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University Daily Kassan Friday, Oct. 5, 1956
Engineers Need 'Adaptability'
HOBOKEN, N. J., —(IP)—American industry must have engineers with "greater breadth of view" and "adaptability" if it is to retain its leadership over Soviet Russia which is now producing twice as many engineering graduates as this country, according to Dr. Jess H. Davis, president of Stevens Institute of Technology.
"The engineering leader of the future must be at home in many branches of his calling if he hopes to reap the benefits the new scientific and engineering concepts make possible." He said the century ahead in science and in engineering belongs not to the specialist, but rather to the synthesist who can fit together many disparate truths and create a new truth."
Dr. Davis cited the overlapping of sciences as in bio-chemistry, as an example of "how the fences are disappearing in science as we come more to recognize the universality of scientific truths."
Speech Helpers To Visit 5 Cities
To bring this about, Dr. Davis advocated fewer "how-to-do-it" courses in engineering colleges and more courses in mathematics and the engineering sciences. "Eventually industry will teach a major portion of the engineering applications of science, leaving it to the engineering colleges to concentrate on improving the undergraduate's understanding of the theoretical concepts on which the applications are based," he predicted.
Miss Margaret Byrne, director of the University Speech and Hearing Clinic, and Richard Schiefelbusch, associate professor of speech, will visit five Kansas cities next week as consultants in the state's program of speech and hearing therapy.
They will visit Fort Scott, Parsons,
Columbus, Atchison and Mission.
Consultants visit 32 cities in Kansas setting up and improving local therapy programs, organizing regional workshops, developing records for research and information and improving standards of training and service.
Official Bulletin
Items for the official Bulletin must be brought to the Public Relations office, 222-A Strong, before 9:30 a.m. on the day of publication. Do not bring anything to Kansan. Notices should include name, place, date, and time of function.
Ph.D. French reading examination from 9-11 a.m. Saturday in 110 Fraser.
Museum of Art record concert, 11 a.m.
Museum of Art Museum, Mozart; "The
Muscle Flute."
TODAY
Sociology Club informal coffee. 4 p.m.
room 117, Strong Annex E. For faculty,
majors and new students. Everybody
welcome.
Lihana Fellowship hayride. 6:45 p.m.
beach church. Bring 25 cents for
refreshments.
Hillel services, 7:30 p.m. Jewish Community Center, 1409 Tennessee.
SUNDAY
Art Education Breakfast, 8 a.m., Potter Lake.
Immanuel Lutheran Church, worship services, 8:30 a.m., Student Center, 17th and Vermont. Sunday School Hour, 9:45 a.m.
Museum of Art Record Concert. 1 p.m.
Museum. Von Suspe. 'Die Sohne
Galilee'.
Gamma Delta cost supper. 5:30 p.m.
Student Center, 17th and Vermont. Initiation of new members. Discussion period.
Newman Club Gregorian Schola practice. 9 a.m., St. John's Catholic Church Castle. This is the first meeting. All interested Catholic men please attend.
Lutheran Student Association. Coffee hour, 10:30 a.m., Trinity Lutheran Church. Cost supper, 5:30 p.m. Speaker: Prof. Clifford Ketzel.
Wesley Graduate Group, 6:30 p.m.
*Lunch and Funge. Topic: "Through
Freshlsh to Faith."
Hillel cost supper and folk dancing, 4:30 p.m., or as soon as Jazz concert lets out, Jewish Community Center, 1409 Tennessee.
MONDAY
Episcopal Morning Prayer, 6:45 a.m.
Holy Eucharist, 7 a.m. Danforth Chapel.
Immanuel Lutheran Church re-
church 7:15 p.m., Immanuel Lutheran
Church
St. Louis, Mo., settled in 1764 by French fur traders, is still the nation's largest raw fur market.
A Message from
"Emerson is a growth company entering a terrific spiral of expansion from a solid base . . . just the place for the ambitious graduate."
Harry William's Emerson career is a good example of the diversification of experience Emerson offers its engineering personnel. With his M.S. in Electrical Engineering under his arm, Harry came to Emerson in 1949 as Calibration Engineer in production. Next position—Flight Test Engineer and from there on to Flight Test Project Engineer, to Assistant Development Engineer and now Production Project Engineer. There you have Harry William's current career ladder at Emerson.
"You're in on the ground floor of a fast-growing, established company when you take on a job with Emerson-Electric. A vigorous, planned expansion program in our aircraft, electronic, and commercial divisions makes Emerson distinctly a "growth" company with wide-open opportunities for young men. We are at work on a great variety of projects, many of them fascinating jobs including aircraft of the 1960-65 era.
"And believe me, it's to your advantage to get into a medium sized company. For one thing, you're in close touch with top management. They really get to know you as an individual, not as a cog in a giant machine. They give you a chance, too, to put your own theories into practice. If you have a new idea, they'll give it a try. Emerson's future is big. Your future can be big, too, as an Emerson engineer!"
Here, in brief, is a sample of Emerson's diversification of projects: the Commercial Division, established in 1890, ranks among the leaders in fractional horsepower motors, fans, and includes air conditioners, heaters, power saws and arc welders. The Electronics and Avionics Division has been a leader nationally since 1940 in the design, development and manufacture of the very latest fire control systems, missiles and rockets, supersonic air frame sections and mortar locators. Emerson is one of only five companies in the U.S. in production on missiles of any kind.
Find out how you can get in on the ground floor of this fast growing, medium sized company. Meet Emerson's engineering representatives and talk it over with them. If it's impossible to make a date, be sure to write A. L. Depke for full details.
ENGINEERS___A.E., C.E., E.E., M.E.
INTERVIEWS ON CAMPUS
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10
Sign up for your interview with the Engineering Placement Office. Do it today!
EMERSON
8100 W. FLORISSANT
ELECTRIC
SAINT LOUIS 21, MO.