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IRON WARRIOR
THE EDITORS' PAGE
Bombay U
and More
I\ e just returned from an eXlen,in:
tour oj' India and the ... ubcontinent. While
I was there I looked intn the system 01
Lnginct.:ring education 111 India. I wa ...
surpri!>ed by t ht.: C()fltrast bet ween OUI
program and their ....
I\nyone who has ... tudled Lngllll:ering 111
Canada in the past Ie\\ )ulrs has
rrobabl) noticed that there arc 4ultl: a
few Indian Prob OWl here. I hi ... I ... a
of two factor ... in India. I he lir ... t
one being that thert.: arc SOIlll.: wrer!atl\l.:
Engl11eering schoob In India. I here arc
lour Indian In"lItute ... 01 Icchnology (Ill)
as well other noted l Jni\el,ilie .... Ihese
arc con ... idered b) man) to he of hlghel
calibn: than Canadian uniH:rsitil.:s heeause
olthl.: extremel) COlllrellli\e nat un: of
education in Ind ia. (A ma ...... i\e rorlilatioll
01 mer 760 million en ... ures onl) the
brightesb get into an II I). Sl.:condaril) ,
third \\()Jld nations India find it \er)
hard to keer their gradllaw\ within thell
boundarie., . Industries and gmerllments in
:'\orth America can out hid 111 0 ... t of their
competitor ... in India lor thse scholars.
I his i ... not onl) III telill'> of linancial
rewards, hut al ... o in rrL'\tige and intere ... t
of the wOIk or re ...eareh a\ailahk. I he
result i.s a hraln drain.
I he students at one eon-
finned storie ... I had heard 01 corruption
in the unl\er,itie .... It \\'as ptl\ ... ihle to hll y
.. , , '1111 lhle lrom somc
'allll' \\a ' tolerated hy
ot 111 I <tel. Olle nC\\'op,1 PCI reported on
II 'i,1r jl'iC'llc/' ill 'he' ,/t/lW oj BlJlllh(/1'
a rat her .. trange academic incident. One
.. lUclent wa, caught cheating on a lina l
c.xarn. I he im igil ator rointed an accll,ing
linger at thc student. onl) to hme it bitten
right on.
Ior thme \Iho can't gct into a pre .. tl-
gJOUS .. ehool ba ...ed on their marb, it
number 01 other good LJni\er .. itie ... oller
an ea\lel \\'a). SOllle un i\ er ... itie, oller a
ponion or all <llthei!' ,cah to those
\Iilling to donate to the uni\er\lty \
colfer .... Ior the 01 Indi a, and
there arc a donation In the order 01
$S,(X)() (edn) can buy placement in a
uni\ersit y. In a country \I herc a 15c solt
IS bL'yond the l'Cach of nHht fJCorle.
SS'(X)O i ... an lor all but the
\lIper-rich. Ihe a\eragL' Indwn
can't get an) employrncnt. His education
i., u ... ually he'l\ .. uo...idi/ed through
'O\crn and bur-.arie . .
I ill: i.. ot Cit"" lor either ngincering
students or practising in
India. While 111 KaFll ata ka state in the
south, I noticed several major obstacles to
succe!>s.
PO\\er in this state was being rationed
to 16 hours a day for the rubli c.
Indll!>t rie!> were rationccl according to their
classilication by the gO\ernment. This had
bcen going on for se\eral months. a
shortage of hyd 1'0 rOIl er was hla med.
Pll\.\er lailures \\ere common at peak
hours th roughout the country.
Fngi neering ... tutknb at Bangalore LJI1I-
\er-.it\ \\'en:: holding a rotating hunger
... trike to protest regulations regarding
lailure, and carr)'O\er credits. Whi! :::
strikes arc a \CI)' common interruption to
Uni\ersi ty education in India, it is almost
always the students. not the faculty, who
arc strikinl!..
Atl professional crrgineers thn)ughout
the \\ho \\orkcJ for gO\crnmcn(
Cellular Radio Destined to Fail
One 01 thc m(1 ... t rct'L'nt de\cloplllcnh III
the L'omll1l1nlcalHlIl\ 1lldustr\ I, '( 'cllulal
Radio' . I he Ill'\\ "yql'1ll \\ III 111m Itk a
lei V ad\ilnced t\ pc 01 mobile tl'kplHlIW
eapilcity. In a cellulal 1iIt/IO telL-phone
sy,tem the area scn ed 1\ dn idcd Into
.. mall contiguous .. ctt$)iS, 01 el'lb. I aeh
cell has It ... particular IrequcllclL",
and depending on \\hat one I .. dmlng ill ,
a eelltral computel \\ill sekct the I\lost
appropriate frequency 1m \OUf call In
other worth, " .. you drill.: Irom olle cell
into another, lour eall \\ III be picked up
and re-transmilled on a dilkn:nt IrL'-
quenc), without IntelTuption. I he .. , ... tel11
will \irlually eliminate till: prohlems
encountCfcd \I ith e\i,tmg mobde tcle-
phone ladll1/:t ill\d intedcl
ence. Pete I w;il\ article in this gi\\.'\
an e\ccllcnt e:xplanatlOn of the Cellulal
Radio.
When I heard about It, I \\a., 01 course
cxcited b) the possibility 01 reali/in/:t
advanced communications teehnolog) 111
our country. (,hc capaclly 01 the system IS
virtually limitlcss according to the engi-
neers imolved in the de\clopment. It is
truly fascinating to experiencc technologi-
cal which seemed like mere
dreams in old sci-Ii moyics. However,
after some thought, a lelA doubts came to
mind. Will the system sunive in Canada')
The implementation of Cellular Radio
is expected to have an.explosive economic
impact in the United States.
in Canada, however, the situation is not
as severe. One reason of course is that this
country is quite sparsely populated in
comparison to our neighbour. Another
reason may be that our regulatory body
in this field, the Department of Commllt,i-
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cation ... (J) 0.('.) Itas bcL'll In it...
alilKatlOIl 01 r,ldlO frcqucnele ... than the
I .c.c. (the All1cllcan C4ui\aknt):
1\ oldlfl/:t l11;)n\ fIIterlcrellL'L' problcnl'>. lor
these reason ... , thc necd I'll! <Ill alternate
S\'stem is not a ...... trong.
. One Df the /ll,IIor of Cellu-
ar Radio In the l '. S. is that it \\Ollid he
\Cr\ lIsciul lor bu\ines,men or saiL'\men
In inter-city transit b) automo-
bile. Ihe ea,tern and mid-castern ... tates
arc good example,. A tckphone If1 a ta\i
in '\ell York cit) would also be useful
thiS mode of transit is popular
there. Ihc timcpent in a cab could be
lIsed for timeh but imroJ1unt telephone
calls. When that some high-
level professionals actually charge b) the
minute for their scn ices, the mobile
phone may Occomc a valuahlc tool.
Although Toronto may hc gr<m ing at
an exponential rate. no Canadian cttie,
exhibit the same characteristics. In the
husiness \\orld. 1110 ... t tra\d bctween our
lllalO! cllie, - loronto, :>..1olltn:al. OIl<l\la
\ anetlll\ er - i, b\ air. fhe huslfless
cOl11l11uni\\ for each Cll\ is quite ce ntml-
i/ed: again, be the
e\eeption.
Whcn the fle\\ telephone is lirst mar-
keted. it will be an C:\pel1si\e unit (about
. 2,000 plu, J/1stallat ion) and \Iill cost
.:IOc <I minute at peak hours
to u ...e. rhercforc, the pri\ atc market
should oc non-existent. I he
would be limited to
commercial use such as in dispatch
\ ehiclcs or for mohik data transfer
purpose ....
One c:xecuti\L' \ ie\\ is that employee
II1diYlduality and self-learning \1 ill be
affected. If, lor iflstance, a technician or
engineer IS 'on the road' and encountrs
type 01 dilemma, he ma} oc more
inclined to phone In for help rather than
attempt tl) sohe the problem himsdL
May 1984
(and most do) we re on hunger strike to
protest differences between graduate physi-
cians' salaries and gradua te
salaries. Engineers earn Rupees 500
($62). doctors ea rn Rs 560 ($70) pcr
month. rhey were also prote ting a
regulation which prevented any form of
promotion on the job without seven years'

Thc most important thing I learned
about engi neering while I was overseas
was that things aren't really any different.
Sure, problems appear to be very different
compared to those a NOl1h American
engineer face. Water resources, for
instance arc much more scarce. That calls
for special attention in construction, agri-
culture, and Ci\i! Engineering. But, when
it comes right down to it, engillccrs just
sohe problems. In a third world country
like Indian, they face unimaginable oncs
which could prcsent thc most challenging
and satisfyi ng work opportunities for an
ellgineer today.
Exeeuti\cs arc alread) aware of thi,
Cellular Radio would onl;
aggra\ate the situation.
Another important opinion \1 hich could
contribute to the non-success of the
.. ... tem the fact that once you 0 \\ n a
mobile phone. you become accessible
\ an) \Ihcrc. Iherc\ no stoppillg
the tcchnolog) from dcveloping a portable
phone \1 hich could hook on your belt.
Imagine heing phoned while taking a
casual stroll through the park. Business
men nO\1 lind themsehes trying to e ...capc
their phones in the oflice: it seems as if
onl) the chronic workaholic would
\\elcomc yet another phone.
