Subject: for your list Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 11:42:34 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) From: "Nicholas J. Kuhn" In the spirit of Steve Wilson's query of last year... I have a couple of questions for readers of this list who teach at American universities with Engineering Schools. At your school, are basic mathematics courses (calculus, lin algebra, diff equ, prob and stats) for engineering students taught by the math dept, Eschool, or some mix? Are adjuncts heavily used? As you might guess, my reason for wondering is related to our situation here at the University of Virginia, where, even though our undergraduate programs typically make us the "top ranked public university" in magazine rankings, and we have lots of smart students, the Engineering School maintains its historical claim that these math courses can adequately be taught by people with no particular mathematics training, etc., etc., and indeed, that this is how is should be done. So I am interested in collecting info about the situation "out there". I expect U VA is not unique with such conflicts. Most useful to me will be answers from people at big research universities. And if you happen to be, say, a chairman at a big midwest university, a dean of technology at a large east coast school, a prof at Stanford or MIT, etc., a short email complete with your title would be great. Please send answers to me at njk4x@virginia.edu. Thanks. Nick Kuhn