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10 The University of AkronTwo labs, which contain lntel-based computers, are connected by a Banyan VINESnetwork. One of these labs is frequently used for class laboratory sessions for upto twenty students. This is a standard feature of many entry-level courses in mathematicsand computer science. The other lab is an open lab in wh1ch students finda similar environment in which to work independently on assignments. The PCsthemselves have a Windows 95 environment. NSF TCP/IP has been installed andaccess is provided to the Internet via ftp, tel net, MOSAIC, and Netscape. Softwareavailable includes Maple, ISETL, and MATLAB for mathematics; Turbo C++, VisualC++, Macro Assembler, Visual BASIC and Turbo Pascal for computer science; andWord Perfect, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Works for more general use.Another open laboratory is mainly devoted to a UNIX client/server environmentThere are ten SUN SparcStations (Solaris 2.3/0penwindows) which support eightX-terminals. These devices are used for many of the upper-level computer sciencecourses. They are on a separate local ethernet network supported by a SUN Spareserver20. They also support MOSAIC and Netscape. Languages available includeLisp, FORTRAN, Pascal, two versions of C and C++, and Peri.The campus has a baokbone network to wh1ch each of the local area networks ISconnected. Also on the baokbone are a DecStation 5000 running ULTRIX, an IBM4381, Model T-92, running VM/ESA, and an IBM 9672, Model R-41. runningMVS/ESA. All of these machines are available from the department via the localarea networks and also via dumb terminals located in parts of the two open computerlabs. Access to SAS and SPSS for statistical processing, to Model 204,SOlJDS and DB/2 for database applications, and to a variety of programming languages,editors, and network services is provided to students and faculty by thesemachines.Two undergraduate statistical laboratories are also supported by the departmentMinitab is available in these laboratories on either Macintosh or lntel-based computers.These laboratories are used for statistics courses. Plans for the futureinclude networking these labs.Three special graduate/research laboratories are also part of the Mathematical SciencesDepartment An Applied Mathematics and ScientifiC Computation Lab containsSUN SparcStations, IBM RISC 6000s, and Silicon Graph1cs Workstations. AMasPar parallel computer is provided for parallel processing. It is available forresearch, but is also used for an undergraduate computer sc1ence course. A lab isalso available for graduate students in computer science. It has a variety of workstationsand PCs and is connected to both the Banyan VINES network and the SUNnetwork. The Center for Statistical Consulting provides graduate statistics studentswith a work experience in which they assist others in the solution of a wide varietyof statistical problems. The Center is equipped with a Macintosh computer withMinitab, JMP, and SYSTAT statistical software, as well as a connection to VM foraccess to SAS and SPSS mainframe computing.The campus is on both BITNET and the Internet E-mail IS available campus-wide.Most machines in the department also provide Internet access to encourage studentsand faculty to keep current on subjects of interest The University and thedepartment have horne pages on the web. Addit1onal 1nformat1on about the department,its faculty, and its programs. is therefore available on the Internet. Theaddress for the home page of the department IS http.//wwwuakron.edu/mathsci.html.Various web browsers are used (as indicated above). Remote log-ins fromthe University are permitted to those who have accounts elsewhere For example,many faculty members have accounts on the Cray super computer in Columbus,OH.Dial-in access to all facilities, except the Banyan network, is available. Students areencouraged to work at the location that is most convenient to them. Any communicationsoftware using kermit protocols can be used. Recently, ppp access wasadded.With the variety of equ1pment, operating systems, languages and software, theDepartment of Mathematical Sciences can meet the computing needs of its studentsand faculty. As advances and changes are made in what 1s available, thedepartment makes the appropriate modifications, updates, and purchases to maintaincurrency in a rapidly changing field.The proximity of the faculty offices to the computer laboratories encourages regularinteraction between students and faculty. E-mail is another veh1cle for studentfacultycommunication. Staff members provide introductory seminars and arealways available to assist and guide students. A friendly, informal, helpful atmospheremakes the Department of Mathematical Sciences an enjoyable place to learnand gain practical experience.A most important resource of the Department of Modem Languages is the LanguageResource Center in Olin Hall. The Language Resource Center contains facilitiesfor students to listen to audiotapes and view videotapes as a class orindividually. Fourteen networked multimedia computers have software for additionallanguage practice and foreign language word processing. Access to theWorld Wide Web provides students with the opportunity to both read and listen toup-to-date news and cultural information in foreign languages. Magazines and dictionariesare also available for student use.The Department of Physics is located on the first three floors of Ayer Hall. Facilitiesinclude research laboratones used for faculty and student research projects,laboratories for experiments associated with coursework and several microcomputerlabs for undergraduate and graduate student use Most of the department'scomputers are networked. The department has an e-mail system and a web page(http.