Engineering

The Place To
Be
Pa e 2

IS P
I think I have forgotten how to
write . 1 s it here, in t he beauti-
ful Laurier Library, with a psychol-
ogy paper in my hand and 1 keep
reading stuff like 'proliferation' and
' putitively ' and 'paradigm' and keep
thinking "Hey, what a great word
I haven't seen that in SO long ... "
Meanwhile , tit les like "Digital De-
s ign" a nd "Signals and Systems" sit
inarguably less inviting and unread
in my knapsack.
Now this is not yet another impas-
sioned pl ea for frecuorn of the Arts
in Engineering, nor is it meant to
be a moving tribute to l.he leLLer ' p' .
It 's just that I used to love 1.0 write;
I used to li ve for writing, anu now
something's happened and I hardly
pick up a pcn anymor(!.
I glleRs in some ways that some-
thing is just growin g up , changi ll g.
But it's also people a nd parties and
the P. Eng., you know? And I guess
its a choice I've made - a mat.t<'T of
priorities - bllt. it certainl y wasn ' t a
conscious decision and it c!'rtainly
wasn't discrete . It 's been a [('ally
s ubtle cha ng!', a continuous s hift, ill
what I do and how muc h t i me f
speJld doin g it ,
--
This must hit. home for a 10(, of
busy busy engin eers. But. I don't
mean to be preachiug time manage-
ment, either , I'm just, afraid some-
times that "use it or lose it" might
apply to more than verility and I
(,;'11'1, write OR win(\ co llrf
a nymore , ' m j ll s t a raid it's t.oo
f'asy 1.0 forget, what. '8 really impor-
tant. to you.
. Irolt--Warrior
for Paradigm
It seems that wintlsurfing is more
of a priority in my heart than in my
life right now. And maybe that's
OJ( for a while. But actions speak
louder than words; what you do is
who you are and thesp actions
seem to be afrecting, s lowly, those
heartfelt prioril.ies.
Somebody told me once that i r
YOll find somel.hing you'd die for ,
then you begin to li ve. And if you do
find it , and if you live with integrity,
then you live tbe rest of YOllr life for
that th in g. I don't want to li ve for
writing anymore, bill, I do want to
live with that kind of integrity, Ac-
tions speak louder than words be-
cause actions speak.
1 guess there 's a time for taking a
really critical look at what you be-
lieve about. yourself and the world
and important. stuff and making sure
your life is t.rue to that. [gueRs
there's a for windsurfing.
Enginews Replacement?
As first (,dit.lOn of
til Iron Warrior sWllng inl.o it.s !i -
nal stage of production, a lld I.he
promised had lwe ll coll ('('\.cd
(aft.er th usual harassment of writ-
ers by ed i tors) , I noli cd sOlli e per-
haps trivial bUl interest. illg things
about this content t. hat made
me think about the purpose of this
newspaper .
One t hin g I not.ed was t h('
wide variety of topics covered in
this iss ue ; ar ticl es submitt.ed ra nge
from philosophy to psycho-cy ber-
war-kittens t.o politics to Oktober-
fest modelling. I also noticed a lack
of serious technical aritcles t.he typ-
ical Waterloo engineering st. udent.
has co'me to expect. in the Warrior .
Articles I'd come to expect as well ,
The Iron Warrior is a forum fot
.
thought-provoking and infurmative articles
presented by Lbe academic community of
the Univetsity of . W.aterloo. Views
expressed in the Iron WarrioL other than
the editorials. are those of the authors and
do not necessarily renect Lbe opinions of
Lbe editors or the Engineering Society.
The Iron Warri9[ encourages
submissions from students, faculty and
other members of the university
community. renect
the concerns and intellectual of Lbe
university in general. and should be
typewritten or neatly wri tten,
double-spaced and on OM side of the page
only. The author's name, class (if
applicable) and phone number should be
included.
8vcr si1l ce th(' demise of the EII-
gi news three years ago - and be-
fore my time - t.he I W's format has
s hifted to prov ide both serious a nd
reading. Previous ly, Engincws
was t he "funny" paper , while the LW
was the bala ncc, catering to the en-
gineer's serious side, The lW was ,
I' m told, quite dry.
I'm not going to tell you whether
J think banning t.he El1ginews was
good or bad . It's just ' not a direc-
tion the. IW is likely to go. 1 have
found, h,owever, that my job as cen-
sor seems to be non-exist.ent, he-
cause the writers seem to practise
self-censorshi p ,
In fact., the IW is basically what-
ever you want t.o make it ; it 's a
fnrnm, TIlf' tPf'hnirn\ 'lr-
All submissions. unless otherwise
stated. become Lbe property of Lbe lnm
Warrior. which reserves the right to refuse
publioUion .of material which it deems
unsuitable. The Iron Wanjor also reserves
the right to edit grammar, spelling and
porti,ons <of text lhat do not meet
university standards. AuLbors will be
notified of any major changes that may be
required.
. ' All submissions and advertising
enquiries should be forwarded to:
Iron WarDor
Engineering Society
CPH 1327
University of Waterloo
WATERLOO, Ontario
(519) 885-1211 extension 2323
tides most. people have taken fol'
granted don't have to he t.h<'Te - but
if you submit one, it will probably be
printed, If you submit. a funny arti-
cle or a piece of fiction or something
on your favourite kind of spect rom-
etry, it will likely be printed as we ll.
The fr on Warrior doesn't have t.o be
a serious techn ical paper , so don ' t
assu me that it is.
I hope that you find some-
thing you like in our range of
political / philosophical/bomb items ;
maybe we'll dig up a piece or two on
spectrometry for the next issue.
September 30, 1988
Iron Warrior StafT
Editors
Carolyn French
Lindi Wahl
Writers
DanCunin
Chris Baisley
Kevin Moon
Ian Simpson
Richard Frayne
Imran Khan
Kathy Fong
Jon Debling
Randy Annstrong
Mr. Angry
Greg Dee
IKE
Jim McCrea
Kari Fellows
Garrrry Peterson
Owen Kelly
Carolyn Anglin
Dave Petro
Matt Snell
Bill Lennox
Copy
Jerome Gobuyan
Owen Kelly

Liona Fletcher
Toenail
Artists
Richard Hofatt
Brian Sullivan
Ken Leslie
Pboto2rapby
Brent Uttle
RenaHennan
Chris Van Staden

Mike Martin
John Millet
Layout
Kathy Pong
Randy Raaflaub
Layout
Brian Sullivan
Jerome Gobuyan
Mike Manin
Martyn Vanderlugt
RebeccaLo
Imran Khan
Kevin Moon
Ian Simpson
Dan Curtin
Chris Baisley
Michael Lessard
Bruce Retcher
September 30, 1988
Iron Warrior
Page 3
Message From The Dean
by Bill Lennox
Acc rediLa. ti on - what ? - why ? -
how?
This fall all S('\'ell ulldNgradu-
ate programs in engineering will be
the s ubject of a major revi ew by
the Cana di a n Engineerin g Accr ed-
itaLio n Board. The c.l oc umcnt.a-
tion that we have prepared follow-
ing their requested for III at is 11 em
higb of double-sided paper! The
vis it takes place October 31st a.nd
November 1st .
WHO:
The C EAD is a major sLa nding
commiLt.ee of the Canadian Conncil
of Professional Engineers. CCPE is
the naLional organization represenL-
ing all provincial orga nizati ons. i .e.
Sez
by Matt Snell
Welcome or WelcoTTle hack, as t.he
case may be, to Engilleering at UW.
I would again like to salute the rnsh-
man class for gaining elltrance t,Q the
finest Engineering Inst.itul,ion in the
country. As well, I would like to
point out that not, only are we the
finest school in the land but we also
have the best Engilleering student.
f)ociety, namely ENG SOC. The
Soc is here for you and we arC' al-
ways happy to see fresh faces and
hear new ideas so drop by thC' ORI-
FICE (CPH 1327) anytime and see
what's going on.
As some of you may have noticed
the beginning of this term has been
wrought with change for Soc.
We have a new Engineering Banner
to hang on the sugar cllbe library
thanks to some dedicated slimmer
painters and a new VCR and tele-
vision adorn POETS for your view-
ing pleasure. The final summer pur-
chase made was a laser printer and
APEO. The role of t.1H' egA B i b(', t
described by the foll owing excerpt
from their Annual Report .
"The Canadian Council ()f Profes-
s ional Engi n('('fs (CePE) was esLab-
li shed in 1936 as t he federation of
t he prov incial and tf'rr itoriaJ aut.hor-
ities t hat li cense f'ngillcers and OVf'r-
s('e t he profession across Canada .
"In 1965 , t he Canad ian Connc il of
Professiona l Engineers (CCP E) es-
tablis hed t he Ca nadian Acc red ita-
t ion Board ( CAB) , now known as
t he Can adi a n Engi neerin g Accredi -
tat ion Board (CEAB) . The concept
o f accreditation was impl emen tf' d by
the profession to t es t a nd evalu-
ate undergraduate enginee ring de-
gree programs offered a t. Cana di a n
uni versiti es and 1, 0 award recogni-
tion to progr ams whi ch meet. t he re-
<ll1ir f'C1 st.iwdilr ris . Wit.h t.he' ronsen f.
uf Ute engiueerill g associaLiolls, 1,11('
C EAB was e mpowered 1,0 develop
minimum criteri a for undergraduatC'
engineering degree programs and .
Lhrough a process of direct investiga-
tion , to provide eng ineeri ng schools
with a means to ha ve t,h('ir progra ms
for mall y t est ed against l,hcse cri t e-
ri a . The criteria for acc reJit aLioll
are for 111 U lat('d to prov ide gr ad uaLes
with an education sat isfying the a ca-
demic requirements for professional
engineering registration throlJghout
Canada.
"The CEAB is cOJ'nposed of t.hir-
Mac for t he Orifice. This wa.s d. one
to enhance our office systems and 1,0
allow for Macbooth laser print,jug, il.
service which the EERC has termi-
nated .
Change has not been restricted
to our equipment . Tltosp who have'
dropped by t.he will have
see n that Ell a's s milin g fun'
been replaced by Cheryl 's s miling
face. Ella left liS at the end of till'
s ummer for greener past.urc:s in P<,-.
t(' ell proff'ssional engill (' rs drawn
fr om the priyale, I uhlir anc.l aca-
demic sect.ors. The IlH'mbNS a r(' vol-
unteers and reprf's('nt different parts
of th(' count.ry as w(' 11 as a \\ ide
rang(' of ('ngillccring disci plil}('s.
"The C I<; AB also r<'li son \'0111 11 -
LeN services of a ll ex t ensive IIctwork
of p rofess iona l engiIH'N:-; who serVl'
on t.he vi s it ing t,('ams ilnd nil com-
mi t Lees.
"All acc red it.ation is t1llder-
(, a kell a t. t ht' if1 \'il (ILion of a pnrt.ic-
ula r institution alld wit h til(' COI1-
currence of the associat.iun having
jurisd idiOlI. A team of s(' nior (' 11 -
gineers is asscmbl('d cOll s isting of a
chairman , spC'cialist.s ror ('ac h pro-
gra lJ1 to lw ass('ss(' d a nd 0 11 (' or
more engineers who reprcse'nt. t.he lo-
cal associat ion . Armed with doc-
uments including a d e' t,a il f' d qu es-
t ionnaire complet ed by t he instit u-
t,ion beforehanc.l , the tea m
to cons ult wi t h a dmini strators, fac-
ul ty, s tude nts, and depar tme nt per-
sonnel.
