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If You Don't Know
They'll Tell You What That Strange Object Is
Here's your chance to find out if that nickel you have is wooden. The engineering physics department will measure various items at its exhibit using radioactive isotopes and radiation counters.
By passing a constant amount of radiation through a material and measuring the intensity of the radiation as it comes out the other side it is possible to identify the material and give a fairly accurate estimate of the thickness.
Identifying items lent by the audience is only one part of the exhibit set up by Don Coyne, Hutchinson junior, committee chairman; and Ormand Cordes, Meade junior; William Clow, Independence, Mo.; senior; Gale Harris, Lawrence senior; Robert Breedlove, Memphis, Tex. sophomore, and John Beam, Ottawa junior.
The exhibit also includes a general discussion of radiation and radiation counters to explain how they are used to measure materials which would be impossible to measure with more conventional devices.
A machine also has been set up
Aero Engineers Give Job Hints
Four small scale, but highly technical displays comprise the aeronautical engineering exhibit in the aero hut.
The exhibits, a supersonic tunnel, a vibration and flutter analysis, a dynajet, and a gyrocopter, illustrate in small scale the effects of different elements on phases of the aeronautical engineering industry.
The supersonic tunnel, about 2 feet square, tests wedges, serving as model planes, at supersonic speeds. The speeds can be increased from Mach 1.5 to Mach 5.0 or five times the speed of sound.
The second exhibit is a vibration and flutter analysis using a radio speaker, a box, a wire, and a model airplane.
The builders have taken a radio speaker and attached a wire to the center of the speaker. The wire sticks straight up and a box is placed over the speaker. A model plane with wooden body and metal wings is attached to the wire. The cycles sent through the speaker are varied, causing vibrations in the wings of the models.
The final analysis can be compared with an analysis of a violin string which gives off different notes. The wings give off vibration waves by varying the amount of cycles sent through the speaker.
The dynajet is a small pulse jet set up to show how temperature pressure and thrust measurements are collected. The jet is a small centrifugal engine shown in a cut-a-way view. A student in the department demonstrates how the measurements are made
The last of the exhibits is a gyroglider which will be set up outside the aero hut for demonstration. The glider is large enough to carry one person and will take persons for short rides. It will be operated by students.
Demand Great
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as the television set. And more engineers were required to develop the growing list of new products," the dean said.
An example of the growing list of new products can be seen by looking at a recent General Electric publication. The publication states that one-third of the products now made by GE were not on the market 10 years ago.
As a result of the need for more engineers, schools of engineering across the country have jumped enrollment tremendously. The school at KU is the fastest growing school in the University, according to Dean Carr.
to show how the amount of radiation varies when passing through various materials of different thicknesses. This is designed to give a visual demonstration of how this technique is used in actual measurement.
The last section of the exhibit shows how radiation is now being used in industry for actual measuring jobs where other methods cannot be used.
Women—there's a career for you in geology, according to the members of the department, if you're able to fit in well as a technician in the laboratory.
Lab Jobs Open For Female Geologists
Four women are now enrolled in the department. They are Barbara Barnhill, Kansas City, Kan., and Judy Smith, Overland Park, seniors; Norma Cornett, Wichita sophomore, and Barbara Anderson, Wichita freshman.
Considerable Opportunity
"There is considerable opportunity for women in the teaching field, working with geological surveys, and laboratory work for the petroleum companies," said Dr. Frank C. Foley, professor of geology and director of State Geological Survey.
Dr. Doris E. Nodine Zeller, micropaleontologist and wife of Dr. Edward J. Zeller, assistant professor of geology, said, "a woman's chances for success in the geological profession are good if she chooses one
which a woman can handle and can excel in and not be looked upon with prejudice by her fellow professional men.
"Some fields in which women have been successful are micropaleontology,paleontology petrology mineralogy, and geological editing," she continued. "Most of these are laboratory jobs."
Graduate In 1946
Mrs. Zeller graduated from the University of Illinois in 1946 with an A. B. in English and received her doctorate in 1954. She met her husband at the University of Illinois while they both were undergraduates. She has been consultant in micro-paleontology to one of the major oil companies, and last year went to Brazil to work as a paleontologist for the Brazilian government oil monoply.
At the present, Mrs. Zeller is doing research on geological material collected last summer in Montana and Alberta, Canada.
George deV. Klein, Scarsdale, N. Y. graduate student, said that if conditions remain the same, women would have no trouble finding jobs and opportunities in geology.
"Only actual field work is restricted to men," he said.
"I plan to stay at KU next year after I graduate and work for my master's degree. Then perhaps I may be able to get into one of the ecological survey programs."
Yo-yo, a toy, came into the English language in 1928. Donald F. Duncan, a Chicago toy manufacturer, designed a new version of the bandalore, which he observed in France. Children playing with it in America often called out "you, you." The company made this into yo-yo.
Miss Smith, one of the four women taking geology, expresses enthusiasm for the field and the opportunities she is sure are available to the woman geologist.
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