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DESIGNS PETROLEUM COMPUTER—A flash vaporization instrument for computing petroleum refining problems is being constructed by Dale Rummer, instructor in electrical engineering. Rummer (left) and Robert Smith, engineering senior, are shown looking over the device. The instrument rapidly computes problems that normally would take days to work out—Kansan photo by Al Marshall.
Electrical Engineers To Use TV Receiver For Classes
Electrical engineering classes in television and electronics have been given a complete television receiver by the Magnavox corporation. Dr. Donald Wilson, chairman of the department of electrical engineering, said this equipment will be used in lecture and laboratory classes.
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"In lecture classes the television set will be used to observe the picture signal as it passes through the various parts of the set," he said. "Students will be shown exactly what each part of the screen does, by taking the man sitting in his living room at home a full picture of a baseball game miles away."
In the laboratory, the set will be used by senior students for measurement of voltages and study of scope patterns.
"The set is worth about $250 to $300." Dr. Wilson said. Throughout the building there are many valuable electronic machines. The total cost of all the equipment runs into
Students are able to check out components and build up their own circuits. One such circuit might be require various voltages in a radio set.
astronomical figures. There are analysts, radio frequency generators, oscilloscopes, voltmeters and ammeters by the dozens.
The department of electrical engineering has built several large electronic machines. E. B. Phillips, professor of electrical engineering, designed the Phillips network analyzer which computes, by electrical analogy, problems which would require days of paper calculation.
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"Companies are permitted to bring their problems to the department and Professor Phillips aids in using the machine," Dr. Wilson said.
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"Using these computers we will allow a commercial company, say a power company for example, to bring its problem to the University and find out exactly how a transistor can be built. Then the generator several hundred miles away doubles its output," Dr. Wilson said.
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"The problem can be solved by extensive paper work, but by the use of the Phillips network analyzer or the flash vaporization computer for petroleum questions, problems can be solved quickly and accurately." he added.
The department also has smaller projects in its research laboratories. For example, Robert Lindsay, instructor in the department, is building electronic equipment for the psychology department.
Mr. Rummer began to design the computer in the fall of '49. He started the actual building in the fall of '50. The computer completed by the end of the semester.
This ultimately means better gasoline and oils for all types of petroleum consuming machines.
Dr. Wilson explained that it is possible to solve many aeronautical, chemical and petroleum problems by converting them to electrical problems and building electronic equipment to compute the problem.
In Mr. Rummer's words, the purpose of the computer, which has an external appearance similar to the analyzer, is "to solve for the liquid fraction of each component of a multicomponent hydro-carbon mix-under a given temperature and temperature"—which simply means that scientists are interested in the richness of the mixture of the crude oil.
The analyzer stands higher than a man's head, is about 8 feet long and covered with numerous dials and meters.
Two Faculty Members Visit Greenwood Schools
"There is a great demand for electrical engineers," Dr. Wilson said. "At the moment there are four or five job opportunities for each of the 28 June and August graduates."
He said there were no girls among the 124 students enrolled in electrical engineering. "It is a good field for women," he said. "The communi-
Donald K. Alderson, assistant dean of men', and Charles J. Baer, assistant dean of the School of Engineering visited Greenwood high school and attended a college night program at Eureka Wednesday.
In addition to this, the petroleum
engineering department asked Dale Rummer, instructor in electrical engineering, to design and build the flash vaporization computer.
The two men talked with high school principals and students in Kincaide, Moran, Elsmore and La Harpe.
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The "Talk of the Month" club, a project created by members of University Extension, has brought entertaining and well-informed "world citizens" into the smaller communities of Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.
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Twenty-five chapters of the club have developed since its organization in 1935-36 by Guy V. Keeler, director of the department of lectures and concert artists, University Extension, and Harry Stroud, field representative for the "Talk of the Month" club.
The club meets once a month in a dinner meeting. After dinner, the speaker talks on a subject pertaining to his field, and previously agreed upon by the officers. At the end of each session, at the period of questions, answers, additional information, and discussion by all members assembled.
Membership is accepted only by couples, no individual memberships are issued. Therefore, further discussion may be shared by good friends, husband and wife, and mother and daughter.
Every month the same speaker visits each of the twenty-five chapters of the "Talk of the Month" club.
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The "Talk of the Hall" series for 1951-52 included Hans Olav, Norway's assistant secretary of state on public affairs; Commander Finn Ronne, world famous Norwegian explorer; Cecil G. Tilton, who spent five years with the military government in Japan; Cuneyd Dos-
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