Don't Miss
the
Health Fair
By Lisa Ridley
Where can you get a vision
test, a blood-sugar test and a manicure
for free? At the Health Fair on April 4
and 5. The fair will be held in the
Capital Union Building from 10am to
4pm on both days.
"This year we want to make
students look interested in, the
community by helping out," Kresge
said. She needs greeters, clowns, student
speakers, and people to fill helium
balloons. Volunteers can sign up in the
Health Office.
Health Services and Pi Sigma
Chi are sponsoring this annual event
that gives people a chance to have
medical screenings at no charge. Local
residents and students will be offered an
anemia test, a hearing test, a blood
pressure screening, a foot exam, and a
cholesterol screening ($5 for this test).
Other organizations will give
out information about cancer, poison
control, nutrition, and other health
related topics.
Hourly drawings will be held
for door prizes donated by local business.
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Engineers Discuss Problems
By Joe Kupec
Engineering surcharge fees,
promoting the engineering technology
degree among employers, and personal
computer facilities for engineering
technology students were a few of the
subjects raised by students at the first
Engineering Forum which was held
February 25 in the audiotrium of the
Olmsted Building.
The forum, sponsored by the
three SGA engineering technology
senators, the engineering technology
department and the math/sciences
department, attracted about 30 faculty
members and 100 students.
Professor Welsch explained that
the engineering surcharge is intended for
non-consumable laboratory equipment
like micro-computers. He also explained
that none of the money is used to pay
salary.
Welsch pointed out that past
projects like enlarging the mechanical
engineering technology laboratory or
using the surcharge along with matching
grant money to purchase more micro
computers for the engineering
technology program were not intended to
discriminate against a particular
program.
"We have been• buying
equipment for programs which would
strengthen lab programs for students," he
said.
In response to a student's
request to have student input on
determining surcharge spending for
laboratory equipment, Professor Jerry
Bray asked,
"Can I have your age and the
number of years that you have been
working in the industry?"
Many students expressed
concern about the marketability of the
technology degree.
Welsch acknowledged that some
employers will not hire technology
majors but pointed out that the state
Engineer in Training exam is open to
technology graduates and that the federal
government gives an engineering rating
to those who pass the EIT exam.
Professor Aungst, MET
chairman, told of having lunch with an
industry recruiter who was lamenting the
fact that there were so few 3.5 GPA
graduates in most technology programs.
When Aungst asked him why
he came to Penn State Harrisburg, the
recruiter replied, "because Penn State
graduates can do the job."
"You have to sell the Penn
State technology program," Aungst told
the students.
A question about the temporary
conversion of a drafting room to a
computer lab for structural design
engineering technology majors led
students to ask if the engineering
surcharge money was being used to buy
computers to which non-engineering
students would have access.
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Welsch pointed out that the
computers purchased with engineering
surcharge being used in various labs
were not for use by non-technology
majors.
Welsch admitted that ". . .the
whole campus is very much in need of
computer availability" in response to
students' complaints of difficulty in
getting a terminal in the computer
center.
At the end of the forum,
students were asked to address further
questions to their SGA senators.
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