VOLUME 2 : NUMBER 33 : AUGUST 17, 1984 BETH HENSON'S RETIREMENT AUG 2 8 1984 VCC-VANCOUVER VOCATIONAL INSTITUTE LIBRARY After 42 years of service with the Vancouver School Board and Vancouver Vocational Institute, Beth Henson is retiring at the end of August. Tickets for her retirement dinner, to be held in the WI Dining Room on 1984 August 21 at 18:00, are now available. Please call Kim Cabral at 681-8111, Local 246, if you would like one. The menu for this gala affair is: Avocado Pear with Crab Consomme with Sherry Rib Eye Roast, Yorkshire Pudding Fresh Vegetables and Potatoes in Season French Pastry Coffee the bar will be open for wine. TICKETS, $12.50 per person. NOTE: We would be delighted to see you at the Cocktail hour - 16:00 - 18:00 if you can't make the dinner. THANK YOU A tip of the hat and a big thanks to Drafting Department students David Foote and Enzo Fratino - on 1984 August 10 David was responsible for the apprehension of a bicycle thief who was attempting to remove a cycle from the WI Campus. On 1984 August 02 Enzo was a big help to the Campus Security when they were confronted with a problem that required extra help. It is nice to know that there are those who still care when urgent help is needed. GC JOB OPPORTUNITY CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION - Confidential Secretary to the Bursar and Director of Administrative Services - administrative position providing a monthly salary range of $1,668 to $2,029. Apply in writing by 1984 August 22. mucouvm COMMUNITY ca±EGE=jyfvp> Vancouver Vocational Institute SPARKING LITERACY The Sixth Transmountain Regional Conference of the International Reading Association will be held in Medicine Hat on 1984 September 20, 21, and 22. Early registration is encouraged. Further information and pre-registration forms will be posted m the Library. REGISTRATION SERVICES Registration Services is now processing all applications via our new computerized on-line registration system. You may have also noticed that the buff coloured "starter cards" were recently printed m pink. We have received a number of complaints that the new pink "starter cards" do not photocopy well, and as a result, we will be reverting back to the buff coloured cards once our current stock has been depleted. JV SIMON ERASER UNIVERSITY - Part-Time Graduate Studies in Engineering SFU is establishing a graduate studies program in Engineering which is oriented toward the working engineer. Courses will be offered in the evenings, leading to an M Eng. based on course work plus an industrial project. Although we do not expect formal approval of the program until early 1985 we can offer a course in Fall 1984 on a special basis. You register for it as a "special student" which normally means you do not receive any credit towards a degree. However, we synchronization; spectral shaping codes, partial response, PST, Miller code, adaptive equalization; sequence decoding by Viterbi algorithm. Instructor: J. K. Cavers Time: Tuesdays and Wednesdays — 6:30-8'30 p.m. Fall Semester — 9 September 1984 to 7 December 1984 and are admitted to the program, we will give retroactive credit. Admission Requirements: Bachelor's degree with cumulative grade point average of at least 3.0 (B). Students whose undergraduate degrees are not in Engineering will be admitted on a case by case basis. will retain a record of marks If you subsequently apply The course, "Techniques in Digital Communications" Enrolment Limit: Class size will be limited to 20 will, for Fall 1984 only, be offered under the Computing Science title CMPT 892 Advanced Seminar Topics: students CMPT 892 Techniques of Digital Communications athletic fee). Fee: $150 (includes $24 student activity fee and $9 Modulation and detection techniques for digital Registration: Students should register immediately transmission: complex notation for carrier systems; optimum detection principles, comparison of (e.g.) since Fall semester registration is currently underway. To register, or for more information about the Graduate Program, telephone Darrell Zarn, Administrative Assistant, Faculty of Engineering Science MPSK, FSK, MSK, TFM, Manchester; channel impairments, random phase and gain, restricted bandwidth, non linearities; carrier and bit (604) 291-4371.