A new social compact: how university engagement can fuel innovation

Richard K. Lester feels that colleges and universities, because they are immobile, can replace local institutions whose leadership has been eroded by globalization. However, university attempts to improve the regional economy must be well-planned. North Dakota clearly illustrates benefits of a strategic approach to university and college interaction with the economy. This paper examines the degree to which their Higher Education Roundtable fits into the specific model of engagement proposed by Lester. Much of the specificity of the North Dakota plan came in the implementation, which has been guided by specific accountability measures. Because such measures can not only reflect priorities but also set them, this paper evaluates the new initiatives in North Dakota with an independent set of metrics that assess university efforts to foster innovation. While the two sets of metrics are largely compatible, North Dakota University System does not evaluate qualitative goals throughout the university system. This paper argues that qualitative outputs from higher education are often under reported in assessments of economic and social benefits attributed to universities and colleges.Education, Higher - Economic aspects

Proper and unit tolerance graphs

We answer a question of Golumbic, Monma and Trotter by constructing proper tolerance graphs that are not unit tolerance graphs. An infinite family of graphs that are minimal in this respect is specified

Status reports to the Papermaking Project Advisory Committee, March 23, 1998

"March 23, 1998."Fundamentals of drying: status report for project F001 / David I. Orloff ... [et al.] ; Delamination buckling and spalling of plasma sprayed thermal barrier coating for impulse drying rolls / Tim Patterson and David I. Orloff ; Fundamentals of web heating: status report for project F002 / Timothy F. Patterson ... [et al.] ; Fundamentals of coating systems: status report for project F003 / Cyrus K. Aidun ; Approach flow systems: status report for project F004 / Xiaodong Wang, Frederick Bloom, Zhigang Feng ; Flow induced oscillations of submerged and inclined concentric pipes with different lengths / Xiaodong Wang and Frederick Bloom ; Single jet mixing at arbitrary angle in turbulent tube flow / Zhigang Feng, Xiaodong Wang, Larry J. Forney ; Fundamentals of headbox and forming hydrodynamics: status report for project F005 / Cyrus K. Aidun, Paul McKay, Xiao-Liang Ye -- Slide Material