SMU Gets $10.1M Gift to Improve Engineering Outlook

perunapower · Post by **perunapower** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 7:04 am

smu diamond m wrote:Our Civil Engineering program has only recently become ABET accredited... An essential step in producing Professional Engineers.

ABET's Website

My mistake. Looks like it was accredited earlier this year. That's definitely good to hear.

smu diamond m · Post by **smu diamond m** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 9:45 am

couch 'em wrote:Anyone else agree that the school is going way overboard with all the gold-topped towers on buildings? Not every building needs one, and NO building should have TWO! (new bschool bldg)

On an unrelated note, what material is the dome of Dallas Hall made of? Copper? Wouldn't it have been gold in color originally?

It's copper colored!

smu diamond m · Post by **smu diamond m** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 9:50 am

perunapower wrote:
smu diamond m wrote:Our Civil Engineering program has only recently become ABET accredited... An essential step in producing Professional Engineers.

ABET's Website
My mistake. Looks like it was accredited earlier this year. That's definitely good to hear.

Yea, we applied for it 18 months or so ago. You have to have a graduate of the program in question (BSCE in this case) before they will consider the program; the accreditation is retroactive. They come in (after you pay them to send an evaluation team) and check everything out, make sure you actually do legit stuff... And then they wait for the following August to announce your acceptance or whatever, and update every October 1st.

The funny part is, ABET requires that you get on the same re-inspection cycle as the other ABET accredited schools, which means they'll be back to visit next year.

NavyCrimson · Post by **NavyCrimson** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 10:19 am

They're baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack

couch 'em · Post by **couch 'em** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 11:32 am

smu diamond m wrote:
couch 'em wrote:Anyone else agree that the school is going way overboard with all the gold-topped towers on buildings? Not every building needs one, and NO building should have TWO! (new bschool bldg)

On an unrelated note, what material is the dome of Dallas Hall made of? Copper? Wouldn't it have been gold in color originally?
It's copper colored!

Am I the only one who'd like to see the green buffed off? I shiney dome would be an impressive sight.

SMU Football Blog · Post by **SMU Football Blog** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 1:06 pm

Hoop Fan wrote:
H-E-B Mustang wrote:
NavyCrimson wrote:"And Pye wanted to get rid of the engineering school. Genius."

"You are joking???"

He's not joking. Pye definitely was no friend of the engineering school. He decreased the emphasis on engineering at SMU, including the dropping civil engineering as a degree. Pye apparently wanted to have SMU known primarily as a liberal arts school.
yes, and he wanted to de-emphasize the Business school as i remember. business and engineering were too crass for mr. pye. would have been a huge mistake. good thing those programs were not in a weakened state and could withstand the assault/neglect, unlike the athletic program. When i was in school, i had a sense for pyes mission and idealism, but looking back it was really a hole smu dug for itself.

If Pye had everything he wanted, the business and engineering schools would have been shut down, athletics eliminated, fraternities closed and the entire campus would have been airlifted to New England.

perunapower · Post by **perunapower** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 3:12 pm

SMU Football Blog wrote:
If Pye had everything he wanted, the business and engineering schools would have been shut down, athletics eliminated, fraternities closed and the entire campus would have been airlifted to New England.

NEMU just doesn't sound right.