The IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers) Transactions on Electronics announces a forthcoming special section on Recent Progress in Electromagnetic Theory and Its Application to be published in January 2018. The purpose of this special section is to present a collection of original papers that give an overview of recent progress of research and development in...

I knew that a large proportion of what we write is not read by anyone, except those we force to read it. Although it is a little bit painful to know that only a few people is reading this section:-), as a new Editor-in-Chief I have to mention that our IEICE Transactions of Communications are entering a new era based on changes successfully begun by previous editorial team. The team started IEIC...

There has been an increasing interest in recent years in developing and using computer-based tests in educational assessment. To replace pap er-based tests with computer-based ones, the standa rds for developing computerized-assessme nt (International Test Commission., 2004 ) requires equivalent test scores to be established for the new computer-based test and the conventional paper-based test....

Lily Laiho of the Biomedical Engineering department. Both professors were useful consultants regarding the marketing and manufacturing of a prototype device. I would lastly like to thank Garrett Gudgel, Michael Schier, and Tim Grijalva, who helped me to actually finish the prototype device. They helped me machine housings, optimize code, and use Mechanical Engineering resources that are normall...

In this paper a method for automatic controller synthesis based on Genetic Programming (GP) is presented. We propose a GP algorithm linked with Matlab/Simulink, a well known tool amongst control engineers. The GP algorithm performs its evolutionary steps to create controllers, whilst Matlab/Simulink evaluates these controllers for their appropriateness. The engineer no longer needs design rules...

D ire predictions about the soaring cost of semiconductor test are all too familiar. Two factors primarily drive this cost: the number of test patterns applied to each chip and the time it takes to run each pattern. For example, typical semiconductor testing for each chip involves a set of 1,000 to 5,000 test patterns—sets of input values and their associated (expected) output values. These tes...

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The research aim was to develop an understanding of information needs characteristics for word co-occurrence based search result filters (facets). No prior research has been identified into what enterprise searchers may find useful for exploratory search and why. Various word co-occurrence techniques were applied to results from sample queries performed on industry membership content. The resul...

We present two case studies of cross-community collaborations of museum educators, engineers from industry, and undergraduate engineering students tasked with co-designing engineering challenges for a science center’s drop-in engineering tinkering program. Each collaboration worked over a semester to research, brainstorm, design, develop, implement, and refine design challenges that represent a...