IRON WARRIOR November 1980.

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A FORUM FOR ENGINEERING CONCEPTS
AIWerenko En trepreiteur
ENTREPRENEUR
[FR: SEE ENTER-
PRISE] ONE WHO
ORGANIZES A BUSI-
NESS UNDERTAKING
,ASSUMING THE RISK
FOR THE SAKE OF
THE PROFIT.
Every undergrad who
has sweated through a
W A TFIV primer is fami-
liar with the WIDJET sys-
Werenko: I finished grade
12 at Fort Francis then
went to Ryerson from
1966-69 where I took
nucleonics, the electronic
physics program. I went
from there directly to
Waterloo, where I got my
Bachelors degree in electr-
ical in 1972, and went on
for my Masters in 1973.
I.W.: So you went
through the whole co-op
expenence?
tem. What is unfamiliar to Werenko: No, I came
most is that those from Ryerson into 2B.
terminals are
manufactured by a I.W.: You did have
Waterloo-based firm head- some co-op terms though?
ed up by Waterloo
engineering graduates. Werenko: Yes, I did
Volker-Craig Ltd is a clas- two terms at Atomic En-
sic example of what can ergy and one at a paper
:> 11 .[ .. r ...... 1&
lion meets good engineer-
ing practices. Established I.W.: Did your co-o!,
in 1973 by Mike Volker terms help you for this
and R,on Craig. the com- job?
pany initiated production '
in /974. In the intervening
six years. it has secured a
world market. with
subsidiaries in four
countries. and currently
has annual sales in excess
of 10 million dol/ars. AI
Werenko joined V. C. soon
after it's founding. and
currently is head of
marketing and sales.
I.W.: Could you tell us
a bit about your back-
ground?
Werenko: What I'm
doing here today? Not
directly. I'm in marketing
now. Like, I'm not doing
engineering now; on those
jobs 1 did do engineering,
so in the sense that on
those jobs r did engineer-
ing, there is no direct
relationship.
I.W.: Did you ever for-
see yourself being in
marketing when you were
an undergrad?
Forge your
OlVD destiny
Mike Scriobin
W,erenko: Not 100%.
When I first went to Ryer-
son, and had been there
for some time, I at first
saw myself going into edu-
cation -- teachjng. But
when 1 finished Ryerson,
jobs were so scarce that I
came back to university.
All I was doing at that
point was riding it out and
beefing up my education,
rather than floundering in
Blessed is he who
has found his work;
. let him ask no oth-
er blessedness.
Thomas Carlyle
Carlyle is right,of
course. For most of us our
work occupies half of our
working tives,and the
remainder is cut into by
other necessary chores
such as shopping, washing,
cooking, eating, and so
on,leaving precious little
time for the pursuit of
pleasure. Now if we could
just find a job which
required us to do only the
things which we enjoy,we
would brighten up most of
our day. Easier said than
done? 1 don't think so.
Let's jump ahead a
little and look at the peo-
Al Werenko zeros in on foreign markets.
the marketplace. It really
wasn't until I did my
Masters degree, when,
well the research did me
in. I said, "That's it, no
more engineering." So I
went on to sales with
Hewlett Packard. My job
there was a direct result of
my education, had I not
been an engineer it would
have been unlikely I
would have got the job.
pIe w h ~ seem to be doing
what they want to do in
their work. One almost
invariably finds that those
people have established a
reputation for
themselves,not necessarily
in the sense of notoriety
and fame, but rather an
essential respect from
those who provide the
work.An author who
manages to live on his in-
come from writing has the
respect . of the publisher
and readers,an engineer
who has specialized in
computer applications has
the respect of the
engineering community
for whom he solves
problems,a professional
tennis player has the
respect of the tournament
organizers and his
I.W.: Perhaps then,
your Masters degree
wasn't much of an advan-
tage?
Werenko: The Masters
degree was an advantage,
in that I'd done some
research on ultrasonic fe-
tal monitoring. The job
at H.P. was in the medical
division; so there was a
direct relationship between
opponents.
There are three- ways
to go after that reputa-
tion: (a) Branch out on
your own, setting up a
new business - or freelance
service; (b) look for a job
hoping that a potential
employer wi\l offer you
the right one and settle for
the best offered , (c)
compromise, picking up a
job or opportunity which
doesn't provide eJtactly
what you want now,but
which allows you to em-
bark on )'Qur quest for the
reputation you need for
the future.
Now there is nothing
wrong with branching out
on your own,trying to do
your thing right away.It is
without a doubt the most
exciting way to go,but for
what I had been doing in
engineering projects and
what I was selling. Wben
I applied for the job, they
looked at my experience.
I.W.: So your work
term experience really
didn't help you set your
goals for after graduation.
seeWerenko
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many the excitement is
outweighed by the uncer-
tainty of success.The
second alternative is
certainly safer but it can
easily lead to boredom,
indifference and finally
dislike for the job,
particularly if pay figured
too prominently in the cri-
teria for job choice.
The third way might
have a negative ring due
to the word "compromise,"
but one has to comprom-
ise in adapting to reality.
For instance,i n my field of
management science one
spends a great deal of
time studying
optimization,only to find
that the firm IS not
see Destiny
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IRON WARRIOR
Werenko
from page 1
Werenko: No, although
my work terms were
super. 1 was up at
Pinewa, north of Winn.i-
peg. It was cold as hell,
but the environment was
fantastic; they give you
lots of responsibility. It
was good. 1 enjoyed it.
Saw the country,
travelled. I was progress-
ing; building up my
experience.
1. W.: How did you find
the transition from univer-
sity into work life?
starts to set in and you be-
gin to say, "Hey! I've got
to sell, I've got to do
something. I'm not here
researching or designing,
I'm selling." And it
doesn't matter what the
excuse is, the bottom line
is, how many dollars sales
this month. So what
happens is you go through
that traumatic stage where
you say, "Hey! I've got to
get this thing rolling." Its
at that time fear hits you
a bit, and zoom, away you
go, and yo start to
develop your skills. Get-
ting comfortable with peo-
ple, and not having to
pre-plan every last word
and detail.
1.W.: So you found
that university left some-
thing lacking?
Werenko: Definitely,
you don't develop the so-
cial skills necessary to be
successful in business.
up engineering skills. If
you go to university to
learn business skills, it
doesn't make a good en-
trepreneur, where the oth-
er way around as an
engineer, your
opportunities are better
for finding a .Widjet or a
product, getting it off the
ground, and you can learn
the business skills as you
go. Coming out of Ryer-
son I didn't have any
depth, I didn't have any
vjsion; too immature. I
was only twenty years old'
then.
I.W.: What aspects of
your fonnal education
then, helped you the most?
Werenko: Well, the
Ryerson experience was
useful, because of the
practical nature of it, and
the university stuff, of
course was theoretical.
Going through engineer-
ing, as you know, is no
mean feat, and the same
was true at Ryerson.
Werenko: I went from
having been an academic
and research environment
directly into sales. That
was quite traumatic. I
had no sales skills; no
telephone skills, I really
did not have any pertinent
skills. The only thing I
had was a drive that sales
is the way to go. You can
do things, you can travel,
meet people, you know,
all those great things. But
r really didn't know what
I was in for. And I really
didn't have a good grip of
what was expected of me
as a salesman.
