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List of Nigeria universities with low cut off for 2020/2021
List of Universities with low cut off mark
Table Of content
- What is university cut off mark
- List of universities with low cut of mark
- Importance of choosing such university
What is university cut off mark
School cut off marks are average points been set by a school for admission purposes. This usually comes after an exam is been set to determine the eligibility of candidates who sat for the examination. Some examination where cut off marks can be obtained from are:
Jamb is been totalled over four hundred and the school now has the right to decide what ever cut off the may use for screening candidates
Updated List of universities with low cut off mark
Wonderfully on this article we are going to give you the updated list of schools with low cut off mark for admission
- University of Abuja (UNIABUJA) 150
- University of Jos (UNIJOS) 160
- Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK) 180
- Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) 150
- Federal University Oye Ekiti (FUOYE) 160
- Usmanu Danfodiyo University (UDUSOK) 180
- Adekunle Ajasin University (AAUA) 150
- Niger Delta University (NDU) 150
- Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike (MOUAU) 160
- Ekiti State University Ado Ekiti (EKSU) 160
- Federal University Dutsin Ma (FUDMA) 180
- Federal University of Agriculture Makurdi (FUAM) 180
- Osun State University (UNIOSUN) 180
- Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) 160
- Cross River State University of Science & Technology Calabar (CRUTECH) 160
- Enugu State University of Science & Technology (ESUT) 150
- Federal University Ndufu Alike Ikwo FUNAI. 160
- Ambrose Alli University Ekpoma (AAU EKPOMA) 150
- Kwara State University (KWASU) 180
- Imo State University Owerri (IMSU) 180
- Benue State University (BSUM) 180
Ahmadu Bello University (ABU Zaria) 180
University of Agriculture Abeokuta (FUNAAB) 180
University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) 180.
Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA) 180
University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) 180.
Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) 180
Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) 180
Bayero University Kano (BUK) 160
University of Uyo (UNIUYO) 180
Lagos State University (LASU) 180
- anambra state university. 150
- Ebonyi state university. 150
- Kogi state university. 150
Reason why you should apply to this institutions.
The primary aim for everyone is to be admitted into the institution of his/her choice but this has now come with a challenge, each year more more than 500,000 people seats for jamb and post utme but on 100,000 get admitted And at times may pursuing the same course, this has lead so many people to retake jamb over and over again and some might one the process give up on studying.
The reason for this is caused by the inability of tertiary institutions to admit candidates into their desire institute,this have called for a great competition to survive.
Candidates who are wise go for less competitive institutions and get admitted while others remain adamant in the face of competition.
It is important that you choose a less competitive institution to get admitted. We have listed an updated list of high standard institutions with low cut off point for all candidates above.
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With their innovative power electronics and ability to control the amount of power to be transmitted intelligently, HVDC systems are an important element of a smart grid. Siemens Energy is one the world's leading suppliers in this area too and will further expand this position. The Siemens Sector expects orders for smart grids totaling more than EUR6 billion through the year 2014. "As global market leader in grid automation, we are already well established in this business. We're at the beginning of a new era of electricity with smart grids," commented Niehage. In the last fiscal year 2009, Siemens earned revenues of nearly EUR1 billion with smart grid technologies. "The smart grid market will also become increasingly dynamic as a result of climate change and programs to boost the economy. Our aim is to grow more than twice as fast the market as a whole," Niehage added. The addressable market for Siemens will have a cumulative volume of about EUR30 billion through the year 2014. Siemens is targeting annual growth of seven percent in smart grid business and a market share of more than 20 percent. The energy-efficient connection of offshore wind farms to the power supply grid, high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission systems and solutions for setting up smart grids are part of Siemens' Environmental Portfolio. In fiscal 2009, revenue from the Portfolio totaled about EUR23 billion, making Siemens the world's largest supplier of ecofriendly technologies. In the same period, our products and solutions enabled customers to reduce their CO2 emissions by 210 million tons. The Siemens Energy Sector is the world's leading supplier of a complete spectrum of products, services and solutions for the generation, transmission and distribution of power and for the extraction, conversion and transport of oil and gas. In fiscal 2009 (ended September 30), the Energy Sector had revenues of approximately EUR25.8 billion and received new orders totaling approximately EUR30 billion and posted a profit of EUR3.3 billion. On September 30, 2009, the Energy Sector had a work force of more than 85,100. Further information is available at: www.siemens.com/energy. 2/2 Siemens AG Corporate Communications and Government Affairs Wittelsbacherplatz 2, 80333 Munich Germany Reference number: EPT200912.026e Media Relations: Dietrich Biester Telephone: +49 9131 18-4974 E-mail: [email protected]com Siemens AG Energy Sector - Power Transmission Division Freyeslebenstr. 1, 91058 Erlangen, Germany

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I married my grade school sweetheart, Gary Stanglin, on August 5, 1991. We have two great kids! Dakota, he is the Agricultural Education Instructor at Cyril Public School, and Madison, she is a Junior (majoring in Elementary Education) at Southeastern Oklahoma State University. They are both graduates of Achille High School. We also have a puppy, Max, and three kittens, Bingo, Bo, and Luke.
