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1. E as your enter option This option will enable you to move the cursor to the next line by simply pressing RETURN If you are in the I option you must enter N to move the cursor to the next line and then enter I again to type in the next line ERROR CHECKING GTIMS will check for certain errors and will show you a green highlight over the error You can correct an error by moving the cursor to the line you want to correct Type I to select the input edit option Then type in the correct line However the system will not check for all errors Others will be caught in a batch editing process and must be corrected ina later step The more errors you catch and correct in the initial input the less work will be involved in correcting later You can correct any errors that you notice by using the backspace key to move the cursor back Type over the error Another aid to cursor movement that you may want to use as you become more familiar with GTIMS are the left and right arrows to the right of your keyboard These will move the cursor one character to the left or right The up and down arrows will move the cursor from field to field WHEN YOU ARE THROUGH When you have finished entering all the information from the time sheet and want to move on the next time sheet press S to save the information you have entered The screen will change to a blank time sheet form and you can begin entering another employee time sheet If you2. Also an arrow will be pointing to the V 100 line You are now ready to begin entering time sheet information To do this notice that the cursor is blinking at the prompt ENTER OPTION This prompt is asking you to enter one of the letters from the menu across the bottom of the screen This menu enables you to move the arrow from line to line on the time sheet and to delete change or save information you have entered An explanation of the menu options follows ss I Input Edit The I option is used to input enter or change one line of information on the time sheet If the line is blank the computer assumes you want to enter new information If the line already has information entered the computer assumes you want to change that line E Enter The E option is exactly like the I option but it skips to the next line by simply pressing RETURN This option is intended as a faster way to enter numerous lines of information N Next The N option is used to move the arrow to the next line down B Back The B option is used to move the arrow up one line or backwards D Delete The D option is used to delete a line The line where the arrow is will be marked for deletion The project number and description fields will be marked DELETED S Save The S option closes out the time sheet you ve been entering After this option is selected a blank time sheet will be displayed and you can enter the next employee name or you can go
3. Bone s letters of recommendation sub mitted with her Georgia Tech employ ment application in 1953 Betty Bone wanted to attend Georgia Tech but at the time she ap plied Tech did not accept women She enrolled at Southern Tech instead receiving an associate degree By that time Georgia Tech was admitting women and she entered the Electrical Engineering program She nearly com pleted her degree but the demands of having a family prevented her from finishing Betty worked on a variety of pro grams at EES during her long career She matched millimeter waveguide components on the first millimeter radar built in the U S she wrote com puter software for near field antenna measurements and she was in strumental in developing design pro cedures for the offset waveguide junc tion invented by Searcy Hollis now with Scientific Atlanta Betty Bone saw many changes in technology during her Tech career and was able to adapt to all of them She started taking antenna patterns before pattern recorders were in vented Pattern levels were read from a meter written on paper plotted on graph paper and then connected with a curve When pattern recorders were introduced she used them For the last several years she predicted anten na patterns on a digital computer and validated these predictions with computer controlled digitally record ed pattern data taken on the Georgia Tech antenna range Over the past 15 years she
4. ment Station has been updated and reprinted If you need copies call Research Communications ext 3444 and ask for the green laser brochure TAL Completes Biomass Fuel Studies Both the Army Corps of Engineers and the City of Tallahassee have been looking at switching from natural gas and coal to cheaper woody biomass with the help of the Technology Ap plications Lab TAL For the Corps of Engineers TAL helped determine the feasibility of pro curing biomass to fire wood boilers for three Army ammunition plants in Kan sas Indiana and Tennessee They presently use natural gas and coal fired steam plants to produce process heat for the manufacture of weapons and explosives Under a subcontract with the University of Alabama Huntsville TAL engineers Bill Bulpitt and Dave Harris researched the technology available for harvesting biomass and its cost The overall objective was to ascertain whether a sufficient volume of biomass was available within a 50 mile radius of each plant the feasibility of harvesting it and the costs involved Bulpitt and Harris assisted by Tom McGowan also recently completed a study for the City of Tallahassee Florida on the feasibility of burning wood to generate electric power The city currently uses natural gas and oil to produce power but is seeking a cheaper fuel after 1985 when its pre sent advantageous contract expires The team estimates that by 1990 the cost of natural