I.W.: How did Volker- They have very high
Cral
'g come I'nto the . standards. People get
plC- weeded out all the way.
ture? It's a battle. You go
LW.: How long did it
take you to discover this?
Werenko: After my
Masters degree 1 decided I
did not want to do
engineering; after twelve
months at H.P. I decided
I was never again going
(to work) for a large cor-
'poration, and basically I
Werenko: The first "'oin to do my o'wn
__ it..---
They are very corporately
not small busi-
ness, not entrepreneur-ish
You have to follow' certain
guidelines, objectives,
reporting schemes; it is all
very cut and dried. And I
didn't have good manage-
ment; I was left to flound-
er a bit. So it took three
or four months until I got
the drift of what it was I
was supposed to be doing,
which was selling. Of
course then the pressure.
lronWanior
I.W.: So how did your
university education help
you? Couldn't you have
done just as well coming
out of Ryerson?
Werenko: No, when I
came out of Ryerson, I
wasn't mature enough. If
I had it to do all over
again, I'd do it the same
way. You see, It's much
easier for an c!ngineer to
pick
up the business skills than
for a businessman to pick
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Editors: Kurt Mitchell
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Photography Kevin Firth
Contributors: Don Heath, Glen Hilwitt. Norm
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Wray. Lawerence Bouchard. John Tsui. Dan Murray.
The Iron Warrior is pasted up at the
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Fairway Press.
through the grind, then
through an M.s. By the
time you come out, your a
survivor. You've got a
pretty tough skin, and you
should have by that time a
sense of starting and
completing projects. The
guy coming out of high
school just hasn't got that.
When your in engineering,!
you tend to learn there's a
start and an end to things.
There are projects,
deadlines, schedules, and
so on and so forth. So
you learn that type of
maturity. I suppose
there's the odd guy who
goes through engineering
and it's a breeze, but there
are other people who real-
ly have to work at it. At
least that's the way it was
for me. It didn't come
naturally, I really had to
work. So you learn the
skills of working at some-
thing, even if you don't
like it. 'Cause that's the
way it is in business. You
have to do the stuff now.
Nobody likes to do it, but
somebody's got to do it,
and as a manager you're
stuck with it, because your
looking at the end point.
I.W.: What didn't
university teach you?
Werenko: Creativity.
was always operating in a
survival mode; get this
assignment don't wor-
ry about next term until
next term. Exam, project,
right now. I certainly
didn't get my
entrepreneurial skills from
university, but you really
get those early in life.
There are ways of getting
people to think more
creatively. I was down to
a group in Buffalo, CPSI
(Creative Problem Solving
Institute). for a week, and
Civil Engineering -
A vanishing breed?
Hardly! A recent
issue of Business Week
(August 25, 1980) has
predicted that the early
eighties might be a period
when civil engineers will
in big demand. The US
Corp of Engineers - in a
rare move - has resorted
to nationwide advertising
in newspapers to find
engineers, mostly civil,
that it will need to oversee
large construction projects
and the salary competition
is getting frantic.(Business
Week's words, not mine!)
If the Federal Government
in Canada and Alberta
ever reconcile their
difficulties and we begin
the three energy mega
projects now under active
consideration the demand
for engineers of all
disciplines will obviously
soar. When this is
coupled with the decline
of student enrollment in
Civil that has occurred
over the past two years it
is obvious that Civils will
be in considerable
demand. Already in Aus-
tralia, studies indicate that
demand exceeds supply.
Right now at Waterloo
there is a ratio of 2: 1 for
co-op jobs:students in civil
and I have been receiving
pbone calls - and
from prospective
employers who want to
there are techniques and
tools that can be learned
and studied to help people
to think creatively, and
learn to use the skills
they're learning, rather
than just learning to get
through. So they can say,
"Hey! I'm learning some-
thing here, and now I can
find some relevance to it."
I mean, how relevant is
'Differential Equations' by
Speigal. You learn it, you
do it, you write an exam,
and boom, its gone. I
used to do orthogonal
trajectories 'till the cows
came home, but I couldn't
differentiate an equation
now, if my life depended
on it. It's not relevant
now. J can't eat it, or
drink it; it doesn't feed my
family, and I can't run a
with it.
thing that came out of it
was my discipline of doing
it, which is the same prob-
lem you have now, the
discipline of doing a job
and getting it done.
I.W.: Perhaps the
problem solving approach?
Werenko: Yea, so
maybe you can elaborate
more on the creative
aspects: Hey! I'm learn-
ing this but, there must be
some other skills that
come out of it. Now I'm
.
cover all bets. I don't re-
call this happening before.
It is my personal view
that this tremendous surge
in demands for engineer-
ing skills for large scale
projects could create a
very "perilous" age for so-
ciety if we are not careful.
Civil enginers, through
numerous public and
private construction
programs have dramatical-
ly altered the landscape.
Unfortunately, in many
projects, narrowly defined
objectives ' were pursued
with the result that this
practice has added to long
term debts for all of us,
particularly in the environ-
ment. Hopefully, we have
learned from past
mistakes. Much of the
burden of planning these
project and preparing the
environmental impact
statements fell to civil
enginers. In the future the
need to plan for the long
term effects of thQse
will be an even
more serious component
and much of this responsi-
bility will fall on the
engineer. Politicians may
look ahead four years, and
industrialists to the next
decade but dedicated
engineers who essentially
'have the responsibilitiy
serving all the people,
present and future, will
speaking as an en-
trepreneur, who hasn't
done much else, and I'm
seeing it from my own
eyes. There may' be other
people who say, " Hey, I
want engineering and
nothing else."
I.W.: Yes, there are
many people who come
out of school looking for
that. What would be a
typical problem you might
encounter during the
week. one you
encountered this week?
Werenko: A typical
problem? It might be that
the 'competition has come
out with a new product
that's cheaper than ours,
and we're losing a lot of
orders to it in England.
Or it might be an internal
problem. A key person
might get hired away.
Work's piling up. What
do you do? People
problems, management.
I.W.: . And university
4idn't prepare you for
that.
Werenko: Nothing! Noth-
ing that I did, at any rate.
You have to learn it.
That's different stuff.
Maybe if you took an
M.B.A. you might get
some exposure to manage-
ment. The facts are that
November 1980, Page 2
have an even greater role.
Too often, I feel, students
tend to forget that
engineering is to "serve the
public" and to do that
effectively means being
aware of societal needs
and goals.
At the risk of being
an alarmist, I feel that if
the engineering profession
is unsuccessful in develop-
ing a broader, longer-
term, society-oriented and
global perspective, the.
engineering works of to-
day may become only
artifacts for the desperate
scavengers of tomorrow.
On the other hand, the
civil engineering profes-
sion, more than any other
group, because of its
involvement with people,
could be one of the major
social - instruments to
prevent irreversible dam-
age. It is in these' areas
that J see tremendous
potential for civil
engineers.
W. C. Lennox
Chairman
Civil Engineering
Dept.
engineers, if they're going
to be worth their salt, or
unless they're going to get
locked into one category
and get their little pay
raises 'till they drop over
dead, have got to go into
management. Their just is
not any super advance-
ment in pure engineering.
