelectronics researchers have received over
$550,000 in grants during 1989. On the industrial front there is
limited opportunity for local coporate interaction; while there are
a number of sophisticated device users and systems integrators in
the region (particularly in the communications sector), there is
no local foundry. Two M.A.Sc. theses have been produced in this
area.
The automation group is concerned with the fields of computer
aided design, computer graphics and robotics. A central feature
of this work appears to be the application of artificial
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intelligence methods - to the design process, to the user interface
and to computer vision. Automation researchers have received
approximately $106,000 in research grants during 1989. There is
considerable industrial interaction, but as a group this one is
less well defined and mature than those in either communications
or microelectronics. No Master's theses have yet been produced in
this area.
5. Faculty
This section examines measures of faculty experience,
expertise and activity. Before embarking on this, I should like
to comment upon the more intangible aspect of facuitly morale and
attitude. The School is new, and most members with whom I spoke
were drawn to it because they see its operation as an innovative
departure from that of more traditional institutions. All were
enthusiastic, seemed to enjoy their work, and had confidence in
the dynamism and leadership of the Director. It is clear that
faculty members are proud of the accomplishments of the School, and
look forward to the challenge of undertaking a doctoral program.
This esprit de corps is a prize beyond price. Whatever immediate
shortcomings may be present - and no one is free of them - this
attitude augurs well for the future.
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The
a)
Number
18 faculty
and distribution
members of
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the School are equally divided
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within the ranks of Full Professor, Associate and Assistant. If
it is assumed that the effort of faculty jointly involved in more
than one area is uniformly divided, then the effective numbers in
each area are those shown in table 1.
b) Experience
An extremely important aspect of any doctoral program is the
record of the faculty in carrying out research and the supervision
of graduate students. Table 2 indicates, for each of the three
areas, the number of faculty members who have received major
research awards during 1989, the total number of completed Ph.D and
master's supervisions (not necessarily at Simon Fraser University),
and the number of faculty members with such supervisory experience.
For example, all, six (equivalent) members of the communications
group have received research
funding
in 1989; between them they
have in the past supervised a total of ten doctoral and 44 master's
students. All of the doctoral supervisory experience resides with
one member, Dean George. The forty-four master's degrees were
supervised by 3.5 equivalent members (actually four people:
Professors Cavers, Cuperman, George and Hardy, the latter's efforts
assumed split between communications and microelectronics). Since
all of those with supervisory experience are senior faculty who
also have substantial industrial contacts, it can be concluded that
the group is strong by the measures used here.
In the microelectronics area, all members have received
research awards in 1989. No doctoral supervisory experience
resides within the group; three of its members (2.5 equivalent)
have some experience supervising at the master's level.
In the area of automation, five of the eight members have
received research awards in 1989. Graduate supervision experience,
at both the master's and doctoral levels, appears to be
concentrated entirely in the person of Professor Calvert, who is
also the Vice President (Research and Information Systems) of the
University and cannot be considered as full time within the School.
Regardless of industrial experience, this does not constitute an
adequate
basis
from
which
to
launch a
doctoral program.
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Area ?
Prof
Commun & signal proc
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3.5
Microelectronics ?
0.5
Automation ?
2.0
Totals ?
6.0
Assoc
Asst
Subtotal
1.0
1.5
6.0
2.0
1.5
4.0
3.0
3.0
8.0
6.0
6.0
18.0
Table 1: Facult y
Distribution
No. ?
funded
Ph.D.'s
Faculty
Master's
Faculty
Area
in 1989
Sup'vd
Sup'vsrs
Sup'vd
Sup'vsrs
Coinmun
6.0
10
1.0
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3.5
Microelect
4.0
0
0.0
5
2.5
Automation
5.0
5
1.0
10
1.0
Table
2: Research
Fundin g
and
Graduate
Supervision
Notes:
1.
Faculty numbers are full time equivalent; where a faculty
member works in two areas, he/she shows as 0.5 in each.
2.
Source of funding data is School's statement on " Major
Research Awards Since January 1989
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3.
Source of graduate supervision data is curricula vitae.
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Publications and related indicators
The number of faculty in the School of Engineering Science
has increased considerably in the recent past as the School has
been built up. An effort has obviously been made to obtain
recruits with a strong industrial background in many cases.
Perhaps as a result of this policy, the publication of refereed
journal papers is not a salient feature of research productivity.
The publication of papers in high quality refereed conferences is,
however, more prevalent and is a better indicator of research
activity within the School. Fourteen of the 18 faculty members in
the School hold NSERC operating grants. All operating grants are
below $20,000; this is low for engineering, and is perhaps
associated with the paucity of refereed publications. The
situation should improve as the School matures. In the meantime
funding from the B.C. Science Council and from industry is strong.
6. Resources
a) Laboratories and Equipment
The School of Engineering Science has recently occupied a new
building of approximately 60,000 net sq. ft.; this space is shared
with the Schools of Computer Science and of Kinesiology.
Laboratories are modern, well laid out and well equipped. Space
is entirely adequate for the expansion envisaged in this proposal.
An impressive aspect of the new equipment is the provison of
some 70 Sun Sparcstations within Engineering and Computer Science.
This major acquisition, made in part through a grant/discount
arrangement with Sun Microsystems, will allow each faculty member
to have desktop computing power equal to that available from
mainframes only about a decade ago.
The SUN network is an important part of the equipment
associated with communications. As well, that group has appropriate
specialized signal processing hardware and software. An unusual
and potentially very useful item is the underwater acoustics test
bed.
The microelectronics group has a class 100 clean room. As
previously mentioned, this and related facilities allow circuit
design and testing as well as fabrication. The laboratory will
undoubtedly prove valuable for both instruction and research
purposes.
• In the area of automation, good facilities exist for computer
aided design. The graphics laboratory has an Apollo DN590
workstation in addition to access to the the facilities listed in
the next section. Some equipment is also in place for experimental
manufacturing and material handling. The latter, while comparable
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to that found at many Canadian universities, is not yet at the
standard required for a doctoral program. For instance, there was
no integrated flexible manufacturing cell, and the development of
CAN (as opposed to CAD) seemed somewhat embryonic.
b) Computing
In addition to the Sparcstation network and the Apollo CAD
workstation previously mentioned, the School has three Apollo
workstations of the DN3000 class and 20 Sun 3/Sun 4 machines.
These are linked by an ethernet local area network. There are also
two PC networks, one available to undergraduate students. For
heavier "number crunching", an IBM 3083 mainframe is available, and
the School has on site an SGI IRIS 4D/240 dual processor
minicomputer. The latter, in its class, is a formidable machine.
I would judge the computing power available to be outstanding for
the size of the School and the type of research being carried out.
c) Library
Appendix 3 contains a statement from Ms. Sharon Thomas, head
of the collections management office of the university library.
It is indicated that, to provide "modest but adequate support for
core A and B areas" it will be necessary to incur a one time
expenditure of $17,500 and a continuing annual cost of $2175 for
the purchase of requisite periodicals. On the basis of the
comments in appendix 3, I judge this to be an absolute minimum
necessary for the support of the proposed Ph.D. program.
d)
Support staff
The School has eight administrative and seven technical
support staff members. While I did not formally interview any of
this group (other than Mr. Richard Fortier, in his capacity as a
part time student), I met some of them and was able to observe
their handiwork while touring the laboratories. My impression was
one of competence, cooperation and dedication. In terms of
numbers, the ratio of support staff to students in the School of
Engineering Science is substantially higher than average across
the country. In this area, the School is indeed well served.
e)
Student/faculty ratio
In the proposal (page 12) it is stated that the target for
steady state graduate enrolment is "about 2 1/2 graduate students
per faculty member, of whom about 1/3 would be Ph.D. students."
With 15 or 16 of the 18 faculty members active in research, the
objective is 12-14 Ph.D. students. The academic load which can be
carried by a faculty member depends upon the total weighted
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student/faculty ratio, including both undergraduate and graduate,
as well as the number of assistants. At the undergraduate level,
the first year intake, is approximately 50 students annually.
Assuming some attrition, this means that the student/faculty ratio
is less than 10:1. A typical faculty teaching load in the School
is one course per semester for two semesters per year; this
compares with a more typical Canadian average in the vicinity of
1.5-2.0. On the assumption that the faculty load associated with
an M.A.Sc. student is double that of an undergraduate, and that of
a Ph.D. student triple, the overall equivalent student/faculty
ratio is about 15:1. This is lower than the typical level in many
Canadian Engineering Faculties of 20-25:1. On the other hand, it
was indicated that the School uses only a small number of teaching
assistants; this factor will tend to increase the faculty contact
time with undergraduate students - an effect which is both
necessary and highly desirable. It can be concluded that faculty
numbers are fully adequate to handle the program envisaged.