"The team examines t he academic
professiona l qualit. y of fac ul ty, a d-
equacy of la bor a l. ori ef;, cquipl1l (' nt. ,
cOlTlplltn fa r ilit ips. :"I nri 1Tl()re> 1'IH" ;
alsu evaluate tilt <jllalit.y 01 t.II(' :-:(, 11 -
denLs' work Oil thc: b<lsis of face-
to-facc inf.erviews with senior st u-
dents , assessment of rer e tlt. exa mi -
nation papers, laborat.ory work. re-
ports and theses, records , nto<.i"ls or
We have agai n hegull a m four
monlh battle agains t apat.h a nd
L>oredom but we nC'ed yonr help.
GET INVOLVED!!!!!
I had Lhe good fortun e of trave ling
ill Europe a L tlt(:;t.arl or the s limmer
allel I rC'ali zed how narrow Illy p<'r-
sjwct,i "(' of tl w w!l r ld has 1)('(' 11 fnr
til past y('ars . TII!'f(' iH it 1 Il'('(s:-;i t y.
as (,Il gi n(:e'rs, for li S 1. 0 s('" k ()liI, U;('
PI( ;'I ' lln J': ;1IIc1 t Ii ;,' 1)('-
gill IIOW WII,h your (dll ca t.lo IL TII ('n'
C'qui pment const ruct.ed by s t udents
a nd ot her e v idellc(' or t.h C' scope of
t hei r educati on .
"Fu rt h<'rlllore, Ll l(' Lpam per forms
a qua litat ive a na. lysis of t hc' cur-
riculum content, to ell s ure t ha t it
!lWeLS t ht' llI in illllllll rri t. C'ria. F i-
nall y, t h" team repor ts its fill d ings
to t he 'I!: A A which t hem ma k's an
accreditat ion decision . It. may grallt.
(or ext('nd) ac rediLaLion of a pro-
gram for a. peri od of lip to six years
or iL may de ny ftTf Nli t.at ion alLo-
get her ."
A t present, onC' of t il t> llIC'mbers of
t.he Aoard is Professor Dwi ghL Apl e-
vi ch of EI ct ri ral En gineering.
WHY:
Students who graduaf./, from all
accredited ins titut,ion a rr C'li gible ,
a[t, er Lwo yea rs work ex r eri cnc(' as
a n engineer , and a ft.er passin g 1. 11('
Law a nd Ethi cs exal1l , t.o lwcnllw
a r egist.C'red P rofe s iolla l Engin(,N,
P.Eng. T he on ly othC'r a lt.e rn at ive'
is t,Q write a s fwc ia l seri ('s of l'xami -
na tions.
CURRICULUM:
The criteria set. by til(> C8A13 is
tllat all progra ms musl, have a min-
imum of: - one half yea r of ma the-
matics - one ha l f yea r of basic sci-
ences - two years of enginee rin g sci-
ences alld engineering design - one
half year in compl ement a ry s tudi es
Further information is available ill
the CEAB Annual Report 1987-88.
Mt' chths a nd ('v(' nt.s of <t il sort.s tha t
can give .v0U !i0 mil ch Um\, a. graphi cs
lab or cakulus ledur(' cannot" bllt.
ynu have t,o t,akC' th(' illitia.(.ive .
. Th<' Toront.o St,ar once dC' sc rib('d
Waterloo sLudellLs as " Whir. I(ids
WiLli Nn Ti m<' Fl) r FlIlI "; 1 impl orC'
YOII , do noL If' t 1I t1 livl' lip t.o t.hitl nI p-
lIt. a ti o li .
II nvl' n grcat t,<'rlll . S('( ya ill PO
I';TSI!
Lerborough . Unfurtunately, W(' arc
also missing SCllnf' familiar in
Lhe C I IJ - both Marg anc.l HiLa an'
on leave for health reasons and we a ll
wish them a speedy rC'covcry. TIl!'
new player of the C+ D cash ngi s-
Ler is Mary TrimmeL Filially if YOIl
are looking for mOlley til<' mall nnw
signing t.he cheques for Soc is
<:arry (two "H"s for I,he price of on(')
Thuna. I hopc e v(>rYOll(' will endeav-
our to welcome all our lI ew peopl e
and wish t.hen) Ul(' very hcst of luck
in their lIew positiuns.
As 1'111 sure mall)' will agref> we
have st.art.eel t.he term olf with qllitC'
a bang. Orient.ation week, brought.
1,0 liS by MAX, MATT (the other
one) , I\ATHY alld a ve'ry cllthllsi-
astic orientation committee, was a
week to be remernbt'reci , if only J
COlrJc.l.
A small but dedicaL{d band fol-
lowed oriellt.ation up in style with a
road trip to ExhibitioJl St.adium to
watch the Blue Jays scalp the lnjuns
:J-O. All had a great. t.imc despit;e the
emerg<'ncy comfort stop on Trafal-
gar road.
But!!!! this is jl\st tht' beginning
of a falltastic term. Plans are in
the works for a Semi-formal, ScunL
and of course all our !'!tandard Eng
Week/Weekend cveut.s . As well, a
birthday party for THE TOOL is
planned as it; is 20 years old this
year.
Campus
Ann Simonton -
Miss Steak
Ann Simonton , a former beauty
queen who is now a leading author-
ity on the distllrbing e ffect s of sex
and power in the media, spo ke on
campus in Lhe Humaniti es 1'h 'atre
on September 29. Simonton, who
once won a teen beauty pageant, has
more recently crowned herself "Miss
Steak" and has paraded in protest
wearing evening gowlls of luncheon
meat and of sausage links. (Yes, this
is for real.) Watch for an article on
this subject in the next issue.
New Ombudsman
The UW ombudsman's oHice has
become occupied once again. Matt
Erickson, a former Federation of
Students vice-president, university
affairs, was named the new om-
budsperson earlier this term. The
ombudsman's post had been vacant
since the death of Erickson's pre-
News
decessor, Ray Ow ns , IUHt Fcbru-
ary. As ma.ny members of the uni
versity community know, the om
budsperson ' 8 dutie include helping
students, s taff, a.nd faculty members
with a wide variety of problems re-
lating to the univers ity 's rules and
r egulations and how they a re admin-
istered . Problems dealt with inrludf'
academi c concerns and cornplainLs,
housing issues, and mediating cam-
pus disputes.
Pierre Berton
Awarded
The widely-known Canadian au-
thor and journalist, Pierre Berton,
will receive an honorary degree at
U W 's fall convocation this year .
Berton , who has written popular
h00ks on t.lI/' Klnn<likf' J!nl<l fllAh. t hf'
history of the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way, and the War of 1812, and is a
well-known radio and television per-
sonality, will be receiving an hon-
orary doctor of letters (LLD) degree.
Page 4
Iron Warrior
September 30, 1988
Great Engineering Accomplishments
by Ian Simpson
Two Jaws of science a rc fa mili a r to
all engineers. First , th e law of co/) -
servation of mass whi ch s t a t es th a t
matter can be neither created lIor
destroyed but only altered in form,
and second , the law of conservaLion
of energy which states that energy
can neither be created nor clesl.royed
but only alt.ered in form.
In 1905, Albert Einst ein pointed
out that Lhis was not entirely tru e.
He clearly s tated that mass and en-
ergy were equivalent and proposed
the following formula to relate the
two.
This formula shows in theory, that
the energy equivalence of ] kg of
matter is 25 billion kilowatt hours.
(In 1987 the Kichener / Wilmot re-
gion used only 1,747 million kilowatt
hours of electical energy.)
The practical importance of Ein-
stein's formula was not, reali7.ed un-
til approximately 1939 when exper-
iments showed that matter could,
under certain circumstances, be
changed into energy and vice versa.
Two German physicists split a ura-
nium atom and observed an enor-
mous release of energy.
AU-oIU lor
tU".'opllftllll
0/"" IItomle bomb
In late 1911 AmC'riran polil.i,i(lns
fcll I hal t h(' (,lIrr(>111. slal.(' ur flilclea.r
physics research in th(' US jmd.ific'd
an a ll -out effort for th . devclnpnwnt
of an atomic bomb t.o be used ill
World War II . This was a remark-
able gamble made by the politirians
based on theoretical calculations
and scattered xperimcJltal resultfl
thai. were beyond their comprehen-
sion . Short ly after the JapaneEle at-
tack on Pearl Harbour on 7 Oecem-
ber 1941 three nuclear physicists,
Compton, Lawrence, and Urey,
were appointed as research pro-
gram chiefs to produce the atomic
bomb. The project was centralized
in Chicago and a schedule with fom
milestones was anlloun ed ill .Jan-
uary ]942.
July 1942 - Determine whether
a nuclear chain reaction was
possible. (July 19
/
12)
January 1943 - To achieve
the first nuclear chain reaction .
(December 1942)
January 19,H - To extract til<'
fi rst plutoni 11Jn from u rail i II m.
(December 1943)
.January 1945 - To have
ploy able nuclear bomb.
1945)
a de-
(,July
The dates in brackets were those ac-
tually achieved.
Into The Atomic Age
In early J 942 mOflt of t he work
was i n the expe ri me ntal st age a nd
was being carri ed out in laborato-
ri es. The wor k had to be moved
int o Ja rge r facilities in order to in-
crease production of nuclear fuel to
levels large enough to make a bomb.
This demanded a hu ge increase in
Ih(' fllnnin g of ,d ""lll i(' lI ol n" r('-
searc h from () J t hull 'antl s
of d o ll ars to hlllldJ' eds of milli olls
of d o ll a rs. Money was scarce at
t,he time and would have to be di-
vert e d awa.y from other very needy
a.reas . Tt was difficult for the politi-
CIans to decide between funding nu-
clear physics reasearch and other ar-
eas, si nce the current status of nu-
clear physics research cou ld not even
guarantee that a bomb could ever be
made.
/ Explosive / Gun barrel
/
/
r
I
Americans in nuclear physics re-
search. U.S. politi cians, un a bl e t o
make an intelligent selecti on of a
suitable production method for the
nuclear fu el because of their lack
of theoretical unders t anding of t he
problems facing the researchers, a nd
the uncer t ainty of t he r('searchers
themselves, decided to fund all five
methods of fu el refin ement. The
expenditure of money on these five
methods was mind boggling. A cen-
trifuge plant was built when labora-
tory success was minimal. An elec-
t h"ilt wlwll
previous experiments had yieldeu
only micrograms of 235U and the two
methods of 230pu production rclieu
on nuclear reactors which , at t.he
time, were only a theoretical con-
cept.
I
I
The lUll-type deaian of the U23S eltpto.ive. The umper. which lIDTOunds . the criticu mus
and refleclS escaping neutrons back into the explosive, and the initiator, which supplies
neutrons for the chain reaction, are not shown.
Initiator
238U
tamper
The Pu239 implosion bomb. The initiator provides neutrons to begin the chain reaction.
The U238 tamper reflects neutrons back into the core once the chain reaction has begun.
There wer(' two possible explo-
sives: Uranium 235 e:ISU) anJ Plu-
tonium 239 (23\)l'u). Three meth-
ods of separating uranium isotopes
were considered ff'asibk, to prodUCE'
I.he requirf'd quantit.y of 2:\5U. Thes('
methods were gaseous diffusion, (C'I1-
trifu gi ng, and electromaglletic sepa-
ration . There were also two possible
types of nuclear reactors Lhat could
be u ed to produce 23Upu: ura-
nium/graphite and uranium/ heavy
water. This meant there were fiv('
possible pa.ths to the bomb.
Milch of the urg<'lIcy around I.h('
US bomb research wit!' generat.ed he-
cause it was thought. that til(' Ger-
mans were t.wo years of t.he
By the ('nd of 1942 two meth-
ods were eliminat.ed. The cen-
t.rifuging met.hod of prodllcing 23SU
was dropped because of the large
amount of precision machining that
was necessary (,0 build the numerous
centrifuges required. Also, the ura-
nium/ heavy water TJlpthod of pro-
ducing nuclear fuel was dropped be-
calise of the time requir<'d to pro-
duce large quant.ities of heavy wat.el' .
