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Main Speaker(s): M.K. Murthy. Location: Donald Gordon Centre. Video contains a lecture by Murthy on commercial opportunities for advanced materials in Canada, with a focus on advanced ceramics. He also discusses what makes a ceramic 'advanced'. After his lecture he answers questions from th audience.

Main Speaker(s): Ivan Joyce, P.S. Nicholson. Location: Donald Gordon Centre. Begins with a lecture by Joyce on powder technology and fabrication, as well as advanced characterization techniques. Afterward, he answers questions from the audience with the assistance of two other experts. After that, the camera cuts to Nicholson giving a presentation on the non-destructive testing of ceramics. He answers questions from the audience at the end of his speech.

Main Speaker(s): David Payne. Location: Donald Gordon Centre. Video contains a lecture by Payne on microstructural engineering in ceramics to improve their use in electronics. He also takes questions from the audience for the final portion of his presentation.

Main Speaker(s): Dr S.H. Wiederhorn. Location: Donald Gordon Centre. Begins with a man introducing Dr Wiederhorn. After, Dr Wiederhorn lectures the audience on the fracture points of different structural ceramics, as well as how different types of defects can create different failures. He also speaks on new research which seeks to minimize defects. At the end of the speech the audience asks questions and comments on Dr Wiederhorn's lecture.

Main Speaker(s): Dr Richard Webb. Location: Donald Gordon Centre. Video begins with a man introducing Dr Webb, manager of business development for Alcan. He then takes the stage and lectures the audience about resource-based industries for the remainder of the video, as well as Alcan's plan for expanding into the ceramics industry. At the end of his lecture he answers questions from the audience.

Main Speaker(s): Narrator, David Bacon, Keith Norton, Robert Morgan. Edited video with a voiceover talking about the new Zenith Data Systems microcomputers available to applied science students. Bacon discusses the advantages of the microcomputers and Norton talks about how the governemnt approves. Morgan praises Queen's and talks about the advantages of a ZDS microcomputer. Judging by the tone of the video it may have been used as an advertisement for Zenith Data Systems.

Main Speaker(s): Unknown man, Martin Ridlow, Kareena Koheen. Location: Grant Hall. Begins with unknown man welcoming everyone to the hall before introducing Ridlow and Koheen, who perform the skit "Letters from Home". The skit is a re-enactment of life was a hundred years ago in applied science at Queen's vs how it is now. Afterwards there is an award ceremony honouring distinguished Applied Science students.

Main Speaker(s): Dr Robert de Pencier. Edited video highlighting the effects of the 1988 Entrepreneurship Initiative Proposal. Begins with Dr de Pencier talking about the proposal. Cuts to clips of the speakers from the Creating New Ventures Speaker Series. Afterwar cuts to the lecture Developing a Market Plan by Ken Wong. Next shows clips from the 1990 MECH 492 class' final presentations, as well as the MECH 892 graduate course's final presentations.

Main Speaker(s): Robert Antonishen, David Poirier, Michael Mulvenna, Dave Oosthuizen. Location: classroom. Video contains two MECH 492 groups' final project presentations. First group is Antonishen and Poirier, who created the Telami Corporation. They offer a product that would allow someone to use the internet and the phone within the same household. Second group is Mulvenna and Oothuizen who created Fly by Light, who offer a new variety of insect trap. Each group speaks about their marketting plan for their product, as well as sales predictions and insights on company management.