Physics program is where to find SEMO engineers

To the editor:

Regarding the Jan. 12 story about the T-shirt cannon: The two students featured in the story were identified as "mechanical engineering students." Later, the story said they and about 10 other "engineering students" worked on this project. A little later in the story, the faculty adviser of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers was identified as "an engineering professor."

Unfortunately, none of those identifiers are correct. The School of Polytechnic Studies and the Department of Industrial and Engineering Technology have engineering technology programs, faculty and students.

The Department of Physics and Engineering Physics administers the only engineering programs at Southeast Missouri State University. We are the engineering experts on campus, and we were shocked and dismayed by this misrepresentation of engineering students and professors in the news media.

We realize that the factual errors were simply the result of incorrect information. However, in the future whenever the word "engineering" is used regarding programs, students, faculty of activities at the university, we would ask that you determine if it is really engineering, which resides in the Department of Physics and Physics Engineering, or engineering technology, which resides in the Department of Industrial and Engineering Technology.

DR. DAVID K. PROBST

Chairperson

Department of Physics and Engineering Physics

Southeast Missouri State University

Cape Girardeau