The government broughl, large
corporations in to help with the pro-
d uctioll of the bomb and Ihe scien-
tists rebelled. They were worried
tha(, the intl'odlldior; of Dupont and
other rorporat ioTls. bringing many
more peoplc' into t.he project, would
make es pi onage attempts too easy.
Colonel Groves was promoted to
Brigadier General and placed in
charge of the Army's interests in the
Manhattan Project , as the research
program was now call ed . ft h as been
said t hat wi t hout Ili s a bility to keep
the work focused on the objective,
the atomic bomb might. not have
been produced by the end of the
war.
The end products of the Manhat-
tan Project were two atomic bombs.
Each bomb utilized a di fferen t deto-
nation method. T he bomb dropped
on Hiroshima was a gun type , as il-
lustrated in the diaNam. In this
case a mass of pure 2. U was formed
into a sphere with a plug removed
from its center. To cause the as-
senlhh' t.o hprnmp sllpprniti(' ;ll t hI'
plug was lireu . using a convent iunal
charge, into the cent.er of the spherp.
Consumed slightly more
0/ the U.S. GNP
than the
Apollo space project
The bomb droppeu o n Nagasaki
was an implosive type, as illustrated
in the diagram. In this design a
solid spherical subcritical mass of
fissionable material is s urrounded by
a spherical shell of conventional ex-
plosives. If the conventional ex-
plosives are detonated in a precise
sequence the generated shock wave
compresses the fissionable material
and causes it to reach a supercriti-
cal state. Both of these bombs dis-
played the equivalent firepower of 20
kilotons of TNT. They used about
10 kg of fissionable material amI
were approximately 10% efficient .
It is interesting to note that the
method ultimately used by tIlE' Man-
hattan Project to produce the nu-
clear explosive material required for
the bomb was not one of the five
methods initially pursued for that
purpose. The method used, liquid
thermal diffusion, was developed by
the US Navy.
One est.imation places the number
of people involved with the Manhat.-
tan Project at 200 000. It consumed
slightly more of the US GNP t.han
the Apollo space project diJ. It is
easy to question the goals anJ ob-
jectives of this project bu t the great-
ness of the scientific accomplishmenl
cannot be exaggerai.ed.
REFERENCES:
Mc1(ay, A .. 7'''t Mak1l19 of t"t'
Atomic Agt, Oxford University
Press, New York, 1984.
Brown, A. and MacDonald. C.,
The St'crcl Hlstvry (Jf thc .-I.tOI1l1C
Bomb, The Dial Press, Nrw York,
1977.
Krane, IC, illtodll!'i()1'Y Nudct11'
.lohn Wiley nne! SOilS, Nl'w
York, 1988.
September 30, 1988
Iron Warrior Page 5
APED Student Conference
by Kathleen Fong
What do you want. to he whcn )'0\1
"Grow up"? Do you want to do re-
search that will change the fuLure of
the world; starL your own engineer-
ing firm; become the C. E.O. of a ma-
jor (or minor) corporation ; become
a cog in the wheel of a gianL firm
doing mindless, but necessary work ;
0(' just find the meaning of life (t.he
ultiverse and everything)? If you arC'
not really sure then perhaps this ar-
t.icle will be worth reading.
On October :W, 21, and 22 , I.hr
Bngi neeri ng Societ.y hosts Lhc 1988
Associatioll of Professional Bngi-
neers of Ontario (APEO) SLudent
Conference. We havf' invit.ed r('pH'-
sentatives fr om t.he I.WE'lv(' other uni-
versity engineerillg societies ill 011-
t.ario to aLLenc!.
The therne of t.he confE'rencE' is:
"Engineering: Where do you fi t
. ?"
In.
The first day of tilE' cOllferpnc(-' fea.
tures a Society Fair from 10 a. m. to
6 p.m. , in the Davis CE'ntre. The
focus of I.he fail' is on technical, pro-
fessional, and s(:'rvicc organizations
associated with the engineering pro-
fession. This fJortion of the confer-
ence is iniended to expose Waterloo
engineeri ng studt'IlL (,0 t 11(' organi-
zations that. playa key role in thE'
educational and career development
of profe sional engineer:.
Friday, t.he foclls is 011 carrer al-
tNnilt.ivE's aVilihh lf' ill f hE' C'nginE'N-
illg field . We exalllillf' six lIlain
career areas: small bU ' in('1's, hig
business, research and devE'lopment ,
government, cons ulting, and ('n-
trepreneurial ventures; which area is
fo r you? How do Ill{' diff('fC'nt. work
envirollmellts cum pare? Speakers
will address thes(' and many ot.her
'lilt' lion:>. I':ach will 1(,<,-
lure for 15 to 20 minutes, and then
open the floor for 10 II) I [) min-
utes of que I iom:. H('prC' , C'lltati\'C's
of ItU!11NOUS conlpanies and organi-
zat ions will he on hallcl ill an infor-
mal capacily. Breaks arC' schedllkd
(,0 all ow sLudcnts a (hann' 10 l1Ie(>1
and (.alk with thC'sC' rC'prt' sC'1I1 aliw' ,.
SiOll, and ('ducatioll of I hI' ('tlgill(,f'r.
workshop on "lntC'graLioll of St.u-
dent.s into t.he Profcs,' ioll " will pro-
vide an in(.crilctilC' /'Ol'l1JlI f(ll' pr('s(,ll-
LaLioll and disctlsqioll of idC'as. Th('
gunl of this '('SSi(lll is 10 provide di-
r('dion on how 1.0 in('or poratc' the
s(.ud(>nl i nt 0 thc' prof('ssion, exami fl-
ing th(' ll('cds of both tIl(' profession
and I he studC'nl. in cOllling ),C'<'I.rs. On t.he final day of the cOllfer-
C'(lce, we explore lht fu ture of t he
engineering prof(>s ion, (onching 011
uch imporl.allt issul's as :o;o('ial ft'-
spollsibility, visibility of !.I1(' prof('s-
1988 APED Student Conferepce Schedule
10:00 Fri
10:30 Fri
11 :30 Fri
1:30 Fri
2:00 Fri
2:45 Fri
9:30 Sat
10:45 Sat
11 :30 Sat
Dr. Roger Higgin, Ontario Energy Board
Topic: Working in government
Dr. Rudy Lepp. Chalk River. Atomic Energy of Canada
Topic: Working in research and development
Nick Monsour. Polysar Limited, Past APED President
Topic: Working in a large company
Bill Breukelman, Chairman of IMAX Systems Corporation
Topic: Being an entrepreneur
Harry Weihs. Consulting Engineer
Topic: Working with a consulting fmn
Paul Zepf. Zepr Technologies Incorporated
Topic: Working in a small company
Bill Kerr. APED President Keynote Speaker
Willem Vanderburg. Director. Centre for Technology and
Social Development
Topic: Social Responsibility of the Engineer
Professor Greg McNeice. Past CSPE President
Topic: Suppon of the Engineer
All \ecLllrC' sessiOlls arc' OIH'1I to
nny sLud(>nt.s who wish 1.0 "tLend.
Th('s(' s('ssiot1s providE' :1 IIl1iquC' op-
porLullil.y (.l> t.alk t.o prok'siollals of
differen(. <lgPS and expNi('lIce and
may help YOII to dccidC' which pat.h
(,0 follow.
Many thanks to our sponsors: APEO, CSPE,
ENG SOC. Gore and Storrie Ltd., Hewlett-
Packard (Canada) Ltd., G.E. Canada Ltd.,
Perfonnance Microsystems Incorporated
(PMI), Kinko's, Lakehead University. The
office Dean Lennox, Systems Design UW,
Civil Engineering UW, The Federation of
Students. The Engineering Student Society
Council of Ontario (ESSCO).
Paul Plummer Participation Points Program
by Randy Armstrong
Face it , you're stuck here for an-
oLher three months of blood sweat,
and tears. No engineer worthy of
the name could possibly survive a
term without leLLing off ome st.eam
once in a while. In fact , get.Ling in-
volved in any of the various Eng Soc
events could be jusL the thing that
you need. Especially if you conside r
the prestige that your class could
geL by winning points for this
t.erm, not to mention Llle sizeable
liquid rewards. The scoring system
for this term is ouLlined below:
SPECIAL
l'h is category is rf'served for lIIa-
jor engineering events sl1cll a::; the
Havenger Scunt, Boat Racing , the
Parade and the various rharity
drives. Dig point.s (in t.he vicinity of
100) will be awarded for' each event..
MAJOR
This category includes the more
difficulL events which involve it lot.
of people, such as the Chariot. Race,
POETS Challenge, or Ball Hockey.
50,30, and 10 points will be awarded
t.o the top three teams.
MINOR
AllY other event falls into Lhis caL-
egory. Points will be 25, 15, and
5 for Lhe LOp threE'. in-
clude Sub Eating, Legs ContesL, etc.
There will be a large number of LhC'se
events and the points can add up
quickly so don't feel that. it is not.
worth it.. Besides any CVC'll(. will
probably be a good tirr;f' ('ven if (,he
pointe; <1ren'j high.
STUNTS
AU SLunts will be judged for cre--
ativity, orig.inaJity, and difficulty.
A maximum of 200 point.s can be
awarded for any single sLun(. . 011
average 50 to 100 points will bE'
given. REMEMDER: use COlll-
l110n sense - uulawful or ex-
tremdy dangerous acts or pel'-
luauellt damage to allY prop-
erty except your own wilJ r{'-
suit in negative points and pos-
sible criminal charges! Stunts
are supposed (,0 be fun ; when in
doubt abouL the readion of the pow-
ers that. be , DON'T DO IT!
PARTICIPATION
Participation is the key to win ..
!ling fyl.iS. Every t,eam that. ellt.ers
an evenL will get (.IH' number
of ]Joint.s thaI. t.he team will get for
winning iL (i .e. a team t.hat. enters
t.be chariot racC' will gC'1 SO point.s
plus all addit.iCllJal 50 if they win) .
It. is posRiblr to will in t.he overall
standings even if yo" didn't. win any
single event.. These points will be
adjusted according 1.0 class size with
a weighting factor betw(\(:>f) 0.5 and
3.
ORGANIZATION
1'.biB is anol.her big poi
gory. III gellcraJ a class which runs
an event, will get full participation
point.s plus poinis as if they won the
event. The exact number will de-
pend on how w<'ll !'h(' ('\I(, IIt. Wits or-
ganized . Any (' lass call 1'1111 all ('\,('\1!,
by si lilpl y VOIUll t.('crilljl; (c')( 'I'I>I, t,Il('
Scunt). If yOIl hit e a 11('W iel('a for
any evenl. by all 1l1C'1l.I1$ t.ry it , YOIl
('an ' t. lose if it catcllt's 011 you may
go dowll i II history.
PRIZES
Thr botLOIIi lil)('! 1'1)(' t.otal poinl.s
wi ll 1)(' (';) ]r,,1;,tf'r1 llip 1:1"1. \\('"k pf
t. rm alld . r. a. . 0111(11 \11 h
alloca Led for (,<leh Df I.hc IOf> con-
tenders. At least. 10 (' asrs will go
t.o the Lop class. Now wOIlJdn '(. thaI
make a greal, (>nd of terln blowout.
p i tr!,)'
Final Not( , II I I h pllill!. :; CI111 1)('
Ilwn.rdcd fnr , dIIHlSt. illlyt hill g which
prol11ol,(!:; !!;I1I)d t.illH'l-I and/or pro-
vide's HOll1e' (,(lIltrihlltioll 10 1,111' Uni-
v(rsil.y or IIw (,Olllilltllllt.y If you
have' llli idNl I,hilt yon I hillk YOII
should g('(. point,H fnl', t.alk !.Il (.11('
P I If> ciir('('t.or or I('avl' It flOt.(' ill Illy
box ill t.1l(' Orifice .