//WWwphysics.uakron.edu) for use by the faculty and physics students. Manyinstructors use this system to distribute course materials and entertain questionsand feedback from students. The smallness of the department provides ampleopportunity for interaction with all faculty members. This interaction combined withthe laboratory space, computing facilities and reading room offer a diverse learningexperience to the student in an attractive and hospitable environment.The Department of Political Science maintains an instructional computer laboratoryconsisting of eight computers and a scanner. This laboratory is used by PoliticalScience students assigned research tasks requiring improved computer andInternet skills.The Institute for Policy Studies supervises a computer-assisted telephone interviewinglaboratory available to the campus research community. The laboratoryconsists of 24 IBM PS/2 microcomputers connected via a network to a vanety ofsystem servers. Each interviewer station is acoustically insulated from other stationsand has specialized telephone and automatic dialing equipment. The surveyfacility is used for grant and contract research covering national, state, and localstudies. When not required for survey projects, the computer network is used fora variety of classroom exercises and student research projects. Another 25 stationsare available for faculty and graduate student support.The Department of Psychology owns over 50 microcomputers that are availableto faculty and students. Also available are research areas for the study of smallgroupbehavior. and a psychology clinic complete with videotape capabilities for thestudy of counseling processes and outcomes Two dedicated research labs containGateway 2000 386 and Pentium PCs. A word processing lab contains IBM compatiblecomputers and HP Laser Jet printers. A mainframe access lab for exclusiveuse by the psychology department has connections to the mainframe via PCs andterminals. Supported are major statistical packages-SAS, SPSS, and LISREL -whichare accessed through VM-CMS. PC versions of SAS, SPSS, and LISREL are alsoavailable. Portable computers are available for field research. A full-time researchprogrammer/analyst provides the hardware and software support for the departmentand writes custom software for computerized experimental control, stimulusdisplay, and data collection. WordPerfect for word processing and Lotus FreelanceGraphics for chart and graphic production are used throughout the department.The Department of Sociology facilities include research laboratories used forfunded research projects and a complete microcomputer laboratory for allgraduate students. The department shares a computer facility for all students inOlin Hall which includes microcomputers and terminals directly linked to theUniversity's mainframe computer. The anthropology laboratories contain hominidfossil casts, archaeological collections, and a variety of equipment used inarchaeological field research projects.College of Business AdministrationThe College of Business Administration is located in the 81,000 square-foot, fourstoryCollege of Business Administration Building, which houses the college'soffices, classrooms, computer laboratories, and advising services. The departmentsof Finance, Management, Marketing, the George W. Daverio School of Accountancy,the Fitzgerald Institute of Entrepreneurial Studies, the Fisher Institute for ProfessionalSelling and the Institute for Global Business share the CBA. All undergraduateand graduate programs are fully accredited by the American Assembly of CollegiateSchool of Business, the most prestigious accrediting agency for business schools.Tiered, amphitheater-style classrooms permit close contact between students andprofessors. The Milton and Henrietta Kushkin Computer Laboratory provides threecomputer classrooms, each equ1pped with nearly 40 personal computers and ahomework laboratory for students with over 70 computers. Each PC is equippedwith current versions of word processors, spreadsheets, database managers, andmulti-media software. Also, all PC's are connected to the Internet, World Wide Web,and e-mail.The nationally acclaimed Carl V and Clyde A. Fisher Sales Laboratory provide the collegewith five small group lab rooms connected by one-way mirrors to a centralmonitoring and control room. Sophisticated videotape equipment permits therecording of activities in each lab room which can then be shown to students to provideimmediate feedback. This facility is a key resource in college programs for trainingin sales, sales management, negotiation, leadership, and employment interviewpreparation.The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company Lecture Hall, the building's largest classroom,is equ1pped with a state-of-the-art audio-visual system capable of projectingtextbook material, transparencies, slides, videotapes, computer screen images, andthe like onto the room's 10-by-10 foot screen. Other classrooms also offer multimediacapabilities.Facilities for seminars, continuing education programs, and student organizationmeetings are provided in the John P. Murphy Executive Room and adjacent smallgroupmeeting room.The CBA Satellite Office of Placement Services is located in a suite of eight officeson the second floor The suite includes a reception area, resource library, and interviewrooms. The Placement Center's dedicated staff of career counselors providesassistance in resume preparation, development of interviewing skills, job-searchstrategies, on-campus interviews, job referrals, and internship/cooperative educationopportunities. The CBAs Internship and cooperative education programs areamong the most extensive on campus.
