FAU Libraries Media Center - Videographies, Engineering

VH 3093 ABC / ABM
Summary: ABC/ABM expert Gary Cokins, Principal Consultant for EDS, describes how ABC identifies and computes the costs of activities and processes. He explains how ABM uses ABC data to direct processes and their constituents activities, then evaluates those activities to support things like continuous improvement, total quality management, and business process reengineering. Case studies are included in this film. Dr. Douglas Boike, VP of Mercer Management Consulting. 034 Min. VIDEO Subject: MANAGEMENT, ACCOUNTING

VH 5095 Adaptive Neural Networks
Summary: Bernard Widrow discusses the theory and practical use of adaptive neural networks in pattern recognition, associative memory, adaptive control systems and general learning systems. Also discusses the relationship between neural networks and expert systems. 120 Min. VIDEO 1988

VH 3437 Advanced Addressing Modes
Summary: Description of Address Register Indirect (ARI) with Displacement; ARI with Index and Displacement; PC with Displacement and PC with Index and Displacement; Position Independence, example; LEA and PEA instructions. 028 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMPUTERS Series: MC68000

VH 7258 Advanced Composites
Summary: Describes failure analysis of composite materials. Includes discussion of basic ply characterization by five failure strengths. 049 Min. VIDEO 1988

VH 3439 Advanced Example Programs
Summary: Example #1: A 32x32-bit multiply. #2: A 32x32-bit multiply using Robertson's method. #3: A divide with overflow. 018 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMPUTERS Series: MC68000

VH 3438 Advanced Instructions
Summary: Descriptions of the MOVEM instruction; the LINK, UNLK instructions; the Scc instruction; the DBcc instruction; the TAS instruction; the MOVEP instruction; the MOVE to Status Register instruction; the MOVE to USP instruction; the STOP instruction and the RESET instruction. 025 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMPUTERS Series: MC68000

VH 0848 Aerodynamic Generation of Sound
Summary: Describes the mechanism of sound generation by turbulence resulting from an instability of steady flow, discusses quadropoles in detail, and illustrates the fundamentals of jet noise generation. 044 Min. VIDEO 1969 Series: FLUID MECHANICS

VH 5097 Associative Memory
Summary: Examines stability and encoding properties of two layer non-linear feedback neural networks. Redirectionality forward and backward information flow is introduced in neural nets to produce two way associative search for stored associations. 120 Min. VIDEO 1988

VH 3427 Basic Addressing Modes
Summary: This section describes the purpose of each of the basic addressing modes used in the MC68000. Explains how each basic addressing mode locates data within a register or memory. Identifies the addressing modes that require extension words. 027 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMPUTERS Series: MC68000

VH 3428 Basic Instructions
Summary: This section describes the operation of the data instructions: Move, Exchange, Swap, Extend, and No Operation. Describes the operation of the integer arithmetic instructions: Add, Subtract, Compare, Test, and Clear. Describes the operation of the program control instruction: Branch Condition Code, Branch Always, Branch to Subroutine, and Return from Subroutine. 024 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMPUTERS Series: MC68000

VH 7642 Big Dig, The
Summary: Documents the building of the most expensive highway project in American history, an underground road through Boston to replace that city's elevated central artery. 060 Min. VIDEO 2002

VH 0849 Boundary Layer Control
Summary: David C. Hazen describes and illustrates by experiment various methods of boundary layer control, with particular reference to aeronautics, and discusses in detail techniques for reducing drag and increasing lift. 025 Min. VIDEO 1965 Series: FLUID MECHANICS

VH 7641 Bridging New York
Summary: Tells the story of Othmar Ammann, the greatest bridge-builder of the twentieth century. Ammann engineered more than half of the eleven major bridges which connect the New York metropolitan area, including the Bayonne, Triborough, Bronx-Whitestone, Throgs Neck, and Verrazano-Narrows bridges. 060 Min. VIDEO 2002

VH 8407 Buckminster Fuller: The Lost Interviews, Volume 1
Summary: In this program and series of interviews, Buckminster Fuller reveals the global vision that enabled him to foresee the direction of major events of the future. It's a chance to hear first hand Fuller's brilliant theories on the future of mankind and his world. The engineer, architect and philosopher Fuller points out how mankind is moving from the tangible world which can be evidenced by sight, sound, smell and touch, into the invisible world of energy, icons, electrical forces, etc. He states that "man must learn to think for himself, rather than follow blindly what he has been taught." 140 Min. VIDEO 1996

VH 8408 Buckminster Fuller: The Lost Interviews, Volume 2
Summary: In this program and series of interviews, Buckminster Fuller reveals the global vision that enabled him to foresee the direction of major events of the future. 140 Min. VIDEO 1996

VH 8409 Buckminster Fuller: The Lost Interviews, Volume 3
Summary: In this program and series of interviews, Buckminster Fuller reveals the global vision that enabled him to foresee the direction of major events of the future. 140 Min. VIDEO 1996

VH 7154 Business and Residential Recycling and Waste Minimization
Summary: Describes how companies can divert office, industrial, and manufacturing waste from the solid waste stream as well as residential initiatives. Public support as well as logistics and costs are considered. 050 Min. VIDEO 2001 Series: OUR URBAN ENVIRONMENT: SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT

