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VOLUME 79 NUMBER 1

25 CEBITS

Two ways to get out of college

Energy conversion is our business

Earth's attraction for an apple?
Free fall in relativistic space?
A complex meson field?
Built-in return power for project

Mercury?
How is it related to binding energy?

Gravity is both a bane and a boon to man's
efforts — and a thorough understanding of
it is of great significance in the completion
of Allison's energy conversion mission.

Gravity conditions our thinking on ad-
vanced assignments. For example, in
outer space there is a disorientation of
conventional design. The fact that large
accelerations can be obtained with low
thrust forces has taken us into the new field
of electrical propulsion, ion and magneto-
hydrodynamic rockets.

In our inquiries, we supplement our own
resources by calling on many talents and
capabilities: General Motors Corporation,
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OCTOBER, 1963

THE ILLIXOI!^

TECHNOGRAPH

VOLUME 79, NUMBER I OCTOBER, 1963

table of contents

Editorial 3

TECHNOGRAPHs New Look H. L. Wake'and 5

The New Civil Engineering Building 6

The Supernatural Behavior of Superconductors Stuart Ump'.eby 8

Student Discount on Engineering Publications 12

A Year of Achievement 15

The Illinois Society of Professional Engineers 17

Two New Centers for Direct Interaction with Industry 20

Engineering Societies Calendar 26

Technocutie Photo by Joe Figueira 29

A Decade of Achievement in India 32

Science, Technology, and Space Navigation 33

Friction: A Tool for Welding 33

The Society Page 36

What Do You Know Abouf Co-op Programs? Larry Heyda 38

Why Does a Culvert Cross the Road? 43

Brickbats 'n Bouquets 48

THE COVER

Dave Busby of Indlanola was the first freshman in engineering to register in the
Centennial Graduating Class last September. He and his classmates are scheduled
to graduate on the University's one-hundredth birthday. Those who follow the course
shown on the left will do so; the easy way shown on the right will lead to getting
out earlier — much earlier! (Cover Editor, Larry Pflederer.)

TECHNOGRAPH

Edifor-In-Chief

Wayne W. Crouch

Assistant to the Editor

Stuart Umpleby

Editonal Staff

Gary Daymon, Director

Rudy Berg

Harold Gotschall

Tom Grantham

Larry Heyda

Roqer Johnson

Werner Lain

Richard Lanqrehr

Jay Lipke

John Litherland

Bill Lueck

Henry Maqnuski

Larry Pflederer

Mike Ouinn

Ron Scanlan

Production Staff

Scott Weaver, Manaqer
Pat Martin

Business Staff

Art Becker, Manager

Phil Johnson

Jerry Ozane

Roqer Van Zele

Circulation Staff

Larry Campbell, Manager

Paul Riminqton

Glenn VanBlaricum

Photo Staff

Jim Alex

Joe Fiqueria

Bob Seyler

Secretary

Kathle Liermann

Advisors

Robert Bohl

Paul Bryant

Alan Kinqery

Edwin McClintock

Dale Greffe. Photo

Chairman: J. Gale Chumley

Louisiana Polytechnic Institute

Ruston, Louisiana

Engineer, Cincinnati Coopera-
City College Vector. Colorado
nell Engineer, Denver Engineer,
Drexel Technical Journal, Georgia Tech Engi-
neer, Illinois Technograph, Iowa Engineer.
Iowa Transit. Kansas Engineer, Kansas State
Engineer, Kentucky Engineer, Louisiana State
University Engineer. Louisiana Tech Engineer.

Engineer, Marquette Engineer.

zhnic. Minnesota Technolog, Mis-
souri Shamrock. Nebraska Blueprint, New
York University Quadrangle, North Dakota
Engineer, Northwestern Engineer, Notre Dame
Technical Review, Ohio State Engineer, Okla-
homa State Engineer, Pittsburgh Skyscraper,
Purdue Engineer. RPI Engineer. Rochester In-
dicator. SC Engineer. Rose Technic, Southern
Engineer. Spartan Engineer. Texas A & M
Engineer, V^'ashington Engineer. WSC Tech-
nometer. Wayne Engineer, and Wisconsin
Engineer.

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WHY THE CHANGE?

In 1967, the University of Illinois will be one hundred years old. This semester's
engineering freshmen will be graduating (they hope!). They will obviously have a real
first in being members of the centennial graduating class. We believe they will be
first in another respect also: they will be the first graduates to be given a real
opportunity to learn more about their chosen profession, their college, and their
university. We are going to provide a part of this opportunity by making Technograph
available to every undergraduate as a source of news concerning this campus, as
well as an open forum for discussion, debate, and exchange of opinion between
engineering students and faculty. The rest is up to you — student or faculty member.

Faculty members cannot be effective teachers without feedback from their
students, and students cannot derive the full benefits of attending college without
knowing what is going on around them. Students need to know what is happening in
U of I research and what it means to them. They should be informed about policy
changes of the administration and what these changes mean to them, and they have
a responsibility to themselves and to each other to express their views and to ask
about things they do not understand. The College's administrators agree with this
point of view and have offered their support. The remainder of the responsibility now
lies with you — what you don't know may hurt you.

Our pages are your pages. If you don't wish to write your views yourself, then
drop by, tell us what you have on your mind, and we'll write it for you. Every pro-
fessional engineer is aware of the benefits of publishing articles, and undergraduates
and graduates can also benefit by getting articles published in Technograph. But the
most important thing is for each of us to realize that he is a link (hopefully not the
weakest one!) in a vital communication chain.

If the members of the class of 1967 leave with an unprecedented awareness of
their college, they will be the first to do so . . . and they will be the best equipped
engineers ever to leave this campus. We have a responsibility, not only to the
centennial graduating class, but to ourselves and all the engineering students who
will enter and leave the U of I College of Engineering over the next one hundred
years. Will you help?

OCTOBER, 1963

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Packaging, Squibb, Winchester-Western, decreased 60% in the last eight years,

and International. Do you loant to kyiow some of the things

You can start in any division, but your loe're doing?

advancement is not necessarily confined to We're developing a high-speed cartridge

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Olin has a substantial research budget, without the use of hypodermics.

And our research laboratories are among We're coating packaging film with anti-

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waste in food spoilage.

We're perfecting a process that will
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TECHNOGRAPH

TECHNOGRAPH'S

NEW LOOK

by Assistant Dean H. L. Wakeland

As you leaf through the Techno-
graph have you asked yourself— who
sent this magazine; who paid for it;
why was it sent to me? The answers
to these questions will vary slightly
from one reader to the next, but a
closer observation will show tliat the
Technogmph has taken on a new
look.

Beginning tliis fall, each engineer-
ing student in the College of En-
gineering, as well as students in
Chemical Engineering, Architectm-al
Engineering, and Industrial Design
will receive a free copy of Techno-
graph each month by mail at their
individual campus addresses. Engi-
neering staff members will receive the
first issue free but will be asked to
subscribe for additional copies at the
rate of two dollars per year. All high
schools throughout Illinois will also
receive copies financed by the Col-
lege of Engineering.

The magazine has changed its con-
tent and hopes to serve as a medium
for the exchange of infonnation and
ideas bet^veen students and stafl^.
New features are to include notes
about alumni, student activity news,
contributions by the faculty, engi-
neering departmental news, and let-
ters to the editor— providing you write.
In fact, only a few portions of the
magazine will remain unchanged.

In the February, 1963, issue of
Technograph I wrote briefly about
"Student Comment and Opinion" stat-
ing that we simply did not get stu-
dent "play back" (i.e. opinions or
ideas from engineering students about
our college or educational program).
Gary Daymon, one of Tech no graph's

Aisistanl Dean H. L. Wakeland

most active staff members, answered
by pointing out that no convenient
vehicle was available through which
students could express their opinions.
Although students had the campus
daily and other mediums available
to express their viewpoints, it was
true that there was no common me-
dium for engineering students except
tlie Technograph, which had not been
adequately fulfilling this need.

Technograph staff members and
faculty members immediately began
to discuss ways in which Techno-
graph might be changed to meet this
need. One of the first needs was to
reach each engineering student with
the publication. In past years much
time had been spent in selling sub-
scriptions and after each sales cam-
paign Technograph ended up with
only a small portion of the engineer-

ing student body subscribing. Was
there an economical method to be
used that would place a copy in each
student's hand and do away with sub-
sc^riptions?