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We're currently in our second week of "model approach to partnership and parenting," or MAPP, classes through our local department of social services. We were warned by folks who have gone through the classes that they're very useful, but are partially designed to scare the daylights out of would-be foster and adoptive parents with worst case scenarios. That seems reasonably accurate so far. It appears we're the only people in the class who are aiming to adopt rather than foster, and much of the class content (such as examples) makes the assumption that class participants are on track to foster. At any rate, it's giving us a good understanding of what children in foster care have likely gone through and what kinds of emotions and behaviors they may express because of their experiences.
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Jan Mech at Caminart festival with performance "Agudells"
On Saturday 6th July at 8:15 pm Jan Mech will play a new (short) piece called Agudells con Lluís Maria Vidal : 8:15 pm at the festival Caminart organized by Bocanord
Agudells withLluís Maria Vidal
Is a real time composition of contempotary electronic music that evolves around field recordings taken at the same place as the performance takes place. Recoded samples mix with synthetically created sound and the real sounds occurring unpredictably at the moment of the concert mingle into a complex sound structure. For his music performances Jan Mech focuses on the gestural aspect of playing electronic music. Even though all sounds are finally created by a computer Jan uses a variety of controllers that allow him to play the computer as it would be a traditional instrument. For this concert he uses a Wii-Remote Controll, a modified microphone stand and standard MIDI controllers.
Duration: Approximately 15 min.
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Mech is a media-artist, musician and performer. His sound works, compositions for video artists and stage works have been shown in a variety of places such as Artists Space New York, Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, HCC London, Tate Modern (London), Centre Pompidou (Paris) and Fabrik Potsdam (Berlin), Fundatió Antoni Tàpies (Barcelona).
He studied Theatre, Film and Media Studies with Prof. Dr. Hans-Thies Lehmann at Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universtität Frankfurt/Main in Germany and was stipend of DasArts Amsterdam. Since then he has studied with prestigious contemporary music composers such as György Kurtág Junior and Raphael Toral, focusing in composition and real-time composing. Since 2007 he collaborates regularly as a performer with Spanish artist Dora García. In 2012 he participated in García's project for dOCUMENTA (13) entitled Die Klau Mich Show: Radicalism in Society Meets Experiment on TV (www.dieklaumichshow.org) and composed the music for her film The Joycean Society, which was premiered in the collateral events of the Venice Biennale 2013.
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Barbara Peterson Larson
Barbara Peterson Lar-
son, 90, died July 16,
2019, at a Bismarck hospi-
A memorial service will
be held on Friday, August
16, 2019, 11:00 AM at the
First Presbyterian Church,
214 E Thayer Ave,
There will be no visita-
tion, cremation has taken
Interment will be at
Rosehill Memorial
Cemetery in Minot.
Barbara was born in
Kenmare, ND on July 19,
1928 to Harry and Althea
Preston. She attended
school in Kenmare then
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High School in 1946 after
moving there with her
parents. She was a
member of the Kappa Al-
pha Theta sorority at the
University of North Dako-
ta, Grand Forks. While a
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benefit for the
Bismarck-Mandan Sym-
For more than 50 years,
she spent the summer at
her cottage on Lake Meti-
goshe in the Turtle Moun-
tains. Her 4th of July par-
ties, with a patriotic pro-
gram followed by food
and fireworks, were a
highlight of each summer.
She loved playing bridge,
especially with her Down
One Bridge Club at the
lake. Throughout the
summer she enjoyed
visits from her children
and, for many years, her
sister-in-law Anna Del-
son. At the end of each
season Barbara made
chokecherry jelly from
hand-picked berries. In
2018 she entered her jelly
in the Bottineau County
Fair and was awarded a
blue ribbon.
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cuisines and traveled ex-
tensively around the
world. Here first trip
abroad was to Europe and
Iceland in 1961 with Ker-
mit. This was followed by
many trips with her friend
Mary Brosnahan, includ-
ing one trip to China not
long after it opened to
tourism, and trips with
Anna and with her chil-
dren. She also loved cook-
ing and entertaining, was
an early fan of Julia Child,
and enjoyed reading cook-
books and trying new re-
cipes. In recent weeks,
she worked on perfecting
her lemon meringue pies.
Barbara was an avid
reader and had an un-
bounded zest for life to
her last day. She will be
deeply missed by those
who shared in her life.
She is survived by her
children Stefan (Shanti),
Eden Prairie, MN, Sara-
jane (Nicholas) Woolf,
Santa Barbara, CA, Seth
(Jane), Bismarck, ND, and
Sabin, Crystal, MN; her
grandchildren Katie (Pa-
trick) Meier and Emma
Peterson, both of
Vishant (Emily) Shah,
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Memphis, TN; Kathryn
(Brian) Shah, great-
grandchild Sidney of San-
ta Barbara, CA; sister-
in-law Anna Delson, New
York, NY, and her four
Barbara was preceded
into death by her parents;
her husbands, Kermit S.
