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Online Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering
INSTITUTION INFORMATION Institutional Accreditation: Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools Program Accreditation: Southern
Association of College and Schools Institutional Membership(s): SOC
Program Membership(s): SOCAD . PROGRAM DETAILS Program Information:
Bachelor of Science - Bachelor's Enrollment: 20 seats total Application
Deadline: Open How Students and Instructors Communicate: E-mail, Voice,
Video, Fax Subject: Engineering METHOD OF COURSE INSTRUCTION
- The program is delivered primarily through
videotape
Supplemental delivery formats include
videotape
DESCRIPTION
- Students will take lower-level prerequisite courses at TSUD,
Wallace or ESJC; -- pre-engineering courses at TSUD; and then take
engineering courses from UA via QUEST. A mobile, completely equipped
UA engineering laboratory will be stationed on the TSUD campus where
students will take laboratory classes and conduct other hands-on
activities. The arrangement, combining distance learning with a
mobile engineering lab, is believed to be the nation's only such
means of earning a bachelor of science degree in engineering.
Plans are to eventually use the World Wide Web and Intercampus
Interactive Telecommunication Systems (IITS) for the distance
education program. The Web will be used to deliver lectures,
assignments, supplementary materials, and to allow teacher-student
communication. In IITS, already scheduled for installation at TSUD,
a network of conference rooms is established around the state for
live connections to the UA campus. This will allow groups of
students in Dothan to confer with students and faculty in Tuscaloosa
and to work on projects or assignments outside of class.
SPECIAL ENROLLMENT ISSUES
- none
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelors degree, 3.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale
ACCESS TO LEARNING RESOURCES
- Order books directly from the Bookstore (1-800-825-6802).
Library access available through the University of Alabama, (205)
348-6047.
ACCESS TO FINANCIAL AID RESOURCES
- Contact the Financial Aid office by visiting our Web site or by
emailing the office at financialaid@ua.edu. Detailed scholarship and
financial aid information is available on the web site. The Graduate
School Internet Link to Graduate Student Financial Opportunities is
a file of graduate fellowships and jobs compiled to provide help in
locating graduate fellowships, research opportunities, grants,
independent project funding and other sources of funding for
graduate students. Academic Common Market/Electronic Campus status
has been extended to distance learning programs. Students accepted
into the program from those states will pay the in-state tuition
rate. Prospective students should contact their state's common
market coordinator. This list can be viewed online.
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