This SOC's For You!
by Jon Debling
Asitlc rrom Lhe spect.acular ])av i8
huilding, you may be asking yom-
self, "What. else is I1C'W this term ,?".
Introducing the new and iHlproveu
Canadian SOCIE't.y of Chclllical J'jugi-
lIl'cring U W st.ud nt. chapl,er (Chern
Eng Soc). Actnally, Chenl Soc
h as been arou nd for a w Ii i 1(' now, bu t
has generally kC'p(. a low hy irnage.
This term Chern Eng Soc has bCl'n
re-vitalized, with t.he goal of winning
the annual C.S.Ch.R. award for t.hC'
most, a.cti ve st.lldenl ch apt.('r .
Several events ar(' planned (.his
tC'l'm including a Faculty /St. lIdcnt
/ Induslry Soirc'C', tentative'ly sched-
111(,<1 for Nov 10 al 1,11(, Universi(,y
CllIn. One of ollr main gOids t.his
(.(' rm is t.o irnprovc ties with indus-
(.ry by all Indll!-ll.rial li-
ai!-lon with the so('iety. SevNa llTl('lIl -
bcrs of thr (,Ol llllllllliiy
will be present at til(' Soire('. Jil
addition, WE' arE' plannlTlg 10 Ita.v(>
'lcvc'ral Oil camplls 10 speak
(>0 a variety of illterpsting Chemical
1';lIgin('<'rillg 1'(lat(,d topi('s .
one is wrleoln(' (,0 aU. lid. Watrh for
Inforllla.ljion on upcoming Indllsl.rial
LOllf/l as wdl.
During t.he ;\-!) of OctolH'r, t.he
C.S.Ch.K will tw holding thC'ir
itll nual conferc/lce in t.on .
not,1l Pierre Donaldsoll (also Co-
<Inri rnv:-rlf will hC' ,,(-
Lellding th(" cOllkl't.'IH'(, as r('pr('s(,l1-
t,ativcs of the UW chaptpl'. The con-
fereJlce is being spolJsored by the
Univeri:lity of Alh<'l'la, Lhc sLud('nts
of which arC' hosting s('v('ra.1 Pllb
crawls and C'V(,flLs (twist my anll) .
If 'yOU are in(pr<' /l Led ill getting itl-
volv('d wiLh LIl<' Chern jl;ng Soc COllie
alJd lie(' U:;. Our ofllec' is loca.tl'd ill
gl-2SIt1 . Oflic(! hOllrs (In' posted .
We don ' t. hav(' a phOlw i11i of y('I"
bilL drop ill allY lilo(' (w<' also can
be l'('<lchcd via (lUI' lJIail box in lhC'
Cllc'mical Engill('('ri ng U nd(rgrad II-
ate Office).
Notr: If yuu no" dnl\C'
so, could all Ghellli('al
choose ol1e ChC'1JI f':llg SO('
reprf' sC'u t at IVI' .
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September 30, 1988
i L--____ P--..;;.O_I N_T_' _>
We Are The
N eandrethals
by Mr. Angry
The Engineering Image . I1mmm.
almost feel the need to put
those words into capit,al let.t.<'J's jllst.
to keep you phallus-oriented n(' a ll-
derthals comfy and happy ill your
blissful state of quasi-reality in L1lC'
venerable halls of Engineering.
Have [ got your coll C'ctive aUen-
tions or is your eng ego in the way
of your higher facultiC' s La t.he point.
where a little dose of realiLy would
prove futile Lo deflaf,e a halloon of
that magnil,ude?
What SOlTle of you may he aware
of, and there a re wad u Ily few, is
that in general, the image of n-
gineers on this campus is a lit.tl e
higher than cockroa, h dung. Mos L
of our kind like to think that the
rest of the campus - the artsies,
the whining femini s ts, the math-
holes , the science geeks , Lhe save-
the-wbales-Ieft-Ieaning-ERS clowns,
the hope-you-geL-a-real-job- kin/ rec
students - should all bow down and
kiss our collective asses because our
grand faculty found t he good grace
to leI. them co-exist on this cam-
pus. Ji'ortunately, Lhe rest of the
campus views the Engineering men-
tality wiLh the correct point of view -
by Ike
lIello, my name Yl\I'i Sergei An-
d reyev ich - foreign exchange student
from University of Moskva. r am
very happy to being here to 1.('11 YOll
of vonderful Frosh Veek . I'irs t, ni ce
men in black shirts give me defective
yellow hat , den dey yell at lIl e. At
first I am tinking dat dis is joke but
den nice men in black s hirts pick me
up and carry me outsidc. Outsid('
dey take picture of whole <lass hilt I
am all wet from men in black shirLs.
After dis J go to many part.ieR and
drink too much beer. Dat is when I
figur e out why people in bat,hroom
put faces instead of behinds in toi-
let and make funny noises. Next day
I find out what is Boat. !lac ing. In
Soviet Union we have differenL 130at
Racing. In Soviet Union nobody
put head in toilet aftcr Boa!. Hacing
but losers must go to Siberia. Ori-
entation Committee, Lhey tell me I
am hip and happening dude. What.
is hip and happening? J sec char-
iot racing and drink more beer and
den 1 go t.o pub at Liberation Ha ll
at night and drink more beer. Den
we have Scunt. In Soviet. Union
Scunt is very smelly animal. I tink
I will call my room-mate Scun!. - is
very appropriate name. Anyhows on
scunt we find many vonclerful things
like tires from airplane. Den classes
woeful disdain tempered by a liberal
helping of, "I hope that t.hey get over
this phase t hey're goillg th rough be-
cause they ' re a real pain ill t.he hut.t.
right now ... ".
I would like to relate a li t.tle story
"h01Jf. t.hf' n(>orhyt.f'S ill (lllr rl'lcnltv
(yes, that 's you frosh) during indoc-
trination period , otherwise known as
fros h week to t hose cleverly-hatted
people in yellow. Seems that the
noviciates decided to t ry a of
Godiva on a weak alld t.imid group
of Recreation students. Much to
t.heir surpri se th y received back:
You are , yo u are, you are the engi-
neers. You are, you are, a bunch of
L ____ g queers. Apparently, the frosh
were left in stunned silence, milling
Frosh
start and J am feeling homesick for
Soviet Union. But, I must. to go buy
. books . So I go to buy hooks and
what I do see? I see very long line-
IIp oown Rink Ro(!ri . " I II. 1 SO
IlAPP\ ,I: J am s('fC'arning bC' ol.use
now I feel like 1 am home.
The above was all account of my
adventures as a Soviet
Student during Frosh Week. As I
am sure almost all of YOIl nre aware
of the " Flying Foreign 't.udent" rou-
tine was a put all. 1 am not. now, nor
do 1 ever intend to ever be a Soviet.
I just wanted to relive my days as
a Frosh over once more, albeit with
around and wondering if in the holy
book it said anywhere what to do
if: a) jf those of the nOll-faith ques-
tioned your manhood; b) you discov-
ered tbat t hose outside of the faith
could actually talk ; c) you discov-
er ed that the whole world wasn 't in
love with you. Welcome to reality
rearing its ugly head .
One may conclude that I have a
wee-bit of a problem with the Engi-
neerill g mentahty. Correct, because
this is where the r'; ngin ee ring image
problem sLarts. We see ourselves as
God's next greatest gift to the wor ld
and the oppos it. e sex. Fact: Engi-
nee ring is only the fifth largest. fac-
ulLy on campus , just a li ttle ove r a
quarter of the size of Arts. Sor ry
kids , but engineering just isn't that
large enough of a faculty t hat we can
demand S lI bserv ience fr om the rest
of the world .
Which may bring out another
negative about e ngineers and their
less than perfect. image . We seem to
suffer from a good deal of egocen-
tricity and almost a paranoid xeno-
phobia. These Lwo factors prevent
us from realising that there are re-
ally good programs and people out.
t here in th e ot her buildings (Qui z:
how many of you have been to PAS?
How nl;.)n y of YOll roulr:! find th e IS
uffice'? liu'" Illa!l), of y llll el'ell kllo'\
what I ' m talking a bout ?!! !) . It also
Veek
a slight , no make that a massive,
difference. As a Frosh [ was much
like those who arrived this Septem-
ber. I was a little scared and very
st unned . The Ed-Com guys scared
the pants off of me and the Orienta-
tion Committee didn't seem to care
much . Well , the Ed-Com guys still
scared the pants off of me but t his
time the Orientation Committee did
cate. Thi is something I am very
proud of because I was olle of them.
But it wasn't Ed-Com or the Orien-
tation Committee alone that made
Frosh Week the best one yet, it was
the Frosh. I really have to hand it
to the Frosh this year. They were
prevents IlS from accep!.ing t.hat, the
career and di scipline choi ces other
people have made arc just, as valid
as ours and ot her people may just
be able to get jobs, even if they are
in the Recreation or Dance depart-
ment . (Quiz 2: Where is Lhe Dance
department located? With what fa-
mous insti t ution did they recentl y
become affi liated?)
This narcissistic attitude coupled
with an almost incessant navel gaz-
ing about our own se lf worth in t he
communi ty can o nly result with t he
community lookin g upon us with a
sense of shocked arnazcmenL , much
like a fart being released during a.
church service. I can only concl ude
that by the fact t hat, t he editors feel
that this issue should be addressed
by a point /coullterpoint tha t our
image is a valid problem wit.hin the
university community, if not the rest
of society. 1 s it here trying to re-
member the last time 1 heard some-
one in Math even bothering to de-
fend their image. They don't have
a problem that needs to be fixed .
Why are we finding it necessary to
defend ours? May be engi ll eers need
to stop trying to conquer the uni-
versity like we h,ave conquered the
environment in t he past - with ou r
hearts and groins. Why dOll ' t. we try
to become part of our environment
and give our best - with our hearts
and minds?
cool and they were a great bunch.
Unfortunately, however , for me this
is my last year at U of W so I won ' t
be participating in any more Frosh
Weeks . J know, though, that when
my fri ends ask me what Frosh Week
was like I won't remember my own,
I' ll tell them about t his one. Maybe
not with a Russia n accent , but def-
initely with fond memories. So to
you new Frosh - you guys a re great,
keep it up. And to Ed-Com - do
you think I could have my shirt back
please.
Joan Weiler
West mount Plan'
(519) 888-6660
Conestoga MJII
(519) 886-4402
Timothy's*
Coffees of the World
September 30, 1988 Iron Warrior Page 7
Engineers?
Model Citizens
by Greg Dee
So, Mr. Angry likes to think that
engineers are "bad-assed dudes." I
guess everybody's entitled to their
own little fan tasies - especially con-
sidering the pressures Mr. A ngry is
facing as he strives to excel in one of
the most demanding academic pro-
grams of our university.
Let 's face it. Mr. Angry, like most
fourth year engineers, is a model cit-
izen . Mr. Angry has just 8 months
more of preparation before he enters
one of society 's most well-respected
professions. He'll most. likely be-
gin his job with a starting salary of
around 30K, settle down and buy a
handsome bungalow somewhere and
even get married La the fine young
woman in Dance that he meL bere at
Waterloo. Mr. Angry will be ma.k-
ing a positive and much-valued con-
tribution to society. When someone
in our society applies for their Cana-
dian passport and they need some-
one to vouch for their identity it isn 't
park vagrants, drug dealers or serial
killers who are allowed La sign, it's
professional engineers, lawyers, doc-
tors and members of the clergy.