In recent years a number of sci-
ence or trade magazines have com-
pletely eliminated paid subscriptions
and paid for publication solely
through advertisement. These mag-
azines limit subscriptions to qualified
people but mail them free of charge
to approved subscribers. Many ex-
perienced journalists doubt the use-
fulness and quality of a "give away"
publication but magazines such as
"Science and Technology" and "Data-
mation" provide excellent examples
of high level publications distributed
in this manner.

Well, to make a long story short,
Technograph has had a substantial
advertising income in the past few
years and with some juggling of
figures and backing from the Illini
Publishing Company, they are trying
to make 1963-64 their first success-
ful year of controlled subscription
distribution.

A little additional income is
needed to balance the books and it
is hoped that the majority of staff
members will help by subscribing.
Faculty readers are needed to com-
plete the exchange of ideas, opinions,
and news which Technograph hopes
to provide.

The second need is to provide
more useful or pertinent information
for engineering readers: student ac-
tivities that arc available and how

(continued on page 43, column 3)

OCTOBER, 1963

THE NEW
C. E. B.

The first U of I building, built
CEB will be constructed.

Quite a contrast to the $150.00 invested in the first
U of I building is the new $4,216,000 CEB structure
being constructed near the site where, in 1868, tlie
University's first building was located. (A witty [?]
student remarked, "But it cost less to live in those
days.") Financed through the new State Building Au-
thority, the structure will bring together Civil Engi-
neering activities now located in 15 different buildings.

The initial building will consist of four stories and
basement, devoted principally to department offices and
laboratories for research and teaching in concrete struc-
tures, soil mechanics and foundations, and sanitary engi-
neering. Its central feature will be a three-story labora-
tory with a specially reinforced floor to support modern
structural research equipment. Smaller laboratories will

be located over and aroimd the structural research lab-
oratory.

To allow for flexibility in research technology and
problems, there will be little built-in equipment on the
40,000 square feet of available space. Current plans will
utilize part of this space for expanded research in con-
crete, soils, and sanitary engineering. The sanitary engi-
neering department will also use the roof for air studies.

The U of I Civil Engineering Department, headed
by Prof. Nathan M. Newmark, consists of over 600 un-
dergraduates and 280 graduate students— the world's
largest graduate enrollment in this field. It has a full-
time academic staff of 93, 82 graduate assistants work-
ing half time, and a nonacademic staff of 60 technicians,
specialists, and others. Currently, 60 civil engineering
research projects annually total over $1,500,000. GMD

1965

n Stought.

The new Civil Engineering Building is located on Romine SI
Computer Laboratory where future tie-in cables will provide focilities for many ci

Architects for the new CFB are A. Epstein and Sons, Chicago. The founder of this firn
department of Civil Engineering. Designers of the building are Richardson, Severns, Sch'
completion is scheduled for September, 1965.

and Main. Just north of the
ngineering research projects

nd his sons who ore now operating it are graduates of the U of I
er and Associates, Champaign. Bids will be received in December;

TECHNOGRAPH

LINDE Assignment:

Develop a new surgical tool
to freeze tissue, save lives

You work on projects that benefit
mankind when you're with Union
Carbide's Linde Division. Con-
siderthis new cryogenic surgical equip-
ment, for example. It's used by major
hospitals in the United States, Canada,
and Europe for treating the symptoms
of Parkinsonism and other involuntary
movement disorders.

Back in 1961, a new surgical tech-
nique, using extremely cold tempera-
tures, was announced to the medical
profession.

In brief, this surgical procedure in-
volves making a small burr hole in the
patient's skull; directing the probe into
thethalamictarget;and using liquid ni-
trogen to freeze the appropriate tissue.

Because of its extensive experience

and capabilities in cryogenic systems,
Linde Division was called upon to de-
velop and produce the needed cryosur-
gery device— a precision surgical probe
and a complete system capable of fur-
nishing controlled cold to the probe.

The result is the CE-2 Cryosurgery
Equipment, a fully automatic unit that
is easy to operate and maintains pre-
selected temperatures reliably.

The CE-2 permits using the ultra-
low temperature of liquid nitrogen
(—320° F.) as a surgical tool with pre-
cision and safety in a practical operat-
ing range of 98° to —240° F.

Work with Linde and you work with
heat, cold, pressure, vacuum. You have
a choice among programs in cryogen-
ics, plasmas, Flame-Plating, electron-

ics, biochemistry, crystallography. Be-
fore deciding on any job, get to know
all that's going on at Linde.

For information, write Recruiting
Department, Union Carbide Corpora-
tion, Linde Division, 270 Park Avenue,
New York, N.Y. 10017.

A Linde assignment
poses a challenge

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DIVISION

AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

OCTOBER, 1963

THE SUPERNATURAL

BEHAVIOR OF
SUPERCONDUCTORS

by Stuart Umpleby, ME '66

In a discipline like superconductor
research, this morning's discovery is
liable to be this afternoon's product.
For this reason, such research requires
a close cooperation between industries
and universities; neither can afford to
fall behind, and only the traditionally
quick response time of industry coor-
dinated with the breadth and depth of
university facilities and talents will
keep them both up to date. A good
example of such cooperative efforts is
seen in the recent arrival of the Col-
lege of Engineering's first Visiting
Industrial Associate, Mr. W. O.
Gentry of the Fansteel Metallurgical
Corporation of Chicago.

Mr. Gentry is working with Dr. C.
B. Satterthwaite, Associate Professor
of Physics in the Coordinated Science
Laboratory. Dr. Satterthwaite's group
is doing advanced research on super-
conductor materials, a subject of great
interest to Fansteel because the com-
pany produces these exotic metals.
Mr. Gentry is here under the auspices
of the Visiting Industrial Associates
Prograin, which is sponsored by the
Midwest Electronics Research Center
( described in more detail on page 23 ) .
He is no stranger to the campus; he
did his undergraduate work in engi-
neering physics here during 1953-57.
The quest for superconductor ma-
terials that brought Fansteel to the
University started over fifty years ago
when Kamerlingh Onnes, a Dutch
physicist, succeeded in hquifying
helium, thereby opening investiga-
tions in the temperature range below
4.2°K. Onnes thought that the resis-
tance of a material might vanish at
absolute zero. However, subsequent
experiments showed that the best con-

TECHNOGRAPH

20
15
10
05
00

4.22 4.26 4.30 432

TEMPERATURE, °K

Figure 1. Resistance of mercury as a function
of temperoture.

ductors at room temperatures, such as
platinum, gold, siher, and copper do
not become superconductive; rather,
their resistance becomes a constant of
small magnitude as tlie temperature
drops below 10" K. Oimes supposed
that impurities \\ere responsible for
his imperfect results and turned his
in\-estigations to mercury which he
could obtain in purer form. Although
the resistance of the mercury dropped
to zero, it did so at a temperature
slighth- abo\e 4''K and much more
abruptly than Onnes predicted (Fig.
1). Further experimentation revealed
that impurities did not pre\'ent mer-
ciu-y from becoming superconducti\e.

Research since that time has estab-
lished that none of the alkali, noble,
ferromagnetic, or antiferromagnetic
metals are superconductors, although
e.xamples from each of tliese classes
are found in superconducting com-
pounds. Nearly all crystal classes are
represented. Also, superconductivity'
is most apt to occur in elements or
compounds ha\'ing 3, 5, or 7 valence
electrons per atom. Twenty'- three ele-
ments plus many compounds and
alloys are known to exhibit supercon-
ductive properties. (See Table #1.)

As research continued, in\estigators
discovered that some properties re-
mained the same and that others, in
addition to resistance, changed when
materials became superconductive.
Following the original discovery of
superconducti\it>% it was assumed
tliat the magnetic field in a metal re-
mained constant as the metal became
superconducti\e, but in 1933 experi-
ments by Meissner and Ochsenfeld
indicated that the field inside a pure

superconductor was zero. In other
words, pure superconductors appear
to !ia\'e zero permeability (Fig. 2).

Onnes also discovered that a mag-
netic field caused restoration of resis-
tance in superconductors. The critical
field is that field which restores resis-
tance at a given temperature. The
magnetic field must be decreased be-
low this critical field, H,, to restore
superconductivity.