VH 3100 CAD/CAM Workstations
Summary: Using case studies from industry, this video shows trends in CAD/CAM workstation development and uses. Case studies: Keystone Engineering, Storage Tek, Ridge Tool Company, Eaton Corporation Controls Division. 028 Min. VIDEO

VH 5698 Carlo Scarpa
Summary: Scarpa's unique ability to successfully incorporate his own designs into historical renovation projects is shown at several locations. In Venice, craftsmen and fellow architects fondly remember Scarpa's endless experimentation with color and textures. 058 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: ARCHITECTURE

VH 7457 Cars of the Future
Summary: Examines the technologies behind the cars of the future: how electric cars will compete with hydrogen, hybrids, fuel cells and relatives of the intern al combustion engine to provide the characteristics of the everyday car. 030 Min. VIDEO 1998

VH 0842 Cavitation
Summary: Shows examples of caviation on hydrofoils, marine propellers, pumps, turbines and dam spillways. Varies flow speed, hydrofoil incidence, ambient pressure and propeller RPM to demonstrate their effects on the strength and extent of the cavitating region. 031 Min. VIDEO 1968 Series: FLUID MECHANICS

VH 0846 Channel Flow of a Compressible Liquid
Summary: Schlieren flow visualization and simultaneous display of the pressure distribution along a channel of varying area demonstrate the phenomena of choking, blocking and starting. Supersonic flow, Mach waves, normal shock waves and supersonic compression are shown. 029 Min. VIDEO 1966 Series: FLUID MECHANICS

VH 0978 Cities: Living in a Machine
Summary: Explores the problems facing society in building the cities of tomorrow. Not only must the environment be saved, but the city has to be designed to serve man. A model of a future city is shown as is the city of Brasilia and the problems it has in surviving today. Discusses the philosophy of designer-philosopher, Dr. Appleton Spilhaus. 018 Min. VIDEO 1976 Subject: ENVIRONMENT

VH 7308 Collapse: Failure by Design
Summary: When builders use innovative materials or designs, sometimes the result is disastrous. Explore the flaws of four structures that failed the test of integrity and collapsed. 026 Min. VIDEO 2001

VH 1029 Committed to Leadership With Neal Armstrong
Summary: Recruitment video. 020 Min. VIDEO

VH 5096 Competitive and Cooperative Learning Systems
Summary: This tutorial outlines binary, linear, and continuous non-linear approaches to neural networks. The additive and shunting short term memory or activation equations are described. 120 Min. VIDEO 1988

VH 3974/97 Computer Graphics Conference Proceedings, 1997
Summary: This videotape documents papers and panels presented at the SIGGRAPH 97 conference, held August 3-8, 1997 in Los Angeles, CA. A growing number of technical papers submitted to and accepted by SIGGRAPH conferences and workshops utilize video in their presentations. Printed documentation cannot adequately represent these time based research efforts. This videotape publication represents our best efforts to document these contribution to the field. 125 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: COMPUTERS

VH 3974/98 Computer Graphics Conference Proceedings, 1998
Summary: Continues the SIGGRAPH conference proceedings number previously issued annually as part of "Computer Graphics", (PER-QA76.A5C6). Contains computer graphics presentations with narration. 095 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: COMPUTERS

VH 3974/99 Computer Graphics Conference Proceedings, 1999
Summary: Continues the SIGGRAPH conference proceedings number previously issued annually as part of "Computer Graphics", (PER-QA76.A5C6). Contains computer graphics presentations with narration. 142 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: COMPUTERS

VH 3974/00 Computer Graphics Conference Proceedings, 2000
Summary: Continues the SIGGRAPH conference proceedings number previously issued annually as part of "Computer Graphics", (PER-QA76.A5C6). Contains computer graphics presentations with narration. 142 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: COMPUTERS

VH 3974/01 Computer Graphics Conference Proceedings, 2001
Summary: Continues the SIGGRAPH conference proceedings number previously issued annually as part of "Computer Graphics", (PER-QA76.A5C6). Contains computer graphics presentations with narration. 142 Min. VIDEO 2001 Subject: SCIENCE, PHYS.

VH 1073 Concepts and Issues-Engineering
Summary: See VH 1074, "Demonstrations and Applications Engineering". Volume one discusses current issues in mechanical engineering. Volume two presents demonstrations of several types of engineering software. 073 Min. VIDEO 1989 Series: WINNING ENGINEERING STRATEGIES FOR THE 90'S

VH 2274 Connections: AT&T's Vision of the Future
Summary: This video is a futuristic look at how new products may be used in daily life. Featured are a videophone and a television screen that makes shopping at home as easy as talking on the phone. Shows how computer technology will change and affect our lives. 014 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: COMMUNICATION, COMPUTERS

VH 0853 Deformation of Continuous Media
Summary: Explains deformation and its resolution into component motions. Presents an analysis of deforming patterns, marked on a shear flow in a stationary reference frame and in a reference frame rotating with the pattern. 038 Min. VIDEO 1963 Series: FLUID MECHANICS

VH 1074 Demonstrations & Applications-Engineering
Summary: See VH 1073, "Concepts and Issues Engineering". Volume one discusses current issues in mechanical engineering. Volume two presents demonstrations of several types of engineering software. 073 Min. VIDEO 1989 Series: WINNING ENGINEERING STRATEGIES FOR THE 90'S

VH 5758 Design for Manufacture
Summary: Presents practices that strengthen the product development process by focusing on component manufacturing and assembly in the initial stages of product design rather than waiting until constraining decisions have been made that are expensive to undo. 240 Min. VIDEO 1994