Peterson, Harvey C. Lar-
son; her step-grandchild,
Benjamin Woolf; and her
beloved pets-her
schnauzer, Conrad, and
her cats, Grover and Jelli.
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family suggests memorials
to the First Presbyterian
Church Child Care in
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Project Measurement
by Steve Neuendorf
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Release Date: October 2001
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Learn how to create a measurement-oriented program for your unique organization. With new insights on measurement as a communications tool, this book offers step-by-step guidance on how to use specific quantitative actions-and-results assessments to ensure the success of key initiatives. You'll master the new skills needed to incorporate stakeholder requirements into the structure and operation of the measurement program. You'll also learn how to implement a measurement program and develop understanding of the measurement life cycle, including how to keep your tactics and processes evolving to stay in step with your organization and new challenges.
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CHAPTER 1 Why Measure?
Some Myths and Facts about Measurement
Myth: Measurement Is Expensive
Myth: Measurements Can Be Used against the Persons Being Measured
Myth: Measuring Can Improve Processes
Demonstrating Leadership and Articulating Strategy
Enabling Management
Effecting Process Proficiency and Improvement
Aligning the Facets
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What Are Measures?
What Are Metrics?
Characterization of Metrics by Purpose
The Building Blocks of Measurement
Critical Success Factors for a Measurement Program
CHAPTER 3 Levels of Measurement
Executive Measurement Program
Management Measurement Program
Tactical Measurement Program
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Stakeholder Analysis
Metrics That Satisfy a Purpose
Measures That Comprise a Metric
The Measurement Plan
CHAPTER 5 Implementing a Measurement Program
Data Collection
Data Analysis
Data Reporting
CHAPTER 6 Measurement Program Maturity
Evolving a Measurement Program
Maturing the Measurement Program
Maintaining the Measurement Program
Focusing the Measurement Program—Special Projects
CHAPTER 7 Quality, Cycle-Time, and Productivity Measures
Better: The Measurement of Quality
Faster: The Measurement of Cycle-Time
Cycle-Time versus Schedule
Cycle-Time versus Duration
Cycle-Time in Flow Systems
Cycle-Time in Queuing Systems
Backlog Profiling
Cheaper: The Measurement of Productivity
Improvement of Processes
Repetitive Processes
Nonrepetitive Processes
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It's a Moving Target
Some Myths and Facts about Measurement
Types of Measures
Building Blocks for a Successful Measurement Program
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80 patients a day. 27 home visits. On call at night... The humbling diary of a GP from a very different age
When people speak of a doctor having a vocation, they could find no more shining example than Dr David Geddes-Brown, a GP working on the outskirts of York half a century ago.
In a moving tribute, his daughter has revealed the onerous surgery duties and mammoth workload of her father in 1965.
It would put today's GPs, with their £100,000 salaries and the option to bow out of weekend and evening work, to shame.
How things were: A doctor checks a boy's tonsils. A GP's daughter has revealed the onerous surgery duties and mammoth workload of her father in 1965, which included seeing 80 patients in a single day. (Stock image)
The recent NHS scandals — locum GPs and nurses drafted in to provide out-of-hours care, phones on the NHS 111 helpline left to ring unanswered, A&E wards overwhelmed with cases that would be better treated by a family doctor — would have had Dr Geddes-Brown and his ilk shaking their heads in disbelief.
The good doctor's daily routine back in 1965 has come to light after his daughter, Leslie Geddes-Brown, 71, revealed his proud story in Country Life magazine.
She originally shared it with the public at the time, when she was working for the Northern Echo newspaper after having had the idea of asking him to write about an average day in his surgery in Fulford Road, a mile from the centre of York.
Dr Geddes-Brown obliged with his account of an astonishingly busy — but, to him, utterly routine — Wednesday in mid-February.
Up at 7.35am, he and his wife began their 20-minute breakfast at 8am. During which, he 'read 16 hospital reports, several bills, about ten medical advertisements, one solicitor's letter and a newspaper leader'.
Dr Geddes-Brown then got into his Rover 2000 and did his rounds — visiting 27 patients from 8.30am until 12.30pm. On his 15-mile round trip, he also treated a further four patients at a hospital clinic.
While he was away from home, his wife and the cleaning lady took 18 phone calls and had five personal visits from patients seeking appointments.
After a 15-minute lunch, Dr Geddes-Brown then did afternoon surgery, from 1pm to 3pm and from 5pm to 6.30pm, aiming to see a patient every five minutes.
That afternoon, he saw a total of 48 patients, with his receptionist seeing another seven who didn't need to see the doctor. Not a single one had to wait more than five minutes in the waiting room.
Between the two afternoon surgeries, the doctor saw seven last-minute patients before a swift cup of tea. And then, when he finally left surgery at 6.30pm — and after a quick glass of sherry — he was on call.
That evening, he went to one emergency patient three miles away and took three patient phone calls.
All in all, he did 11 hours of work that day, with 25 minutes off for meals, plus 13 hours on call. A total of 80 patients were seen — all without delay — and 66 phone calls taken.
