University of Florida - Tower / Seminole Yearbook (Gainesville, FL)

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engineering engineers move to new homes With the auspicious beginning of the 1967-1968 academic year, the College of Engineering at last finds itself flexing its muscles as it takes over occupancy of the several fine new buildings, and enjoys a increase in enrollment. As the college doors opened in the aerospace and mechanical departments were firmly entrenched in their new quarters, and within a fortnight, the chemical and electrical engineering followed suit, with the engineers close on their heels. In the face of fund shortages unusually harsh this year, these moves were accomplished by and students, technicians and staff who rolled up their sleeves, carried and carted, pushed and pulled. It was a ball! After several years of desultory change, undergraduate enrollment was up 118, an 11.1 percent increase over last year against an overall University undergraduate growth of 5.7 percent. Graduate students jumped to 384 on the Gainesville campus alone—an 18.5 percent increase reflected by the 60 addi- tional students. Enrollments in the and off-campus graduate courses added 388 and 235 students respectively, making a total of over 1,000 persons taking graduate work in engineering. New this year is an undergraduate of study leading to a degree in life engineering—unique among modern engineering schools. It is a combination of engineering training with a critical amount of the life sciences leading to a wide choice of professional careers. Nine engineering departments are already offering these options without in any way weakening the value of each technical degree. They are open to pre-med, life sciences, and pre-engineering students who choose an discipline with opportunities for more courses in organic chemistry, zoology, biophysics and biochemistry. With this the student may proceed into graduate school along several paths leading to careers in medical and or dental practice (M.D.), biomedical or bioengineering teaching and (Ph.D.) or into engineering practice (Ph.D.). 50

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college mourns dean wiles ' death A new degree, a new research institute, and nearly 300 more undergraduates were added to the College of Education during 1967-68. The new degree is the Doctor of in Education. Emphasizing a high degree of specialized research, the Ph.D. program will help the University of Florida maintain its place as a leader in the advanced graduate training of professional educators. The will continue to offer the Doctor of Ed.D., for students desiring a of the entire field of education. The Institute for Higher Learning, headed by Dr. James Wattenbarger, was established in January. It became the fourth research institute in the College. The new institute is investigating the operations of colleges and universities with the aim of discovering how they can function more efficiently. The three older institutes are studying curriculum development, education leadership and development of human resources. Visible evidence that men and women seeking careers in education are heading for the University of Florida was seen in the of more than twenty percent of undergraduates this fall in the of Education. In the face of this influx, which has been constant in recent years, the college was forced to adjust its student program, one of the key phases in the professional education sequence. In addition to modifying the program, the college sought to assure continuing excellence by adding nineteen new members to its faculty, all of them with doctorates. At P. K. Yonge Laboratory School, a of the college, two new programs attracted the attention of the education profession. The first was a program, entiled Project PUPIL, which showed that age was less important than ability as an index for class assignment as long as instruction is highly individualized. The second program was the inauguration of special education at P. K. Yonge. Typically, P. K. Yonge ' s special education program is different, however, in that youngsters receive more personal instruction than they would in most similar programs. All in all then, 1967-68 was a typical year of changes at the College of Education— typical because new and different things were happening constantly. Dr. Kimball Wiles, deceased Dr. Bert Sharpe Dean Acting Dean

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Dr. John A. Nattress Acting Dean 51