University Daily Kansan, October 23, 1980
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Engineering
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Kraft said there was a nationwide shortage of people qualified to teach engineering.
"Normally professors must have a doctorate or sufficient years of experience to be comparable to a doctorate," he said. "There aren't enough of those neeou around."
Several engineering faculty members said they tried to cope with heavier workloads caused by the shortage by extending their office hours by teaching assistants and paper graders.
HOWEVER, THE AMOUNT of individual attention that each engineering student receives
is decreasing, said Stan Rolfe, chairman of the civil engineering department.
To help as many students as possible, Rofie is a engineering professors keep their doors open.
"The students who can absorb what professors say in class probably will do fine," he said. "But others find it hard to ask questions and discuss in class. They are the ones who wind up on the short end."
The number of students who ask for outside help has doubled, Rolf said, so professors have less time to conduct research and develop new courses.
To keep up their research, some professors
work at home, he said, and some come to work at 7 a.m.
Louis Burmester, professor of mechanical engineering, said he had stopped assigning and teaching courses in this field.
Instead, he bases grades on each student's three highest test scores.
Brommierte said his students were too busy trying to master class material to complain
Some engineering students said that they did not mind large classes and that they had not had to take the course.
"It's no problem; you can just go in and talk to
Tea
He said that the modern thin green tea often was served after the thick tea and that a more traditional version is made.
In last night's ceremony, the host placed tea leaves in the ceramic tea bowl, took water from the sink, and drank.
The tea is prepared carefully and solemnly, Wilson said, in deference to the fact that it is an art. The tea is made.
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The hot water was poured on top of the tea bag, and the tea was kneaded with a bamboo tea whisk.
EACH UTENSIL that will be used for the tea is cleaned with a cloth before the tea is prepared.
Wilson said that if too much water was added the sea would be too thin. If too little is used it is hurt.
Wilson said, the host must make an educated guess at the amount of water needed.
"One must knit it by intuition," he said. "The host has to summon up his years and years of experience to make delicious tea. Either that or the amenony will be somewhat of an anticlimax."
Because the tea rooms are usually dark,
The main guest drank first. She lifted the bowl to express her gratitude, then turned it around twice to show that she was too modest to drink from the front of the bowl.
She bowed to indicate that she would pass the bow to the guest, who took the bowl and proceed with the process.
When the tea was finished, the utensils were cleaned and taken away, except for the brazier. The tea was kept on the table.
Coalition
For next Wednesday's event on Japanese culture at Yamamoto, professor of anatomy and human development at UCLA.
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He said coaltions spent large amounts of money and cluttered the campus with posters.
"It puts the elections in more of a political light than they should be," he said.
a professor," said Caroline Chandler, a Lenexa freshman in chemical engineering.
Gordon agreed and called coalitions "a disadvantage to student government."
MBRIDE SAID HE would prefer to teach 25 or 30 students at a time.
Independent candidates make their own decisions, Gordon said, and those who work hard during their campaigns probably will work hardest as senators.
However, many professors who remember the smaller classes of past years said their classes
He said that the only contribution of coalitions was the increase in the amount of money spent by the state.
Gordon said presidential and vice-presidential candidates benefited from recruiting more candidates because it broadened their base of exposure and support. However, he also said it contributed to the "dead weight" in Student Senate.
smaller classes would be possible only if the number of faculty members sharply increased or if the number of students decreased, Kraft said. The group not anticipate either event in the near future.
The School of Engineering will not stiffen admission requirements to limit its enrolment, he added.
The National Science Foundation report said the shortage of engineering professors would continue because of declining student interest in studying engineering at the doctoral level.
Fall enrollment figures show that the situation in KU's graduate engineering program is not as severe as it was 15 years ago.
However, Kraft said the number of students in the school's 32-hour master's program, which increased from 229 to 313 students, accounted for much of the change.
This semester, the number of engineering graduate students increased from 321 to 402.
In the doctoral program, which produces engineers qualified to teach in universities, there was only a slight increase from 82 to 89 students, he said.
Starting monthly salaries for engineers who graduate from KU in 1980 will range from $1,489 to $2,037, according to the school's placement office.
"Why try a doctorate when you can start out in a high-paying job with a bachelor of science degree?" asked Mike Weiss, Spring Hill junior.
Several engineering students said there was little incentive for them to take the extra 62 hours on weekends.
ENGINEERES WITH master's or doctoral degrees will earn about 10 percent more, but Kraft said the difference was not large enough to require an extra two to five years of research and study.
"That's a long time, and the financial reward is simply not there," he said. "The programs are a tremendous amount of work, and, of course, the students have to learn in school, the B.S. graduates are out making money."
"I spent three years bored out of my gourd," said Rex Donahue, a Logan graduate student, who worked for three years before coming to KU. "The work just wasn't fulfilling."
However, several engineering graduate students are learning a doctoral degree was willed to them.
Most of those questioned worked as engineers for three to five years. They returned to school when they saw that promotions and research opportunities to engineers with master's or doctoral degrees.
Several of the graduate students said engineers with bachelor's degrees usually were assigned less difficult jobs in the firms they worked for.
The graduate students said they expected higher salaries after leaving KU, but they said extra money was not as important as knowledge and skill.
"To do what I want to do, it's imperative to have a master's," said RHyll Williams. Paola graduate student "want to get into original work." He edged in the job you can't just do that with a B.S. in engineering.
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