The UCF Report, Vol. 02 No. 09, October 10, 1979

              University of Central Florida
Orlando, Florida 32816
Wednesday, October 10, 1979
Volume 2, Number 9
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The UCF Report
News and Announcements for the Faculty and Staff of the University of Central Florida
UCF's 260-acre Reseach Park
slated for opening by June, 1982
Knight Notes
The Brothers of Pi Kappa
Alpha Fraternity are sponsoring
a Car Wash this Saturday to
benefit Project Diversion.
This L.E.A.A. grant, housed
in the College of Extended
Studies, must raise $1,000
to continue to serve
delinquent youth in the
Central Florida area. The
car wash will be held at
Burger King, 961 Lee Road,
Orlando, from 10 a.m. to
2 p.m.
The Army ROTC, in commemoration of both their own
and the football teams' first
year at UCF, presented
President Colbourn, Dean Jack
Rollins, Coaches Don Jonas and
Bernie Barbour, as well
as all 83 football players,
with "Fighting Knights' Dog
Tags," September 27.
Beginning with Colbourn,
who was No. 1, each player
received their individual
jersey numbers and statistics
on the tags.
UCF's radio station, WFTU,
has had its call letters
changed to WUCF.
Summer quarter's distinction awards for building
service employees who maintained the highest attendance
average (96.81 percent) go to:
Christina Mariotti, Mary
LeRoux, Herbert Frazier,
Rebecca Dindlebeck, Fran
Durham, Tomislav Kovac and
Lee Boni.  They represent the
Library, Computer Center and
HFA buildings.
by LINDA J. BOYETTE
With Orlando and surrounding Central
Florida cities and towns growing by
leaps and bounds, the demand for UCF to
become an integral part of that growth
intensifies each day.  The approval by
the Board of Regents last January for
development of a 260-acre campus
research park represents a significant
step in meeting this demand.
The Central Florida Research Park,
as envisioned, will provide exchange
and development of research between
UCF's colleges and the private research-
oriented firms to be located in the
park.  An added plus is the opportunity
for students to work with the firms to
obtain "hands on" experience in
environmental research, computer
science and health-related sciences.
The park is.expected to open in
June 1982.
Private investors have indicated a
willingness to invest an initial $50,000
toward engineering and architectural
planning expenses for the park.  Once
a master plan is drawn up to determine
such matters as drainage, and the
location of facilities and utilities,
the investors and research-oriented
firms will be contacted to find those
interested in either establishing
residence in the park or leasing office
space.  All firms in the project will
lease the property from the state.
Industries wishing to locate in the
park must be either research or
technically oriented or must provide a
necessary service to other park tenants
and/or the University community.  Any
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UNIVERSITY    OF      CENTRAL    FLORIDA
MAITH PLAN
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RESEARCH PARK SITE - The shaded area in the upper quadrant of this
campus map indicates the location designated for the 260-acre Central Florida
Research Park. A/lowing one year for planning and one year for construction,
this park should be opened by June 1982.
Chemist's contracts =
winning formula
UNDER PRESSURE - The solution,
not grad student Pat McKinley, whose
experiment comes under the watchful eye
eyes of Dr. Guy Mattson, (left) and Dr.
Chris Clausen, who introduced their
students to the intracacies of the
research contract as an added attraction
to the M.S. in industrial chemistry.
Guy Mattson loves to put out
contracts for the Company. His rate of
success speaks for itself. Over the past
several years, he's .managed to corral
a sizeable number of candidates who in
turn have given their all.
Mattson, a lanky Ph.D. with a
gregarious manner, has a number of
disguises. One is the chairman of
the chemistry department. Another is
"the father" of an ingenious graduate
program in industrial chemistry. Both
fail to hide the inventiveness that
hatched UCF's Corporate Cooperator
program, created to introduce students
to the facts of professional life.
Mattson, together with fellow
chemist Dr. Chris Clausen, has
formulated a simple, yet effective way
of bridging the gap between campus and
company. By spelling out the terms
and conditions of each contract in
language that's understandable
particularly to students who'll face
the same conditions as indnsii ml
chemists — the two professors have done
a real service. In fact, says the
latest issue of Chemtech magazine,
"It's the basis for their highly
successful M.S. in Industrial
Chemistry."
The contract is a step-by-step
agreement for a continuing cooperative
research arrangement between UCF and
"the Company" which hires the
faculty-student research team.
By this simple means, Mattson and
Clausen have nurtured a healthy respect
for the UCF graduate program among
industrial chemists and their firms.
They also have managed to attract the
kind of outside support that pays
the freight for an expensive bit
of higher education.
To quote again from Chemtech:
"Who says that academia and industry
can't work together. . . : At any
rate, 'not so' at the University of
Central Florida."
It's a winning formula.