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The US EPA's Water Supply and Water Resources Division has partnered with the consulting firm of CDM to redevelop and modernize the Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) software. SWMM's computational engine has been completely rewritten using an object-based approach. Most existing modeling features have been kept and several new ones added. Special efforts were made to enhance the numerical stability of SWMM's dynamic wave flow routing routine. A rigorous Quality Assurance program was pursued to insure that results from the new SWMM matched those of the old SWMM or that reasons for any differences were justified. In addition, a graphical user interface was added to SWMM. It allows users to graphically edit system elements on a visual map of the drainage area and to view simulation results in a variety of formats such as time series plots and tables, profile plots, scatter plots, histograms, and statistical frequency tables. The revamped SWMM remains as public domain software and can be obtained from http://www.epa.gov/ednnrmrl/swmm.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: inter-ideograph; text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">A decade of corporate scandals has highlighted a lack of ethical decision making skills among business leaders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Reasons for this deficiency vary from an absence of ethical teaching in the home to a failure of American corporate culture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>In 2002, the situation reached a critical point with scandals such as Enron and Tyco forcing a Congressional response in the form of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Questions concerning corporate leaders&rsquo; ability to act ethically again resurfaced in the wake of the recent financial collapse of giants such as AIG and Citigroup, creating a debate over what lessons were learned from the Sarbanes- Oxley experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>MBA curriculums are major stakeholders in this debate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>MBA programs are venues where the majority of our business leaders learn the critical skills needed to succeed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>The purpose of this study was to assess the treatment of ethics in core MBA curriculums in Ohio in response to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>The study determined that MBA programs in Ohio failed to adjust their core curriculums in response to the new demand for increased ethics instruction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Further, it determined that private and public institutions reacted to the legislation in a similar manner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>It also revealed that private and public institutions traditionally approach ethics instruction differently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span></p>

This study examines the impact of team teaching on student learning outcomes and student satisfaction in the context of three undergraduate business capstone courses. Students in three undergraduate business capstone course sections were selected for the study. One section of the capstone course was taught using a team delivery model and the other two sections were taught by a single faculty member. The study found that students GPA had a significant correlation with their performance in the team taught course. The data suggests that students with a GPA of less than 3.28 in the team taught course, performed higher than would be expected. Moreover their individual performance scores appeared to be higher than the regression line would predict. Students in the team taught course also were satisfied with the team teaching method.

Abstract. In this paper we describe a simulation platform that supports studies on the impact of crime on urban mobility. We present an example of how this can be achieved by seeking to understand the effect, on the transport system, if users of this system decide to choose optimal routes of time between origins and destinations that normally follow. Based on real data from a large Brazilian metropolis, we found that the percentage of users who follow this policy is small. Most prefer to follow less efficient routes by making bus exchanges at terminals. This can be understood as an indication that the users of the transport system privilege the security factor.