VH 3190 Design for Manufacturing
Summary: Introduction, Case Studies, The future of DFM. 044 Min. VIDEO

VH 3436 DMA Control & Synchronous Bus
Summary: Describes the purpose of the Bus Arbitration Control pins. Explains the bus arbitration protocol for transferring bus mastership. Describe the Synchronous Bus Control pins and the connection of a synchronous peripheral to the MC68000. 018 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMPUTERS Series: MC68000

VH 0449 Down in the Dumps
Summary: Examines the technological approaches to the garbage dilemma, including composting, resource recovery, and high-tech incinerators. Also discusses the public reaction to the location of new waste treatment facilities. 026 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: ENVIRONMENT, ECOLOGY

VH 1369 Down to the Last Drop
Summary: Discusses ways to conserve and protect water in order to assure a plentiful supply for the future. 026 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: ENVIRONMENT Series: CURRENTS

VH 1935 Dynamic Analysis
Summary: Recorded under license off-air from BBC Open University Broadcast. 024 Min. VIDEO 1983 Series: ENGINEERING MECHANICS: SOLIDS

VH 3441 Educational Computer Board Lab
Summary: Description of the ECB, components, setup, and bringing up power. Review of TUTOR commands. Executing a program. 023 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMPUTERS Series: MC68000

VH 7640 Electric Nation
Summary: Documents how electricity became a part of American daily life. 060 Min. VIDEO 2002

VH 5757 Empire State Building, The
Summary: An historical documentary about the Empire State Building, also known a s the "Cathedral of Dreams" during its construction during the Depression. 050 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: ARCHITECTURE

VH 0832 Eulerian and Lagrangian Descriptions in Fluid Mechanics
Summary: Uses a computer-animated film to illustrate the two principal ways of describing fluid motion. Shows displacement, velocity, and acceleration fields, and the substantial derivative. 027 Min. VIDEO 1967 Series: FLUID MECHANICS

VH 3435 Example Programs
Summary: Four example programs. The student is able to explain the effects of the instructions within individual programs that: 1. Move a block of data. 2.Add two extended precision values. 3.Sequence a list of data. 4.Add data to a sequenced list. 019 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMPUTERS Series: MC68000

VH 3431 Exception Concepts
Summary: Describe two general types of exceptions. Explains reset exception processing. Describe the general sequence for exception processing. Defines exception vectors. Explains a detailed exception processing sequence. 018 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMPUTERS Series: MC68000

VH 3092 Expert Systems in Manufacturing
Summary: Expert Systems are defined in the context of Artificial Intelligence (Al) and Knowledge - Based Systems (KBS). Case Studies: Expert Systems and Design - Dow Corning Wright (Arlington, TN), uses "Knowledge-Based Engineering, " or KBE, to create custom hip replacement implants in two to four hours. 032 Min. VIDEO

VH 3432 External Exceptions
Summary: Describes Interrupt exception processing: IPL pins operation, Obtaining the interrupt exception vector, Interfacing multiple interrupt devices to the MC68000. Explain Bus Error exception processing assertion of the Bus Error pin, Bus Error stack structure. 023 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMPUTERS Series: MC68000

VH 0980 Fiber Optics
Summary: The principle of fiber optics is illustrated, many of the current applications are demonstrated, and how optical fibers are manufactured is depicted. 020 Min. VIDEO 1988

VH 0843 Flow Instabilities
Summary: Shows surface waves generated by wind in a water channel to illustrate the general features of flow instability. 027 Min. VIDEO 1968 Series: FLUID MECHANICS

VH 0837 Flow Visualization
Summary: Stephen J. Kline demonstrates the use flow visualization in solving engineering problems and establishing mathematical models for analysis of flow fields. Explains the kinematic concepts linking visual observations to the velocity field in steady and unsteady flow. 031 Min. VIDEO 1963 Series: FLUID MECHANICS

VH 0838 Fluid Mechanics of Drag (Part 1)
Summary: Four videocassettes, VH 0838-0841. A four-part instructional series which utilizes film clips and classroom presentations to illustrate the fluid mechanics of drag. 021 Min. VIDEO 1960 Series: FLUID MECHANICS

VH 0839 Fluid Mechanics of Drag (Part 2)
Summary: See VH 838 "Fluid Mechanics of Drag (Part 1)". 031 Min. VIDEO 1960 Series: FLUID MECHANICS

VH 0840 Fluid Mechanics of Drag (Part 3)
Summary: See VH 838 "Fluid Mechanics of Drag (Part 1)". 036 Min. VIDEO 1960 Series: FLUID MECHANICS

VH 0841 Fluid Mechanics of Drag (Part 4)
Summary: See VH 838 "Fluid Mechanics of Drag (Part 1)". 024 Min. VIDEO 1960 Series: FLUID MECHANICS

VH 1936 Free Body Diagrams
Summary: Speakers, Tony Bright, John Dixon, Roger Gibson. Uses models and problems to discuss how pin-jointed structures are effected by gravity, buoyancy, elasticity and friction. 045 Min. VIDEO 1979 Series: ENGINEERING MECHANICS: SOLIDS

VH 0830 Fundamentals of Boundary Layers
Summary: Illustrates boundary layer concepts and phenomena using demonstration-experiments in water and glycerine. 024 Min. VIDEO 1968 Series: FLUID MECHANICS

