Contents include simplified methods of calculating short-circuit currents, system X/R ratio calculation and significance, first-cycle duties for fuses and LV, MV and HV circuit breakers, and short-circuit calculations for protective relaying.

(103 Min. / 1 Videotape / (c) 1987)

Today, integration is the most important challenge to improving expert system utilization. This seminar describes the techniques, products, and challenges of integrating expert systems with real-time system applications and with existing databases. The program focuses on integration at the architecture level, integrating multiple knowledge sources and integrating symbolic reasoning with numeric processing and expert system approaches that go beyond the technologies of rules and chaining. This videoconference is designed to offer the viewer practical, up-to-date information about the issues of integrating expert systems with information sources. It provides examples of working systems to illustrate salient points and specific information about how to build more useful systems.

(2 Hrs. 40 Min. / 2 Videotapes / (c) 1990)

In 1987, Congress the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Program. Since its inception, the Baldrige Award has become the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for Quality in the United States. Today, many companies are using the Baldrige quality criteria to evaluate their own quality-improvement efforts. The application process itself is quickly becoming the benchmark for total quality in the United States. This videoconference provides a thorough understanding of the National Quality Award program from the perspective of a senior Baldrige examiner. In addition, two in-depth case studies from past Baldrige Award winning quality programs at Xerox and Motorola will be presented.

(2 Hrs. 38 Min. / 2 Videotapes / (c) 1990)

Reviews the theory of symmetrical components, covers the application of single line-to-ground short circuits, line-to line short circuits, double line-to-ground short circuits, and the extension of Zbus matrix method to single line-to-ground short circuits.

(103 Min./ 1 Videotape/ (c) 1987)

Fuzzy Systems are emerging as the most exciting, efficient, and practical implementations of machine intelligence in the 1990s. Fuzziness is the use of non-black/white logic, sets, and hardware. The theory of fuzziness has undergone a recent surge and reformulation. This course develops the mechanics of fuzzy theory and the most current fuzzy applications in factory control, robotics, process control, management decision making, VLSI design, and other fields that have recently appeared in Japan and elsewhere. Distinction from probability is stressed.

(2 Hrs. 45 Min./ 2 Videotapes/ (c) 1991)

Chaotic dynamical systems and fractal geometry are revolutionary new mathematical concepts which have a great impact in all areas of science and engineering. These concepts provide major new tools for understanding and modeling natural phenomena. Many of these ideas are quite new--having been developed only in the last decade. Now that chaotic information can be harnessed and understood, engineers and scientists in all disciplines need to understand how to use chaos and fractals. The goal of this video is to introduce these new ideas in a manner that allows scientists and engineers to use them in their own applications. The mathematical ideas are described using a combination of computer experiments and video displays.

(2 Hrs. 49 Min./ 2 Videotapes/ (c) 1993)

This video covers:
* Thermal Noise, Fundamentals
* Noise Description of Two-Part Networks
* Most Common Microwave Noise Parameters
* FET Noise Parameters, Frequency Dependence
* Network Cascading Formula, Noise Measure
* Measurement of Noise
* Total Noise in a Receiving System

(59 Min./ 1 Videotape/ (c) 1991)

Covers short-circuit current's of rotating machines, per-unit calculations, introduction to matrix algebra, Ybus and Zbus matrices, Kron reduction and Shipley's matrix inversion, direct fourmation of Zbus, use of Zbus for short-circuit calculations, and practical considerations.

(113 Min./ 1 Videotape/ (c) 1987)

This seminar highlights the ongoing explosion in the application of optical fiber technology in telecommunications and computing environments. Discussed are the uses of optical fiber transmission in point-to-point telecommunications trucking for distances ranging from a few miles to thousands of miles. The use of optical fiber for providing connections directly to residential and business telecommunications users is analyzed. The presenters also discuss the rapidly emerging use of fiber in local and metropolitan area networks.

(2 Hrs. 39 Min. / 2 Videotapes / (c) 1990)

As today's industry leaders are relying on computer simulation as the most cost-effective method for trying out new ideas, trends in the 1990s continue to project simulation as becoming one of the most expanding fields of engineering. This program provides you with an insightful understanding of simulation's eventual integration into today's emerging computing technologies. Integrating scientific visualization, mathematical modeling, knowledge-based design aids, intelligent user interface, and many other aspects of simulation can be used to create synthesis platforms which allow users optimal design capabilities. This videoconference will present a vision of the future for engineers who are currently faced with the task of utilizing computer simulation to explore and understand design concepts. Video demonstrations of the applications introduced will be used to present several simulation models.

(2 Hrs. 37 Min. / 2 Videotapes / (c) 1990)