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Proceedings of the International Workshop on The Interaction between Medicine and Engineering

Engineering and medicine are grass-routes disciplines. Both grow by responding to practical needs and thrive on the progress of science and technology. Most noticeable is the huge effect that modern technology, associated with new macro and micro imaging techniques and molecular scale diagnostic technologies, had on expanding the frontiers of medical science, and cardiology in […]

Electronics 2000: Developments in Academic Engineering Education in the Field of Electronics

This review of developments in higher education in Israel and the world in the field of electronics and computer engineering, including implications on curricula updating, constitutes one of four stages of the “Electronics 2000” project aimed at creating an updated infrastructure for Israel’s electronic industry. A survey was conducted on the development of higher education […]

Electronics 2000: (Stage 3) Identifying Areas and Topics of Interest

The project was initiated by the Union of Electronic Industries in Israel and the Samuel Neaman Institute at the Technion. The aim of the project was to identify future projects for joint development by Israel’s electronic industries, which will maintain Israel’s competitive ability in relation to its competitors across the sea. A field survey was […]

Measurement of Performance parameters for the Israeli Industry

Encouraging industrial investments is of special interest to Israel. For investments to be successful in the long run they require a sound return to the investors. In deciding on new investment the predicted economic return rate generated by the investment is often used as a measurement for its attractiveness. However there is a lack of […]