You can only work eight
hours .a day, you can only
crank out so many circuits
or bridges or whatever
you're doing; you've got
to become a manager
some time, if you're really
going to exploit your
career professionally and
rise above the nuts and;
bolts of the job. And that
means you've got to get
some management skills;
and they don't even give
you a sniff.
I.W.: This company has
grown very fast; what
kinds of problems have
you encountered, and
what approach have you
taken to deal with them?
Werenko: Well,
everything's a problem.
problems of every type.
Something that you don't
expect that catches up
with you, is people
problems. When you start
out, there's ten to twenty
aeeWereDko
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IRON WARRIOR
Editorial
It's always interesting to chart the progress of a project
from it's inception to its fruition. Invariably the original
concept grows in a manner far different from what any of the
builders had originally intended. Ideas which look good in
theory, become unmanageable, or impractical; goals which
originally seemed congruent quickly grew divergent. But
most of all, the project shows it's builders very clearly where
their views differ from reality, and some very hasty re-
thinking is called for to keep the whole thing afloat.
I guess what I'm really saying is that this paper has turned
out far differently from what any of us had originally
envisioned. In a lot of ways it's good. It's expandedfrom what
initially were the wants of just a few people, into an attempt to
tackle the_needs of the total engineering department. We
won't even suggest that we've successfully 'done that here,
only that we've made a stab at it.
What are the needs of our engineeripg faculty? This has to
be the biggest question which the Iron Warrior staff has
addressed, and also the hardest one to find answers for. Many
of us saw the need to illuminate the concept of
professionalism as a number one priority. What makes
engineering different from a skilled trade? What gives us the
right to say engineering is a profession, but plumbing, or
carpentry or being an airline stewardess isn:t? We want to
address this question, and get some decent answers.

Recently, there has
been some concern voiced
over a possible radiation
hazard for the operators
of video display terminals.
Only a few issues ago, the
U.W. Gazette reported
that members of the
campus safety department
were carrying out tests to
determine if indeed there
is an increased level of ra-
diation in the vicinity of
these devices. Their re-
sults showed that none of
the models of video display
terminals in use on the
Waterloo campus posed a
health hazard.
As engineering
students, we have been,
and many of us continue
to be exposed to one type
of terminal in particular,
namely - Waterloo's In-
famous Device for Jan-
gling Engineering Tempers
(or WIDJET, for short).
Each WIDJET terminal is
connected to an
artificial life support sys-
tem in the bowels of the
Math & Computer build-
ing and is controlled by an
IBM (that is, Impossibly
Big Machines) 4331 com-
puter.
Although the WID-
JET terminals do not pose
a health hazard due to ra-
diation, they most
definitely do lead to seri-
ous health problems, both
physical and mental, in
students receiving
prolonged exposure. A
number diseases which oc-
cur frequently in the
engineering student
community can be traced
to extended periods of
WIDJET use. Some of
the most commonly
encountered illnesses are:
TERMINAL BACK
- (SPINA DISJOINTUS)
- A progressively debilitat-
ing disease whose
symptoms include a
perennially sore back and
stooped posture, it results
from protracted periods of
sitting in the un-
ergonomically designed
chairs which accompany
WIDJET terminals.
Although it may be
relieved slightly' by a term
in which no computer
course is included, it is
not totally curable (i.e.
your back will never be
the same again!).
C.R.T. EYEBALL -
(VISIO BLURREDUS) -
C.R.T, Eyeball is
characterized by a glazed
look in the sufferer's
bloodshot eyes, along with
an unusual pattern of con-
current up-and-down and
side-to-side eye
movements which result
from viewing too many
listings going by at a
higher baud rate than that
of the visual channel to
the brain. Sufferers report
that, instead of seeing
stars, cursors flash before
their eyes.
KEYBOARD
FINGERS - (DIGITUS
CALLOUSITUS) A
painful swelling of the
fingers, its most severe
form appears during "in-
put" mode. It rfJay affect
all ten digits or may be
localized to the two index
fingers in those students
who adopt a simpler typ-
ing style. The right-hand
pinkie is also especially
susceptible as a conse-
quence of having to press
"RETURN" every 6.5
seconds.
NUMBUM - (POS-
TERIORITUS
PARA LYSIS) - Although
this malady. is not
necessarily restricted to
students who utilize
WIDJET on a regular
basis, it is always observed
in conjunction with the
above mentioned diseases.
Students subjected to
prolonged WIDJET expo-
sure are also more
susceptible to developing
psychological problems.
This is especially true of
Systems Design Students,
who receive at least dou-
ble the normal exposure to
WIDJET terminals, and
by any student who takes
see WIDGET
page 6
November 1980, Page 3
But many other needs have also been brought to our
attention, like recognition. There are faculty members in our
school who are doing heavy research and development in
areas which can significantly shape the future of ourcountry.
There are students here who have completed work terms
which read like a success story from Fortune magazine. And
nobody hears a word about them. We want to address this
problem, too.
most of all, we want to expand the awareness of
undergraduate and graduate alike, to just whatis engineering
all about, anyway. Far too many of us have spent multiple
terms which consist of lectures, labs, exams and the
occasional party all jammed into a four month pressure
cooker, and we've never really taken the time to ask
ourselves, just what is the real purpose of all this, and just
how is it going to prepare me to tackle the other fifty years of
my life? Because it's our conviction that engineering is more
than just a package of technical skills which will get you a
good paying job; it has the potential of being a life philosophy
which can affect our approach to every situation in life.
It's almost guaranteed that we're missing the boat in a lot of
areas, and we request feedback from all our readers as to
what's needed in future issues. See the credit boxon page 2 for
the address.
And lastly, without any embarassment, we'd like to
acknowledge some people who have gone beyond the
expected, in helping us get the first issue out. Our Eng Soc
president, Jennifer Hilton, who was the sparkplug that got the
whole ball rolling; to Peter Schubert, who sold an idea to a lot
of advertisers; to Norm Kummer and Mark Staveley, our
computer whiz men; to the 2B EEclass which really produced,
and especially to Margaret Sanderson and the Imprint staff,
who showed the meaning of friendship.
Werenko
from page 2
people, and you're just a
happy core, and then it
becomes too much, as you
hire a couple managers,
and once you get 50, 60,
70, you begin to get all
development, and half
your R&D is in produc-
tion, sorting out
problems, . So you've ' got
production probl ems.
material shortages, people
problems; you know
you've got to put your
corporate structure into
place to deal with that.
And you've got to hire
key people.
these personalities, and I.W.: Do you sec the co-
you get into, like the op as having a
office scuttlebutt, and part.icular place in the sys-
dissension, and you can't tem?
avoid those. Suddenly, Werenko: Yes it's excel-
you've got a problem in a lent, it's the way it should
department and it's got be..
nothing to do with the I.W.: Do you find it helps
company or the project, to develop professional
it's just friction among people?
people. And it's killing Werenko: No doubt about
your profit, and it, Waterloo grads are su-
your product, and kllhng perior.
a prospective employee?
Werenko: There's real-
ly no magic in it. You've
got to have a feel that the
person does the lob that
needs to be done. These
are the requirements, what
have you got to show that
you can get the job done?
J.W.: So you 10Qk
pllrtially for academic
rcqlll remenlR, ex rcrience, .
