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Students are taught the principles of mathematics, both mechanics and applications, in relation to whole numbers, common fractions, ratio and proportion, decimal fractions, and per cent. Students will also be taught about weights and measures, including the metric and English systems; computing dosages; and temperature.

A non-credit course open only to students in the Native Nursing Entry program.

Despair.

I realize the targeted students for this course are not mainstream students, and it's not a credit course, but seriously, people attending university should not be there to learn what fractions and per cent means. Adult high school maybe, but as an entry point into a nursing degree?

I've got nothing but respect for the Natives who want to be nurses, and nothing but despair for the educational system that lets them get to the point where they are ready for a university education, but don't know fractions.

http://mycoursecalendar.lakeheadu.ca/pg887.html indicates that up here, in northern Canuckistan, you're looking at around 10K for living expenses (residence) and books, and around 7K for tuition a year, which for a 4 year program comes out to around 70K or so. A significant part of the 70K is on warm clothes, and blood replacement for after the provincial bird (Mosquito) has it's way with you. Foreign students pay around 10K a year more for tuition, so you're up to $110K. Head on up to Thunder Bay, support my alma matter, and help keep the mosquitos fed.

He is currently a Board Member of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (Vice-Chair) and the Northwestern Ontario Technology Centre. He also is a member of the Advisory Council to the Nuclear Waste Management Organization... Gilbert's academic interests include wildlife management, environmental studies and natural resources science. He holds a B.Sc (Hons) degree from Acadia University and MSc and PhD degrees in Zoology from the University of Guelph.

They already banned smoking, as of July 1, 2004: http://communications.lakeheadu.ca/news/?id=47

Shouldn't he also ask that all computers be shut off, cell phones (EMF exposure from phones is likely to be FAR worse, because it is closer to your body), and, heck, while you're at it, just shut down power at the university and go back to 19th-century and earlier techniques like quill pens and parchment. It didn't stop earlier institutions from being places of higher learning, and it's the only way to be safe until the "jury" is in.

It could set a great distinction for Lakehead University: Come to Lakehead and experience traditional university values, in true "old-world" medieval style! Be sure to bring your cloaks to class! No photocopiers or ballpoint pens are available -- take your notes on your innovative, reusable, university-supplied slate notebooks with all-natural chalk.

No, wait, that doesn't make sense. According to president Fred Gilbert in the spring/summer 2005 Campus news, "Despite these challenges, Fred Gilbert has leveraged the strengths of the University faculty and researchers, staff, and alumni to embark on a vision of academic excellence and technology-assisted learning." Well, all that except for vision about some types of technology-assisted learning. I guess they'll be spending alot more money than necessary on cabling and its installation at Lakehead, and I'm sure people will be nice about sharing the wired network ports that are available. It's a pity the money couldn't be better spent elsewhere, but that's the price of progress and safety.

Personally, I think the guy could save alot of money, and keep people happy and safe, if the university offered free tin foil hoods that could optionally be worn to class. Maybe next convocation they can invest in tin foil mortar boards, especially for the Comp Sci graduates?

Lakehead is in Thunder Bay, not Orilla.

I really like the fact that their website, http://www.lakeheadu.ca/ seems to be promoting the use of technology in the great outdoors, really. Everyone i know uses their laptop outside at sunset. The lack of internet makes it all the more enjoyable. http://www.lakeheadu.ca/images/hp/ts3.jpg

I really like the fact that their website, http://www.lakeheadu.ca/ seems to be promoting the use of technology in the great outdoors, really. Everyone i know uses their laptop outside at sunset. The lack of internet makes it all the more enjoyable. http://www.lakeheadu.ca/images/hp/ts3.jpg

At Lakehead University (Software Engineering) we toyed around with doing a similar thing as a degree project. A certain professor there said he also played around with something similar (reprogrammabled FPGA's), but found they become very unstable after many iterations. It could be done but the big draw back is the way verilog/vhdl writes loops. Sure it can optimize some operations, but if a true loop atomic instruction could be devised on-the-fly it would go a long way (maby using NeuralNetworks to find optimal circuits). Its ok though since we ended up doing a port security robot that scanned containers and could be a silent alarm sentry, also it plugged into a national datamining investigation system :)

I completed my university degree at Lakehead University. We had -40C -45C days on a farly regular basis in the winter time.

Does this qualify me to work on the moon base?

When I look at these pictures I am reminded of the new building at my university, it has a very similar colour scheme (primary colours everywhere). It has only been open since Sept 2003 and has already beared the brunt of thousands of jokes.

From the wheelchair ramp that curves in an S shape (it is one lane and impossible to see the bottom from the top, of course leading to collisions), to the fact that they put that corrogated metal that is normally used for Silos _on the walls_, this combined with the fact that red, yellow, and blue is used exstensivly makes you think you are in preeschool while you are actually in differential equations

I made a point of pulling up the about screen for the debian build of mozilla. It's got a swipe across it indicating that it's a debian build. (see here for a shot I took from inside galeon)

I think the automotive equivalant (eg, "Clairion" splashes across the top of the windscreen, or the custom symbols or words put elsewhere) would seem to apply here.
Where one draws the line... well, I think that would need to be decided on a case-by-case basis.