5. If you enter a name that is not in the file you will get the following message NON REGISTERED NAME HIT RETURN TO CONTINUE This message indicates that you will need to enter this employee name in your file Do this by returning to any menu and entering NE for new employee Wait until you have a number of unregistered names however before you go through this process If the employee s time sheet has already been entered it will appear on your screen and you can make changes or additions After you have entered an employee name the employee number the month and year and the division number will be entered automatically Now you will notice the cursor is pointing to the first line in the project number column You are now ready to begin entering time sheet information As in the SP command you may use the menu options to position the pointer at the appropriate line and enter information See page 5 for a detailed explanation of the menu options PROJECT NUMBER To begin entering time sheet information notice that the cursor is blinking at the prompt ENTER OPTION One of the letters from the menu across the bottom of the screen will be blinking at the cursor This is the default letter If you want this option simply press RETURN If you want another letter press it You do not have to press RETURN after entering one of these letters To enter new information press either E for Enter or I for Edit Insert Notice th
6. Single digit months must be preceded by a zero For example 05 83 RETURN After you enter the month and year on the time sheet your screen will show you the valid pay periods for that month and year Pay periods for hourly employees end on every other Wednesday Time periods for staff end on the alternate Wednesdays Now enter the number associated with the pay period of the time sheet The correct pay period should be on the time sheet you are entering When you enter one of the numbers displayed the screen will clear and show you a time sheet form below similar to the actual time sheets that hourly employees fill out Eepl Employee Mame Last Firet Middle Unit t Period i 1 t 4 ESS HSSBASSSA SS ASHSTSSSSVTSFSFSSHSLSSSSSSSSSSFSSSPSFSFSPHSSCTFASSSSSHStSSFeeesseeessesssgases Project No Date Boure Description of Work amp I i J t I a I q i t I i i 1 t t t I L t 1 i I I i i t L i l I q a I I i 1 I t 5 t I I 1 4 t t I t t I t I 4 i t t t I I I a i I I t t I TOTAL HOURS oe ma o ee gt me os ow om ce op uo gt ow gt EMPLOYEE NAME The screen will be asking you to enter an employee name The instructions for entering the employee name are the same as for the salaried percentage employees You only need to type in the first few letters of the employees name See section SP above
7. ment training program for Chemical Products Company in Cartersville and participated in a similar program for Gulfstream America Inc in Savannah During May Bobby Cline conducted a workshop on effective communica tions for the American Society of Hos pital Food Service Administrators in Atlanta and taught a four day course on instruction methods for industrial trainers at Swift Textiles in Columbus Georgia At the joint convention of the Florida and Georgia Meatpackers Associations in Ponte Vedra Beach Florida on June 3 4 Hank Jackson gave a presentation on Energy Conservation in Meat Packing At the June 1 3 meeting of the Ameri can Solar Energy Society in Minneapolis Tom McGowan presented two papers Building Energy Efficient Homes and Georgia s Industrial Wood Energy Pro gram Bill Bulpitt coauthored the latter paper as well as one that McGowan presented at the June 19 23 meeting of the Forest Products Research Society Wood Gasification for a Large Scale Chemical Plant Carol Aton has been appointed na tional publications chair for the Society of Women Engineers She and Keith Nelms have coauthored with TVA per sonnel a book entitled Safe and Sound Masonry Chimneys Da Lab personne learn how to enter time sheet data into the EES management information system Photo by Warren Smith GTIMS evaluating and documenting software programs on the microcomputer end John Lee an
8. to the menu by typing F and pressing RETURN X Abort The X option will erase all the information on the time sheet on the screen Before the time sheet is erased you will get a prompt asking you if you are sure you want to erase Press Y or Ni Pressing any other letter will move the cursor back to the ENTER OPTION Use these options to position the pointer to the appropriate line and enter information on it You do not have to press RETURN after entering one of these letters ENTERING VACATION TIME To enter the number of vacation days first select the ENTER OPTION of I for INSERT You will be asked in the column labeled project description if you will enter the number of days or the percent of vacation time The cursor is blinking over the letter P If the time sheet you are working with has the percent of vacation tell the system you will be entering the percent of vacation by simply pressing RETURN If the time sheet has the number of days of vacation indicate this by pressing D and RETURN If you enter the number of days the system will automatically convert it to percent and enter it in the percent column Next the screen will ask you to enter the actual dates of vacation If you do not have this information on the time sheet press RETURN If the time sheet indicates no vacation press RETURN and the system will enter zero percent vacation time ENTERING JURY MILITARY DUTY Now that you have entered the percent of vacat