Society needs engineers. Engi-
neers will play a key role in sol v ing
the technological problems posed by
air pollution, dwindling natural re-
sources and over-population which
must be solved if mankind is to sur-
vive. It was engineers who created
the industrial revolution, who built
t,hp. ClIlt,nmnhi1f'!'. whn rlpsip-npri l.hp
telephone networks , who invented
the medical equipment and who
built the hi ghways, hospitals and
schools that have all cont ribu ted to
an increase in the prosperity and
welfare of the general population. A
prosperity and welfare that has fu-
eled social progress in a ll areas of
society such as universal medicare,
worker 's rights, woman 's righLs and
old age pensions. Most engineers
recognize the importance of their
role in the history of society and
technology, and more importantly
they recognize their responsibility to
the future of society.
It is in fact engineers who are
our own strongest critics as the
"point" section of this article so
clearly shows. Engineering is a self-
regulated profession governed in On-
tario by the A.P.E.O. Every once in
a while when the engineering stu-
dents at Waterloo get a little biL out
of hand it's the A.P.E.O., engineer-
ing faculty members and our own
elected engineering socieLy who have
tradit ionall y exerted the most influ-
ence in keeping us in line. It has
not been the whiny fringe interest
groups or frustrated femi nists .
When you compare engineering
students to students in other fac-
ulties (something arts st udents and
writers for a cer tain other newspa-
per on campus have done incessantly
since T arrived on campus four years
ago) there is no doubt that we work
harder . We needed higher marks to
get in and we wi II be .of greater val ue
to society when we graduate. I agree
completely that society needs lots
of sensitive young people who re-
ally appreciate poetry but they need
people trained to produce shelter,
t.r<'lnspnrt'ltinrl <'Inri rnnd :1 whnlr' 1",
more . W hell another student
you what you Lake at University and
then in a fit of inadequacy, for 110 ap-
parent reason , tells you that they are
in arts by choice , ask them whet,her
it was their choice or someone else's.
Don't get the wrong idea, eve ry-
one knows that there are a lot of stu-
dents in liberal arts programs who
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always assumed they would go to
university but who really aren't into
it, or students who cam to play var-
sity sports, or to throw up at frat
parties, or to pick up chicks at Fed
Hall. By and large you don ' t find
too many students like t.hat in en-
gmeerlng. Most would not survive
very long.
Most engineering students ar e
well-rounded individuals who wcre
attracted by the high levels of
achievement and excellence asso-
ciated with a program of exact-
ing academic standards. Most are
dedicated students who don'L mi nd
putting in those extra hours in the
computer room on the occasional
Friday night. I t only makes sense
that every once in a while engineer-
ing students like to leL loose a li t-
t le bit . It's a darn good thing t.oo,
because we would be a sorry lot of
geeks if we didn't. The last thing
society needs is a bunch of nai ve en-
gineering graduates .
Engineering is a profes-
io s ee d in tra i it. ' 1
profession which is evolving. Many
of the activities in which engineer-
ing students participate were started
many years ago. Some of t hese ac-
t ivil hllVf' rlj"nprl'nrNI V f' will
probably never see a.noLIH'r (;o<iiva
parad at Waterloo. Tbis is proh-
a.bly a good thing. All things
sidered th e engineNing irnag<' ha
improved greatly ('v n in 1.1)(, four
y ars Lhat I have bC'(,1l here, y('t
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livc 011. Mr. Angry may geL nil sclf-
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SPACENEWS
Editor's CO/linIn
Welcome to the first issue of
SPACENEWS, a bimonthly report
on space news and technology. This
newsletter is written by University
students from across Canada and is
published In several student
newspapers.
My motivation for the newsletter
arose several months ago when I
attended a Symposium organized
by the medical school at the
University of Ottawa. Students from
across Canada attended seminars
on various topics in medicine. The
extremely successful symposium
achieved several objectives.
1. It allowed students to learn
about state of the tlrt research
in medicine.
2. It provided students an
opportunity to meet other
students from different
universities.
3. Provided students with many
athletic intramural activities,
and allowed time to visit the
city.
4. Provided a dinner and dance at
the end which was superb.
U.S.A.
The space shuttle Discovery's 3
main engines successfully
passed the Flight Readiness
Firing on August 10. Launch
date is scheduled for
September 29, 1988.
NASA is asking U.S. school
children to select a name for
the replacement space shuttle.
The winning entry will be
announced next May.
President Reagan announced
that the winning entry for the
name of the space station is
Freedom.
The "Mars Project" society of
scientists revealed that in 1976
NASA's Viking spacecraft
discovered a massive rock on
the surface of Mars in the
shape of a human face.
Former astronaut Brian
O'Leary, an expert on Mars has
approached the U.S.S.R. in
hopes of having the area
examined by the first of two
Soviet probes bound for Mars
this year.
90 international scientists
gathered at the University of
New Hampshire to plan the
1992 'International Space Year'
which is to coincide with the
SOOth anniversary of
Christopher Columbus' voyage
to the New World.
U.S.S.R.
Two cosmonauts successfully
returned to earth from a week
long mission to the Soviet
space station MTR afler two
aborted re-entry attempts due
to failing stabilizing rockets.
The re-entry capsule was
reported to oniy have 48 hours
of oxygen. A third cosmonaut
remained on MIR to monitor
the health of two cosmonauts
that have been in space for 8
months.
Frenchman Jean Loup Chretien
will be on a month long
mission to MTR in November.
He is scheduled to become the
first non-Soviet, non-American
to take part in a space walk.
Internationf'!1 space artists
gathered in Iceland to sketch
the volcf'!nic surface which is
similar to that of Mars. The
sketches will be shown in
Moscow next April when
Phobos 1 and Phobos 2, the
exrlorat ion satellites If'!unched
in July, arrive to orbit the
Martian moon Phobos.
September 30, 1988
Vol. 1, No.1,'
Europe
The British government
suspended its funding for the
spaceplane HOTOL Alan Bond
who sold the design of the
engines to Rolls-Royce is
having problems attracting
industry investment since the
design is classified top-secret.
The European Space Agency
(ES/\) using an Ariane 3 launch
vehicle placed two comsats in
orbit, India's INSAT-IC and
ESA's Eutelsat I-F5.
1.' "ir liquide and Aerospatiale
have begun work on Ariane S
that is deSigned to carry 150
tons of propellant, 10 times
more than Ariane 4.
Italy's newly formed space
agency will use American
launch vehicles to send into
orbit the first satellite Lageos 2
carrying the agency's banner.
Australia
Australian firms have formed
CYS/\ (Cape York SpClce
"gency) to raise international
funds to build Cl spaceport in
Cape York, Australia's closest
point to the equator.
Costa Rica
Costa Rican shuttlenaut
Franklin Chang Diaz is
proposing a Pan-American
Space Organization (PASO) to
promote cooperation between
latin /\merican countries,
particularly in satellite tracking,
It seemed to me that there are few
similar opportunities for Canadian
engineering students of all
disciplines to meet and 'earn in a
professional environment. The idea
of starting an engineering
symposium was tempting for
months, but it requires the support
of many students. As an avid space
enthusiast, it suddenly dawned on
me that a space newslett(>r would
be an ideal way for students across
Canada to communicate. Space is
a topic that interests most young
engineers, and the space industry
employs engineers from all
disciplines.
I hope you enjoy this first i sue of
SPACENEWS. I encour<tge you to
send in (lrtides on space to share
with other student. Please indicate
your academic program, t he year
you expect to gr(lduat(>, and your
University. Perhaps some <"lay we
will all meet for a 'Space
Symposium' at some Canadian
university over a weekend!
Possible Escape for Astronauts
With Best Regards,
Yuri Quintanf'!.
Electrical Eng. BaSc'88 (Waterloo)
Systems DeSign Enn. MaSc' 89
(Waterloo)
In The Next Issue
A report from the National
Research Council of Canada on the
Canadian Space Program!
SI';lCI,NT:WS is 1\ hilllolllhly Canarlillil
pllhlication on l'pace anrl I("c-hnnloI:Y.
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The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA) is
installing a 10-foot telescoping pole
in each space-shuttle orbiter to help
the crew bail out in an emergency
that might prevent the orbiter from
landing safely. The pole will guide
each astronaut jumping from
mid-deck to pass below the
orbiter's left wing. Without the
pole, an escaping astronaut would
likely hit the wing or some part of
the orbiter.
The pole is part of an escape
system that is standard equipment
for all future shuttle flights,
including that of Discovery,
scheduled for launch on September
29,1988. The complete system
allows the crew to jettison the
hatch side of the orbiter, and
includes a helmeted pressure suit
and survival equipment that each
crew member must wear during
launch and landing.
Rogers Commission Urging
The entire system, which costs
some $75 million to develop and
install in the three present orbiter
craft, was devised in response to a
recommendation by the Presidential
Commission on the Space Shuttle
Challenger Accident (the Rogers
Commission).
The commission urged N"SA to
"make all efforts to provide a crew
escape system for use during
controlled gliding flight". Since
ejection seats were removed from
the first orbiter, the Columbia, after
the shuttle's initial four test flights,
there has been no way out for the
crew in an emergency.
According to Robert Rice, NASA's
crew escape project manager, the
escape system can be used only in a
controlled flight below 20 000 feet -
either when the orbiter is coming in
to land at the end of a mission, or
when a launch has been aborted.
Rice said however that the system
will not work within the first two
minutes after lift-off, when the solid
rocket boosters are stil1 firing - as
was the case in the Challenger
disaster. Nor can it be used if the
orbiter is descending out of control.
Emergence Rescue
In an emergency where the crew
can get the orbiter into a controlled
glide above 25 000 feet, they would
set the autopilot to make the
vehicle descend at the minimum air
speed of 175 knots (325 krn/h) -
about two thirds the vehicle's
normal speed at that altitude. At 25
000 feet, the crew would vent the
cabin to bring about ambient
pressure, and at 20 000 feet activate
explosive bolts to blow the cabin
hatch cover away from the orbiter,
A pull on the telescoping pole's
trigger would shoot the
spring-loaded pole from its housing
on the mid-deck ceiling out of the
open hatch and lock it into its
extended position within a second.
Each crew member would in turn
hook his or hC?r parachute harness
onto a ring shaped attachment on
the pole, kneel in the hatch, and
roll forward through the opening.
The procedure would allow an entire
crew of eight to evacuate the orbiter
in ahout 1-1/2 minutes, well before
the orbiter reached the minimum
bail-out altitude of 5000 feet.
Trudy E. Bell.
Reprinted wilh permission from lhe
IEEE Institute (July 1988). f.) 1988 IEEE.
September 30, 1988
Iron Warrior Page 11
Straight From The Heart:
.E INSTITUTE OF
ELf CTR ICAl AN D
Jean Chretien
ELECTRONIcs
E NGINEE RS,INC.
by Kevin Moon
A moderate crowd of abou t. 1000
adorned the bleachers at. t.he PAC
on Wednesday, September 21, t.o
hear the lat.est political cont.ribu-
tion of former Liberal Cabinet. Min-
ister Jean Chretien spoken iJl his
heavy yet charming Quebecois ac-
cent. "straight from de 'earl." TIl('
crowd was a mixture of st.udent.s ano
community members. All seemed
to receive Chretien very favourably.
The adoress was rewarded hy rrgu-
lar spurts of applause and t.wo stand-
ing ovations, as well as much laugh-
ter and a plea from one of the ques-
tioners 'for Chret.ien's ret.urn to pol-
itics.
"[ wonted to be leoder
of my party."
Chretien resigned from active pol-
itics t.wo years ago and is now prac-
tising in a private law firlll . Chretien
said t.hat he was very proud of h is ac-
complishments in politics, and that.
he was now indulging ill a much
needed rest..
"J want.ed to be leader of my
party, but I wasn 't. selected," was
one of his comments t.o the audi-
ence . lie jokingly ment.ioned that
upon tendering his resignation h
t.old John 1\lrner, "I'd like to help,
but I'm not a Tory." In a morc se-
rious t.one, he stated that if be were
needed in polit.ics, he would ret.urn
but, "If I'm not needed, I would be
happy."
