Engineering: Better planning at NSF?

Evolution and growth at NSF.

942 Evidence for Great Holocene Earthquakes Along the Outer Coast of Washington State: B. F. ATWATER 944 Interferon-y and B Cell Stimulatory Factor-1 Reciprocally Regulate Ig Isotype Production: C. M. SNAPPER AND W. E. PAUL 947 Electrophoretic Evidence for Genetic Diploidy in the Bracken Fern (Pteridium aquilinum): P. G. WOLF, C. H. HAUFLER, E. SHEFFIELD 949 Effect of Lizards on Spider Populati...

Requirements Engineering: Why Aren't We Better at It?

Rita Colwell: sea change at the NSF

If you had to choose one word to describe Rita Colwell, it would probably be ‘indefatigable’. A small woman who could easily pass for a decade younger than her 63 years, Colwell is renowned for her energy and ability to make things happen. These qualities should serve her well in her next job, as director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) — for which she awaits confirmation by the US Sen...

NSF/CSS Workshop on New Directions in Control Engineering Education

The field of control systems science and engineering is entering a golden age of unprecedented growth and opportunity that will likely dwarf the advancements stimulated by the space program of the 1960s. These opportunities for growth are being spurred by enormous advances in computer technology, material science, sensor and actuator technology, as well as in the theoretical foundations of dyna...

Strategic Technology Engineering Planning

This chapter presents a methodical strategic technology engineering planning (STEP) approach, to effectively cope with the design complexity in service-oriented architecture and manage the strategic planning of solution development of information systems. This holistic model comprises four modules: Want-Is-Target (WIT) model, Transition and Alignment Grid (TAG), Comprehensive Architecting Proce...