Wcrenko: l:xperience is
vcry important. If the guy
hus displayed 1hal he's got
it; for Instance, if he hlld a
home computer, dabbled
in it on the side, belongs
to two or three clubs, or
taught a course part-time.
it is usually an indication
that he's motivated to do
the job, because that's his
interest. At least he's a
better candidate for it.
your support, I. W.: Do
these people can t towards that
along. Now you've got to h' ?
you look J.W.: What do you ex-
when you pect from your co-op
. d d I . h h' Ire.
go In an ea Wit tiS. ,
And you've got to have Werenko: No,. we don t go
some skills because an by that. We hire on based
entrepreneu; tends to go on. a capabil,ity of
in and kick everybody in do 109 the Job avaIlable,
the ass, and tell them to Whether h.e's an
get back to work but it or not IS usually Ir-
doesn't work, 'because relevent. If he came
some people will quit or a .whlz
get de-motivated. kid, we d hIre If he
Or you have the could do, all the thlOgs we
problem where you've got hIm to do. In .cer-
a real neat product, sales tam a degree IS ,a
are growing, you're mak- prerequl.slte; we t
ing a bit of money and go hunting the
boom, the competition colI.eges an electrontc
comes out with something deSign engineer, but that
fl
. doesn't prevent us from
cheaper, better, ashler, a h" f d
bett d
t 'b t' ITIng someone rom own
er IS TI U Ion. d'f h '
They've grabbed a bunch the lad er I e s got the
of your orders, and you talent.
realize you've got to have I.W.: What sort of
new products, new things do you look for in
students?
Werenko: Well, we
don't hire them as cheap
labour, but neither do we
hire them as charity cases.
We expect a fair shake
both ways. Also there's
the possibility of him go-
ing with the company. By
the time he comes aboard,
he knows the people,
knows the system, he can
be an asset. Usually we
give our co-ops projects.
If he handles it we'll give
him more responsibility.
It's as simple as that.
II
END
IRON WARRIOR
Work term away!
As most engineering
students go through the
cattle auction of employer
interviews and analyze the
money,location,and the
work,they remain unaware
of an employment
opportunity which can
offer them a very special
work term.The interview
' procedure is a valuable
experience and should be
appreciated by all who
participate,especially those
on the receiving end.Still
it is not all that Needles
Hall has to offer.
I'm refering to the
I.A.E.S.T.A.which is an
organization that will ar-
range a work term for
students in one of almost
60 countries.The pro-
cedure costs around $40
and in terms of experience
is money well spent.
The pay doesn't com-
pare with Canadian work
terms but the subsidy is
enough so that you should
break even. The location
is another country and
should therefore be
intriguing,especially if
you've never been there
before.Finally,the work is
usually quite comparable
to the work in Canada ex-
cept for the climatic
conditions.
1 spent four months
with the
Paul tenz
Telecommunications or and often checked to
Department of the reassure myself that this
Deutsches Budes Post. It was so.
was great! I was able to Besides the non-
see many tower antenna tourist view that one gets
installation sites and work of the people and their
with people whose ideas society,you get the
about work,life,Canada opportunity to travel
and many other things around the area and visit
were different than the tourist areas. On a
mine.Some of these ideas Friday night you could go
included; the majority of half way across Europe
Canadians were and stay there for a Satur-
lumberjacks, cowboys,or day. This arrangement
mounties, and that Iceland allows you to visit several
is warmer than Canada. different countries and de-
Although I had to differ cide where you're going to
with them on these spend the last three weeks
points,I did agree that of the workterm, such as
their beer is by far superi- skiing in Switzerland.
Career opportunities
Hewlett-Packard, renowned for high
quality and innovative techno1ogy is .
offering you more than a job. Have you
considered a career with a company that
believes and practises a "people-oriented"
management philosophy, dedicated to the
recognition and rewarding of "individual
achievement',?
Hewlett -Packard is just such a
company and we are interested in talking
to you about your future.
Our continued success and expansion
in computer systems and instrumentation
sales has necessitated the creation of
additional employment opportunities in
both areas.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
We will be on campus for graduate interviews in
November 1980 and
January 1981.
For additional information please contact:
Personner Department
Hewlett-PacK.ard (Canada) Ltd.
6877 Goreway Drive
'Afississ uagua , Onto
tel. (4'16) 678-9430
Flin- HEWLETT
PACKARD
Destiny
from page t
interested in the optimum
. .solution to a problem,but '
rather in one which
provides a substantial
profit increase relative to
last year,or to some other
standard.
The firm is qUIte nght
since in most practical
situations optimization is
incompatible with optim-
ization. That's right. Un-
less you are working on -a
purely academic problem
or are solving the global
problem of all
problems,You should
certainly shift your efforts
to the next problem before
you reach the optimum if
you are to maximize (op-
Some of the benefits
of the job included free
telephone anywhere in the
world; a service which my
girlfriend and I appreciat-
ed. Also, as I was moved
from site to site, the su-
pervisor would often take
the afternoon off and
show me around the area.
My workterms in
Canada were excellent but
the experience of working
overseas is one I will nev-
er forget. I should also
add that it looks good on
any future resume's you
may write.
Paul Lenz
timize) your own output
or value to the firm.
. For instance, a firm
may have too much mo-
ney tied up in
inventory.Concentrating a
little effort on only the
most expensive items may
lead to a significant reduc-
tion in inventory
costs.Further reductions
involving less expensive
items usually require
much more effort.Saving
the last few dollars in the
quest for an optimum
inventory strategy will
likely require so much
effort that it will pay to
shift that effort instead to
a new problem.To optim-
ize its long run profit, the
firm must suboptimize on
individual problems in the
short run.
Just as the firm's
apparently suboptimal
performance on a single
venture leads to long run
success, so the comprom-
ise I'm suggesting will
eventually lead to the
desired reputation. More
important, you can enjoy
the trip. Here's how. You
simply become aware of
the fact that jobs are
flexible. You are hired for
a specific task, say design
draughts man in an
engineering firm, but you
are interested in the ' com-
puter field. You simply
keep your eyes and ears
open and when a comput-
er related task appears
you show your interes,
November 1980. Page 4
.offering to help. No need
to pretend you're an ex-
pert, This is just another
learning step in the
development of your repu-
tation, and you don't want
that to Qe of a know-it-all.
Maybe you won't be lucky
the first time and maybe
you'll have to put in some
unofficial hours, but most
employers eventually
recognize the benefit of
using an employee in his
area of enthusiasm. The
secret is to take many
small steps instead of a ri-
sky leap, aiming each one
in the direction you want
to go. A valuable side
benefit of this approach is
that you can continuously
alter your ultimate goal in
the face of our ever more
,rapidly changing world.
I've done it. I've
tackled jobs ranging from
indoor desk jobs in the
city to outdoor jobs in the
Yukon, from industrial
management and military
consulting to university
teaching and research,
from the design of under-
ground sewers to the
simulation of sateUites in
space. Have I achieved the
reputation r want? Well,
not yet. My goal . keeps
changing; but I can
honestly say I can't think
of A single job I haven't
enjoyed in the past 25
years. More important,
I'm eagerly looking for-
ward to the next. 25.
M. cri b'n
... we have extensive Research, Development and Engineering
career opportunities for graduates who want hands-on experience
and job satisfaction in a company that constantly encourages
technological creativity.