9. was instrumental in developing the EES computer pro grams for reflector antennas Betty will be missed by all who knew her Berry Pyron Harrison Resigns Gordon R Harrison has resigned from Georgia Tech to become Vice Presi dent Components and New Tech nology for Electromagnetic Sciences The Norcross Georgia based firm was founded by Tech alumnus John Pippin Dr Harrison came to EES from Sperry Microwave Electronics Com pany in November 1971 He headed the former Applied Sciences Laboratory for seven years working particularly in the areas of microwave integrated circuits semiconductor devices solid state materials and com ponents and microelectronics For the past four years he has been a valuable member of the senior staff of the Of fice of the Director He is a Fellow member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Dr Harrison played a key role in organizing the Corporate Liaison Pro gram at Georgia Tech and served as its coordinator and chief liaison of ficer Among the many ways that he served the Tech community were as secretary of the Faculty Honors Com mittee member of the Self Study Steering Committee chairman of the EES United Way campaign EES academic liaison on graduate research assistant placements and as lecturer or supervisor in numerous short courses and training programs Brochure Reprinted The promotional folder Research Georgia Tech s Engineering Experi
10. A Project File Accounting GTRI Other N a z gt Procurement EES Supply Services Library Other FORM OC A 2 784 Item O29 GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OFFICE OF CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION SPONSORED PROJECT TERMINATION CLOSEOUT SHEET Project No _ A73460 BXEREL ab _ SEL Includes Subproject No s N A Project Director s F B Dyer Sh GTRI X8x Sponsor Lanier Business Products Title Development of a Management Information System MIS Effective Completion i ee As i E a ee Performance 6 6 83 Reports Grant Contract Closeout Actions Remaining C or Fina invoice or Final Fiscal Report Closing Documents Finat Report of Inventions Patent Questio nnaire included for Project Director Govt Property Inventory amp Related Certificate Classified Material Certificate U UUW UO Other Continues Project No N A Continued by Project No N A COPIES TO Project Director l Library Research Administrative Network l GTRI 2 Research Property Management Research Communications 2 Accounting Project File Procurement EES Supply Services Other Research Security Services eports Coordinator OC Legal Services Form OCA 60 1028 Leb ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION Georgia Institute of Technology A Unit of the University System of Georgia Atlanta Georgia 30332 September 19 1983 Lanier Business Products Inc 1704 Chantilly Drive NE Atlanta Georgia 30324
11. Attention Mr John Broome Comptroller Computer R amp D Subject Development of GTIMS PO 057279 Georgia Tech Project A 3460 Final Report Dear John The purpose of this letter is to serve as a final report on the subject purchase order As you know the contract was intended primarily to serve as a means to allow for coordination between Lanier Business Products Inc and Georgia Tech during the de velopmental stages of the Georgia Tech Information Management System GTIMS and for the investigation of the use of the Lanier EZ 1l with GTIMS The objectives of this program were successfully met Prior to the completion of the first phase of GTIMS development in June the feasibility of the EZ 1 for use with the pertinent CP M pro grams i e Wordstar Peachcalc dBase II Xtalk etc was demonstrated by Georgia Tech to various Lanier personnel both Engineering and Marketing and Georgia Tech EES is currently using the EZ l as a key system in the data entry and time report ing portions of GTIMS The total acquisition of Lanier EZ l s by Georgia Tech now exceeds 70 units EES is currently using its EZ l s in virtually every administrative unit The attached Users Manual is an illustration of some of the activity which involves the EZ l Further development of the GTIMS system involves business graphics and large addressable memory neither of which is easily available on the Z 80 based EZ 1 and thus most of the current efforts
12. GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OFFICE OF CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION PROJECT ADMINISTRATION DATA SHEET vite X ORIGINAL REVISION NO wna fe SECO crue om A a Project Director r A LA YA Seakan Lab SEL EA 3 a f 3 l Sponsor PAMASA AALA LPaFALA fh TN UL L hill J Wy LE Ee et r eae a TAR Gh A 4 M 5Y Type Agreement y O No O 4 Award Period From J a Ya To P G E A Performance A G k 4 Reports Sponsor Amount Total Estimated S LO OO Funded O i CO t i Cost Sharing Amount y ar af Cost Eo No F Title 4 Apy ARESO A N 3 d il Ea ei ADMINISTRATIVE DATA OCA Contact 1 Sponsor Technical Conta 2 Sponsor Agmin Cont actual Matters Ls Deg Y g UL i ry N E il BA is Pay 4 AdU PPA ACAAL AG i yaa Was pog L ud UL LN J Military Security Classification p r Defense Priority Rating or Company Industrial Proprietary RESTRICTIONS See Attached Supplemental Information Sheet for Additional Requirements Travel Foreign travel must have prior approval Contact OCA in each case Domestic travel requires sponsor approval where total will exceed greater of S500 or 125 of approved proposal budget category Equipment Title vests with COMMENTS oy ed a2 3 COPIES TO Research Administrative Network Research Security Services Research Communications 2 Research Property Management ___ Reparts Coordinator OC
