Veritas, Vol. 15, No. 03, September 9, 1974

              Computer Studies Program Reorganized
In response to an increased demand for university-trained computer engineers and management scientists, UM has redesigned its computer studies program. The new emphasis includes practical computer experience in addition to theoretical studies.
According to Professor John Duncan, director of computer studies, “Rather than simply programming the computer from a terminal, the students will now actually have the opportunity to run and program all peripherals of a mediumsized machine.” Such a machine, the General Automation SPC-16, is now available at UM to qualified students on a twenty-four-hour basis. “If students are allowed to study computer processes firsthand and are exposed to real-life situations,” explains Professor Duncan, “they gain greater insight into operational problems and a better appreciation for computer theory.”
The new computer studies program is inter-disciplinary, involving the College of Arts and Sciences and the schools of Engineering and Environmental Design and Business Administration. Professor Duncan explained that courses within these areas have been reorganized to eliminate repetition and incorporate the essential aspects of business and scientific systems theory. The new director believes that the integrity of computer courses is better preserved by having engineering professors teach computer engineering, business professors teach business computer systems, and professors from the College of Arts and Sciences teach mathematical theories of computer science. This is opposed to the traditional approach of many institutions where most computer courses are taught by professors of computer science.
Consistent with this belief, a set of core courses has been established to provide a solid foundation in hardware/software analysis and operation for any computer major. Students are advised to take eighteen credits from groups of courses in electrical engineering, management sciences and mathematics. In addition to these core courses, students must satisfy the requirements of their particular major. Popular majors now including computer studies are:
t Bachelor of Science in Computer Science through the College of Arts and Sciences.
•	Bachelor of Science in Systems Analysis through the department of management science, where an option in business computer systems is available.
•	Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with a computer engineering option through the department of electrical engineering.
Graduate programs in computer studies are also available, leading to M.S. degrees in electrical engineering, management science, and mathematics.
According to Professor Duncan, “We intend to produce graduates who can run a computer, are well versed in computer
by Sharon Clark News Bureau
Members of the art faculty have an exhibition of their latest work at the Lowe Museum through September 22.
There are more than 60 works in the exhibition representing all media. Studio faculty members have submitted three works of their own selection, and for the first time, teaching assistants were invited to submit two works.
Faculty artists are Clayton H. Charles, Ervin W. Dixon, Richard Downs, Christine Federighi, Edward D. Ghannam, Richard Gillespie, Eugene Massin, LaRue Storm, Shirley Thiele, Ken. J. Uyemura, William Ward, Lee Willig, Robert Willson, Gerald Winter and Andrew W. Morgan, chairman of the department.
Paul E. Thompson, assistant director of the Lowe, says “The works in this
theory, can cope with day-to-day computer problems, and will have the background to move into management.”
A primary educational objective of the new program is to combine general computer and information systems courses with a traditional academic area
exhibition are intensely personal statements that combine for an exciting and stimulating installation.”
Drug Center Re-funded
UM’s National Drug Abuse Training Center is beginning its fourth year of work, funded by a contract of $267,898 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
More than 6,000 professional and paraprofessional persons have received training at the Center in the past three years, including groups from throughout Latin America, Europe Snd Far East as well as the U.S. With the new contract, federal support of the training program since its inception totals approximately $2 million.
of emphasis. Individualized programs can combine computer studies with specific professional or vocational programs in electronics, industrial engineering, accounting, and finance; or scientific programs in mathematics, chemistry, biology, or psychology.
Haggard Joins Law Center
by Jane Rieker News Bureau
New associate director of the UM Center for Interdisciplinary Study of Public Law is Dr. Ernest A. Haggard, research psychologist with an extensive background in law.
Dr. Haggard, whose academic title is professor of psychology and law, joins Prof. Leonard J. Emmerglick, director of the UM center which was established in 1968 through a gift of the Rosenstiel Foundation.
The aim of the center is “to apply the combined insights of law and the sciences upon contemporary problems.” Its programs have included, among others, environmental law courses and seminars, individual student research into the role of law in environmental protection, and seminars on computers and the law, intersections of law and medicine, and law and psychiatry.
Dr. Haggard will be directing and pursuing new lines of interdisciplinary research, with particular emphasis on perception, alienation, effects of isolation, and decision-making.
He has been professor, department of psychiatry, University of Illinois College of Medicine since 1956, and for the same period, member Professional Advisory Council, Mental Health Division, Chicago Board of Health.
Dr. Haggard holds both the Ph.D. and Ed.M. degrees from Harvard University. In 1963 he received a life research career award from the National Institute of Mental Health, one of few such long-duration awards granted by NIMH.
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Eugene Massin hangs one of his works in preparation for the Faculty Art Exhibit. See
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