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University Daily Kansan / Monday, October 14, 1991
Engineering departments to face review of programs
By Mauricio Rios
Kansan staff writer
Several departments in the School of Engineering will be scrutinized today and tomorrow as if they were under a microscope.
The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology will visit the School of Engineering to examine the programs and curricula of some engineering departments, said Harold Rosson, associate dean of engineering.
The board accrets all engineering programs in the United States.
Rosson said that an ABET team of seven people would talk to students and faculty and review textbooks, transcripts and curricula.
"Each department handles it on its own," Rosson said, referring to ABET's examination process. "It's kind of like a dentist. It isn't necessary pleasant."
The accreditation review meetings occur every three to six years, Rosson
The engineering school must be accredited carefully because it is a professional school but not a technical school.
Rosson said ABET would pay particular attention to the departments of chemical and petroleum engineering, architectural engineering, physics, and computer engineering.
These four departments have shown some deficiencies, particularly a lack of equipment. Rosson said.
The visit is especially important for the department of computer engineering because it is not yet an accredited program. he said.
The computer engineering department is not accredited because it did not exist when the board visited the school three years ago.
Francis Prosser, associate professor and chairperson for the department of physics and astronomy, said his department would be reviewed because some major deficiencies were found three years ago.
He said that teaching laboratories had not been maintained to ABET's standards and that there was a lack of equipment and computing resources.
"That's the reason for the credit-hour fee," he said, referring to the $15 per credit hour engineering students have to pay this semester.
The individual departments have been active in working out solutions to deficiencies that ABET previously detected, Prosser said.
"Major steps have been taken to prevent these problems." he said.
If a program is not accredited, then it could be dropped by the school, Prosser said.
Sister-city residents visit Lawrence
Nine visitors from Lawrence's German sister city saw sights reminiscent of home while in Lawrence yesterday.
By Heather Anderson Kansan staff writer
The delegation from Eutin, Germany, along with Lawrence city officials, visited Veterans Park, 19th and Louisiana streets. The park is the site of a garden where red roses from the German city were planted last spring.
A model of a sundial, designed by two Lawrence residents, also was shown to the group. The sundial will commemorate the sixtieth anniversary and will be placed next to the rose garden.
at the Lawrence Arts Center, Ninth and Vermont streets, which featured photographs taken by Lawrence and Eutin residents.
The group also viewed a photography exhibit
The Eutin group, which will leave Lawrence Wednesday, consisted of teachers, a manager from a rubber factory and a farmer, said Helipe the thewe, his carpenter who is from Eutin.
Members of the group are living with Lawrence residents during their stay.
In addition to giving people from both countries a chance to get to know each other, the trip also will give the group a taste of American life, Schewe said.
"They would not have dared to tour the United States on their own," he said.
Scheewe said the group will visit New
Orleans, Las Vegas, San Antonio, Atlanta and Los Angeles during its visit to the United States.
Chuck Loveland, president of Friends of Eutin, said that this was the second time that a Eutin group had visited Lawrence in the last three years.
A Lawrence delegation visited Eutin during the summer of 1990.
The delegation's visit to Lawrence is only one way that the two cities are cooperating with each other through the sister-city agreement.
Three high school students and one teacher from Eutin have been working at Lawrence High School for the last five weeks. Six Lawrence High students lived and studied in Eutin this summer.
KU journalist inducted into hall of fame
By Melissa Rodgers
Kansan staff writer
John Brenner, former KU journalism professor, was inducted posthumously into the Kansas University at Kansas State University.
Calder Pickett, professor emeritus of journalism at the University
He was elected by members of the Kansas Press Association and honored at Kansas Editors' Day. Bremner, who died in 1878 at age 66, is the 81st member of the Hall of Fame.
of Kansas and a former Bremner colleague delivered the induction speech.
"He was considered to be the best editing teacher in America" "he
Bremner is known for his book Words on Words: A Dictionary for
Writers and Others Who Care About Words. He frequently hired as a newspaper consultant for several years for the Gannett Foundation.
Bremner was famous for saying to his reporting and editing students, "If your mother says she loves you - check it out."
Although he intimidated his students and would not tolerate ignorance, his students loved him, Pickett said.
in 1977. The award is given by the KU student body for teaching excellence.
Bremner was born in Australia and worked for Catholic publications there and in the United States. He earned a master's degree from Columbia University and a doctorate from the University of Iowa.
The induction of a Kansas editor is a traditional part of editors' day festivities. This was the first year the event was at K-State. KU and K-State alternate each year as host.
Brenner, an Oscar S. Stauffer distinguished professor of journalism, received the O.H.P.E. award
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