13. RETURN and the 100 will automatically appear in the percent column You cannot type in 100 00 in the percent column A running total is kept at the top right of the time sheet and the percent of time remaining is displayed at the bottom of the time sheet In the percent column you can press RETURN to accept the percent remaintng and finish out the time sheet DESCRIPTION OF WORK Enter whatever is on the time sheet Press RETURN to enter You do not have to enter any description Simply press RETURN to move the cursor Now you can continue to enter time sheet information for more projects in the same way Use the ENTER OPTIONS to move the arrow to the line you need Use the delete option to correct any errors you notice Entering a period and RETURN will copy any information from the line above SICK LEAVE When you have finished entering project numbers and percent worked you are ready to enter sick leave time Do this by selecting the ENTER OPTION of S for SAVE The arrow can be on any line when you press the S The screen will add a space on the bottom of the time sheet and ask you to enter the number of sick days If there are none just press RETURN Otherwise enter the actual number of sick leave days Next the screen will ask you for the dates if necessary Enter the actual dates if the time sheet has included them Press RETURN After you have entered sick leave days the system will save the information you ha
14. Total 3 l t f l i ESRB SBP RSSRBTHSSSVPSSESSESKSASSSBSSSREESKFSSSSSRESBRBESSSSSBSRSSSFAPHSSBSSSTSSSSRPSSSBSPRBSSPSBSSEPSBSBSERPEBBY Project No Z of Time Description of Work Ot en re ww wm few an we em mw a eer em ete ree ee te me emer en mm mtr e tener steer rere vV 100 How many days of Vacation How many days of Jury Military Duty ER ee SE ee ee j 1 f l f f j l a0 Oe ee co mo mo ow Pee Eee m a o a a D D Dy oa mo mo ow ow ta n ew g w a ae O l al al Se EMPLOYEE S NAME When a time sheet form has appeared on your screen the cursor will be asking you to enter an employee s name GTIMS stores employee names by last name and two initials i e JONES DL You may if you wish type only the first few characters of the name and the system will try to find it for you For example if you need to enter the name Smith John L you might decide to enter smit You need not capitalize The system will search its file for all names starting with SMIT Perhaps it finds five names beginning with these letters in the file It will then print these five on your screen below the time sheet with a number beside each You can look through this list for the Smith J L that you want to enter and enter the number beside the name If you enter only sm the system will search its file and perhaps will find 15 or so names beginning with SM If this happens the s
15. are through entering time sheets and want to get back to a menu press F and RETURN 10 _ Ss gt gt Volume 13 EES Number 10 eo Steve Losser left and Jim Thomas pause outside the Hinman suite that houses the minority business assistance activities of EES Photo by Charles Haynes Choctaw Tribe Gets EDL Assistance Economic Development Lab staff members working with the Rural Assistance Program RAP have been involved in a marketing effort that is bringing a wide variety of new firms in to the program RAP Director Jim Thomas has worked closely with Ed Bethea of EDL s Technology Utiliza tion and Commercialization Center directors of the EDL field offices and Steve Losser of the Business Develop ment Division outreach staff to identify potential client firms The minority owned firms re questing assistance include not only those involved in technological ap plications but also a grocery opera tion a restaurant and convenience store a retail liquor store a pork pro cessing plant and even more novel the Tribal Council of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians Losser describes the situation as follows More than 2 000 people live in the Pearl River Indian Community on the Choctaw Indian Reservation Pearl River is the second largest com munity in the county and provides ample employment opportunities at the Bureau of Indian Affairs schools at the reservation hospita
