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As-493-98 Resolution On Commendation For Anny Morrobel-Sosa, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Resolutions

Commends Anny Morrobel-Sosa for her outstanding work as Chair of the Academic Senate.

As-505-98 Resolution On The Academic Value Of Diversity, Diversity Task Force

Academic Senate Resolutions

Accepts various documents on the value of diversity and recommends plans and strategies be developed to promulgate same.

As-504-98 Resolution On General Education 2000, General Education Program

Academic Senate Resolutions

Receives General Education 2000 as the guiding instrument for review of new general education courses.

Mustang Daily, June 5, 1998

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Mustang Daily, June 4, 1998

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

June 3, 1998 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office

Cal Poly Report

No abstract provided.

Mustang Daily, June 3, 1998

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Redesigning Engineering Education, William W. Durgin, Edward A. Parrish

Office of the Provost Scholarship

In developing the PLAN, WPI sought to address concerns inherent to its then traditional curriculum that was rigid, unresponsive to differences among students, and was compartmentalized by independent departments so that intellectual growth was fragmented.

The PLAN was an entirely new and different educational program responsive to the needs of students and society while nurturing sensitivity to the ideas and values of our society. It included fundamental departures from the traditional elements of technical education including:
A. The achievement of competence rather than the accumulation of credits.
B. Individual freedom and responsibility in planning the program of study.
C. A …

Improving Water Properties To Increase Infiltration Characteristics, Richard W. O. Soppe, Stuart W. Styles

BioResource and Agricultural Engineering

Water properties, such as the viscosity and surface tension, can be affected by temperature and surfactants to Increase infiltration rates into soils. Specifically, they will change the hydraulic conductivity of the soil. A simple soap solution and the new material PAM (inexpensive polymer chemical) were evaluated as surfactants. Laboratory experiments and field tests on a site in Davis, California were done to quantify the effects of changing the water properties. Additional effects, like the improved soil structure during infiltration and less soil particles in tailwater (reduced erosion due to runoff) were observed and are described in this paper. The conclusions …

Academic Senate - Meeting Minutes, 6/2/1998, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

As-502-98 Resolution On Program Efficiency And Flexibility, Curriculum Committee

Academic Senate Resolutions

All academic programs to undertake self- review to determine if the units required are a necessary part of the degree; can certain upper division courses be taught as lower division courses (due to elimination of mode and level regulations)?

As-503-98 Resolution On Experimental Courses, Curriculum Committee

Academic Senate Resolutions

Recommends experimental courses receive several levels of peer review; that experimental courses be offered only in compelling circumstances.

Experimental Analysis Of Desiccation Crack Propagation In Clay Liners, Carol J. Miller, Hong Mi, Nazli Yesiller

Civil and Environmental Engineering

A laboratory investigation on a scaled model of a landfill liner was conducted to provide data regarding the occurrence and extent of desiccation cracking of prototype liners. The crack intensity factor, CIF, was introduced as a descriptor of the extent of surficial cracking. CIF is defined as the ratio of the surface crack area A, to the total surface area of the clay liner, At. A computer aided image analysis program was used to determine CII’ values from scanned photographs of the desiccation process. The variation of the CII’ was related to duration of drying and measured soil moisture suctions. …

Einstein’S 1935 Derivation Of E=Mc2, Francisco Flores

Philosophy

Einstein’s 1935 derivation of mass—energy equivalence is philosophically important because it contains both a criticism of purported demonstrations that proceed by analogy and strong motivations for the definitions of the ‘new’ dynamical quantities (viz relativistic momentum, relativistic kinetic energy and relativistic energy). In this paper, I argue that Einstein’s criticism and insights are still relevant today by showing how his derivation goes beyond Friedman’s demonstration of this result in his Foundations of Spacetime ¹heories. Along the way, I isolate three distinct physical claims associated with Einstein’s famous equation that are sometimes not clearly distinguished in philosophical discussions of spacetime theory.

Mustang Daily, June 1, 1998

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Post-Occupancy Presidio: How Lighting And Energy Design Goals Compare To Performance For The Thoreau Center For Sustainability, Margot Mcdonald

Architecture

The National Park Service was intent on creating a model "green" development at the decommissioned Presidio military base in San Francisco. Two local firms, Community Equity Builders and Tanner Leddy Maytum Stacy (TLMS) Architects forged a partnership which led to one of the first successful historic rehabilitation since the base conversion. Their efforts transformed the turn-of- the-century Letterman Hospital into the Thoreau Center for Sustainability where energy and resource conservation are at the forefront of the building design and operation. The building complex, now occupied for over two years, has been well-documented as a green building and historic rehabilitation project …

Numerical Investigation Of An Airfoil With A Gurney Flap, Cory S. Jang, James C. Ross, Russell M. Cummings

Aerospace Engineering

A two-dimensional numerical investigation was performed to determine the effect of a Gurney flap on a NACA 4412 airfoil. A Gurney flap is a flat plate on the order of 1–3% of the airfoil chord in length, oriented perpendicular to the chord line and located on the airfoil windward side at the trailing edge. The flowfield around the airfoil was numerically predicted using INS2D, an incompressible Navier–Stokes solver, and the one-equation turbulence model of Baldwin and Barth. Gurney flap sizes of 0.5%, 1.0%, 1.25%, 1.5%, 2.0%, and 3.0% of the airfoil chord were studied. Computational results were compared with available …

Observation Of Oscillations Between Degenerate Bound-State Configurations In Rapidly Autoionizing Two-Electron Atoms, M. B. Campbell, Thomas J. Bensky, Robert R. Jones

Physics

The oscillation between bound-state configurations in a rapidly autoionizing three-body Coulomb system has been directly observed. Using a 500-fsec laser pulse, calcium atoms are excited to the pure 4p_3/215d two-electron configuration at an energy greater than 3 eV above the ionization limit. As a result of configuration interaction, the electrons scatter coherently into multiple bound and continuum configurations. The oscillation between the degenerate 4p_1/2n′d and 4p_3/2nd modes as well as autoionization into 4s_1/2εl, 3d_3/2εl, and 3d_5/2εl …

Mustang Daily, May 29, 1998

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Mustang Daily, May 28, 1998

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Executive Committee - Meeting Minutes, 5/28/1998, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Executive Committee - Agenda, 5/28/1998, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

May 27, 1998 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office

Cal Poly Report

No abstract provided.

Mustang Daily, May 27, 1998

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Academic Senate - Meeting Minutes, 5/26/1998, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Mustang Daily, May 22, 1998

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Mustang Daily, May 21, 1998

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

As-499-98 Resolution On Faculty Input For Academic Administrator Selection, Faculty Affairs Committee

Academic Senate Resolutions

Faculty to have appropriate input in the writing and reviewing of job descriptions for administrative positions.

May 20, 1998 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office

Cal Poly Report

No abstract provided.

Mustang Daily, May 20, 1998

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.