Toshio "Buster" Hagiwara BS '44 MS '47, greets classmate Dora CampbellSerflek '44. Nearly 200 alums attended Reunion '95 in July. $eepage 10. Computer Integrated Manufacturing laboratory is a showcase Stout Foundation once agaiIfgarners Start making your plans now for integrating academic disciplines and learning resources. recognition for its fund raising efforts. for a return to campus in October. Page 2 . Pagel Pages Distance education fills engineering program needs . ost ofus have the problem ofnot bern"gable and cameras atbothschools. Eachschool has a 71-inch Stout are putting our engineering faculty together. In "It provides a way to bein two places atthesametime-butnot TV scre.en (monitor) and document cameras (ceiling­ addition,itsupportsourpre-engineeringagreementwith for Platteville to ed Weckmueller. Weckmueller, associate mounted video cqmeras). The instructor wears infrared Plattevilleinwhichstudents maytakethe firsttwoyears. M of the engineering curriculum at one university and provide key professor in UW-Stout's industrial management tracking on both the front and back so that the camera department,pioneereda cooperativedistanceeducation can follow movements. finish at the other. Courses which Platteville requires engineering courses program between UW-Stout and UW-Platteville in Lastsemester, as part ofthe cooperativeagreement, in its first two years, but not offered at Stout, are to our students conductedby distance education and vice versa." which he taught an engineering class to students at Platteville delivered two engineering courses to Stout. while we at Stout Stout and was, at the same time. teaching Platteville Joanne Wilson, Platteville's associate dean of the 'One UW-Stout student took the Statics course in College of Engineering, and Asama Jadaan, of that this mode last semester. He will transfer to Platteville are putting our' t Mechanics of Materials; and thisfalltocompletehisstudiesinmechanicalengineering. engineering faculty t Statics while The program will continue this fall with Platteville chinga section ofMechanics ofMaterials andone of together." Stout students, and Stout again sending Peter Heimdahl conomy to Platteville. Weckmuellerwill :hingintwolocationssimultaneously. ugh America Online instructional resources using the electronic '-comerencihg-fac1lItiesof the Electronic University Network and America hehas been the response 74forthe F<JIl> is.... still e~llie.>"\Ve.·are ·t,3.S.l11g:~peoPle ity campuses leani>abouttheavailability Mole because of distance, ofcourses online, enroll­ '~'YB°tl1>ft°rn<lJ\V-$t9ut'~<~~~~~h disability or mentswill groV/." '.e.tl1efirstjnstl1lctors·.to/tt':a9~olltl1e family obligations, "Takingcoursesbeyond llriixefsity>'slleW''virtual''cll11lPus.oni\mericaPnline. the cam.pusisnotnew in 1'heyteachtechnicalwritingto students asfarawayas can now itself,"Smith said. "We St.Louis. take courses have been sending >"This is an ideal medium for this type ofcourse," instructors to distant said Flint, who has taught technical writing at UW.­ using their locations for many years, Stout for 20 years. "Eachweekstudelltscheck their modem-equipped andusingnewtechnologies electronicmail,postre~ponsesto foldersinourbulletin computer to extend the university's boardenvironmentandsenduS assignmentsinattached reach as they become files," she said. to participate available and fmancially "Studentswhoparticipateonlinetendto geta great in classes." feasible. Buthere, through dealmorepersonalinteractionwithfaculty," Johnston • • the useofhomecomputers, noted. "Theygetpersonalresponses to theirmessages Chllstopher SmIth neithertheinstructornorthe within hours of posting." Johnston and Flint agree, student is burdened by however, that the personal interaction also leads to frequent orlengthy travel to classrooms ordownlink more work for instructors than usual in typical sites." classroom settings. Smith said the university extension office is "This is just the beginning for exciting new ways expanding its online offerings quickly. Full degree ofdeliveringinstructionintheinformationage,"Smith programs are anticipated. Non-credit in-service said. "Outreach managers have dreamed of the day training offerings are also being delivered online for when it would be cost effective to provide courses to employees of state agencies using the Office of people bound by place and time, unable to attend Continuing Education/Extension's new Education classes without leaving their home communities and Bulletin Board Server. jobs."Headdedthatbecauseofsuchprograms, people Students who are interested in learning more in a variety offields will be able to update their skills about the current course offerings also have online withoutdisruptingtheircareersorfamilies."Individuals access to information about the university. An across the country, now choosing not to access unexpectedresulthas beennumerous inquiries about university campuses because ofdistance, disability or UW-Stout's traditionally delivered graduate family obligations, can now take courses using their programs. modem-equipped computerto participate in classes," Persons who wantmore informationmay contact· hesaid. "Onlinestudents meetwith theirinstructorsin Smith at 715/232-2693. real time, socialize with other students, and obtain Ned Weckmueller teaches students on two campuses simultaneously. 