16. at extension of GTIMS is involving the IBM PC however we would welcome the opportunity to work with Lanier L 100 and subsequent products which are IBM PC compatible and which have the performance needed to serve as true work station systems AN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT EDUCATION OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTION September 19 1983 Lanier Business Products Inc Page 2 We have made available to Lanier technical personnel full access to the GTIMS development data and have worked closely with indi viduals such as John Goldwaithe While we consider the first phase of our interaction as represented by the subject PO to be concluded we are continuing to work with your people both as a BETA test site for Lanier software and in the identification of potential funded research activities The relationship has been very rewarding to us and hopefully valuable for Lanier We look forward to continued interaction between the organizations I will be continuing to help promote the dialog and would be happy to assist you in any way that I can Yaure trulv FH Dyer Q Principal Research Scientist cc OCA Don OE SEL Marti Boyce A 3460 File Enclosures User s Manual for Timesheet Entry Station News June 1983 Issue GTIMS Georgia Tech Information Management System User s Manual for Timesheet Entry GETTING STARTED l Turn on side near t doors on the front e front our machine The power switch is on the right han
17. at the cursor is now blinking in the project number column Enter the project number as it appears on the time sheet The program will add the 000 if you don t type it It will also enter a dash after letter prefixes You must press RETURN after typing the project number DATE Enter the month and day on the time sheet The slash will be added for you Note that a leading zero or space is necessary You can enter only numbers in the date field After you have entered the date the cursor will automatically move to the hours column HOURS Enter the hours on the time sheet Again a leading zero or space is necessary for numbers less than 10 hours and the field will not accept characters other than numbers The decimal point will be inserted for you For example to enter 4 5 hours you could type 045 After you have entered the hours the cursor will automatically move to the description of work column If you enter more than 80 hours the system will mark this as an error DESCRIPTION OF WORK Enter the description as it is on the time sheet and press RETURN Now that you have entered one line on the time sheet you can continue entering additional lines in the same way Typing a period and pressing RETURN will copy the entry from the line above You must use the menu codes along the bottom of_the screen to move the cursor from line to line If you are entering numerous lines of information you may find it quicker to choose
18. aynard on May 14 Personnel Services Joann Ward has transferred to the Electronics amp Com puter Systems Lab as administrative secretary in the Electromagnetic Com patibility Division Linda Murphy is a new personnel assistant transferring from the Nuclear Research Center Supply Services New employees are DeeAnn Reese clerk IV and Joyce Oram clerk typist II Jerry Brown was married on April 30 and Junice Hall was married on June 18 SYSTEMS amp TECHNIQUES LAB Joe Parks has been elected to the Faculty Benefits Committee SYSTEMS ENGINEERING LAB Catherine Powell and Walter Ad dison were married on June 4 Tammy Sheffield was married to David Paal on June 11 Best wishes to all Former co op Steven Cole has joined the ESM Division as a research engineer William Allen is a new research engineer in the Concepts Analysis Divi sion Industrial Energy Service Offers Aids TAL s Industrial Energy Extension Ser vice IEES held two back to back workshops May 19 20 to help in dustries struggling with rising utility bills The workshops Improving Boiler Operating Efficiency and En ergy Measurement Instrumentation and Techniques were held at the Howard Johnson Hotel adjacent to the Tech campus Mike Brown and Joe Hoppe coordinated the workshops IEES has just started issuing a new series of Technical Briefs designed to present Georgia industry with up to date information about new or
19. creen will tell you that the names are too numerous to list and you should reenter more of the name If you find a name that is not on file your employee file must be updated To do this you must get back to the a menu by entering F and enter NE new employee You should wait however until you have a number of new employees to enter the NE program takes a few minutes to run If the employee s time sheet has already been entered it will appear on your screen and you can make changes or additions using the instructions in this section After you have successfully entered an employee name the employee number the month and year and the division number will be entered automatically The cursor will move to the TOTAL 4 item This indicates the percent of time an employee is working This information should be on the top of the hand written time sheet you are entering If the percent already displayed is correct just press RETURN otherwise enter the correct percent and press return If the percent you want to enter is less than 100 you must first enter a space or a zero You do not have to enter a amp 4 symbol and you don t have to enter zeros after the decimal point After you have successfully entered the total percent your screen will automatically enter the V 100 project number for the percent of vacation time and the V 200 project number for the percent of jury military duty These will be entered in the project number column
