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ECN Offers New Short Courses

People have asked for instruction on some of the newer software packages available on the ECN. This semester five new short courses are being offered. A thumbnail sketch giving details about the various software packages can be found on page 13.

Professor C. D. McGillem from Electrical Engineering is presenting two courses on using MATLAB. His first course, Introduction to MATLAB, is intended for the new user of this software while his second course, MATLAB -- Intermediate Level, will demonstrate more of the software's capabilities for those who already use this package or for new users who attended the first class.

Professor Karthik Ramani from Mechanical Engineering will demonstrate his knowledge of MAPLE. He and his students use this software in his class, and he will be sharing some of the tricks he has learned from pushing this software to perform to meet his needs.

Sunny Cristadoro, a senior in Art and Design, has worked for the ECN using AutoCAD to create the complex network maps that hang in the MSEE hallways. Her extensive experience with this powerful drawing tool will assist new users who attend her first course Introduction to AutoCAD in becoming proficient in its use. Her second course AutoCAD Update V10 to V11 is aimed at presenting to current users some of the major improvements to be found in the latest release.

William Spear, a undergraduate in Engineering, has experience in assisting students in Freshman Engineering to use the WINGZ software. He has answered the standard "getting started" questions again and again and has helped debug student programs that "should work." His two classes Introduction to WINGZ and Intermediate Use of WINGZ are aimed first at presenting the software to people who have not tried using the numeric calculations capabilities of this program and in the second class showing off some of the more advanced features.

Julie Dickinson is a junior math major who has written articles about SAS for this newsletter (see the September and December 1990 issues). Her course is intended to assist new users who want to do statistical analysis but have not tried this software.

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