VH 7000 Genetic Engineering: Dreams and Nightmares, Part 1
Summary: Part of a three part series presented by David Cove, coauthor of a primer of genetics. Dr. Cove addresses the mechanics of DNA replication and the subject of genetic engineering. This episode discusses how organisms replicate. Dr. David Cove describes the structure and function of DNA as he covers how coding sequences and promoters work together to create proteins from amino acids. DNA's remarkable suitability as a medium for duplicating the blueprints of life both rapidly and accurately in a simple yet precise language is emphasized. 016 Min. VIDEO 2001

VH 7001 Genetic Engineering: Dreams and Nightmares, Part 2
Summary: This episode introduces the process of genetic engineering. How does DNA differ from normal DNA? Can a bullet really implant genes? And why is a gene for bioluminescence so valuable to researchers? This program offers these and other questions. 014 Min. VIDEO 2001

VH 7002 Genetic Engineering: Dreams and Nightmares, Part 3
Summary: This episode surveys past and probable future applications of genetic engineering while calmly presenting possible benefits and liabilities. Many scientist and consumers believe that genetic engineering will vastly improve life on Earth, while others believe it will spell the ruin of the planet. What are the facts behind the rhetoric and hysteria? 021 Min. VIDEO 2001

VH 7599 Golden Gate Bridge, The
Summary: The story of the Golden Gate Bridge, one of the foremost manmade tourist attractions in the United States, which critics said could never be built. 050 Min. VIDEO 1995

VH 8073 Grassberg Mine, The: Goldmine in the Clouds
Summary: At 14, 000 feet, in the remote jungles of New Guinea is the largest gold and copper deposit in the world. Getting to that deposit and building a profitable mine was one of the biggest engineering challenges ever. In 1975 an American mining company took up the challenge and using the most sophisticated technology available conquered the jungle and build the Grasberg Mine. 052 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: ARCHITECTURE, GEOLOGY Series: SUPER STRUCTURES OF THE WORLD

VH 7431 Great Wall Of China, The
Summary: Film attempts to reveal the true history of the building of the various pieces of the Great Wall Of China. 050 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: ASIAN STUDIES

VH 3426 Hardware Overview
Summary: Describes the input and output characteristics of the MC68000 pins and Clock specifications and their relationship to data transfers; the memory access operation using the Asynchronous Bus Control pins; Describes the operation of the Function Code pins. 019 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMPUTERS Series: MC68000

VH 7157 Helicopter Tech
Summary: Explores the history of vertical flight, tracing the development of helicopters from the early visionaries to the latest experiments. 047 Min. VIDEO 1997

VH 6169 Hoover Dam
Summary: The dramatic story of how an ambitious, hard-driving engineer turned a ragtag army of unemployed into the nation's most celebrated workforce. Archival footage and photographs, including interviews with witnesses and historians. 060 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: U.S. HISTORY

VH 7206 How A Car Is Built
Summary: Takes viewer down the Ford Mustang high-tech assembly line to see how people and machines work together to transform giant rolls of steel into gleaming new cars. 033 Min. VIDEO 1995

VH 3091 Implementing QS-9000
Summary: This program offers ideas on implementing QS-9000, the new North American Automotive supplier quality standard. In the primer, Radley Smith, a certified quality standards registrar who served as Ford's representative on AIAG's QA-9000 development committee, presents key points about the standard. You'll also learn the importance of QS-9000 internal audit function from CynthiaZollo-Davis, a consultant in international quality standards and operations. 035 Min. VIDEO

VH 3434 Intermediate Instructions
Summary: Explains the operation of the instructions in each of the following categories: 1. Data Movement 2.Integer Arithmetic 3.Logic Operations 4. Program Control 5. Shift and Rotate 6. BCD Arithmetic 7. Bit Manipulation. 031 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMPUTERS Series: MC68000

VH 3433 Internal Exceptions
Summary: Describes the conditions that result in illegal and unimplemented instructions. List the privileged instruction and explain the conditions which cause privilege violations. Describes trace mode operation. Indicates how system calls operate with TRAP instruction. Explains data error handling of the Divide Unsigned, Divide Signed, TRAP on Overflow, and Check instructions. Describes the cause and effect of address errors. Indicates the meaning of the program counter value stacked for each type of exception. 018 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMPUTERS Series: MC68000

VH 8076 International Space Station: Cities in Space
Summary: In 1998 construction began 250 miles above the earth on the International Space Station. Astronauts have been doubling as construction workers on one of the largest projects ever conceived. It will take 45 space missions to provide the materials necessary to build the station. In the end, it will weigh over 1 million pounds and cover the size of two football fields. 052 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: ARCHITECTURE Series: SUPER STRUCTURES OF THE WORLD

VH 3424 Introduction To The MC68000
Summary: Describes the evolution of the MC68000 Family of Microprocessors; the basic system diagram of the MC68000. Describes the memory diagram and rules of accessing memory. Defines the integer data memory formats. Defines clock, bus and instruction cycles. Defines assertion, negation, and rescindable. 018 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMPUTERS Series: MC68000

VH 8074 Kansai International Airport, The
Summary: The Kansai International Airport near Osaka, Japan, is an engineering marvel. It was built on a man-made island, and it is immense. The only problem is that this amazing airport is sinking. 052 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: ARCHITECTURE Series: SUPER STRUCTURES OF THE WORLD