Dr David Geddes-Brown in his Royal Army Medical Corps uniform. He bought his own practice after he was demobbed, before the NHS was created
And this was his daily routine, day in, day out, week in, week out, for more than 30 years. On Thursdays, he had the afternoon off, and every third weekend he had what he described as the 'utter bliss' of no work from 6.30pm on Friday until 7.30am on Monday, when one of his partners in the practice covered his patients.
Today, since the controversial Labour government-approved renegotiation of contracts in 2004, GPs have been allowed to opt out of evening and weekend work — calling into question the notion that medicine is a vocation, not merely a job, and that patients in need should be seen at any hour of the day or night.
Dr Geddes-Brown had four weeks' holiday a year but, whenever his two partners in the surgery were on holiday, he had to do extra work to cover for them. On Sunday duty, he worked up to seven hours.
Despite this exhausting regime, a noble Dr Geddes-Brown wrote that he wasn't 'what I call overworked'.
He did, though, think he was underpaid for looking after his 3,650 patients, 24 hours a day. He worked out that he got paid a shilling and eight pence each month for each patient. Contrast this with today's average GP salary of £104,100.
Indeed, provincial doctors in those days certainly didn't live in great splendour. During his early career, Dr Geddes-Brown and his wife lived above the practice. This led to some humorous moments. Leslie Geddes-Brown remembers her mother crawling along the floor of the upstairs landing so as not to be seen by the patients who queued under the staircase.
Leslie and her brother weren't allowed downstairs during surgery hours under any circumstances. It was important to Dr Geddes-Brown that the practice appeared professional at all times.
Born in 1915 in Newton Mearns, Renfrewshire, Scotland, David Geddes-Brown began his medical career during the war in the Royal Army Medical Corps.
Demobbed in 1946, before the creation of the NHS, he had to go through the old system of buying his own practice in order to practise as a family doctor.
'When the NHS came in just two years later, they promised to compensate him,' says Leslie. 'But they did it so slowly and ineffectively, that it was hardly worth it.'
Even if Dr Geddes-Brown didn't think he was overworked, his family certainly did. 'He was constantly exhausted,' says Leslie. 'He was very fraught and could get very tetchy. But on holiday he was a different person. He loved the fact that there was no phone on holiday and that, if someone knocked at the door, it wouldn't be more work.'
The tragedy is that, after a lifetime of devoted service to his patients, Dr Geddes-Brown died before he could take a deserved break and enjoy retirement.
'He was really looking forward to retiring,' his daughter says. 'But he died of a heart attack at 63. He was overwrought and exhausted.'
Dr Geddes-Brown and his wife at his daughter's christening: She says that although he said he did not feel overworked, she remembers him constantly exhausted and said he was often fraught and sometimes tetchy
For all his dedication, Dr Geddes-Brown was concerned that the NHS had created more demand than was necessary.
At the end of his working day featured in the Northern Echo article, Dr Geddes-Brown compiled a breakdown of the patients he had seen.
'He simply enjoyed curing people': Dr Geddes-Brown sadly died of a heart attack aged just 63 - before he was able to enjoy his well-deserved retirement
It read: '15 seriously or moderately ill and needing a doctor; 17 chronic sick or old people only needing a bit of cheering up; four antenatal or postnatal examinations; 14 assorted depressives, neurotics, hypochondriacs and malingerers; two inoculations for people going on holiday; 14 trivial cases only needing a little common-sense; three fat women trying to reduce weight; nine people required by law to obtain certificates but not ill; one examination for litigation; and one conference with relatives. Total 80. Of these, about 25 needed me as a doctor. I wonder if it is all worthwhile.'
And if he didn't think it was worthwhile back then, what on earth would Dr Geddes-Brown think of the NHS now — with a £108billion annual budget and taxpayers forking out for tattoo removal, breast enlargement, fertility treatment and sex-change operations.
'It was much harder work then and doctors were paid less,' says Leslie. 'GPs these days seem to work much less hard. I don't think today's GPs would see 80 patients in a day, and certainly not for the equivalent salary. GPs now don't have the sort of burden my father had.'
But she points out that every patient got a proper service — 'they all got to see him the same day within five minutes of the appointment'.
Back then, patients were still in awe of the healthcare service that the new NHS offered.
'They'd had to pay when they were growing up,' says Leslie. 'Now it's free, there's an expectation that you should go straight to the doctor as soon as you feel a little ill. If you get a twinge in the wrist, people begin to think it might be wrist cancer.'
If her father sometimes felt frustrated with his life as an NHS GP, he never let his patients know.
'He was pretty outspoken, but never to a patient's face,' says Leslie. 'With malingerers, he put "ergophobia" [fear of work] on their prescriptions. They wouldn't know what it was, and would think it was something horrible. But the pharmacist would know.'
Dr David Geddes-Brown died a distinguished man, much loved by his patients, and an honorary fellow of the British Medical Association.