Since a superconductor has no re-
sistance, \ery high currents ma>' be
induced. If the current in a supercon-
ductor produces a surface field which
equals or exceeds the critical field, the
metal regains its resistivity. This phe-
nomenon, known as the Silsbee efi^ect,
provides a practical limitation in the
use of superconducting circuits. The
critical field at absolute zero, H,„ and
the critical temperatvire are two bases
for comparison of SC elements, com-
pounds, and alloys (Fig. 3).

Early research therefore resulted in
several basic conclusions about super-
conductors: (1) in general (aluminum
being die exception) superconduc-
ti\it\- is associated with high room
temperature resistivit}'; (2) supercon-
ductor materials become superconduc-
tive abruptly at a threshold tempera-
ture above 0°K; (3) superconductors
are perfect diamagnets; and (4) a
magnetic field causes restoration of
resistance and the critical magnetic
field is a parabolic function of the
temperature.

The most recent and currently ac-
cepted tlieory of superconductivity
was developed at the University of
Illinois. In 1957 Professors John Bar-
deen, L. N. Cooper, and J. R. Schrief-
fer created what has become known
as the BCS theory. Their theory at-
tributes superconductivity to a gap in
the energv- levels of a superconductor
through which the conduction elec-
trons move. This gap is produced in
the following way: an electron moving
through the crystal lattice collides
with it and subtly changes the vibra-
tional pattern of the lattice. This small
change is in turn communicated to
another electron traveling in a direc-
tion opposite to the first. In this fash-
ion, which can be properly described
only in quantum mechanical language,
electrons tend to interact in pairs and

in such a way that their energy is
reduced. When this interaction is
summed over all pairs of electrons
traveling all directions in the metal,
the net result is an over-all lowering
of electron energies sufficient to leave
the energy gap postulated by the
theory.

Under the present cooperative re-
search program at the University, the
Fansteel Corporation is interested in
finding new superconductive materials
that are more machineable and that
have higher critical magnetic fields
than presently known superconduc-
tors. To accomplish this, they wish to
gain some expert knowledge in super-
conductivity; Mr. Gentry has joined
Dr. Satterthwaite's group for that
reason. The interests of the University
are to produce useful new knowl-
edge, to understand the basic phe-
nomena of superconductivity, and to
provide research training for the
graduate program.

Finding and isolating such materials
is often a complicated engineering
problem. One of the most recently
discovered materials, a compound of

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY

Element

T,( K) H.

( oersteds )

Technetium

11.2

300-400

Columbium

9.22

Niobium

9.2

2000

Lead

7.22

807

Lanthanum

5.9

1600

Vanadium

5.03

1310

Tantalum

4.39

780

Mercury

4.16

413

Tin

3.72

305

Indium

3.40

278

Thallium

2.39

171

Rhenium

1.70

201

Thorium

1.37

131

Aluminum

1.20

106

Gallium

1.09

Uranium

.68

Zinc

.79

Asmium

.71

Zirconium

.55

Cadmimn

.54

Ruthenium

.47

Titanium

.39

Hafnium

.37

Table 1. Transition temperatures and
critical fields at absolute zero of the
superconducting elements.

OCTOBER, 1963

niobium and tin, was needed in a fine
wire form but was not pliable enough
to be drawn, as wire is usually pro-
duced. An engineering study at Bell
Laboratories brought forth a means
for placing niobium and tin powders
inside a tliin tube of ordinary con-
ducting material and heating it until
the inside material became a fine,
solid wire. Currents introduced into
the resulting "insulated wire" did not
penetrate the "insulation" because the
superconducting wire had much less
resistance— in fact, none.

Figure 2. The Meissner effect, perfect dia-
magnetism, oil flux exclucJed.

It is such problems as this that the
members of Dr. Satterthwaite's group
(including Mr. Gentry) are trying to
solve. The possibilities of rewards for
Fansteel, in terms of marketable ap-
plications, are legion: conventional
magnets using copper conductors are
capable of developing intense fields,
but they require immense power sup-
plies and cooling systems. In contrast,
superconducting magnets capable of
producing comparable fields suffer no
heat losses once the field is estab-
lished. A superconducting magnet
consumes no energy and requires no
power other than that required for
refrigeration.

Superconducting magnets promise
to provide the high strength magnetic
fields required for "bottling" thermo-
nuclear plasma ( hot ionized gas which
would melt any material container);
magnetohydrodynamics experiments

to study die conversion of heat di-
rectly into electricity by jDassing a
stream of white hot gas tlu'ough the
field of a strong magnet; particle ac-
celerators; magnetic shielding; float-
ing rotor gyroscopes; no-loss motors;
magnetic field-lubricated bearings;
improved images in electron micro-
scopes; use in conjunction with
bubble chambers, where greater de-
flection of particle path will simplify
the study of particle interactions;
frictionless suspension; high-speed
computers utilizing neither vacuum
tubes nor transistors; more efficient
storage of electricity; and metal form-
ing using powerful magnets to
squeeze hard-to-work metals into
complicated shapes.

The program in superconductivity
is one of a number of research areas
near the forefront of scientific investi-
gation in which the University is en-
gaged. "In order to maintain a vital
scientific and engineering atmos-
phere," according to Dr. Satterth-
waite, "the University must maintain
a high level of research. To remain
efl^ective as teachers of science and
engineering, the staff must actively
participate in acquiring new knowl-
edge, and the University must support
research in order to attract good staff
members. The rewards of research are
not limited to the staff and graduate
students alone; many undergraduate
students also participate and make
valuable contributions in the research
programs, working as laboratory as-
sistants or in honors programs con-
nected with research. The entire

SUPERCONDUCTIVEX

TEMPERATURE

Figure 3. Typical Silsbee transition curve belo^
vtiich a material is superconductive.

undergraduate student body profits
from research activities, in that the
teachers of undergraduate courses are
up to date in their fields and are able
tf bring the latest information to the
classroom. This is important in all
fields of engineering, but especially
so in a field like superconductivity,
where this morning's discovery is not
only liable to be this afternoon's prod-
uct, but perhaps included in this after-
noon's lesson in the classroom."
[ . . . and probably in tomorrow's
e.xam! Ed.]

The First Five Years
of the Engineer

In 1958 the University of Illinois
College of Engineering graduated 733
engineers. In a recent survey by the
Engineering Placement Office to dis-
cover what had happened to these
people over the last five years, some
interesting facts turned up: 438 of
them responded to the survey; the
average starting salary in 1958 for
these men was $486.83 a month; 409
are gainfully employed today; their
average monthly salary is $809.48, a
gain of 66.28' r over the five-year
period. But— 83 of them had taken
out from one to four years to complete
an advanced degree, and 99 of them
are working on advanced degrees
now. Another 103 of them spent from
a few months to four years of the five
year period in the armed services.

It is obvious that the graduates
\\'ho have spent all or most of the
five years working have done very
well; how have the ones who took
some time off for advanced college
work done? Of the 409 engineers now
working, those with no advanced
degree have an average monthly
salary of $794.64. In spite of the time
they had to be away from their
jobs over the five-year period, those
\vith master's degrees are averaging
$846.84; and those wth doctorates
are averaging $1032.71 a month. It
appears that the money lost in not
being gainfully employed while get-
ting advanced schooling is more than
recovered in the engineer's ability to
command a higher salary if he holds
advanced degrees. Better think long
and hard about graduate work. . . .

TECHNOGRAPH

WHO DOES THE THINKING FOR THINKING MACHINES?

Even though we didn't invent it, we at American Oil use the
computer so extensively in Linear Programming that we often
think of it as "our baby." And as such it must be spoon-fed
known data by experts in order to come up with the answers to a
myriad of refinery operation problems.

One of the experts at American Oil who helps the thinking
machine think is Leonard Tenner, 24, a graduate Chemical Engi-
neer from M.I.T. His current assignment: prepare a mathematical
model covering the manufacture of gasoline, home fuel and jet
fuel from crude oil.

The fact that many gifted and earnest young men like Len
Tenner are finding challenging careers at American Oil could have
special meaning for you. American Oil offers a wide range of new
research opportunities for: Chemists— analytical, electrochemical,
physical, and organic: Engineers— chemical, mechanical, and metal-
lurgical; Masters in Business Administration with an engineering
(preferably chemical) or science background; Mathematicians;
Physicists.

