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Penn State Intercom......October 10, 2002

Jack Gido, director of PENNTAP, the Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Program.

Successful Project Management, second edition, published by South-Western College Publishing.

Gido and James Clements, executive director of the Center for Applied Information Technology at Towson University, are the co-authors of this textbook. It has been adopted for use at University campuses for the course, "Project Management and Planning for Business." Intended for working professionals as well as students, the book is used in undergraduate engineering, business and master of business administration programs. The new edition contains real-world examples, critical success factors, World Wide Web exercises, case studies and a trial version of Microsoft Project. An instructor's resource CD also is available which contains a syllabus, chapter outlines, PowerPoint slides and a test bank.

Michael D. McNeese, associate professor of information sciences and technology

Cognitive Systems Engineering in Military Aviation Environments: Avoiding Cogminutia Fragmentosa, published by Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio: Human Systems Information Analysis Center.

McNeese is co-editor with Michael A. Vidulich of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. The book offers a in-depth look at military aviation applications of cognitive systems engineering (CSE) and captures the latest thinking of an international group of authors who are expert in this emerging new field. The need for CSE arose as humans are being placed in high-pressure environments where sometimes conflicting or disjointed information flows at extreme speeds. Without properly designed cognitive technologies, pilots, operators of command and control systems, or supervisors of complex industrial systems can lose comprehension with disastrous results like the Three Mile Island nuclear plant failure, or the Vincennes Incident in which a U.S. warship shot down a passenger aircraft. In addition to his role as editor, McNeese contributed two chapters to the book: "Discovering How Cognitive Systems Should Be Engineered for Aviation Domains: A Developmental Look at Work, Research and Practice"; and "Beyond Cognitive Systems Engineering: Assessing User Affect and Belief States to Implement Adaptive Pilot-Vehicle Interaction," which he co-authored with Eva Hudlicka of Psychometrix Inc.

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