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TheLouisville Cardinal
Vol. XLVI No. 20 ,Room 117, Otter HaD, Louinille, "y. 40208 Feb. 14, 1975
Speed School to hold
37th Engineers Day
by Audrey Spencer
The 37th Annual observance of
Engineers Days at Speed School will
officially begin with the opening cere­mony
at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, February
16, in the Virginia Speed Auditorium of
the Main Speed Building.
The highlighted guest speaker will be
Dr. Charles Perry from the Office of Coal
Research in Washington, D.C. Dr. Perry's
topic, "National Energy Planning," will
link the national theme, "Engineering ...
Exploring New Energy Frontiers," to\the
local observance of Engineers Week.
Following the opening ceremony, the
exhibits will be open for public viewing
and participation. The exhibits will be on
display till 7:00 p.m. on Sunday and
from 1:00 to 8:00p.m. on Monday.
Some exhibits in the Chemical
Engineering Department will include the
use of liquid fluorocarbons for blood
oxygenation , fractional distillation,
polymerization of polyurethane foam,
ozonation of wastewater, production of
nylon, and a display of rubber and its
properties.
In the Computer Science Department,
visitors can participate in Golf, Super
Trek, ESP, and Baseball computer games,
and can even apply to the Speed Engineer
Computer Date Match Corporation and
get instant results to fmd the date of their
dreams. Analog plotting, interactive
plotting, and computer chess will be
demonstrated.
Visitors can test their reflexes at the
"Quick Draw" exhibit in the Electrical
Environmental Engineering will
feature a model of a wastewater
treatment plant and a display of the
equipment in current use for the Ohio
River environmental impact studies.
NASA will exhibit a lunar excursion ·
space suit, a model of the Sky Lab, and
information on the Sky Lab program. C
& I Girder will send two scale models of
plants - a skid-mounted 20-ton-per-day
hydrogen sulfide generator and a
10<>0-ton-per-day urea granulation plant.
American Air Filter will also send an
exhibit.
DuPont will demonstrate some of its
new water · purification products. Bell
Telephone will show fllms Sunday titled
"Conquest of Flight" and "Lasers
Unlimited," and Monday, "The
Incredible Machine" and "Voices from
the Deep." "The Electronic Switching
System" will be shown both days. IBM
will display a data entry station for
storage of data on a diskette which stores
the equivalent of 2,000 cards. Louisville
Gas and Electric will have a model of an
undetPound natural gas storage facilitY.
Wilfred Greenlee will display two
exhibits of his own creation. His new
design for a more efficient and faster
bicycle features riding in a reclining
position. His other exhibit is a hand-built
model of a half-scale two seat car.
A special seminar on "Company
Benefits and Personal Financial Planning"
will be held from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. on
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Photograph by John Beckman
Engineers Week, which begins this Sunday, promises to provide something for
everyone. Phillip Stone explores a new frontier.
· Engineering Department. Other E.E.
exhibits are the detection and filtering of
electroencephalogram signals, holographic
image reproduction using laser light,
proximity detection with a
high-frequency oscillator to detect a
person's location in relation to the sensor,
elechomagnetics used to create
weightlessness for small objects,
electronic circuit control of light
intensity for changes in the power supply,
and a tmplay of the processes inwlved in
producing I.C. ciicuits on a chip.
A&S . adopts code of responsibilities
A sHde display of the April 3 to~ado
damage and how some of it could. have
been prevented wiD be shown by Stgma
Chi Epsilon, the Ovil Engineering
honorary ftaternity. . .
Mechanical F..ngineenng exhibits will .
include an engine that runs on methane
fue~ a windmill that produces electric
power·, a band-built For_mul~ V ra~ car, a
demonsttation of noJSe insulation !t a
description of the operation and use of
the polariscope, and a demonstration of
some irregUlarities of speech patterns.
by Kenny Vandevelde
The A&.S faculty voted last Thursday
to approve a new "Code of Faculty
Responsibilities."
The code focuses primarily on the
faculty member's responsibility to his or
her students.
The faculty had met the previous
Tuesday (Feb. 4) to consider the code,
but had failed to establish a quorum.
The A&S faculty has also been
meeting daily since Tuesday (Feb. 11) to
deliberate over the personnel policy of
the college with regard to promotion and
tenure.
The new policy would require that
every faculty member demonstrate
competence in the areas of teaching,
research and service before he or she
could be considered for tenure!t or
promotion to professor or associate
professor.
Among the most controversial issues
related to the policy is that of whether or
faculty members should be required to
perform in all three areas. Some have
argued that certain faculty members, such
as the dean, Should be exempt from one
or more of these areas of performance.
Controversy has also arisen over
whether or not faculty members under
coosideration fnr tenure and promotion
should be evaluated by persons not
affiliated with the university. Some
believe so called "extramural evaluation"
would provide more objective assessment.
Others fear such evaluations would be
either dominated by politics within the
academic discipline. or based on
ignorance of the particular ci(cumstances
of a faculty member at U of L.
Here is the text of the new code
adopted by the faculty.
Code of Faculty Responsibilities
1.0 Applicability
This code shall apply to all faculty
members associated with the College
of Arts and Sciences of the
University of Louisville and to all
graduate students or other personnel
having teaching or research
assignments in that school,
hereinafter referred to as the
teaching and research personnel.
2.0 Responsibilities
The teaching and research personnel
of the College of Arts and Sciences
hereby subscribe to the following
specific responsibilities:
2.1 General Relations
2.11 The teaching and research
personnel shall respect the
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