Background Information 11Offices of the college's eighteen active student organizations are located in theJames Dunlap Student Organization Office Suite just off the atrium lobby. Studentorganizations offer opportunities for development of social, professional, leadership,and networking skills through interaction with business professionals and other students.College of EducationThe offices, laboratories, and other facilities of the College of Education are locatedin Zook Hall, Carroll Hall, Crouse Hall, the James A. Rhodes Health and PhysicalEducation Building, and Memorial Hall.The Department of Educational Foundations and Leadership serves undergraduateand graduate students in the College of Education. The departmentserves undergraduate students by providing instruction in core courses in teachereducation. In the area of leadership, the department provides graduate courses inschool administration and higher education administration. The department membersalso teach the core curr'1culum of historical, philosophic, psychological, andsocial foundations required in all graduate education programs. They teach, advise,and supervise problems, theses, and dissertations of students in their degreegrantinggraduate programs, the master's programs in Educational Foundations,the master's and doctoral programs in Educational Administration, and the master'sand doctoral programs in Higher Education.The Department of Physical and Health Education prepares students for careersin teaching, athletic training for sports medicine, health education,coaching, related recreational fields, and related health fields. There are laboratoriesfor the study of exercise physiology, motor behavior, teaching skills (microteaching),and computer utilization in physical and health education. The department hasaccess to the James A. Rhodes Health and Physical Education Building (classrooms,the main gym, an indoor running track, a multi-purpose room, and fourteach1ng station areas), Memorial Hall (classrooms, as well as large and smallgyms), Ocasek Natatorium (a classroom, a swimming pool, nine racquetball courts,and a weight room), and Lee Jackson Field (14 tennis courts, an outdoor runningtrack, and two softball fields).The Department of Cunicular and Instructional Studies includes both the areasof secondary education and elementary education. Instruction in secondary educationprepares students for teaching careers at the middle, junior, and senior highschool levels in various academic and vocational subject fields. Initial teacher preparationprograms are available at the undergraduate, postbaccalaureate, and master'sdegree levels. The department also offers the Technical Education degree,which prepares students for teaching/training and other personnel positions at thepostsecondary level and for business and industry settings. Instruction in elementaryeducation uses those strategies appropriate for the Pre K-8 child in the teachIng-learning situation as the basis for its broad offering of courses in the disciplinesof language literacy, mathematics, social studies, science, and art. Emphasis isgiven to higher-level thinking skills and the integrated curriculum. A mathematicslab and art lab facilitate the ·Instruction of preservice teachers. The University Centerfor Child Development, directed by department faculty, provides day care forchildren while serving as an experiential learning site for teacher education students.The Department of Counseling and Special Education incorporates three divisions:Counseling and School Psychology, both graduate programs, and SpecialEducation, which prepares undergraduates as teachers for children with specialneeds and graduate students to be master teachers and supervisors of special educationprograms. The department operates a multidisciplinary clinic, the Clinic forCh1ld Study and Farnily Therapy.College of EngineeringThe College of Engineering provides educational opportunities for students atboth the undergraduate and graduate levels who wish to pursue careers inengineering.The College has undergraduate programs in Chemical Engineering, CivilEngineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, ComputerEngineering, Engineering, and Mechanical Polymer Engineering. The programs inChemical, Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical are currently accredited by theAccrediting Board for Engineering and Technology and accreditation for ComputerEngineering and Mechanical Polymer Engineering is expected in 2002. TheMechanical Polymer Engineering program is jointly staffed by faculty from theMechanical Engineenng Department in the College of Engineering and thePolymer Engineering Department in the College of Polymer Science and PolymerEngineering.The Construction Technology Program provides three years of study beyond thefirst two years in the Community and Technical College and offers a Bachelor ofConstruction Technology degree.The College has one of the oldest and most successful Cooperative Educationprograms in engineering in the United States. Currently, over 80% of eligibleundergraduates participate in the Cooperative Education program.The College offers the Master of Science degree in Chemical, Civil, Electrical, andMechanical Engineering; and the Master of Science in Eng1neering withspecializations in Biomedical Engineering, Polymer Engineering, and Engineer'1ngManagement.The Doctor of Philosophy