Purdue News Roundup
Purdue News Roundup
The revised traffic patterns probably will go into effect Monday (8/25), said Mike Warden, Purdue Facilities Planning architect.
Drives on the north, west and south sides of the Engineering Administration Building and the old Heating and Power Plant-North will close permanently, as will the service drive behind Coulter. Thus, the area between the Purdue Bell Tower and the former police station, and from Centennial Mall to Purdue Mall, will be closed to all but emergency traffic. Service traffic to Wetherill Laboratory of Chemistry and the Engineering Administration Building will be routed from Grant Street.
The Psychological Sciences Building/Peirce Hall service dock will remain open, and the one-way street between the Psychological Sciences Building and the Bell Tower will become a two-way street. The sidewalk between the Class of 1950 Lecture Hall and Stanley Coulter Hall will be closed. A safety fence will be erected around the entire construction area.
CONTACT: Warden, (765) 494-4581
A group of teaching assistants went before the Parking and Traffic Committee last spring to express their concerns about finding parking spaces in time to teach their classes. The committee subsequently voted to reserve 450 permits for teaching assistants on a trial basis this fall. The $50 permits allow unlimited access to the Grant Street facility during the fall semester.
Half-time teaching assistants are not eligible for "A" or "B" parking permits, and can only obtain $30 student commuter "C" permits if they live more than 1.2 miles from campus.
Parking facilities manager Donna Kemper said that if any permits remain unsold after the first week of classes on the West Lafayette campus, they will be offered to other students on a first-come, first-served basis beginning Tuesday, Sept. 2. About half of the 450 passes have been sold.
CONTACT: Kemper, (765) 494-9315.
NOTE TO JOURNALISTS: Journalists are welcome to cover the laboratory dedication at 8:30 a.m. Friday, Aug. 29, in Room 756 of the Krannert Building.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- This fall, students in Purdue University's Krannert School of Management will use a new computer lab to learn a new way of looking at the business world.
The Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Integration Laboratory will be dedicated at 8:30 a.m. Friday, Aug. 29, in the Krannert Building. The lab, one of only five of its kind in the country, will house an HP NetServer, 35 HP Vectra Computers and related equipment funded by a $141,000 grant from Hewlett-Packard. Hewlett-Packard has contributed more than $2.5 million in equipment to the Krannert School since 1986.
The lab also features R/3 business software created by SAP America Inc., a global software company. R/3 simultaneously integrates business functions that manage operations and information across a business, including manufacturing, finance, accounting and human resource departments.
Krannert professors have learned R/3 philosophy and gained hands-on experience over the summer. The new software will be taught to undergraduates in the manufacturing management program and to master's students in the operations curriculum.
Companies that use R/3 software include Owens-Corning, Compaq, Chevron, and Colgate-Palmolive.
Among those attending the dedication will be Manuel Diaz, vice president and general manager, Solutions and Sales Delivery Group, Hewlett-Packard; Robert Bouzon, University Affairs, Hewlett-Packard; and Dennis Weidenaar, dean of the Krannert School of Management.
CONTACT: Tamyra Gibson, director of public relations, Krannert School of Management, (765) 494-4392; e-mail, gibson@mgmt.purdue.edu
The fee for the initial visit is $65. Consultations for herd animals will take place at the farm.
"It's estimated that between 40 percent and 50 percent of pets have some form of a behavioral problem," said Andrew Luescher, a Purdue veterinarian and board certified animal behaviorist. Luescher said the Animal Behavior Clinic can treat various pet problems including aggression, compulsive disorders, house soiling, excitability and separation anxiety.
For farm animals, environmental factors may contribute to the problems. "These are often related to management, barn climate and equipment," Luescher said. He said common problems in pigs include tail or ear biting, pen fouling and aggression. Cattle may exhibit problems of soiling of stalls and udders, injuring themselves and sucking the milk of other cows.
Birds also provide some unique behavioral challenges, he said. "Birds are wild animals, and if kept in cages they can start to become aggressive and territorial," he said. Birds also pair bond. As a result, Luescher said, they may 'mate' with one person in the home, and become aggressive towards others.
"Overall, behavioral modification techniques curb animals of their behavioral problems with about a 65 percent success rate," Luescher said. Behavioral psychology techniques utilized in the clinic include desensitization and counter-conditioning.
The clinic also soon will provide prepurchase counseling to help people choose the right pet for them; puppy classes for socialization, early training and problem prevention; and courses for dog trainers and breeders in humane and effective training methods.
For more information on behavior modification for animals, or to set up an appointment, contact the Purdue Small Animal Clinic at (765) 494-1107.
CONTACT: Luescher, (765) 494-8775; e-mail, luescher@vet.purdue.edu.
The program, featuring high-level, fast-paced enrichment courses for able learners, will be offered from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on nine fall Saturdays starting Sept. 27. The cost is $110 per student per course.
David Ehle, Super Saturday program director, said the fall sessions will feature classes such as Zoorific Economics (grades K-1), Music Appreciation (grades 1-2), Chinese (grades 2-3), American Living History (grades 3-4), Building Geometry (grades 3-4), and Astronomy (grades 6-8). More than 30 courses will be offered for students ages 5-14.
Sidney Moon, director of Purdue's Gifted Education Resource Institute, said the fall program will offer a comprehensive selection of educational opportunities for academically talented youths.
Registrations are now being accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. For additional information and a course brochure, call the Super Saturday office at (765) 494-7243, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday.
CONTACT: Ehle, (765) 494-7243; e-mail, ehle@purdue.edu
The original plan to prepare Malaysian faculty for four new polytechnic colleges -- educational institutions that provide instruction in various scientific and technical subjects -- has reached a level of success allowing the original project training center to be designated an official Institute of Technology. Plans also are under way to consider progressing the school, the Malaysian Institut Tecnologi Tun Hussein Onn, to a full-fledged university.
Since 1994, more than 90 faculty and their families from the United States and United Kingdom have been placed in Malaysia as academic consultants and professors. The project eventually will graduate more than 900 Malaysians to become faculty of the new schools.
Seven senior staff from the Institut Tecnologi Tun Hussein Onn and two from Malaysia's Ministry of Education will arrive at Purdue on Sunday, Aug. 31, to participate in two weeks of professional development seminars and workshops presented by Purdue faculty and staff on college administration issues, such as long-range and strategic planning, managing multicampus collaborations, and graduate education administration.
The Malaysian team also will visit other leading educational institutions, industrial corporations and research centers. In addition, beginning in October, Phase Two of the original project gets under way with a focus on curriculum development. More than 32 Malaysians will visit the United States for a four-week intensive study of 16 different subject areas from which they will write curriculum.
Malaysia, a Southeast Asian nation of about 14 million people, is a prosperous country with an increasingly diversified economy. It is the world's leading producer of natural rubber and palm oil, and it also exports tin, timber and petroleum. Its manufacturing output includes chemicals, textiles, transportation equipment, electrical machinery, electronic products and offshore-oil platforms.
The Malaysian Polytechnic Development Project is managed by Purdue's School of Technology and the Office of International Programs for the Midwest University Consortium for International Activities (MUCIA). The consortium is 10 universities dedicated to international development and education. Its other members are: the University of Illinois; Indiana University; the University of Iowa; the University of Michigan; Michigan State University; the University of Minnesota; The Ohio State University; Pennsylvania State University; and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
CONTACTS: Fred Emshousen, project coordinator, (765) 494-0607, or Don Buskirk, deputy project coordinator, (765) 494-0607.
Compiled by J. Michael Willis, (765) 494-0371; e-mail, mike_willis@purdue.edu
Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; e-mail, purduenews@purdue.edu