At Fiberglas we give you the opportunity, challenge and
responsibility to influence our future and direction.
It's young people like you who are making a significant contribution
to our company's future. For instance, developing and bringing to
the home building industry a new and highly successful insulation
product, or deSigning and building new processing and
manufacturing facilities or meeting the challenge of working on
advanced technological developments in textile reinforcement and
chemical products.
Maybe your ideas too can influence our future and direction.
Talk to our recruiters when they visit your campus.
Or write to: Employ .. Reletlons
FIBERGLAS CANADA INC.,
Corporat. Division,
Box 300s, Semle, Ontario N7T 7MI
FIBERGLAS
CANADA
\
IRON WARRIOR November 1980, Page 5
Focus on Technology
CODlputer Communications
- Net-work Group
Research in the field
of digital communications
and computer networks is
currently being undertaken
by the Computer
Communications Network
Group (CCNG) at the
University of Waterloo.
Not to be confused with
Bell Ca nada' s CCG,
CCNG is located on the
second floor of the Carl
A. Pollock Hall. Formed
in 1972 in response to the
federal government's
desire for a Canadian
research centre for com-
puter network studies, it
was initially funded by
grants from the National
Research Council.
Currently the majority of
its revenue is obtained
from contracts with
. government agencies and
private industries.
The Group, consisting
of fourteen faculty
members and six
programmer/designers, is
associated with both the
departments of Electrical
Engineering and Comput-
rice. A well,
approximately IS graduate
students also make exten-
sive use of the facilities.
The Group maintains
close ties with industry
through a program known
as Affiliates of CCNG.
An anniJal membership
fee entitles the affiliated
c'ompanies to receive
numerous reports and
thesis' published by
CCNG. Other benefits in-
clude participation in an
annual general meeting
and a biannual series of
intensive
Affiliates
seminars.
include Bell
Northern Research, Digi-
tal Equipment Corpora-
tion, Honeywell and
I.B.M.
'The Computer
Communications Network
Group has developed ex-
pertise in a number of
areas. These include
switched data networks,
network software
problems, network perfor-
mance measurements, net-
work protocols and
jnterfacing, and distribut-
ed processing. Perhaps the
best way to gain an appre-
_ ciation of CCNG's
capabilities is to look at
some of the projects in
which they have been
involved.
One contract, with
the Federal Department of
Communications. is relat-
ed to the Telidon project.
Telidon is a Canadian ver-,
sion of the' much
publicized interactive 'in-
formation systems which
are expected to become an
integral part of the future
home environment.
CCNG is involved in this
project on an ongoing
basis at both the hardware
and software levels.
One aspect of this
contract was to determine
an appropriate network
architecture for Te\idon,
for example, how many
computers are required
and in what manner
should they be connected
to Telidon terminals.
CCNG is creating a net-
work simulation software
package which can evalu-
ate the performance of
proposed hardware
In a system, and the
protocols they use. plus
details concerning which
computers have access to
specific peripheral units.
Although in practice, it
has been found that minor
program modifications are
sometimes required to
model the
unique features of a given
network, CCNG's simula-
tion package does provide
a basis for modelling any
computer network. The
software also incorporates
CCNG's expertise in
evaluation network perfor
mance.
In addition to con-
tract work, the Group is
also involved in 'strategic
research' in areas which it
arrangements,
Steps are also being feels are important. At
taken to improve Telidon present, two such projects
software. Originally Teli- are underway, both funded
don simply used the file by Natural Science and
structure of a standard Engineeril,lg Council
operating system to create (NSERC) grants from the
its database. Considera- National Research Coun-
tion is being given to more cil of Canada (NRC). ,
efficient storage and ac- CCNG is using one
cess methods of these grants for
CCNG Iso research in the field of 10-
evaluating the data re- cal area computer
procedures. At networks, These are
present, a user gains ac- networks consisting of
cess to desired informa- computers and terminals
tion using a tree structure that are not usually in the
of Telidon pages. An ini- same room. but, are all
tial selection is made from located wi\hin about a one
kilometer radius. A ma-
a general topical index,
jpr feature of local area
then the displayed pages networks is that data
progressively become transmission rates of up to
more specific each time
the user selects one of the 10 Megabytes per second
subtopics. While this can be obtained. This
method is easily under- makes possible image
stood by new users, processing and other
additional features could applications requiring high
communication
be added that would per- bandwidths.
mit an experienced user to The study of local
obtain information from a area computer networks
variety of categories is an integral part of one
without necessitating a of CCNG's long term
tedious selJuence of 'menu' research interests _ office
selections. automation. Present office
Telidon is only one
example of a CCNG con-
tract project. Like Teli-
don, many of the others
involve recommendations
on the network architec-
ture best suited for the
client's applications. This
would also include objec-
tive opinions concerning
purchase of equipment
and the growth of the
client's network.
These analyses are
frequently assisted by a
CCNG-developed software
package capable of
simulating the operation
and performance of
multi-computer networks.
The program must be
supplied with data outlin-
ing the features of the net-
work under study, such as
the number of computers
automation concepts en-
vision small desktop
computers capable of
providing text editing and
other basic computing
functions on a stand alone
basis. A number of these
computers would , be
interlinked in a local are
network to facilitate high
speed communication
among used. Additional,
computing power could be
provided by a larger com-
puter attached to the net-
work.
Other SUbtopics relat-
ed to both local area com-
puter networks and office
automation are also under
study. Work is being
done on the onstruction
of interfacing hardware
for local area computer
networks. Several data
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Distributed computer network
multiplexing techniques
are being analyzed in an
attempt to increase the
effective use of the net-
work communication link.
Protocol is an area of par-
ticular interest to Vic
Dileiccio, CCNG's con-
tract manager. These are
the software conventions
which facilitate network
communication and pro-
vide error detection and
correction. CCNO expects
to be active in local area
computer network
research for the next
several years.
The other NSERC
grant will be used for
research on distributed
processi ng. hIS refers to
networks of computers
which can co-operatively
execute a task, perhaps
exploiting its parallelism.
CCNG already has somc
experience with distributed
processing and hope to
create a new distributed
processing testbed facility.
The Group's initial
plans are to use an LSI
11/45 minicomputer and
ten interconnected LSI
11/23 microcomputers.
The minicomputer would
initiate the execution se-
quence by assigning
portions of a task to each
microcomputer. During
concurrent execution the
microcomputer exchange
messages which synchron-
ize their inputs and
outputs. As the
microcomputers complete
their assignments, the
results are collected by the
minicomputer.
The amount oT com-
munication possible
amollB t e computers will
have a significant impact
on the effectiveness of the
distributed system. The
simpliest communication
schemcl which CC'NG hilS
adoptea, uses time
division IllU Itlplexing
(TOM) on u common data
bus. This mcans that each
There is a difference!
This article
print from a
Enginews.
is a re- numerous roles of the
'B' Soc engineer. The difference
lies in the environments
You bet there is-and
more than you think.
Whoever said "it's a man's
world" was right in tune
with this .society's business
and industrial
environments, the places
women like us are headed
for.
But the aim of this
article is not to complain
about any unfair treat-
ment towards career wom-
en; nor is it to claim that
women engineers are
exactly the' same as our
male counterparts and
therefore deserve identical
treatment. Rather, the
focus here is on what we,
as future leaders in
technology and manage-
ment, can do for ourselves
to help better fit into that
"man's world."