I'm from Canada (went to school in Thunder Bay), so I hardly think Maine would be 'cold' to me...You southerners are so 'touchy' about climate <grin>!

Or maybe you're refering to the torture aspect of sitting in a freezer?

-Ben

At present, 15 studies have been found which test the hypothesis that negative pretrial publicity increases the likelihood of "guilty" verdicts by jurors. In support of the hypothesis, the meta-analysis has uncovered a significantly higher level of guilty verdicts in subjects exposed to negative pretrial publicity, compared to control (no pretrial publicity) subjects, Zma = 11.23, p less than .0001. The overall effect size, r = .17, indicates a small effect across the studies. Additional analyses address moderator variables, such as type of publicity, while discussion focuses on the application of the findings to courtroom decision-making.
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2. The Faltering Common Law Jury System: A Psychological Perspective

Moran and Cutler (1991) surveyed potential jurors in order to determine any effects that may be occurring as the result of pre-trial media exposure. Their findings showed that exposure to publicity regarding the crime and the accused was highly correlated to the existence of predetermined conclusions of the defendants guilt. Linz and Pinrod (1992) found that this effect goes far beyond the jurors preconceived beliefs, and that even after unbiased and judicially significant information was provided to the subjects during the trial, jurors who had received greater amounts of media exposure were more prone to convict the accused. Baron and Bryne (1997) suggest that pretrial publicity, which in its most dramatic form shows the suspect being taken away in handcuffs, forces us to form an impression of that suspect. This first impression is most often one of guilt. This first impression in turn influences the acceptance of all subsequent information, possibly leading one to accept questionable information that implies guilt, while rejecting information that favors innocence.
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3. Relating Pretrial Publicity, Judicial Instruction, and Thought Suppression With Guilt Ratings
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My school rolled out VoIP to all residence rooms this year! What a fiasco that was. From randomly disconnected calls to 'mr. roboto' sounding conversations, the quality has certainly been poor.

The biggest problem in our situation was marketoids selling products to drooling PHB's, ignoring the tech's. Not to mention that the products delivered had never been used to this scale before.

One of the techs told me that the competition later demonstrated two boxen handling the same load as a whole room full of our current solution.

To make matters worse, students don't even have the option of an 'old-school' line from the local telco.

To get back on topic, this could be awesome if done well, and no skimping on hardware. Otherwise, you don't want to work tech support for these guys ! (I had to handle more than one angry student with bad service).

I just hope to see more of this in the near future, especially at those prices!

-Ben

I was speaking to one of the members of the CEAB who visted LU on Monday. He recieved his P. Eng designation first in Electrical Engineering then later in Software. He said that the purpose of the Software Engineer should be for critical systems, namely those that if the fail, would put people in danger. The same as Electrical, Chemical, Mechanical or Civil or other Engineering professions.

This doesn't mean that only software engineers can work on such projects. It means that before the software is used it must be approved or 'stamped' by a Software Engineer with a P. Eng designation.

This is not currently required by law in Canada (AFAIK).

Again, this doesn't mean that all programs have to be written by software engineers, or approved by engineers. It is just proposed for software that is life-endangering.

For more information:

• Links on the Professional Engineers of Ontario Page

P.S. Education alone does not an engineer make! It is the combination of education and engineering.

P.P.S It is also possible to become an Professional Engineer without attending an accredited program. Several requierments must be met but it is possible.

I was speaking to one of the members of the CEAB who visted LU on Monday. He recieved his P. Eng designation first in Electrical Engineering then later in Software. He said that the purpose of the Software Engineer should be for critical systems, namely those that if the fail, would put people in danger. The same as Electrical, Chemical, Mechanical or Civil or other Engineering professions.

This doesn't mean that only software engineers can work on such projects. It means that before the software is used it must be approved or 'stamped' by a Software Engineer with a P. Eng designation.

This is not currently required by law in Canada (AFAIK).

Again, this doesn't mean that all programs have to be written by software engineers, or approved by engineers. It is just proposed for software that is life-endangering.

For more information:

• Links on the Professional Engineers of Ontario Page

P.S. Education alone does not an engineer make! It is the combination of education and engineering.

P.P.S It is also possible to become an Professional Engineer without attending an accredited program. Several requierments must be met but it is possible.