For complete information about interesting careers in the Re-
search and Development Department, write: J. H. Strange,
American Oil Company, P. O. Box 431, Whiting, Indiana.

IN ADDITION TO FAR-REACHING PROGRAMS INVOLVING FUELS, LUBRICANTS AND PETRO-
CHEMICALS, AMERICAN OIL AND ITS AFFILIATE, AMOCO CHEMICALS, ARE ENGAGED IN
SUCH DIVERSIFIED RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AS: Organic ions under electron
impact , Radiation-induced reactions Physiochemical nature of catalysts ' Fuel cells / Novel
separations by gas chromatography / Application of computers to complex technical problems
/ Synthesis and potential applications for aromatic acids / Combustion phenomena / Design
and economics: new uses for present products, new products, new processes / Corrosion
mechanisms / Development of new types of surface coatings.

STANDARD OIL DIVISION
AMERICAN OIL COMPANY

STUDENT DISCOUNT ON
ENGINEERING ^

PUBLICATIONS

The Engineering Experiment Sta-
tion has been in the pubhcations busi-
ness almost as long as Tl)e Illinois
Technograph—Tcch started in 1886,
while the Station didn't begin pub-
lishing until 1904. This comparatively
late start is explained by the fact that
the Station, although it was the first
Experiment Station in the United
States, didn't exist before 1903. Now
this newcomer to the publishing busi-
ness has asked Tech, with its long
background of practical experience
and know-how, to publicize a new
policy of student discounts on the
younger organization's publications.

In order to respond intelligently to
this request, Tech staff members felt
compelled to look into the reputation
of the Station and its publications
program; we were finally forced to
admit that their credentials look
nearly as good as Techno graph's. Like
us, they publish a considerable num-
ber of publications, they distribute
them all over the world, and they
have managed to get them into the
world's best engineering libraries. In
fact, and again somewhat grudgingly,
we feel obligated to point out that
many of the bulletins and circulars
from other universities are available
in our library because of the recip-
rocal agreement those institutions
have with the Station and the Col-
lege: they get our technical publica-
tions and they send us theirs. There
are approximately 1,000 such libraries
around the world that have entered
into this trade arrangement.

In view of this successful, if short,
history, and appearance of probable
longevity, we have agreed to do for
the Station what its world-wide com-

munications net cannot do: communi-
cate with the students of the College
of Engineering. The announcement
is: effective immediately, students of
the College of Engineering can pur-
chase at half-price any Bulletin, Cir-
cular, or Technical Report published
by the Station. This represents a
financial loss for the Station because
the prices of these publications are
calculated just to cover the cost of
printing, but it is being done as a
service to the student. No written
approvals by instructors are required
for the discount. Students who wish
can get a list of available publications

free of charge from 112 Civil Engi-
neering Hall. End of message. . . .

We of Technograph feel that this
represents a fair spirit of cooperation
toward the students, partly because
we realize that if we had no more
experience in the publishing business
than the Station we would probably
have to reduce our price too. But
since we are the oldest continuous
publication on the engineering cam-
pus, we v.'iW maintain our price for
subscribers and give Tech to the stu-
dents of the College. Perhaps when
the Station has been at this as long
as we have. . . .

TECH was right; they are half price.

TECHNOGRAPH

This Brochure Tells How You Can

Advance Your Professional Career at Allison

So, you're close to finishing your regular college cur-
riculum. What then ? A job, of course, but how about
continuing your learning ?

Allison's broad education and training programs
encourage the young graduate engineer to seek educa-
tion beyond the normal four or five year college
course.

We'd like to tell you more about our Advance Study
Program : The Tuition Refund Plan . . . Graduate Study
Program . . . Technical Training Program . . . and
Accelerated Experience Program. The AEP is designed
to help the new engineer gain on-the-job experience
in the shortest possible time. It's directed toward new

engineers in Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautical
Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engi-
neering, Engineering Science, Mathematics, Chemis-
try and Metallurgy.

Interested ? Talk to our interviewer when he visits
your campus. Or, write now for your copy of Allison's
brochure, explaining your opportunities in Advance
Study and our Accelerated Experience Program. Send
your request to: Allison Division, General Motors
Corporation, Indianapohs 6, Indiana. Att: Profes-
sional and Scientific Placement, Dept. 1801.

An equal opportunity employer

Allison

THE ENERGY CONVERSION DIVISION OF
GENERAL MOTORS. INDIANAPOLIS. INDIANA

OCTOBER, 1963

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14 TECHNOGRAPH

A YEAR OF
ACHIEVEMENT

It uuiild be impossible to oittUnc evenj activity of the College of Engineer-
ing last year; however, the following excerpts from Dean Everitt's annual
report to the President should provide students with a brief glimpse of the
1962-1963 period.

Educational Programs

Engineers are the most important
product of the College of Engi-
neering, and educating them is the
Colleges most important project. Con-
tinuous stri\ing o\er the years for
high educational standards has not
resulted in low numbers in the under-
graduate enrollment, graduate enroll-
ment, or degree granted columns. Al-
though comparative figures for 1962-
63 are not yet available, the record
should compare well with the pre-
vious \ear, when the University of
Illinois, according to the U. S. Office
of Education, granted more engi-
neering degrees than any other insti-
tution in the United States: 669 B.S.,
327 M.S., and 94 Ph.D. degrees. In
addition, 53 B.S., 56 M.S., and 27
Ph.D. degrees were awarded in
Physics.

One significant happening of the
year was that a new program in the
humanities and social sciences, re-
quiring every engineering student to
take at least 18 semester hours in
these fields, was established.

The College's Honors Program was
quite active with a total of 135 stu-
dents participating, and several new
ideas were implemented such as a
program in Civil Engineering allowing
carefully selected honors students to
receive tutorial teaching from the
staff during their senior year. Stu-
dent placement acti\'ities were \ig-
orous: in the fall of 1962 a total of
314 companies visited the campus to
inter\-iew engineering graduates, and

Dean W. L. E

385 of them \ isited during the spring
of 1963. In addition, the Engineering
Placement Office published and of-
fered to industry a semester report,
an annual report, and a five-year re-
port on emplovTnent of our graduates.

Research Programs

The year witnessed the College's
involvement in 439 separate research
projects, 308 of which were sponsored
bv 32 private companies, 11 industrial
organizations, 7 private foundations,
and 36 federal and state agencies.
The remaining 131 projects were sup-
ported by Universit\' funds. Research
income for the year, the highest in
history, was 12y4 million dollars. The
University's nuclear reactor, the only
university-operated reactor licensed to
"pulse" to power levels above 250
million watts, was given authoriza-
tion by the AEC to pulse to one bil-
lion watts. The Materials Research
Laboratory, made up of five partici-
pating departments of the College,
completed its first year of operation

with 22 research projects in progress
and plans completed for its new head-
quarters. PLATO, the computer-con-
trolled automatic teaching system of
tlie Coordinated Science Laboratory,
was given multi-student capabilities
during the year.

The College was especially active
in various types of participation in the
nation's space program during the
year. A whole new research program
in aeronomy was begun, and plans
were laid for the L^niversity's contri-
bution to the NASA rocket program
to study properties of the ionosphere
during the coming International Quiet
Sun Year. During the recent eclipse
the University, in cooperation with
Stanford University, carried out a
major study of the ionosphere from
stations in Alaska, Canada, Illinois,
and ^Vashington. Further work was
completed on plans to cooperate with
NASA in placing one of the Coordi-
nated Science Laboratory's electric
vacuum gvTOscopes in orbit to check
Einstein's theory of relativity by
measuring g\ro drift rate.

Public Service Programs

In addition to the usual large num-
ber of summer science training insti-
tutes, short courses, and guidance
activities, the College's public sen ice
programs were increased in 1962-63,
partly because of the University's
expanded efforts to interact with
industry. During the year the Board
of Trustees approved the establish-
ment of the Midwest Electronics Re-
search Center as an administrative
mechanism to facilitate increased co-
operation with industries in elec-
tronics and related areas of solid state

(continued on page 45, column 1)

OCTOBER, 1963

Your future in engineering is his business

He's a Monsanto Professional Employment repre-
sentative... now also representing the other members
of the Monsanto corporate family: Chemstrand Com-
pany, Shaivinigan Resins Corporation, Plax Company,
Monsanto Research Corporation, Chemstrand Research
Center, Inc.

