Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

As promised, I will take a break today from talking about a certain student, although I do have at least one more anecdote to relate which will have to wait another day.

Right now I will talk about one of the contacted exhibitors for Engineering Week, which, for one reason or another, showed their lack of professionalism in canceling at the last minute. What makes it worse is that this is a former director of the school of engineering I’m talking about, so what kind of message is he sending the students with his behavior?

First off, this is a topic I’m not sure I want to discuss in the student accessible edition, although of course the engineering majors have their own opinions about the matter.

The background of Dr. Ed is that he is originally from another campus in the district, and was “shared” with our school for one year with the intention of boosting the overall standing of engineering for all schools with our name.

The administrators of Dr. Ed’s original school did not see it that way, but considered us as competition, with the potential to take students away from them.

So with this goal in mind they didn’t want to liberalize resources (equipment, books, manuals and software) that would make us look even in the eyes of prospective enrollees.

That’s why at the end of one year his “shared” status was revoked, even though our acting dean, from the same campus, is still being allowed to be shared by the college of computer studies up to this day, and spends half the week in either campus.

Dr. Ed was also the originator of the robotics program, and was the one who bought the three robot soccer fields for us and the components for the soccer robots.

He also had one robot that he has always featured since three years ago that had six insect legs connected by a long cable to its human controlled command center.

Anyway, the text to the student organizer of Engineering Week was that they had another event to go to so they couldn’t show up Wednesday, but they could be picked up for Friday, so what time should they expect the vehicle.

It was also the first time the organizers learned about having to provide transport.

Session 1567 assumed too much. Class dismissed.