"Hydroelectric Energy" by YVETTE BASS
"Special Relativity" by THOMAS BUNCH
Time: 4:00 PM on Thursday, March 31, 2005
Place: Science Room 334
All students and faculty are welcome to attend.
Refreshments may be served.
http://www.thepinelog.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/03/30/424b6051835a3
Note the mention of 42 toward the end of the article.
"Do you have any pre-engineering student's with a computer engineering or electrical engineering bent?
We will be giving out scholarships beginning in March and have acquired over $50,000 extra departmental money to spend on physics and engineering students. We have already completed our early scholarship selections for 1300-1400+ SAT incoming Freshman. We appear to still have plenty of money with all of the new scholarships (Dean had additional money as well) to handle any additional strong HS students that might pop up and have began interviewing our Tier II candidates. Once SAT or class rank goes down a little, HS student success is more of a gamble since some capable students don't have the drive to do the studying. Thus, I would prefer to give scholarship money to transfer students from decent pre-engineering programs who have demonstrated that they can and want to do the work.
In addition to a scholarship during the academic year, we should be able to get them into a summer industrial internship with one of our industry partners (Lockheed, Freescale, TXU, etc) that pay around $10,000 ($17 per hour + living allowance). Following graduation with their engineering degree, they can sit for the licensing exam and work as an EE or CE. However, we also have some other graduate opportunities that might interest them. We have agreements for admittance of our engineering graduates into the A&M EE/CE programs with no additional course work as well as a program with TI through Texas Tech which pays about $50,000 for student to complete an MS in EE in Semiconductor Processing. There is also a new scholarship program which pays $75,000 to students who pursue graduate degrees in Industrial Engineering at A&M and is available only to students who graduate with engineering degrees from A&M system schools other than College Station.
If you have any students planning to transfer who are interested, let me know. Some of our scholarships are listed at http://www.tarleton.edu/~scholars/ and http://www.tarleton.edu/scripts/scholarships/Awards_by_Academic.asp?type=SAT but we also have new ones which are not listed.
We also obtained permission this year to start the only undergraduate environmental engineering program in Texas to go with our hydrology (obviously with a water emphasis) program (one of only four undergraduate programs in the US). We won't be able to handle transfers to environmental engineering for two years. http://www.tarleton.edu/~engineering/ http://www.math.tarleton.edu/hydrology/hdefault.html"
--Dr. Daniel Marble, Tarleton State University
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We learn 10% of what we read, 20% of what we hear, 30% of what we see and 95% of what we teach. Consider teaching labs for our department or teaching at the high school or college level in your future. For more info see your professors and http://www.aapt.org/
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Clear skies,
Dan Bruton
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