40/GENERAL INFORMATION


Internal Support Program funds to eligible faculty. For in-
formation, write the Vice President for Research, Division
of Sponsored Research, 223 Grinter Hall.

FLORIDA ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL
EXPERIMENT STATION

 The Florida Engineering and Industrial Experiment
 Station (EIES) developed from early research activities of
 the engineering faculty and was officially 'established in
 1941 by the Legislature as an integral part of the College
 of Engineering. Its purpose is to organize and promote
 research projects of engineering and related sciences,
 with special reference to problems that are important to
 the development of Florida's industries.
 The faculty are working on several important national
 and societal problems including automation technologies
 and manufacturing sciences; the development of new
 materials including biomaterials; communication tech-
 nologies; biomedical engineering; computers, informa-
 tion processing systems, and software engineering; micro-
 electronics, optoelectronics, and lightwave technologies;
 conventional and alternative energy technologies; and a
 broad spectrum of research related to the "public sector,"
 i.e., agricultural, civil, coastal, and environmental engi-
 neering. Many of the programs emphasize research in
 areas which will help our national competitive posture in
 the international marketplace through the improvement
 of industrial productivity and/or through the development
 of new materials, devices, or processes that would give
 the United States a technological edge.

 INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY OF THE
 COMMUNICATION PROCESSES
 The Institute for Advanced Study of the Communication
 Processes (IASCP) provides opportunities for University
 faculty and advanced students to carry out research in the
 communication processes. The Institute is interdiscipli-
 nary, with membershipdrawn from the Colleges of Liberal
 Arts and Sciences, Engineering, Medicine, Dentistry, and
 Fine Arts. The University of Florida in Gainesville is its
 headquarters, but it is structured to serve the entire State
 University System. Currently there are active participants
 from Florida State University, the University of South'
 Florida, and Florida International University. The IASCP
 faculty also includes members located at other universi-
 ties and research laboratories both within the continental
 United States and abroad.
 The overall objective of IASCP is the maintenance of a
 scientific center of excellence foctised on human commu-
 nicative behavior. The Institute's program includes (but is
 not confined to) three broad areas: 1) the communicator(s),
 i.e., the physiological/ physical/psychological processes
 by which individuals generate and transmit communica-
 tive signals (speech), 2) the respondentss, and how recep-
 tive (hearing) and neural mechanisms function to process
 signals within a variety of environments, and 3) the
 message, i.e., the codes and signs (language) that consti-
 tute the sum total of these communicative messages. The
 IASCP faculty includes students and scientists with a
 variety of interests and training. Expertise is represented
 by the phonetic sciences, speech pathology and audiol-
ogy, psychology, psycholinguistics, linguistics, psy-
choacoustics, auditory neurophysiology, electrical engi-


neering, computer sciences, physics, communication
studies, biocommunication, dentistry, and medicine.
 As stated, IASCP's overall research effort is basically an
 interdisciplinary one, but the focus of each investigator's
 interests is the advancement of knowledge about human
 communication. For information, write the Director, Insti-
 tute for Advanced Study of the Communication Processes,
 63 Dauer Hall.
 INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
 CENTERS

 ACCOUNTING RESEARCH CENTER
 Established in 1976, the ARC is an integral part of the
 Fisher School of Accounting and of the College of Business
 Administration. It serves to develop and promote a schol-
 arly environment for research in accounting with a special
 interest in interdisciplinary research. ARC holds frequent
 research seminars, organizes a biennial national research
 symposium on accounting and auditing standards, and
 publishes the journal of Accounting Literature. For infor-
 mation, contact Director, Accounting Research Center,
 255 Business Building.

 CENTER FOR AERONOMY AND OTHER
 ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
 The Center (ICAAS) is a community of scholars drawn
from many disciplines represented at the University of
Florida. Each scholar has an established professional knowl-
edge and research capability in the atmospheric sciences
or in physical, biological, or societal disciplines that relate
closely to our atmospheric environment. As an interdisci-
plinary center, ICAAS promotes pure and applied research
in the atmospheric sciences and provides machinery for
translating research into forms relevant to societal needs.
Activities include a diverse range of tropospheric and
micrometeorological research as well as biological, eco-
logical, and technological research related to the quality of
the air. In particular, the development of clean combustion
technologies which foster the energy needs of Florida and
the nation while reducing harmful atmospheric emissions
has been a major ICAAS focus of the past decade. These
activities are dispersed widely in the Colleges of Engineer-
ing, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Agriculture, Medicine, Law,
and Business Administration.
 Interdisciplinary projects of ICAAS encompass (1) stud-
ies of sources, atmospheric transformation, and transport
of acidic substances for a Florida acid rain assessment; (2)
studies of ultraviolet, visible, and infrared radiation levels
reaching the ground for photobiological applications; (3)
evaluation of the environmental impact for the conversion
of Florida's oil boilers to coal including development of
interpolated analytic wind roses and pollutant concentration
contours for Florida; (4) interplay of energy production
needs relative to air quality standards including the tech-
nical, scientific, medical, agricultural, psychological, eco-
nomic, and legal aspects of the energy/air quality problems
resulting in a monograph "Coal Burning Issues" on an
assessment of the impact of increased coal use in Florida;
and (5) economic and environmental benefits of co-burn-
ing coal, coal-water slurries, biomass, and waste with
natural gas for efficient energy recovery and reduced
emissions. These energy-atmospheric environment proj-
ects have led to the formation of the University of Florida-
Sunland Training Center-Clean Combustion Technology