7.
Students
As previously noted, four M.A.Sc. students have graduated to
date. This number should soon increase considerably, as there are
now 21 master's students enrolled in the program. The School is
thus close to its stated steady state enrolment of 25-30 M.A.Sc.
candidates.
Over 90% of full time engineering graduate students hold
research assistantships, and a wide range of scholarships and
fellowships is available. Relatively few students hold teaching
assistantships. Providing that overall funding is adequate (and
it seems to be so), this circumstance is probably an advantage to
most students,and should allow them to complete their degree
requirements more rapidly than would otherwise be pssible.
Two graduate students (and one part time undergraduate) were
interviewed. Both were studying in the communications field; they
were happy to have made the choice of Simon Fraser for graduate
work. Theon1y concern which arose was the relatively small choice
of courses available. Each was fairly confident of getting
employment locally; however, they considered that local job
prospects in microelectronics and automation were not as good as
those in communications.
8.
Demand
Demand occurs at two points: at the entry, demand for the
program by prospective students; and at completion, demand for the
graduates by society (ususally in the form of employers). Entry
point demand cannot be gauged with certainty until the program is
actually offered. However, demand for the current M.A.Sc. program
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is a fairly good indicator of potential demand for the Ph.D.
. program. The former is strong, and student numbers at the master's
level have grown rapidly. There is every reason to believe that
the doctoral program would similarly meet its enrolment targets
with highly qualified students.
Societal need for graduates with advanced degrees in the
fields under consideration is very strong indeed. The case has
been well put in the program proposal, and needs little
elaboration. Canada is in a crisis situation with respect to the
supply of highly qualified engineers in research, design and
manufacturing, not to mention marketing and sales. As a country
we are facing intense industrial competition from the United
States, Europe and southeast Asia. Our performance in this arena
will have a substantial effect on the standard of living of the
next generation of Canadians.
All of these points would be blunted with respect to this
program if there were much excess capacity in other comparable ones
elsewhere. In fact this is not the case. While graduate
enrolments fluctuate, most other Canadian graduate engineering
programs are limited, at least in part, by the availability of
resources. The infusion of resources by Simon Fraser University
to mount the Ph.D. program in engineering is thus particularly
timely and appropriate from the demand viewpoint.
9. Recommendations
It is recommended that:
a)
the proposed Ph.D. program in Engineering be offered
in the fields of communications and microelectronics.
In the case of microelectronics, engineering doctoral
supervisions should initially be carried out jointly with
faculty members drawn from communications, from the
School of Computer Science or from the Department of
Physics.
b)
offering of the Ph.D. program in the field of
automation be delayed until faculty members have attained
collectively a satisfactory degree of experience in
supervision at the M.A.Sc. level. Such a condition might
be reached when, for instance, more than half of the
members of the group had successfully supervised several
master's theses. Prior to that time, members of the
automation group should be encouraged to act as co-
supervisors, where appropriate, of doctoral students
whose primary research and supervision derives from the
School of Computer Science or the communications group.
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C)
the School of Engineering Science take full advantage
of joint research with cognate departments. In addition
to Computer Science (which is already closely allied)
further possibilities may exist with the Departments of
Physics and of Mathematics.
d)
the School consider increasing the range of courses
offered at the graduate level. This may mean that some
courses are not offered every year. Full advantage
should be taken of the availablity of suitable sessional
lecturers from the outside community.
e)
the Schoolof Engineering Science seek to re-examine
with the School of 'Computer Science the comprehensive
examination requirements, with a view to the development
of a policy which is consistent between the two
jusisdictions.
f)
the School re-examine the question of whether the
course in Signals and Systems is an appropriate
requirement for all of its doctoral students.
g)
the School consider the possibility of closer
coordination of its graduate program with those of
related groups at the University of British Columbia.
10. Conclusions
The School of Engineering Science is impressive. Its faculty
members have a wide range of engineering experience, and approach
their work with diligence and enthusiasm. Its students at both
the graduate and undergraduate levels are academically strong.
Facilities are first rate. Advantage is taken of the joint
interests of Engineering Science and Computer Science. Solid links
exist between the School and the community. Within the university,
the School of Engineering Science deservedly enjoys the confidence
of senior members of the administration.
The School is moving rapidly and ambitiously to establish a
doctoral program in three areas. To ensure success in this
venture, the introduction of this program must be paced. One area,
communications, has clearly reached the required level of maturity
and recognition. It is ready to go forward. A second,
microelectronics, is poised on the brink. It is ready, with a
little help. The automation group is still in its formative stage.
Here the School should avoid rushing its bridges, and concentrate
in the near term on the establishment of a sound M.A.Sc. program.
In the long run this approach will help ensure a high reputation
and continuing success.
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APPENDIX A
INTERVIEWS
During the course of my visit on 28, 29 August 1989, I had
the opportunity of speaking to the following people:
Dr. Donald A. George, Director, School of Engineering Science
and Dean, Faculty of Applied Sciences
Dr. Ross Saunders, Associate Vice President (Academic),
Acting President
Dr. James K. Cavers, School of Engineering Science
Dr. Bruce Clayman, Dean of Graduate Studies
Dr. John C. Dill, School of Engineering Science
Mr. Ian Radziejewski, MASc student
Mr. Henry Li, MASc student
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student,
Richard Fortier, staff member and part time undergraduate
student, Engineering Science
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Dr. John D. Jones, School of Engineering Science
Dr. Paul Ho, School of Engineering Science
Professor Ze-nian Li, School of Computing Science
Dr. Steve Hardy, School of Engineering Science
Dr. M. Sryzycki, School of Engineering Science
Dr. Jamal Deen, School of Engineering Science
Dr. Rick Hobson, Director, School of Computing Science
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Dean of Graduate Suidics
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Dear Dr. Clayman:
I have looked through the material as requested on the proposed Ph.D. program in
Lngincering Science. As I mentioned in my earlier letter, I have difficulty in assessing
this program as only two of your Professors have a Mechanical Engineering background;
namely, Dr. John Dewey Jones and Dr. Tad McGeer. Therefore, I would suggest that you
ask Dr. Yuri Stepanenko from the University of Victoria for an assessment. He is a
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specialist in robotics and could comment more on the program than myself. Meanwhile, I
would like to make a few comments which you might find useful on the Professors who
have a Mechanical Engineering background:
Professor J. D. Jones: lie has worked extensively in 1-leat Transfer Engineering and has
explored extensively I leat Transfer in Stirling Engines, He has a good publication record
over the last three years, and has also acquired expertise in numerical methods. I
consider Professor Jones as having a good record, and I believe that he could contribute to
your Ph.D. program. I believe that his expertise is not on the main line of the presently
proposed program. However, he has acquired expertise in numerical methods as
reflected in some of his publications, and this certainly would be a contribution to the
overall efforts.
Dr. 'Fad McGecr: he has a very good background from Princeton and Stanford
Universities; his background was in Aeronautical Engineering, and later in his career lie
switched to Robotics. At this stage, we probably should assess Dr. McGeer more on
promise that on his achievement, as he is still very young and has not spent enough time
in the field of his recent interest. He seems to be active and I feel very sure that he is
going to be a valuable contributor to your University.
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Dr. B. P. Clayman
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In
general terms, I make (lie following two comments:
1)
1 consider as a positive feature, the fact that
many
of your faculty
members have
industrial experience. This is healthy and reflects 1)0sltI\cly on Engineering
Education.
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do have some concerns on the breadth of the field that this Ph.D. program
proposes to address, as the critical mass of high academic achievement
in
the field
does not seem to be there yet. I believe that more faculty addition with significant
academic strengths would be needed before addressing all the fields of research
proposed in the present program.
I want
to underline again my latest comment, that you
should rely more on
Electrical Engineering expertise which you call in,
as
well as on
Dr.
Siepanenko
who
is
in
the
field of research
which
one part of this program is proposed.
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Yours sincerely,
&
Dr. Martha Salcudean
Professor and Head
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Dr. B. P. Clayman
Dean of Graduate Studies
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C.
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Dear Dean Clayman:
This is a very late response to your request of June 8, 1989 regarding the
evaluation of the proposed Ph.D. program in Engineering Science. Please
accept my sincere apologies for thisiardiness.
I have read the proposal and examined the supporting material provided.
In the following I will attempt to respond to the four specific points raised in your
letter and then draw conclusions:
-The academic merit and structural integrity of the proposed program,
including possible implications of its relatively narrow focus.
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The proposed program is academically sound and provides the
intellectual challenge one expects in a doctorate program. Indeed, it is
somewhat narrowly focussed. However, I consider this to be an advantage.