If you've got a secure connection, who gives a crap?
My school runs a mail server running debian, and they've signed their own cert. We don't give a crap that verisign hasn't signed it. All we care is that it _is_ secure.
We'll probably get around to changing the date soon.
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If you've got a secure connection, who gives a crap?
My school runs a mail server running debian, and they've signed their own cert. We don't give a crap that verisign hasn't signed it. All we care is that it _is_ secure.
We'll probably get around to changing the date soon.
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dont think the difference between Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and ?normal? Computer Science is that confusing. As one poster said:

Think of an Electrical Engineer as a geek who designs computer chips with a minor in math.
Think of a Computer Engineer as a geek who designs computer chips with a minor in Computer Science.
Think of a Computer Science major as a geek who programs computers, and doesn't design hardware.

This is pretty close to the truth unless you get into the Computer Science options.

At my school ( Lakehead University ) we have the following options in Computer Science : Science Option: This program has a lot of classes in programming
Business Option: CS classes mixed with business classes. This makes you into more of an "IT" person.
Hardware Option: Lost of hardware classes with lots of programming class mixed in. (This option kinda blurs the line between Computer Engineering and Comp. Sci. )

Oh and to top it all off we now have a software engineering option under the engineering faculty !

This even further confuses students because now they don't know if they want to be a Computer Engineer, Software Engineer or a Computer Scientist.

This decision for me wasn't much of a problem because Lakehead decided to remove most of the Computer Science classes out of the Software Engineering faculty and replace them with Electrical Engineering classes. Since I wanted to be a programmer/sys. admin I simply transfered to Comp. Sci from the 'Software' Engineering faculity. This IMVHO makes the Software Engineers here less Software Engineers and more Electrical Engineers that have done a little bit more programming than the normal EE. This seems to be similar to what many Canadian universities have done so soon we are going to see a bunch of so called Software Engineers in the marketplace who don't know much about software development at all.

Does anyone else have any comments on the difference between Software Engineers, Computer Engineers and Comp. Science students?

dont think the difference between Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and ?normal? Computer Science is that confusing. As one poster said:

Think of an Electrical Engineer as a geek who designs computer chips with a minor in math.
Think of a Computer Engineer as a geek who designs computer chips with a minor in Computer Science.
Think of a Computer Science major as a geek who programs computers, and doesn't design hardware.

This is pretty close to the truth unless you get into the Computer Science options.

At my school ( Lakehead University ) we have the following options in Computer Science : Science Option: This program has a lot of classes in programming
Business Option: CS classes mixed with business classes. This makes you into more of an "IT" person.
Hardware Option: Lost of hardware classes with lots of programming class mixed in. (This option kinda blurs the line between Computer Engineering and Comp. Sci. )

Oh and to top it all off we now have a software engineering option under the engineering faculty !

This even further confuses students because now they don't know if they want to be a Computer Engineer, Software Engineer or a Computer Scientist.

This decision for me wasn't much of a problem because Lakehead decided to remove most of the Computer Science classes out of the Software Engineering faculty and replace them with Electrical Engineering classes. Since I wanted to be a programmer/sys. admin I simply transfered to Comp. Sci from the 'Software' Engineering faculity. This IMVHO makes the Software Engineers here less Software Engineers and more Electrical Engineers that have done a little bit more programming than the normal EE. This seems to be similar to what many Canadian universities have done so soon we are going to see a bunch of so called Software Engineers in the marketplace who don't know much about software development at all.

Does anyone else have any comments on the difference between Software Engineers, Computer Engineers and Comp. Science students?

dont think the difference between Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and ?normal? Computer Science is that confusing. As one poster said:

Think of an Electrical Engineer as a geek who designs computer chips with a minor in math.
Think of a Computer Engineer as a geek who designs computer chips with a minor in Computer Science.
Think of a Computer Science major as a geek who programs computers, and doesn't design hardware.

This is pretty close to the truth unless you get into the Computer Science options.

At my school ( Lakehead University ) we have the following options in Computer Science : Science Option: This program has a lot of classes in programming
Business Option: CS classes mixed with business classes. This makes you into more of an "IT" person.
Hardware Option: Lost of hardware classes with lots of programming class mixed in. (This option kinda blurs the line between Computer Engineering and Comp. Sci. )

Oh and to top it all off we now have a software engineering option under the engineering faculty !

This even further confuses students because now they don't know if they want to be a Computer Engineer, Software Engineer or a Computer Scientist.

This decision for me wasn't much of a problem because Lakehead decided to remove most of the Computer Science classes out of the Software Engineering faculty and replace them with Electrical Engineering classes. Since I wanted to be a programmer/sys. admin I simply transfered to Comp. Sci from the 'Software' Engineering faculity. This IMVHO makes the Software Engineers here less Software Engineers and more Electrical Engineers that have done a little bit more programming than the normal EE. This seems to be similar to what many Canadian universities have done so soon we are going to see a bunch of so called Software Engineers in the marketplace who don't know much about software development at all.

Does anyone else have any comments on the difference between Software Engineers, Computer Engineers and Comp. Science students?

GRASS IS GPLed for years now

Minor correction: version 5 of GRASS was released under the GPL last November (1999). GRASS v0 - 4.x is public domain (still under minor development, mostly bug fixing).