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Amelito Enriquez

results for studentswho declared engineering as their major. Mexican American and African American studentshave the lowest percentages of students placing into Trigonometry, and the highest percentagesof students placing into Pre-algebra. The results of these math placement tests have serious andadverse consequences for these students’ timely completion of lower-division courses in scienceand engineering, and subsequent transfer to a university. Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2010, American Society for Engineering Education 135Table 3. Ethnic

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............................................................................................................ 150“Engineering Student Services Center Model”* Edwin Odom, Don Blackletter, Larry Staufer, & Steven Beyerlein ....................................................... 155“Why Do They Come, Why Do They Not Return” Stuart Kellogg ......................................................................................................................................... 157* Denotes work in progress Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2010, American Society for Engineering EducationCONCURRENT SESSIONS, 1:15-3:00 P.M.Session ME: Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and Technology“Technology to the Rescue! Lessons Learned from the Forced On

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Marilyn A. Dyrud

community during the Third Reich, however, gives us reason to pause and ponder.From an engineering perspective, the Holocaust is the ultimate in problem solving: how toeliminate 11 million people (the estimated number of Jews on the planet in the 1930s) in anefficient and cost-effective manner and how to dispose of the remains in a way that would notcompromise public health. The answer was the development of death camps in Poland, ―amethodical blueprint for murder,‖1 the result of a brainstorming session at the 1941 WannseeConference. Someone, however, had to design and construct the infrastructure to support thecamp system, as well as develop the instruments of death and disposal and methods for trackingthe population of Europe to identify those