The Faculty of Engineering at Simon Fraser
is
relatively small and therefore it
makes a great deal of sense to offer a quality program in a carefully selected
area rather than attempting to cover in a necessarily mediocre way the entire
field. In fact, I would have preferred an even narrower focus. The proposed
program appears to have structural integrity. However. I could not easily
determine whether there will be a residency requirement. If this aspect is still
under consideration, I would strongly recommend a residency requirement:
there is an "academic apprenticeship" aspect to getting a doctorate and the only
way to achieve this is by becoming totally immersed in the university
environment. (Doing the work in industry simply would not do!).
.me adequacy of the faculty and of other resources available to the
proposed program for achieving its intended goals.
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The faculty, though small in number, are an impressive group They
certainly have the credentials to supervise Ph.D. candidates. Dean George has
an outstanding record of achievement, both as an engineering scientist and as
an academic leader. There is no doubt in my mind that under his leadership the
proposed program will succeed and flourish. I am also impressed with the
industrial connections the academic staff have. Other resources appear to be
adequate.
-The demand for the proposed program among prospective students.
The areas of concentration of the proposed program are currently very
popular among students and should remain so for sometime. Also, the number
of students contemplated is relatively modest and there should be no difficulty in
attracting qualified candidates.
-The demand for graduates of the proposed program.
I agree wholeheartedly with the points made in the proposal regarding
demand for graduates. The areas covered by the program are of strategic
importance to Canadian industry. Also, there will be a severe shortage in the
next two decades of qualified personnel to replace the retiring professoriate in
Canadian (and indeed North American) engineering schools.
In conclusions I believe that you have a good proposal. I would like to
see this program in place soon and believe that its establishment will serve the
interests of Simon Fraser University. of British Columbia and of Canada.
If you need further clarifications, please do not hesitate to call or write.
Yours sincerely,
Adel S. Sedra
Professor and Chairman
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APPENDIX 6
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Response to Reviewers'
Comments
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RESPONSE TO REVIEWERS?
OF THE ENGINEERING SCIENCE PH.D. PROPOSAL
CONTENTS
1.
General Remarks
2. The Automation Option
3. The Course Structure
4.
Ability of Faculty to Supervise Doctoral Students
5. Responses to Individual Reviewers
Appendix A: Publications Since January 1988
Appendix B: Research Grants and Contracts Since January 1988
Appendix C: M.A.Sc. Graduates and Current Students
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RESPONSE TO REVIEWERS?
OF THE ENGINEERING SCIENCE PH.D. PROPOSAL
1. General Remarks
The PhD proposal was sent to seven external reviewers, numbered
conveniently from 2 to 8:
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V.K. Barghava, University of Victoria
3.
J. Hayes, Concordia University
4.
H. Kobayashi, Dean of Engineering, Princeton
5.
B. Peters, President, Nexus Engineering
6.
D.L. Pulfrey, University of British Columbia
7.
J.S. Riordan, Dean of Engineering, Carleton University
8.
H. Salcudean, Head of Mechanial Engineering, University of British
Columbia
Reviewers 4 and 5 strongly supported the proposal. Reviewer 7 also
supported it, and made specific recommendations for ways to strengthen
it. Reviewer 3 was less positive. Reviewer6 was quite negative, but
misguided. Reviewers 2 and 8 did not have much to say.
This document addresses the issues raised by the reviewers. Where
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their concerns are legitimate, we have modified our proposal, as
described below. Some criticism, though, was based on out-of-date
information; our school is evolving rapidly, and information from 1988
is no longer a good indicator of research activity. In other cases, we
feel the comments are simply incorrect in principle.
We have organized our response by dealing first with issues raised
by several reviewers: the automation option, the course structure and
the quality of our faculty. A response to each review follows.
2. The Automation Option
Reviewers 4 and 7 identified the automation option as a weakness of
the proposal. We agree - the resources are not available to provide course
and supervision support across the spectrum of automation research. We
propose to rename this option "Intelligent Systems and Control", or ISC, as
suggested by Reviewer 4. This is a rather more specialized designation,
and it better reflects our original intent. It recognizes the fact that a
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small research group in Engineering Science is already active in the area,
and requires doctoral students to flourish.
Some members of this group have not previously supervised PhD
students. We will ensure that any supervisory committee has at least
one member with doctoral supervision experience, drawn from Engineering
Science or an appropriate discipline such as Computing Science. Moreover,
we will keep the number of such students low initially, while the group
gains the experience. Finally, no one will attempt to supervise a doctoral
student without prior supervision experience at the Master's level. Note,
however, that we have no concerns regarding the group's research ability,
or its record in supervising industrial research projects.
Finally, we should have noted in our original documentation that we
have a faculty position open, and are actively recruiting, for a senior
person in the area of Intelligent Systems and Control. We expect this
person to add both strength and academic experience to the group.
3. The Course Structure
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Reviewers 3 and 4 pointed to an apparent lack of fundamental
courses in the communications and signal processing area. Reviewer 7
noted the breadth, and commented that the depth could be achieved
through directed studies courses. This was, in fact, our intent. We do
not expect to have large numbers of doctoral students. Rather than
establish a second tier of of underpopulated and seldom offered courses,
we planned to offer more specialized material through directed studies,
batching students where possible. It is worth noting here that the
university minimum requirement for doctoral students is zero courses.
One misconception, held by at least Reviewer 3, is that students
can take any of our courses, at whatever level and in whatever area, at his
or her discretion. On the contrary, we stated that courses are selected
in consultation with the Senior Supervisor.
The apparent narrow range of our courses attracted comment from
Reviewers 2, 4, 6 and 7. In fact, though, graduate courses in physics and
computer science are natural companion courses, especially in
interdisciplinary areas such as microelectronics and ISC.Suggested courses
are listed in the Engineering Science entry in the calendar. In addition,
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as noted above, much of the specialized material will be offered through
directed studies.
ENSC 800, in particular, attracted criticism from Reviewer 3. We also
have had some difficulty with the course. Its original objectives were to
provide a unified treatment of analytical models taught in a fragmentary
fashion at the undergrad and first graduate level, and to bring some of the
older M.Eng. students back into analysis after some years in industry.
These goals were somewhat incompatible, and the course contained too much
material. Moreover, all the older students who would benefit from such a
course are already in the M.Eng. program. We have therefore split ENSC 800
into two courses, ENSC 801 Linear Systems Theory and ENSC 801 Stochastic
Systems, in which the material is clearly graduate level. They are
comparable to standard courses in the graduate curriculum of other Canadian
schools. They provide a stronger base on which to offer directed studies
courses in, for example, applied estimation and information theory.
4. Ability of Faculty to Supervise Doctoral Students
Several reviewers (3, 6, 7 and 8) noted the low level of publications
and NSERC operating grants among the faculty, and some of them questioned
our ability to supervise PhD students. It is clear that none of
them has had the experience of building a new school; although it is
exciting, it is a time-consuming business, which takes its toll on
publication records.
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However, the curriculum and procedures have begun to
stabilize, and the number of publications has risen sharply, even since the
time the original proposal was prepared. Appendix A lists very recent
publications. It is already a respectable record, and is certain to
improve further.
Appendix B lists very recent research grants and contracts. Our
faculty won over $1.6 million for 1989 alone, which we view as an enviable
record, especially for so young a school. In fact, of the 69 Science and
Technology Development Fund grants awarded in 1989, two of the three
largest came to the School of Engineering Science. We take strong
exception to the suggestion of Reviewer 6 that BC Science Council grants,
because of their industrial linkage, are an inappropriate basis for PhD
projects. This remark reveals in a nutshell all that is wrong with
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engineering studies in many Canadian schools, and all that we are trying to
counter with our own program.
We admitted our first M.A.Sc. student in 1986, and 6 have now
graduated (see Appendix C). The current enrolment is 18. By the time the
PhD program is in place, most of our faculty members will have had the
experience of supervising graduate students.
We cannot help contrasting our experience in this proposal with that
of the University of Victoria's school of engineering. UVic was allowed to
offer all three degrees - bachelor's, master's and doctorate - at the time
they began operations, before they had even hired faculty members. In
contrast, we have proceeded conservatively, adding each new degree as we
gained experience with the lower levels - yet we have to defend our ability
to mount a PhD program.
5. Responses to Individual Reviewers.
Reviewer 2
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Reviewer 2 suggested new courses in signal processing/communications
and in control/robotics. The new ENSC 801 and 802, as well as directed
studies courses, will add strength in the communications area. In control,
we have recast the material in ENSC 883 as optimal control theory. We also
expect the new faculty member to prepare additional courses in the control
area.
Reviewer
3
Reviewer 3 felt that our courses are at too low a level. We discussed
this issue in Section 3.