If peoplc don't value their fe\\ dail)
moments of solitude now, such as the
dri\e home or walking the dog. the} \\ill
certainl\' miss them once the nortable
phone -becomes a realit).
May 1984
IRON WARRIOR 3
LETTERS
To Iheeditors of the IrOlIH"lIrrior. IheedilOr
of III/pull! . amI the of
Soeiet) B:
Ha\ ing read the '\ 0\ . 24 of the
Iron II 'arrior. I want to congratulate edItors
Mike urlocker, Carl05 Panksep, and their
tcam of reporters for a fine paper.
E\'t!nts. imc. tigati\'e reponing, and hu-
man interest stories were all of high quality
and made a ve ry \'ital, engaging impact as I
nipped through the pages. Not once was I
persuaded to think uengineers arc asshole '"
as I frequently have been by other student
engineering publications.
The readability of the science article is the
high point of the paper. Scientific de\ 'elop-
ments arc news on this campus, and outside
it. Engineers, and other technical profession-
als have to be aware enough to make other
people aware of their contributions to
humanity; publications like the /rOI1 Warrior
create this awareness.
It's too bad the official student newspaper
on campus, Imprint, doesn't have more of
the type of reporting so prevalent in the Iron
Warrior. The 20-page 10V. 25 issue of
Imprint ha I page of news - of any kind.
If the /rUI1 Warriur is ever in the position
of having too many contributors, or if lrull
Warrirurs want to extend their readership, I
would invite contributions to the Imprim.
Believe it or not, engineering news is often
campus news.
So until the III/prim sees more of these
contributions, and even if it does, I'll be read-
ing the Iron Warriur.
Nathan Rudyk
Imprint Staff
Co-op Arts Representative
Federation of Students
P.S. Maybe Eng. Soc. B could re-allocate
som money from its stripper fund and give
the lroll ""'{(rrior the distribution it deserves.
Iron Warrior
Dear Warrior,:
eon!,.'!"'llIItalioll' anJ than'"
for pubbhlllg our ls,ue ('\ (l\.
19X3). I-or the time, an an,it: ti"e
\\<1: genuind) impreseJ b\ the of
your writers and to deal \\ ith 01
the !>oeio-potitical i. (hat. urrountl tlK'
engineering prolcsioll . Ihe e are lih'
a you can cither be fOOl-b,)lll1d like
some medie\at \loman, or you can
ti( the hoes yourself. to your 0\\ n In
the Radical Issue. \\e had a glimpse of the
lallcr approach.
Most impressi\'c to me wa ' the handling
of the topic of "The Engineeri ng in
all its varieti es, both inter- and intra-
profession. Like many of you, I ha\e winced
when a few bozos gave the whole facully a
moronic image, under the apparent favour
of the Eng Soc leaders. We alt know that this
is not the impression (orthe OI1ZI' impression)
that you would like to give the campus. The
articles mentioned have gone a long way to
bring everything into perspective.
As a journalist, I had some qualms about
the quality of the writing as per its cohesion
and clarity. But this fault is understandable,
given the de-emphasis on humanities the
engineers arc subject to. (Conversety, you
couldn't rely on 1IIf! to dmw an electric sche-
matic!) In a spirit of co-operation then. I'd
like to offer my help and that of a couple of
friends for putting together future Warriors.
[n closing, let me say that the flak some
defensive artsies gave engineers is about as
commendable to our faculty as the asinine
antics of some engineers is to yours.
Let's overcome mutual stupidity!
Sincerely.
Todd Schneider
P.S. Loved the clenched-fist graphic on the
cover of that issue. You should have said
whom you borrowed it from that old
bunch of radicals, the Tom Robinson Band.
The /1'011 Warrior is a publication of the Engineering Society at the lJ niversit y of
Waterloo. Its purpose is to promote profe sional awareness throughout thc
campus.
o pOl1ion of this new paper may be reprinted without written consent of the
editor.
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Cathy Murphy, K. Dayle Oliphant, Jeff Endenburg, Ken Jones, Tom
Fulton, Rob Tasker, Jeff Warren, Frank Van Biesen, Antoinette
Camilleri, Julie Elvidge and Langis Roy. And they're not all in engineering
either.
IMPORTANT STAFF MEETING FRIDAY MAY 25th 1:30
CPH 2387. PLEASE ATTEND
Sir.
I .1 prla lid t ht' l)lt he /roll IIIiIT/Of
In aUl.'ll1pt tt' d ';\1 1I[1 thl.' 1m 1Il1der-
' tanJlIlg mel tht' unag. '01 thl' lila It' ellgllll'l.'I.
I \\,1, \et) rk'heo \Iith the 19."4
edltlllll lIt Ihe II (/1'1'/(11 ,lilt! 11\ mal1\
Oil \\ ho engllleL'I"> Me. It
ha, heen for that the
IlKal engineer ullage lIas a
t) pl.' . We are pinned \\ ith image and
ha\l.' only to hlame. Ian) peoplt'
conform to t mode/. but man) tlo not.
Engincering. likc IS di\erst' , and
man) difkrt'nt e;..ist \\ ithin It.
like these will bring undcNanJing
and a more accurate picture of
m) pleasure O\er tht: dfnrt. I am
\ cry disappointed with the especially
Moldillg llie Mall' i:ilgil/('('r and PII/'Iidf/a-
lion .Hol'e I 'aitlClh/e 77/(/1/ .1/111'/....1. I lind both
articles condcscending and many poinb
stcm from blatant ignorancc. r lind the treat -
mcnt of thc thinking student. the so-called
"keener", rcprchensible. The authors' ignor-
ance is stunning.
Most of thc errors stem from a myth that
there is a correct way of life. rhe author.;
belie\c that thcir way of life is the correct
one, and all others are wrong. rhere is no
one correct way to live. What one
finds enjoyable is not alway!> so 10 another.
Once this is understood, we will havc come a
long way towards enlightenment.
Both these al1icles were written from an
external perspective. The author.; arc observ-
ing these so-<:alled keeners from afar and
making j udgements. It is no wonder that
misunderstandings abound. I sit at the front
of the class, and you would call me a keener.
This i ' a false label. There is no basic differ-
ence in the people, just a different way or
looking at life. How does silt ing in the front
row make one a keener'? If kceners were
sociall y int!pl. they would hide in the corner
Issue
or the back of the class. I sit in the fran! for
two reasons: it is the best place to take notes,
and t he plaet: to be seen by the prof as an
individual. I ha\e sat elsewhere and had
problems seeing the notes on the board or
hearing the prof. Thcse are reasons for silting
in the front row, and vdlid ones.
"Keener" is a derogatory term for people
who have high marks and make others work
harder. In reatity, you will never find a
socially inept keener. just a per.;on with a
different philosophy and priorities. Look
dceper. and you might find a very interesting
person. It may be nice to have a "whipping
boy" to blame your woe ' on. but do not
expect reality to conform to your wishe5.
Gordon R. Strachan
2/\
A FOHUM rOf! rNGINI [RING C.ONtI PIli
WANTED: RADICAL RITERS
Do you have an opinion or complaint that no
one will listen to? We will, and we'll publish it.
,
Submissions welcome from any faculty
or organization.
Special radical Issue.
Deadline June 5th
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IRON WARRIOR
May 1984
From the Dean's desk
On the evenings of Monday, May 28th to
Thursday, May the Office of Develop-
ment and Alumni Affairs and the l--aculty of
Engineering will bc conducting another pho-
nathon aimed at helping alumni fund rais-
ing. last year's phonathon was quite
successful and it is hoped that many of those
who helped will volunteer again. The prite
this time is one week for two in Florida.
including accommodation and airfare. Also
the event qualifies lor p** 5 points.
Alumni funds go directly to support the
undergraduate program. Turn out for an
evening of flln and participate in raising
funds to improve your own education. I'll
have more details for you lateL
As I have discussed in previous letters to
the Iron Warrior, the engineering faculty is
suffering from problems related to declining
funding. 'r here is no doubt that a
quality of education maintenance fund
(Q F M F) would have provided some finan-
cial r 'hef from this situation. This is indi-
cated by the fact that both the University of
Toronto and Queen's University maintain
similar student initiated funds for good pur-
pose. In my letters I have also indicated that
an additional charge lor engineering stu-
dents is required to reduce the financial
burden. This is reOccted in the report which I
am now preparing for the University,
for an additional $60 per student per term.
Thi!. charge is approximately $10 per course
per term. It is an attempt to recover costs
associated with supplies and equipment
maintenance and is not intended for equip-
ment and class handouts. (A significant pro-
portion of this is paper).
lhe $60 fund docs not address the prob-
lem of equipment replacement or the nL'Cd to
stay atop of new technology in fields like
CAD/ CAM, process control. graphics or
similar fast moving arcas. I am optimistic
that industry and the province will help us
with these goab as has been the case in the
past.
10 make my arguments more clear for
you, I have provided excerpts from my
report to the university. Please rcad them
and if you have comments feel free to write
to me or to the Iron Warrior.
Yours sincerely,
Dean Lennox
Highlights from the Dean's Report on New Fee
SUMMARY
The financial situation in engineering has
declined dramatically recently. In addition to
the continuing inventory underfunding
situation, engineering faculties arc faced with
the massive additional costs resulting from
trying to keep up to the impact of the devel-
opments in computer and computer-related
technologies. Thi i nO( a resear !h need, but
a need that recognizes the rather dramatic
changes now taking place in engineering
education and practice.
proposal addn:sses only one aspect of
this global problem. We have been reasona-
bly successful in acquiring teaching equip-
ment, such that the total inventory in
computer-related cquipment is now
$1,081,820.56 (March 12th).
