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(: OMPUTING NEliSLETTER Vol u me J, Number

September 1982

The Ogden tn st r~ctional Coep uting llcwsletter i s published from time to time t o provide pertinent inf o rm a ti o n to the u se r s of the comp ute r se rvices provided in the Ogden Col l ege Comp uter Laborato r y .

T his i ssue will r e p ort o n the ins t a l lation of a new timesha ring com put e r system , acqu i sition of new t e rminals , summ r y of CAUSE project activities , report on g rants which in c lude approximate l y $ 1 00 , 0 00 o f comp ut e r equipwent , r ecen t developments in the comp uter science p r og r ams , a nno un ce ACM St ud e nt Chapte r officcrs a nd su r vey int e re s t of al l WKU faculty in the CAUSE project sho rt cours es on instructional use of comp ut e r s .

CONTENTS PAG t:

Summa r y of 1982 Jla rdware AcquiSitions 2 Compu t er Sc i ence En r o llme nt 2 New Comp uter Science Fa c ulty 2 Status of NSF CAUSE P r ojec t J Professional Activities Ilela ted to CAUSE P r oject 4 Papers Wr itten 5 Proposals Writ tell 5 llew Office r s Elec t ed for ACM S tudent Chap ter 6 Ogden College Compute r Labo r a t o ry Staff 6 Survey of Facult y Inte r est in Short Cou r ses 7

O~de n Co llege Com put e r Lab Fal l ilou r s

MON-THU 8 : 00 a. Ill . - 10 : ) 0 p . m. FRI 8:00 a . m. - 4 :3 0 p . m. SAT 10 :00 a . m. - 2 : 00 p . m. SUN 2 : 00 p . m. - 1 1 : 0 0 p . m.

1 1/' SUILIma ry of 19H2 Ilardware Acquisitions , " j'" * PDf' 11/44 Times h a ring Comp uter System , 512 K bytes memo r y . dual RK07 ~8 M byte diskd rive s , 16 line asynchronous multiplexer fo r EIA terminals , 285 LPM line p rint e r, RSTS/£ opera tin g system

* Te r minal s - 15 terminals have been o rdered fo r the new sys t em . Inc lud e d a r e : (8) LA 34 DECw riters , (2) nEC VT 100 Vid eo Termina l s , (5) Zenith H- 19 Vi d eo Te r minals . I n addition, (5) GICI Color graphics video-terminals a nd (4) LA3a DECw r iters Ilave been received as part of two Digital Equipment Corporatio n Spec ial Eq u ipment Grants .

* Location - TCCW 1 17 has been added to TCCW 116 as til e l ocat i on of the expanded Ogden College Computer Laborato r y. Twenty eight t e r minals are located in tll ese rooms .

Eight Telex 276(276) video terminals connected to the IBM 4341 a r e l oca t ed in TCCW 115.

TCCW 128A, in which (5) 029 keypunch machines have been i nstalled , is the new Ba t c h Job Preparation Room . Batcll jobs are submit t e d to the comp ute r operato r s in TCCW 11 7 .

Othe r timesharing terminals a r e located in seven of t il e ten departoents of Ogden Co llege .

Computer Science En r ollment

The number of entering freshmen compute r sc i ence Inajors enro ll ing ttlis fall is 185 . This is about 10% more than the 168 who enrol l ed in the fa ll of 198 1. In addition , 27 computer science Inajo r s have transfe rred to Western f r om other univers i ties . There were 423 majors and 75 mino r s in computer science in the spring semester of 1982 . En r ollment in compu t e r science classes th i s fall is 1091 which i s 24% more than the 88 1 enrolled in t he fal l semeste r of 1981 . Nine faculty members contribute full t i me t o th e compu t e r science prog ra m. Another eight faculty membe r s from mathematics, phYSics and and library science teach one or two compute r science courses each .

New Computer Science Facultr

Ronald Linton is a n ative of Lou isville , Ken t ucky . He r ece i ved h i s B.A. degree in Mat hematics fro~ the University of Louisvi lle in 1966 and completed a M. A. in Ma thematics at the Unive r sity of Kentucky in 19 68 . He then taught for a year a t Bellarmine College in Louisville before resuming graduate work in matllemat i cs at Vanderbilt Unive r sity . After completing the cou r se ~ork for his Ph.D , he ~as employed as an assistant professo r at the University of South Alabama, Mobile , AI . where he taught mathematics and comp uter science . He received llis Ph . D . in Mathematics in 1974 from Vande r b il t and continued to teach at South Alabama until 1973 . ~ince tllen ll e has resided in Mobile, Alabama , wh ere he has been an independent computer consultant , served as Manager of Data Processing at Cooper 3tevedoring , held the pOSition of Cont r oller at Chin Indust ries , worked as a system analyst for Teledy n e Con tinental Moto r s and held the pOSitio n of Directo r of MIS at Quality Mic r o Systems . Ron and his wife Hancy have two children , Ka r en and Bobby. Ka r en wil l be a f r eshmen at the University of South Al abama and Bobby will be a j uni o r at Allen County - Scotts ­ ville Iligh School .

