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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

Arnold M. Flikke

followed by a series of plans which saw rapid ad-vancements in industry, agriculture and education. Engineering enroll-ments increased to over 75,000 each year. Engineering schools were ex-panded at home, and in addition, students were sent to study in Russianuniversities. At the same time, the government developed its philosophyof education. Mao s support during the liberation depended on the peasants and 1workers and while Mao recognized the need for an educated populace, hewanted to place restrictions on the development of an intellectual class.The result was that the state or rulers took the right and responsibilityto improve society by using education to improve the moral conduct of thepeople. While this may mean many different

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

Lillian L. Goettler

Math/Science Career Conferences for Girls Lillian L. Goettler North Dakota State University In 1975 a number of women scientists and engineers in the San Francisco Bay area organized the first Expanding Your Horizons career conference to interest girls in math/science based careers. These one-day confer- ences offer giris a variety of hands-on workshop experiences as well as an opportunity to get to know women active in math/science fields and discuss their career paths and plans. These conferences were well re- ceived in the Bay area and inspired many similar conferences across the country. Two years ago at this time, a colleague from the Mathematical Sciences Department, Dr. Doris

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

Hans J. Goettler

mentioned at thebeginning of this section plus plenty of perseverance, a student is forcedvery soon. to consider a change in his or her career plans. 249ConclusionNo or only minimal contact with the students removes those factors fromthe Gennan professor that make teaching the involved, time consuming andsatisfying endeaver it is in this country. Particularly during times ofhigh enrollment and/or faculty shortages, the overloaded American pro-fessor might be tempted to adopt some of the German ways, such as masslectures, no exams at all or only few comprehensive exams instead of manyquizzes, in order to ease the load and to find time for research andother necessary academic pursuits besides teaching. Of course, many

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

David Anthony Rogers; Attilio Jose Giarola; Darlene Hicks Rogers

of 12 credits must be completed after finishing the Master's degree. 2) Complete 48 thesis credits beyond the Master's degree require- ments. 3) Pass a second language exam. Typically, the first language is English and the second language is French or German. Foreign language competency is essential to Brazilian scholars since little is available at the graduate level in Portuguese, in electrical engineering especially. 4) Be approved in a qualifying exam which at the present time is oral. Future plans call for the addition of a formal, written exam. 5) Defend a doctoral thesis. The Doctoral thesis must be based on original

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

Henry L. Kucera; Elton G. Solseng; George L. Pratt

demonstrate energyconservation as energy supplies become expensive andcritical. A rubber band-powered tractor contest seemed to be theanswer. Here was an inexpensive, equal source of energyfor young designers to work with. In many ways rubber bandpower offers chances for more innovation than standardizedmodel airplane engines.The Contest: This type of activity should be meaningful, but alsofun and interesting for all concerned. The sponsoringdepartment should be rewarded by the quantity and qualityof potential students contacted. The actual planning andrunning of the contest can be delegated to undergraduzatestudents in the department. The contestants should beenthused while designing, constructing, and competing withtheir peers. Rules

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

Andrew Baracos

University of Manitoba was, however,accepted as meeting the educational requirements for registration by allexamining boards of the provincial and territorial Associations whileaccreditation was held in abeyance. The accreditation team did voice concern in 1973 regarding anumber of points. It felt that the administration of the program by aninterdepartmental committee simply did not permit enough attention tosuch matters as curriculum, staffing and planning. It noted withsurprise that the interdepartmental committee had met only once in abouttwo years. It noted that the main interests of Earth Sciences staffinvolved with Geological Engineering were in the fields of Precambriangeology, advanced structural geology, geophysics and geochemistry

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

O. Hawaleshka

civil, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering. 2. To improve the system of governemntal planning and regulation of thenumber of engineering schools and students, and the quality of engineeringprograms and courses. 3. To initiate and formalize a continuous process of faculty training,curricular development and theproduction, distribution and use of impro-ved instructional materials and equipment. 4. To plan and establish a sound foundation for the later developmentof specialized and advanced engineering courses.Common to all these aims is to make the engineering graduate of a qualityacceptable by international standards and particularly adapted to the needsof the Philippines.The Project with the assistance of an international

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

William A. Bares; David A. Rogers

information aboutthe life and work of the professional engineer in order to obtain morefrom their studies, to make adequate career planning, and to carry thesebenefits into their professional practice. One way to affect this isthrough an orientation to electrical engineering course. Erlandsen [l] reviewed dozens of university catalogs and found thatonly about 50% of the engineering programs offered something like an engi-neering orientation course. Further, study of the last several years ofthe IEEE Transactions on Education will reveal very few articles on sucha course. It seems as though very few people are motivated to contributein this area perhaps due to the lack of professional compensation forsuch efforts.History Probably many

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

David A. Carlson; Clyde E. Work

-analysis software packages.These systems are part of a network being developed to meetour needs that require capabilities beyond those of the microbased systems. The student use of these systems and softwarewill be limited mostly to upper division classes. They do,however, provide excellent teaching tools for use at alllevels of instruction. Current examples are our IBM 4341 DEC11/34 and Data·General Nova systems. 3) Experimental/research systems dedicated to expanding the current technology base while providing the capabilities for new applications development. In defining our needs in this manner and as a result ofcareful planning, the requisite areas of overlap b~tweenlevels and their

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

Frank J. Worzala; Jerome F. Saeman

presented, were invited to answerquestions. For class periods when neither tapes nor lectures were presented, avariety of activities were planned. These included small group dis-cussion, demonstrations, lab experiments, a panel discussion and exams.In addition, students were required to work in small groups on projectsrelated to novel and innovative uses of wood as an engineering material.Students were occasionally given short periods of time to work on pro-jects during class time, but were expected to do the major portion oftheir projects as homework. The last two class periods were set asidefor project reports. Students were required to submit a written projectreport at the end of the semester. Those students not enrolled forcredit were