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BRIEFS
Electrical engineering, computer scienct
faculty consider combining departmen
Nominations for
Women's Week due
Nominations for the annual
Texas A&M Women's Week Awards
are due Thursday Feb. 29 at 5 p.m.
in the Office of the Vice President
for Student Affairs.
Nominees must demonstrate
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□ A proposed departmental merger
would bring administrative changes
but few curriculum changes.
By Eleanor Colvin
The Battalion
Peace Corps recruits
Texas A&M students
Peace Corps representatives will
be recruiting at Texas A&M today
and Friday.
An information table will be in the
MSC hallway from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
and an informative film will be shown
each day at 7 p.m. in 501 Rudder.
The Peace Corps' mission is to
promote world peace by training
Americans for education, business,
science, forestry, health and agricul
ture projects in foreign countries.
New Peace Corps programs are
slated to begin this year in Haiti,
South Africa and other countries.
Texas A&M computer science and electrical engi
neering faculty members will decide this week
whether to take steps toward merging their depart
ments, which have similar programs and goals.
If faculty members reject a proposed investi
gation into the feasibility of combining the two
departments, the departments will continue to
operate independently.
Henry Taylor, a professor of electrical engineer
ing and a member of the faculty committee study
ing this issue, said that if the proposal is ap
proved, the departments will look to other top 20
engineering programs for guidance.
“We want to study a variety of universities that
have combined programs, separate programs and
those that have merged, then separated again,”
Taylor said. “By studying these three groups of
schools, hopefully we can determine the potential
effects for our program.”
Dr. B. Don Russell, executive associate dean of
the College of Engineering, said merging the two
departments would enable them to link concepts
and offer integrated courses.
“There is a great similarity between the two de
partments,” Russell said. “Many faculty members
and administrators in the computer science depart
ment have electrical engineering backgrounds.”
With the current system, A&M’s computi
engineering program is administered by bi
departments.
Taylor said merging the departments would
cilitate a smoother flow of resources and ideas
“It may be easier to generate ideas if thi
partments are unified,” he said. “A single depst
ment may encourage the development of more
terdisciplinary projects because of the concenla
tion of resources.”
If the departments are combined, Russell
there will be few curriculum changes.
"We will continue to offer the same degreesai
classes,” he said. “The majority of the changes*;
be procedural and administrative.”
A final proposal would be revealed at the end
the spring semester, and it might take a year a!
that to fully integrate the departments.
"Combining the staffs and procedures.is an
tricate process,” Russell said. “We would certaM
make compromises to accommodate the facul
and staff of both departments."
Niels Bauer, a computer science graduates:
dent, said that since the College of Engineering
the largest on campus, the potential realignmsil
is significant and might have unforeseen kinks.
“Although it’s still early in the process, the!i
ulty seems to have little input," Bauer said. “
ulty concerns are not appropriately addres:
things may not go over smoothly.
“Students may not see the problems withmanap
ment, but they will certainly feel the ramifications
But Russell said the plan, which is being stud
ied by faculty committees from the two depart
ments and the administration, will be
researched before any action is taken.
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A&M study results show exposure to nature reduces stress
□ Those who participated in
driving simulations through
natural areas performed better
on math tests taken afterwards
than those who drove through
urban areas.
By Kendra S. Rasmussen
The Battalion
A Texas A&M study determining how
roadside environments affect drivers com
muting to and from work indicates that ex
posure to natural scenes improves mental
performance.
Dr. Roger Ulrich, associate dean for re
search at the Environmental Psychophysiolo
gy Lab in the College of Architecture and an
architecture and landscape architecture pro
fessor, said the environment one encounters
while driving to work alters job performance.
“It has, of course, long been known that
commuting to and from work is quite stress
ful,” Ulrich said. “One of the general implica
tions (of this research) is to have environ
ments that are livable and facilitate emo
tional well-being.”
Ulrich said an unpleasant commute may
limit productivity and problem-solving skills.
Researchers established this relationship
by exposing 160 participants to simulated
commutes to work and then asking them to
mentally perform math problems.
Biosensors detected changes in heart rate
and blood pressure, muscle tension and
sweaty palms in subjects.
One simulated drive ran through a rural
East Texas area where there were few power
lines and buildings, another went through a
“mixed light” section of Austin, a third went
through a Houston area with basically no
natural elements, and another ran through a
golf course.
Dr. Louis Tassinary, associate professor of
architecture, said participants who viewed
the golf course or rural East Texas route
tended to experience less stress when doing
math problems. Furthermore, those who
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