2 Status of IISF CAUSE Project May 1980 - October 1983

itle : A Project fo r Imp r ovement of Undergraduate Science Instruction by Incorporating an Lmphasis on Compu t e r Literacy and Use of Compu ter Modules in the Departments of Chemistry , Industrial and En ginee ri ng ~echnology , and Geography and Geology , Mathematics and Compu t e r Scie n ce , and PhYSics and Astronomy

Project Team : Chester L. Davis, Director , Math & Computer Science John Crenshaw , Associate Director, Math & Computer Scie n ce John Chamberlin , Chemistry Departme nt Wil l iam Ploore, Industrial and Engineering Technology o . Glenn Conner, Geography & Geology Robert Bueker , Math & Comp u ter Science Dudley Bryant , Physics & Astronomy William Pfohl , Evaluator , Psychology Department

Project Goals :

There a r e two important product goals : (1) the imp r ovement of the effectiveness and efficiency of undergraduate education using compu t ers and multimedia and (2) the promotion of computer literacy as a basic component in the undergraduate education of science students .

The process goal is to develop an instructional syste~ involving multimedia, computer hardware and , and the requisIte faculty competence fo r attaining the product goal .

Specific goals include completion of the following by June 3D, 19B3.

1. At least 20U computer modules will be developed or acqui r ed and adapted for classroom use . A module is defined as a computer p rog ram o r application for supplementa r y use o r demunstration in one class session . *** Through April 1932 , 181 modules have been developed a n d 281 adap t ed .

2 . New compute' modules will be int,oduced in at least 40 cou,ses . *** Last year computer modules we r e introduced in 47 cou r ses . 3 . At least 3000 students will use one or more of the new modu les.

*** Last year 2593 science st u dents received some instruction usin g computer modules .

4 . At least 30UO students will participate in an attitudinal and compute r literacy testing program using pre - tests and post- tesls .

*** This was accompllslled for approximately 240 students last year .

5 . A minimum of 30 science faculty members will participate in s ummer workshops on instructional computer applications scheduled in the s u mmer sessions of 1980 , 1931 , 1982. Educational sCholarships will be p r ovided for 30 participants .

6 . Additional faculty members will be invited to participate in the summer workshops on a non-scholarsllip basis .

*** At the end of the third workshop , 50 Ogden College faculty membe r s had participated.

3 7 . A mInimu m of LO full time faculty SU ldrn e r a SS ignments will be made in s ummer of 1931 a nd 19;J2 to develop more extensive departmental project fo r int r oduc ing compute r mo dules i n the in s tructional program .

*** Twelve fu l l - time and fOtlr haLf-ti~e tiurnrner s t ipends Ilave been awarded . Addi t io nal projects a r e sched u led for tile co~ming year.

8 . A substantial inc r ease in the number of CAl modules s pecifically designed fo r d ril l and practice in the Math Laborat o ry . These wil l be integrated into the actual st r uct u r e of rlatll 055 and otll er lower- division mathematics cou r ses . Our current l ist of e i fect i ve modules i n cludes 14 top i cs; t h at number will be increased to at least 50 .

*** Ninety - eight programs have been adapted for math instu r ction .

9 . The i nt r oduction of computer managed instruction in the Math Labo r atory .

Approximately 97% of the $76,4 15 equipment bu dget has been expended . The equipment purchased includes : 20 Apple II microcompute r s , 4DK memo r ies , f Loppy disk d r ives, 3 prillters , 1 g r aphics tablet and o t her periphe r als ; 14 computer terminals , 1 print quality Ande r son - Jacobson terminal , 1 Scan­ Tron Optical test sco r e r; carreLs, chairs , cabinets and a slide p r ojector for tile Math Lab .

A Microcompute r Lab has been established in TCCW 204 . Ten of the Apple II mic r ocomputer s a r e l ocated in tile lab wllic h is open with student lab assistants availab l e about 60 hours per week . Three Apples are assig n e d to the Geography and Geology Uepa r tment , another th r ee t o Industria l and Engineer i ng Technology and one each to the other t ll r ee pa r tic i pating depa r tments .

