<p>From the student newspaper, rumblings about leadership style, choice of programs. Dean there only a year.</p>
<p>[Student</a> Life](<a href=“http://media.www.studlife.com/media/paper337/sections/20071108News.html]Student”>http://media.www.studlife.com/media/paper337/sections/20071108News.html)</p>
<p>Indicates why fewer privates are big in engineering–it’s costly to the school to do it well.</p>
<p>I don’t know any of the details here, but when my son attended “engineering day” for prospective applicants, one of the two professors who gave an interesting and detailed account of his research, and who put out a call for students interested in working with him, was an aerospace engineering professor. Since his work related rather well to my son’s main ec in h.s., son wrote his merit scholarship application with references to this fellow’s work and to aerospace research.</p>
<p>In the spring, son got a letter of apology from this Dean stating that they had decided to eliminate the aerospace major. Seemed like a rather precipitate decision, given the choice of “engineering day” presentations. (Son actually was interested in aerospace only insofar as it could be a cs application, so not the end of the world personally for him. He went elsewhere anyway.)</p>