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University Senate Approves Three Degrees
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FEBRUARY 19, 2004 -- Michigan Tech's University Senate gave the go-ahead Feb. 11 to three new graduate degree programs, a PhD in industrial heritage and archaeology and two masters of engineering degrees—one in civil engineering and one in environmental engineering..
The proposals now go to the university's Board of Control for action.
Building on its MS in Industrial Archeology and History, the Department of Social Sciences is proposing a doctoral degree in industrial heritage and archeology.
The department has received a number of inquiries from students interested in a PhD program, and nine MS students have entered doctoral programs at other universities, department chair Bruce Seely said. However, this would be the only PhD program of its kind in the nation.
He noted that, unlike most graduate programs in social sciences, a majority of the master’s students in the industrial archeology program are fully supported by outside funding, and nearly 80 percent receive some type of external support. Funding has come from research grants to investigate sites such as the West Point Foundry, in New York, and other industrial sites in Norway and Alaska.
Two spinoffs of the Master of Engineering program, an ME in Civil Engineering and an ME in Environmental Engineering, also got the senate’s nod.
The programs would give students advanced education in their fields without the research requirements usually involved in an MS degree. Neither program involves additional expenditures.
The senate also approved a minor in polymer science and engineering, to be based in the chemical engineering department.
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