20. d If you have a dual floppy machine with two you should also have two floppy disks Load the A disk in the left hand door and the B disk in the right hand door discard output have an 2 Turm on GTIMS For example You may be asked for today s date at SP he The message ait prompt on your screen Simply type may appear if so A gt do gtims RETURN do gtims Ready printer and type RETURN or D to type a D You should now and press RETURN enter it and press RETURN You do not have to enter the slashes The main menu will appear here If you think of GTIMS as a workbook like the table of contents number of different tasks then the menu is GTIMS has a series of menus and a Only two tasks will be discussed how to enter information from hourly time sheets and salaried time sheets To get to the Time Reporting Menu type TM and press RETURN The screen will show you the following menu kkk Georgia Tech EES GTIMS Menu Driver 06 01 83 kkk Curent MENU TM Option Description SP Enter Time sheets for Salaried Personnel HP Enter Time sheets for Hourly Personnel PO Print out time sheets salaried PH Print out time sheets hourly ED Edit all time sheets print error report SU Generate time summary files PS Print summary reports from file NE Enter information for new employee R Return to Previous Menu C Enter System Command B Return to Main Menu FQ Quit to Syst
21. d Margaret Hickey are responsible for the CYBER VAX inter face with Hickey writing the program to translate the CYBER data into INGRES a relational data base for the VAX Barbara Turner advises the design team on the accounting system and Gerald Mackey helps coordinate personnel and resources The microcomputers will use dBASE Il a powerful programming language The programs will be menu driven and easy to run Commercial software is being purchased with the design team writing the applications Any CP M or MS DOS based system can be used The design team is developing other modules for the GTIMS A Pre Project Planner will help project directors lay out tasks and subtasks A Material Re quest module will help them keep up with the progress of MR s through the procurement system Other mod ules will deal with such matters as property control security and tech nical performance SEL Gives Workshop For Lockheed Personnel of the Systems Engineering Lab conducted an eight hour Elec tronic Combat Workshop for Lock heed Georgia Company on May 25 26 George McDougal John Gib bons Tom Miller Bob Beasley and Bud Sears gave presentations More than 30 Lockheed engineers attended the workshop which was presented under the auspices of Tech s Cor porate Liaison Program of which Lockheed is a member Continued from page 1 Walton Retires Jesse D Walton Jr an internationally known figure in high temperat
22. earned how to put time sheet information on the computer The data will be used to report to pro ject directors on a timely basis actual versus budgeted personal services charges in terms of man hours as well as dollars At the end of June another joint data entry session will be held Soon each research laboratory and division will have its own interactive microcomputer terminal to enter time sheet and other project data on a regular basis The microcomputers will communicate with the EES VAX minicomputer which will aggregate the data to provide an overall EES pro ject data base Fred Dyer Dean Spencer and Ed Anderson are directing the GTIMS development project with overall guidance from EES Associate Directors Gerald Carey and Howard Dean Michael Furman Lindsay Morris and Andy Cranfill are writing testing Continued on page 3 1983 Promotions Congratulations to the following 35 EES employees who are being pro moted effective July 1 tO Principal Research Engineer Scientist Neal T Alexander RAIL Robert A Cassanova EMSL David S Clifton EDL Akkihebbal R Ravishankara EML Charles T Rucker EML James A Scheer RAIL Senior Research Associate Fngineer Scientist Harry W Andrews SEL Richard S Combes EDL Ronald E Creswell SEL Larry R Edens EDL Walter A Hendrix TAL James D Higgins STL Margaret M Horst RAIL A Perry Schwartz RAIL David D Tarkowski EML James L Walsh Jr TAL Willia
23. em m e o e eae ee a SE n ae oe ee ee ee ee ee ee e ln aa a If you want to enter percentage time sheets for salaried employees type SP and RETURN If you want to enter time sheets for hourly employees type HP and RETURN The directions for these two menu options are described below SP ENTERING PERCENTAGE TIME SHEETS SALARIED This section describes how to enter time sheets for salaried employees who report the percent of time worked You get to this task from any menu by typing in SP and pressing RETURN After entering SP your screen will ask you to enter the month and year the time sheet covers For example 06 83 RETURN but do not type the slash If you make a mistake and notice it before you press RETURN correct it by using the backspace to move the cursor directly over the mistake Then simply type over the mistake If you enter a month that does not exist such as 19 you will get the following error message kkInvalid Date Enter Again Waiting If you get this error message the cursor will be flashing next to waiting Press RETURN and reenter the correct month and year i If you have successfully entered a valid date your screen will clear then will show you the time sheet form below This is Similar to the actual time sheets that salaried employees fill out Pe Oa ee ew we ewe ee ew eee en ene we een gerne e Goer mewn ene nee eee Empl Mo Yr Employee Name Last First Middle i Div