We have also dealt separately (Section 4) with the reviewer's concerns
regarding the quality of our faculty.
We have to agree with his complaint about the inconsistent format of
the documentation we provided. Appendices A and B, which list the
publications and research funding of the department, should remedy the
greatest deficiency.
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Reviewer 4
We have responded in Section 3 above to Reviewer 4's more general
comments regarding courses. We are also acting on two specific
suggestions: first, that we explicitly cross reference CMPT 820-3
Artificial Intelligence and other out-of-department courses; and second,
that we name the automation option more accurately (see Section 2).
We agree with the target of $200,000 research funding per faculty
member. We are at about half that figure in 1989, but we believe the goal
is achievable.
Reviewer
5
Reviewer 5 supported the proposal enthusiastically. We feel he was
right to do so.
Reviewer 6
This is a difficult review to deal with.
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Many of the remarks were
surprising, some were misinformed, and some were just wrong.
First, the issue of narrow focus.
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We do not claim to offer doctoral
studies in every area of research.
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However, our three areas -
communications, microelectronics and intelligent systems and control - are
complementary, and offer students a good opportunity to explore
alternatives. ?
It is also our experience that students undertaking a degree
in established schools, even at the master's level, normally select an area
of specialization and do not stray too far afield.
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Finally, we do not
anticipate problems in the employment of our graduates!
The third paragraph speaks for itself:
The focus on current "hot topics" will be
particularly
attractive to students from
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countries with little
development in these areas, e.g. P.R. China.
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How
useful these students will be to Canada, and how good
any of the students in the program will be are further
questions.
The fourth paragraph, claiming poor microelectronics fabrication
facilities, is inverted reasoning.
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QuickChip is a facility unique in
Canada and, we suspect, in North American universities.
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integrated circuits. An industrial firm is presently turning it into a
product, and we expect several sales to other universities around the
world. As for the fabrication process itself, we have access to a good
facility just six minutes walk away, through our close links with Microtel
Pacific Research.
Finally, we have dealt with the issue of the quality of our faculty
earlier, in Section 4. The "evidence of completed M.A.Sc. students" is in
Appendix C.
Reviewer
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Reviewer 7 provided a detailed and thoughtful critique. We will
respond to his comments consecutively, identifying them by his page number.
p.
2: "The authors of the proposal have weakened it by overstating the
case". We agree. It is not that our claimed features are wrong, it
is simply that our proposal is not "distinct from other Canadian
programs in the field", as we incorrectly stated.
p. 4:
Courses. Section 3 above dealt with courses. In particular, it
.
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noted that we rely on directed studies and special topics courses to
make up gaps. The ISC option is no exception. After hiring a new
faculty member in the area, we expect to put forward additional
courses in control.
p. 5:
Paragraph 2, regarding comprehensives. While it it true that
Computing Science requires five examinations,to our three, we do
not feel the need for identical requirements. In any case, the
scope of the examinations may differ.
p.
5: Coordination with UBC. We also feel that cooperation, if not
coordination, is desirable. As a first step, the two universities
currently offer transfer credit on an informal basis for students
taking courses at the other university. This further expands our
pool of courses.
p. 7: Last paragraph, supervision experience in the ISC option. As noted
in Section 2 above, we have a plan by which we can "bootstrap" into
doctoral supervision by drawing on more experienced faculty members
in Engineering science and other departments.
6 ?
qq
Reviewer 8
Reviewer 8 was concerned that the proposed scope of the program would
be too ambitious, as "the critical mass of high academic achievement in the
field does not seem to be there yet", both in faculty numbers and
individual achievement. We assume the comment was directed to the ISC
option, as the reviewer is a mechanical engineer. Again, we have outlined
in Section 2 how we propose to enter the area cautiously. As for faculty
numbers, we will be hiring another into ISC.
S
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Appendix A: Publications Since January 1988
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS SINCE JANUARY 1988
Cavers, Jim and Ho, P. "Analysis of the Error Performance of
Trellis Coded Modulations in Rayleigh Fading Channels", to
appear IEEE Trans. Communications, 1990.
Chapman, J., Calvert, T. W. and Dill, J. C., "Exploiting
Temporal Coherence in Ray Tracing", submitted to Graphics
Interface, 1990.
Crawford, J. L. and Dill, J. C., "Networks: Interactive
Graphics for Network Management", submitted to Network
Management Systems, February 1989.
Cuperman, V. and Gersho, Allen, " Vector Predictive Coding of
Speech at 16 Kb/s" in Vector Quantization, H. Abut, Editor,
IEEE Press, New York, 1990 (reprint of 1985 paper)
Cuperman, V., Gersho, A., Pettigrew, R., Shynk, J and Yao, J-
H, "Backward Adaptation for Low Delay Speech Coding at 16
Kbit/s", Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference,
November 1989.
Cuperman, V., "On Adaptive Transform Vector Quantization for
Speech Coding", IEEE Trans. on Communications,
pp.
261-267,
March 1989.
Deen, M. J. and Yan, Z. X., "A New Method of Measuring the
Threshold Voltage for Small Geometry MOSFETs from
Subthreshold Conduction",
Accepted for publication subject to
revisions,
Solid State Electronics, August 1989.
Deen, M. J. and Wang, J., "PMOS Transistors Intrinsic
Mobility and Their Surface Degradation Parameters at
Cryogenic Temperatures", IEEE Proceedings C Circuits. Devices
and S
y
stems, in press (1989)
Deen, M. J., Wang, J., and Hardy, R. H. S., "Intrinsic
Mobility and Its Surface Degradation Parameters in Narrow
Channel PMOS Devices t Cryogenic Temperatures", Solid-State
Electronics,
in press
(1989)
Deen, M. J., "Cryogenic Operation of CMOS-based Microsystems
and Computers", INVITED PAPER, Micro
p rocessors and
Micros y
stems, Vol. 13(4) pp.245-253, May 1989.
Deen, M. J. and Thompson, E. D., "The design Simulated
qj
1 ?
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2
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Deen, M. J. and Jaggi, B., "Variation of the Operational
Characteristics of Silicon Imaging Arrays with Temperatures
Between 150K and 300K", Accepted for publication subject to
revisions, O
p tical Engineering, Sept. 18, 1988.
Deen, M. J., "Digital characteristics of CMOS devices at
cyrogenic Temperatures", IEEE J. Solid State Circuits, Vol.
SC-24 (1),
pp.
158-164 (Feb. 1989).
Deen, M. J., Landheer, D., Wade, J. D., Sproule, C. I. and
Denhoff, M. D., "NbN thin films reactively sputtered with a
high field dc magnetron", Journal of Vacuum Science and
Technology A, Vol. 6 (4) pp.2299-2303, July/August 1988.
Deen. M. J. "Cyrogenic temperature dependence of the voltage
transfer characteristics of CMOS invertors", Solid State
Electronics, Vol. 31(8)
pp.
1299-1308, August 1988.
Deeri, M. J., Chan, C. Y. and Fong, N., "Operational
characteristics of a CMOS microprocessor system at cryogenic
temperatures", Cryogenics, Vol. 28(5),
pp.
336-338, May 1988.
Deen, M. J., "Operational characteristics of CMOS op-amps at
cryogenic temperatures", Solid State Electronics, Vol. 31(2)
pp 291-297, February 1988.
Doty, D. and Jones, J. D., "The Micro-Tube Strip Heat
Exchanger", submitted to Heat Transfer Engineering, June
1989.
Gaudet, S., Hobson, R., Chilka, P. and Calvert, T., "A cost
effective VLSI machine model for high speed ray tracing", ACM
Trans.on Gra
p hics.
?
Vol. 7, No. 3, pp.151-179, July 1988.
George, D. A., Landsburg, J., Sturrock and Yerbury, C., "A
Communication Process: Electronic Media in Distance
Education-A Review", International Journal of University
Adult Education, XXVLLL, (2)
pp.
1-23, 1989.
Cersho, Allen and Cuperman, V., "Vector Quantization: A
Pattern Matching Technique for Speech Coding", in Vector
Quantization, H. Abut, Editor, IEEE Press, New York, 1990
(reprint of 1983 paper)
Goulding, M. M. and Bird, J. S., "Speech Enhancement for
Mobile Telephony", Under review by IEEE Trans. on Vehicular
Technology. (1989)
Gupta, Karnal Kant., "Fast Collision Avoidance for Manipulator
. ?
Arms: A Sequential Search Strategy", submitted to IEEE
Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 1989.
