How do we know whether we're teaching what we should be teaching and teaching it the way it should be taught?  The second half of this questions is something that all of ask ourselves on a regular basis as we…

How do we know whether we’re teaching what we should be teaching and teaching it the way it should be taught? The second half of this question is something that all of ask ourselves on a regular basis as we…

Dear Members:   First, Iʼd like to say what a pleasure it is to be serving at the new Editor of the Engineering Design Graphics Journal. It was the first professional journal that I subscribed to when I came to…

The leaves in the Midwest are shifting their colors to crimson red, orange, and goldenrod. As I take a deep breath, I notice that the West Lafayette air now has a special crispness about it. Yes, it is getting chilly…

The pint is, as educators, we have to deal with many issues related to reaching beyond the core knowledge of our discipline.   After reading an article in Prism not long ago, I started thinking about the changes we have…

I would imagine that this year will be one of great change for many readers.  We have become used to the constant change of technology: hardware, software, networking, and new and different applications of graphics in almost every profession.  But…

"PUBLISH or PERISH"   We in academia have all been subject to the doctrine of "publish or perish".  It is a mist for promotion and tenure.  If you don't find a research area (preferably funded by grants) and write prolifically…

The article reveals economy competitiveness and knowledge-based economy questions and the basis of information and communication technologies influence on this.  Methods and competitiveness estimation are presented. The work contains the methods of competitiveness estimation; researching of competitiveness level, human development…

Business engineering process improvement is required because of the complexity of production and changing markets. Therefore, a multi-level-model is being developed by which it is possible to examine not only the enterprise level of the business processes, but also the…

To assess, analyse and control complex processes and phenomena, the knowledge of their inherent structure is needed. The structures describing it are hierarchical because there is a subordinating relationship between their elements and groups of elements. The formation of the…