24. gas per million Btu will be nearly three times that of wood TAL s research engineers have been doing feasibility studies aimed at in creasing the use of wood as a fuel for several years Some of the installations they have assisted in Georgia are located at the Central State Hospital in Milledgeville the Gold Kist soybean processing plant in Valdosta the In tegrated Products texile mill in Aragon the Northwest Regional Hospital in Rome and the Georgia In dustrial Institute at Alto Professional Activities ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT LAB Johanna Williams gave an invited ad dress on Performance Improvement in a Textile Mill at the Ninth Annual Con vention of the Association for Behavior Analysis on May 27 in Milwaukee Wisconsin Jim Muller was in South Korea May 12 June 21 providing industrial assist ance on the Korea Credit Guarantee Fund project ENERGY amp MATERIALS SCIENCES LAB Bob Cassanova presented a paper on Advanced Concepts for Conversion of High Temperature Solar Energy and chaired a session at MELECOM 83 the IEEE Mediterranean conference held in Athens Greece May 24 26 He re ported that Sid Firstman TAL also pre sented a paper and Vice President for Research Tom Stelson chaired a session SYSTEMS amp TECHNIQUES LAB Bill Dittman is co inventor of a multi position waveguide switch that has been awarded a U S patent TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS LAB Charles Duke conducted a manage
25. ion the cursor will again be blinking over the ENTER OPTION You need to move the arrow to the next line to enter the jury military duty You can do this in two ways 1 Use the ENTER OPTION E This will move the arrow to the next line automatically when you first enter it and on subsequent lines you can move the arrow to the next line by pressing only return 2 Use N to move the arrow to the next line and then use I to enter the information When you have moved the arrow to the line V 200 you are ready to enter jury military duty You do this just like you entered the vacation information See instructions above PROJECT NUMBER After you have entered vacation time and jury military duty you are ready to begin entering project number information Using the ENTER OPTIONS position the arrow at the appropriate line Now type in the first project number listed on the time sheet you are entering Do not enter the dashes in the project numbers they are supplied for you Notice that if the project number is only three digits long you must add a space to make the number fit between the dashes That is enter H 300 103 as H 300 103 The system will add 000 if you do not specify an extension OF TIME Enter the percent from the time sheet and press RETURN If the percent is a whole number you do not have to enter zeros after the decimal point If an employee has spent 100 percent of his her time on one project simply press
26. l or in three local industries Klowever the com munity s shopping facilities consist of one small convenience store There fore most people shop 10 miles away at the county seat Losser noted that there has been a dramatic increase in disposable in come for the average Choctaw since 1978 Most of these dollars however are spent at retail businesses located outside the reservation A high priority for the Tribal Council is to reduce this drain of economic power This is dif ficult since most individual Choctaws lack the financial assets to develop a business To address both problems the Tribal Council has proposed to develop a retail shopping mall on the reservation Station News ior Tech Engineering Experiment Station June 1983 for occupation by Choctaw owned retail businesses The Council will pro vide funding for the project RAP assistance will include a feasibility study to determine if a retail shopping center located on the reservation is a viable business venture Johanna Williams GTIMS Starts With Time Sheets The first module of a powerful management tool for EES project directors is at the starting gate and ready to go On June 1 2 laboratory secretaries and administrative coordinators par ticipated in the first full scale test of the Time Reporting module of the Georgia Tech Information Management System GTIMS which is currently being developed at EES In a workshop set ting they l
27. m R Youngblood SEL Research Associate Engineer Scientist Technologist II Anthony M Andruzzi William W Butler John K Daher Constance R Foulke Linda L Harkness Adrienne J Harrington Robert S Hawkins EDL Henry Z Jackson TAL Larry A Jackson ECSL Anthony D Jape TAL Kenneth E Johnson EDL Casey C Lang ECSL William L Leverett Jr STL Walter S Lewis EMSL John M Nicovich EML Michael Shannon RAIL James T Smith Terry E Tibbitts Booklet Wins Award The Millimeter Waves capabilities booklet secently won an award from the National University Continuing Education Association in a competi tion sponsored by NUCEA s Informa tion Services Division The EES booklet placed third among 483 entries in the category Booklets best describing a program The booklet was produced by the Research Communications Of fice in cooperation with the elec tronics laboratories Betty Bone A Tech Pioneer Elizabeth N Bone a programmer Ill in the Systems and Techniques Lab died suddenly on May 4 She had worked at EES for over 30 years a She was a trailblazer in many ways When she was hired in January 1953 as a technical assis a tant she became the first female at EES ina ESS purely technical position We have never graduated a better student from Southern Tech she has held her own with the men and is very outstanding So said one of Betty