2 • Stout Outlook The ultimate tool Technology transfer program will use supercomputer to aid manufacturers UW-Stout's widely recognized manufacturing owned by the Origen Group, an affiliate of Phillips assisted in re-tooling with the latest manufacturing "This is symbolic. teclmology transferprogram hasreceived the "ultimate Plastics. The computer will be u~ed to serve small to teclmology. tool," with the announced purchase of a Cray midsize manufacturers in product design analysis and Bob Cervenka, CEO at Phillips, said at a press It shows that a supercomputer. manufacturing problem-solving simulations. It will be couferenceannouncing the purchase, that the computer school our size The J-916 computer is being purchased through a linked to the Stout campus where it will be used by is "the ultimate tool" for simulated manufacturing can be in the partnership between Stout and Phillips.Plastics students andfaculty inprogranis suchas manufacturing processes. He noted that the Cray computer could do in Corporation,ChippewaValleyTechnicalCollege, Cray engineering, applied math, and physics. five minutes what would take other computer systems forefront of Research and the Wisconsin Department of "This is symbolic," said Chancellor Charles W. up to 27 hours to do. manufacturing Development.DODhasawardedtheuniversityaninitial Sorensen. "It shows that a school oursize can be in the Duringthenextfive years, about 450 companies are technology••• " grant of $500,000, Phillips will provide an additional forefront of manufacturing teclmology, that business expectedtobeservedthroughthecomputer.Theproject $100,000 in support, and Cray Research has pledged a doesn'thave to lookto the big, majoruniversities." The' will leverage more than $5 million in private and other Charles W. Sorensen product discount and technical assistance. chancellor pointed out that the acquisition supports the public funds. TheunitwillbehousedintheStoutTeclmologyPark university'slong-standingteclmologytransferprogram, attheOrigenCenter,aresearchanddevelopmentfacility through which dozens of small companies have been Militarrltlobilizatiol1 Projeetwill strengthenapparel·.industwy,.aid military UW-Stout's department ofapparel, textiles and design Network (ARNjpartners, oneof which isUW-Stout. possiblefor extensionsofthe sizetariffandvariations of "computer is the recipient ofa Defense Logistics Agency contract The net contract is. $50,000 for the first year and the standard pattern'to be resident on computer for to assist indeveloping a planto strengthen U.S. apparel $50,000forthenexttwoconsecutiveyears. Thepurpose accesswheneverneeded.Thissaves thecostofrepeating integration manufacturingas wellas servetheUnitedStatesmilitary. ofthe initial three-year contract, according to Albrecht, the same pattern alterations. is the key to The contract was awarded on the basis of a proposal is to develop a "roadmap" ofprojects for the next seven "This speedstheprocessofproducingthemajority of strengthening written by Donna Albrecht and Jacquelene Robeck, yearsthatwillstrengthentheU.S. apparelmanufacturing out-of-tariff(unusualsize) unifonnswhichdo notrequire professors in the department. industry. individually siz~dpatterns'''r\lbrechtsaid. the apparel "A strong U.S. apparel industry is important for "The objective is to reduce the numberofdress. Thenrojt::i;t",illt::xtendjeles "'ta1y mobilization as well as for providing a faster uniform.orderstreatedas'srieci ,ponse to military ongoingspecialc y spokespersonsaid, addingthat the right product in theright place at a competitive value." tariffas To achieve this goal, the Department of Defense impossible to accomplish after the gannent is made." selected24agencies inthe country as Apparel Research Albrecht said that computer teclmology makes it NomeEconomics··school·renamed New name•reflects evolution of the discipline Home· ecollomics----cooking and sewing--right? Columbia, University of North Caro1iD.a-Greensboro What a difference a ceIltllryill1akes. What was once and OklahomaStateUniversity. The recentname change hasraisedanumber Stout's Training Schoolf?r])?ll1esticScienceTeachers "TheachniIlistrlitiveteam,faculty, staffandstudents of questions