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University Daily Kansan Friday, April 19, 1957
—(Daily Kansan photo)
SQUEEZE BOTTLE—Prof. Hausman points to a polyethylene bottle that has just been fabricated from raw plastic. This is the last stage of a model production line illustrating the manufacture of a plastic bottle, and is one of the exhibits presented
by the engineering manufacturing processes department.
They Finish What They Start In This Branch
A department in which many aspiring engineering students apply their knowledge and produce a finished product from raw material is the engineering manufacturing process department.
Paul G. Hausman, chairman of the department said that the object of the department's courses is to teach the most efficient way to process a material and create a finished product.
He explained that the manufacturing courses first set up placed more emphasis on the skills of manufacturing.
More Scientific Now
"Today we don't have time to do that," he said, "we are stressing the engineer's approach. We are using more science and less of the art in the processing of materials."
"We have completely changed the emphasis on the manufacturing processes courses," he continued.
Machinist Lines in Power.
He has several miniature production lines and machines.
Shops and that the students are manufacturing several small items.
"This is where the student gets an idea of some of the problems involved in manufacturing problems," he said. "These courses give a good background to the engineering student in his product design courses. The student needs to know how things are made."
Production Lines In Fowler
Prof. Hausman cited how knowledge of processing methods can have a great effect upon manufacturing economics and that a background in the problems of manufacturing will be of indeterminable value to any type of engineer.
"This gives them an idea of what tools and machines are necessary to do the job. It teaches them how to plan a sequence of operation." Fred Haasman said.
He said that in the near future the department hopes to have about six production lines because.
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Purchase engineering changes, procedures and equipment for the department. New designs shall be a cutting in individual which is patentable or made available that will produce an answer. These are followed by the preparation of the workings.
Identify the circumstances of an great amount of manufacturing training and allow the student a chance to apply his knowledge to the laboratory. He may start with a raw material and finish with a manufactured product.
Microsoft Automation
The exhibit also shows some of the equipment used by students in chemical engineering on their class projects.
Soap Factory To Be Shown
Of the future, Hairston said, "We are getting an equipment for more automation in thecessing of metal and plastic."
The campaign is designed "for the purpose of increasing public interest in, and support of, American higher education, both private and tax-supported." The program will continue for two years.
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The other members of the committee are Kenneth Clark, Kansas City, Kan., senior; Lawrence King, Norborne, Mo., and Ronald Ginson, Mission, both juniors.
The department . . . . .
ceived materials for the campaign. The materials include order forms for mats of advertisements which may be used by the newspaper as public service advertising and as sponsored ads by business firms.
The model is constructed on one story with the roof removed to show how the factory operates.
Probably the cleanest exhibit in this year's exposition is the one shown by the department of chemical engineering. It is a model of a soap factory in operation in the basement of Lindley Hall.
"Our first intention was to build the model exactly the same as a factory in Kansas City," said Harry Janssen, Lyons senior and committee chairman. "But the plant we intended to use is actually six stories high."
About 8,500 newspapers have re-
Farmers carried out primary agricultural conservation measures on 34 per cent of the farm land in the United States in 1955.
The exhibit has a system of glass tubing with circulating colored liquids to show how soap is made. They also have actual soap coming out of a spout. The soap isn't being made by the model factory, but comes from a large cake supplied by a commercial firm.
The University has urged the Board of Trustees of the KU Endowment Assn., Advisory Board of the Greater University Fund and the Board of Directors, Alumni Assn., to support the campaign and carry it to all members.
Problems Facing University Reflect National Picture
The growing problems now being faced at the University, such as increased enrollment, loss of faculty to industry and other schools, and construction of new buildings is merely a reflection of the national picture.
The purpose of the two million dollar nationwide campaign is to inform the American people of higher education's growing financial headaches, and to create a climate in which colleges and universities can more easily obtain desperately needed funds from the public, alumni, business, labor and religious institutions.
Practically every medium will be used by the campaign.
The Council for Financial Aid to Education (CFAE) estimates full-time college enrollments will double from three to six million within 10 years.
To help raise these funds, an intensive advertising campaign in behalf of financial aid to higher education will be launched sometime this month. The campaign will be non-commercial and conducted jointly by the Advertising Council and CFAE.
With the annual cost of operating the colleges and universities now exceeding three billion dollars, the CFAE estimates that an average of 500 million dollars annually is needed from new sources for the institutions of higher education.
Something must be done quickly. This campaign is designed to speed up the public's awareness of the situation and arouse its spirit to rally behind the drive.
In Kansas over 30 per cent of the men and women of college age were in college in 1955-56, and it is predicted that over 40 per cent will be in higher educational institutions by 1970.
What deeply concerns most educators is that the crop of war babies will be coming soon and already overcrowded facilities will simply burst at the seams if something is not done.
Yes, the financial problems of KU, which have been making the headlines the last few months are typical of those being faced by practically every institution of higher learning in the country.