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3
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Gupta, Kamal Kant and Zucker, S. W., "Trajectory planning in
time-varying environments: a two-level hierarchy", The Visual
Com p
uter, Vol. 2
Hardy, R. H. S., Stapleton, S. P. and Deen, N. J., "The
Effect of Device Technologies on the Adapter Bypass and Clock
Recovery Performance of a Token Ring Network Interface",
submitted for publication, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in
Communications, special issue on Microelectronics and
Photonics in Communications, June 1989.
Ho, P. and McLane, P. J., "Spectrum, Distance and Receiver
Complexity of Encoded Continuous Phase Modulations", IEEE
Trans. on Information Theory, Sept. 1988: 1021-1033.
Ingraham, D., Kandola,,G. and Pilon, M. "Neural Networks.
Learning Systems Based on the Brain", Microcornucopia, #41,
pp. 16-20, May/June 1988.
Jaggi, B., Deen, M. J. and Palcic, B., "Design of a Solid
State Microscope", O
p
tical Engineering, Vol. 28 (6), pp.675-
682 (June 1989).
Jones, J. D., "Flow Inhomogeniety in Stirling Engine
Regenerators", J. Engr. for Gas Tur. & Power, Vol. III, pp.
595-600, October 1989.
Jones, J. D., "Flow losses in Stirling Engine Heat
Exchangers", J. Engr. for Gas Tur. & Power, 110, 1, January
1988.
Jones, J. D., "The Scant Method", accepted for publication in
Com p
uters and Gra
p
hics, August 1989.
Jones, J. D., "Three Unconventional Representations of the
Mandeibrot Set", accepted for publication in Com
p
uters and
Gra p
hics, August 1989.
Jones, J. D., "On Midgets", submitted to Com
p uters and
Gra p
hics, August .1989.
Jones, J. D., "Use of the Calerkiri Method to Calculate
Temperature in a Body Exposed to Periodically Varying
Boundary Conditions", mt. J. for Num. Methods in En
g
r.. 26,
pp.
1311-1323, 1988.
Khanna, B., Atkins, M. S. and Hardy, R.H. S., "How many
priorities are useful for the token ring?", submitted for
publication, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics,
February, 1989.
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4
Lo, E. and Hardy, R. H. S., "Simulation of a Polling System
for Token Passing Networks Using GPSS", submitted for
publication, Journal of the O
p
erational Research Society,
September 1988.
McGeer, T., "Passive dynamic walking", in press,
International Journal of Robotics Research, 1990.
McCeer, T. and Palmer, L., "Wobbling, toppling and forces of
contact", in press, American Journal of Physics, December
1989.
McLane, P., Ho, P., Wittke, P. and Loo, C., "The Performance
of Trellis Codes for Mobile Satellite Communications", IEEE
Trans. on Communications, Nov. 1988: 1242-1246.
Pettigrew, R. and Cuperman, V., "Backward Pitch Prediction
for Low Delay Speech Coding", Proc. IEEE Global
Communications Conference, November 1989.
Radziejewski, I. R., Lo, E., Hardy, R. H. S. and Leung, A.,
"An Improved Performance Token Ring Network Interface
.
?
Adapter", accepted for publication, IEEE Proceedings Part E:
Com p
uters and Digital Techniques, August 1989.
Rawicz,A., "Comparative studies of vibrational reliability of
soldered and electroadhesjve joints", IEEE Trans. on
Reliability, vol. R-36 no. 6 (1987).
Rawicz, A., "Thermal Reliability Scanner", submitted to IEEE
trans. on Industr
y
A
pp
lications, July 1989.
Saif, M., "Optimal Modal Controller Design by Entire
Eigenstructure Assignment", to appear in IEEE Proceedings-
Part D. Control Theory and A
pp lications, 1990.
Saif, M. "Suboptimal Projective Control of a Pressurized
Water Reactor", to appear in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear
Science, 1989.
Saif, M.," Optimal Modal Control of a Boiling Water Nuclear
Reactor", Control-Theory and Advanced Technology (C-TAT),
vol.5 (3),
pp.
249-264, 1989.
Saif, M., "Efficient Optimal Controller for Nuclear Power
Plants", International Journal of Systems Science, Vol. 20
(9), pp.1593-1610, 1989,
Saif, M., "Optimal Linear Regulator Pole Placement by Weight
Selection", International Journal of Control, Vol. 50 (1),
/0
5
pp.
399-414, 1989.
Saif, M., "A Novel Approach for Control of a Pressurized
Water Reactor", IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 36
(1), pp. 1317-1325,1989.
Saif, M., "Stability Constrained Robust Linear Regulator",
Journal -of Control & Computers, Vol. 16,
pp.
66-69, 1988.
Stapleton, S. P., Deen, M. J. Berolo, E. and Hardy, R. H. S.
"Experimental Study of the Microwave Reflection Gain of
AlAs-GaAs-AlAs Quantum Well Structures", IEEE Electronic
Letters, submitted for publication, 1989.
Syrzycki, M., "Modeling of Gate Oxide Shorts in MOS
Transistors", IEEE Transactions on Com
p
uter-Aided Design of
Integrated
Watts, L. and Cuperman, V., "A Vector ADPCM Analysis-by-
Synthesis Configuration for 16 Kbit/s Speech Coding", Proc.
IEEE CLOBECOM, pp.275-279, November 1988.
Xiaojiang, Huang and Rawicz, A., "Reliability aspect of
standard interchange format for electronic design", submitted
to IEEE trans. on CAD of IC's and Systems, July 1989.
Xie, S-E and Calvert, T. W., "CSG-EESI: A new solid
representation scheme and a conversion expert system", IEEE
Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 10.,
pp.
212-234, 1988.
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CONFERENCE PAPERS SINCE JANUARY 1988
Antonellj, K., Gupta, Kamal, and McGeer, T., "Fast Visual
Foothold Finding for a Bipedal Robot", Proceedings SPIE
S ym p
osium in Advances in Intelligent Robotic Systems, Boston,
1989.
Antonelli, K. Gupta, K. and McGeer, T.
?
"Fast visual foothold
finding for an autonomous bipedal robot", Proc. SPIE
intelligent robots and com
p
uter vison VIII systems and
a pp
lications, Philadelphia, November 1989.
Bruderlin, A. and Calvert, T. W., "Goal Directed Dynamic
Animation of Human Walking", Com
p
uter Gra
p
hics (Proc.
SIGGRAPH'89), to appear, 1989.
Calvert, T. W., Welman, C., Gaudet, S. and Lee, C.
"Composition of Multiple Figure Sequences for Dance and
Animation",Proc. Com
p uter Gra
p
hics International Conf.,June
1989.
Cavers, J. K., "An Error Floor in Tone Calibrated
Transmission", NASA/JPL Mobile Satellite Conf. , Pasadena, May
1988.
Cavers, J. K., "Phase Locked Transparent Tone in Band - An
Analysis", Proc. Cdn Conf Electr and Com
p
ut Eng, Vancouver,
Nov. 1988.
Cavers, J. K. "Phase Locked Transparent Tone in Band: An
Analysis", Proc. IEEE Int'l S
y m p
Information Th. San
Francisco, May 1989.
Cavers, J. and Ho, Paul, "Analysis of the Error Performance
of Trellis Coded Modulations in Rayleigh Fading Channels"
IEEE International S
ym p
osium Information Theory, San Diego,
January 1990.
Cavers, Jim, "A Linearizing Predistorter with Fast Adaption",
Proc. IEEE Vehic Tech Conf, Orlando May 1990.
Cavers, J. K. and Marchetto, R. F., "A New Spectral Notch
Generator for Pilot Tone Systems", Proc IEEE Vehic Tech
Conf, Orlando, May 1990.
Chan, S. and
Speech Coder
Conference o
. ?
1988.
Chan, D. and
Cuperman, V. "The Noise Performance of a CELP
based on Vector Quantization", Canadian
n Electrical and Com
p
uter Engineering, November
Hardy, R. H. S. "Analysis of Transport Layer and
I,,)
7 ?
.
LLC Sublayer Performance within a Local Area Network",
Proceedings, IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications.
Com p
uters and Signal Processing,
pp.
230-235, Victoria, B.C.
June 1989.
Chen, X. and Cuperman, V. "Robust Vector Quantization Based
on Spectral Mapping with a Noise Estimate", Proc, IEEE
Pacific Rim Conference,
pp.
212-215, June 1989.
Cuperman, V. "Source Coding Using Vector Transform
Quantization", The 1989 Canadian Worksho
p
on Information
Theory, May 1989.
Cuperman, V. "Recent Advances in Speech Coding for
Communications", invited tutorial, Proc, of the Annual
Meeting of the Canadian Acoustical Assoc., October 1989.
Cuperman, V., Gersho, A., Pettigrew, R., Shynk, J. and Yao,
J-H. ?
"Low Delay Vector Excitation Coding of Speech at 16
?