It's not to say that
we grow up in - we are
trained to think and
behave in a way that is
different from men. Not
better or worse, just
different. Because,
traditionally, women have
taken on different roles
from men, thus needing
different skills. But times
are changing, and women
like us are forming career
aspirations equivalent to
or greater than those of
our male peers. So, if we
want to make it into the
higher ranks of the career
of our individual
aspirations - whether it be
head researcher, project
manager. or member of
the corporate executive
suite - we ought to take
some time and effort to
learn a few things now,
before we graduate.
men are smarter, nor Perhaps one of the
more physically capable of most important issues rae-
filling one of the ing a career woman,
computer would be
permitted to transfer data,
only during a specific time
slot within each bus cycle.
The computers would be
able to comply with this
protocol with a minimum
of additional software.
Despite its ease of
implementation, however,
TDM does not always
provide for optimum use
of the data bus. For exam-
ple, -execution on some
computers could be
slowed down as they wait
to transfer large quantities
of data, This would occur
even if the time slots
allocated to other
computers remain unused.
up wil in i
other methods that would
. alleviate this problem
although it is expected
that they will require
hardware
cmnplexity lind more
soft ware overh 'Id.
SeeCCNG
page 1
particulurly in engineer-
109, is how she denls with
her femininity. A woman
who comes across as too
feminitle (not tough
enough. over-emotional,
too hesitant, not enough
of an initiator) will have
difficulty competing with
male peers in business or
industry. On the other
hand, a woman who tries
to be masculine in all her
behaviour (hard, tough,
aggressive, unfeminine)
may be just as likely not
to succeed. Dealing with
femininity, both in your
image and within yourself,
involves knowing and
managing your feelings
about yourself as a wom-
an in a traditionally
masculine role. A careful
balance must be struck
between femininity and
the desirable masculine
traits, such as assertive-
ness, initiative, and de-
cision making abilities.
This balance must be
made to match the image
you want to convey to
other people (bosses,
peers. and subordinates),
See difference
page 7
IRON WARRIOR
November 1980, Page 6
What's happening in co-op
CO-OP
ARTS?!
APPLIED
Beginning this fall the
Co-op Applied Arts pro-
gram complemented all of
University of Waterloo's
faculties with Co-operative
Education. This year,
about 100 students are
registered in the initial
year of Co-op Applied
Arts program. However,
this is not just 'another'
artsie program on campus.
In fact it is a comprehen-
sive program with four
excluding the
obvIous a of be-
109 part 0/ leadmg
co-operative University in
Canada. The objectives
are to ensure the
participants are;
(i) capabIe- of clear
oral and written communi-
cation in English.
(ii) familiar with the
history and political
institutions of Canada.
(iii) familiar with the
economic structure and
institutions of Canada.
(iv) aware of the im-
pact of Science and
technology on the
Canadian Society and the
role of computers and
data processing.
The list of mandatory
courses and electives range
from Programming
Pri nciples, Business
French, Economics, Intro-
duction to Production
Management to Canadian
History, Industrial
psychology and Political
journalism.
In addition to the
above, students will be
allowed to major in a field
of interest such as
psychology, history, politi-
cal science etc.
Where do these
students fit in? The pro-
gram will allow successful
graduates to fill part of
the void of nontechnical
positions in business such
as marketing, branch ad-
ministration, data process-
ing, etc.
An interesting note
from the Oct. 80 issue of
Co-ord i news:
"Another employer
(Resource technology)
foresees a severe shortage
of engineers. To help over-
come this problem the
company plans to hire an
Applied Arts student and
rotate the student through
various departments to
provide exposure to the
organization. Upon gra-
duation, the student will
fill a nontechnical (admin-
istrative) position, current-
ly occupied by an
engineer, in order to
release the engineer to
help fill the expected shor-
tage within the company".
With an entrance
average of about 80, these
students in Co-op Applied
Arts will bring a
completely new perspec-
tive to the 'artsie' at
Waterloo both on campus
and on work term. There
is no 9,0ubt that Waterloo
is pro(Jucing some of the
finest undergraduates and
attracting some of the best
students in Ontario and
Canada. So a , word of
caution, if you fail
'engineering you may not
be able to switch to Arts
(at least at Waterloo), so
try Recreation!
STEVE YIP
THE CO-ORDINATOR
Beca use of the gen-
eral mysticism which
surrounds the person
known as your co-
ordinator, the Iron Warri-
or wishes to clear the
haze somewhat, and give.
a brief report on the
comings, but mostly
goings, of your seldom
seen friend.
FIRST MONTH
The first two weeks
are spent on campus 10
interviews and finding jobs
for students who may have
lucked out in the previous
term. The last half of the
month will be spent
rounding up jobs for the
Want-Ads and the on go-
ing meeting of students on
their job sites. A general
guide which co-ordinators
follow in going to students
'on the job' is as follows:
I )Emergency calls
that come from either the
employer or student about
jobs which are not work-
WHAT IS S.A.C.?
S.A.C. is the Student
Advisory Council to the
Department of Coordina-
tion and Placement. The
group consists of about 15
co-op students from all
faculties, who meet six to
eight times each term to
advise the Department on
student/ coordination
issues. This' is a two-way
communication in that the
council members discuss
both student-raised
ing out. concerns and matters put
2)Seeing how jobs before them by Co-ordin-
are going with first time c ation. is not a
employers and first time personal gnevance com-
student employees. mittee. It is concerned
3)Seeing as many' with the trends of student
students as they can. opinion and the
SECOND MONTH effectiveness of the coordi-
The
spent
second
on the
interviewing and
month
road
job
searching for the coming
want ads.
THIRD MONTH
Interviews on campus
and job sign-ups last
about 3 weeks. The rest
of the time is spent in their
districts.
FOURTH MONTH
The last month of the
term is spent on the
job, looking for prospec-
tive employers and finding
jobs for unplaced
I n general co-
ordinators do not have a
high profile job, but with
about 3000 engineers to
place this year and 12
engineering co-ordinators,
they are essential to the
program.
FAMOUS QUOTES
I'd rather have a bot-
tle in front of me than a
frontal lobotomy.
CHUCK WILLIAMSON
nation mechanism.
WHAT HAS S.A.C.
DONE?
Many of the advice
items discussed by S.A.c.
both past and present have
been acted on by Coordi-
nation to improve the sys-
tem.
I - Want Ads
- proposed by S.A.C. as
an alternative to direct
sign-up for jobs.
2 - Ranking System -
S.A.C. discussed the
advantages of multiple
ranking and educated
students about the new
system.
I n response to a gen-
eral student and employer
WIDGET
from page 3
CS electives. The IN-
TENSE FRUSTRATION
COMPLEX is the most
commonly noted
psychological problem
attributed to WIDJET
usage.
The INTENSE FRUS-
Sorry, Chuck; we TRATION COMPLEX is
can't always have our own a combination of two
way. related emotional
Faculty of .Business McMaster University
Our unique programme offers FULL-TIME, PART-TIME, and
WORK STUDY (CO-OP) OPTIONS.
A Mast.er of Business Administration student can
special i zoe in:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS.
