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CRES-With the naming of an associate director, a permanent CRES member, and two visiting research professors, and re search contracts running at a rate of more than $300,000 a year, the Center for Research in engineering Science at KU will begin
full operation. This headquarters structure on a commanding hilltop location southwest of the main KU campus was built wholly with private funds by the KU Endowment Association.
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CRES—the Center for Research in Engineering Science at the University of Kansas—is taking off.
It was conceived four years ago as a private, non-profit corporation supported by contributions from regional industry and by grants and contracts for research from Federal agencies and from business firms. The Center was expected to provide a magnet for attracting research-based industry to Kansas and the Midwest, and in the process it would provide a nucleus of capable research professors who would be able to devote part of their time to teaching in the KU School of Engineering and Architecture.
THE CENTER was officially put on the launching pad last November, when its headquarters—a building which has been called a place for creative men to sit and think—was dedicated on a hilltop west of the University campus.
At that time it had more than half-a-dozen research personnel and engineering faculty members working part-time on seven grants from the National Science Foundation, three contracts with other governmental agencies, and twelve grants or contracts from ten companies. When these men were not busy with research, they were teaching graduate and undergraduate engineering students.
Now, with research contracts running at a rate of more than $300,000 a year, the Center has named an associate director, a permanent CRES members, and two visiting research professors.
B. G. BARR, who has been with the Kansas City plant of Procter and Gamble since 1948, will be the Center's associate director beginning July 1, with responsibility for coordinating research activities in the School of Engineering and Architecture and for liaison between the
CU Promotes Carlson
The University of Colorado has established a separate School of Architecture and named Prof. DeVon M. Carlson, a University of Kansas alumnus, the first dean.
Dean Carlson received the B.S. degree from KU in 1941 and practiced architecture in his native Topeka before joining the Colorado faculty in 1943. He had been acting head of the department of architecture and architectural engineering, formerly a division in the College of Engineering.
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School and outside agencies which support research. He also will be an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and will teach part-time in that department.
Barr received the bachelor's degree in engineering from the University of Alabama and master's degree from the University of Kansas, taking his work in the Graduate School's evening program in engineering at the Medical Center in Kansas City. He has served as president of the Young Engineers of Kansas City and chairman of the Kansas City section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
The permanent CRES member will be Dr. Richard K. Moore, presently chairman of the electrical engineering department at the University of New Mexico. Moore got his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, his birthplace, and his Ph.D.
from Cornell University. He has taught and performed research at Washington University, Cornell, and the Sandia Corporation, Albuquerque. He will be working on electrical engineering research and will teach part-time under a joint appointment as a professor of electrical engineering.
THE TWO VISITING research professors both come from Europe, one from behind the Iron Curtain, the other with involuntary experience in Russian science after World War II. They will teach in the School of Engineering and Architecture as well as conduct research for CRES.
Prof. Kurt Magnus, a professor of mechanical engineering at the Technische Hochschule in Stuttgart, Germany, was one of the technical experts seized by the Russians at the end of World War II and forced to work in custody for about six years.
A specialist in automatic control theory who is particularly familiar with Russian work in this field, he will be coming to the United States for the first time. In addition to control systems, he also has done pioneer work in gyroscopes and vibrations. Magnus will spend one year at KU.
Prof. Henry Zorski, "extraordinary professor" and head of the division of elasticity in the Institute of Fundamental Engineering Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, will spend the fall semester at KU. Only 35, Zorski holds a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in aeronautical engineering, a degree corresponding to the Ph.D. in theory of elasticity, and a degree corresponding to D.Sc. in continuum mechanics. He is an expert on thermo elasticity.
During World War II Zorski spent six years at Tashkent, Russia, as a refugee.
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