VH 8077 London Underground Tunnel, The
Summary: Examines the history of London's subway system (known as the Tube), the world's first underground railway which was opened on January 10, 1863. Discusses some of the challenges faces in design and construction, its uses during World War II and its impact on present day life in London. Expansion lines were added using a cut and cover method of construction. This underground system of rail lines is still growing through the present day with the latest line expected to carry an incredible 30, 000 people per hour in each direction. 052 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: ARCHITECTURE Series: SUPER STRUCTURES OF THE WORLD

VH 0834 Low-Reynolds-Number Flow
Summary: Geoffrey I. Taylor describes and discusses characteristics of the motion of fluids using a variety of models and demonstrates how in low Reynolds number flows a rough estimate is provided by the Reynolds number scale of the relative importance of inertia and viscosity. 032 Min. VIDEO 1966 Series: FLUID MECHANICS

VH 7620 Mach One: The Sound Barrier
Summary: Tells the story of how the sound barrier was broken in 1947, opening the way to supersonic flight. Includes interviews with Chuck Yeager, Mac McKendry, James Young, Jack Russell, Walt Williams, Bob Cardenas, and Bob Hoover. 049 Min. VIDEO 1996

VH 0847 Magnetohydrodynamics
Summary: Describes and illustrates interactions between electromagnetic and velocity fields which are central to magnetohydrodynamics; discusses changes in pressure fields and changes of vorticity. 026 Min. VIDEO 1966 Series: FLUID MECHANICS

VH 7155 Managing Greenwaste and Special Waste
Summary: Keeping greenwaste and nonbiodegradable, bulky, and hazardous wastes out of the municipal solid waste stream is a growing priority in the U.S. Experts on recycling discuss the technical, economic, and political challenges of backyard and community composting, underscoring the importance of increasing public awareness through education efforts and publicity. 049 Min. VIDEO 2001 Series: OUR URBAN ENVIRONMENT: SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT

VH 7458 Mastering the College Experience: Thinking Creatively
Summary: Part of a 26 part course designed to increase the student's success in college by assisting him/her in obtaining the skills necessary to achieve his/ her own individual educational objectives. This program explores the topic of creativity and offers exercises and techniques to encourage one's creative thinking. 028 Min. VIDEO 2000

VH 1222 Maxine Singer
Summary: Molecular biologist Maxine Singer discusses genetic research and genetic engineering, popular misconceptions about these activities and about science in general, and the importance of science education of all members of society. Interviewed by Bill Moyers. 029 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 5759 Mechatronics, Tape 1
Summary: Learn mechatronic system design principles, issues in the modeling, analysis, and control of dynamical physical systems; selection and interfacing of sensors and actuators for control purposes; real time computer control of dynamic physical systems, and electronics for mechatronics. 054 Min. VIDEO 1994

VH 5760 Mechatronics, Tape 2
Summary: Learn mechatronic system design principles, issues in the modeling, analysis, and control of dynamical physical systems; selection and interfacing of sensors and actuators for control purposes; real time computer control of dynamic physical systems, and electronics for mechatronics. 054 Min. VIDEO 1994

VH 2727 Modern Marvels: Engineering Disasters
Summary: A look at some of the worst tragedies in human history--disasters that have claimed the lives of hundreds of people on one fell swoop and that might have been prevented. Covers the period from ancient times to the present day in order to tell the stories of these calamities. Includes stories from survivors of plane crashes and industrial accidents. 050 Min. VIDEO 1999

VH 2729 Modern Marvels: Engineering Disasters 3
Summary: This program sweeps through nearly a thousand years of history to tell troubling and sometimes tragic tales of failure. Experts reveal why the famous tower of Pisa took on its characteristic tilt. Archival news footage revisits the 1961 disaster at an experimental nuclear reactor in Idaho Falls, where three men lost their lives to the explosion of an improperly designed core. And veterans of the Soviet space program recall one of its darkest moments, when a crew of three cosmonauts returning from a triumphant stay aboard the Salyet space station were killed. 050 Min. VIDEO 2001

VH 2728 Modern Marvels: More Engineering Disasters
Summary: Explores notable disasters caused by poor planning, negligence, or innovative strategies that didn't work and searches for clues as to what happened, illustrating theories and processes with animated computer graphics. Includes discussions with experts and footage and photos of the events or the aftermath. 050 Min. VIDEO 1999

VH 7031 Modern Movement in Architecture, The
Summary: Examines the Modern Movement in architecture, from its emergence after World War I until World War II. Combines interviews with leading architects, historians, and conservationists with location footage from all over Europe. 053 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: ARCHITECTURE

VH 8075 NORAD: The Eyes of the Free World
Summary: NORAD is the high tech command center that monitors the skies for unidentified aircraft, missile launches, space objects, and even falling space debris. The command center is an incredible 4.5 acre compound that houses 400 military and civilian personnel in 15 buildings, containing offices, a fitness center, chapel, clinic, and barber shop, and it's all underground. 052 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: ARCHITECTURE Series: SUPER STRUCTURES OF THE WORLD

VH 1957 Ocean Engineering Recruiting-F.A.U.
Summary: Recruitment video. 019 Min. VIDEO