FINANCE,
MARKETING,
SCIENCE,
ACCOUNTING,
concern, S.A.C. advised
Coordination that the
ranking system be further
modified to allow only one
first choice.
3 - Job Postings in
EL - moved the Coordina-
tion boards originally in
the Engineering Lecture
Hall proper, to the more
accessible tunnel wall.
4 - Weekend Inter-
view Schedule - Monday's
interview schedule is now
available at the C.c. turn-
key desk on the weekend.
As well, S.A.C. has
an on-going questionaire
program to maintain con-
tact with the over-all stu-
dent opinion, as it may
change from term to term.
The engineering
are as
THE FOUR AGES OF
THE ENGINEER
The following is an
article reproduced from
the September, 1967 issue
of the Professional
Engineer and Engineering
Digest.
For many engineers,
technical obsolescence
begins the day they pick
up their diplomas, says
Dr. George A. Hawkins,
Dean of Purdue
University's engineering
school.
"These engineers have
somehow failed to learn
that education is a life-
long self imposed discip-
line. Eventually they'll
blame the universities for
their education
shortcomings."
represen ta t i ves
follows:
Jon Brpwn
MECH
3B Hawkins, who is also
director of the
undergraduate phase of
John Speers
MECH
Bruce
3B MECH
Stephen
MECH
McCulloch
3B the goals of engineering
education study, divides
the educational needs of
an engineer into four
chronological periods as
based on their own
complaints about college
curricula.
Yip
Reg Barrett
MECH
2A
2A
If you have any
questions about S.A.C. or
if you are aware of a gen-
eral student concern with
respect to Coordination,
leave us a note in the
S.A.C. mailbox in the
Eng. Soc. office.
J. Brown 884-0751
disurbances. The first of
these is QUEUEPOSJ-
TIONTHIR-
TYSEVENJ A. Tbis is
generally experienced on
nights when there is a "full
room" (that is, when
students in all five
engineering disciplines,
not to mention Mathies,
have an assignment due
the next morning) and the
student finds himself in
queue position 37 just to
get into the run queue (of
According to
Hawkins, between one and
five years after graduation,
an engineer wishes that his
study program had
See Four Ages
page 7
length 40). The SYNTAX
ERROR SYNDROME is
a . complication which
often accompanies the
above illness .. It usually
manifests itself about half
an hour after the onset of
QUEUEPOSI-
TIONTHIRTYSEVENIA
when the run is finally
completed, and the miss-
ing comma is discovered.
AlEE!!
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IRON WARRIOR
Four Ages
from page 6
contained more practical
courses, "1 could have
then begun immediately to
solve industry's daY-lo-day
engineering problems," he
says in looking back.
The recent graduate,
Hawkins explains, is im-
pat ient because he cannot
cope with practical
problems as easily as does
the older engineer.
Between five to fifteen
years after graduation, the
CCNG
from page 5
A significant portion
of this project is to create
an operating system and
other programs for execu-
tion on a distributed sys-
tem. This software is
required to establish a co-
operative means for the
execution of sub-tasks,
known as processes, in in-
dividual computers. Also
under investigation are
algorithms by which
processes can be assigned
, to the available computers
which result in optimal
use of the entire system.
working engineer
complains: "I should have
had more mathematics.
physics, chemistry, and
engineering science. I need
this background for solv-
ing difficult contemporary
problems in engineering."
This young engineer has
not kept up, Hawkins
notes, and is annoyed with
his formal education on
discovering that he is
short on new theoretical
knowledge.
Between [2 to 25
years after graduation, the
engineer voices a need for
more courses in manage-
ment and administration.
"1 need skills in public
speaking, writing, labour
relations, finance and
budget control." Now that
our maturing engineer has
advanced into supervision
or management, Hawkins
says, he is learning that
technical competence is no
guarantee of success in
personal and administra-
tive matters.
Difference
from page 5
Twenty-five years
after graduation and
beyond, the engineer
reflect: - A greater
number of college courses
should have been devoted
to the fine arts. music,
literature, and the drama.
I feel deficient in these
areas when talking with
contempoaries." Now that
he is approaching retire-
ment and full time leisure,
Hawkins observes, our ful-
ly matured engineer feels
uneasy of his neglect of
cultural pursuits.
According to Dean
Hawkins, "These are the
four stages of the 'working
engineer, and each
requires a specialized body
of knowledge and skills.
Certainly, the engineering
school cannot prepare its
graduates for every techni-
cal and social situation
they are likely to
encounter during forty to
fifty years as working
engineers.
the opposite sex. They
recognized the challenge,
and went after it.
as well as your own self- Other issues a women
image. engineer has to come to
Another issue that grips with might include:
deserves careful co.nsidera- establishing her abilities
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can be developed. discrimination may be the handling sexual advances
Considerable effort can be best solution, although from colleagues. These
spent on developi ng the sometimes it is impossible type of things are poten-
programs, protocols and to do so. The most impor- tial problems, but need
interfacing hardware that tant thing is not to let not be. If time and energy
are required to realize .male chauvinism become a are spent, especially now,
these objectives. psychological road-block before graduation, you
As we have seen,
interests and activities at
CCNG range' from operat-
ing systems and
applications issues to the
design and implementa-
tion of network
communications hardware,
with a lot of ground in
between,
Those of you whose
'nterest has been stimulat-
ed might like to know that
CCNG occasionally hires
co-op students. They
would also like to en-
courage Waterloo students
who may feel inclined to
do graduate work in the
areas of communication
networks or distributed
processing. In addition, a
few Waterloo engineering
graduates have even
managed to secure
employment with CCNG
as hardware designeTs.
to your growth. Amuse- can develop these attitudes
ment is the best reaction and skills that will help
every time you're mistak- you deal with these issues
en for a secretary. successfully. There are
The first step involves many excellent books
recognizing what types of written on the subject, a
behaviour women tend to few of which are listed
have which might hold us below. And what better
back from our goals. A way is there to develop
prominent study was done and practise these skills on
by Harvard, which delved a Co-op job?
into the childhood and Something you can
adolescent deve.lopment of think about anyway. Be-
success-oriented women. It cause, from certain points
revealed that very similar of view, there really is a
patterns of behaviour difference.
brought success to the
women in the top levels of
corporate America. All
the successful women
studied had learned to
deal with issues and
problems that resulted
from their being female,
in ways that are not
traditionally characteristic
of women. They had also
learned to deal with their
own feelings related to
Jenny Thiers
"The Managerial Woman"
by . Dr. M. Henning and
Dr. A. Jardim
"The New Executive
Woman" by Marcilie Gray
Williams
I nterested persons these issues.
should contact Glen ' They had developed
"Think Like A Man, Act
Like A Lady, Work Like
A Dog" by Derek A.
Newton
Parsons or Vic DiJeiccio personal skills essential to
at their office in CPH their success in a male-
2369B. oriented world. And, they
did all this without
feelings of -I'm
discriminated against"
STEVE SPENLER bitterness or a hatred for
"Games Mother Never
Taught ' You" by Betty L.
Harragan
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UNIVERSI'I'Y RESIDENCES
ROOMS FOR RENT
WINTER TERM 1981
Village accommod'ation will be a'(ailable for the Winter term com-
mencing January 5. The Residence fees includins meals will be single.