Chretien served for 23 years in
pn\it.ics. <lnr! is now SR "pars (lId.
Under Trudeau 's government. he was
one of the major players in policy
format.ion, and has served as Minis-
ter of Finance, IndiaJ\ Affairs, .Jus-
tice, Parks, and perhaps more. "\
was minister of everything," were
his exact words. Foul' years ago,
his career peaked his
campaign for leadership of the
Federal Liberal Part.y, and with his
defeat, really approached its end.
thereafter he su bmi tLed llO-
t.ice of his and two years
later he the Party.
So what is Chret.ien doing making
speeches on Universit.y Campuses
and elsewhere? "I'm no longer a
politician, so I shouldn't talk about.
politics, ... so I will talk about
Meech Lake and free trade." His
speech that followed. evC' n though it
was not claimed lo be a campaign
speech, will probably have Chretien
supporters adding his liame t.o
ballot, and a check beside
it.
Politics is full 0/
makers.
Chretien took his bite out
of the Meech Lake Constitutional
Accord. lIe claimed that Prinlc
Minister Mulroney is just too allx-
ious t.o make deals. In introducing
the necessity for unanimity in de-
cisions about constit.utional amend-
Mulroney has placed him-
self in a position have to DEAL
with the provinces each time amend-
ments are made , which will result in
provincial distribut.ion of many
federal powers and funds. M u 1-
roney has made himself "the hC'ad
waiter," asking the provinces what
they w(luld like to order. This,
" $20 bilUo"
trode surplus with the U.S.
Chret.ien felt, will weaken national
unity which had been strengt.hened
under the Trudeau government wit.h
I.IIP p<tlrit1tintl of tltC' rnnc:: tilll/;"tl .
and I.hat. Canada will !'(,CDlll<' <I
"Communit.y of C0Jl1l1ll1IliLi ('s."
He followed t.his wil.h <'In aLL<lck on
the Canada/U.S. FrN' Trade Agrce-
ment. . Ch ret ien had bC('1l on <I COIl1-
mission or commit I('e or soft ball
team (the author regrets t.he ab-
sence of the correct title), which had
recommended againgL Canada. eJltpr-
ing free trade negoLiations with the
United States becausc aI, the tillie,
Canada was experiencing a $20 bil-
lion trade surplus with the United
States, something which w()uld be
hard to improve on. "As a lI10use,
you have to be very careful when
talking to an clcJJhant," as Canada
had done Lo t.his poillt. Trade deab
had been made quiet.ly and one at
a time. Chretien also claimed thaL
t.he free trade deal did not. guarantce'
Canada's access t.o the U.S. market,
although he did not go inLo the lo-
gistics of this prohlel1l.
Chret.ien's argument.s, although
brief and one sided, were "ery con-
vincing. This should be at.tributed
t.o his remarkable delivery, whi ch
was well endowed with charm, hu-
mour, and passion . TJ(1 spokr
mind and never appC'are'd illl(,lItioll -
ally vague . lIe cril,i izc'd I\'<, ahlln
of. "irnag<' make'r::!" il1 pol -
1t.ICS, sayll1g sOlllr politicians t.ry
to pleas ('verybody, wh('11 in:I.(rtd
they should stalld h('hilld t.hrir he
li efs and try to gail1 "reSIl<'d ." 11('
made peopl e feel prolld t.o 1)(' Canu-
diall , by showing greal. (,1l1.husiaslll
for "the Canada tha.l, I lov(' ," illld
with little things like conlpJeIllC'lltillg
the audiencc 011 its uflClerHLallding
of French. Wh,tbN for or agaillst
.J eall Chrc'!lien polit.ically, I)('l/-
pie who attended the adclr('ss would
pt'ohrlhlv "f-r('(' Ihilt I hI'\' 1'(11 IIH'Ir
money 's worth. .
Alld as t() wbet,lter we' will H(>(' M.
in Lhe poliiical spot. li gllt
again: in his own words, "nrvN SilY
I1CV('f agai n."
Once again I.h(' local St.ll(\cnt.
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by Jim McCrea
The purpose of philosophy is /'0
discover t.he most. fundamental as-
pects of reality. It includes, for ex-
ample, metaphysics, which is t.he sci-
ence of being as being; epist.emol-
ogy, which is the science of knowl-
edge; and et.hics, which enahles liS t.o
dist.inguish right. from wrong. Some
take the view t.hat. it. is impossible t.o
discover ultimate trut.h and t.he at.-
tempt to do so can lead one int.o an
int.ellectual vacuum. A view, qllite
popular today, is that t.here is no ob-
jective t.rut.h but if yOll believe some-
t.hing, it is true for YOll and t.hat. is
as far as it. goes.
There is , however , a monolit.hic
tru th independent. of ori n ion and
furt.hermorc it. is wit.hin t.lte power
of the human int.ellect. t.o discover
some fundament.al aspects of it.. A
full validation of t.his will not. be at.-
tempted here, for it. is an ext.remely
complex problem which goes far be-
yond the scope of t.his art.icle. Some
approaches will, however, be sug-
gest.ed.
"Much 0/ todll,'1 science i,
ellentillll, ' ctio,,"t."
What. are the ult.imat.e con-
stit. uents of realit.y and from what.
can we begin a search for t.ruth?
Nuclear physicists say that we will
know the ultimate constituent.s of
realit.y when the ult.imate particle is
discovered and t.he four fundament.al
forces of nature are unified. Much
of today's science is essent.ially n-
dllctwnis/ . It. attempts t.o achieve
iI hrf I.N lIndNqf ;)nriing of I hings by
reducing f,IH!11l to 1,1t{'lr ll10St. basic
components.
This, howcver, is a nec(' ssary but.
not a sufficient. means of invest.igat.-
ing realit.y. This is because physi-
cal being has two aspects - a II/atl -
I'Ia/ and a formal aspect. . To illus-
t.rat.e this we can conduct. a thought
experiment ill which we analyze the
essence of an automobile.
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Philosophical Truth
One can imagine t.wo situat.ions.
In the first , t.here is afl assembled
aut.omobi le with its full complement
of parts. In t.h(' second, the filii
complement. of parts iR presenl but
lying in a disassembled heap on
the ground . Now, if the essence
of the aut.omobile werc simply re-
ducible t.o it.s parts we could call
the disassembled heap an aut.omo-
bile, which is absurd. Something
in addition to the parts of a mate-
rial bring is needed to give it its be-
ing. Thi s addit.ional prillcipl e is the
form . li'orm is t.he arrangement or
inter-connccl.ivity of the parts, while
/ltIllh.,. is t.he part.s themselves . Both
principles of malLer and form are re-
quired t.o compose a material being.
Reductionist science gives us an UII-
derst.anding of t.he material side of
reality and neglect s t.he formal.
One means of obtaining a bet.-
ter grasp of the t.rue in philosophy
is to understand t.he false. One
means of discerning any philosoph-
ically false position is to know that
when a certain truth is denied , that
t.ruth is implicitly used in the de-
nial. Many philosophers have con-
tradicted themselves in t.his man-
ner. For example, some philosophers
have stated that we cannot know
that what. our senses reveal to us
is correct because we do not know
how milch th!' rnrS!"::tr'('t: h:)"" h/>"11
distort.ed by the allu
systelll. The fallacy of t. hi s argu-
ment is that it implies t.hat. we can
know some aspect of objective real-
it.y (namely the senses and the ner-
vous system) to deny t. hat W(' can
know any objective reality.,.
If we look at, t.he denial, that the
human intellect cannol. know truth
we call underst.and the st.at.emcnt. to
be false because it. present.s itself as
a t.rut.h . 1 the person lIIaking the
denial applies t.he principle of skep-
ticism to the denial itself and stat.es
t.hat we cannot. even bc slIre of that.,
two observations can b(' made. The
first observat.ion is that he may be
only st.ating hi s personal inability 1.0
arrive at truth and not. necessarily
t.hat the human int.c1lert cannol., 1'0'
8(; , arrive at trut.h. The second oh-
servation is that he is refuting him-
self by inconsistency. If he appli es
a principle of absolute skept. icism t.o
his denial he repudiat.es it because
t.he degree that. olle is uncert.aill of
a position is the degree that 011e de-
parts from it. From this we can state
the first law of epistemology: t.hat
truth exists and the human int.ellect
can know some fundamental aspect.
of it. . This principle is Itot. arrived
at through deductive reasoning hut,
carnes the evidence of itself within
it.self.
"Truth exists lind the human
intellect can know some
Jundllmentill upect oj it."
The search for philosophical t.ruth
brings us t.o the summit of nat.ural
knowledge which is mcirrl'h.llsir's.
It is the science of being qua being,
which is achieved through a maxi-
mum degree of abstraction. It is at
the summit for two reasons. First,
it is the governor of all t.he other
sciences , for t.hey must borrow from
t he principles of metaphysics to op-
f'riltf'. Sf'conrl. it is pf'rferllv frpc ,
which means t.hat it. borrows princi-
ples from no other science. Jt.s prin-
ciples are most certain a n(\. evident.
within themselves.
The ultimate first principle is the
law of idt:l!lily which st,at.es t.hat.
SAN FRANCESCO
September 30, 1988
a thing is what it is. This is not
a mere tautology but an assertion
that, first, all t.hings exisl. of a del.er-
minat.e Jtatu re, a nd titC'l"cfore do HOt.
necessarily exist the way one thinks
or wishe they do, ancl second , t hat.
in any at.tempt t.o reduce a t.hing
to something else one departs from
t.hat. thing: it can be' said t.hat. the
most, accurate description of a thing
is itself.
One of the first. corollaries of
the law of identity is the law of
nOIL- C011 tmdidiol/, which stal.es that
somet.hing cannof. both be and not
be under the same aspect at the
same time. This is also t.he first prin-
ciple of logic . A principle which is
a corollary of boLh the law of iden-
t.ity a nd t.he law of non-contradiction
is the principle of sll.f7icicnf " C(1$O I/
which states that if something ex-
ist.s or is t.rue it must have adequate
grounds for exist ing or being true.
It is necessary to have a supreme
science with principles which are pri-
mary and most certain within t.hem-
selves because if what. Bertrand Rus-
sell said is correct, t.hat we can
only obtain probable knowledge, one
probable trut.h would depend upon
another which would in turn depend
upon anot her, ad infinitum, so t.hat
in the end we would not. even have
probable t.rut.h but pure irrational-
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Psycho-Cyber-War-Kittens
by Garry Peterson
Fluffy is a cat. A playful. frisky,
furry cat. Fluffy is wearing an exo-
skeleton which controls a hulking
piece of heavy machinery. f luflv is
a cyber- caL. The waiking dc'ath
machine, which Fluffy cont.rols, will
belch purifying fire when f'luffy
twi tches her tail. W hen she get,s _
mad, she's a pycho-cyber-war- kitLy
from lI ell.
}dea o f an animal controlling
a big , aangerolls machine may seem
odd. It may even seem illscllle, but
it has already becn done.
"A guinea pig encaged by a. set.
of contact switches onc'J piloted a
name throwing walking ma.chine ."
(Scientific American , Aug 88, p:28)
The Scientific American article
br iefly describes the acti v iti es of a
San Francisco based group, Survival
Research Labs (SRL), a nd a perfor-
mance they recently staged in New
York . The article intrigued me, so I
contacted the group.