VH 2135 One Giant Leap
Summary: One Giant Leap chronicles our efforts to fulfill Kennedy's dream of putting a man on the moon, and the subsequent advances in space technology; from the tragedy of the Apollo 1 mission, to Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon, to the Soviets launching of the world's first space station, and an historic handshake in space. 060 Min. VIDEO 1987 Series: SPACEFLIGHT

VH 5099 Parallel Distributed Processing
Summary: Gives an overview of the Neural Network. Presents the current perspective. 120 Min. VIDEO 1988

VH 0852 Pressure Fields and Fluids Acceleration
Summary: Ascher H. Shapiro uses experiments to show the connection between the accelerations associated with the velocity field and the pressure gradient of a steady flow. Explains that viscous stresses and body forces are unimportant compared with inertial forces. 030 Min. VIDEO 1963 Series: FLUID MECHANICS

VH 0395 Primal Furnace, The
Summary: Describes the types of geothermal resources, the historical uses of geothermal energy, and the techniques which allow its conversion into electricity. 025 Min. VIDEO Subject: GEOLOGY

VH 7304 Principles of Failure Analysis
Summary: Part of a course that presents a practical approach to failure analysis for the non-metallurgist as well as for those who are new to the field or those who want a state of the art update. This segment illustrates major failure types and their possible combinations. Explains fracture, wear, corrosion, distortion, elastic deformation, plastic deformation, part failure, stress-strain, and types of leading. Discusses stress systems that cause fracture: tension, compression, and torsion. 043 Min. VIDEO 1992

VH 2725 Principles of Failure Analysis, Tape 1: General Procedures....
Summary: Part of a course that presents a practical approach to failure analysis for the non-metallurgist as well as for those who are new to the field or those who want a stat of the art update. This segment discusses the stages of failure analysis: data and sample collection, preliminary examination, nondestructive testing, mechanical testing, specimen preparation, macroscopic examination, microscopic examination, metallogoraphic examination, failure identification, chemical analysis, fracture mechanics, simulated service testing, conclusions and recommendations. 042 Min. VIDEO 1992

VH 2726 Principles of Failure Analysis: Failure Analysis, Tape 4
Summary: Part of a course that presents a practical approach to failure analysis for the non-metallurgist as well as for those who are new to the field or those who want a stat of the art update. This segment discusses fatigue failure, difficulties in predicting fatigue life, characteristics and stages of fatigue fracture, variables affecting fatigue life, thermal fatigue, and environment. 058 Min. VIDEO 1992

VH 3425 Programming Model
Summary: Identify the MC68000 register types. Differentiate between address and data registers. Describes the operation of the Stack Pointer Register. Describes the operation of the Status Register. 021 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMPUTERS Series: MC68000

VH 3429 Programming Problems
Summary: Write programs using the MC68000 instructions and addressing modes to solve some fundamental problems. 021 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMPUTERS Series: MC68000

VH 2600 Protecting Florida's Water
Summary: Using the septic tank system to protect Florida's water. 028 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT

VH 5896 Rapid Response Manufacturing
Summary: The increase pace of technology is forcing every company to respond faster. Without pointing fingers, you must eliminate wasted time. 040 Min. VIDEO Series: MANUFACTURING INSIGHTS

VH 0831 Rarefied Gas Dynamics
Summary: Shows the evolution of flow fields as density is varied from continuum levels to the rarefied levels of free-molecule flow. Demonstrates the interaction of free-molecular flows with solid surfaces and portrays the role of the molecular mean-free path. 033 Min. VIDEO 1967 Series: FLUID MECHANICS

VH 7156 Regionalization/Solid Waste Management Success Stories
Summary: With more than half of America's landfills already closed, it is predicted that 22 states will soon run out of landfill capacity. Presents regionalization, the pooling of municipal resources across political boundaries, as a partial solution. Features notable successes in diverting recyclables, greenwaste, and special waste from the municipal solid waste stream. 052 Min. VIDEO 2001 Series: OUR URBAN ENVIRONMENT: SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT

VH 3440 Review
Summary: Summary of Addressing Modes, Instruction Set, and Data Transfer Control Lines. 026 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMPUTERS Series: MC68000

VH 0850 Rheological Behavior of Fluid
Summary: Illustrates the rheological behavior of fluids which do not obey the Navier-Stokes equations. Demonstrates non-Newtonian properties by non-linear steady flows and by the time-dependent viscoelastic behavior of such materials. Contrasts the non-Newtonian behavior with Newtonian fluid behavior in similar experiments. 022 Min. VIDEO 1964 Series: FLUID MECHANICS

VH 1572 Ring of Truth, The-Program 2: Change
Summary: Using everyday examples that are dramatic, exciting & entertaining, Philip Morrison devotes an entire program to this subject, demonstrating in simple experiments that it is true that matter is equivalent to energy. 060 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY Series: RING OF TRUTH, THE

VH 1573 Ring of Truth, The-Program 3: Mapping
Summary: Accurate maps of our world were available centuries before satellite photography. How was this done? Philip Morrison traces the history of mapping, beginning with the ancient Greeks & exploring the many innovations of surveyors, geographers & eventually, satellite technicians. 060 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY, CHEMISTRY Series: RING OF TRUTH, THE

VH 1574 Ring of Truth, The-Program 4: Clues
Summary: Philip Morrison retraces the exciting expedition of a team of geologists searching for the secrets of the Mediterranean's past. Discerning scientific truth from small clues is a process that is carefully examined in this fascinating program. 060 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: CHEMISTRY, ASTRONOMY, PHYSICS, GEOLOGY Series: RING OF TRUTH, THE

