This paper describes the development of a new software engineering curriculum at the University of Alabama. This curriculum is jointly administered by three separate academic programs: computer engineering, computer science and management information systems. These programs have combined to develop a unified software engineering track, consisting of an optional sequence of courses for majors in the three programs. Our software engineering track is characterized by two key elements: the use of software component engineering as a technical foundation, and the integration of students from the three participating programs into a single capstone laboratory. The capstone laboratory involves the development of a multifaceted product, requiring the interdisciplinary cooperation of all three groups of students to complete. This paper describes the design and conceptual foundations of this program, which has received funding from the National Science Foundation.

Note from EditorsThe 3rd International Conference of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Informatics (EECSI) 2016 was held in Semarang, Indonesia from 23th to 25th November, 2016. The conference was organized by Universitas Islam Sultan Agung as the host in collaboration with Universitas Diponegoro, Universitas Ahmad Dahlan and Universitas Sriwijaya, and with full technical support from IAES Indonesia Section. Authors and participants from 10 countries made the conference truly international in scope. Participants have delivered their talks of valuable research outputs that vary from many fields of electrical engineering (power electronics, telecommunication, electronics engineering, control system and signal processing) to the field of computer science and informatics. These wide range of topics have colorized this conference.This volume of IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering contains selected articles from those presented in the conference. After presentation, the revised papers were peer reviewed by fellow reviewers to ensure the quality of published materials. Finally, Editors decided to select and publish as many as 49 papers. It is hoped that the presented papers can offer more insight towards broad audience.On behalf of Editors, we appreciate enormous work of all staffs and reviewers in the preparation of this volume. We would like to express our sincere thanks to all authors and presenters for their valuable contributions. We hope to see you again in the next event of EECSI 2017 which will be held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, next year.Guest EditorsMunawar A Riyadi, PhDDr. Sri Arttini Dwi Prasetyowati,Tole Sutikno, PhDDeris Stiawan, PhD

The 3 rd International Conference of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Informatics (EECSI) 2016 was held in Semarang, Indonesia from 23 th to 25 th November, 2016. The conference was organized by Universitas Islam Sultan Agung as the host in collaboration with Universitas Diponegoro, Universitas Ahmad Dahlan and Universitas Sriwijaya, and with full technical support from IAES Indonesia Section. Authors and participants from 10 countries made the conference truly international in scope. Participants have delivered their talks of valuable research outputs that vary from many fields of electrical engineering (power electronics, telecommunication, electronics engineering, control system and signal processing) to the field of computer science and informatics. These wide range of topics have colorized this conference. This volume of IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering contains selected articles from those presented in the conference. After presentation, the revised papers were peer reviewed by fellow reviewers to ensure the quality of published materials. Finally, Editors decided to select and publish as many as 49 papers. It is hoped that the presented papers can offer more insight towards broad audience. On behalf of Editors, we appreciate enormous work of all staffs and reviewers in the preparation of this volume. We would like to express our sincere thanks to all authors and presenters for their valuable contributions. We hope to see you again in the next event of EECSI 2017 which will be held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, next year.

I grew up in a very traditional, military family. Girls became young ladies, married at an early age (before they were 20 years old), and had children. They did not learn mathematics or science, and certainly didn't go to college. Every time we got into a discussion about college, my parents would ask, “Why waste four years in college, and all that money, if you're just going to get married and have children?” When I was about seven years old, these restrictions made me decide that being a girl was basically a bad thing but that fortunately, I was really a boy. So I dressed like a boy, played “army” and “fort” with boys, and did well in school—especially in science and math. To this day, I'm not sure how I managed to act like a boy for so long without my parents putting a stop to it. But they didn't. I finally relinquished my boyhood a few years later, but by then I was headstrong and adamant that I could do things girls weren't supposed to do. All through high school I continued to earn straight A's, and participated in a number of sports. A teacher dropped a couple of hints that completely formed my choice of college and major. Once he said, “I think you'd be good at computer science.” Weeks later he commented, “Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo has a good computer science program.”

More than 53,000 citations from 609 dissertations published at The Ohio State University between 1998-2012 representing four science disciplines -- civil engineering, computer science, mathematics and physics -- were examined to determine what, if any, preferences or trends exist. This case study seeks to identify whether or not researcher preferences have changed over time when determining which citation categories are cited in their dissertation. These results revealed that books, articles, and conference papers continue to rank highest in popularity among researchers, however, some shifts have occurred among categories across all four disciplines. When comparing overall rankings, web pages have clearly shown an increase in popularity jumping from 9th place in 1998 to 4th place in 2012. Most surprising, is the decline in usage of theses and dissertations from 6th place (1998) to 8th place (2012) even though improved electronic access has increased availability during the 15-year period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The restructuring of the circuits and computer hardware courses at the University of Michigan's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science to include a uniform set of electronic design automation (EDA) tools beginning early in the undergraduate curriculum is discussed. The ability to teach good engineering in the department has been significantly strengthened by these changes. The program and the details which have made it successful, including using a consistent set of well-supported commercial tools throughout the curriculum, providing adequate computing resources through a tuition surcharge for engineering students, and offering department-wide support through CAD short courses and consulting hours, are described.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>

"Berners-Lee, Sir Timothy (John), (born 8 June 1955), 3Com Founders Professor, since 1999, Director, World Wide Web Consortium, and Professor of Engineering, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Professor of Computer Science, University of Oxford, since 2016; Fellow, Christ Church, Oxford, since 2016" published on by Oxford University Press.

"Berners-Lee, Sir Timothy (John), (born 8 June 1955), 3Com Founders Professor, since 1999, Director, World Wide Web Consortium, and Professor of Engineering, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Professor of Computer Science, University of Oxford, since 2016; Fellow, Christ Church, Oxford, since 2016" published on by Oxford University Press.

Progress in the life sciences, including genome sequencing and high-throughput experimentation, offers an opportunity for understanding biology and medicine from a systems perspective. This 'new view', which complements the more traditional component-based approach, involves the integration of biological research with approaches from engineering disciplines and computer science. The result is more than a new set of technologies. Rather, it promises a fundamental reconceptualization of the life sciences based on the development of quantitative and predictive models to describe crucial processes. To achieve this change, learning communities are being formed at the interface of the life sciences, engineering and computer science. Through these communities, research and education will be integrated across disciplines and the challenges associated with multidisciplinary team-based science will be addressed.

Design of the Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Building at the University of Minnesota included development of a very low vibration environment for research in submicron processes in microelectronics. The new facility which opened in 1988 has 325,000 gross square feet of space on six floors and cost approximately $DLR35 million. The vibration control process consisted of: (1) establishing permissible vibration levels for extremely sensitive equipment, (2) monitoring site vibration, (3) isolating the microelectronics lab, (4) analyzing expected floor motion in the structure using finite element methods, and (5) isolating the HVAC mechanical equipment. The permissible floor vibration for the facility was 100 (mu) in/sec for the microelectronics floor and 1,000 (mu) in/sec for the remainder of the facility. Since there were several large engineering buildings and a main vehicular thoroughfare directly adjacent, vibration measurements taken at the site during the design phase showed the maximum ground surface and floor motion to be 1,350 (mu) in/sec and motion in the bedrock level at only 40 (mu) in/sec. A two-foot thick, solid, reinforced concrete floor was designed for the microelectronics lab, supported on three-foot diameter caissons down to bedrock, spaced on nine-foot centers and isolated from the soil. A computerized structural vibration analysis was completed with a finite element model of a typical bay of the entire building to predict response of the building to ambient and equipment excitation. The results of these predictions along with the building performance test data show the floor motion to be less than permissible levels.