Kbit/s", Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer
Engineering, September 1989.
Cuperman, V.
?
"Bit Assignment for Vector Sources based on
Vector Quantization Bound", IEEE International S
y m p osium on
Information Theor
y
, Kobe City, Japan, 1988.
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0
Deen, M. J., Wang, J., Yan, Z. X. and Zuo, Z. P. "Substrate
Bias Effects in Short Channel length and Narrow Channel Width
PMOS Devices at Cryogenic Temperatures", Proceedings of the
IEEE Workshop on Low Temperature Electronics, Burlington,
Vt. , August 1989.
Deen, M. J., 1-tardy, R. H. S., Stapleton, S. P. and Fortier,
R. "Interaction between Device Technologies and Computer
Networks and Circuits", Proceedings of the IEEE Pacific Rim
Conference on Computers. Communications and Signal
Processing, Victoria, B. C. June 1989.
Deen, M. J. and To, K. C.
?
"Low temperature characteristics
of CMOS op-amps", in Proceedings of the S
y m p
osium on Low
Tem p
erature Electronics and High Teniterature Superconductors,
Eds. S. I. Raider, R. Kirschman, H. Hayakawa and H. Ohta, pp.
545-553, Electrochemical Society Press, New Jersey, 1988.
Deen, M. J. and Wang, J.
?
"Design consideration for the
operation of CMOS invertors at cryogenic temperatures", in
Proceedings of the S
ym p
osium on Low Tem
p
erature Electronics
and High Tem
p
erature Superconductors, Eds. S. I. Raider, R.
Kirschman, H. Hayakawa and H. Ohta, pp.108-116,
Electrochemical Society Press, New Jersey. 1988.
10.3
Deen, M. J., Hardy, R. H. S., Wang, J. and Stapleton, S. P.
"Analysis and comparison of the DC performance of short
channel PMOS and NMOS devices for CMOS VLSI" Proceedings,
CCVLSI-89, The 1989 Canadian Conference on Very Large Scale
Integration, pp.139-146, Vancouver, Oct. 1989.
Deen, M. J., Hardy, R. H. S., Stapleton, S., Fortier, R.
"Interaction between Device Technologies and Computer Network
Circuits", Proceedings, IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on
Communications. Com
p
uters and Signal Processing, pp.130-133,
Victoria, June 1989.
Deen, M. J., Wang, J. and Hardy, R. H. S. "Intrinsic mobility
and its surface degradation parameters in narrow channel
width PMOS devices at cryogenic temperatures", accepted for
publication, Solid State Electronics, May 1989.
Dill, J. C., "Computer Graphics in University Research"
Invited presentation at the National Computer Graphics
Association Conference, March 1990.
Fried, N. and Cuperman, V.
?
"Evaluation of Speech Recognition
Equipment in a Vehicular Environment", Proc. IEEE Pacific Rim
.
?
Conference, pp.455-458, June 1989.
Goulding, M. M. and Bird, J. S., "Speech Enhancement in Small
Noisy Reverberant Enclosures", Canadian Conference on
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vancouver, B. C.,
November 3-4, 1988: 219-222.
Guan, Y. and Saif, M.
?
"A Novel Approach to the Design of
Unknown Input Observers", submitted to 1990 American Control
Conference.
Guan, Y. P. and Saif, M.
?
"A New Approach for Sensor Failure
Detection in Dynamic Systems, Proceedings of the Canadian
Conference in Electrical Engineering, Vol. II
pp.
1001-1004.
Gupta, Kamal Kant, "A sequential search strategy for motion
planning", Canadian Conference on Computer Engineering,
Montreal, 1989.
Gupta, Kamal, Kant and Zucker, S. W. "Trajectory planning in
time-varying environments: a two-level hierarchy", Fourth
IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, Philadelphia,
1988.
Hardy, R. H. S., Deen, M. J. and Stapleton, S. P. "Device
. ?
Limitations on High Speed Clock Recovery in Token Ring
Networks using BPSK Modulation", Proceedings of the Canadian
Conference on Electrical & Com
p uter Engineering, Montreal,
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.
Sept. 1989.
Hardy, R. H. S., Radziejewski, I. R., Deen, M. J. and
Stapleton, S. P. "An optimised VLSI interface adapter for
token ring networks", Proceedings. CCVLSI-89. The 189
Canadian Conference on Very Large Scale Integration,
pp.
99-
105, Vancouver, Oct. 1989.
Hardy, R. H. S., Stapleton, S. P. and Deen, M. J.
?
"Phase ?
jitter due to dispersion of an optical fibre", Proceedings
Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering,
pp.
381-383, Montreal, Sept. 1989.
Hardy, R. H. S., Lo, E.and Radziejewski, I. R. "Performance
Evaluation of an FDDI Ring Network with Dual Latency
Stations: Mean Waiting Time", Proceedings, Canadian
Conference on electrical and Com
p
uter Engineering, Canadian
Society for Electrical Engineering publication number ISSN
0840-7789,pp. 670-674, Nov. 1988.
Hardy, R. H. S., Radziejewski, I. R. and Lo, E. "Performance
Evaluation of a Token Ring Network with Dual Latency
Stations", IEEEINFOCOM'88 Proceedin
g
s, IEEE Publication
Ho,
88CH2534-6,
P. "An Error
March
Control
, 1988,
Protocol
pp.
487-495
Based
?
on Trellis-Coded
0
Modulation", to be presented at the IEEE Vehicular Technology
Conference, May 1990, Orlando Florida.
Ho, P.
?
"Generalized Typell ARQ/FEC Error Control
Convolutional Codes", Proc. Fourteenth Biennial S
y m p osium on
Communications, Queen's University, Kingston, June 1988, pp.
A3.1-A3.4.
Ingraham, D., McNiven, P. and Dill, J. C., "Miliwide systems-
CIM in the Pulp and Paper Industry", Proc. 7th annual
Canadian CAD/CAM & Robotics Conference, Toronto, June 1988.
Ingraham, D. V. and Stevenson, S., "Integrated Engineering
Communications", Proceedings of IEEE International
Professional Communication Conference IPCC '88, Seattle,
October 5 - 7, 1988.
Jaggi, B. and Deen, M. J.
?
"Low temperature operations of
?
Silicon charge coupled devices for imaging applications",
Proceedings of the Sym
p
osium on Low Temperature Electronics
and High Tem
p erature Su
p
erconductors, Eds., S. I. Raider, R.
Kirschman, H. Hayakawa and H. Ohta, pp.579-589,
Electrochemical Society Press, New Jersey, 1988.
Jones, J. D. and Alkidas, A.
?
"An experimental and
/06-00
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?
1 ?
10
Theoretical Study of Thermal Loading in a Low-Heat-Rejection
Diesel Engine", Proceedings of FISITA, Detroit, MI October
1988.
Khanna, B. Atkins, M. Stella, and Hardy, R. H. S.
?
"A dynamic ?
priority token-ring protocol for real-time applications",
Proceedin
g
s, Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer
Engineering, pp.930-933, Montreal, Sept. 1989.
Kuo, T. W., Sellnau,M. C., Theobald, M. A. and Jones, J. D.
"Calculation of Flow in the Piston-Cylinder-Ring Crevices of
a Homogeneous-Charge Engine and Comparison with Experiment"
accepted for the 1989 SAE Congress, Detroit, MI 1989.
Li, H. and Cavers, J. K., "An Adaptive Pilot Tone Filtering
Technique for Pilot Aided Transmission Systems", Proc. IEEE
Vehic Tech Conf, Orlando, May 1990.
Lo, E. and Hardy, R. H. S. "Indoor wireless LAN access
methods for factories", accepted for publication in the
Proceedings. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Orlando,
May 1990.
Lo, E., Hardy, R. H. S., Anderson, C., and Bird, J. S.
W "Acoustic Bed for Underwater Communications: System Modeling
and Performance", Proceedings, IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on
Communications. Com
p
uters and Signal Processing, pp. 548-552,
Victoria, June 1989.
McGeer, T., "Powered flight, child's play, silly wheels and
walking machines", Proc.
?
IEEE mt. conf. robotics and
automation, Scottsdale, May 1989.
McGeer, T. "Dynamics and cont'rol of bipedal walking",
Canadian Conf. electrical and computer engineering,
Vancouver, November 1988.
Pettigrew, R. and Cuperman, V.
?
"A Pitch Tracking Technique
for Analysis-by-Synthesis Low-Delay Speech Coding" IEEE
Worksho p
on S
p
eech Coding for Telecommunications, Sept. 1989.
Pontifex, B., Jaggi, B., Deen, M. J. and Palcic, B.
