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THE BATTALION MONDAY. OCTOBER 2. 1978 Page 5 bJ any committees and <leans W3' Course changes require time By CANDICE HILL Battalion Reporter ding a new course to the cur- Califo un at Texas A&M University is lied Pr () U 'laltjob. The process takes a lot mizationf ie anc ^ ^ ar< ^ WOI 'l < f° r those in- |( | |^ quests for additions, withdraw- ' s anc - changes in course or changes rnia i rriculum are first made at the dirt aS »L rtraental level. The depart- ^ ^ s must fill out a form, which is tr i sent to ^l 16 department com- 'ouKiS 6 lov t app r o ^ 1 hy the f hea f d , of "department. I he request is then to the college’s curriculum " " ‘ -nittee for approval. If it is ap- ' t,ul Ka5 ,(1 by them it is then sent to the , of the college for his approval. ..ia sta P Slr < requests are then sent to Sue 11 lon la, assistant to the dean of ad- 1,1 S,no ' :in ?ons and records. Matula is also ^ spedfitijgcl-etary for the University wrs wouldjj cu j um Committee. This com- < ach COBiie, e B. ons i s ts of a representative e 8 ov enmui eac h college, one from the sense. Pr ia t e college and two student s 1 esme '‘sentatives. Dr. J.M. Prescott, vice president for academic affairs, is chairman of the committee. Dean Haskell Mon roe, Dean Edwin Cooper and Matula are standing members of the committee. Monroe is the dean of faculties and associate vice presi dent for academic affairs. Cooper is the dean of admissions and records. When enough requests have been submitted, a committee meeting is called. At the first meeting the committee goes over every detail “with a fine-toothed comb,” Matula said. In a meeting held Wednesday many new proposed courses were discussed, such as Agronomy 430 (Turf Grass Operations). This prop osal was sent back to the depart ment for what Prescott called “a bet ter course description and a better name. Engineering Technology 350 (Electronic Devices) and En glish 335 (Literature of the Sea) were approved as proposed and will be voted on at the next meeting. The committee holds a second meeting to vote on the proposed courses. After the curriculum committee approves courses they are sent to the Academic Programs Council for approval. This council consists of all the college deans. Prescott is the chairman. Next, the Academic Council must approve the courses. The members of this council are all the deans, the department heads and elected fa culty members. There are approxi mately 150 people on the council. If the course makes it through all these steps it is put into the catalog. But this is not the end of the pro cess. The new coures go to the Coordinating Board for Texas Col leges and Universities in January, so all new courses are subject to change. No course may be taught if it is not listed in the catalog. The process is about the same at the graduate level, Matula said. Graduate courses must go through the Graduate College and then to the Graduate Instruction Commit tee and to Dean George Kunze, Graduate College dean. Finance seminar executive aid it last repot f $5 million 5. Indoor Air' dearly a ft his orga m spend "wh* Executives from all over North America congregated at Rudder t. but said JW er last week for a seminar designed to help develop business o inanufcctidlls. » fight theie The College of Business Administration, in cooperation with the ffice of Continuing Education, held its 16th seminar on "Financial poll’' sh nalysis for Decisionmaking. It was the largest of the three seminars tis year. •rolhbited a "You can almost measure the business environment by the number md dentistf pm ticipants at our programs,” said Dr. Bill Adams, seminar direc- s, business i r ) He said when business is intense, corporations are not as likely to rs and pubpnd a representative. Tin' 58 participants attended sessions directed by professors from ikers, thei&exas A&M University’s College of Business. Dr. Holm C. Groth, smokers r r . Wayne Etter, Dr. Marvin Tummens and Dr. Earl D. Bennett ected. istructed participants in various techniques in accounting and eco- 'PPressivi: -^niics. smess. Al James, operations manager of Appalachian Drilling Co. in Char- potential ston, W.Va., said, “It was worth the money. They (the instructors) nt attenboc-e brilliant people. They do a very good job. They meet well with 1 propert) verylxxly and make you feel at ease. The seminar fee was $325 per he impartiKecutive. 0,000 to mi Bill Matson represented the Western Company in Fort Worth. He public buik'lt the seminar was good, although he said much of it was review for contend im. Society, G Jerry Denman, credit analyst at Federal Intermediate Credit Bank iation, view Houston, felt the seminar was geared more to service and oil impanies. ling second “It was different subject matter than I’m concerned with,” he said, imfort in ie also complained about the 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. sessions, which he said imoke will ere too long. NEED YOUR HEAD Bill's Roffler Hairstyling FOR MEN & WOMEN 215 UNIVERSITY MON.-SAT. 8:00-5:30 APPOINTMENTS FOR STYLES & CORPS CUTS (NEXT TO CAMPUS THEATER) 846-2228 TO RUN MY BUSINESS !ot't Touc 707 Texas 846-1972 Help us celebrate our first year anniversary Elegance in lingerie SUMMER MERCHANDISE Vz off Be sure to look over our new fall gowns and robes. » &M testing voltage ne accident device car skids on rain-slick pave- it, leaves the road and strikes a er line pole. U '. , mi igb voltage power lines drop to airlmen g roun( j a near by substation, lique new device senses the hi ts the< . n t ;ln( J de-energizes the lines. Kill pi.: l ie device, based on a totally ise they, concept, is in development at ipment as A&M University through an tig and Petrie Power Research Institute s are Ie ect headed by Dr. Don Russel he Electrical Engineering de hat argument, ist in over t< i ll!< !:' will remove the hazard as- KX) hounl a *- e ^ w ilb accidents in which 1977 c«® r lines are grounded. and O Offhe problem has been around 75 for airfe-s, ever since utility companies ted distributing electricity,’’ ell said. "Present protective ems are incapable of detecting y faults.” he device will utilize mi- omputers “in what we antici- will be a very inexpensive aji- monitor electrical distrubution feeders and detect changes in the system. In the event of an outage or high impedance fault, it will shut down the affected part of the system at the substation. As envisioned, the system will employ several of the faul t detectors at each substation. Development and testing of the device by Russell and two graduate students, Tom Talley of Fort Worth and Mik Aucoin of New Orleans, is funded through the Texas A&M Re search Foundation and the Univer sity’s Electric Power Institute. The $225,000, two-year project includes prototype construction and testing in a utility system. The Electric Power Research In stitute (EPRI) at Palo Alto, Calif, is the nation’s largest power systems research institution. EPRI is spon sored by most of the public utilities in the United States and channels research money primarily to indus try for work on specific power prob lems. for®- ho° e o <^° Xj CO'*'® X ^ 0 "