(if available) $991.00 Inter-connecting $962.00 and doubles $921.00 for
the term. .
Students wishing to apply for this accommodation may obtain
Residence Application Fol'Dl6 from the Housing Office. which is located
in Village 1, or write to:
University of Waterloo HouinS office
University of Waterloo
Waterloo. Ontario N2L 3Gt
SPRING TERM 1981
Villase t sins1e rooms are now renting for the Sprins term. Please
inquire at Houling Office. Villase 1 or phone or local 3105.
RON WARRIOR
November 1980, Page 8
Society Reports
STUDENT DEVELOPMENT
COMMITTEE
The Academic Heirarchy
EEE
All I EEE branches
articipate in a papers
contest during March-
Since we won't be
here then, this IEEE
branch is having a contest
now to get papers to enter
in March. The prize for
winning this term is a
plaque, but if the paper
wins in March, the prize
could be as high as $300
(first place).
. Our branch is about
to order a micro-computer
for general IEEE member
use. If you are interested,
put a message under the
door of E2-2339 and your
name will be added to an
"interested" list.
I f you want to be-
come a member of the
IEEE, you can pick up an
application form from
your class IEEE rep, or
pick one up from the EE
Reading Room. The cost
of membership is $l2 US
per year, and for that you
receive Spectrum. You
also get access to other
IEEE publications at
subsidized rates. Slip your
application under the E2-
2339 door with the cheque
and we will authorize it
and send it in .
We need executive to
..help get things done.
Leave your name and
mtentions on a note and
put it it in the IEEE mail-
box in the EE Reading
Room, or slip it under
E2-2339 door.
GESTRA'S LAW OF
INERTIA: Given
sufficient time, what you
put off doing today will
eventually get done by it-
self.
CSCE GROWS FAST
The civil engineering
students at Waterloo have
recently formed a new stu-
dent chapter for the
Canadian Society for Civil
Engineers. The benefits of
this student chapter great-
ly outweigh the minimal
$18.00 cost for joining.
Benefits, such as receiving
the "Engineering Journal",
published by the Engineer-
ing Institute of Canada;
receiving the "Canadian
Journal of Civil Engineer-
ing", published by the
National Research Coun-
cil of Canada; an
opportunity to meet and
associate with senior
members in civil engineer-
ing; and the list goes.
The group of students
organizing the activities
!ire highly optimistic and
hope to present a varied
agenda this term to spark
the interest in their fellow
classmates. Greig Gar-
land, the acting chairman
this term, commented "the
response, interest, and
enthusiasm of the new
members and the students
planning this term is
remarkable. From a
projected initial response
of 20 students, the
membership file has
swelled to 70 applicants.
Part of the success is due
'to the interest of the
Faculty and staff of Civil
Engineering. Everyone is
very supportive to the
idea and help in any way
they can". Comments Gar-
land, "We've got the ball
rolling now, it's up to us
to keep the interest high.
With the response and
help of the students
involved, I see no problem
in continuing the student
chapter for many terms to
come.
Compliments of ...
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Engineers are more
than just technicians.To
practice Engineering one
must do more than the job
for the job's sake; and the
training needed to become
a good engineer does not
come only from text-
books. Studen'l engin-
eers must develop ex-
tra skills outside ' tOe
classroom .The Engineer-
ing Society's Student
Development Committee
was formed with the ex-
press purpose of helping
students develop these
skills.
The
formed
students
committee was
by interested
from both
Engineering Societies
following the presentation
of two papers (1,2) at the
1980 Congress of
Canadian Engineering
Students.The ideas
expressed in these papers
inspired the three pro-
grams being developed
by the committee today.
These programs are:
I) "The, engineer's
Guide to Learning
Objectives"
2) The Class-
Professor Hour
3) The promotion
of professional awareness
and career plan-
ning through other means.
"The Engineer's
Guide to Learning
Objectives" IS a supple-
ment to Co-ordinations
"Learning Objectives"
booklet.The two booklets
are combined In the new
Learning Objectives
program.This program
encourages students to
continue the learning
experience while on :.vork
term and thus get more
out of their jobs. Th A PRESIDENT
engineering Society Leaps tall buildings in a
supplement deals with the single bound. is more
aspects of the work term powerful than a locomo-
experience applicable to live, is faster than a speed-
Engineers,including Non- ing bullet, walks on water,
textbook gives policy to God.
Engineering,Professionalism
& Career Planning.First A HEAD OF DEPART-
year Engineering students MENT
will begin this program in
January.
Leaps short buildings in a
single bound, is more
powerful than a shunting
engine, is just as fast as a
speeding bullet , walks on
water if sea is calm, talks
with God.
The Class - Professor
Hour is a time allotted by
most departments to allow
students to speak with a
faculty member about
problems etc.However,this
hour gives us an
opportunity to do more by A PROFESSOR
providing students with a
lot- of information about
Engineering and by ' help-
ing them prepare for
thei r careers.The Depart-
ment of Civil Engineering
has taken the lead in
showing what can be done
with this hour by schedul-
ing a full slate of
activit ies,from discussing
technical options to
conducting a mock disci-
plinary hearing.The Stu-
dent Development Com-
mittee is working with the
other departments in
augmenting existing c1ass-
professor hours or design-
ing entire new packages.
The fi nal project
pre entl bei" developed
involves the
promotion of professional
awareness and career
planning.This can be done
In a number of ways
including informational
booklets,seminars, and
ad campaigns.The first
item being prepared is a
booklet describing the
opportunities for develop-
ment at Waterloo outside
the Engineering curricu-
lum.
Leaps short buildings with
a running start and favor-
able winds, is almost as
powerful as a shunting en-
gine, is faster than a
speeding bullet, walks on
water in an indoor swim-
ming pool, talks with God
if special request is
approved.
AN ASSOCIATE PRO-
FESSOR
Barely clears a
prefa bricated hut, loses a
tug of war with locomo-
tive, can fire a speeding
bullet , !<wims well, is
occasionally addressed by
God.
New projects will be
tackled as they come
along.studen ts and faculty
members having ideas
should contact the ap-
propriate committee
chairman.For EngSoc 'A',
on campus now,the chair-
man is Donald Heath; and
for EngSoc 'B',returning
in January, the chairman
is Jenny Thiers.
A ASSISTANT PRO-
FESSOR
Makes high marks on the
wall when trying to clear
tall buildi ng , is run over
by locomotive. can
sometimes handle a gun
without injuring himself,
dog paddles, talks to
beasts.
A GRADUATE STU-
DENT
Runs into buildings,
recognizes locomotives
two times out of three, is
not issued ammuOitlOn
can stay afloat with a
jacket, talks to walls.
AN UNDERGRADU-
ATE
Falls over doorstep when
trying to enter buildings,
says look at the choo-
choo, wets himself with a
water pistol, plays in mud
puddles, mumbles to him-
self.
A. DEPARTMENTAL
SECRETARY
Lifts buildi ngs and walks
under them, kicks
locomotives off the tracks,
catches speeding bullets in
teeth and eats them,
freezes water with a single
glance, she is GOD.
THE 90-90 RULE OF
PROJECT SCHEDULr
ING: The first 90 percent
of a task consumes 90 per-
cent of the time allotted;
the last 10 percent
consumes the other 90
percent.
MORANDA
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Opportunities
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