28. r employment were Mike Shannon who has gone to Rockwell and James Smith who has gone to Lockheed OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR Arlene Edmiston has replaced Kathy Barbay as administrative secretary receptionist Bill Howard has been elected to the Faculty Status and Grievance Com mittee started in 1971 when Walton initiated high temperature materials testing at the 1000 kW solar furnace in Odeillo France in a cooperative relationship with the Centre National de la Recher che Scientifique that is still ongoing He developed the program with NSF and ERDA now the U S Department of Energy that resulted in construction of the 400 kW Georgia Tech solar ther mal test facility which is the second largest such facility in the United States Walton also gained prominence in low technology applications of solar energy to the needs of developing countries with emphasis on Africa He organized and served as local ar rangements chairman for the Silver Jubilee Congress of the International Solar Energy Society held in Atlanta in 1979 Since 1981 Walton has been chief scientist of the Energy and Materials Sciences Laboratory A Fellow of the American Ceramic Society Walton is past chairman of the Ceramic Metal Systems Division and a member of the National Institute of Ceramic Engineers He is continuing his ceramic career as a private consultant Personal SERVICE GROUPS Accounting Linda Bearce was mar ried to Neal M
29. underutilized technologies and prac tices that can lead directly to substan tial energy savings said IEES Director Hank Jackson No 1 is on Industrial Lighting Others to follow in June are on Solid State Motor Con trols Computer Energy Manage ment Systems Direct Digital Con trol Machnozzles and Coal Utilization Research Communications has moved from the Hinman Building to spacious offices on the second floor of the Savant Building Come see us Station News Vol 13 No 10 June 1983 Published monthly for employees of the Engineering Experiment Station Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta Georgia Georgia Tech is a unit of the University System of Georgia Editor Martha Ann Stegar Graphics Gerald K Webb Associate Editors Dee Ramunno OOD Anthony DeCurtis EDL Gail Tucker EML Ginny Gross ECSL Charlotte Sanders EMSL Maggi Harrison RAIL Janice Manders SEL Cindy King STL Keith Nelms TAL Marianne Thompson Services 3405 3405 3400 3844 3500 3542 3460 424 9621 3519 424 9647 3412 3445
30. ure materials and solar thermal research is retiring on June 30 after an illustrious 31 year career at EES A Georgia Tech graduate with a Bachelor of Ceramic Engineering degree Walton built the ceramics research activity at EES from modest beginnings into the High Temperature Materials Division which he headed from 1968 to 1975 His pioneering development of slip cast fused silica for use in radomes and thermal protec tion systems for reentry vehicles led to the fabrication of the nation s largest ceramic radome now on exhibit in the American Ceramic Society Museum in Columbus Ohio He edited the Radome Engineering Hand book and was a radome consultant with Selenia in Rome Italy during a six month leave of absence in 1975 76 Walton returned to EES in 1976 as technical manager of solar energy pro grams EES solar research had gotten Strictly ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT LAB Gayle Hudson became Mrs Bruce Warren on June 18 At the Retirement and Awards Dinner Tze Chiang received a Gold T pin for 25 years of service to Tech ELECTROMAGNETICS LAB Billy Livesay also received a 25 year Gold T pin Walter Cox has been elected to Tech s Public Relations Committee RADAR amp INSTRUMENTATION LAB New employees are James Edwards research engineer Robert Loebach research engineer l John Trostel research scientist Bruce Lavers elec tronics technician Il and Robert Sand berg programmer Il Terminating thei
31. ve entered The time sheet will disappear and you will see a blank time sheet You can begin entering another percentage employee s time sheet or press F and RETURN to get to the last menu you saw ERROR CHECKING As you enter each line GTIMS will check for certain errors and will show you a green highlight over the error You should correct any errors before moving on Type I to select the input edit option Then type in the correct line However the system will not check for all errors Others will be caught in a batch editing process and must be corrected in a later step The more errors you catch and correct in the initial input the less work will be involved in correcting later If you notice errors before you finish the line you can use the backspace key to move the cursor back and type over the error Another aid to cursor movement that you may want to use as you become more familiar with GTIMS are the arrows on the right of your keyboard These will move the cursor one character to the left or right The up and down arrows will move the cursor from field to field HP INPUT HOURLY TIME SHEETS This section describes how to enter information for hourly time sheets You get to this task by entering HP for hourly employees from any menu HP is used to enter time sheets for staff and students BILLING MONTH After you have entered HP your screen will ask you to enter the month and year on the time sheet you want to enter
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