The fee requeMed in this proposal repres-
the additional costs of supplies, mainte-
nance and replacement primarily related to
the acquisition of this equipment.
The fcc incn:ase requested is $60./term per
student and would begin in Fall 1984.
BACKGROllNO
Ihe situation regarding finances in 1:.ngi-
neering is critical. I he general dl'Cline in pro-
vincial funding Ie\'els has created
problems for all cquipment intensive pro-
grams in terms of replacing obsolete equip-
ment. I his situation has been exacerbated in
the engineering faculty, by the rapid intro-
duction of computer!> and computer related
technologies into the engineering workplace.
Engineering education and practice have
entered an era of unprecedented changc,
Developments in computer and communica-
tions technology have already had a major
impact on engineering practice through such
fields as aesign (CAD),
computer-integrated manufacturing (CI M),
computer-aided process control (CAPC),
and distributed intelligence computer and
communication networks, (A recent issue of
the En 'nee 'n News 'kecord referred to the
situation as CAE computcr-aided
everyt hing.)
As a result, engineering education faces a
twofold challenge: to undertake creative
research and devclopmcnt in these fields and
to integrate the resulting technologies into
academic programs.
To respond to this challenge, an increasing
number of universities in the US require all
entering students to purchase a personal
computer, typically costing $1,000-$2,000,
for use during their studies. Clark on
charges $400. pCI' term, which pays for the
micro over the four years. Stevens rcquired
studcnts to buy Atari 800's in 1982 but now
requires them to buy DEC Professionals.
Drexel requires a Macintosh. Some of the
companies have givt.:n sub tantial discounts,
but it still is expensive. This approach may
indL'Cd address tht.: need for "computer liter-
among general college slUdenb but I do
not believe it is appropriate to meet the needs
of most engineering students who require
more powerful personal computers (cost1J1g
in the $5,000 to $20,000 range) capable of
supporting sophisticated languages and
operating systems (i.e .. FOR] RA ,Pascal,
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munications with mainframe hosts. Further-
more, the rapid evolution of personal
computer technology will almost certai nly
make those machines typically selected for
student purchase obsolete during the several
years of their studies, as has already hap-
pened.at Stevens. It may well be, however,
that such a technical breakthrough is on the
horizon, but in the meantime a more effec-
tive way to approach the challenge of provid-
ing "personal computing" resources tG our
students is for the institution assume
the responsibility for providing the approp-
riate environment. rhis is an absolute must
for us if we arc to remain one of Canada's
premier engineering school '. Again, how-
ever, the costs are staggering. Michigan
charges each student in the engincering
sehool $100. per term. Thi translates into
$1,000,000 per year and their first purchase
was 400 113M PC's. MIT and Brown are
spending $70,000.000. each overthe next five
years! Cal Tech is attempting to provide one
station for every three students. These
schools 'obviously have tremendous financial
resources.
I believe at Waterloo is at the
forefront of providing those services in Can-
ada. rwo years ago, we developed our own
highl) successful network of
personal computers to mcet this challenge.
We are now in the process of expand ing this
into an IBM PC network. Some financial
assi tance for the de\eJopment work was
provided by the University through the Aca-
demic Development fund, but personnel,
maintenance and supply costs associated
with the project have been borne by the
faculty.
In addition, the faculty has, over the past
five years, assumed much of the cost of
replacing the keypunch terminals with video
tenninals including the cost of connection
and the subsequent cost of maintenance and
supplies, a service previously provided by
DCS. In my view, we have a minimally
acceptable inventory of services for our stu-
dents and still have a long way to go. The
introduction of CAD into many of our
courses is steadily increasing as faculty
become more familiar with the concepts. We
have a head start in this regard as many of
our faculty have a high level of computer
literacy. The limitation is our own financial
ability to acquire the hardware, not the abil-
ity to use it effectively. Relative to what has
happened in the U.S. our gains have been
somewhat modest but we are steadily acquir-
ing equipment. Over the past three years we
have bought, 'borrowed or accepted as gifts,
computer equipment for undergraduate
teaching such that our inventory in this area
alone is now $1,081,820. Some 86 courses
require the usc of the computer and this is
increa ing steadily. Many students arc taking
advantage of the system to learn word pro-
cessing or the usc of visiealc and other soft-
ware, etc. 1 am optimistic that we will
continue t9 be able to acquire hardware -
either through direct Provincial upport for
teaching equipment or through Industrial
support.
, Other Canadian Universities
do it too
The 82 83 Ontario Council of University Affairs (OCVA) publication - Advisory
Memorandum 82-Xll- lists charges at other schools. Some typical charges are as
follows:
Laurentian:
York:
Queens:
Ottawa:
UBC:
- $20 course in all engineering, science courses.
- computer courses have a $50 lab fee
- upper year computer science students are charged $100 per
year
- all tudcnts taking science courses are charged between $4
and $60 per ses ion
- administration students are charged $22/ COUfSC.
- applied science students pay a $150 equipment fee.
- duplication fee in Science and Engineering.
- computing time SIOO-250/ year.
May 1984
IRON WARRIOR
5
Tom Allison
-
Tom AUison 10 close down Implint.
Paying the Price for Books
by Murphy
Out of Control
b) Tom Fulton
I et me paint you a picture - a bled, rict un.'
of mudd\ \\ater,
t-.10. t tht: pl'I.On I\e ne\n had
to he ,\ politician, it\ due to
the imlnL'n.l' to 01
people or the onst<lnt b)
so mam \\riter ... sed.il1\!. to mal-.e llll.:ir lor-
tunc: ,;ding on other peorlc\ roat tail .
Whatewr tht.: I still hold grt:at politi-
cian in li"c\\ isc great esll.'Cm. for the Ljuali-
that mal-.e lltle I!.rcat. mU.' t o' cal\.'fulh
blendcd and nurtured, lil-.c the aging ola
\\ inc,
Ihi, IS 100 Illllch
lor some, who become benl with the miscon-
ccptions of tht.: ollice thl:)' hold, l ' nfOilU-
nateh, \\C Sl:em to I1me lost 10m Allison, In
Ill) the 4uahties that maJ...e a kader
include inlelligence, poise, charm. tact .
organi/ation. communication and scnsiti\-
it). to name a fe\\. Let\ 1001-. at these cast:s:
Off tt:rm. U 1340 tickcts \\ crt: almost sold
out bdort: bt:ing ad\ertised as being on salt:
to the school population; not much organi-
lation or communication there.
WI;ilc the whole province is on six and
five, the prel gets himself a nineteen
percent increa e, a co t of living
allowance and was trying for a free
apartment at the married student'
Apartments as well. Not Illueh tact or
sensit ivity there.
rhe regular editor of the Imprint resigned
amid talk of To 111 starting hi own Fed news-
paper: not much communication there.
I om thrcUlcnrng to withdraw Fcd . up-
pO\1 Lind lock Olll the Imprint by .Iunt: unless
the ncw editor resigns: e\en less communica-
tion t ile I\.' .
I om holding back a 50.0m loan to
L'ng So bt:CcllhC he's \\on'ied the Poets Pub
licence \\ ill hurt Fed llall; not much tact
therc.
Ille I'cd Hall ria co. rhe came in
O\cr budgct and ht: made initial changes
\\ithout c\en the conscllI of the cOlillcil.
Wht:n ahoul \\ hal would happcn
it the drin"ing age \\as raised to twenty, he
'>aid h'd Hall \\ mrld be made into a
rant. (110\\ many students can afford to cal
in a I. million dollar rcstaurant?) but if it
lost money it would bc shut do\\ n imme-
Ddinitcl) no intelligcnet:, communi-
cation or sensiti\ it}' there.
Gcnerall), the only feather that remains to
be pluchcd from Tom's cap poise and
charm, Anyonc who's ever dealt with him as
prt:sident probably knows that he's the most
arrogant and isolated public figure we've
e\Cr had to put up with on campus. Actually.
when I think about it, the guy seems to be
losing any PR image he cver had except
that of power hungry megalomaniac.
He reminds me of a poorly blended batch
of Baby Duck.

engsoc & wplrg present
cheaper. thl: O\ 'erall d'l't:ct on the textbook
. det is limit 'd.,' of th'
Iht: price ""-. __ .... _
become exhoroilalltly high in re(;t:nt year,_ Finally_ a fourth alternative was rroposed
GQN
putting into 4
U
l:
s
lio need -tOr lijJ" -' 'j j i, \all 1 )t:l' ' 1
and prompting a lor cheaper among his campaign kt
alternatives to buying from the school boo" book sales be org;lni/ed and controlled b)
store. Although the llW boo" ... tort: oper-
'1 hc average cost of new lextbooks lor an ales Oil a nOfl-prolit ba. i\. 1\ l'an onl ,dl
enginl:cring student at UW lrom S 150 boob ..... chc"pl.\ as It buy ... tlK'1ll afld hcnn' It
to $250 per term: this amounts to a total of at Ihe Illcrcyofpllblisher ... and di ... tributo,.".
approximatc!} $1600 O\ 'er H tl:rllls. a ... ub- It should bt: notctl thLit l ' W te:-.tooob <lIC
stanlial il1\t:strnent for any student. One "moil!; the least expt:llsi\e of an.\ Canadian
question \\ hieh should be answered is: arc l thiS dOl" flot mean that thc) arlO
these "re4uired" lextbooks truly ncccssary" cheap. onl,\ that the others arc e\en flwrl'
AN HOUR LONG '-11 \A DEPICT!! PRODUCTI'V'l GAINS
AND PROPLI< INDUSHIAL MANACd.MENT AS F NGIN-
I:lKS AND A PRIEST START If INDUSIRIAl MOVfMlNT IN
POST WW2 SPAIN .