Ask him about the diversity these outstanding or-
ganizations offer — in geography, activities, prod-
ucts — diversity that offers ever-expanding oppor-
tunity to the young man of exceptional promise.
Ask this expert in jiitiires about the future the

Monsanto family offers you in research, develop-
ment, manufacturing and marketing.

See your Placement Director to arrange an inter-
view when we visit your
campus. Or write for our
new brochure, "You and
Monsanto," to Manager,
Professional Recruiting,
Dept. EN-10, Monsanto,
St. Louis, Missouri, 63166.

AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

TECHNOGRAPH

NATIONAL
f SOCIETY OF ^
PROFESSIONAL
i ENGINEERS

The student chapter of the Illinois
Society of Professional Engineers
ser\es the primary function of pro\icl-
ing the engineering student with the
opportunit>- to learn and understand
the professional aspects of his career
—that side of his training and career
\\ liich is not pure science and tech-
nology. This is accomplished through
its meetings, through its publications,
and through wider contacts with
practicing professional engineers. All
bona fide undergraduate engineering
students are eligible for membership.

The chapter was organized in the
spring of 1961 through the efforts
and financing of the Champaign
County chapter, in co-operation \\ith
se\eral faculty members. The first
president was Lyle Martin of Ag-
ricultural Engineering. The national
charter was received a year later,
and formally presented last fall.
Across the entire nation, ours is stu-
dent chapter number nine at a major
four-year engineering school. The
campus chapter is affiliated with the
State Society with headquarters in
Springfield, and with the National
Society with headquarters in ^^'ash-
ington, D.C.

Through the ages a man engaged
in engineering was really a military
engineer, and it was as late as the
middle of the eighteenth century be-
fore someone limited his practice
strictly to civilian projects— and be-
came the first "civil engineer." Now
there are hvelve degree-granting
branches of engineering on our
campus, each curriculum having one
or more technical societies. The pro-
fessional engineering group is the

i of Ihe ISPE
;no L. Keltner, seci

(left to righl) Roger W. Daniels, vice-preside
ry; and (seated) Timothy E. Swanson, treasun

Robert E. Seyler,

only unifying body to encompass and
speak for all engineers.

The student chapter plans three
meetings this fall:

October 16, in Rm. 275 Illini Union
South, "Unity among Professional
Engineers" showing a movie "The
Dew Line," made by the Bell Tele-
phone Co. A special invitation is
extended to all freshmen and sopho-
mores to attend this meeting.

November 13, in Rm. 151 Electrical
Engineering Building, "Unions and
the Professional Engineer," with
Sander B. Friedman, P.E., as the
main speaker. Mr. Friedman is chief
engineer and general manager of the
Universal Circuit Controls Corpora-
tion, Skokie.

Dec. 11, in Rm. 275 llhni Union
South, "Professional Engineer's Lia-
bility in Design Failure," with George
L. Sodemann, P.E., as the speaker.
Mr. Sodemann is with the firm Sode-
mann and Associates, consulting en-
gineers of Champaign.

All meetings are held from 7;()() to
9:00 P.M.

The current chapter officers are:
President, Robert E. Seyler, General
Engineering; ^'ice-president, Roger
^\'. Daniels, Industrial Engineering;
Secretary, Gerlina L. Keltner, Aero-
nautical and Astronautical Engineer-
ing; and Treasurer, Timothy E. Swan-
son, Ci\il Engineering.

The faculty advisors are Da\id R.
Reyes-Guerra and Robert A. Jewett,
both of General Engineering.

Following the first stage of its
membership campaign during regis-
tration week, there were 78 active
members. These students wiU receive
The American Engineer from the na-
tional office, and The Illinois Engineer
from the state office. These students
are also privileged to attend meetings
of any of the 23 chapters throughout
the state.

One of the requirements for mem-
bership in the National Society of
Professional Engineers is registration
as a P.E. in any state or the District
of Columbia. Each of these states has
its own law and examination in order
to certify an individual so as to pro-
tect the health, welfare, and safety
of the public. The law states: "The
term professional engineer within the
meaning and intent of this act shall
mean a person ^\'ho, by reason of his
special knowledge of the mathemati-
cal and physical sciences and the
principles and methods of engineer-
ing analysis and design, acquired by
professional education and practical
experience, is qualified to practice
engineering as hereinafter defined, as
attested by his legal registration as a
professional engineer."

(continued on page 48, column 3)

OCTOBER, 1963

flJ

the IBM story, in brief, ibm was founded in

1914. The achievements of the company have been
exceptional.

IBM develops, manufactures, and markets machines
for the handling, processing, and control of data. It
also installs this equipment and maintains it.

IBM products range from electric typewriters sell-
ing for several hundred dollars to complete elec-
tronic computer systems valued in the millions. In
addition, IBM produces advanced systems for space
programs and national defense.

IBM systems, equipment, and machines are at work
in a wide range of activities covering almost every
field of endeavor: in business, industry, govern-
ment, research, science, education, and space ex-
ploration. IBM research is continually exploring new
areas of interest in a quest for basic knowledge. At
IBM, engineers and scientists are constantly at
work in the development of new methods, the de-
sign of new products, and new ways to apply basic
discoveries.

We welcome ideas, talent, and ability. We offer thr
man or woman who has them the opportunity U
move ahead rapidly. Above all, IBM offers room fo:
achievement.

technical positions. Development Engi -
neering: Challenging design and development wor
will include new components, machines, and othe
products involving circuitry, components, dat :
communications, guidance systems, logical d{
sign, magnetics, mathematics, microwaves, optic;
solid state devices, statistics. (A B.S. or advance
degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineerinf
Mathematics, or Physics.)

Manufacturing Engineering: Creative application t
new methods and processes will develop advance
automation machinery to be used in the precisia
manufacture of complex devices and electron!
equipment. (A B.S. or advanced degree in Induj
trial. Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering.)

Programming: Professional opportunities are avas
able for men and women in the programming off
variety of computing systems. It involves definin

TECHNOGRAPH

UUDDD

e problem— in business, industry, science, or gov-
nment; specifying the steps which the computer
ust execute to arrive at the desired result; and
sting the finished program. (Bachelor's or Mas-
r's Degree— preferably in Mathematics, Science,
igineering, or Business Administration.)

;search: Basic research covering a broad spec-
um of activity will be expanding at IBM in such
eas as mathematics, physics, mechanics, optics,
)lid state phenomena, chemistry, information
leory, machine organization. (An advanced degree
Physics, Mathematics, Physical Chemistry, Engi-
sering, or Engineering Science.)

asic information about IBM. Across-

le-country operations. Laboratory and manufac-
iring facilities are located in Endicott, Kingston,
wego, Poughkeepsie, and Yorktown, N. Y.; Be-
lesda, Md.; Burlington, Vt.; Lexington, Ky.; San
3se, Calif.; and Rochester, Minn. Corporate offices
■•e in New York City, with sales and service offices
1 180 cities throughout the nation.

The accent is on the IndividuaL Each IBM employee
is given all the responsibility he can handle and all
the support he needs to do his job. Advancement is
by merit. IBM is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Broad education programs. To keep men abreast
of new developments in their fields, education pro-
grams include on-site courses, advanced-degree
courses at universities near IBM facilities, and com-
petitive, full-time scholarships leading to M.S. or
Ph.D. Degrees at a university of the employee's
choice.

IBM's expansion has come through continuous in-
novation and through new ideas and products. It
makes IBM an exciting place to work and learn.
It also offers the kind of responsibility that leads to
rapid advancement. There's room for achievement
with a growth company like IBM. Please write, out-
lining your interests, and we will be glad to send
you information and brochures. Manager of College
Relations, IBM Corporation, Dept. 915, 590 Madison
Avenue, New York 22, N. Y.

