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FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1950
SECTION C
Student Engineers, Architects 'Show Off' At Exposition Today
(Editor's note: This is second in a series of articles about the various schools in the University).
Bv FRANKIE WAITS
This is the day students of engineering and architecture have been working toward since September. Today, Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon the students will display their system of education and their talents in the form of the 30th annual Engineering Exposition.
The "show" is under the auspices of the Engineering Student council headed by Glenn W. Anschutz, president and Elmer L. Dougherty, secretary, both engineering seniors. All of the work and construction of the projects was done by students in the School of Engineering and Architecture under the supervision of faculty members.
The Engineering Student council has much to do with this annual project. The 17 members are elected representatives from each of the four classes.
Students and professors who have had anything to do with the exposition have worked extremely hard to make this year's show the best of all. Over 1,000 individual letters were sent to principals of high schools, deans of junior colleges, the governor and his staff, members of the board of regents, principle state officers, United States and Kansas senators, and representatives and to representatives of any company which has hired engineering graduates.
The exposition will be shown in all engineering buildings on the west end of the campus, T. DeWitt Carr, dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture, said;
"As to one of the buildings, Fowler shops, no better engineering shop practice facilities can be found anywhere. You might look over the Engineering Schools of the United States and find no more than three which have shop buildings comparable to ours."
"New Fowler shops is ably administered by Paul G. Hausman, chairman of the engineering shop practice department who has a masters degree from the University of Missouri" continued Carr
OF MESSENGER A short man with graying hair and a pleasant personality, Dean Carr is a married man, who enjoys playing golf. He is the seventh dean of the school.
Kansan Photo by Bob Blank
T. DoWITT CARR
The School of Engineering and Architecture offers undergraduate and graduate work in a variety of majors for students interested in either engineering or architecture. When a student first enrolls in the School of Engineering he takes a common freshman course unless he elects Architecture of pre-business work. During this year he decides in which field he would like to major and at the beginning of his sophomore year, declares his major. Students may major in architecture, or in engineering division such as architectural, aeronautical, civil, electrical, mining, geological, mechanical, metallurgical, petroleum, chemical, or in engineering physics. From his freshman through his senior year, the student takes his entire work either in or under the direction of the School of Engineering and Architecture.
If the student wishes to major in architecture, he takes a five year course in the Department of Architecture. The School also offers a two year course in industrial mana-
—Kansan Photo by Bob Blank
ISAAC HOOVER, left, engineering senior, gives a "lift" to the lawyer's helicopter, while Paul D. Wilson, right, engineering senior, regulates the air flow of the vertical wind tunnel.
Of the 12 degree-granting departments in the school, eight in engineering were accredited in November of 1949 by the Engineering Council for Professional Development. The architecture curricula was accredited by the American Institute of Architects.
ement in connection with the School of Business. In the latter instance the student spends his freshman and sophomore years in the School of Engineering and his junior and senior years in the School of Business, being graduated with a decree in industrial management.
Dean Carr said, "The aims of this school are to have every student who graduates take with him the maximum knowledge, he has plus the ability to acquire and to build character and good citizenship."
The dean believes that by incorporating the departments of engineering and architecture in to one school, the individual students in engineering can learn something from architecture students and vice versa.
The school was established in 1891 taking the place of the department of engineering which had been on the campus since 1870. In 1927 the name was changed to the School of Engineering and Architecture.
The general aim of the school is to give thorough fundamental training in the physical and mathematical sciences, supplemented by the proper amount of work in the various branches of the school. Stress is also given to English composition, economics, and business principles.
Since engineers and architects must deal with public works, enterprise, and industrial problems of many types, the technical training has become broader in spirit and scope. Class and laboratory exercises in technical departments are planned so as to give the scientific basis on which the graduate may build.
The publication the Kansas Engineer, is done entirely by the students. It is entering its 34th consecutive year of publication. It is a quarterly magazine, edited this year by Charles H. Walker.
Of the 1,600 students enrolled in the School of Engineering and Architecture, 13 of that number are women. The women in the school usually rank in the upper third of their class. Women who major in engineering or architecture are quite brilliant and in class the men have to keep on their toes to stay up with them. This year the greatest number of the women are enrolled in architecture, with a few in chemical and electrical engineering.
Engineering and Architecture are especially good fields for women because their pay for comparable work is the same as that of men—two of the few fields in which this happens," said Dean Carr.
This spring there will be 464 graduates, the largest in the school's history. Dean Carr personally handles most of the opportunities by contact with many medium and large companies in the United States.
The school makes a special endeavor to secure jobs in the Middlewest for graduates. In the past few years, the trend has been for a greater number of the graduates to work in the Middlewest.
The seniors take one or more field trips each year to Middlewest industries connected with their respective interests.
"But the main things in the school are study, the development of initiative, clear constructive thinking, and good judgement," said Dean Carr. This is backed up with laboratory work and engineering shop practice.
Enrollment is expected to drop
—Kansan Photo by Bob Blank
RICHARD H. HARRIS, Engineering junior, left, and Maurice Mandelkehr, assistant instructor of electrical engineering, right, play with "Arabella," a robot constructed by Harris, which plays an expert game of Tic-tac-toe.
The school has been the recipient of many scholarship and fellowship awards this year. In addition to the annual awards given before, there have been added the Muncicl Foundation scholarship for $15,000, the Stanolind Oil and Gas company award in mechanical engineering for $1,250, the Scony Vacuum Oil company award in civil engineering for $750, and the Kennecott Copper company award in mining for $750.
Dean Carr commented, "It is noticeable and praiseworthy that students are applying themselves to their work in a most determined manner. This has been reflected over many years by a gradual increase in their average grades."
slightly and gradually for the next few years. In about 1955 there should be an increase in enrollment in the freshman classes. From then on there will be a gradual increase in the number of students.
For the first time in the history of the school, a doctors degree will be issued this fall in the department of chemical engineering.
The school ranks 13th in the list of institutions, having graduates named in "Who's Who in Engineering", with a total of 219 alumni.
As for the lawyers, the dean said. "The alleged feud between the Schools of Engineering and Law is now recognized in the spirit of mutual understanding and friendliness, although it might be admitted that there is a healthy competition between them!"
Buralars Are Overworking
Lawrence, Mass. — (U.P.)—Hardworking burglarls forced their way into 13 offices in two buildings during one night's toil but their loot totaled only $99.
Smoke Eater In Exhibit
The machine, built by William Ellis and Dean Hawley, engineering sophomores, is about 5 feet high and shows the application of vibrations.
A Sonic Glomerator, a vibration machine that removes smoke particles from the air by means of sound waves, will be shown in the mechanical engineering laboratory during the Engineering Exposition.
Other models have been built in 210 Marvin hall to illustrate different types of mechanical vibrations in machines. The models are not of any particular machines but were constructed just to show how vibrations can effect machines. Ellis explained.
Vibration isolation mounts can be placed on the machines to prevent transmission of vibrations from the machine to its base or to other machines.
Council To Meet, Attend Relays
The 14-member Kansas Engineering council has scheduled a business meeting Saturday at the University. They will meet in the office of the School of Engineering and Architecture.
While here, they will attend the 30th annual engineering exposition and the running of the Kansas relays.
-Kansan Photo by Bob Blank
BYRON MILLER, left, engineering senior, holds the larger plane, while Wayne Burnett, engineering senior, right, leans over the horizontal wind tunnel. They are preparing to find the lift and drag on the model airplanes. The horizontal wind tunnel is a model of the one used under the west end of the stadium.