Computer Management Concepts for Student Engineering
This paper presents many of the principles and concepts being taught to engineers of the future concerning their use of computer related activities. For example, from the cost/risk/benefit...
Managing the Transition to CADD
The transition to computer aided drafting and design (CADD) must first begin by establishing the need and the desired or expected results. The transition is comprised of three phases:...
Computers on the Project Team
This paper presents the utilization of various computer technologies as an integral part of the project team at a large multi-discipline Architectural/Engineering firm. Technologies discussed...
Painless Method of Using Computers in A/E Firms
There is now an efficient and economical method of using computer technology in a small A/E firm. The recent advances in microcomputer technology have made it possible to take advantage...
Administrative Aspects of Project Software
This paper reviews the various aspects of administering the development, control, and use of computer software employed to support the design office in the administrative and technical...
Encouraging and Controlling Use of Automation
Judicious use of automation can greatly enhance the productivity of an engineering staff. Integration of multiple computing processes with technology such as plotting, digitizing, total...
Applying an Automated Storage and Retrieval System to a Centralized Bus Maintenance Facility
Gannett Fleming recently completed the design of a new Central Maintenance Facility for the Southern California Rapid Transit District. An integral part of this facility is an automated...
Towards Rational Design of Structural Members in Reinforced Concrete
With the increasing emphasis on cookbook designs, plug-in and punch-in formulas, and punch-in numbers in the personal computer program, there is a danger that the designer may accept the...
Development of Flood Peak Regression Equatins for Small Watersheds in Southwest Florida
Hydrologic investigations were performed on the Belle Meade-Royal Palm Hammock area in Collier County, Florida. The study area, encompassing approximately 79 square miles (205 km**2),...
You Need More Than a Plumber's Helper
Maintenance of subsurface drains may be the least understood and most neglected of all maintenance activities carried out by irrigation districts. Few irrigation districts have a maintenance...
Development of a Multi-Modal Information System
This paper outlines the design and development of a Multi-Modal Information System in Duluth, Minnesota. The system applies state-of-the-art microcomputer technology to the provision of...
Upgrading to Super-Micros
The Association of Central Oklahoma Governments (ACOG) is a regional planning agency and Metropolitan Planning Organization in central Oklahoma, responsible for maintaining a large data...
Security Issues for Microcomputers
This paper addresses microcomputer security in the context of a transportation agency. Schemes for physical protection of hardware, such as locking workstations and alarms, are examined...
Microcomputer Software Support at the State Level
This paper describes a case where the organizational approach to microcomputer control was taken and contrasts the results with optimal individual systems within the group. In this context,...
Microcomputer Needs of Small and Mid-Sized Ontario Transit Properties
This paper describes some current initiatives in Ontario, Canada by a central funding agency to support and encourage the use of microcomputers in small and mid-sized transit properties....
The Group Approach to Implementing Micro Systems
This paper highlights a nearly three year effort to implement microcomputer information systems on 16 small and medium sized transit properties in Wisconsin using a 'group...
Micro/Mini/Maxi?Hardware or Software, Or, What's the Future??What's the Answer?
Current research is developing new materials, producing more sophisticated circuits, allowing price reductions, linking micros and minis to mainframes. The next technological avalanche...
Use of Microcomputers in Transportation: Potential, Limitations and Future Trends
An overview is given of the existing programs for microcomputer applications in transportation with emphasis in software for traffic analysis and management. The impacts of the increased...
Needs and Trends of Transportation Software and Hardware
Microcomputers have now been available for nearly a decade in one form or another, and have recently taken on an important role in the transportation engineer's professional...
Management of Microcomputers in PennDOT A Perspective on Managing Training
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is in the midst of a 63 million dollar 'Plan to Achieve Leading Edge Status in Electronic Data Processing. ' This...
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