KU students work on NASA design project
Student travel cards available at forum
For his Doctor of Engineering design project, Bill Tomkins, Victoria, Tex. (center), will lead a team of 12 graduate and undergraduate students in a program that will help NASA in controlling oscillations of the Saturn V moon vehicles. Larry Fagan (left) and Tom Wickstrom (right), graduate students from Kansas City, will assist Tomkins on the project.
International Student Identity cards, which enable the holder to receive reduced rates at European hotels, theaters, car rentals and restaurants, will be issued at the SUA Europe Forum at 7 p.m. March 4 in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
As much as a two-thirds discount on some Inter-European charter flights is made available by the identity card, said Irv Robinson, Prairie Village senior and SUA travel board chairman. Cost of the card is $1.
Tax reform programs set
One-day institutes on the Tax Reform Act of 1969 will be held March 7 at the Kansas Union and March 21 at the Radisson Hotel in Wichita.
The program for lawyers, accountants, and others affected by the new federal tax act will be the same at both locations and will emphasize the effects of the new law on everyday business and estate planning decisions.
Issuance of the identity card is part of preparation for the SUA group flight to Europe which will leave for Paris from New York on June 10 and return to New York on Aug.12.
SUA is arranging the flight only and not a tour, Robinson said. Arranging a tour is difficult, he said, since persons have varied motives for traveling to Europe—some going for work abroad and some to visit the major cities.
Air fare is $249 round trip via Air France Airlines. Funds needed for the two-month stay vary with the individual.
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KU students, staff and faculty members and their immediate families are eligible for the trip. Immediate family members are spouses, dependent children, or parents living in the household. Members of the immediate family must be accompanied by the eligible member of the university.
While SUA has organized no tours, it provides students with information about tours by other groups. Information about study programs, travel tips and information about different countries is available in the SUA office.
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'Pogo' to aid space research
Bill Tomkins, Victoria, Tex.
graduate student in engineering,
is building a lab as part of his
doctoral design project. He also
secured $130,000 worth of equipment loaned to the University of Kansas from NASA in Huntsville, Ala., as well as $10,000 in supporting funds from NASA in Washington, D.C. for his project.
The Doctor of Engineering program, said Kenneth E. Rose, dean of engineering, differs from a PhD in that the Doctor of Engineering is design oriented and trains graduates in directing many people on a large technical problem.
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On his program, called POGO (Propulsion Generated Oscillation), Tomkins said he has a team of 12 graduate and undergraduate
causing complete failures in some systems of the craft. There is a redundancy of the systems to compensate for the effect, he said.
students working with him.
POGO, he said, is vibrations or oscillations which are indirectly caused by the rocket engines. He said NASA had problems with such vibrations on the Saturn V moon vehicle.
Last summer Tomkins identified his major doctoral project and secured the equipment from NASA. The main portion of the equipment consists of a vibration system called "CYCO" for cycling oscillator. A model of the rocket structure will simulate the vibrations of the Saturn V vehicle and will be controlled by the CYCO machine.
What occurs during POGO, Tomkins said, is that vibrations from the rocket engines transmit through the structure of the vehicle. The fuel tanks vibrate and shake the fluid inside. The fluid oscillates down through the fuel lines back to the engines, and the cycle starts again through the vehicle.
"This closed loop or snowball effect," Tomkins said, "could destroy the vehicle."
Many vehicle components are damaged by POGO, he said.
The project, said Tomkins, is a different approach to the POGO phenomenon. His team's research will be an aid to NASA engineers, who are also working on the problem.