EL 204
Tues. May 29 3:30 p.m.
On the onc hand, one can argul: that text- e'\pensi\c. Van I kc J...c I made \ariou,
books can be as ont: attl:mrts to l' ... tudl:nt-run
would however. that this not the ,tore hut \\ it hout sucCt:ss, I h" tenn. one 01
immcdiate objecli\e. Academic textbooks tht.: ll1orecnterprising . in 3A l' kclri-
were originally intended as a learning 1001. in cal e:-tablished contact with a hoo" di\tribll-
much the same way as lectures or tutoriab. tor and was able to obtain CI numocl 01
yet most fall far ShOl1 of the mark; instl:ad. t:xrt:nsi\c ($5()+) hook, at an a\ erage 3Y (
they arc used asa source of assignment prob- Thl: lo\\cr priee is due. in pal1, to
lclllS or, as often happens. the course for the rOllowing: many te,Xthooks arc
which they are required only covers a small published in two one \t:I..,ion.
percentage (2D-3D(l i) of the material con- intended for tht: North Allll:rican market. is
tained in the text. generally hardcO\ l'r and 111irl) good 4ualit)
Students do have alternatives: one is paper; whereas thceheapl:r \ersion. intended
simply not to buy the book or. as Eng Soc for foreign markets. is olien \o!tcmt:r and
president Dennis van Decker suggests, to may use lower ljuality paper. I hose publica-
wait a few week in orderto personally assess tions which were made a ... ailable to the
the value of the book as a learning instru- dents ol'3A Electricaltra\l:lkd first from the
ment for the course. U.S. to Hong Kong. then on to Singapore.
Another alternative which is becoming and from there to Toronto, Despite tht:
increasingly popular involves Xeroxing travel costs this must have incurrcd. the sa\-
those sections or chapters of the book that ings to the students were substantial.
are covered by the course. This practice is Although inforllled of this gatcway to cheap
being followed by a growing number of stu- books, Eng Soc presidcnt Van Decker has
dents, from the lowliest frosh to the upper no immediate plans to take ad va ntagl: or this
echelons of the student society executive. opportunity since. he claims. his remaining
The major drawback of this method i that time in office is 100 short to allow effeCli\e
photocopying, especially when it involves organi/.ation of chcap-book sab on a large
entire chapters of books, is an infringement scale.
of copyright laws, i.e. it is illegal, although it Alternativcs DO cxist 10 the oncc-a-term
is undeniably chcap. ritual of trooping down to Ihc campus book-
Yet another approach is the used book store and forking out $200 fortexlbooh that
store; Ihis project is run by the Federation of arc often only marginally useful. The oppor-
Students. The Federation takes lOW of thc tunities arc there. so with a little effort on
cost of the books to cover overhead and your part, you can save your money and
administrative costs. Although the books are pass the cour..e too.
6 IRON WARRIOR
May 1984 May 1984 IRON WARRIOR 7
The fellowship of he rin
Canadian eng-neer wears a unique reminder
!\Ilardi \\archam
Rcpril//('t/ \I if II '1ll'cial p;'r/lll\\/()u fro/ll II/('
(II/li'I"lo() COli ril'l"
An iH: I ngllshwoman OIlCt'
llnlted president I Il omer
ahout hi.. pr\.ltcs .. i()11 "I al11 an engille\:r: h\:
told her.
"Oh," ,he "I thoughl ) (JU v,cn: a
genlleman,"
HOOleI' I ...a' mon.: than a gel1lkll1all lie
\In, an engllleci 1\ ho IOnk hi, proicSSlllJl and'
It, rL'!>ponsibiliti..:s senou,I), I k IHote an
ohcn-quOled passage III hIS I1lcnwir, com-
paring an cngi Ill!cr wilh a mcmher 01 ,OIllC
othel profCs.,ion "lIis aCls, st..:p 0) step. arc
III hard \Ubstanl'e. He eannOI hurl hi, IllIS-
lakes in the gra\'1.: likethc(llX:lor"lk ca IlIlOl
argul.: them Illtn thin air 01 hlame the jlldgl.:
IIkl.: Ihl.: lall'\'cr-s, lit.: Cilnnot. tilt: politi-
cians, hi., sllOrtcol11ings hy hlamlll g
his opponcnh and hope Ihat the pcople I\ill
forgcl. The enginecr ,imply I.:annot that
he did it. If his wOIks do not v,ork, he i,

lake the collapse 01 the MiallLls Ri\er
highway bridge in ConnL'Cticut last summer
Ihe cause i n't cJetermln..:d yet. bUI engineer,
I!'ere surl.:l} i nv()!led
-His acts, !'1cp hy step. arc in hard

I.lke their American I.:OUllll:rparts, Cana-
dian engineers have been kno\\n 10 make
mistake." I he great Qucix:c Hlidgc over thc
St. ulwr..:ncc cr. thc largest cantilcler
bridge in the orld. collilpsed t\'oicc hdorc it
"as finished: oncda) in It)07, th..: Imsol
xc-. \H)rkels' lil,.cs, anJ "!!ilill in 11)1(,. 1 he
bridg\.: v,a, flnall) open..:d to tlal/lc III 11)17,
The !.trength (If malerial, will infallihl)
belray ) ou.
Ihe Bridge I'> 1101\ a ,ymbol 01
engineel \' e(')uf'age and dl' tellltinutHllltlll:on
UCI the lorce ... 01 nalllle, In Itlct.the iroll III L.... __ -'1-.
71/c' J/w/"il/g o/au c'l/gil/C'cl: 11(" .\ g()/l/II IHIIT RII1,1!, aile! a dip/ollla: IIl'xt ll'ill COflll' thuse /illle PEI1[!,.
Ring een:mon) is I)r. Hill l.el1no"<. now
lJ W\ dCiln 01 \:ngineerillg. II ho a
Illemoel olt to grad-
uate I mill Watell()(). III 1902.
It \\as "4L1ltl' a /llcanlllgful he
", y",. oh\cl'ling that the IlHHl' timcs he
till' Cl'l'l'nHlll) the l1lorc hl' appn:l:latcs it .
I'ellldih uthcl \\Olild ,t1,o appre-
ciate it 11100e ilthn could o,ce II again \\Ith
illOIl: "di'ldnec", Il'nllo'l. 'lIGGl""
I k \l'l" the Illig as a CII'I:it:
tlin:olltlniling n":lxlfol \:ngincl'l"
-'-- .J .. I ... I II
And he's working on a computers-and-
course that will include ethics.
Even first-year students who tClke g.eneml
l'ngilleenng cOle Clre exposcd to
material ahout and the role of an eng i-
n..:cr. 1.l.: nno'( say..,
Berg" a cil II enginecring gradu-
ate, apprOlcs 01 the dcpartment\ -mock
tnal", 'taged tt.:rm. Studcnh an
IIlCllklll I\hich nlist.:s moral or legal 4ues-
tiOIl', and play parts in a dramatic re-
helore a panel repre>cnting
11'0111 the 01 Professional
Inglne\.'rs or Ontario, Ille leal-lifi: APr-o
Il'gulillh hear-. \uch cao,c, il1\ol\ing ethics
and plOk''>lonal t'ondlKl.
Onc such tnallast referred to a
\\iI) collapse at the Vial\:r1ot> I ryall Regenc)
Hotel. .I \u,piciousl) \I 1111 I'll' to the col-
lap', of a \\al"";1\ at the H\att Recenc,
Ilotel in Kam,a, cii" MI,souri: in Jul\
I hat accident killcd 113 peoplc, '
Bel!!' l'I::eaII , that ,tudent pored
OIel Gise ,lUdiC, and rcpon, rlOm the Kan-
incident. I he Glo,c locatioll
Illay hille been liclitiou, hut thl! details were
mOsll) leal. I he ,>lUdent \lho the
engineer Ivith incompetence elt.:n
charaetel \1 Bag.., recalls II ith
a smile. noting that 01 coursc the \tudellls
dOIl't always resist the temptation to -hilln it
up" a lillk during the n:-cnaetment.
I'his year, before an <ludief1(:c of ellil cngi-
I1L'Cring sudents and faculty and '>ol11e people
110111 other department,. the engllleer
charged "coillicted" of incompetence
although Rcrgs says she isn't sure the ruling
Ilib emird) based on the facts.
