8 July 17. lfC3 Summer Nebrcskcn
Engineering college appoints minority student counselor
By J canne Mohatt
Minority students rarely enroll at
NlTa College of Engineering and Tech
nology, so the school has hired Michael
Tibbs to fill the new position of minority
recruiter and counselor.
Tibbs, a 22-year-old industrial engi
neering major at UNL, has been ap
pointed assistant administrative coordi
nator of minority engineering programs
atNU.
UNO and 12 state and nationwide in
dustries are sponsoring the program,
Tibbs said. UNO pays the operating ex
penses and the industries pay his salary,
which he declined to reveal Northwest
em Bell Company is one of the sponsor
ing industries, he said.
Recruiting problem
"Recruiting is a problem. There are no
role models," he said. Minority high
school students don't think an engineer
ing degree is a realistic goal because they
see few engineers who are from minori
ties. Tibbs said he will seek potential engi-
Anthropologisi continued from page 6
Before the pencil erasers and clay are
used, the person's gender, race and age
need to be determined.
The first step in determining identity
is to find the race of the individual. The
profile is one indication of race. If the jaw
protrudes, and projects beyond the base
of the nose, the race is most likely Asian
or Negro. If it is fairly straight, the race
usually is Caucasian. The shape of teeth
also can indicate race, he said.
Determining the gender from the skull
is somewhat more difficult than deter
mining the race, he said.
A squared jaw with two points and
more rugged features generally will indi
cate a male, whereas a more pointed chin
and refined features usually will indicate
a female.
Of course, McWilliams said, there are
exceptions to all of the standards forensic
anthropologists use.
Determining age from the skull proba
bly is the most difficult thing for facial
reconstructionists. Generally, fines on the
skull are larger and longer on a younger
person.
McWilliams said this is because the
brain of a younger person is still expand
ing and the skull has not sealed. On an
older person the lines are invisible or less
visible.
Age is a problem to McWilliams and
others in his field because they try to
reconstruct the "standard person" and it
is difficult to tell how time will alter a
person's appearance, he said.
However, he said, most of the cases fo-
neering students from youth organiza
tions and public schools across the state.
He will also counsel and "provide en
couragement and social support for
those minority students who have en
rolled. "There's a problem with retaining stu
dents, he said.
Tibbs, who began his job May 19 on
the UNO campus, will graduate in
December from UNL and begin working
full-time in January as minority recruiter
and counselor.
Advertised nationally
The position was advertised national
ly, he said, and he heard about it from
the acting engineering dean,
"They were looking for someone famil
iar with the Omaha area, said the
Omaha Benson graduate. He has lived in
Omaha almost all his life.
Tibbs said he thought non-minorities
also were interviewed for the job.
Out of 1,137 engineering and tech
nology students at UNO, Tibbs said, only
50 are from minorities, which include
American Indians, Hispanics and blacks.
UNL has 2,074 students enrolled in its
rensic anthropologists work on involve
young people, because most murder or
accident victims are young.
Hair color, eye color and the shape of
ears and lips often are guesswork for the
facial reconstructionist, he said. With the
case McWilliams is working on now, he
knows the person's weight, height, hair
color and that he was bald.
Having that much information is rare,
he said.
Although McWilliams said he and his
colleagues often guess at many factors, he
said they have been remarkably success
ful. He cited a study that facial recon
structionists have done to see how accu
rately they capture the appearance of the
individual.
High school graduation pictures were
placed next to a photograph of a recon
structed skull. One of the pictures was of
the deceased person. People were asked
to match the photograph of the recon
structed skull with the correct picture.
If the individual had been young when
he, or she died, the pictures were
matched correctly 80 percent of the time,
he said. If the person was older the suc
cess rate dropped significantly.
McWilliams said he expects the suc
cess rate for forensic anthrolpologists to
increase.
"More and more people are getting
into the field," he said. "We're going to
refine our methods, and eventually we'll
be able to tell much more."
engineering program, but only 27 are
from these minorities, he said.
Position not unique
Nationally, minorities represent less
than 2 percent of more than one million
engineering students, he said.
Tibbs new position at NU is not
unique, he said. Colleges across the coun
try have similar minority recruiting and
counseling programs.
He has proposed creating several
workshops and organizations for mi
nority engineering students, he said.
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