TAIiLf; [ Professional Activities Wi l icil Have Been An Outg rowth Of Participation in the CAUSE Project 1901 - 1982

Ind. & Eng . Geog Math Phy Chern . Tech . Geology CS Ast . TOTAL

Mee t ings Attended 4 2 4 6 2 18 Papers Written 2 1 1 2 6 Published (1) (1) ( 2) Presented at Meetings (2) (1) (1) ( 2) (2) Presented at WKU (1) (1) (2) Pr oposals written 2 3 2 7 Talks given 1 3 3 12 19 Projects planned 10 3 1 1 15

Departmental Totals 19 9 10 10 17 65

4 /ers Written

1. Compute r Drill in Thermodyamics , John ChamDerlin Journal of Chemical Education , 58 No . 7 July 1981 2 . Co mp etency Based Testing of Ilomenclature on the Computer John Chamberlin, Ho r m Hunter and Curtis Wilkins Presented by Curtis Wilkins 33rd Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society 3 . Interactive Compu t er Graphics : A Poverful Tool for Technical Edu cat i on Hob Baxter and \lilliam Moore presented at ASEE National Confe r ence June 1982 and NECC 1982 4 . Number Processing Curiosities , James Barksdale , Jr. presented at Kentucky Third District MeetinK and the Computer Auareness Conference . 5 . Use of Microcomputers in Beginning Lab fo r Physics llajors . Robert Hall and Dudley Bryant , presented at Ke ntucky Associatio n of Physics Teachers Annual Meeting 6 . Ilo w High is you r Parachu te? Robert Hall and Dudl ey Bryant presented at the Kentucky Association of PhYSics Teache r s Annual lleeting .

P r oposals Written

Five of tile seven proposals written have been funded to date :

1. A Compute r Enrichment Symposium for Gifted Junior Iligh School S tudents and their Teachers llope Richards and Tom Cheatham Kentucky S t ate Uepa r tlnent of Ed u cation $25 . 0UU Radio Shack loaned WKU 17 TRS 80 Mode l III microcompute r s with 4~KB mem ory . 2 disk drives and a etwork II fo r tllis two week summer workshop which was offered fo r 40 Junior High students and 20 Junior Illgh math and science teachers . There were 329 applicants fo r the 40 s t udent positions and 50 teacher applicants.

2 . VT 103 Hicrocomputer Set Bill Moo r e and Bob Baxter Digital Equipment Corporation Special Equipment Grant $58 . 340 Four VT 103 microcomputers with VT 100 CRT's , 11/03 microcprocessor boards, 64KB memo ries and TU 58 magnet i c tape drives, one RX02 dual floppy disk drive , two A/D modules and four LA38 DECwriters . This equipment will be installed in (he El ctrical Eng inee rin g Technology Microcomputer Lab and will be used for suppo rt of ET cou r ses in digital circuits , microcomputer design and comp ute r science computer o r ganization courses .

3 . GIG! Five- Pack Color Graphics Terminals Cheste r L. Davis ~D';1-'g'-:i"t:-a':-71-'-i;E"q-'u-'1i-p"m"-e-'n"t=c""o~r-'p"o":r:.Ja"-t"71 -'o"n'-,S"p"e=c':a";l:':l~E qui p men t G ran t $ 2 5 • a aa Five GIGl color g raphics terminals and one LA34 graphics printer and soft~are Wllich includes : a g r apllics editor, a characte r set editor and a slide p r ojection system .

4 . Robotics Course Oeveloplnent Bill Beard and Henry Ilardy Society of Manufacturing Engineering $ 5 . 000

5 . Robot i cs Course Development Bill Beard and Henry Hardy National Science Foundation and IBM to r po r ation $16 , 000 The above two g r ants plus matching funds f r om Western Kentucky University will permit Professors Beard and hardy to introduce a new cour se in Robotics . The ne~ e4uipwent will illclude three ~ obots and three IBM Pe r sonal Com puters with approprite peripherals .

5 New Office r s Elected for ACM Student Cll apter

The faculty and student members of the ACM would like to invite your part i cipation in the i r programs this fall. The office r s elected for 1982- 83 a r e :

Mark Husk - Chairman Todd Six - Vice - Chairman Jacqueline Metcalfe - Sec r etary- Treasurer

Dr . Al t on Craw l ey will continue as faculty advisor . If you a r e in t e r ested in joining t he WKU chapter of the ACM contact one of the officers o r Dr . Cra~ley.

