Mining and Geology Edition.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
ENGINEERING SCHOOLS BLEND IN MINING MAN
Experts on Minerals Derive Training From Different Technical Branches
ONE OF NEW PROFESSIONS
Education in "Applied Science" In a Rapid Growth Since the Civil War
By P. B. F WALKER
Dean of the School of Engineering,
Dean of the School of Engineering,
The profession of Mining Engineering is a blend of all other branches of engineering, together with geology, chemistry, and business. It grew out of the group of mechanical trades dominated by the rule-of-thumb method of solving technical problems at about the same time as did civil institutions for training men for the work came first into existence in the same decade with many of the others. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, N. Y., had been turning out men trained in applied science for several years, it is true, and some beginnings had been made at the University of Michigan, but it was in the inspired years during and immediately after the creation in technical branches was started on its career in a way that gave real evidence of the growth that was to be.
Because of the variety of lines of work in the mining industry and the fact that the training for it is a blend of so many of the fundamental and applied sciences, educational work in mining requires a strong complete development of other branches of engineering, and in a few instances it developed without them.
MINIBRS AT COLUMBIA IN '64
It was in 1864 that the School of Mines was established at Columbia University, New York. While this may not have been the first instance when facilities were organized for the giving of instruction in this line, it did mark an important step in the development of the institution in this country. The new division at Columbia developed quickly and soon drew unto itself all of the applied science work of the institution, and for thirty years it embraced all of the work of the several ranches.
At about the same time work was begun at Columbia, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as getting under way and a course of study in Mining Engineering and Metallurgy followed the civil and mechanical engineering tranches as an established line of training for students. These two noted institutions have continued through all the years in educational work in most of the branches of the engineering profession
MINNG COURSES IN BIG SCHOOLS
Without attempting to mention the several institutions in chronological order with respect to date of installation of the work, mining education has spread across the country until it is not represented in all quarters, in more than thirty institutions. In addition to the two schools already mentioned, it appears in such professions as Lehigh in Pennsylvania, Sheffield at Yale, Case Sool in Cleveland, Stanford on the Prifice Coast, and in the University e Pittsburgh; in the great eastern sd middle western state universities i Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and Kansas; in the southern state universities of Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Texas; and Texas; in the northern state universities of California, New Mexico, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico.
In all of these it has been handled as a part of the great educational program, co-operating with the many other university departments in the giving of the best possible training for men who are to be employed in development and production of the mineral resources of the country.
DEVELOP SEPARATE INSTITUTIONS
DEVELOP SEPARATE. In addition these institutions a few have which the mining interests have been particularly prominent, have developed important institutions devoted primarily to mining education. These are Michigan, Colorado and Missouri. In a few other states, where mining interests have had considerable influence in determining the course of educational development, separate schools have been established also with considerable means success. These are South Dakota, Montana, Oklahoma, with begin-ning in Texas.
The larger of these separate schools have performed a fine service for the mining industry, and the states that have supported them are to have their employees in providing the many hundreds of thousands of dollars necessary for their upbuilding and upkeep, involving as that does the creation of new and complete departments in all the sciences, labor, and engineering in each separate school.
Mining engineering is the least specialized of all of the engineering
courses. Kansas students in the course do some work in every department of science, mathematics, and languages, that appears anywhere in the School of Engineering schedule or in a related course. No other engineering course goes so far as this. The mining student has more work in chemistry than he does in technical mining, and has practically the same amount of geology. That is true of no other of the students. None of the students's work lies in much greater measure in his own major subject.
THE COURSES VARY
In some other institutions, typical of which is the University of Wisconsin, more work is required of the mining student in civil engineering courses and in mathematics than in the technical sciences. The latter. This differs, naturally, with the varying emphasis given to the development and production side of mining on the one hand and the milling and metallurgical branches on the
Such a condition shows in a striking manner the interdependence of the mining and the other science and technical departments of the several institutions, especially when it is observed that the total work taken by the mining student in the other engineering departments combined is always much more than in that of mining itself. It explains the fact that there are so many of the more economical work of placing the mining work so that its students can have the advantage of highly developed departments of chemistry, geology, physics, mathematics, and engineering in its several forms.
While the number of students in mining at the University of Kansas has never been large, it is nevertheless true that the total amount paid in salaries in that department per month is indeed more common, usually been less than for any other engineering department excepting electrical.
CALLS FOR THOROUGH MEN
Aside from the methods employed in the school training of the mining engineers, education of the profession presents many important and interesting features. In common with industry in general, mining has taken on many new characteristics of recent years and only trained men can be responsible for mining prices margins of profit are narrower and rigid economy is called for. To meet this, new methods based on absolute scientific principles are necessary. The human problem in operation has been recognized and safety methods in what is at the best a hazardous business are necessary. Human life and human effort is being reduced by these men who are going out from the schools trained to habits of consistent and accurate thinking. Nowhere are these improved methods more necessary than in the mining sections of Kandahar, where much investigational work is necessary, some of it demanding the highest type of equipment which the university alone can supply.
In it all, the greatest need in this, as in every other industry, is the raising of the level of the average worker. Mining in Kansas is not of the character that calls for large scale operations, most highly trained engineering experts, but it is manned by a people who are in great need of the uplift which comes from elementary education combined with the first principles of industrial and vocational training. There are needed in the field the trained men who can recognize and supply the need man, much more than the skills, maturity and sociological insight to deal with these fundamentals of industrial development.