His daughter recalls: 'He simply enjoyed curing people, getting people well, and the times when babies were born.'
What higher calling could there be? And what a selfless model for today's crisis-hit, bureaucracy-driven and sometimes soulless NHS.
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James Bond: Origin #5
- Publisher: Dynamite
- Writen By: Jeff Parker
- Art By: Bob Q
- Language: English
- Genre: Action/Adventure
- Digital Release Date: January, 16th, 2019
"Rocket Sea" continues, by JEFF PARKER (Suicide Squad, Fantastic Four) and BOB Q (The Lone Ranger). Bond and his squad commander a German bomber plane, to sink a Nazi cruiser. And aside from not knowing how to fly the bomber, or how to drop bombs from it, all should go as planned...→ more


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FeaturesHas Google Given Up on VR?
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This year's annual Google I/O event took place in California last week, with merely a mention of virtual reality (VR). The birthplace of both Google Cardboard (2014) and the Google Daydream View (2016) head-mounted display (HMD) benefited from a heavy focus on augmented reality (AR), but VR was very definitely sidelined. In fact, only one mention of VR was made during the entire event: Tiltbrush.


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After gigs and gigs and gigs of research, the project became too big to deal with. The connections and possibilities just kept mounting. Aeon Timeline saved me. Maybe any timeline or outline could have done the same, but Aeon Timeline did it. This is a map of Los Angeles before there were any freeways. A color version is at my Flicker page. The first Aeon Timeline printout runs actress the top. The collar belonged to my Buddy. I still miss him but watching the tribute I made to him makes me smile again. His loyalty keeps me motivated. The yellow "Researcher" tag is from the California State Archives. I thought it would take months to research the data up in Sacramento, but I got it and studied it at home. They were very helpful and so is the New York Archives now. Bill Gorman especially. Thank you.
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WSU students participate in Cyber Defense Competition at PNNLVictoria Sandmeyer
April 6th and 7th three WSU computer science students and one MIS student participated in a Department of Energy sponsored Cyber Defense Competition at PNNL where they had to protect power grid control systems from hackers. The competition included teams from across the country from three national labs (Argonne and Oak Ridge). Learn more
New facilities for growing programsVictoria Sandmeyer
Within the past year, Washington State University has started new programs in software engineering, data analytics, and electrical engineering to meet the high demand for engineers and computer scientists in the state. Data analytics and software engineering degrees are offered at WSU Everett and at WSU Pullman, and a master's degree in software engineering is available online. An electrical engineering degree program is also underway at Olympic College in Bremerton, and a construction engineering degree began on the WSU Pullman campus.
Two new buildings for programs in Everett and Bremerton have also opened for the growing programs. At WSU Everett, a new 95,000 square-foot building includes classrooms, laboratories, faculty offices, and services for students working toward degrees in science and engineering fields. In it, students will be able to take courses in new programs in high-demand fields, such as software engineering and data analytics, as well as electrical and mechanical engineering. The Boeing Company made a $250,000 gift to equip the building with state-of-the-art technology, and its new fabrication lab was named the Boeing Innovation Studio. The approximately $65 million project was completed in just under two years.
In Bremerton, the former CenCom building has been renovated to house a new electrical engineering program and to provide additional space and resources for the mechanical engineering program. In 2015, the Washington State Legislature provided funding to expand WSU's electrical engineering program to Bremerton in cooperation with Olympic College. In May 2018, the program will celebrate its first graduating class.
The programs continue the state's efforts to educate more engineers and computer scientists to meet industry needs. The new degrees continue to promote significant enrollment growth, and offering them in Everett and Bremerton help remove barriers to education for place-bound and nontraditional students.
WSU answers demand for engineers, and computer scientistsVictoria Sandmeyer
By Tina Hilding, Voiland College of Engineering & Architecture
July 28, 2016
PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University will offer new engineering degrees in the fall to meet the high demand for engineers and computer scientists in the state.
New undergraduate degrees include the first construction engineering degree in the Pacific Northwest, a software engineering degree offered at WSU North Puget Sound at Everett and at Pullman, and an electrical engineering degree offered on the campus of Olympic College in Bremerton, Wash. A new online master's degree in software engineering will also begin.
Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering in Pullman
Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering in Everett
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering in Bremerton
The programs continue the state's efforts to educate more engineers and computer scientists to meet industry needs. In 2011, a Washington Technology Alliance report found that while the state employs the highest percentage of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workers per capita in the nation, it was near the bottom among the states in graduating students in STEM fields.
To meet the demand, WSU's Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture has increased its undergraduate enrollment by 65 percent to more than 4,500 students in the past seven years. The college also started engineering programs at Olympic College and WSU North Puget Sound.
Land-grant mission to address community needs
The new degrees will promote significant enrollment growth, while offering them in Everett and Bremerton will remove the barriers to higher education often encountered by place-bound and non-traditional students.
"An important part of our land-grant mission has been to give our students hands-on, practical skills for the workplace to solve our state and nation's most critical challenges,'' said Candis Claiborn, dean of the Voiland College. "I am pleased that we are working with communities across the state to meet our mandate for more engineers and computer scientists and to better prepare our students for the 21st century workplace.''