Odgen College Computer Laboratory Staff

September 1982

Director Dr . Chester L . Davis TCCW III Phone 2911

Ope r ations Manager Mr . Brad Wilson TCCW 1 138 29 I I

Sec re ta r y Mrs . Ramona Bo~les TCCW 113 291 I

Labo r ato r y Assistants David Beckley, Mike Aiton, Linda 8eardsley, Cesar Guarderas , Hark Ilusk, David Holliday , Tony Ma r tin , Jackie 11etcalfe , Hicki Stognor Rho n da Tipton

CAUSt Project Assistants Richa r d Buckman , Kim Daugherty , Hose Calvas, James IHlkey

Requests for project account numbers should be submitted on forms uhich are available in the Computer Lab Office, ~CCW 113 .

If you have questions regarding systems , capabil i t ies o r softwa r e , con tact Brad Wi l son, TCCW 113B .

Lab assistants are available for consulting on cinor programs errors during tile hours of operation .

In the evening of several days the computer will not be available for about 30 minutes due to regular system backups.

RX02 Dul 8 " floppy disk drives ilave been installed on the PDP 11/45, PDP 11/44 and one VT I 03 mic r ocomp u ter in the EET Microcomputer Lab . Since online file capacity is limited on the timesharing systems facu l ty membe r s and students will be encouraged to maintain libraries of thei r own programs on floppy diskettes . The disketts arc available at the WKU Bookstore a n d Bowman Kelley Office Supply for $5 or $6 eacll . All copying to and from disketts must be done at specified te r minals in the comp u ter r ooms and will be limited to the user's own programs . Contract an ope r a t or fo r assista n ce .

6 .urvey of Faculty Interest in CAUSE Sponsored Short Cou r ses

Though SO Ogden College faculty members have participated in the summer Jorkshops scheduled each of the last three years and we are now in the last year of the project, we believe there are other faculty membe rs in Ogden College and other colleges of the university who would like t o enroll in a s hort introductory course i n instructional uses of compute r s . Several participants in the summer workshops have expressed an in te r est in offering s uch short courses as pa rt of the CAUSE project . Enrollment in these courses will be r estricted to a maximum of 30 WKU faculty membe r s per section .

1. CS 140 BASIC Programming (1 1/2 hrs) 2nd BiTerm 8 : 00 a.m . TTHF TCCW 204 J o hn Crenshaw An introduction to BASIC of Apple II microcomputers for university faculty .

The following five courses are proposed for 12 to 18 hours sheduled for two to three days between the fall and spr i ng semeste r s .

2 . BASIC fo r Apples John Crenshaw and other CAUSE facu lty members. An Introduction to BASIC programming using the Appl e II . This will include a brief summary of simple Apple g r aphics techniques.

3. CAl Techniques Tom Cheatham Prerequisities: BASIC- PLUS (PDP 11/45) background An introduction to the various types of compute r based l ea rning t echniques in use today. Practice in cons tructing modules u s in g BASIC- PLUS on the PDP 11/45 (Could be offe r ed u sing Apples i f they a r e available).

4. Computer Graphics Alton Crawley P r erequisite: Strong aASIC-PLUS backg r ound An introduction t o graphics programming and techniques using the DEC GIGI terminals and supporting graphics software .

5. PASCAL Brad Wilson Pre r eq u isite : Knowledge of a high level compute r language A short course in the PASCAL l anguage with emp has i s on its di s tinctive features and usefulness in an edu cational environ ment .

6. Microcomputer Interfacing William Moore Prerequisite: Knowledge of BASIC o r FORTRAN A short course in the use of microcompu t ers fo r interfacing with laboratory instruments and/or external electrical signal sources . Includes D/ A and AID applications.

7 Response to Su r vey of Int~rest . in Short Course

I would be interested in the fol lowing courses(s) :

No . 1 as scheduled

Circle you r preference in the following :

Course No . 2 3 4 5 6 for 2 days 3 days starting December 20 , 1982

.Jan 3 , 1983 Jan 5, 1983 Jan 6 , 1983 (?lease select one course)

For a secon d selection fill in the blanks .

Course No . for days s t a r ting

Name Department

Please return the completed form to Chester Davis , Dept of Hath and Computer Sc ience TCCU 357 . Your response is needed by September 3D, 1982 in order to complete planning for the short courses .

p"ntl

CAHPUS MAIL

TO: CHESTEt<. L . DAVIS

DEPT . Of MATH & COMPUTER SCIENCE

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