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The author discusses their group's approach in designing heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and automatic temperature controls systems using the combined sequence-FPT format. According to him, the approach enables the engineer to think through the system concept earlier in the project to clearly understand the design. He noted that it is better to have error in the paper early in the design than to have a problem with the system existing at zero degrees Fahrenheit.

Several letters to the editor are presented concerning electronic design including the popularity of using spread-spectrum techniques in switching power supplies and the origin of the term fish paper and how is come to be associated with vulcanized fiber.

Focuses on UGS' sponsorship of a series of "Battling Complexity" seminars in response to a PLM white paper indicating design process complexity as the most important issue for engineers.

Focuses on the e-paper design contest co-sponsored by NEC Electronics America and "EDN" magazine, which features designs using NEC Electronics' microcontrollers.