OCTOBER, 1963

TWO NEW CENTERS FOR DIRECT

INTERACTION WITH INDUSTRY

The production of consumer goods
in die United States has traditionally
been the principal concern of industry.
Before World ^Var II manufacturing
did not require strong support from
basic research, nor did it require a
large number of engineers with edu-
cation beyond the bachelor's degree.
Products and production techniques
changed only slowly as a new re-
search development gradually found
its way from the laboratory to the
commercial product. But now that
picture, as every engineering student
knows, has changed.

In the past twenty years, the time
bet^veen the discovery of new prod-
ucts and their application has grown
much shorter. A far larger research
effort has been combined with faster
development schedules designed to
get research knowledge into the final
product as rapidly as possible. This
acceleration has posed a new set of
problems for industry, problems that
might be grouped into three cate-
gories.

First, the new emphasis on research
requires a closer working relationship
between basic research groups in the
universities and the applied research
and development associated with in-
dustrial fimis. To remain in die fore-
front, industry must support research
more fully and concern itself more
directly with the results. Likewise, for
outstanding up-to-date educational
programs, universities must keep in-
formed about new developments and
new discoveries in production and all
other fields of endeavor. \\'ith the
present emphasis on new devices and
techniques, today's laboratory curi-
osity may well be tomorrow's product
—witness, the transistor.

Second, industry must enhance its
ability to attract and hold top tech-

nical and scientific minds. To be effec-
tive, research and development re-
quire creative minds of the highest
caliber. Industry cannot fall into
routine patterns if it is to get the new
ideas tliat it needs to remain com-
petitive. The presence of university
research organizations, working close-
ly with industry, provides a powerful
magnet to attract creative people.
The academic community can provide
a valuable nucleus around which a
stimulating and creative environment
can be developed.

Finally, engineers in industr\- ]ia\e
an increasing need to continually up-
date their technical knowledge to
keep pace with new developments. A
imiversity can help to meet this need
through extension courses, short
courses, conferences, and its regular
academic program. In addition, uni-
versities can encourage engineers
from industry to come to the campus
for seminars and other engineering
campus events.

The University of Illinois College
of Engineering has provided support
for industry in a number of ways for
many years, including research, con-
sultation, qualified engineering man-
power, and continuing interaction
with industry to make die University's
resources and facilities fully available
in the most effective way possible.

Now new mechanisms have been or
are being developed by the University
and the College to facilitate such in-
teractions with the industrial commun-
ity. Two of these, approved by the
Board of Trustees earlier this year,
are the Midwest Electronics Research
Center and the Production Engineer-
ing Educational and Research Center.

PEERC

A machinist used to finish his day
with a basket of chips and a teacup

full of broken or worn out cutting
tools; since the introduction of mod-
ern superliard alloys, he sometimes
gets a basket full of tools and a tea-
cup full of chips. This is only one of
the many problems that are costing
the machine tool industries and their
consumers many billions of dollars
each year. Such problems will be the
major interests of a new educational
and research center established on
the University of Illinois campus in
1963.

PEERC, or Production Engineering
Educational and Research Center, is
an interdisciplinary effort sponsored
and organized through the participa-
tion of the Departments of Mechanical
and Industrial Engineering; Electrical
Engineering; Mining, Metallurgy,
and Petroleum Engineering; General
Engineering; Theoretical and Applied
Mechanics; the Coordinated Science
Laboratory; the Department of Eco-
nomics of the College of Commerce;
and the Engineering Experiment Sta-
tion.

Some of the many aspects of pro-
duction engineering with which
PEERC will concern itself are ma-
chine tool engineering, metal process-
ing, mechanization, automation and
control engineering, tool and manu-
facturing engineering, and processing
systems engineering. The activities of
the Center will include the de\-elop-
ment of a graduate educational pro-
gram, the strengthening of current re-
search areas, the opening of new
research areas, the evaluation of
foreign developments, the develop-
ment of an inclusive library, and the
dissemination of its findings througli
sliort courses and symposia, lectures.
Continued on p. 23, col. 1.

TECHNOGRAPH

gd/r\a/

/aerospace
/southwest
('pioneer

GD/FW is currently engaged in many outstanding projects involving
atmospheric and space vehicles and systems. Energetic, creative
engineers and scientists are needed now, to help solve the intriguing
problems involved in our many ambitious programs. ■ To take advan-
tage of the opportunities offered, contact your Placement Director, to
determine when a General Dynamics/Fort Worth representative will be
on campus, or write Mr. J. B. Ellis, Industrial Relations Administrator-
Engineering, General Dynamics/Fort Worth, P. 0. Box 748, Fort Worth,
Texas. An equal opportunity employer.

GEIMERAI- DYIMAIVIICS FORT \A/ORTH

GIIIIIIIID

OCTOBER, 1963

Opportunities at Hughes for EE's — Physicists — Scientists:

from the ocean floor to the moon. ..and beyond

Hughes sphere of activity extends from the far reaches of outer space to the bottom

of the sea . . . includes advanced studies, research, design, development and produc-
tion on projects such as: ® SURVEYOR — unmanned, soft-landing lunar spacecraft
for chemical and visual analysis of the moon's surface; (2) SYNCOM (Synchronous-
orbit Communications Satellite)— provides world-wide communications with only three
satellites; (5) F-111B PHOENIX Missile System— an advanced weapon system designed
to radically extend the defensive strike capability of supersonic aircraft; ® Antl-
ICBM Defense Systems — designed to locate, intercept and destroy attacking enemy
ballistic missiles in flight; ©Air Defense Control Systems— border-to-border con-
trol of air defenses from a single command center — combines 3D radar, real-time
computer technology and display systems within a flexible communications network;
® 3D Radar— ground and ship-based systems give simultaneous height, range and
bearing data— now in service on the nuclear-powered U.S.S. Enterprise; ©POLARIS
Guidance System — guidance components for the long-range POLARIS missile;
® Hydrospace — advanced sonar and other anti-submarine warfare systems.

Other responsible assignments include: TOW wire-guided anti-tank missile, //irf automatic check-
out equipment. Hard Point defense systems. ...R&D work on ion engines, advanced infrared systems,
associative computers, lasers, plasma physics, nuclear electronics, communications systems, microwave
tubes, parametric amplifiers, solid state materials and devices . . . and many others.

B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. Candidates

Members of our staff will conduct

CAMPUS INTERVIEWS
November 6 & 7, 1963

Learn more about opportunities at Hughes,
our educational programs, and ttie extra
benefits Southern California living offers.
For interview appointment and litera-
ture, consult your College Placement
Director. Or write: College Placement
Office, Hughes Aircraft Company, P. O.
Box 90515, Los Angeles 9, California.

Creating a new world with electronics

HUGHES

I I

HUGHES AIRCRAFT COMPANY
U. S. CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED

An equal opportunity employer.

Two New Centers

(continued from page 20)

conferences, and interpretive publica-
tions.

MERC

liack in tlie golden age of tiie
Greeks the principle of reaction tur-
bines was demonstrated; but many
hundreds of \ears passed before the
modern ste;im turbine was de\eloped.
In 1948 Dr. John Bardeen and two
colleagues discovered the ti^ansistor;
within four years it was the basis of a
multi-million dollar industry. How
narrow will the gap between dis-
co\ery and application be tomorrow?

Every industrial organization ap-
proaches this problem in its own way
—but it is generally recognized that
organizational leadership and pros-
perity in a rapidly e\'olving technol-
ogy depend on dex'eloping closer
relationships between the discovery
of new knowledge and the means of
applying it.

An antidote for the narrowing gap
between disco\ery and application in
tlie electronics industry has been con-
ceived by Dr. John Bardeen, electrical
engineer and physicist at the Univer-
sity' of Illinois. This modern approach
to the problem, the Midwest Elec-
ti-onics Research Center, is designed
to assist electronics firms in handling
the complex research required for
military and space problems, new
areas of ci\ilian technolog\', and new
product development.

The Midwest Electronics Research
Center is a fle.xible organization cap-
able of quickly devising new pro-
cedures to soh'e unusual problems,
but it contains a number of estab-
lished programs calculated to aid
electronic industries in keeping up
u ith (or ahead of) their fields. These
programs include:

Applications Forums and Seminars

Cooperati\e Industry-University
Research Programs

Consultantship Arrangements

Continuing Educational and Pro-
fessional Development Programs

Interpretive Literature Publication
and Distribution Activities

Joint Industry-\\ide Laboratories

In addition, MERC sponsors a
\'isiting Industrial Associates Pro-
gram, which pemiits technical per-
sonnel from industry to participate in
on-going research programs on tlK>
College of Engineering campus at
Urbana. Participation in MERC ac-
ti\'ities by an industry man carries
with it a cooperate membership ar-
rangement that facilitates the use of
existing mechanisms and the estab-
lishment of new means of cooperati\e
efforts.

