Last semester Professor Rucinski and his students in Special Topics -- Collaborative Engineering (EE796) busily prepared the way for the new pilot course, Collaborative Engineering (EE777), which will be offered for the first time this fall, 1995.

Collaborative Engineering is a discipline which studies processes where engineers from diverse disciplines cooperate to specify, design, manufacture, test, market, and maintain a product. The emphasis of the course is on collaborative activities, rather than individual student effort. The topic modules for the collaborative engineering course consist of core modules and those specific to the current project being supported. Core topic modules include: team-building techniques, advanced design methodologies (e.g., VHDL-synthesis and advanced packing techniques such as MCM), microelectronic technologies, research principles, quality based management and team leadership, project management, and information technology.

This fall the Collaborative Engineering course will support the CATSAT project (see related article in this issue of Signals and Noise). The CATSAT project brings together a collaborative effort from our department, the UNH Physics Department, Weber State and the University of Leicester. If you are interested in obtaining additional information about collaborative engineering at UNH contact Dr. Andrzej Rucinski in the ECE Department.