For the university this Spring semester there are 10,858 undergraduate men and 8527 women for a total of 19,385 undergraduates. At the graduate level there are 2404 men and 1630 women for a total of 4034 graduate students. Prof Ken McConnell has a big, BIG owie now for a while. On Tuesday, February 10 he underwent double by-pass heart surgery down at Iowa Methodist Hospital in Des Moines. The reports are that all went well and he should be at home by now.
Some people just have all the luck.
Abhijat Vatsyayan , AerE grad student, has won the Coca-Cola spring break trip for two. He wins a trip to South Padre, Texas for himself and a companion, and winnings provide for airfare, hotel accommodations for four days and spending money. Ken McConnell has a new patent to record on his resum . There have been a couple of faculty meetings since the last Rag, having to do with the curriculum changes that are being brought on by the new ABET-2000 criteria. Prof Alric Rothmayer and the curriculum committee, along with quite a few subcommittees and task forces, have been laboring mightily, with an intensity that this observer has never seen.