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Latest technology provides new classes By Michael Pauciello Assistant News Editor Imagine sitting in class as the television screen in front of you shows a teacher 300 miles away who is talking too fast for you to comp rehend. Before you fall too far behind, you open your mouth to ask him to slow down and a camera tur^ to you so that teacher ca^ see who is as^g the question. He slows dovm and you are back on track. In the near future, UNCA students will have the oppor- timity to audit graduate level courses in computer science taught at Duke, Chapel Hill and North Carolina State while remaining on the UNCA campus, according to Dr. Wayne »‘Lang, chairman of UNCA’s computer science dqiartment. By fall semester 1988, UNCA will offer such classes to students, faculty and other members of the com munity through a $5.7 million microwave link to the Micro electronics Center of North Carolina, said Lang. "The courses offered will be in the field of computer science and microelectronics," said Lang. The research triangle schools will offer credit for these classes to computer science graduates through the link, he said. IN VIETNAM THE WIND DOESNT BLOW ITSUCKS ro Stanley Kubrick's HIU NETAL JACKET STARRING WARNEIl BfiOS PRESENTS SlilEYKUBBICK'S fOLLMEIAlJACKEI MAIlWMODIi ADAM BALDWIN VmiDlDFBIO l[EHY DOBIAN HABEWOQD ABLiSS HOWABD KEVYN MAJOB BOWABD ED OK STANLEY KUBfiICK MICHAEL HEBB GUSIAV BASEOBD BASED ON THE NOVEL THESHORT-TIMERSBY CO PRODUCER EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Coinciding with this link, the National Science Found ation (NSF) awarded the UNCA computer science dep artment a $13,000 grant for the purchase of equipment, known as Computer-Aided Design (CAD) workstations. "The CAD workstations would be neceisary lab equipment for the study in these graduate courses," said Lang. NSF will cover half the cost with something called a matching grant, expecting UNCA to match their amount to cover the $26,000 cost of the equipment, according to Lang. NSF awarded the grant to UNCA to help support a new upper-level UNCA computer science course on designing microcomputers, said Lang. The course will teach a technology called CMOS, which prevents heat stress generated by large computer circuitry, according to Lang. "Heat is a real problem with complex chips," said Lang, because of the number of circuits. The CMOS chip, Lang explained, produces less heat. Lang is currently working with NASA on software designed to test a CMOS chip that will operate in the heated environment of deep space. Lang is working on the project with two UNCA students as part of the un dergraduate research pro gram. Although the department purchased the new equipment for the development of a particular course, it would use it in the imdergraduate research program, said Lang. "There’s no doubt that projects will come out of it that will be quite suitable (for the program)," said Lang. The new equipment wrill also benefit the surrounding community, he added. "This new equipment and course plus the UNCA-MCNC microwave link is a first step in the development of high- technology support for exist ing industries in Western North Carolina and for potential new industries mov ing into the region," said Lang. "ff someone had a particu lar circuit they would like to design, they could take the course and use the equipment to create the circuit they had in mind," explained Lang. "A nimiber of townspeople, students and faculty would be especially interested in the courses now that we have this equipment," said Lang. Engineering drawing, architectural modeling and artistic design are among the equipment’s possible uses, said Lang. The work stations include 19-inch color monitors which display an array of 256 col ors with the clarity of a 35mm color slide, according to Lang. The Microwave Link will be operational in September in a temporary classroom since the new science build ing will not be ready, accor ding to Lang. The computer science dep artment will not offer the new class in microcomputer design until the new building is ready. "'SKSIANLEYKUBBICK WAKNIS BaOS A WAItNSIt COM)«JNICATION& OOHnW r 1 IN CONCERT Saturday, Majr 30 7:30 p.m. Thomas Wolfe Auditorium -group rate(20 -*-)$9.50 -advance $10.50 -at the door....$11.50 For more information call 645-5751
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