Engineering departments
move into new building
Since (he middle of 1969
University students have been
watching progress on the large
brick building between 16th
and 17th streets on Vine.
Progress may have seemed
especially slow to students in
the five departments which will
eventually have laboratories in
the building.
Finally, this fall, two of the
five departments are moving
into the $4,975,000
engineering building.
The electrical engineering
and industrial and management
systems engineering
departments have made the
move. Mechanical engineering,
civil engineering and
engineering mechanics will
move to their new laboratories
later.
Offices and classrooms for
the five departments will be in
Nebraska and Bancroft Halls.
The new building is full of
innovations, including a huge
testing bed for large beams and
a human factors laboratory,
- where the effects of noise,
vibrations and other hazards
can be studied.
The engineering
departments will vacate
Ferguson, Richards and Stout
Halls when they make their
move to Vine St. after these
buildings have been renovated
Tentative plans call for
anthropology to move into
Stout, computer science into
Ferguson, and construction
along with part of the art
department into Richards.
The chemical engineering
department will remain in
Avery laboratory and the
agricultural engineering
department will remain on East
Campus.
About $300,000 of the
building's cost was provided by
the federal government, the
rest by the state.
There are 105,000 square
feet in the building, which will
serve 2,000 undergraduate and
300 graduate students.
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Math 14 becomes thing of past
Paby Marsha Kahm
About 1 ,000 students at the
University this fall will be the
first to test a new revised Basis
Math course.
The Traditional Math 14
course is now a thing of the
past. It has been replaced by
three separate two credit units
entitled Math 14A, Math 14B
and Math 16.
Each of these units is an
eight -week course and the
beginning math student may
take two a semester. Which
courses he takes depends on his
placement and his major.
"We tried to revise the
course so it will serve the
students in a better way,"
explained Loren Argabright,
chairman of the math
department. "In the old Math
14 course we had a lot of
students who didn't need all of
the course. Those who didn't
need all of it got bored and
those who needed all of it were
frustrated because the others
were ahead of them."
According to Argabright,
this new revision eliminates a
lot of waste and makes
students in the classes work on
a more equal level.
In addition, these
lower-level math courses will
be smaller than in the past,
with around 25 students per
class. Most of the classes will
be taught by graduate students.
All students previously
enrolled for the old Math 14
course this semester were
required to take a test, the
results of which were used to
place them in Math 14A or
their choice of either Math 14B
and Math 16. In this way a
more equal distribution of
students was possible.
Those students who passed
over Math 1 4A will be able to
receive two hours of credit for
it. In other words, a student
could end up with six hours
credit in math at the end of
one semester.
According to Argabright the
idea to revise Math 1 4 has been
"kicked around" the math
department for a while and was
finally officially formulated
this summer by Walter
Mientka, Robert Meyer and
Francis Masat of the Math
department.
One reason for the revision,
according to Masat, is that it
allows for more flexibility in
the contest of the course. It
gives the students more of a
choice.
Masat said the reaction to
the course has been good so far
and the cooperation on the
part of the extension division
and the registar's office has
been "great."
One advantage to the
students is that after they take
the test, all of the other
administrative details are taken
care of by the math
department. Students won.t
have to go through drop and
add to register for one of the
three courses.
In addition. Math 14A can
be used to fulfil the Arts and
Sciences requirement.
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