THE CHANCES IN SOUTH AMERICA In a still broader sense, the mining engineering profession is destined to play an important part in the commercial development of our country which are to follow the present world upheaval. With the active consideration that is being given by the leading industrial and commercial minds of the country to the possible development of trade with the several Latin American countries to the south, there must be developed men with the training and spirit of men of this country to supply the technical needs so sadly felt in those undeveloped regions.
It is to be remembered that we can sell to South America only as we buy from it and apply there in other ways capital for the development of industries. Many seems to have established a plan complete in the vital elements of type of population, climate, and natural resources, whereby North America should be the great manufacturing community of the world in terms of agricultural and mineral products which form the basis of industry and civilization.
In a special degree it is the mining processes which will bring to most sections of South America that enterprise which will stimulate the development so sorely needed for their own upbuilding and for the providing materials to manufacturers, such circumstances the scope of education is to provide men for industry far beyond local boundaries. The young men of Kansas will go outside of Kansas as opportunity calls and in so doing they may perform a
service for the people of this state and of the country as great as though they were to remain at home. Their concern will measure the concern of the state.
All this and much more is what education in m l i n g engineering engineering
K.U. BULLETINS TAKE GEOLOGY TO KANSANS
Geological Survey Gathers Information on All State Products
Products
Kansans as well as outsiders are interested in the geology and the natural resources of Kansas. Citizens of the state have learned they have mined for centuries, but now they have hundreds of millions of dollars, and want to know about it. The State Geological Survey and the department of mining receive each day a surprising number of letters about oil, gas, coal, and uranium; water supply, and practically everything concerning the natural resources of the state. There are requests for maps, reports, bulletins, and geologic data of all sorts, some of which the state has already prepared. Many of the published papers of the Survey are entirely exhausted.
Proof of the state-wide interest is the large number of specimens of minerals, rocks, and fossils from various sources which are sent in for identification. The data on the material is donated to the University. The general desire of the state for knowledge and training in geology and allied subjects is also indirectly shown by the largely increased registration in the geology classes at the University. The courses in geology which are offered by the Extension Division.
The geology of the state is a matter of importance and common interest to every farmer in Kansas. Even non-technically trained individuals known to the writer are surprisingly conversant with geologic information.
IMPORTANCE OF GEOLOGY
The University of Kansas and the State Geological Survey are well fitted to respond to the enlarged demand for geological information in the state. The advantageous location of the University is that it has access to the oil and gas developments of the mid-continent oil and gas fields. The University is only a few hours ride from the largest zinc producing district and some of the most important mines in the country, not to mention nearby coal fields, cement and other minerals. There are also near at hand scientific problems of greatest interest.
STATE SURVEY USEFUL
partially in manuscript is a new bulletin on the geology and the oil and gas resources of Kansas. It is plant-based for distribution some time in July.
The State Geological Survey has already done much to advance the knowledge of the geology of the state. Professor Haworth's study of the Pennsylvanian stratigraphy of eastern Kansas, and the work of Prosser, Rogers, Logan and others, in various portions of the state. The same very life work of Doctor Williston on the Vertebrate Fossils of Western Kansas brought Kansas recognition from all over the world.
Kanza held initiation Saturday evening for: Howard Skare, Augusta; Clarence Sutton, Parsons; Mark Adams, Liberal.
BY THE WAY-
The Survey has at present a number of reports in preparation, among them, a description of the road materials of Kansas, a report on the clay industries of the state, and an account of the location of the plants is being prepared in co-operation with the Division of State Chemical Research. An important report already
Fraternity Initiations
Delta Tau Delta held initiation Saturday afternoon. The initiates were: ohn Binford, Wellsville; George Franklin Boone, Junction City; Fred Miller, Oakland; Max Wilson, Beloit; Max H. Kreuger, Atchison; Forest Chandler, Atchison.
Tau Beta Pi
Tau Beta Pi, honorary engineering fraternity, announces the election of the following juniors to membership:
P. P. Wagner, Concordia; Clarence Lynn, Lawrence; H. F. Lutz, Lawrence; W. R. Neumann, Lawrence; C. L. Shugart, Winchester; R. W. Davis, Lawrence; H. J. Gish, Abilene; F. E. Holland, Pleasanton; Frank Farley, Kansas City.
Camera Club
The Camera Club will meet Monday night with R. E. Melvin, 930 Kentucky Johnston, Johnvin will read a paper "Interiors," and the camera team will discuss "Indoor Portraiture."
Education Club
Mary Govier will talk on the effect of the violet rays on plant life and growth, at the meeting of the Botany evening in Room 102, Snow Hall.
There will be a meeting of the Education Club Tuesday evening from eight o'clock to ninety-thirty in Room 110, Fraser. All men enrolled in the School of Education are invited to be present.
Botany Club
Y. W. C. A.
Mrs. Eustace H. Brown will speak on the subject, "The Give and Take of Life," at the meeting of the Y.W. board this afternoon at four-thirty o'clock.
Kappa Phi Club
The Kappa Phi Club, an organization of University women of the Methodist church, will hold a regular Wednesday night at eight o'clock.
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Founders Day Banquet
The Achoth sorority will hold their annual Founders Day banquet tonight.
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Miss Ruth Washburn of Baker University drove up from Baldwin Friday evening to attend the Delta Tau lance.
Miss Eva Kesterson, of Kansas City, spent Saturday and Sunday with Miss Pauline McClintock at the Alpha Delta Pi house.
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