In it re<ll-life CLlo,c. the APEO would likely
suspend the cngin..:er for a period of time,
1\!IOklllg his or her right to ll,e the designa-
tion prng (Probsional EnginL'Cr). Ihat
would mean the engilleer could no longer
apprm l! blucprints an appro\all\ hich an
engineer Illust gile construction can
begin based on those dra\l ings. I he
,u..:h an engin.:er would he ofbs I alue to his
or her employer,
There's a practical reason for engineering
sludents to get some cxposure to ethical
issues, Two years after they graduate and
start working, they're now required to write
an examination on engineering law and
elhics, conducted by thc APEO, Passing that
exam is a prc-rclJuisitc for the co\eted stalus
of PEngo I he APEO council decided to
il1lroduce thl! exam because too many disci-
plim: cases \Iere coming up in which engi
neers \ec/lled to be ignorant of their
At present about t\\O case, a
month arc coming 10 the council. says 1)1'.
Gerry M lIeller. CI chemical enginceri ng pro-
lessor at UWand past chairman of Ihe
API:O\ board of examiners.
Mueller nole Ihat the three-hour ethics
exam gilen lor the time in 19112, It
has t\\O parts one on prolessional prdctict.:
and ethics, and one on englneenng and
professional liabilit}, 1'0 prepa re for the
exam. engineers study the Professional [ngl-
necring.Aet of Ontario, including the code of
et h ics and \'0 hieh it prO\. ides, as
\\cll as an APFO manual and materiab.
p n:palcd 'pccially for the exam, It's
on a pa,,,-rail basis, Mueller notes, and so far
he's heard no complaints from young cngl-
nL'Cr, \lho ha\c to face it. "B} and large they
think. it's a good idea."
UW pn:sidcnl Dr. Doug Wright. abo an
engineer (and in fact the foundlllg dean of
the engineering facult), attends Ihe Iron
Ring eeremony here ewr) year and calls it
imprcssi\e", Hc recalls its formalit\
and its slress on re,ponsibility, and says
students ill\ohed seem to be impressed as
well.
Although Wright has se\en unilersll\
dl.:greC!> (four of them honourary) and
heen working primarily in education and
go\ernmellt for more than mo decades, he
says he still comidcrs himself fiN and fore-
most an t:ngilleer and giles his prok'\sion as
enginL'Cr". not president-,
nle l W prL,\ident says engilleers see the
I\orld as more complicated than politician"
or alerage do. 1 he engineer knOllS
that a number or factors arc imolved in
salet), and has to calculate thc taking
Murph) " um into account.
Con,ulting cngineer Carl Heck was in thc
second class to graduate from engi-
necring and he says he and most 01
his classmates didn't take the Il'On Ring
ceremony as >eriousl) as the)' should haw,
rhcre was no tradition for it at that ..:arl)
stage, he recalls, and thc organi/":rs were
inexperienced. "That cercmon) \las as differ-
ent from today's as black and white.. . It\, not
an eal1h shattering thing that remaincd
indelibly etched in my
But perhaps it should hal'e, and o\er the
years those 1963 engineers have come to
rcali7e the Importance 01 the sentiments
expressed in the ceremony, he feels,
As a con ultant who specializes in hCilvy
pO\ler and works with power distribution in
buildings. Heck says, he and the other cngi-
at Walter, Fedy. McCargcr and Hach-
born in Kitchener arc "constantly involled
with conflicting And he
that the primary loyalty has to
be to Ihe pUblic, Engineer often hal'e clients
who pressure them to build structures in the
Icast cxpcn,ive possible way, he says. adding
that his firm has been known to turn down
projects because they can't agree on how the
work should be done,
Of course. some engineer whD.are "e,o:
nomically pressurcd" hale to on what
Heck calls marginal johs, But
aren't traditionall) fly-by-nighters: they're
conervative people, Heck and that's
one reason they're attracted to engincering
instead of something less tangible and more
abstract, such as architecture, Architects are
the and engim.'cn, arc the doers, he
says.
How does the public see engineers' l "I
think we're perceived as a responsible group
of 'oplc, a stable group. who do whatever
they do son or mysteriou.,ly," I leek answers.
One s<!/viec his Ii rill prm ides is il1\ ('stigat-
ing the C<lll,e offin:s. Allhough the insurance
company is pal ing the bill for the investiga-
tion, he notes. "We have to determine to the
best of our ability \1 hat happened. n:gard1c"
)f who is il1\oll'ed. In man} case, )llll don't
want to kno\'o tile insurance company i,
that might jaundice yOllt' I iew." After all,
he says, the insurers an: looking lor inde-
pendent expertise: that's \\ hat Ihe) hired his
firm lor,
I\n engineer ha'i to he carclul in makinf
decision.., says Heck. heeause e\el') decision
puts his earea and his lite on the line.
And I\hether till! cngineer\ \\ork IS a
bridge, a dal11. an electronIc control system
or a pharmaeculleal other peoplc',
h\es arc on the IlIle too, rhat', the sort 01
which th.: 11011 Ring provides, a., a
Ii fClimc of work with those
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IRON WARRIOR
May 1984
Don't let STRESS
Get the Best of You
by Carlos Pank"ep
In today\ fast-paced society. and
researchers arc becoming aware of many
aspects of our which were not so
predominant in past generations. A typical
concern presently IS t he condition of stress.
particularly mental stress. heryone knows
what means, <lnd there is a to
the tcrm v.lth sOllleone pulling
their hair out 01 their head 111 agony.
Stress, however, is not a four letter word
and certainl y nothing to be ashamed d I \e-
Iyone experiel1<.;es it at some intensity, other-
wise, as Ian Smart of I:ngineering Counsci-
ling puts it: "You'd be dead I" Jt\ ddined as a
non-specific rcsponse to any stimulus,
whether good or bad. Ihere alwa)s IS a
physio-psychological reaction in the bod),
but ""hat becomes evicknt to the outside
world is the individual's own pereeption of
the stimulus. Some people will express their
feelings more ob\ iously than others, and
thus be considered stressful.
According to Marion lIowell of Health
Sciences, the prime cause of stress is loneli-
ness. For students, the uni\ersity is a
large impersonal place, much more so than
the previoll', high school. ' 1 he university life
means making ne\\ friends, v.hile perhaps
losing some of the old 'best friends' who were
\ery important in one\ youth. Ihe co-op
system aggravates stress fU11her becausc the
mnnot get settled and de\elop
strong intcrpersonal
1cw 1./.' ,,!uick to point Ollt that
,. ngineering is the most stressful c()u!"';e on
In Engineering, \\ here thc Illln-
imum entrance average is gW( (or higher), a
who was at t tor of hi., class III high
school lila) cnd lip Ill'al the hottolll of the
UI1IVCr,lt\ class. I he clilsscs <I1e 1I1uch largel
and the lelcl of competition IS
highel. Upon cntering ulllvcrsity, some
de11\ han' newl Wllllen;1 100111al flrlal C\:1 III i-
natillll: then thel arc placed In a gym \\Ith
hundreds of other stutdentsand aree\pected
tll rcmembcr 1\1ost of what the) leal ned.
I hese and other conditions cOllltihllte to
student st ress.
Some of the other symptoms, or pcrcep-
tiom. of stress arc: depreSSion, wntilluing
head-aches, behm lour changes and \\eight
loss .
Marioll 1100\ell points out that one can
learn to harness stress in ordcr to increase
prOductivity. A certain conditioning IS
m:eded to direct thc physiological encl'g)
towards constructivc activity. "'or instance,
one do poorly on an cxam, the stress
should be directed towards increased moti-
vation to study for the next one, rather than
depression.
Arter a stressful occurrence, a physiologi-
cal reaction takes place and one\ body
assumes an state". People must learn
to reinstate a homeo tatie condition in oroer
to resume normal activity. Unfortunately,
many students have not yet learned to do
this, and the result is unnecesseary failure
and frustration. Other students adapt to the
new lifestyle and can cope with the new stress
quite adequately.
Mr. Smart has seen students make serious
mistakes in their education by persuing a
goal which is not appropriate for them. rhe
classic case is of the student who has entered
Engineering and feels that he or must go
on to finish regardless of what pressure must
be undergone. These students usually
become victims of severestresSosincetheyf'all
into a rut which they cannot escape. I'hey
begin to focus on one difficult course or on
one exam that didn't go so weU and then they
Man!' 1I11i\ 'c'r.li/I ' s/w/ell/S slifler/i'OII1 slress due /() loneliness.
find that get progressively worse. A
good remedy for this situation is to get
in\ oiled in other activities i 11 order to divert
the focus if other thing-. arc going alright,
then perhaps 'things aren't so bad', at which
point the student ma) be able to get out of
the psychological rut.
Proressors arc also quite exposed to tress.
Although 1I0t usually \ to students,
they f'cel pressures associated with their
resc' rch, overdue pUblications, tenu[c trO-
moti ons, and yes, their too. (hey
must constantly pace them. ehes in order to
comple te COllr.,t' topic., o n lime. When asked
anoLit thc liequent that taJ..es place
III mall} ft 1''' t \Car engll1eerillg Cour.,cs. Ian
Small said that prof., dn take it pcr-
and Icel conluscd It. When papel
airplanes swrt to fly h their heads, they don't
J..nm\ if It\ l'lCcall\c the sllIdent., arc bored ,
01 "they don't undelStand, or if the) 're rest-
less. 01 nen il don't like him. So next
time you let one fly from the back or the
class, write an appropriate message on the
wing!
In conclu ' ion, the most important fact to
reali/c regarding stress is that evcryone expe-
riences it and that it cannot be eliminated.
You can howe\cr .learn to copc \\ith ir. and
contro: it '0 that your produetil'it} will
increase.