Integrated design-build approach in demand
WSU's construction engineering program, which came about with overwhelming support from 150 construction and engineering contractors, will provide education in heavy infrastructure design, building design and construction technology.
Because of significant changes in technology, global markets and economics over the past 15 years, successful construction companies increasingly need both the engineering and managerial expertise that the degree will offer. The design-build method of doing business creates a need for construction engineers in addition to construction managers within the industry.
Affordable, accessible education
The new software and electrical engineering programs will allow students to complete their WSU degrees while taking classes near their homes or online. This addresses two major concerns for the state by providing more affordable and accessible higher education options for students and more engineers and computer scientists who are critically needed for the state's economy.
The software engineering programs will prepare students for developing and maintaining large and complex software with advanced courses in software development, testing and validation, maintenance, security and management and integration – all specialties of high demand among the state's computing and IT industries.
Bremerton's electrical engineering program will train students in the design, research, testing, development and manufacturing of electronic systems and equipment, with specializations in general electrical or power engineering.
The Everett and Bremerton programs will include a combination of local and Pullman-based faculty with courses originating at the local and Pullman locations. Students will follow WSU's semester system and pay WSU tuition.
Tina Hilding, WSU Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture communications, 509-335-5095, email@example.com
WSU computer science and engineering programs get underway across the staterachel.forbes
A student team from WSU North Puget Sound at Everett participated in an engineering competition.
Washington state and industry leaders are calling for more graduates in computer science and engineering as the industry looks for workers highly skilled in technology in the Puget Sound area.
Answering the need, and with state support, WSU is increasing its computer science and electrical engineering programs at both WSU North Puget Sound at Everett and at Olympic College in Bremerton. Starting in 2016, WSU software engineering and data analytics programs will be offered in Everett. Meanwhile, a new electrical engineering degree will be offered at Olympic College.
WSU's North Puget Sound at Everett program has grown to more than 150 students since getting underway in 2010 with a mechanical engineering program. WSU was given management and leadership responsibilities at Everett with a focus on programs in science, technology, engineering and math. An electrical engineering program got started in 2014.
A new 95,000-square-foot building on the campus is under construction and set to open by 2017. The $54.6 million project will include classrooms and laboratories, offices, and a public gathering space. Meanwhile, interest in the programs is growing dramatically. The programs even have fledgling professional student clubs.
The Bremerton program has also grown since its start in 2010 when the state legislature, citing the need for engineers in the region, provided support. Puget Sound Naval Shipyard is a major employer in the area.
Both the Everett and Bremerton programs allow students to complete their WSU degrees while taking classes near their homes. They address two major concerns for the state by providing more affordable and accessible higher education options for students and more engineers and computer scientists who are critically needed for the state's economy.
The programs include a combination of local and Pullman-based faculty with courses originating at the local and Pullman location. Students follow WSU's semester system and pay WSU tuition rates. Several classes are broadcasted via video from Pullman, and students are required to take some laboratory classes on the Pullman campus during the summer. Upon graduation, they will have fulfilled WSU's School of EECS degree requirements.
Schweitzer gift in memory of Professor Al Flechsigrachel.forbes
By Marissa Mararac, Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture
In honor of a fondly remembered professor, Edmund O. Schweitzer III and SEL are making donations of $100,000 each to the Alfred and Nancy Flechsig Fund for Laboratory Improvement at Washington State University.
Alfred (Al) Julius Flechsig Jr. passed away in August. He was a WSU alumnus ('57 BS EE) and a professor of electrical engineering at WSU for 42 years until his retirement in 2003. Flechsig did important research in the areas of power grid protection and was influential in setting up the Western Protective Relay Conference, a highly successful power industry conference.
During those years, he also touched the lives of many students. Several generations of undergraduate and graduate students he mentored went on to gain prominence in the power industry and transform grid protection technology with the use of microprocessors and high bandwidth communications.
"Dr. Flechsig had a profound effect on our community, industry, and universities," said Schweitzer. "His influence on power system protection is worldwide. In the classroom, Al was the kind of professor you'd like your kids to have. His love of learning and discovery was infectious. He led by example, and pushed his students, including me, to be more than we ever imagined."
Upon his retirement, the School of EECS established a fund in the couple's name for laboratory improvements and to ensure that students have up-to-date labs for hands-on activities.
The Flechsig fund supports upgrades of EECS's power protection, power machinery, and circuit laboratories. In the past two years it has also supported the Protective Relay Lab, which provides hands-on experience in power system protection with substation equipment, tools, and engineering practices.
"Much of the work of professors like Al Flechsig reverberates on in the lives of our students long after they have left the classroom," said Behrooz A. Shirazi, Huie-Rogers Chair Professor and Director of the School of EECS. "We're so grateful to Ed Schweitzer and SEL for reminding us of his impact and for passing support along to the next generation of students."