degree in Engineering is offered in the interdisciplinaryfields of Environmental Engineering, Mechanics, Systems Engineering, MaterialsScience, Transport Processes, Biomedical Engineering, and Polymer Engineering.There is a coordinated Doctor of Philosophy program in Engineering withYoungstown State University and a joint MD/Ph.D. program in Engineering withthe Northeast Ohio Universities College of Medicine.The College has a strong, active, and dedicated faculty. The College'sundergraduate programs are visible and highly ranked. Graduates of theseprograms regularly achieve the highest scores in the State of Ohio on theFundamentals of Engineering examinatiOn, the first step in professional licensure.Student teams that participate in national competitions consistently are in the top10% of the competitors. The College maintains a centralized engineeringcomputer and network serv1ces facility and a centralized machine shop thatprovides fabrication support for undergraduate and graduate projects. Severalnationally visible research centers are currently active. These include theComputaf1onal Mechanics Research Center, the Process Research Center, theInstitute for Biomedical Engineering Research, and the Microscale PhysiochemicalEngineering Center. The College enjoys excellent relations with industry and thepublic sector. The Engineering Advisory Council, with both industrial and publicmembership, works actively on behalf of the College.The Department of Biomedical Engineering has nine major laboratories forinstructional and research use. The biomechanics laboratory is equipped withmaterials testing equipment and finite element analys1s capabilities. The imagesc1ence laboratory has an instrumentation for production and analysiS of var1ousimaging devices. The image processing laboratory is built around Spareworkstations, two of which are equipped w1th image processing accelerators.Image processing and display software and a large database of medical imagesare available for students to use 1n 1ndiv1dual research and class projects. Thehuman interface laboratory conducts research in VIrtual real1ty, telemanipulation,biofeedback therapy, and minimally invasive surgery. The rehabilitation engineeringlaboratory is equipped to conduct collaborative research on problems related tostroke, head injury, and arthritic patients. The biomedical instrumentationlaboratory has continuous wave and doppler ultrasonic equipment, surfacetemperature devices, and blood pressure and flow monitoring equipment. Thebiomedical modeling and control laboratory focuses on the interplay betweenmodeling, system identification, control theory, physiology and neurobiology forphysiological systems analysis and control. The laboratory has a variety ofcomputer hardware and software and computer controlled IVAC volumetricinfusion pumps. The vascular dynamics laboratory provides facilities to analyzeblood flow using laser doppler anemometry and doppler ultrasound techniques.The motion analysis laboratory studies all aspects of human movement (bodymotion, joint forces and moments, and muscle activ.lty). The laboratory isequipped with a Vicon Motion Analysis System, two AMTI force plates, a MA-100EMG system, and associated computer hardware and software. Thebiostereometrics laboratory is equipped to perform spatial analysis using threedimensionalsensing technology, which includes a Kern-Maps-200 DigitizingSystem and a JK Laser Holographic camera for laser interferometry.The Department of Chemical Engineering possesses a variety of modernresearch equipment. The Particle and Catalyst Characterization Laboratory has aOuantasorb surface area analyzer, a flow BET unit, a temperature programmedchemisorption and desorption unit, and a mercury intrusion porosimeter.The Process Research and Development laboratories have nine micropilot plantsfor diverse chemical process applications, element analyzer, sulfur analyzer, automatedchlorine analyzer, coulter particle counter, ash fusion analyzer, TGA/DSC, oxygenbomb calorimeter, Tilt-A-Mix reactor, FTIR, CDS Automated Micropilot PlantICP. and four fermenter systems.The Chemical Reaction Engineering laboratones have 14 high pressure reactor systemsthat are currently being used for various chemical reaction studies, includingoxygenated fuels, polymerization, coal liquefaction, supercritical reactions, etc Anin-situ IR-based reactor is controlled by an on-line computer and is very efficient formechanism studies. A slurry-reactor, micropilot plant operates in a three-phase catalyticmode and is ideal for carrying out various fundamental and engineering studieson three-phase catalytic reactions. A gas chromatograph/ mass spectrometer isavailable for product stream analysis.The Applied Colloid and Surface Science Laboratory has a state-of-the-art laser lightscattering facility including a Lexel argon-ion laser, a vibration isolated optical bench,a Brookhaven correlaf1on and probability analyzer, and an IBM PC-based data acquisitionsystem.The focal point of the undergraduate laboratories is the Corning Glassplant 6-inchand 12-inch distillation unit which includes a 12-plate bubble-cap column and an 8-foot high packed-bed column. The unit is 24 feet high. There is also a pilot plant witha 5-gallon agitated reactor and a packed-column stripping facility The laboratoriesalso include a fluid flow measurement experiment and heat transfer study systems.The Department of Chemical Engineering has an undergraduate computer andASPEN laboratory which also provides students self-study areas as well as excellenton-line computer access.
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