"Performance of a photodiode array cooled to low temperatures
in image cytometry",Proceedings of the Annual Conference IEEE
Enzineerine in Medicine and Biolog
y
(IEEE EMBS), New Orleans,
La., Nov. 1988.
Rawicz, A., Ziwei, Xie, and Rowley A.
?
"Multiprobe vibration
.
analysis systems for mechanical reliability analysis in
trucks", accepted to Annual Reliabilit
y
and Maintainability
Symposium, Los Angeles, January 1990.
lob
C
11
Saif,, M "Partially Modal Projective Control of a Nuclear
Power Plant", submitted to, UthIFAC World Congress,
Saif, H "Pole Placement by a Static Output Feedback
Controller",
?
roeedings of the. Canadian Conference in
ElectrIcal
September 1989.
Engineering, Vol. II,
pp. 790-793,
Montreal,
Q
Scrathiey,
u
antization
C.
Speech
and Cuperman,
Recognizer
V.
with
?
"A
Segmentation",
Word-Based Vector
Canadian
408,
Conference
September
on
1989.
Electrical and Com
p
uter Engineering,
pp.
405-
Stapleton, S. P., Hardy, R H. S. and been, M. J. "The
Effects of Optirnised Devices on the Performance of Token Ring
Network Interface", Proceedings of th 6th International IEEE
Work
.hopon Microelectronics and Photonjcs.n Communications,
Cape Cod, Ma., June 1989.
Stapleton, S. P., been, M. Ji and Hardy, R. H. S. "Power
CombIning of MMIC
o
scillators", Proceedings.i Canadian
Conf&rence
1128, Montreal,
On Electrical
Sept. 1989.
and Comvuter Engineering,
pp.
1126-
Stapleton, S. P., Hardy, R. H. S., been, H. J., Fortier, R.,
Leung,
the
Performance
P. and Fong,
of a
N.
Token
"The
Ring
effect
Network
of Optimized
Interface",
Devices on
Proc
.
ee
d j
nas.
IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications
touters and Si
g
nal Processing
pp. 143-146,
Victoria 1989.
Stapleton, S. P. and Lee, T. R., "A Practical Design Approach
for Phased Array Antenna Elements", ANTEMConference,
Winnipeg, Manitoba 1988.
t
.
Jang, J. and Deen, H. J "Analyzing Short Channel Effects in
PHos Devices", Proceedings of the Canadian ,Conference oi
Electiieai & OomDute,r
E ngineering,
Montreal,
Sept. 1989.
Wang, J. , ?
uo,
Z. P. and been, M. J.
?
"Performance
characteristics
for
C1105 VLSI",
of
Proceedjgs
short channel
o theCanadjpn
PMOS devices:
Conference
Implications
Electrical&
Co
mDuterEngineering Vancouver, Nov. 1988.
Watts, L and Cuperman, V
?
"Design of a 16 Kbits/s Vector
ADPCM
Ele
ctrical
Speech
and
Coding
Com
p
uter
Algorithm",
Engineering,
Canadian-.Conference-on
November 1988.
Wu, Y. and Ho, P. "Trellis-Coded DPSK for Mobile Fading
Channels", iELEPacifjc Rim -Conference on Communications
GomDuters.and
Si g na
lProcessing Victoria, June 1989, pp.400-
107
.
12
403.
Wu, Y. and Ho, P. "Multiple Trellis Codes for Mobile Fading
Channels", Canadian Electrical and Com
p
uter Engineering
Conference, Vancouver, November, 1988,
pp.
417-420.
Yan, Z. X. and Deen, M. J.
?
"A New Method of Measuring the
?
Threshold Voltage for Small geometry MOSFETs", Proceedings of
the Canadian Conference on Electrical & Com
p
uter Engineering,
Montreal, Sept. 1989.
Yang, C., Ho, P. and Cuperman, V. "Error Protection for a
4.8 Kbps VQ based CELP coder", to be presented at the IEEE
Vehicular Technology Conference, May 1990, Orlando, Florida.
Ziwei, Xie and Rawicz, Andrew, "Methods for determining the
temperature ,
distribution at IC chip level", lASTED
International Conference, Quality Control and Reliability,
December 12 - 14, 1988.
Zuo, Z. P. Deen, M. J. and Wang, J.
?
"A New Method for
Extracting Short-Channel length or Narrow-Channel Width
MOSFET Parameters", Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on
Electrical & Com
p
uter Engineering, Montreal, Sept. 1989.
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TECHNICAL REPORTS SINCE JANUARY 1988
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Bird, J. S., '"A Single Frequency DFT Phase Difference
Algorithm (Performance Evaluation)", Contract report for
Interactive Circuits and Systems Ltd., 1988.
Bird, J. S. "Rate Constrained Target Detection", Interim
contract report for MacDonald Dettwiler Ltd., 1989.
Bird, J. S. "Target Detection from a Space-based Radar",
Chapter 4 of a final contract report by MacDonald Dettwiler
Ltd. , 1989.
Cavers, J. K.,
,
Bird, J. S. and Cuperman, V. "Hands Free
Mobile Telephony: Final Report", for Clenayre Electronics,
January 1989.
Cavers, J. K. "Feasibility of 16QAM Signaling on an
Air/Ground Link" for Microté]. Pacific Research, July 1989.
Cuperman, V. "Low Bit Rate Voiceband Data Transmission", for
NPR 1988. ?
.
Cuperrnan, V. "Speech Recognition Assessment Study" for MPR
1988. ?
.
Deen, M. J., Landheer, D., Wade, J. D., Sproule, C. I. and
Denhoff, M. D. "NbN thin films reactively sputtered with a
high field dc magnetron", Technical Report. to Herzberg
Institute of Astrophysics, National Research Council,
Ottawa, March 1988.
Doty, F. D., 'Jones, J. D., Spitzmesser, J. B. and Hosford, C.
"The Doty Engine", Doty Scientific , Inc., 600 Clemson Road,
Columbia SC May 1989.
Doty, F. D., Jones, J... D., Spitzmesser, J. B. and Hosford, C.
"The MT
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S-Recuperated Closed Brayton Cycle", Doty Scientific
Inc., 600 Clemson Road, Columbia, SC May 1989.
Doty, F. D., Jones, J. D., Spitzmesser, J. B. and .Hosford, C.
"The Microtube Strip Heat Exchanger", Doty Scientific, Inc.,
600 Clemson Road, Columbia SC, May 1989.
Hardy, R. H. S., Lo, E., Radziejewski, I. and Chan, D.
"Performance Analysis of a Fibre Optic Local Area Network",
SFU Contract Research Report, final report for TIAC
Manufacturing Incorporated, February 1988.
Leung, A., Hardy, R. H. S. and Cavers, J. K.
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"Feasibility
Study: Development of an Analog Integrated Circuit
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Implementation of th SCUBAPHONE Transceiver", SFU Contract
Research Report, final report for Orcatron Manufacturing
Incorporated,July 1988.
Leung, A. "Demonstration of SFU's laser, direct-write system
in patterning photoresist on silicon substrates", final
report, August 31, 1988.
Leung, A., Hardy, S. and Cavers, J.
?
"Feasibility Study:
Development of Analog IC implementation of Scubaphone
Transceiver", final report, August 10, 1988,
Lo, E.and Hardy, R. H. S. "Simulation Study of a Polling
System for Token Passing Networks Using GPSS", Centre for
Systems Science Research Report, SFU, Report Number CSS/LCCR
TR 89-07, July 1989.
McGeer, T. "Passive bipedal running", Centre for Systems
Science IS-TR-89-02, SFU April 1989.
McCeer, T. "Stability and Control of two-dimensional biped
walking", Centre for Systems Science IS-TR-88-01, SFU
September 1988.
McGeer, T. "passive dynamic walking", Centre for Systems
Science, IS-TR88-02, SFU September 1988.Rawicz, A. "Thermal
and Reliability Network Analysis System for Electronic
Components", Printed Circuit Boards, Hybrids, and Integrated
Circuits, Annual Report for B. C. SCience Council, February
29, 1988.
Stapleton, S. P. "Microwave Landing Systems, MMIC, Phase
Shifter and Amplifier", TRL Microwave Technology Inc., for
the Department of Communications,
pp.
1-45 August 1988.
Syrzycki, M. "Modeling of Gate Oxide Shorts in MOS
Transistors" SRC-CMU Research Report no. CMUCAD-88-22,
Carnegie Mellon University, April 1988.
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Appendix B: Research Grants and Contracts Since January 1988
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SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE
?
Research Awards Since January 1989
?
