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Chemical and Materials Engineering chair selection committee invites input
A chair selection committee for the Department of Mechanical Engineering has been established. Suggestions and comments to this committee are to be made before Friday, Feb. 5, 1999, by writing to
Dr. D.T. Lynch, dean, Faculty of Engineering,
5-1 Mechanical Engineering Building.
Mechanical engineering chair selection committee invites input
A chair selection committee for the Department of Mechanical Engineering has been established. Suggestions and comments to this committee are to be made before Friday, Feb. 5, 1999, by writing to
Dr. D.T. Lynch, dean, Faculty of Engineering,
5-1 Mechanical Engineering Building.
Summer Youth University: feedback request
Summer Youth University (SYU), a one-week program aimed at junior and senior high-school students, has been offered at the U of A through the Faculty of Extension for the past 14 years. In 1998, Special Sessions managed the program for the Faculty of Extension. Offered in July, SYU is an opportunity for young students to sample university courses, as well as experience the U of A campus.
Many faculties and departments have supported SYU by offering courses to showcase their various disciplines. In addition, U of A graduate students have gained valuable instructional experience.
Feedback from SYU students and instructors has been positive. SYU, which operates on a cost-recovery basis, has been experiencing decreasing enrolments in recent years. Tuition for SYU has remained at a level that is consistent with the goal of accessibility to the program by all students who wish to attend, however, costs associated with running the program have continued to rise.
With the transfer of responsibility of the Special Sessions unit to the Office of the Registrar and Student Awards, SYU has been suspended for the 1999 session to provide the opportunity to evaluate if, and in what format, SYU should continue. We encourage interested departments to contact Roxanne Broadbent at 492-4915, for their opinions regarding the continuance of this program.
Treadmill Therapy for people with incomplete spinal cord injury
We are looking for subjects who have incomplete spinal cord injuries to participate in experiments examining the effectiveness of treadmill therapy.
For information, contact Dr. Monica Gorassini at 492-2258 (mag4@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca) or Dr. Jaynie Yang at 492-3112.
Wurcnet offering just-in-time training in hot technology areas
A "just-in-time" training program is being launched this month by WurcNet to meet a critical need for people trained in advanced networking, computing and multimedia. The Virtual Training Program is designed to keep pace with the rapidly changing world of advanced technology. By developing and delivering courses in short order, this program focuses on the immediate needs of users in research, industry and education. The next workshop, Introduction to Advanced Multimedia, will be held Jan. 26 and 27 in the Learning Commons at the University of Calgary.
Instructors include well known Calgary faculty members and professionals working in multimedia. Workshops in Edmonton and Calgary on advanced networking, parallel computing and distributed memory programming are also scheduled for the spring.
WurcNet is a not-for-profit alliance of education institutions, industry partners and government agencies facilitating the next-generation Internet and advanced computational infrastructure for Alberta. For workshop information, call (403) 220-6778. For more information about the Virtual Training Program:
Douglas MacLeod, Director of Projects, WurcNet (403) 609-3642 or
Douglas Bowman, Advanced Applications Specialist, WurcNet (403) 220-8169.
For more information about WurcNet: www.wnet.ca
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