The Center is a catalyst in the crea-
tive idea development process at all
levels. It provides direct assistance to
industrial firms as they seek to in-
crease their own research potential,
and it helps stimulate basic research
by Universit}- staff members on prob-
lems of interest to industry. In this
way it is a mutually beneficial pro-
gram; it encourages a combination of
rapid response time of industry with
the breadth and depth of the Univer-
sity's talents and facilities. This wide
scope of University activities is clearly
seen in such diverse interdisciplinary-
research programs as the Coordinated
Science and Materials Research
Laboratories, as well as the multi-
faceted research activities of the
Electrical Engineering and Plnsics
Departments. The Center, as a co-
ordinating agency, establishes the tie
between the idea, the pilot model,
and the product.

Engineering Departmental
Reports and Theses, 1962

This new publication contains bibli-
ographic data and abstracts of re-
search reports published by depart-
ments in the LTniversity of Illinois
College of Engineering during the
1981-62 fiscal year. The bibliographx
pro\'ides information about papers
wTitten by the research staff which
may not be available except as depart-
mental publications. Titles, authors,
and advisors are presented for mas-
ter's theses and doctoral dissertations.

Engineering Depaiimental Reports
and Theses, 1962, Engineering Ex-
periment Station Circular 77, is avail-
able free of charge from the Engi-
neering Publications Office.

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OCTOBER, 1963

THESE GRADUATES THRIVE ON CREATIVE CHALLENGES... THEY'RE

MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING

R. A. Busby

University of Michigan— BSME— 1952

DEVELOPMENT ENGINEERING

R. P. Potter

University of lllinois-BSME-1959

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

V. H. Simson

Iowa State University-BSEE— 1948

There's an exciting challenge ahead for you,

K. M. Nelson, Manager-
Industrial Control Sales, discusses the functioning of

Cutler-Hammer's automation teams, and how
creative graduates contribute to pioneering developments.

For over sixty years Cutler-
Hammer has been a key con-
tributor in planning automatic
systems — now called automation.

To meet the pressing challenge of
rapidly expanding industrial auto-
mation, we have formed a number of
automation project teams. These
teams combine the technical and
manufacturing talents of versatile,
seasoned specialists and young, crea-
tive-minded engineering and business
administration graduates.

Their primary job: to make sure that
a customer's automation investment
pays an adequate return.

How do they meet this challenge?
By working with customer engineers
and consultants to isolate cost prob-
lems in manufacturing and ware-
housing operations. Then, by apply-
ing their individual disciplines and
creative ingenuity to build common-

TECHNOGRAPH

AUTOMATION PROBLEM SOLVERS

CONTROL ENGINEERING

B. 0. Rae

University of Wisconsin — BSEE— 1957

SALES ENGINEERING

J. B. Hewitt

University of Colorado-BSME-1957

ANALYTICAL ACCOUNTING

D. R. King

University of Wisconsin — BBA— 1957

too, on a Cutler-Hammer automation team

sense automation proposals that can
be justified economically.

Automation teams work together in
a modern 500,000 square foot plant
specifically designed to house every
activity involved in the evolution of
a system ... in a creative climate
that is conducive to imaginative
planning and development.

This approach has paid off! Though
industry has barely scratched the sur-
face of the automation potential, our
credentials already are quite impres-
sive. Jobs such as the U.S. Post Office
mail handling systems in 14 major
cities; a pallet handling system for a
mail-order firm; data accumulation
systems for large steel producers; a
number of automobile body-line
systems; bundle-handling systems for
30 major newspaper mail rooms; and
a package-handling system for a
prominent publisher are just a few

examples of our automation planning
skill at work.

What are the advantages to the
young, creative-minded graduate?
Short range, it's an exceptional op-
portunity for the man who responds
to the challenge of finding new solu-
tions to tough manufacturing prob-
lems. Long range, being a key
member of a Cutler-Hammer auto-
mation team is an excellent way to
get the diversified experience so
essential to steady career develop-
ment and future advancement.

WHAT'S NEW? ASK...

Want to know more? Write
today to T. B. Jochem,
Cutler-Hammer, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin for complete infor-
mation. And, plan to meet
with our representative when
he visits your campus.

CUTLER-HAMMER
AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

CUTLER-HAMMER

Cutler-Hammer tnc, Milwaukee, Wisconsin • Divisions: AIL; Mullenbach; Thayer Scale • Subsidiafies:
Uni-Bus.. Inc.: Cutler-Hammer International. C. A. Associates: Cutler.Hammer Canada, Ltd.: Culler.
Hammer. Me.icana. S. A.

OCTOBER, 1963

ENGINEERING SOCIETIES CALENDAR

Even tlioiigh our Professional Societies Editor, Bill Lueck, did his best to
contact the various societies, all could not he reached for the first issue of
TECH. Leaders of each student Professional Engineering Society are requested
to prepare a list of their activities for the coming months and submit it to the
TECH office, 48 E.E.B., by the fifteenth of each month. Meeting dates, places,
times, probable agenda, and other pertinent information should be included.
For fuiiher information, contact Bill at the TECH office or S32-18S6.

SOCIETY

MEETING

LOCATION

AGENDA

FUTURE PLANS

AMERICAN CERAMIC

October 29

Not determined.

Talk by a representative of the

Special plans are being made to attract fresn

SOCIETY

aerospace industry.

men and sophomores. Speakers from industry
will speak on a wide range of topics, both
technical and non-technical In nature.

AMERICAN SOCIETY

October 17.

Agricultural Engi-

Not definitely determined.

Speakers will talk on topics related to Ag-i-

OF AGRICULTURAL

7:30 P.M.

neering Building

cultural Engineering, and a prominent perscn

ENGINEERS

In the field of public relations will speak a«
one meeting.

SOCIETY OF WOMEN

October 15.

141 EEB

Monthly speakers will Inform the girls of posl

ENGINEERS (SWE)

3rd Tuesday of
each month.

tions and responsibilities they can expect as
woman engineers.

AMERICAN INSTITUTE

November b.

253 MEB

Warren Beardsly of the Reynolds

AIEE plans to have Industrial speakers from all

OF INDUSTRIAL

7:30 P.M.

Metals Co. will speak on "Facility

fields of engineering along with a combined

ENGINEERS (AIIE)

Expenditures." Refreshments will
be served.

student-adult chapter meeting, a plant toy
dinner-dance, bowling and golf tournaments,
and a picnic.

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF

Tuesday,

Room 279. South

Dr. Ralph E. Peck, professor of

The ASCE plans to sponsor the coffee hour Im

CIVIL ENGINEERS

November 5

mini Union

Foundation Engineering at Illinois,

mediately preceding the Civil Engineering

(ASCE)

will speak. Dr. Peck is a national
director of the ASCE and will
speak on the relationship of the
student to the ASCE.

Awards Convocation, further promote the en-
lightenment of its members with the various
facets and interesting happenings within the
field, and stimulate greater participation in
the membership, activities, and planning of
the society.

MINERAL INDUSTRIES

October 8.

220 Talbot Lab

Professor T. A. Read, head of the

Student-staff relationships will try to be Im-

SOCIETY (MIS)

7:30 P.M.

Department of Metallurgical. Min-
ing, and Petroleum Engineering,
will speak about MIS— the society
as a whole and its procedures and
obiectives. Plans to visit several
plants including a steel mill will
be made.

proved with such activities as bowling and
Picnics.

AMERICAN NUCLEAR

Not yet scheduled.

Not determined.

This year the ANS will bring at least six well-

SOCIETY

known men to the U of 1, including scientists
from the Argonne National Laboratory and
Westlnghouse. Several social functions are
planned for the year, including the traditional
Spring Beer Bust.

ILLINOIS SOCIETY OF

Wednesday.

275 mini Union.