Should you want to ha\e an informal chat
about stress with someone \\ ho really can
give you good make an appointment
with Ian Smart at CPII. You may be sur-
prised with what you can learn about
yourself.
Dean of Computing Appointed
by Lee Wanstall
and Dave Wendling
In February. Dean Lennox.created a new
position in the University. Barry of S) '-
tem,> DeSign was appoll1ted as the first . so-
clate Dean lor Computing, !--aeulty of
I ngl11cenng.
Dr. Wilh, a graduate from the first co-op
engincering class in 1902, states the reason
for t hc cre4ltion of this po:.ition is an
illcreasl.?d need in computers and communi-
cation information technology. Wills
serves as a contact with industries in terms of
nt:gotiations. But, he believes the main idea
f'or his appointment to do good engineer-
ing" b) lItili/ing these new technologies.
Dr. Wilb' duties include de\eloping an
o\erall strategy for computing. assisting in
education and research in engineering,
representing engineering interests, collecting
and distributing information among col-
leagues, to list but a few.
Since the new appointment , Wills has
established a committee oi each department
in the The members include himself
as chairman, G.e Andrews, Mechanical
Fngg: J.A. Field ' , Electrical Engg; D.E.
Grierson, Civil Engg: J.B. Moore, Manage-
ment Scicnce and G.R. Sullivan, Chemical
Engg. Wills states he is working with
thest: members, as he feels collaboration is
the one way accomplishment will be made.
Within u week of forming the committee,
a proposal was sent to the Apple Education
Foundation in hopes of receiving approxi-
SISO,OOO worth of computers and
suppOli ctjuipment. Apple Canada is gi\.ing
away computers to educational institution
to aid in further education.
hen though Wills' primary concern i '
engineering, he does sit on uni\el.ity
issue. Dr. Wilb is a member of' the uniler-
of Toronto Unilersit) of Waterloo Co-
operative on Information tcchnolog). He
emphasi/es the need for a co-opcratile effort
by stating that while there may be fancy
orchestrating, it really comes do\\n to the
people 01' the
77,e }/ell ' Dean in his nell' cd/ice.
Wills believes they are making some pro-
gress, but points out that mistake can be
made because of limited time needed to
make deci ion. However, he feels he can't
afford not to sei/e the opportunities now.
Barry Wills is al 0 an Associate Professor
in the Department of Sy terns Design. He
has served on numerous university commit-
tees and has been the as ociate chairman of
the System Design department for both
undergraduate and graduate affairs.
Dr. Wills' current teaching and research
activitie include Computer Simulation of
Systems, Computer-assisted Instruction and
Social Impacts of Information Technology
and Information Technology.
Computers aren't the only thing in Wills'
life, ho\\cver. He i great I) interested in com-
puters in music a well. An avid jal7 pianist,
he himself short of time necessary to
practice. With his piano in hi ba ement, he
docs get to play occasionally, "for fi\e min-
utes when I backwash the water softener," he
says.
May 1984
IRON WARRIOR
9
WPI RG & Eng-neers: Not
Mutually Exclusive
b) Stephen Thwaites
77l1' oillhor i.1 a Ihird .,ear engineering .111/-
dell/ un \I'urkl efm in A:i/chener. HI'
is also UIIl' of/he .1(,1'l! t1 difeclUrs of Ii PI RC.
Many engineers think that the Waterloo
Public Interest Reearch Group (WPIRG)
ha little to offer them and that they ha\e
e\'en Ie s to offer WPIRG. As a director of
WPIRG and as an engineering student, I
disagree.
Before explaining why I disagree. I think a
little background on WPIRG i in order.
First, WPIRG is student-directed. The seven
tudent Directors are elected early in the fall
for a two year term. If a Director leave '
eampu for a work term. an interim replace-
ment is appointed until the elected membcr
returns. You may have noticed advertise-
ments around campus and in the Imprint for
thi term's interim Directors. Second.
WPIRG is student-funded. Asyourfeestatc-
ment package says, the $2.50 fee per term i
optional and refundable. The money mainly
goes to pay our two full-time staff, a
researcher and educational event organizer,
and our part-time office co-ordinator. And
yes, if you would like to see our audited
financial statement. we would be happy to
give you a copy.
111ird, a word about Public Interest
Rescarch. As the CaterpillerTractorad says.
"There are no simple solutions, only intelli-
gent choices." But choices are only intelligent
when all the facts are available. This is where
Public Interest Research comes in. It is based
on the belief that knowledge hould be
equally available to .everyone. The goal of
Public Interest Research is to present the
facts that may otherwise be obscured. Public
Interest Re arch helps us make intelligent
choices: it doesn't make the choices for us.
An-exllillple lescdlchca
found in the acid ram Issue. In 1980, after
extensive investigation. WPIRG published
Acid Rain: The Silel1l Crisis. One orthOl very
first books on Acid Rain. it is now a text in
American and Canadian high schools and
universitics. W PI RG's invQ"ement in the
issue continues through public cducation
events such as the Acid Rain Debate held
last fall co-sponsored by the Political Science
Union, where an Ontario Hydro spokesman
and an environmentalist quarcd ofr.
As far as engineers go. WPIRG has more
to offer than most of us realize. WPI RG's
educational events are topical and thought-
provoking. For instance, one of the lunch
time events in the winter term was the film
"The Mondragon Experiment." It was the
tory of a priest and fi ve Bas4ue engineers.
The film explained how they started a
worker co-operative with 23 members in
1956 and how \\or\..er co-opcrati\c
movcment grew to its present 91 companies
and mer IKOOO Worker co-
operatives arc not the only ideal economic
solution ror the Basques or for anyone. But
they arc one or thc intelligent choices.
As \\e arc the il10Vl!fS and shak-
ers behind the booming growth in high tech-
nology. Often we hardly ha\e enough time to
put the hardware together, let alone to look
at the social impacts of our work. But that
doc 'n't make the impacts of technology any
less important. Recogni/ing the importance
of this issue, WPI RG organi7ed the first evcr
Canadian Conference on thc Social Impacts
of Computeri7.ation in the of 1982. If
you're taking GE 351 as your non-technical
elective ou'll notice your textbook is the
proceedings rom Ihal con ercnce.
WPI RG also offers LIS a heavily lIsed
r 'souree centre that )OU aI" always welcome
10 bnmse through. It probably won't help
you with thermod) nnrnics but il could help
vour non-tL'ChnicHI decti\e . The resourcc
' :t!'l\w: in 'ludt'S sources you won't find in
()ther campus libraries. Some of the IOpies
c(l\clcd include. l'm:rgy. roxie Wastes.
I hint World PolitiCS. Occupational Health
a nd I mpa<.:t). of Computer rechnology.
Just as WPIRG has a lot to otTer engi-
necrs, engineers have a 101 to offer Will RG.
WPIRG want to know what intcrests its
members, or otherwise. \\that
would you like liS to loo\.. at'? '1 cnant right!.'!
Cheap \\<lYS to Oil heating hill:-.'! Impacts
of high tl.'Chnology? Fnergy options'! l.et
WPIRG I-..no\\ .
WPIRG also wants our technical exper-
tise. Our tl'chnical I-..nowledge is the corner
stone to solving a van<.:ty of current issues.
From controlling asbcstos in thc workplace
to dcsigning morc energy efficient dcvicl's.
we are using are tl.'Chnical e pcrtisc to solve
some current problems. I f you haw a report
or project that might interest WPIRG, drop
by the WPIRG olTil.'C and let a WPIRG
staffer make a copy for the resourcc centre.
On the other hand. if you are looking for a
project topic. technical or nOll-technical,
why not sec if you can get some ideas from
the WPIRG resource cenlre or staff. They
would be happy to help you.
I hODe I've shown vou that as engineers we
have alot to offer WPIRG and that WPIRG
has a lot to otTer us. Keep your eyes open for
the posters advertising our summer educa-
tion cvents. And remember. feel free to drop
by the WPIRG office. room 2\ 7 of the Cam-
pus entr w > da s between 10: a.m.
and 2:00 p.m.
A Phone Wherever You Go
by Peter C. Lash
Most people think of a car mobile tele-
phone as somewhat of a luxury. However,
due to a new technology called cellular radio,
portable radio-telephones could soon be
commonplace.
Owing to a limited number of assigned
frequencies, conventional mobile telephone
systems have only been able to handle a
small number of calls at anyone time. For
example. in Toronto the Bell /llobile tcle-
phone system can carry only 25 simultane-
ous conversations. Al 0, a conventional
system has many irritants such as long delays
in getting a free line, range limitations and
poor reception.
A cellular system divides a markct area
into gcographical cells 1.5 km to 13 km in
radius. each containing its own low powcr
transmittcr, linked to the telephone network
by a central computer. Because each cell's
tra nsmitter serves a number of frequencies in
its area with low powcr. the frequencies may
be reused in other cells with no mutual inter-
ference. The result is the equivalent of thou-
sands of radio channels. This frequency
reuse is already een on a large scale in the
television industry. wherc hundreds of sta-
tions across North America reuse television
channels 2 through 13 in the VHF band.
When a call is made by a mobile user, the
tclephone unit chooses the bcst cell site and
cellular phones will be quitc expensive at
about S3OO0 a unit, but as they gain accep-
tance and mass production begins, the prices
will drop drastically. Perhaps portable
phones will be as popular in the 1990\ as the
portable stereo, such as the Sony Walk man,
is in the 1980's.