SRL creates autonomous and
radio-controlled robots , whicb it,
uses as the actors in violent cy ber-
netic conflicts. Mark Pauline, a
34 year-old expert welde r and ma-
chinist , founded the group
a decade ago. Pauline moved to
San Francisco to be an artist. He
started out by alt,ering billboards
and other forms of "creative vandal-
ism" . Then, in 1978, he f-aul d ed
SRL. He began by collecting dis-
carded heavy machinery from clos-
ing Two "pare; lill.p!' 11r WilS
joined by MaLL JJeckE'l't. , who designs
the aural background of thc robotic
plays. In 1981 , they began building
large dinsosaur-li ke, Lcchllo- primi-
tive machines and staging conni ts
between Lhem. In 1982, while exper-
imenting with rocke t Pauline
was blown inLo the air - los ing his
four right fingers. ForLunately, his
left.-handedn ess allow('d him (.0 con-
t.inue to develop his art.
Today Paulillc has a 6000-sqllare-
foot machine hop in ':an Francisco
and makes his li\'ing as all cngincer-
ing con ull.ant. Engineers and tech-
nologist.s from the Bay Area'. uni-
versil.ies and hi gh-teclt companies
work wiLh artists and marhilli is in
SRL ... c[,eating a robot.ic of'
engineerillg and arl.
'RL has managed t.o build crude
robot.s , using scavenged parLs , wlti ch
rival indust.rial alld goverIllllellt.al
rohol.s costing Illil/iolls of clollars.
"Bombs exploded overhead,
scattering counterfeit 20, Sf)
and 100 dollllr bills."
111 t he tcn years, SH.L
has given thirty-five performances
around the United StaLes . Thesr
performances are usually stageJ
in parking lo(.s or ot ll er Jamage-
resistant, areas. The pe rforman 'es
a r e video-taped and sold bv SRL.
Some of Lhe favollrites " A
Scenic Harvest. from 1.1)(' l<ingdol1\
of Pain" , "Virtues of Nega.t.ive Fas-
cination", "Seven Machinc> Perfor-
mances", and "A Bitte r Message of
Hopeless Grief" .
SRL's most eJal)oratc' pcr for-
malic . ook . c 1.1 i. tl
York. The show had a budget of
$30,000. About 4000 people, pay-
ing $12 each, showed lip 011 a ra.iny
May night to wat.ch the performanCe>
in t h e Shea. 'Ladiul11 parkillg lo! ..
The perfOrIll allcc' was t'nl.it.lc'd
" Tl1r 1\1ie;rtll'l li llI'S ,, (' P" "i l' f' (1\,' 1 rod
Oul, a.t a ll Illl agl li a ry Locn! 11I1i SYIlI-
boli7. ing Worth I!;w-
ing) ". Over I.hr of (1((
evening asci. c1cpidill p; a 1ll('ch an izC' d
man-madr para.di sc' was rit.llalisLi-
(iilly c rus hrd, h\ll'llecl, IIlld s m(ls h('d
!o pieces by roaring, lin' s(wwing,
diescl dripping, l11echallical delllons.
Twenly-two tOllS of equipmC'llt
were in\'olvpd in thi Illoralit} play.
The actor included: a t.w{'lvC:'-
fool shock-wan' cannon; a ten-foot.
high four-legg{'d- walking-machillc;
thf' Rig Arm, a t.went.y fool, IOllg
robot, 'which can pick lip and (hl'OW
thing.; (he ,prillklel' from H('lI, a
300-hp flame-t,hrower ; a small ra-
dio cont.rolled tank; thr lnsp('cLor ,
which looks like all evil hospit.al hpJ
equipped with long, clawed arm, ;
a 1200 pound cat apul t.; Lh(' Pinch-
worm, a twent.y foot dC'v icc whose
giant mechanical pinc('rs call lift and
carry 1000 pound ohjcct.s.
The performance bcgan as UH'de-
ment. ed pre-show mllsic changed La
a machine sound / dialogue montage.
Greased pistons pushed mechanical
feet, amid diesel fumes as several ma-
chines lurched t.o life.
Tbe Big Arm jerked about r an-
domly, then dr agged itself to the
pond in the middl e of Paradi se.
The Pinchworm pushed the G iallt,
Wheel of Misfortune into one of the
parking lot lampposts, causing it to
sway - much to the delight of Lhe
crowd. The big wheel lurched to-
ward the shockwave cannon! A fiery
blast from the Sprinkler From Hell
spewed about forty feet, warmed
the crowd , but fail ed to stop the
whe I. Finally, t.he Big Arm seized
he ICe all oppe 1 JU
of the shockwave cannon!
----
"Destruction was compkt,d:
th, crowd Ilpplauud."
!,('il(1c-t "nmh" ('l(l'lll(lr'ri o\I'rh"fld.
sc:nUprillg count,prfci(. :W, f') () , :tlld
lOO dollar bills ov('r t,he 101. . (; 1a.'iS
towers collapsed, s hards
Semi-
Formal
Au Old Fa... ..dliollC'c1 C hri s tina,';, this
trrm's ellgineering "semi - formal ,"
promises to b(' bett.c'l' I.hall ('V('I'! 011
the ('v('ning o f Fri(hy, N()v('ml)('r 18,
Waterloo f<ni ghts Inr. (l.!tal,'8 on
u'n ivt'rsity Ave .), will i>(' ado/'ll('d
willi tinsel alld Jlli st.let.o(', a lld it.
is rl1tnoured t.hat. SaJ\t a Illay \' isit.l
Ollly J50 ti cke t,1i will "(' availablc' for
the and aL $-1f)/collpl(' t.hp,V
wilt no dO\lbt sPit quick ly. Eggnog, iI
buffet dinl1('r , and the ('vening's ('11-
i<'rtainment will all I)p illcluded ilt
t.he price. A cash har will h('
available. WaLcl' for t.jekf't. sal(,s be-
ginning in mid-Od.oher.
AnyoJle int(f(' s(,(d ill lH'lpillg wi(,II
tick(t sales, advertising, (II' dc('ora.I,-
iug is wclcollle tr) a U.end I.\u' fWX!.
l1Ieeting on Odohn () at I :2::\0 ill the
Orifice.
of glass. The fluoresc('nL tulw
laullcher alternated bet.ween f10ilting
t.ub('s high and shooting direct ly at
tllf' props - narrowly missing ol1e of
the call1crculIll1.
Th<, six hillTl'1 shockwave can-
non {'X plo(i<'d more 1. 11<ln t.ell rOllnds ,
hit.t.ing I.hC' audience wi t.ll balls of
air, bui. it. s('elllC'd to h(' failing .
'I'll(' Arm pllshed I.he ",liN'1 (.owards
Uw andi(,llcC', but. t.he shockwClV{'
CallnOrI wit h it.s acC't.yl(, ll e/oxygcn
tanks, was in th{' way! Five or
six of t.he ('fC'W fllriol1sly dragged it.
out of t.he wheel 's pat. h. The arm
nearly toppl('d the \V heel uf llIisfor-
tunc in front. o f the crowd, hilt i(
d id noL pick iI, lip compl et.e ly. The
fl amet hrower igni(,C'd the top of the
wheel and it. s ll10ldered and smoked.
TIl(' dest.ruction was completed;
t.he rowel appl aud(d .
The rnachine casua lt.i es incillded:
Pauline's larg<' walking machine,
which broke an a nkl e 011 its ear ly
s\'eps; Hecker!.'s new walking ma-
ch ill e, Thundcr Thighs, whi ch fell
over trying to break t.hrough a glass
wall ; and one of t.he Arm's si x radio
controll ed servo banks , which was
severely charred.
Human casllalties were limit.ed to
one crew rnember who was hit by.
cardboard shrapnel from a leanet
bomb u.nd suffered a cut to the fore-
head .
Enginee ring meets arts in a park-
ing lot and lot.s o f t.hings explode.
For 50000 dollars, SHL ('ould corne
to Waterloo. Anyone iuterested?
Also, the Reality Mutation
League is a new, campus-wide, club
dc'r1in"f.(d I.n P7'rlnrinr, Ihl s\' nfhf'<:ic:
of art. alit! ('nlllll('('I'II)I: II YOIl ;)1'(' ill
111 SH L, or ()llwl' ('OUplill(\ .
of Hrt. <llld !.('('hl1ology, (hl'('k 0111. t hl '\
(' 1111> .

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by Owen Kelly
Chris Baisley
and Dan Curtin
Equinox Marks Arrival of
Autumn
The auLlllllllal I'qllinox o("tllrn!d
Io.<;t. Thursday at. ;3:29 f,I)T, ('ar-
liesl, of rail ill I his ((,Ilt.ury.
III WaL('rloo, Equirrosh marked LhE'
LflU' beginning of [aJ] !'('v('ral w('('b
ago, as a lIIarked in n'(1S(' ill t.he
lIumber of qll('sLioliS slich ;} <; " 1';x('1ls('
Ill !' rl1l1lrl Y"'I Irll 111(' ",Itr rt Ih,.
washroolll!' arC' r . "( ;('f . Ilkt' . wil<'li
is H'C(,SS?" was lIot.iccd.
New Direction at UW
Students in Electrical and Sys-
tems may notice recent rellovaLiolls
ill 1 and 2. The fourth year Elrc-
trical lounge has rancy npw furni -
tur('; sL udellt J eronw Cobuyan COI11-
ments, "Thl'y've even gol t.he t.ags
on them!" We're all exci\.('d for you
Jerome.
III Sytems Design, t.h(, hig II(>WS
is the new look ill Thl'
frosh-proof desks are boiLed 1,0 t.he'
Hoor and the "rrolll." of I,he class
has moved from Lhe w('sL wall to
Lhe north wall. Dr . Cbandrashckar,
new chairman of SJ), just.ifies Lhis
obvious blunder sClying he wan(.s a
new direction in the depart.menL.
That's ok - all of us ill 4A and 2B
know the True Way.
Food For Thought
Noted anLhropologist Chris Prat-
ley (2B SD) has a new theory which
follows from original resE'arch done
by Enquirer ( "Seen'L
Society Lives Off What,
Throws Away"). PraLley proposcs
the of a Huh- cull.llre' livillg
nff I h ... frf'phil' l-' "t vnrinn" \pct.lIres
on carnpus. Asked if free' dOllghnuLs
pose a dietary limiLal,i(H/ , I'raLI('y
point,ed ouL LhaL yoghurt. COUPOllS
were available at. last. week '5 career
fair as was free beer at a recellt open-
ing at Kit.chencr 's START gaIIN}'.
Iron Warrior
News
Escapees Charged
FOllr mcn who escap('d last. ll10nth
from the' Owen SOllnd provinri"t1 jail
arc fMing a serin; of t.he'ft-r(>lal.crl
charges. Police laid Lwo charges
agaillst Lhe men, who escaped from
Lhe jail in mid-August. and were ar-
rested t.he follow ing day in WaLer-
100. The charges 5Lem frorll a lIighL
on campus when a camplls polict'
officer was verbally assaulLE'd and
a glass was gLolcn from Vedera.tioll
lIall (Fred's Mall). In a sLroke of bad
luck, Lhe melt were apprehended by
pol ice afLer one of I.IIt' escapee's I'll I.
his feel, up OIl a chair at Lhe Bomb-
shdLer and t.he Wat.erloo polic(' wen'
caJl t'd.
Man Convicted of Computer
Sabotage
Briefs
should be kepI, to a mmimum, Lhe
ideal situation being a simple t.wo-
machine environment.
The CVIA IS also currenLly
developing a Computer NaLural
Oefence Operations Management.
(CONDOM) systelIl, 1,0 proLcct sys-
tems from viruses, includillg the rc-
cent.ly discovered All Interface De-
struction System (AIDS) virus, ap-
parently released during a disk crash
a1.
Hazardous Materials
Transportation Plan Revealed
In r('spons(> to pllblic ohject.ion
1,0 t.he proposal t.o transporL Port
('lope's radioactiv(' wasLe by Lrllck
along Highway 110 t , and l.he ollt.cry
following a rec('nl. rCB firE' in SI.
Basile PQ, the Federal (;OVCrtltnent.