SEL and WSU build strong partnershiprachel.forbes
When Washington's governor came to Pullman along with Senator Maria Cantwell and Representative Cathy McMorris Rogers last year, they made two stops: one at WSU's Energy Systems Innovation Center and the other at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratory (SEL) to learn about smart electric power grid innovation.
Aligned from SEL's earliest days, WSU and SEL have collaborated closely over the years, and their success has brought attention from local, national, and international policy and industry leaders. They have supported each other as they have grown in stature, developing state-of-the-art power grid technologies for the country and training next-generation power industry leaders.
"SEL began in Pullman because of WSU,'' said Edmund O. Schweitzer III, SEL founder and president, who was attracted to WSU's famed power engineering program to study for his Ph.D. "WSU has a recognized electrical engineering program that has educated so many students who have gone on to serve us in all kinds of disciplines, including electric power."
SEL has provided years of support to WSU's programs.
"We've enjoyed a long and close relationship through SEL's support of labs, our research, and scholarship," said Behrooz Shirazi, Huie-Rogers Chair Professor and Director of the School of EECS. "We look forward to continuing this valuable collaboration and supporting each other in future years."
After completing his doctorate at WSU in 1977, Schweitzer came back as a faculty member to WSU. Based on the research that he conducted while a student at WSU, Schweitzer started his business in the basement of his Pullman home. In 1982, he left the university to devote his efforts full time to the company, which is headquartered in Pullman.
Schweitzer invented the first digital protective relay that went on to largely replace the electro-mechanical relays traditionally used in the power industry for monitoring and control of electric power systems. The digital methods he developed and commercialized help to prevent, locate, and limit power outages more quickly and provide detailed reports that help users improve the system. Nearly every utility in North America uses SEL products, which can also be found in industrial and commercial power applications, and Schweitzer's work to develop computer-based protection and control technology has led to safer and more reliable generation, transmission, and distribution for the electric power grid.
SEL is one of the largest employers on the Palouse and contributes significantly to its economy. The company employs nearly 4,000 people and sells products in 148 countries.
Meanwhile, EECS has also seen dramatic growth in the past few years. Research expenditures in the school have more than doubled to $7.6 million in the past six years, with about $4 million of that in power engineering research. Enrollment in EECS has also doubled to more than 1000 undergraduates and nearly 200 graduate students.
EECS anticipated the growing interest in energy and strategically expanded the already strong power engineering program to 12 faculty members. That resulted in doubling the number of undergraduate and graduate students who go to work for the energy industry.
The relationship between WSU and SEL remains close.
In the past two years, SEL has hired more than 10 percent of EECS graduates—more than any other company. More than 200 WSU alumni work at SEL, and the company provides internship learning opportunities for many WSU students. Every year, the company also supports student senior design projects.
"So many of us at SEL enjoy working with WSU students on their design projects, serving on advisory boards, and teaching an occasional class," said Schweitzer. "I love what WSU offers," he added. "It has never lost its roots of a land-grant institution advancing science, agriculture, and technology."
"WSU has a recognized electrical engineering program that has educated so many students who have gone on to serve us in all kinds of disciplines, including electric power."
Schweitzer fondly remembers the support he received at WSU. In the past couple of years, he and his wife, Beatriz, and SEL have provided significant scholarship support in the name of former professors, Clifford Mosher and Al Flechsig, and a street entrance into SEL was named Mosher Drive. Mosher was Schweitzer's WSU academic advisor and introduced him to protective relays and to the university. Schweitzer has said that SEL wouldn't have been created without Mosher's support.
SEL is also very generous with equipment donations, said Anjan Bose, Regents Professor in the School of EECS. A few years ago, for instance, the company provided students with an electric car for a senior design project and had them retrofit it as a solar-powered car. After the student project was completed, the company donated the car back to WSU for use in a renewable energy course.
"The whole idea of an undergraduate lab is to provide hands-on experience, and by having the latest and best equipment from SEL, we can teach them better,'' he said.
The company also supports the work of WSU researchers and graduate students in power engineering in areas such as health monitoring of substations and critical infrastructure protection. SEL supports a graduate student fellowship, which the school uses to attract top graduate students.
"SEL and WSU have a great industry/university relationship," said Schweitzer. "We are both very active in research and are doing things together. We have come up with new models of collaboration and research between university and industry which I believe will be copied by other institutions and companies."
With WSU and SEL working together, both entities are stronger and have been able to build their reputation as worldwide leaders in power systems protection and as a top power engineering program in the country, said Bose.
"We have positioned Washington state as a leader both on the industry/business side as well as on the educational side, and we have strengthened energy infrastructure industries throughout the state," he said.
Providing the chance for everybody to coderachel.forbes
More than a dozen middle school girls joined in this summer's "Learn to Code! Programming for Girls" workshops at WSU Pullman. The weeklong series of workshops was led by computer science graduate students Gina Sprint and Jessamyn Dahmen and aimed to encourage the girls' interest in the field. WSU's Broadening Participation in Computing Club received a grant last year to conduct the workshops from the National Center for Women & Information Technology and Symantec to introduce girls to computer science. In the course, Sprint and Dahmen presented engaging, hands-on programming projects and told the girls about research and career opportunities for women in computer science.