Updated: November 23, 1989
NAME
AWARD
AMOUNT
J. Bird
NSERC Operating - 2nd Installment
18,100
J. Bird
ASI Fellow - 1st year of 3
35,000
J. Bird
DND Contract - 1st year of 3
60,000
J. Bird
CSS "Communications Backbone for Underwater Sites"
62,000
D. George
S. Hardy
J. Cavers
NSERC Operating - 3rd Installment
11,100
J. Cavers
BC Science Council - STDF
299,305
D. George
S. Stapleton
J. Cavers
ASI Senior Fellow - 1st year of 3
70,000
V. Cuperman
NSERC Operating - 2nd Installment
17,300
V. Cuperman
BC Science Council - 2nd Year
67,692
P. Ho
V. Cuperman
CSS "Integrated Speech Codecs for Telecommunications"
52,000
P. Ho
J. Deen
NSERC Operating - 3rd Installment
13,100
J. Deen
NSERC Equipment Grant
85,723
J. Bird
S. Hardy
R. Hobson
A. Leung
S. Stapleton
M. Syrzycki
J. Deen
CSS Matching Grant for NSERC Equipment Grant
28,574
et al (above)
//?
IL
NAME
AWARD
AMOUNT
J. Deen
CSS
"Devices-Networks for High Speed"
46,000
S. Hardy
S. Stapleton
J. Deen
Research Grant -
Northern Telecom
30,000
J. Deen
Special Research Projects, SF11
15,000
S.
Hardy
S. Stapleton
J. Deen
President's Research Grant, SF11
4,160
S. Hardy
S. Stapleton
J. Dill
NSERC Operating - 2nd Installment
14,000
J. Dill
BC Science Council - 2nd Year
43,700
J. Dill
CSS 'Design Study Group"
20,000
T. Calvert
J. Dill
BC
Science Council "Building Design System" (Panabode)
48,000
T. Calvert
I. Dill
NCE Iris Proposal "Human Interface Node)
70,000
T. Calvert
R. Baecker
J. Dill
Precarn Feasibility Study
98,000
M.P.R.
J. Dickinson
D.
Ingraham
K. Gupta
NSERC Operating - 2nd Installment
15,400
K. Gupta
Western Softworks "Range Imaging"
22,000
T. Calvert
Z.N. Li
K. Gupta
Coinvestigator - NSERC Equipment grant
45,526
with T. Calvert, Z.N. Li
S. Hardy
NSERC Operating - 1st Installment
10,000
S. Hardy
BC Science Council-MART
11,200
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NAME
AWARD
AMOUNT
S.
Hardy
BC
Science Council Grant
63,500
S. Atkins
S. Hardy
CSS
Matching Grant for BC Science Council Grant
21,167
S. Atkins
S. Hardy
CSS "Performance Enhancement to Digital Mobile
40,000
P. Ho
Communiations Networks"
S. Stapleton
S. Hardy
CSS "Data Communications over Mobile Radio"
22,000
P. Ho
NSERC Operating - 3rd Installment
18,000
D. Ingraham
Rick Hansen Man-In-Motion Legacy Fund
42,300
D. Ingraham
NRC IRAP - S.F. Univentures
10,408
D. Ingraham
NRC IRAP - Incubation Project
9,500
D. Ingraham
Coinvestigator with Softwords-Press Porcepic Ltd
5,000
Canadian Space Program Stear Project Smart Sim Trainers
D. Ingraham
Coinvestigator with Softwords-Press Porcepic Ltd
5,000
ASI Smart Sim Trainer
J. Jones
NSERC Operating - 1st Installment
11,500
J. Jones
CSS "Improved CAD"
25,000
T. Calvert
J. Dill
W. Havens
A. Leung
NSERC Operating - 1st Installment
17,050
A. Leung
BC Science Council - STDF
264,050
A. Leung
CSS
Research Grant
6,000
R. Frindt
R. Morrison
A. Leung
CSS
"Quick Chip"
17,500
T. McGeer
NSERC Operating - 1st Installment
12,551
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IN
I.
NAME
AWARD
AMOUNT
T. McGeer
K. Gupta
CSS
"Yama"
40,500
Z.N. Li
A. Rawicz
BC Science Council - AGAR
40,000
A.
M.
Rawicz
Syrzycki
CSS
"IC Reliability Studies"
31,500
A. Rawicz
Presidents Research Grant, SFU
4,160
M. Saif
NSERC Operating - 2nd Installment
10,000
M. Saif
CSS "Fault Management Control"
23,000
Intn'l
M. Saif
Submarine
BC Science Council Grant
31,500
Engineering (E. Jackson)
S. Stapleton
NSERC Operating - 1st Installment
19,180
S. Stapleton
CSS
Research Grant
9,000
M. Syrzycki
NSERC Operating - 1st Installment
12,790
M. Syrzycki
CSS
"Integrated Cells for Receptive Field Implementation"
7,000
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Centre for Systems Science
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
Matching Funds Summary
1990/91 fiscal year
[I:
Proposer
?
Agency ?
Grant Type
S.P.
Stapleton
NSERC
Equipment
Eng. Sci.
McGeer et at.
NSERC
Strategic
Eng. Sd.
A. Rawicz
Med. Res.
Univ-lndus.
M. Syrzicki
Council
Collaborative
Eng. Sci.
M.J. Deen
BCSC
STDF
S. Hardy
Eng. Sci.
S. Hardy
BCSC
AGAR
S. Atkins
Eng. Sci.
A. Leung
BCSC
STDF-AGAR
M. Parameswaran
Eng. Sci.
K. Gupta
NSERC
Equipment
Eng. Sd.
T. Calvert
NSERC/
Centres of
J. Dill
SSHRC/MRC
Excellence
Eng. Sci.
T. Calvert et al.
NSERC
Equipment
Eng. Sci.
Request Awarded CSS Matching Total
$200,000 ?
$50,000
$146,000 ?
$36,500
$140,000 ?
(B listed $35,000)
$180,000 ?
$45,000
(2nd yr)$84,667 ?
$21,167
$100,000 ?
$25,000
$60,000
?
$15,000
$93,867
?
$23,467
$94,000 ?
$23,500
CSS Matching Total:
?
$239,634
**please note: the amount requested from the external agency includes the CSS portion for matching funds.
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Appendix C: M.A.Sc. Graduates and Current Students
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M .
A. SC. STUDENTS - GRADUATED
SUPERVISOR ?
NAME
BIRD, J.
?
GOULDINC, Marty
CAVERS, J.
?
LI, Henry W.H.
THESIS TITLE
Speech Enhancement for Mobile Telephony
Adaptive Filtering Techniques for Tone Aided
Transmission Systems
Vector Quantization and Scalar Linear Prediction
for Waveform Coding of Speech at 16kb/s
Design of a Quantitative Microscope for Image
Cytometry Using a Solid State Detector in the
Primary Image Plane
Analysis and Characterization of Small Geometry
PMOS Devices at Cryogenic Temperatures
Investigation of Thermal Mapping Methods on
Integrated Circuits
I
CUPERMAN, V. WATTS, Lloyd
DEEN, J.
?
JAGGI, Bruno
DEEN, J.
?
WANG, Jing
RAWICZ, A.
?
XIE, Zi Wei
CURRENT M .
A. SC. STUDENTS -
FALL 1989
SUPERVISOR ?
NAME ?
AREA OF RESEARCH
BIRD, J.
?
HORVAT, Dion
?
Communication - Theory and Design
BIRD, J.
?
RADZIEJEWSKI, Ian Underwater Communication
CALVERT, T.
?
FU, David
?
Image Processing Graphics, Pattern Recognition
CUPERI1AN, V. BUDDHIKOT, Milind Digital Signal Processing
CUPERNAN, V. CHEN, Xiangyang
?
Quantization in Speech Coding
CUPERMAN, V. COSSETTE, Louis
?
Digital Communication
CUPERMAN, V. PETTIGREW, Robert
CUPERMAN, V.
YANG, Guowen
DEEN,
?
J.
LI, Xiaoming
GUPTA, K.
ZHU, Xiaoming
HO, ?
P.
FUNG, Dominic
HO, ?
P.
WU, Yan
INGRAHAM,
D.
SKYE, Doug
Signal Processing Mobile Communication
Mobile Communication
Device Electronics
Machine Visions and Robotics
Signal Processing Mobile Communication
Communications and Signal Processing
Manufacturing Information and Control
hi'
SUPERVISOR ?
NAME
RAWICZ, A.
?
HUANG, Xiao Jian
SAIF, M.
?
GUAN, Yuping
SAIF, M.
?
1-lU, Zhowgzhi
STAPLETON, S. KANDOLA, Gurmail
SYRZYCKI, M. GRIGOLEIT, Mark
-2-
AREA OF RESEARCH
Reliability Theory
Control Theory
Control Theory
R. S. Communication
Communication System
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