VH 1160 Robot Pioneer, A/ Excellence - Lost & Found
Summary: See VH 1159. 060 Min. VIDEO Series: AUTOMATED FACTORY, THE

VH 1159 Robots: Fiction and Reality/Robots on the Telephone Line
Summary: Part of The Automated Factory Series shown on the Discovery Channel. Eight 30 min. programs on four videocassettes, VH 1159-VH 1162. 060 Min. VIDEO Series: AUTOMATED FACTORY, THE

VH 0845 Rotating Flow
Summary: Illustrates the phenomena associated with rotation of homogeneous fluids, including horizontal trajectories in surface gravity waves, low and high-Rossby-number flows around sphere, Taylor walls, normal modes of oscillation, and Rossby waves in a cylindrical annulus. 029 Min. VIDEO 1969 Series: FLUID MECHANICS

VH 0851 Secondary Flow
Summary: Demonstrates secondary flows caused by the imposition of primary-flow pressure gradients on low-momentum fluid in sheer layers. 030 Min. VIDEO 1964 Series: FLUID MECHANICS

VH 5094 Self Organizing Feature Maps
Summary: This tutorial deals with automatic extraction of relevant features from the primary sensory signal or other raw data to constitute a pattern recognition algorithm. 120 Min. VIDEO 1988

VH 1161 Simple is Best/ One Robot - Two Hundred Tasks
Summary: See VH 1159. 060 Min. VIDEO Series: AUTOMATED FACTORY, THE

VH 5895 Simultaneous Engineering
Summary: Defines what Simultaneous Engineering is, and discusses who must be involved with it to make it work, and why it is better than traditional engineering methods. 045 Min. VIDEO Series: MANUFACTURING INSIGHTS

VH 1162 Social Impacts/ Future Trends
Summary: See VH 1159. 060 Min. VIDEO Series: AUTOMATED FACTORY, THE

VH 0833 Stratified Flow
Summary: Robert R. Long presents experiments showing the interface wave between fluids of different densities and internal waves and lee waves in continuously-stratified fluids flowing over various obstacles. He also discusses relevance to channel flows, oceanography, and meteorology. 026 Min. VIDEO 1968 Series: FLUID MECHANICS

VH 7257 Structures
Summary: Presentation of a range of both natural and man-made structures which aid in clarifying the principles underlying the properties of structures (i.e., tension, compression, arches, columns, etc.). 023 Min. VIDEO 1999

VH 7138 Super Bridge
Summary: Follows the four-year construction of the Clark Bridge, spanning the Mississippi River at Alton, Illinois. It is a rare example of what is known as cable-stayed design, an innovative variation on the suspension bridge. Directed by Neil Goodwin. 120 Min. VIDEO 1997

VH 0836 Surface Tension in Fluid Mechanics
Summary: Presents a series of experiments to show that surfaces exert forces. Defines the fundamental boundary conditions governing the effects of these forces. Includes illustrations of nucleation, "wine tears, " swimming bubbles, and high speed pictures of the breakup of water sheets and soap films. 029 Min. VIDEO 1963 Series: FLUID MECHANICS

VH 3430 System Control Pins
Summary: Overview of the System Control pins. Resetting the MC68000; The HALT pin; A hardware example for RESET and HALT and function of Bus Error. 018 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMPUTERS Series: MC68000

VH 7639 Tale of Two Rivers, A
Summary: Shows how Americans harnessed two of its mightiest rivers and put them to work for its citizens. The projects, the Mississippi River's system of levees and floodways and the Colorado River's Hoover Dan, constitute vastly different engineering efforts. 060 Min. VIDEO 2002

VH 2136 Territory Ahead, The
Summary: THE TERRITORY AHEAD examines recent and future developments in space; from the space shuttle program with its implications for the commercial use of space, to President Reagan's vision of the "Star Wars" military defense system, to the colonization of space, and finally to interplanetary probes and the ultimate journey to other star systems. 060 Min. VIDEO 1987 Series: SPACEFLIGHT

VH 7468 Thinking in Skillful Ways
Summary: Presents the components of skillful thinking: creative thinking, clarifying thinking and critical thinking as opposed to the common roadblocks of hasty, sprawling, fuzzy and narrow thinking; characters help each other use skillful thinking to solve problems and make decisions. 021 Min. VIDEO 1995

VH 2133 Thunder in the Skies
Summary: This landmark program documents the early history of man's adventure in space; from the 1926 launching of the first liquid-propelled rocket, to Edwards Air Force Base, where test pilots raced to break the mythical sound barrier, to the mysterious work of the Soviets "Chief Designer" and the earthshaking launch of Sputnik, and culminating in the formation of NASA and Project Mercury. 060 Min. VIDEO 1987 Series: SPACEFLIGHT

VH 1343 To Engineer is Human
Summary: Discusses engineering structural design and failures. 050 Min. VIDEO 1987

VH 2599 To OE Or Not To OE
Summary: This video gives the viewer an overview of the Ocean Engineering program at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). 019 Min. VIDEO Subject: FAU

VH 7430 Towers: The Space Needle To The Stratosphere
Summary: Film of the history of tall building structures from the Space Needle in Seattle to the Stratosphere in Las Vegas. 050 Min. VIDEO 1997

