NASA reforms will never, ever succeed

"Bill Clark" wrote in message
om...
I may be a skeptic - having been expelled from UT Austin's Aerospace
Engineering a semester short of my Ph.D for having found a faster,
safer, more efficient Earth to Mars trajectory

I would bet, oh, about a trillion, billion, quadrillion dollars that this
didn't happen as described above.

I have submitted the attached statement to my Texas state Senator and
Representative, the Chancellor, President and Board of Regents at UT
Austin, and I thought you might be interested in reviewing the case.

Regards,

Bill Clark

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Senator Barrientos,

I am 46 years old and have been a licensed Professional Engineer in
half a dozen different disciplines. I got my BS from UT Austin in
1978, and an MS from UT Austin in 2001.

I was a semester short of a Ph.D in Aerospace Engineering at UT Austin
- my project was a computer model of the Earth to Mars trajectory,
with applications for the missile defense targeting system - and I was
expelled for non-academic reasons a semester short of matriculating
with a Ph.D. I appealed the dismissal through the whole UT
bureaucracy for two solid years, to no avail.

A few weeks ago I submitted a statement to the Texas Board of
Professional Engineers giving evidence and documentation of several
serious offenses done by the ASE Department. They include slander,
retaliation, misrepresentation, and theft of services. The
documentation I submitted to the PE Board included letters from
esteemed professors admitting to all these offenses in their own
words.

I received a letter back from the PE Board yesterday stating that the
things I have described are "...beyond their jurisdiction because they
do not involve the practice of engineering."

As a lifelong engineer, a published author, and a third generation
engineer; I find this ruling by the Board to be offensive. What can
be more the practice of engineering than the teaching of it? When I
was a consulting engineer most of my day was devoted to training
subordinates, educating clients, and sharing my experience and
knowledge with anybody and everybody. To separate this from the
"practice of engineering" is to narrow the definition of engineering
to little more than the equivalent of a computer algorithm.

The most disturbing part to me is that the professors at the
University - all of whom are licensed PE's - know they are beyond the
law, and have no guilt for breaking every rule in the book. I think
the Texas Legislature should consider the particulars of my case, and
contemplate the idea of enforcing some kind of ethical, moral, and
humanistic standards upon those who teach engineering to furure P.E.'s
and, in their comportment in the classroom, set the standard of
behavior for all the impressionable students in their realm of
influence.

Regards,

Bill Clark

XC: P.E. Board
XC: Lee Smith, UT VP for Legal Affairs

"John Krempasky" wrote in message ...
"Bill Clark" wrote in message
om...
I may be a skeptic - having been expelled from UT Austin's Aerospace
Engineering a semester short of my Ph.D for having found a faster,
safer, more efficient Earth to Mars trajectory

I would bet, oh, about a trillion, billion, quadrillion dollars that this
didn't happen as described above.

I'll take you up on that bet. Consider the following:

I refer you to the four editions of the popular book "The Relaxation
and Stress Reduction Workbook" for the documentation you seek on the
"orgasmic reconditioning" practice. As for the issue of
homosexuality, it's easy to search the literature from say fifteen
years ago, then compare it to the modern day and to see that modern
day psychologists consider this method to be too stressful,
homosexuality irreversible - and their decision irreversible.

You can ignore this issue all you like, but the bottom line is this:
evidently something has happened in the last fifteen years that has
diminished the stress coping capacity of ALL people everywhere. It is
not hard to qualify this statement: the Gulf War syndrome was a
stress disorder, never before experienced by soldiers. AIDS is
essentially a stress disorder, whereby the immune system is weakened.
The need for Viagra is a clear signal that fundamental physiological
processes of the human body are breaking down.

All of these conditions, of course, have chemical solutions. All I
was saying is that modern advertising is so powerful and the marketing
budget of the pharmaceutical companies is so limitless, that they are
driving all people into a chemical dependency and a chemical solution
for basic biological processes. Other than my scrawling in the
newsgroups, there is no opposition anywhere to this trend - thus, it
is not hard to extrapolate the trend, to say what I have said. I'm
sorry if that offends you, but if you were to study up on the issues I
think you would see more than an iota of truth in my statements.

I did not say that my theory was correct. I only stated that it fits
the facts better than any other, and implied that the political
implications are too stressful for psychiatrists to consider the
notion. That being the case, I suppose humanity will ultimately be a
buch of spineless quadrupeds cringing in the darkess, hiding from the
truth and shivering in the shadows afraid to move forward. I think
this whole NASA scenario pretty well proves all of that, without any
further ado.

Ignorance is bliss - ignore it while you still have some accessible
gray matter.

Bill Clark