At present there are several operating cel-
lular systems in the world. the three largest
being the Nordic Telephone System serving
transmits the number to be called ovcr a
control channel through the cell station. rhe
central computer then designates a free fre-
quency and completcs the calL If the caller
now moves out of his cell into another. the
computer will automatically transfer him to
an open channel in the next cell. and
"old" frequency is c1cared for reuse. -I his
tran fer takes place without affccting recep-
tion and is called a "handoff". Calls from the
outside area are relayed through the local
phone company in a similar manner.
Thc increase in line avai lability with a cel-
lular systcm is quitc substantial. For exam-
ple. in Toronto. the proposed would
initia Ily hand Ie up to 4500 simultaneous con-
versations compared to the existing 25
When the system needs to be cxpandcd to
keep up with growing demand. a cell can be
divided into smaller cells. The transmission
power is then reduccd to avoid interference
among new cells and each one can now 'crvc
about as many customers as thc original (;ell
did. As wcll as this expandibility. other
advantages includc decreased fading due to
the centralized transmittcr in each ceil and
complete mobile long distance service.
Once the cellular system is set up and
improved upon. portable hand-held radio-
telephones could be used by pedestrians to
make calls anywhere within a cclL Initially,
over 40.000 111 the four Scandan-
avian countries, Nippon Telephone and 'leI-
egraph with over 20,000 users in Japan.
and American Telephone and Telegraph
in the U.S. In Canada. the CRTC hasjust
awarded the Canted Cellular Radio
Group of Montreal with the licence to
design, build and operate a ceHular
system with a projected 200,000
subscribers within five years of
operation.
Cell.\ (Ire IiI/ked /() Ih(' /ell'l'hol1l' 1/{'(II'or/.. hI'
{J I'I'II//'((I ('III11IW/('1 Ihmllgli 11111 flOIII'1
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gJ'()II'lI1g dC'lIIlI/ltlli}r (dllllar rile/ill 1/'I'I,j('t'\.
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10 IRON WARRIOR
May 1984
U of W Engineers Overseas
by SUllan "'aac
David Pigeon graduated from the niH:r-
Sit \' of Waterloo wi th a ci \ il engineeri ng
degree at the age 01 23 in 199 I. He then
decided to a pply to a C"nathan
internti onal development orga ni /ation. for a
two-year posting in the Third World .
In October of that year he found
in a remote highlands arc 01 Papua. New
Guinea in what was considered a
posting. Hisjob: tolay outa 16km. road and
provide the people in the village of Kamina it
link with a road to the coast. At the lime. the
only access was by air a costly and ha/ard-
ous undertaking. '1 he road would pro. ide
the villagers with a means of transportation
for their coffee crop and would allow for the
provision of better health care.
kin. or trdck to link sc\cral Ill:ar h) \ illag\..'S
",ith the oll tside "'mid. lie abo completed
for piped water systerm for
three \ illages and erected a suspension
I(Jotbridge.
Ii i, role In each case \hls .. .., ,\..",,""'-
per ... I he projects belonged to the people
and they orgalll/ cd work-parties to do the
labouri ng.
Recently David was back in Canada for a
short " isit before tak ing another CUSOcon-
tract. he's now working as a CUSO engineer
in I hailand.
He found himself working under incn.:di -
ble conditions. rhe hills in thc Kamina area
arc steep and there arc several high [lasses
and deep valleys along the route of the road .
It was a challenge to keep the gradient at any
point down to 15 percent. With annual raw,-
fall of about 4(XXl mm. landslides were a
constant problem. Very few of the people
have any education in i ew Guineas. David
had to use an interpreter as the local lan-
guage was too hard to learn. f:.ven the
Catholic missionaries. with whom he lived
during his two-year CUSO contract. havc
been unable to learn more than the basics of
the language in their g years there.
In rhailand. j),l\id will he working on
...... ater resources projects similar to those
Craig Pugh. another UW graduat e. is
involved in. In 19H2. Craig surveyed and
!> upcrvised in the construction of the Ban
I.ak Water Diversion Project in Buriram
Province. Ihailand . I his projcct had two
pu rposes ( I) to retai n the water of the
Iluay creating a reservoir to allow irri-
gation of the rice liclds upstream of the pro-
ject area. In order to achieve this an earth
dam of two-three metres height and approxi-
mately 225 metres length was built. (2) to
build the concrete spillway in a location
which would allow the overflow water from
the reservoir to be diverted downstream in
two directions. I n one direction the water
would flow through an area of rice fields and
back in to the Huay Seo streambed. In the
other direction the water would flow down a
canal and into another existing reservoir
area for further retention, and therefore
further irrigation.
cusa l\'(Jrker II 'ilh 41h year engineering class, 7hailand
The work allowed only a very light pack-
sack: his own tenting e4uipment. a compass.
a clinometer. two measuring rods. a good
contour map made by Australians from an
aerial survey. a few notebooks and a
hand-held programmable calculator which
made the task of calculating his distances
and bearings less daunting.
Upon completion. the 2V:> metre wide
track good enough only for motorcycle
and pedestrian tranic hut was adc4uatc as a
path which could eventually be
widened without the need of an expert.
Dm'id then went on to slIr\'ey another 34
Most of the earth-moving for the dam was
performed by tractor and shovel. The
farmers in Ban Lak excavated the earth for
the spillway construction. The labour for the
construction of the spillway provided by
the men and women in Ban Lak.
Craig iecis his work is viable and has
returned to I'hailand for a third yea r. Provid-
ing water for rice farmers is a priority for the
I hai government and helps to imprO\-e
farmers' income.
In southern Thailand. Dave Sims is teach-
ing Chemical Engineering at Prince of
Songkla University. The university wants to
increase the number of ChemEng graduates
because of the discovery of significant
amounts of natural gas in the Gulf of Thai-
land. Dave is teaching a class of 17 students
and ' upervising two students in their 4th
yea r project.
Other graduates from engineering at UW
are teaChing math and science at technical
colleges and secondary schools in Nigeria.
Education is a priority of the Nigerian
government and is the focus ofCUSO's pro-
gram in that cQuntry.
Taking a CUSO placement..for two years
mea ns working wilh local people on Iheir
projects. learning a new language and a new
approach to work and life. teaching your
Advisor Terminated '
Disabled Students Affected
by .Jcff
Recently. a change made to the orgall-
i/ational of for disahled
here on r:lfectlve I.
Carol Moogh-Solilis' position as advi -
sor on lor disabled pcrsons has been
terminated and a ne\\ group. 01
existing campus health and IIlCdlCttl..,el'\ ices
under the leadership of Dr. Dan AntilL''' .
will fill the gap.
Moogh-Soulis has oecn doing contact
work for six years. helping disabled pcople
through evaluation of their needs. Prior to
this, she earned a bachelor degree in occupa-
tional therapy and worked for twe"e years
with disabled people.
To most of us, this change will pass unob-
served. But for those students re4uiring the
services. the change could have a considera-
ble effect. One such student is Peter
Quaiatinni.
Peter is an engineerings student in 3A Sys-
tems Design and has been visually disabled
since birth. He says he has less than 51'( of
normal vision, but that's only what he is told
by doctors. 5% means little when there is
nothing to compare it to.
Since looking for a suitable university
back in high school, Carol Moogh-Soulis
has been an important person in Peter's life.
While most students were finding their way
around U of W's campus during the March
open house, Peter was involved in special
meetings with engineering professors dis-
cussing his needs. These meeting; had been
-
Pefer Quaiatlfli work illg ill SI'.II<'1/1.1 f)e.l/gl1 wilh /i\'(' />('/'('('/11
arranged by Carol
U of W's services for the disabled were a
major factor in Peter's final decision on
which school to attend. Neither McMaster
nor Queen's universities offered an) special
office for disabled students. lJ of W's special
office was "very attract ive to say the least." he
remarked.
Since Peter started U W in the fall of 'X I,
Moogh-Soulis has been the co-ordinator
bet"ccn Peter and the Systems
department. acting as an information relay.
In addition. he has to find tudents to do
reading for Peter. by ad\ertising through
campus newspapers. for example. Moogh-
Soulis was always readil) available by phone
or through her office. Peter says she was \ery
dedicated and experienced at her work. She
was nut the type to ever leave one "hanging
anywhere". She alwa) returned calls and
skills to your co-workers and learning from
the environment, growing with the job and
making new friends. During the minimum
two year placement, the host country
government or agency which has requested
your skills pays your salary (typically $4,000
to $8.000) and usually provides housing. The
salary, though a lot lower than in Canada,
does provide a reasonable standard of living;
most CUSO workers manage to save a little
money for vacation travelling. Generally.
CUSO can place couples only if both
partners can be found job placements; fami-
lies are difficult to place because of the
schooling problems. .
For more information about CUSO
pla<.-ements, contact Susan Isaac, CUSO Co-
ordinator, 234A South Campus Hall. 885-
1211 ext. 3144. CUSO film ee p. 12
resolved most problems.
et:dless to say, Peter was 4uitc surprised
and somewhat disappointed to hear of
Moogh-Soulis' termination, hearing of it for
the first time through our interview. a week
after the changes occurred and over a month
since the re-organi7ation was first an-
nounced. However. Florence Thomlinson,
secretary to Ernie Lucy, the director of
employee and student services. who is now
t.'1king over the administrative duties of dis-
abled serviccs. says that the con-
cerned should now have received letters from
her outlining the re-organi/ation. In addi-
tion. she has asked all the students to come in
and see her to get aC4uainted.
