THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1981
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Emphasis on telecommunications
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New engineering degree offered
] | By RUBY A. DANIELS
Battalion Reporter
Texas A&M University is the
rst university in the nation to re-
lore ,p ( | t 0 industry demand by
ifre, IfiCing an undergraduate degree
tiercouMgincering technology with an
land ujhasis on telecommunications,
it of tlifB an °ff' cer the Texas A&M
imfl ■communications Society.
^Telecommunications is one of
■fastest growing fields in the
Pai an d * n the next several
|ars it is expected to increase by
ael a
ils ridi!
it Paid
lie of
■times, society treasurer Mark
Budak said.
The program deals with the ser
vice of providing electrical com
munication at a distance, he said,
and examines the two basic types
ofcommunication: voice, between
people, and data, between com
puters.
WATS lines, television, elec
tronic mail, data sets, telephones,
telegraphs and better movie chan
nel services are a few examples of
modern applications of telecom
munications, he said.
“The (Texas A&M) program
was established primarily in re
sponse to a need from industry,”
society President David Nichols
said. “People in industry have
been hiring electrical engineers
and then having to re-train them.
That can take six months to a year,
maybe longer, depending on their
background.”
Lewis Martin, manager of a ma
jor telecommunication firm,
wrote in a letter to a Texas A&M
engineering technology professor,
“The people we need for positions
within the company are harder
and harder to find due to the lack
of education in this area (telecom
munications).”
Effectively designed communi
cations systems can save com
panies money, Nichols said. He
cited Exxon Corp. as an example.
“They spend $50 million a year on
communications. That figure is
only 60 percent of what they
would pay if they bought all of
their service from the local tele
phone company.”
In order for students to under
stand the costs involved, some
iociety locates jobs in field
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Iran ml By RUBY A. DANIELS
| a te n(M Battalion Reporter
r ff 16 telecommunications Soci-
■ at Texas A&M University
ms to promote a professional
PerebBtude toward telecommunica-
■s, the society’s president,
»id Nichols, says.
In the past the group has taken
ijd trips to Exxon Corp. and
Ihcll Oil Co. plants to make the
X) rations aware of Texas
l&M’s telecommunication prog-
■am Mark Budak, the society’s
Usurer, said.
ffiTexas A&Y1 is the only univer-
nin the country w ith an under-
Bduate engineering technology
senior level project courses are
making “mock bids” on phone sys
tems at General Telephone Elec
tric, American Telephone and
Telegraph and the Rolm Corp.,
Budak said. “Essentially, the stu
dents learn the features of each
company’s system, how much it
costs and the possibilities for fu
ture expansion.
Engineering Technology Pro
fessor Bill Edwards said, “They
(the public) think telecommunica
tion is your telephone and the re
pairman with his set of tools. Peo
ple are just beginning to under
stand what can be done.”
Texas A&M’s specialty degree
in telecommunications empha
sizes students’ understanding in
the manufacturing, construction,
operation and design of telecom
munication systems.
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
MBA PROGRAM
An Admissions Representative from
Harvard Graduate School
of Business Administration
will be on campus
October 8
to meet with students interested in
the two-year MBA Program
Contact the
Career Planning and Placement Center
for more details and to sign up for
an information session.
Harvard Business School is committed to
the principal of equal educational opportunity.
degree with an emphasis on tele
communications, Budak said. The
program examines electrical com
munication at a distance.
Nichols said, "Probably 99 per
cent of the companies do not know
that anyone offers such an under
graduate program.”
He said the society of about 50
members helps expose students to
firms which are hiring. The com
panies have responded favorably,
he said.
“We placed all of our May gra
duates,” Nichols said. “Starting
salaries ranged from $19,000 to
$30,000 per year. The average was
about $24,000.”
The society tries to find jobs for
its members with any firm that has
a high telephone bill, like Exxon,
he said.
Nichols said the society plans to
have guest speakers this semester
from companies such as Texas In
struments, General Telephone
Electric and the Bell Telephone
Laboratories in New Jersey.
“Before this spring, telecom
munication was oriented more to
ward a craft trade, like someone
who could work in a central office
for General Telephone,” he said.
“General Telephone will train you
to do that; you wouldn’t need four
years of college.”
The majority of members in the
ook buffs have chance
to profit from collection
By CARY BARKER
Battalion Reporter
■exas A&M University student
■k collectors this month have a
■nee to make their hobby finan-
Bly profitable.
| The Ninth Annual Student
fook Collectors’ Contest, spon-
[oredby the Friends of the Texas
&M University Library and the
[Committee on Library’ Planning
Programs, offers II $100
itv/i's and two $25 prizes to be
Svarded to contest winners.
|To enter the contest, a student
Elitist submit an annotated bibliog-
■" jipliyof25 books in his collection
a brief summary describing
collection as a whole.
■ ‘We’re looking for some kind of
■erent theme in the collection,
fid Sheila Arestad, Interlibrary
■vices chairman. She said the
Bections would be judged on
»v well the individual titles
piere to the theme.
Possible subject areas for a col-
ection are unlimited. Collections
night comprise books on mecha-
“ Bal engineering, children’s stor-
jfes, science fiction, child psyehol-
SgY, Western American literature
I the works of one particular au-
ihot
l After preliminary selection on
pe basis of the bibliographies and
ptements, finalists will be asked
■bring their 25 books to the spe-
M collections section on the
y thaflhond floor of Sterling C. Evans
3 tin iiabrary for final judging. Arestad
chon aid about 40 students entered the
jye ,y..»ntest last year and 33 of those
jOnoiJfere finalists.
o thefT
Judges for the 1981 contest are:
Dr. Harriette Andreadis, Depart
ment of English; Dr. Salvatore
Malguarnera, Department of
Mechanical Engineering; and Dr.
Pete Teel, Department of En
tomology.
In addition to eight $100 prizes
open to all submitted collections,
three prizes are to be awarded for
a specific subject. These include a
collection submitted by a student
of mechanical engineering, an
outstanding collection of chil
dren’s or young adult literature,
and a collection of Western Amer
icana.
Contest winners should be
announced and prizes awarded
Oct. 30 at 2 p.m. in the Confer
ence Suite in Evans Library.
The contest is open to all cur
rently enrolled Texas A&M stu
dents. Previous winners may en
ter again if they submit a different
collection. The deadline to enter
the contest is Oct. 16.
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people involved in the engineer
ing technology department’s tele
communications program, Budak
said. “We also have some electric
al engineers and people from the
computer center.”
Anyone interested in member
ship can contact professor Bill Ed
wards in the engineering technol
ogy department. The next meet
ing is scheduled for Oct. 8 in Fer-
mier Hall at 6:30 p.m.
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