Wednesday, Jan. 15, 1964 University Daily Kansan
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Little Known Center Agency of Research
Beyond Edgehill Road, west across Iowa Street, and on the ridge of a hill in the middle of a field stands a brick structure which few people know exists. The building is named the Center for Research Inc., Engineering Science Division.
The center, known as CRES, acts as an agency for the School of Engineering, in administering research contracts, said Richard K. Moore, professor of electrical engineering and a member of CRES.
Prof. Moore said the role of the CRES is to engage in some teaching, encourage interest in research among other professors, and conduct research with the aid of graduate students.
Prof. Moore said the Center contracted research from private industry and government.
the operation of CRES is separate from the University and the state and is partially supported by private donations.
In addition to its administrative role, part of the group's research concerns its Electromagnetic Sensing Laboratory.
ing Laboratory. Prof. Moore said in the lab, they are concerned with the ways of sensing various aspects of environment acoustically (with ultra-sonic sound) and electrically.
Work is done in the lab with the patterns radar makes when bounced from rough surfaces. Prof. Moore said that scientists have studied the patterns made by radio waves when they are bounced off the moon, about 240,000 miles from the earth. The patterns made by radar waves have also been studied for distances of several hundred thousand feet, as when radar waves are emitted from equipment aboard an airplane, bounced off the earth, and returned to the plane.
In the basement of the CRES building are two water tanks. Within one of these tanks is a transmitter, or a transducer, and a receiver which is attached to an oscilloscope. The transducer converts the electrical impulses it receives into ultra-sonic waves. The receiver transmits the signal it receives back into a pattern on the osilloscope, and these pictures are photographed. These patterns are recorded with the receiver at different angles so that all different pattern types can be observed.
Bowen Parkins, Lawrence graduate student, who is working in the CRES lab said. "We are studying the problem of how radar waves are reflected from natural surfaces like the earth, by investigating the problem of how acoustical waves are reflected from a similar surface."
Prof. Moore said one graduate student who is doing research work in the lab, Adrian Fung, Hong Kong, has developed an excellent theory that explains how radar reflects from surfaces the measurement of received signals.
Prof. Moore also said work is being done in interpreting signals received on tape transmitted from the satellite Alouette. The tapes were received from Canada, and the recorded signals are concerned with the study of the properties of the ionosphere.
Announces KU Budget Request
The following is the breakdown of the $20.6 million KU budget approved by Gov. John Anderson in his address to a joint session of the Kansas House and Senate today:
- general administration $402,079
* general expenses $69,051
- student welfare and service
$666.271
- resident instruction and related activities $9.2 million
- summer sessions $447,965
    +$85,000
- library services $985.892
- plant operation $2.1 million
- organized research $3.5 million
- extension and public service
$1.1 million
- student aid $430,000
● auxiliary expenses: dormitories
$2.8 million
$21,000
• married student housing $196,-598
98 health service $435,199
● student enterprises and other activities $220,438
total $20.6 million
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Bleary-Eyed Students Face Final Week
By Carol Lathrop Knupp
See the pale, bleary-eyed girl.
See the unshaven, haggard-looking boy.
They are typical KU students conditioning themselves for the arrival of Jan. 20 which is the first day of the final examination week deal.
They are evidence that Jan. 20 is coming too fast. The day will arrive before term papers are finished, final projects turned in, and assigned chapters are read.
SEE THE STUDENTS desk cluttered with cigarette butts, pieces of finger nail, and scraps of letters beginning. "Dear Mom and Dad."
See the student's dresser crowded with bottles of pep pills, boxes of tranquilizers, jars of instant coffee, and three alarm clocks.
SEE THE EMPTY chairs around the empty tables in the empty Hawks Nest.
See the bridge tables in the dark corners, the dark television sets, and the dark bowling alleys.
They are dim reminders of a past that was not concerned with Jan. 20 or final week.
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SEE THE ELBOW-to-elbow students. They are in a crowded library. Libraries are for nervous hair-twisters, irritable gum-chompers, and late learners.
See the books.
They are dust-free books, newly- opened books, and required-reading books.
Books contain information. Information will be used Jan. 20. This will be the beginning of the end of final week.
See the two-handed clock. Its hands move faster and faster. See the student watch the fast-moving hands of the clock.
See the days change to nights.
See the nights turn to days.
See Jan. 20.
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