Drıven by national security interests and private sector advocacy, the cybersecurity industry plays an important role in our shared economic cultural reality. A key premise of this report is that does not emerge a vacuum, but rather influenced environmental conditions exist at particular place time. Industry can be seen as manifestation two broad interactions: industrial clustering processes. T...

Professor Gavriel Salvendy has had remarkable contributions to the education and research of human-centered design of systems. This Special Issue is organized in honor of his retirement fromPurdueUniversity, celebrating his leadership and many significant contributions to industrial engineering, human factors and ergonomics. In an outstanding academic career spanning 40 years so far, Professor ...

The use of multibody dynamics software in industrial firms is steadily increasing. Engineering curricula often do not include mandatory courses where multibody dynamics is taught. This paper, after a discussion on some teaching needs in this specific cultural area, reports on the experiences matured by the authors when introducing these courses at two Italian universities.

1 Mileta Tomovic, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907 [email protected] Abstract The industrial involvement with universities can range from defining the goals for the entire programs to more limited involvement in a single course. This paper presents a case study on the author’s experience with industrial involvement in defining, developing and delivering graduate level course for st...

The focus of this article is the increasingly narrow range of therapeutic orientations represented in clinical psychology graduate training programs, particularly within the most research-oriented programs. Data on the self-reported therapeutic orientations of faculty at “clinical science” Ph.D. programs, Ph.D. programs at comprehensive universities in clinical and in counseling psychology, Psy...

The goal of this article is to present our remote laboratory as a means of distant-programming environment which provides remote users for the possibility to use control systems, widely employed in industrial applications. The lab is aimed towards people from universities as well as from industrial companies, and comprises two models based on pneumatic and electromagnetic principles and control...