University Daily Kansan, April 11, 1985
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New program awaits funds
By NANCY HANEY Staff Reporter
A computer engineering program unique to the University of Kansas could start as early as next fall if state financing for the program is approved, an engineering professor said yesterday.
Gary Minden, assistant professor of electrical engineering, said the new program could attract students to campus and outside the state to the University.
The new program has been approved by both the House and the Senate and is part of the KU budget package now being discussed in a House and Senate conference committed.
KU requested in its fiscal year 1986 budget that about $266,000 be appropriated to start the new program. Also included in the program is a request for four additional faculty members.
BILL BULGREN, ACTING chairman of the computer science department, said his department supported the proposed program.
Minden said, "This would be one of the few programs in the area. And it would be the only one of its kind in the state."
Minden said he expected a lot of students in the electrical engineering sequence to sign up for the new curriculum as some computer science students.
Some of the math and computer programming courses offered in the computer engineering program would be cross-listed in the computer science department, Bulgren said.
Minden said the 134-hour program could be completed in four years. Courses in the program have been scheduled tentatively for next fall, even though state approval of the program is not final.
STUDENTS IN THE new program would be able to earn a bachelor of
Minden said that now nearly half of the electrical engineering students specialized in an option called computer design, which was similar to what the computer engineering degree would be like.
science degree in computer engineering. Minden said.
However, Minden said, the new program would help the student when he or she started looking for a job in the computer field.
In the new program students will design software and work with computers rather than be required to study other aspects of electrical engineering.
The program would be phased in over three years. Minden said. Two new faculty members would be hired this fall and one would be added in each of the next two years.
Minden said the new faculty would be hired after the Legislature's decision about the program was made final.
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