As Thomlinson said. the university is
going through many organi7.ational changes
and this is just one of them. ;'\ormally, she
added. consultants are hired for a length of
time and once their pal1icular program is
established. the \ are terminated. ow,
rather than the olle day a week that Moogh-
Soulis was auula blc. Thomlinson and Dr.
Andre", ,.,.ill bt: ,I\ailable throughout the
work wt:ek.
Hut there arc those who feci that Carol
Moogh-Soulis. \\ ith her of experience.
was the person for the job.
"I think that it\ better to have one person
for co-ordination. myself." Peter said. after a
fe", moments of thought.
It remains to be seen w hat effect the re-
organi/.ation will ha\'e on the 4uality of dis-
abled services. At this point. we can just hope
that disabled scf\.ices will continue to offer
the quality service that Moogh-Soulis did.
May 1984
Montanas,
Mexican Workterm:
"Welcome to Monterrey. We have had a
freeze here o\ er Christma , the first lime
since 1964. All the \\aler pipes have broken
throughout the city. There is a little water in
the mornings so you can ha\'e a small bucket
to bathe in. All the vegetation has died so
there are 110 fresh fruits or vegetables. Didn't
you bring a heavier jacket? The temperature
is till below 1ero.
"You're going to be earning 40,000 pesos-
r month (about $250 Canadian) and the cost
for room and board is 20,000 pe os month if
you share a room with two other gi rl s. Hey
Roel. be careful to stop completely at that
corner because I don't have enough money
to pay orfthat 'perro' (Mexican word for dog
used to refer to a policeman) who's standing
over there. Last time I got topped it cost me
1000 pesos for him not to haul me off to the
station the plates had expired."
I sat speechless. The welcome which
Cindy, Pancho's wife, had given me was not
quitc what 1 had expected. either was the
scenely. I was startled by the four lane free-
way on which we were travelling and pU77led
by all the roadsigns not one word of
English. Still, Cindy spoke it so well and
appcared so American, I decided there was
no cause to request an "about-face" to the
airport.
In to'; n we up Pancho, the engi-
neer who arranged the student exchange,
and went to Di com 'a Kilpatrick of Mexico,
the construction firm for which I wa' going
to work. When we arrived it was 5:30 p.m,
anti , to my amalement, everyone was still
working. From Paneho I learned that this
was normal due to the fony-eight hourwork
weekI
IRON WARRIOR
11
Manzanas
K, Oliphant
Since only one of the other tcn reo pie in
my house and only a fe\\ of the enginee" at
my '\ ork spoke English. I decided t hat I had
better learn Spanish. Slowl). I began to get a
fe\, \\ ords out and, in lime. conquered slIch
once-impossible items going
opening a bank account. and e\ en cOll\ersa-
tion!>.
Some initial encounter" \\ ilh .. Monte/u- '
rna" Revenge" had lowered my spirits bUI
they rose proportionally with the tempera-
ture. I was in my bikini by the la ' l wcek of
January. My sun-worshipping \\.as . trange!)
regarded by thc other girls in my house \\ ho
wore shirts and jeans right into the fonie '
(degrees Ce!eius). I was quick to learn the
reason why, the first time I went for a walk
wearing shorts. It \-\as a great way to learn
new words, "Hey Mamacita!" was one orthc
favourites. I ext time, it " as jeans for me.
The men arc not the only ones watching
thc young girls closely, M) cude\\' was 11:00
weeknights and a liberal 12:00 on the week-
ends. Oh, to be fifteen again. Thc word
"disculpcmc" (forgi\e) was often uscd I
hurried into my house past an angered
Senora in the early hours of the morning.
rhe pm'erty was a major culture shock. At
every stoplight. on Ihe sidewalks and even at
your front door, the poor were begging for
money. You cannot hclp them all and yet it i
impossible to ignore the pleading eyes of the
children. They really arc starving.
or course not alilhe difference in culture
were bad. The Mexicans value their Ii:unili '
above everything a custom not adhercd to
here, in Canada. There arc few divorces in
Mexico and lamilies sr\.!nd mlJl:h more time
together. I-or example, in,tC<ld of
thc kids off to the park on Suno;!\ to gl\ e the
y
Siempre Manana
a moment of peace and quiet. e\e- dIsplay house complete with
ryolle illlo the car and away they go. the a rcilitect ural and engineering ora\\ings
nothl:r popular cuslom in Mexico the for 111) worktcflll project.
scrcnata. Becallse girls are so \\cll -prolecteo In closing, I would to e:--.plain the title.
there is lillie opportunit) for the girls lind Montanas, Ihat mountains Mon-
hoys to he alone, fhe ho) r\.!sorh to hiring be a oirty, industrial city but the
musicians or imiting,lgroup olhi, friends to mountains that surround it on all sides arc
accompany him to thc girl\ hOLls\.! to sing beautiful a welcome retreat.
10\csol1gs oubide her hedroom \\indm\ (as M,lIl1anas (apples) \'ere one of my safc
latc as li\\.! o'clock in the morning). I his is londs i\1onte/um<l and I had a few recur-
the ultimate form of flattcr) to a young girl. ring baltlcs. "Siemprc manana" mcans
It sLlre beats roses as a peace offering alter a "alway., tomOITO\\ ", Me,\icans are famous
light. for that one, Ifsomethingean be PUI oil until
BcCClLlS\.! the compan) was slightly unpre- tomorro\\ it viii not get don\.! today. <I he
pared for my arri\a l (no one had told the pcople arc very relaxed and fUIl-IO\ing by
engineering depal1m nt that 1 \ a ' oming), nature, f\cry Mexican I mel was kind and
thcyasked mc what I wantcd to do. I rcrlicd friendly <lnd I thank thelll for showing me
that [ was interested in the analysis and their lifcst}le.
(h:"ign oj ,tcd alld ,'OIlCll't, ,tnl,'tllll" \11111 1\ h,I' h l' 1I .1 ' / \ \\(11 th;ll
l ' ndel till' g\lldanl'l' 01 thl' \t' I\ iL: lIl1l'd 1>1 thlq'I\Il' \\111.11\\:\), 1l'lIl1'lIllwl SII \\111 Co-
Rul,,'n <."<1110 \ Iran\) t\\O\lIl1l \ oldillallOI\ thl' Il' PIIII j, III S l : lIl1\ h .

12
IRON WARRIOR
Cross to Cross Atlantic
by Marcus Boylc
Dr. J. D. Cross is planning a five week
cros ing of the Atlantic. The elect rical engi-
neering will be sailing in his
twenty-six foot sloop. the Goose". The
voyagc will slart in the interior of England
on June 7 from Knotsford.
The crew will consist of his son Martin
and friend Bob Pyle from England. They
plan to storover in the A70res bland for a
few days to replenish supplies. They will also
have a change of crew while at these Islands
on the Atlantic ridge. Bob Pyle will be
rcrlaced by his father.
The planned route starts in K nObford find
makes its way to Liverpool \ ia thc Wea\'er
avigational and Manchester Shirring '
Channels. In Liverpool they set 'ail and head
by as direct a route as rossible to the A/orcs.
Derending on the 'orth Atlantic Drift and
wind current ' they may head down rarallel
to the coast of the A/orcs, From the AlOres
they rlan to head straight to Halifax while
staying well clear of Sable Island, The boat
will be stored in Halifax and sailed up the SI.
Lawrence Seaway to Midland, Ontario next
summer.
The sailboat itself is a twenty-six foot
sloop with athirtylive foot mast. She's eight
foot ';x inches a-beam and has a lixed long
keel with a draft of three feet six inches. She
weighs four and a half tons and is made with
mahogany on oak, She carries a main sail
and four jibs: Stor, working, Genoa and
drifter.
emss "'ilh Ihe Gur Goose
Dr. Cross foresees no major problems
with storms as midsummer is not a stormy
season and he's had the Gay Goose out in a
Force eight gale without a mishap. One
rroblem that might cause trouble is the bore-
dom involved in srending Ii e weeks with
two others in close 4uarters, nary a shower in
sight. Traffic density near Halifax is a major
concern as, visibilit y can be reduced to well
under two miles in dense fog. The radar on
the surer freighters doc n't pick up mall
craft and oil rigs' positions aren't normally
known by the navigational authoritie until
days or weeks after they arc in pO 'ition,
If all goes as planned the trip will be two
weeks to the A70res. with three or four days
there. and then about two weeks to Halifax.
Sparky, as he is sometimes known, joke
that the only trouble his Gay Goo e might
have is with navigational AIDS.
- Sandford Fleming Foundation
UniverSity of Waterloo - 1983
May 1984
CUSO Film
On India
Wesl of Banxa/ore. a film concerning life in a
Third World rural community and the
approach used in introducing technological
change, will be hown on Wedne day, May
23rd at the Waterloo Library at 7:30 p.m,
It documents the work of ASTRA (Appli-
cation, of Science and Technology to Rural
Areas), a research centre in Pura, India,
ASTRA i looking for appropriate and inex-
pen ive solutions to housing, water supply
and energy concerns of rural communities,
Many of the ideas generated in the film are
applicable to the work CUSO is involved in
- the concerns of the villager " the need for a
development worker to
and learn form the environment, the tyP;SO
technologies introduced,

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