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□ Overview
□ Preface
□ Contents
□ 1. Introduction
□ 2. ToR and members
□ 3. Conclusions
□ 4. Working party procedure
□ 5. Assessment of community needs
□ 6. Solutions to user needs
□ 7. Systems specification
□ 8. Management
□ A1. Communications
□ A2. Fall in computer costs
□ A3. Subjects covered
□ Glossary

APPENDIX 3. ENGINEERING SUBJECTS COVERED IN VISITS TO UK UNIVERSITIES

The subject areas of research workers interviewed by the consultants are listed in Table 1.

TABLE 1: Numbers of Engineers interviewed and Subjects covered 1n UK University Visits
Institute Number
interviewed		 Approximate
number
represented		 Subject
Cambridge 20 300
Civil Engineering

Soil mechanics, Finite Element Analysis

Control Engineering

Analysis and design of multi-variable, multi-controller systems

Electrical Engineering

Signal processing, On-line control of electrical systems, speech training aid development, real-time analysis of speech, on-line control of water networks

Mechanical Engineering

Interactive design of complex shapes, numerical control programming
Edinburgh 16 110
Artificial Intelligence

Program correctness proofs, mathematical reasoning, picture analysis, cognitive processes

Architecture

Design methods for built form and site layout

Chemical Engineering

Modelling of processes, heat exchanger synthesis, crystal structure synthesis, graphical analysis of packed beds

Computer Science

On-line experiments, network design, language and operating system development

Electrical Engineering

I/C design, printed circuit board layout

Medical

X-ray picture processing
Imperial
College
2 visits		 13 112
Civil Engineering

Structural analysis and design, wave loading and soil mechanics for North Sea oil platforms; water resource management, hydrological modelling

Control Engineering

Industrial automation

Electrical Engineering

Interactive circuit design, man/machine interaction

Mechanical Engineering

Nuclear reactor engineering, ship structures, ship layout, interactive draughting, fluid flow, heat exchanger design
Leeds
Polytechnic		 6 17
Architecture

Building design and layout graphics

Electrical Engineering

Power system network analysis, on-line experimental work

Mechanical Engineering

Metal forming simulation, APT, production modelling
Leicester 6 40
Computer Aided Design

Graphics associated with finite-element analysis of structures

Electrical Engineering

Optimisation in automated circuit design

Mechanical Engineering

Time-dependent behaviour of structures under varying stress. Heat and mass transfer properties of plasmas.
Manchester 1 10
Computer Science

Graphics
Newcastle 4 35
Chemical Engineering

Process flows, on-line experiments

Electrical Engineering

Circuit design
Salford 1 8
Fluid Mechanics

Supersonic flow
Southampton 2 100
Sound and Vibration

Techniques associated with problems in noise and vibration control
Strathclyde 2 15
Architecture

Assessment procedures of built form layout
UMIST 15 80
Chemical Engineering

Flow sheeting, process control

Civil Engineering

Structural steel detailing

Control Engineering

Control system design, lift System design, continuous system design

Electrical Engineering

Gas network control, load flow analysis and optimisation in power systems, pumped storage control, medium-voltage network analysis and optimisation
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