Monday, May 20, 1963 University Daily Kansai
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New E-Building Tunnel To Serve As Teaching Aid
Obsolescence has caught up with KU's 35-year-old wind tunnel at Memorial Stadium.
The old wind tunnel will be replaced by a new $50,000 unit which is scheduled to be in operation by the 1963-64 school year.
The new tunnel will be set up for the Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering Departments. But it will be available to all groups on campus which are studying the effects of air flow.
The new unit will be constructed in the west section of the new Engineering Building.
The new subsonic tunnel will have a test section 3 by 5 feet, but the entire tunnel will cover two floors. It will be designed in order to make space for lecturing.
Fred Bates, associate professor of mechanics and aerospace engineering, explained that the old tunnel, under the west side of Memorial Stadium, only had room for five persons to get around it. As a result it had little value as a classroom teaching aid.
Bates also explained that the old unit is obsolete as far as research is concerned. He said it is impossible to perform many of the exacting and precise experiments demanded in modern research.
Built in 1928, the old tunnel cost $2.000. At that time it was a choice between using the funds to construct a building to house the tunnel and wait for more funds to build the tunnel later or to build the tunnel at its present location. The KU officials made the latter choice.
Bates said the new tunnel will produce a velocity of about 300 miles per hour. The old tunnel produced a velocity of approximately 70 miles per hour.
Baumgartel To Do Research in India
Howard Baumgartel, chairman of the human relations department, will take a leave of absence in June to work in India.
He will leave in late June to join the staff of the Indian Institute for Management in Calcutta, India.
Richard L. Burke, assistant professor of human reactions, will be acting head of the department in his absence.
Prof. Baumgartel will work as part of the 14-man institute which serves as a training center for Indian industrial managers, a graduate school in industrial management, a research center, and a training center for Indian faculty in research and management.
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