Norris Bud Green, M.Sc.

Acting Department Head

Industrial Engineering Department

New Mexico State University

Las Cruces, NM 80003

Dear Professor Green:

Thank you for your kind reply received yesterday after Spring Break. It was encouraging to note that you had received my letter of March 23, 1999 as well as the Master's transcripts forwarded to your attention.

You are correct in noting that, as your Departmental requirements are currently structured, I have not completed, nor was it ever my intention to do so, the three or four years of calculus, probability or differential equations, constituting essentially an undergraduate MINOR in mathematics, as recommended for graduate admission to the College of Engineering. However, in defense of my initial inquiry, I would like to submit the following germane observations which you may wish to submit to the Dean for further consideration.

If I inquired about the MSc in Industrial Engineering Management at NMSU, with my academic background in French, Counseling Psychology and Organizational Management, plus 12 years in business and industry, it was because:

Kindly understand that I am not casting, in any sense of the term, aspersions on the current composition of your highly reputed corps of dedicated and brilliant graduate students enrolled in this program. Nor am I suggesting that, for me alone, admission requirements be modified.

I would like to suggest, however, that -- as is occurring at other institutions -- a "fresh look" at the INTERDISCIPLINARY nature of your program be placed on your Departmental Agenda, and that candidates likely to succeed with respect to ALL of the demanding managerial and technical criteria in modern corporate affairs (including critically important skills in Writing, Languages, and Psychology) be accepted into your program, their ability or inability to calculate the orbital trajectory of the planet PLUTO, assuming it still is a planet, notwithstanding.

In order to stimulate discussion of this matter within the greater academic community, our correspondence, which can hardly be considered confidential emanating from a State institution, will be placed on-line at: "/ind-mgt.htm" in the days ahead.

I assume that it is unlikely we will be establishing a date on which to meet as initially anticipated.

transnational@fcmail.com

Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999

10:14:36 -0700

From: Bud Green <budgreen@nmsu.edu>

To: ghoul@m-net.arbornet.org

Subject: NMSU MSIE Program

Dear Mr. Madsen:

Thank you for your letter and e-mail concerning the MSIE Program. The Program is a Master of Science, Industrial Engineering Degree, with an option in Engineering Management. Based on the information you provided, you meet the Graduate School admission requirements. The GRE is not required by the I E Department.

The I E Department prerequisites are:

The transcripts provided do not indicate your math background.

Graduate students apply for assistantships after acceptance to the program. The I E Department is small and has very few assistantship positions.

Please call me and we can set an appointment after 5 April to discuss your application and program.

Norris B. Green

Asst. Prof.

IE and EESI

Acting Department Head

505.646.4631/4923

budgreen@nmsu.edu

Professor Norris B. Green, Acting Department Chair

Industrial Engineering Department / College of Engineering

NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY

Box 30001 / MSC4230

Las Cruces, NM 88003

RE: Master of Science - Engineering Management

Dear Professor Green:

Your highly reputed Engineering Management M.Sc. Program has recently come to my attention through academic acquaintances at both NMSU and UTEP. Following up on their recommendations, I sought information at your office and have talked briefly with Professor Staffeldt who seemed to confirm that I was indeed qualified for entrance to your 18 to 24 month, 36-credit course of studies in Industrial Management.

I currently hold a Master's Degree in Counseling and Psychotherapy, with a 3.74 GPA, from Notre Dame College in New Hampshire, and a Bachelor's with Honors in French, GPA 87.3%, from Notre Dame University in British Columbia, with further graduate study, in a variety of disciplines, at the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton), Colorado College (Colorado Springs), and New Mexico State University (Las Cruces).

My professional accomplishments include more than seven years within multinational industrial corporations, where I served as Chief Translator (French-English), with related responsibilities in Labor Mediation, International Finance, Public Relations, and Industrial Management, specifically on Dravo Corporation's 70 Million Dollar El Outaya Salt Refinery Project in Algeria, and on Morrison-Knudsen International's 1.1 Billion Dollar Transmission Line Project in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in the 1980s. For several years, I served as Night Manager for a Harvard-Affiliated 350 bed pediatric hospital, Children's Hospital Medical Center, in Boston. Importantly, I have also taught, with full certification, at the secondary level in the public schools of New Hampshire.

During the last ten years, I have been engaged in professional research in a number of settings, ranging from Quebec City, Quebec to Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, and from Miami, Florida to San Diego, California. Much of my sometimes controversial research, in fact over 900 pages, has been published on-line under my firm's name, Transnational Research Associates. In past years, I researched, wrote and published industrial manuals, construction reports and contractual documents, in French and English, for Dravo and Morrison-Knudsen International.

I am pleased to attach unofficial transcripts of my graduate and undergraduate work for your initial inspection. We will proceed with review of the official documents and of Notre Dame College's Catalogue when they are available in the next week or two. At that time, we can schedule an appointment during which we may more thoroughly discuss the conditions and terms of my potential admission to your program.

However, I would like to provide you with my preliminary estimate of how my program may be structured, based on my brief conversation with Dr. Staffeldt, and on review of your Departmental Literature. Of course, we may find it necessary to proceed somewhat differently, as your requirements are further clarified at the time of our interview.

Projected Program for my Master's in Industrial Management

I. Departmental Coursework:

II. Transfer Credit: Six Credits (Notre Dame College Graduate Statistics Courses)

III. College of Business Administration and Economics:

[Apply One Previously Earned Graduate Credit in Int'l Mgt from NMSU]

I would like to point out, as well, that because I already hold a Graduate Degree, with a 3.74 GPA, in an arguably related discipline (Counseling includes course work in Organizational Management, for example), and have taken the Miller Analogies Test (MAT), scoring in the 98th percentile, most graduate schools would waive the GRE or GMAT admission requirement, if any.

And lastly, but certainly not least importantly, Professor Green, my graduate student friends point out that your department is prepared to offer fellowships or assistantships to its Master's students. This would entail, as I understand it, waiving of tuition charges and provision of living expenses, in exchange for teaching one or two courses. I would be prepared to teach undergraduate courses in Leadership, for example, Organizational Management or Multinational Project Administration. In the course of my overseas duties, I have translated for Heads of State, ambassadors and distinguished personalities, and have worked closely with industrial project administrators for a number of years.

For further information, and as time permits, you may also refer to my Main Web Site and to my bilingual résumé, both of which appear at the links indicated below.

In the interim, I look forward to your reply with enthusiasm, and extend best wishes for every continued success with your well-regarded programs and courses.

E-Mail: ghoul@m-net.arbornet.org

OR mioche@hotmail.com

ENCLOSURES: 2 Unofficial Transcripts

Principal Web Site: Transnational Research Associates

Bilingual Curriculum Vitae: Resume of Art Madsen