"We want to break down stereotypes, give students creative programming experience, and inspire them," said Dahmen.
The WSU students will work with the Office of Assessment of Teaching and Learning to assess the program's success. They also hope to make it an annual event and provide support in the future for students who want to attend.
Bringing more women to computer sciencerachel.forbes
With continuing industry demand, especially in the state of Washington, WSU's School of EECS is focusing efforts on bringing and keeping more women in computer science. Last year the school, for the first time, became active in the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT), a nonprofit group that is leading efforts to increase women's participation in computing and technical fields.
Students Rae Marks and Joanne Magtiby with Professor Shira Broschat.
Working with NCWIT and its affiliated Aspirations in Computing program, the school will provide awards and scholarship opportunities for high school girls in computer science. The awards program has been shown to be successful in recruiting girls into the field. In part, it simply provides needed encouragement for young women to overcome prejudice and stereotypes that can keep them from pursuing the field. WSU will focus its recruiting efforts for the awards program with Spokane County high schools this year and expand to the Tri-Cities next year. The school also hopes to continue its Programming for Girls workshop.
"We're just beginning this discussion," said Shira Broschat, diversity and curriculum coordinator for the School of EECS and the coordinator for Eastern Washington's affiliation of the Aspirations in Computing program. "I want to keep adding cities each year until I've reached the smaller towns in Eastern Washington. Ideally, I'll end up making it everywhere east of the Cascade Mountains!" Once they get to WSU, the school is also making a concerted effort to keep women in computer science. The school, for instance, is working to provide a gathering room for women computer science students. Having a place set aside for women has been shown to help them stay in male-dominated programs. At the same time, students in the women's WSU chapter of Association of Computing Machinery have begun mentoring all female students in the program. The club is one of two new groups in the school that are tailored specifically for women.
Sakire Arslan Ay
"The goal is to have junior and senior students help the incoming female students adjust to the program and help them to overcome the obstacles that they might experience during their first year," said Sakire Arslan Ay, assistant director of the School of EECS, who is leading retention efforts. "We hope that catching problems early on and providing help to solve them will help retain more females in the program."
The school has also begun working with introductory programming course instructors to make classroom and lab environments more supportive for women by, for instance, bringing female students together in lab sessions. Usually, women drop out from computer science and engineering programs because of the lack of support around them, but not because they can't succeed in classes, said Arslan Ay.
"They often don't feel like they will ever be able to fit in in a male-dominant field," she said. "We are trying to establish this support circle for them, provide opportunities for them to get help, and encourage them to seek for help when they need to."
And, the school is making progress in having its introductory computer science course satisfy university wide requirements by next fall, meaning that a larger and wider variety of students could get exposure to the field.
"We want all of our WSU students to have the opportunity to learn computational thinking and the fundamentals of programming," said Broschat. "It will serve them well in the 21st century, regardless of gender."
The school will be carefully tracking its efforts.
"As a female computer scientist, I have experienced the same problems that today's computer scientists have," said Arslan Ay. "But, we need women in computer science and engineering; I would like to help the new generation of women become aware of their qualities and not let anything stop them.
WSU researchers plan for real-world test of microgrid systemsrachel.forbes
Professor Ali Mehrizi-Sani is studying microgrids to help keep the power on during catastrophic events.
When a natural disaster strikes, the failure of the electric power grid often makes the catastrophe even worse.
WSU researchers were part of a team who received a $1.2 million Department of Energy grant to design a sophisticated circuit breaker for "microgrids," or power grids that are on small, more localized scales. The researchers hope that the work will someday help allow critical infrastructure, such as hospitals and police stations, to keep running on their own tiny electric power grid during a massive power failure.
"The microgrid exists to provide power separate from the main grid. In the event that the main grid goes down, the microgrid will detect something is wrong and disconnect," said Ali Mehrizi-Sani, the lead researcher on the project and assistant professor in the School of EECS in the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture.
In a power failure situation, a microgrid sensor will detect a problem with voltage on the power grid, which might be anything from a tree bringing down a single power line to a major city-wide outage.
Within milliseconds, the sensor will send a command to the circuit breaker switches to disconnect the microgrid from the main system. While such switches already exist, they are currently too slow to operate at the high voltage levels experienced in this type of situation—which is more than 20 kilovolts, Mehrizi-Sani said. The researchers are working to use an amplifier to increase the impedance, a measure of resistance to current flow, to bring down the current to a level that existing switches can handle quickly.
They hope to test a prototype system at a naval shipyard in Pennsylvania in the next two years.
Putting the technology to use in such a setting presents huge challenges, Mehrizi-Sani said. "It's not a research lab," he said. "We will test everything extremely rigorously."
Eventually, the researchers hope to create multi-microgrid systems that would be much harder to damage in a disaster than the traditional power grid. Because they would be decentralized, the systems could work independently of each other in a disaster.