VH 0844 Turbulence
Summary: Illustrates aspects of turbulence, including the effect of Reynolds number on inception and on turbulent flows, increased pressure drop in pipe-flow, efficient mixing, turbulent transport of momentum and solar properties, Reynolds stress, and effects of buoyancy. 029 Min. VIDEO 1969 Series: FLUID MECHANICS

VH 6639 Universe Beneath the Sea
Summary: This program recounts the history of deep submergence and tells of secret Cold War battles fought miles beneath the ocean's surface. Includes the story of the Trieste, the submersible invented in the 1950s that still holds the deepest dive record for a manned vessel. Also recounts the U.S. use of underwater equipment to recover a missing bomb off the coast of Spain and the attempt to recover a sunken Soviet submarine. 050 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: GEOLOGY

VH 7033 Vanishing Points: An Intro. To Architectural Perspective Dra
Summary: Provides a concise demonstration of axonometric, isometric, and one-point and two-point perspective drawing. Complete Title: "Vanishing Points" An Introduction To Architectural Drawing. 020 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: ART, ARCHITECTURE

VH 1934 Velocity Diagrams
Summary: Recorded under license off-air from BBC Open University Broadcast. 023 Min. VIDEO 1983 Series: ENGINEERING MECHANICS: SOLIDS

VH 1938 Vibrations
Summary: Recorded under license off-air from BBC Open University broadcast. 024 Min. VIDEO 1984 Series: ENGINEERING MECHANICS: SOLIDS

VH 7300 Video on the Web
Summary: Explains the fundamentals of creating streaming video for Web distribution including shooting, digitizing, encoding, serving, broadcasting and playback. Bandwidth, compression, luminosity, signal cleaning, frame rate, router hop and other key terms are also defined. 030 Min. VIDEO 2001

VH 5098 Vision
Summary: Reviews some of the currently established properties of biological vision, some of the major approaches in computer vision, and some of the main neural networks models which seek to achieve by novel real time architectures those cognitive abilities which today can only be found in living creatures. 120 Min. VIDEO 1988

VH 0854 Vorticity, Part 1
Summary: Two videocassettes, VH 854 & VH 855. Ascher H. Shapiro presents experimental demonstrations of phenomena relating to vorticity, to circulation, and to the theorems of Crocco, Kelvin, and Helmholtz. 022 Min. VIDEO 1961 Series: FLUID MECHANICS

VH 0855 Vorticity, Part 2
Summary: See VH 854 "Vorticity, Part 1". 022 Min. VIDEO 1961 Series: FLUID MECHANICS

VH 7153 Waste Generation, Characterization, Collection, Transfer....
Summary: This program draws on the knowledge of William Mollere, of the Louisiana Dept. of Environmental Quality; Marty Tittelbaum, of the University of New Orleans, and other experts, first to define the constituent parts of the municipal solid waste stream and then to discuss methods of collecting, transferring, and disposing of them. 045 Min. VIDEO 2001 Series: OUR URBAN ENVIRONMENT: SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT

VH 0835 Waves in Fluid
Summary: This feature presents experimental demonstrations of concepts in one-dimensional wave motion using a water channel, a flume, and shock tubes. 033 Min. VIDEO 1964 Series: FLUID MECHANICS

VH 1667 Wheat: A New Breed
Summary: The challenge of producing new crop varieties has turned modern cereal breeding programs into large scale field experiments. 025 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: BIOLOGY Series: GENETICS

VH 6637 Wilbur & Orville Wright: Dreams of Flying
Summary: The story of the brothers who invented the first flying machine but were not recognized in their time for their accomplishments. 050 Min. VIDEO 1996

VH 2134 Wings of Mercury, The
Summary: This chapter in history looks at the early efforts at manned space flight by the Americans and Soviets; form President Kennedy's challenge to NASA to put a man on the moon by the end of the 60's, to Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, and ending with Project Gemini which had American astronauts walking in space. 060 Min. VIDEO 1987 Series: SPACEFLIGHT

VH 6533 Women in Engineering
Summary: Includes thirteen women engineers representing a wide range of specialties within engineering. They work on a variety of projects ranging from roller coasters to wastewater-treatment plants, from commercial packaged baked goods to human resources, from power utilities to telecommunications, from large-scale tractors to small-scale theme park rides. 015 Min. VIDEO 2000

VH 1937 Work & Energy
Summary: Recorded under license off-air from BBC Open University broadcast. 024 Min. VIDEO 1985 Series: ENGINEERING MECHANICS: SOLIDS

VH 5897 Work Measurements
Summary: This program explains current practices in work measurement and shows how manufacturers use this procedure to measure productivity improvements. 030 Min. VIDEO Series: MANUFACTURING INSIGHTS

VH 7158 World of Buckminster Fuller, The
Summary: A portrait of architect, inventor, scientist, teacher, philosopher and creator of the geodesic dome and the Dymaxion house and car, Buckminster Fuller. Depicts both the multi-faceted man and examples of his visionary work. 080 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: ARCHITECTURE

VH 5614 Y2K Problem: The Millennium Bug, The
Summary: In part one, Paul Solman talks about a possible technology meltdown with author and MIT software engineer Ed Youron. In part two, noted scientist Stephen Jay Gould lends some historical perspective to the issue by discussing the arbitrary nature of the millennial calendar. 021 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: COMPUTERS