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Summer Session Kansan
Friday, July 3, 1964
Engineering
By Karen Haney
Summer research work commenced June 1 for nine KU undergraduate students who are from various departments of the School of Engineering and Architecture.
These students are select individuals from the top 10 per cent of their classes. They are components of a project sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
This program's purpose is to allow the undergraduate student to receive a taste of research work and give him a better background on which to prepare himself for the future.
WHEN A SCHOOL wishes to undertake such an endeavor, an outline of the intended projects which would be offered the students and the estimated cost are submitted to the National Science Foundation.
After careful consideration of all the entries grants are appropriated as to the merit of the projects presented. KU received $5,600 with which to operate its program. Of this, $4,800 will be given to the students as stipends, and the rest will be paid out as overhead. This program is under the direction of George W. Swift, assistant professor of chemical engineering.
EACH STUDENT is assigned to a particular professor and given a specific problem to work on which contributes to a definite area of research. Participants may receive up to six credits for their efforts.
In addition to the laboratory work, two one-to-two-hour seminars are held every week in which students discuss topics stemming from their individual studies which they deem of importance to the overall conduct of research.
In the first meetings of the seminars the various professors will give lectures pertaining to the entire research in the general areas. Student conducting of the groups will not begin until July.
4th Is Near Fireworks Worry Ahead
NEW YORK —(UPI)— Mention the Fourth of July. A child's eyes twinkle about the colorful flashes, thunderous booms and roaring of rockets sending fireworks skyward.
And a child thinks, too, of firecrackers—wonderful things, supervised. Often tragic—unsupervised.
The National Society for the Prevention of Blindness cautions that fireworks still linger as a menace to the nation's youth.
"The country is well rid of those so-called celebrations of three decades ago that left thousands blinded and maimed every Fourth of July," said Dr. John W. Ferree, executive director.
"Nevertheless, there still are many youngsters hurt by firecrackers and rockets every year. Even one fireworks victim is too much."
THE GREATEST number of victims last year fell within the 10 to 14 year age group. Two were tots under five.
Dr. Feree also warned against the holiday hazards of homemade rockets, blasting caps and "harmless" sparklers that burn at more than 1600 degrees and present a fire threat.
To parents. Dr. Ferree suggested:
DO NOT PERMIT your child to purchase fireworks through the mail or from illicit dealers. Bootleg fireworks may be poorly constructed and even more dangerous than the old legal type.
If your child has obtained fireworks or gunpowder confiscate them. Make him understand they are dangerous and probably illegal.
Assist authorities in locating dealers in bootleg fireworks. These persons are profiting in blindness and suffering.
Research Launched
Individual projects vary, as do the fields of specialization. Robert M. Anderson, a senior in mechanical and aerospace engineering, is working on direct mass determination at cryogenic temperatures under the supervision of Prof. Swift.
ALSO UNDER Prof. Swift is William J. Weisenborn Jr., a sophomore studying chemical engineering, who is trying to measure the viscosities of liquid binary hydrocarbon systems. Prof. Swift is also collaborating with Norris Nahman, professor of electrical engineering, on the direction of Frank E. Salber, a senior in electrical engineering, who is using doppler radar to measure the velocity of a falling body.
Wiwcho B. Tjokronegro, senior from Indonesia, is studying the use of auto and cross correlation to techniques to describe the heterogeneity of naturally occurring porous media. Tjokronegro is majoring in petroleum engineering. His advisor is Floyd W. Preston, associate professor of petroleum engineering.
HAROLD ROSSON, associate professor of chemical engineering, is overseeing the work of Roger T. Baker and Colen C. Case, juniors
Baker is experimenting on thin film thermocouples, and Case is studying numerical methods for integration of local heat flux during condensation.
Gregs G. Thomopolus, junior in civil engineering, is working under Fred Kurata, professor of chemical engineering. He is measuring the density of cryogenic fluids.
Experiments in measuring the film thickness of the surface layer beneath a bubble in nucleate bowling are being conducted by Donald D. Williams, a senior in mechanical engineering. His supervisor is Prof. Russell B. Mesler, professor of chemical engineering.
REACTION OF KINETICS experiments is being developed by Harry E. Collins under the direction of James O. Maloney, professor of chemical engineering. Collins is a chemical engineering sophomore.
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Prof. Swift, director of the program, stated, "We feel that this type of program is of great value to outstanding undergraduate students in that it gives them a great deal of insight into the research problems with which they will be faced in the future."
July 7----6:00 p.m.
Sign up at the Jay Bowl in the Union
(Trophies Given)
Bridge Tournament July 8----7:00 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room in the Union (Prizes Given)
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