!ras decided on a combined stor-
age/transportl'lLioll policy for haz-
ardous materials.
The new plan is 1.0 mai l 1.1)(' w11 s l.('
in airtighL cuntainNs. Postal ('f-
September 30, 1988
ficiency sLlIllie:; ha ve rev(' aled t.hat.
99 percent. of the containers would
never be seen again, il.lld rur all tn-
tents and purposes woule! cease 1,0
exist .
A spokesma.n for t.he governnrent.
Slimmed up Lh(' plan ; "This is hy
far .I.he mosl, ('xci!.ing a.nd promising
waste rnanagen1('nt. sys!.em we havp
cOIlc('iveu and Lhe he'sL par\'
is Lha!. Lbe burea.ll cracy a nd capit. a l
have \)pcn illlpi<'rI1(,IlI.<'d ulr(' ady oy
Canada Pnst .. "
Postal Union officials a rc e1at.ed.
saying "yeah, now we can get danger
pay on t.op of our lunc.h t.ime pay,
cofree break pay. and rref' /Il eals! ".
New Copy Editor
In a rec.ent t.ifT wi!.h host Pal.
Sajek, Vannah White cuI, all Lies
with Lhe popular gallle show "WheeJ
of Fortune" saying she "had anol.her
job anyway". She can bf' found
turning a's and i's in E2-1303h on
all of your fabulous literary submis-
s Ions.
A formN employee of USI'A alld
IHA Co.,a F'ort-Wort.h l}(lscd iJlsur-
ance and brokerage firm, has been
convi cted of planLing a computer
'virus' in his employer's that
wiped out 168,000 recordf';. The de-
program was activated like
a time bomb, two days afLC'r hE' was
fir ed.
Work Hard, Play Hard
The Tarrant Count.y Assistant
D.A. said it is the first. U.S. convic-
t.ion [or dest.roying com pilLer records
using a virus. Chairman of the
Computer Virus Indust.ry Associa-
tion, which helps the pub-
lic about viruses and wayi' to fight
Lhem, said thaI, i I, is very rare Lhat
the people who spread t.he viruses
are caught.
The CVIA is developing guide-
lines that companies can follow to
reduce the risk of infection. Their
main recommendation is Lhat 'safe
data-processillg' be practiscd . Thi s
involves a screenillg of all interfac-
ing machines ttl determine if tlley
have recentlv be('n involved in in-
put/OUtPllt infecLed machines,
and pose a risk . Till" number of
OPPs (Data Processing Partners)
by Carolyn Anglin
Welcome back , or welcome to uni-
versity. For those of you who, like
me, have always enjoyed games, puz-
zles, and all those other fun ways of
pushing that grey rnatLer ill odd di-
rections, here's a sampliJlg of what
I've picked up over Lhe years .
1. You have a four minut.e timer
and a seven rninu('-e Limer. Measure
nine minutes.
2. Is it legal in North Carolina for
a man to marry his widow's sisLer?
3. What letLer is a bird? _ What.
, letter is a verb of debL? What. 2 let-
ters are the condition of winter pave-
ment? __ WhaL two lel.Lers name a
written composition? _ What 2 let-
ters make a word meaning 1,0 surpass
others'? _
4. If you had only one match, and
entered a room in which there was
a kerosene lamp, an oil burner, and
a wood stove, which would you lighl.
first?
5. Here's one for the remedial
math class: Take two apples from
three apples, and what do you have'?
6. How many animals of each
species did Noah take on the ark
with him?
7. There are three jugs conLaining
five, seven and nine liLres of water
(or beer, if that wi 11 gi ve you more
incentive) respectively. How can you
end up with six litres of water or
beer in the seven litre jug?
8. OTTFFSS_ : What is the next
Ipt.l.cr in t.he sp.qll
p
nce?
For these next ones, you have to
determine what word(s) the picture
represents. For example:
STAND
I
Here goes -
1. i i
o 0
= I understand
2. ECNALG
3. R/E/A/D/I/N/G
4. 0
Mary Brown, B. A.
John Doe, Ed.
Jane Adams, B. Comm.
5 . SIDED
There are loLs mor!' wilerI' thes('
came rrom, if pcoph> for some
strange reason bappen 1,0 enjoy
them. ThesE' next I;wo are not only
for Lhe Chern. Eng's among us:
6. HiHoAg (what chemical
formula is this?)
7. Fe+
Fe+ Fe+
Fe+ Fe+
Fe+
Answers will appear 111 Lhe next
Issue.
My .final tidbit is not a puzzle. In
fact, you don't have to do any work
at all! Just keep this ill mind when
you DO hav(> lots of work :
Why Worrv?
There are only two Ihing::: 10
worry about : _. either you are well
or you are sick. If you are well, then
there is nothing to worry about.
But if you are sick, there are only
two things to worry about: .- either
you will get well or you will die.
If you geL well, there is nothing to
worry about.
If you die, there are only two
things to worry about: - either you
will go to heaven or go to hell. If
you go to heaven, there is nothing
to worry about.
But if you go to hell. you'll be
so busy shaking hands with all your
friends, you won't have time to
worry. So why worry'?
- Anonymous
Have fun.
September 30, 1988 Iron Warrior Page 15
Engineering Applications:
by Dave Petro
Wit.h the OHoberfest seasun al-
most upon us, it. is time again for
the standard preparation . Dust.
off that old green hat that you've
puked on at least three years in
a row, filld those pants w'ith that
square foot mustard stain from your
first Ok toberfest sausage, and pu II
out those heavy tread shoes so you
won't knock youri'elf 0111. on the heer
drenched dance fioor like you did
last year . Although Lhese" arc ac-
cepted pre-fest art iviti('s YOIl r('a.lly
won'L be prepared II n lei'S you have
studied t.he OkLoh(>r[('st 1'"loud.
This first engine('ring (lpplicat,iolls
column examines OkLobPr[('i'L and
develops a sLochast.ic mouel of t\t(,
imbibing engineer. The lJI odel Il sed
provides insight int.o the exrwrt.ed
time spent aL a kw of the OkLo-
berkst acti vi ties. The an a lysi s PN-
formed uses basic prill cipl es of prob-
ability and Markov proc('s;)('s,
Backgrou'nd
Markov model s a rc useflll for an-
alyzing melllOryl ess s.vst.erns with a
finite' number of states, A system
state is a measu rement or set. of mea-
suremenLs I hat. will rompl('t,e ly d(,-
scribe' t,hc c(mdit.ion of a system. A
l1Ie'lnory 1('5s syst.en I chall gel> slates
without knowlpdge of hC' previolls
st.ates,
The objective' of Markovian ana l-
ysis is 1.0 determine the probabilit.y
of wing in sp(>cifir sUlfc's.
Conditiona l staLe' transition prob-
abilitiC's a re n'qllirpd ill ordC'r 10 I1 S('
a Markov fll Ode!, Thes(' sl ics
just describe wit.h what prohahilit)
t.he willl('(l\'(' one statr ilnd
en CPr an 0 t 11(' r .
Assumptions
Two asslllllptions miISt. be made
to all ow Markovian allalysis of an
(>ngifleer at. The first
assumption is t hat (l plumllleT ig
a memory legs system. (Basetl on
my recollections on til(> rnoflling af-
t.er this assllmpt.ion is almosl, valid!)
The second assumption requin' cl is
that an engineer is a simpl e organ-
ism wiLh only a finite number of
staLes, (Thi s lS a widely held opin-
ion amotlg n\C'Jnhr('s of severa l 1)t.I\('r
f ac IJ I ties, )
The Model
In Q1Ir model , the carousing plu(n-
mer may be involved in onc of many
Oktoberfest act.ivities whi ch we will
treat 1\.S states. st.ate corre-
s ponds to a sillgle OkLoberft"st activ-
ity. He can br lii::- fri ends.
dancing, drinking, yelling, burping
or jllsL plain offending peo!>le. To
simplify analysis all I,hat just counLs
(lS one staLe, statC' c, for carous-
iug. Other valid sLates for t lw drink-
ing engineer include, going for beer
(st.att" b), in the washroom (sLate' w)
or at t.he schnitzel st,and (state s),
Successful Oktoberfesting
where E
the state
probability vecLor
the state
transition matrix
12/83
Beer Stand
(State B)
Washroom
(State W)
1 1/83
)
(
16/88
11 / 8
1 1/39
Sch n itzel
Stand
(State S)
12/88
and T
ow con, id('r thl' staLe prohabil-
ity vecLor , E', aft<'f a s('r()rJd <;1 (It f'
t.ransition. Thic:; IIe'W v('(' t,or call 1)(>
(' x p rcss<'d ,
E' , = T ' E' = T ' T ' E
III order 10 g'l Lhe eqllilibrium
tate probabilily \'('rlor, we ne d to
obtain a high power of I hC' rnalrix
T. USllall:. T convNgC's quickly <lnd
(l ste'ady state vall1C' can 1)(' achi('ved.
Conclusions
A j\ larkov lllodC'1 nf an engin('er
aL Oktol)('rft" ,t. r<'\'('akd t.hal tillH'
spent. on each activity \\' (1<; (I follows :
'arol1sing - GOo'"
- 12/'il
Grtt.ing BC'N - 16(';,
SrilllitZc.>1 - Il on
Pigllre I COllt.aIllS (l st.at,e Lransi-
t ion diagram describing t.h(' possi -
ble staLes, t ransitions and tlw co rre-
sponding trallsiLiollal probabilit.ies.
Let 1,( i j) represenl t,he probahil i ly
of a sLate transitioll frolll statp i t ()
st.ate j.
The sy mbol ic eq 1I i v;tiCIl t of I. Ii is
equat ion IS,
Using t.his lllUdd. you ran now'
adj list you r ow 11 persoll al condi-
tional st.ale' transit.ion probabilit.ies
III achi(,v(' l11i1xillll1l1l time spenL
on carollslng Thes(' calclliations
may Lake a lit I 1(' tinl(> i'I\.\'ay frol11
your st.ud ies. hut rC'nH'rllbt'r ,II)I/'f Ii I
<("11001 (]I f III fhl 11'111/ Ilf '//)/11' (duo/-
fllll/,
( [
a COl1d i tional st.a 1,(' tril mn t,IOII
ahil it.y. cOllsiclC'r t.he enp;inc'c'r
hc' i<: in Ihl' (';lrnl1<:illfT <.:f;d(,. l'I'''n
('ach complcLiol1 ur a h('('r, h('
drink I hC' 1I( 'xl Ofll' Oil 1111' I "hl(' , go
buy (lI101 l1<'r ()iIC', or all) (If t II(' ell h<'r
(lcti"if 1';(1ch of I lIa >.;
(If;f;(lciatC'd ",ilh il i1 prtlhahilit ." Th('
fC'i't.ivp l!light 11<1,'(' to g<'l
more beer at a ral C' of oure ('\,NY
four b('ers . Tbif-l corresponds t.o ;t
transit. ional probahilit.y of 1/ 4.
Note that Lhe HIl1l1 of al l I,he t ral1-
sitional probabilit.ies for lC'aving a
specific st.ate equals 1. In oth r
words, the engineer always If'aves
the current stat.e but may recnter it.
in t he next instant. ,
The Analysis
There are several ways for the
slobbering sot to enter a specifi c ac-
t.ivity. He could ellter a carousing
stat.e by returning from allY of tlte
other activities or by just cont.inuin g
to carouse. In thi s case, tbe proba-
bility of being in state c can he ex-
pressed as follows,
Pr(e)' = Pr(c) *t(c,c)
+ Pr(w) *t(w,c)+
Pr(b) *t(b,c)
+ Pr(s) *t(s,c) (1)
In words, the new probability of
being in a carousing stat.e' is <,qual
to t he sum of t he probabilities of be-
ing in any of the previous states and
changing to the carousing staLe.
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