Undergraduate Catalog 2007-2008
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Aloha A VanCamp [Email]
Associate Professor of Social Work, teaches social work practice and human behavior with a multicultural perspective. She has extensive background in mental health. Her research interests and professional presentations deal with portfolio-based assessment models, assessment of critical thinking and issues related to academic success of African American women in higher education. She has previously served as dean of the UDM College of Education and Human Services, chair of Mercy College's Social Work Program and UDM's Social Work Department. Van Camp holds a B.A. from Michigan State University and a M.S.W. from Wayne State University. She joined the University in 1990.

Stephen P Vogel [Email]
Dean of the School of Architecture and Professor of Architecture, teaches design and Introduction to Architecture. Vogel is a licensed architect with extensive experience in urban design, adaptive reuse, historic rehabilitation and multi-family, mixed income housing communities. He is past president of the American Institute of Architects, Detroit Chapter and Michigan Chapter. He was inducted into the College of Fellows of the AIA in 1994 and received the AIA Detroit Gold Medal in 1996. Vogel holds the B.Arch and M.Arch degrees from the University of Detroit. He returned to the University as Dean in 1993.

Eswara P Venugopal [Email]
Associate Professor of Physics, teaches general physics courses and laboratories for engineering, life science and architecture students. He has published papers in theoretical atomic and particle physics. His recent research deals with chiral anomalies in photon-hadron interactions. He holds a M.Sc. (tech) degree in Computer Science from the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, India, a M.S. in Physics from Utah State University, and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He joined the University in 1998.

Christiaan J VandenBroek [Email]
Director, Manufacturing Engineering Program, directs the Manufacturing Engineering Program at the UDM campus, on site at Ford Motor Company and at Focus:HOPE. A major portion of Vanden Broek's responsibilities is the administraiton of the degree program at Focus:HOPE, which is a program offering city residents the opportunity to obtain a Bachelor of Manufacturing Engineering degree while working in a state-of-the-art manufacturing environment. Vanden Broek holds a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan. He has built his career around the development of manufacturing process and has accumulated a wide industrial experience in research, engineering, and executive management. Research work at the University of Michigan centered on the inspection of nuclear reactor pressure vessels. There he developed an advanced, "synthetic aperture" technique for enhanced visualization of weld flaws with ultrasound. At Federal Mogul, he pioneered new methods in engine bearing production and inspection. More recently he has served as the director of automation and technology at IBP, which is the world's largest processor of pork and beef. Advanced automation equipment he researched and installed included automatic conveyor belt cleaning systems, robots for the removal of side ribs from pork bellies, and vision systems for the grading of beef. He joined the university in 2004.

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