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The part-time Master of Applied Science in the Management of Technology is based on a graduate program currently taught on campus by the department of management sciences and course materials adapted from Britain's Open University.
"We are aiming at engineers and scientists who need to deal with technology management in their jobs," said Paul Guild, chair in the management of technological change. "We expect that the innovative program will appeal to people who will find the 'anywhere, anytime' feature convenient."
The program's content will be delivered by enhanced distance education technologies -- the Internet and telephone systems -- by traditional correspondence course methods (printed materials, audio and video tapes), as well as tutorials.
"Students completing studies in the management of technology program will be prepared for positions in the management of research and design, engineering development, product design groups and management consulting," Guild said, adding that students are expected to register from across Canada and the United States.
Operating without government subsidy, tuition fees in the full-cost recovery program will be $2,500 for each one-term course. It is geared to students who will receive financial support from their employers.
To earn their degrees, students will take the equivalent of eight or nine, one-term courses, plus complete a project worth two, one-term courses. The program is designed to be completed in three to five years. Five faculty members from the management sciences department will share teaching responsibilities.
The innovative program builds on previous distance education projects led by Guild, including learning links connecting various universities in North America.
Since 1991, Guild has conducted graduate courses in the management of technological change using a distance education link between UW and Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. The University College of Cape Breton in Nova Scotia was added to the link in 1992, making it a coast-to-coast network over four time zones and 5,000 kilometres.
Last year, Guild established a similar link using a combination of telephone and the Internet to deliver graduate training to students on campus and simultaneously to students in the School of Management at Syracuse University in New York and Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Mexico.
While the absence of heat should not create much discomfort, coping without steam and hot water may inconvenience some -- particularly those in food services.
Hot water will be delivered to staff to allow hand washing at Brubaker's in the Student Life Centre, Pastry Plus in Needles Hall, Double U's in South Campus Hall, and Tim Horton's in the Davis Centre. These sites can get by without dish washing, and other food services outlets are closed for a between-term break, said director Mark Murdoch. Although Brubaker's has its own steam generator, there will be some reduction in services, he added.
"It's a bit of a pain," he said, "but I'd rather it was late August than early September".
Better now than in midwinter, maintains Rick Zalagenas, manager of utilities, powerhouse, and mechanical sections of plant op. "It's the quietest time of the year. We're working with a very short window -- after classes and exams end and people clear out of the Villages.
"We try to repair or patch what we can during the year, but we save the work that can't be done easily for the summer." This year, crews will install a large valve in the engineering tunnel and repair and replace components on the steam system "to prevent any catastrophes during the winter".
Staff in those areas are advised to shut down their computers "in an orderly fashion (particularly UNIX systems)." Those who are unsure of what that means can call the DCS help desk at ext. 4839 or email lycke@watserv1.
Work will take place between 6 and 10 p.m., with power off during that time to parking gates in lots M and N, and to the railway crossing gate by GSC.
David Strutt, a graduate student in chemical engineering, is reliving a piece of his childhood through this web site, devoted to the old Canadian Saturday morning television show "The Hilarious House of Frightenstein". He explains that the project
came from the almost total lack of information on the show existing on the web at the end of 1996. I had seen many wonderful sites done by others dedicated to aspects of popular culture both new and old, and saw in this show a chance to make a contribution of my own. The target audience is largely Generation X'ers like myself who saw the show as children in its original run in the mid 1970's, and remembered it for its originality and outlandishness.It even includes an audio file of the show's opening monologue, by the old horror himself, Vincent Price, "the celebrity name that gave the show credibility".The project of creating the web site began in early January 1997, and was finished around the end of May. I spent well over 100 hours on evenings and weekends working on the site (including making the sound clips and video captures, and writing the HTML and comments on each page). That does not even include the time spent watching the episodes of the show themselves. I don't think I will try anything this large again. I used pretty basic HTML, much of it learned from the two IST seminars I attended here at the university. The site is extremely thorough; I cover all the characters and sketches on the show with pictures and sounds, and many little extras. The feedback so far has been very good; I get around 3 messages per week from people all over North America saying they liked the site.
Barbara Elve
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