A color movie by Bell Telephone

Discussions at this year's meetings will concen-

PROFESSIONAL

October '6.

South

on the establishment of the DEW

trate on the professional side of engineering.

ENGINEERS

7:00 P.M.

Line will be presented to show the
cooperation of several branches of
engneering. Engineers who were
actually at the DEW L^ne will be
at the meeting to answer Questions.

Such topics as labor unions, professional
ethics, and professional registration will be

presented.

Wednesday,

275 mini Union.

Not determined.

November 13.

South

7:00 P M.

Wednesday,

275 mini Union.

Not determined.

December II,

South

7:00 P.M.

Adult Society: first &

th'rd Thursday of

each month.

State Board of

Champaign

Opportunity for professional con-

Directors: November

tact with practicing engineers.

i & 2

AMERICAN

F eld trip. Monday.

Contact Tom Degen-

General inspection of the Cater-

00"^ trip is planned each semester to acquaint

FOUNDRYMAN'S

November 4.

hart. 176 Snyder. MRH

pillar Tractor Co. foundry in

englneerirq students with commercial found-

SOCIETY

1:00 P.M.

Peoria, 111. Following the tour the
group will attend a chapter meet-
ing of the national AFS in Peoria,
receive a free dinner, and meet
many prominent foundry officials
in the Peoria area.

ries, and to correlate their course work with
actual foundry practice.

AMERICAN INSTITUTE

Mid-October.

Not determined.

Lecture by leading representative

OF AERONAUTICS AND

a specific date has

of an aircraft company.

ASTRONAUTICS (AIAA)

not been set.

AMERICAN INSTITUTE

Guest speakers from industry and resear:"^

OF CHEMICAL

groups will be featured at the monthly meet-

ENGINEERS

ings Other events include: Sponsoring Engi-
neering Open House. Industrial field trips.
senior banquet, and promoting closer student-
faculty relations.

AMERICAN SOCIETY

November 20.

Room 269. Illini Union

Speaker from NASA Manned Space

Weekly movies on diverse engineering fields

OF MECHANICAL

7:30 P.M.

Flight Center; Business meeting;

October 16, 23. & 30: November b & 13: and

ENGINEERS

refreshments.

December 4 & 11. To be shown at 9:00 P.M. In
room 253 MEB.

December 18.

Room 273. Illini Union

Speaker, business meeting, and re-

7:30 P.M.

freshments.

January 7.

Room 273. Illini Union

Business meeting and election of

7-30 P M.

officers.

INSTITUTE OF

October 16,

151 EEB

A speaker from the Motorola Mili-

The IEEE is planning a tour of the Magna.:-

ELECTRICAL AND

8:15 P.M.

tary Electronics Division will be

plant in Urbana. which is engaged in a nu^

ELECTRONIC

present.

ber of military proiects. Definite time, date,

ENGINEERS (IEEE)

and transportation arrangements will be an-
nounced later.

November 5.

151 EEB

A representative from the NASA

7:30 P.M.

Lewis Research Center wit! speak.

TECHNOGRAPH

Tom Thomsen wanted challenging work

He found it at Western Electric

T. R. Thomsen, B.S.M.E., University of Nebraska, '58,
came to Western Electric for several reasons. Impor-
tant to him was the fact that our young engineers play
vital roles right from the start, working on exciting en-
gineering projects in communications including: elec-
tronic switching, thin film circuitry, microwave systems
and optical masers.

The wide variety of Western Electric's challenging
assignments appealed to Tom, as did the idea of ad-
vanced study through full-time graduate engineering
training, numerous management courses and a com-
pany-paid Tuition Refund Plan.

Tom knows, too, that we'll need several thousand
experienced engineers for supervisory positions within
the next few years. And he's getting the solid experi-
ence needed to qualify. Right now, Tom is developing

new and improved inspection and process control
techniques to reduce manufacturing costs of tele-
phone switching equipment. Tom is sure that Western
Electric is the right place for him. What about you?

If you set the highest standards for yourself, enjoy
a challenge, and have the qualifications we're looking
for— we want to talk to you! Opportunities for fast-
moving careers exist now for electrical, mechanical
and industrial engineers, and also for physical science,
liberal arts and business majors. For more detailed
information, get your copy of the Western Electric
Career Opportunities booklet from your Placement Of-
ficer. Or write: Western Electric Company, Room 5405,
222 Broadway, New York 38, N. Y. And be sure to
arrange for a personal interview when the Bell System
recruiting team visits your campus.

\^0StCftt Electric MANUFACTURING AND SUPPLY UNIT OP THE BELL SYSTEM (j^pJ

AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Principal manufacturing locations in 13 Cities • Operating centers in many of these same cities plus 36 others throughout the U. S. • Engineering Research
Center. Princeton. New Jersey • Teletvoe Corporation. Skokie. Illinois, Little Rock. Arkansas • General headquarters. 195 Broadway, New York 7. New York

OCTOBER, 1963

Picture of a man in love!

Young engineers seldom fall in love with corporations.

But they do fall in love with their own work— when they're
given the opportunity to put their own best ideas into
action.

We are seeing these young men in increasing numbers at
International Harvester . . . men of many talents who
come to us because of our unique and growing variety of
independent engineering assignments.

Mechanical, industrial, agricultural, chemical, ceramic,
metallurgical, general and civil engineers . . . mathemati-
cians, computer technologists, program analysts . . . these
are the types of graduates we need now for work in the

design, development, engineering and testing of more
than a thousand different products in nine separate engi-
neering and research centers.

International Harvester serves three basic industries:
transportation, construction and agriculture. World-wide,
the Company is the largest producer of heavy-duty trucks
as well as farm equipment. International Harvester is a
leader in construction and earthmoving equipment,
a major steel producer and, through its Solar facility, a
pioneer in gas turbine development.

With an eye to still further progress, we have doubled our
research and engineering expenditures in the past ten
years — and they are still growing!

International Harvester Company

An Equal Opportunity Employer

New booklet describes our engineering and research
centers. For your copy, mail this coupon to: General
Supervisor of Employment, International Harvester
Company, 180 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago 1, 111.

AN INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER

REPRESENTATIVE WILL BE ON YOUR CAMPUS

SOON. IF YOU WOULD LIKE A PERSONAL

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TECHNOGRAPH

Dear Joe,

I hope you will forgive my initial response when you osked me to he
the October Technocutie—and thanks to the passer-by who revived ms with
his smeUing, salts. I onhj hope I didn't sniff too much . . . He certainly looked
OS if he needed them for his bourbonology class!

When you called and asked me to jot down my activities and other "od-
dities," I suddenly felt alone in a climate of "what do I do?" \Vell, Joe, Vve
been on campus and a Gamma Phi Beta for two semesters; I'm majoring in
secretarial training (minoring in law); and my home town is Berwyn, Illinois,
a suburb of Chicago. I haven t participated in many activities during my two
semesters, but in case you need the information I've been active on the Illio,
International Fair, Niie Lites, Mom's Day Council, and a participant in the
Dolphin Show (Queen Contest). I know it isn't much but I hope to do more
this year.

This summer I worked as a secretary for Kelburn Engineering Co. in
Chicago. In case you are curious, they manufacture timing devices for elec-
trical equipment (how interesting).
Before I close, Joe

There's a little something I want you to know
It's been siwh a ball
Ju.^t posing for pictures and all
(Just to let you know that I write poetry on the side— Egad!)

Sharon Trappina
Ed. . . . The repair dep.utmciit at Kelburn says Sharon is ticking fine, but in case you
don't trust their diagnosis see you at Gamma Phi!

OCTOBER, 1963

To Continue To Learn And Grow . . .

... is a basic management philosophy at Delco Radio
Division, General Motors Corporation. Since its in-
ception in 1936, Delco Radio has continually expanded
and improved its managerial skills, research facihties,
and scientific and engineering team.

At Delco Radio, the college graduate is encouraged
to maintain and broaden his knowledge and skills
through continued education. Toward this purpose,
Delco maintains a Tuition Refimd Program. Designed
to fit the individual, the plan makes it possible for an
eligible employe to be reimbursed for tuition costs of
spare time courses studied at the imiversity or college
level. Both Indiana University and Purdue University
offer educational programs in Kokomo. In-plant gradu-
ate training programs are maintained through the off-
campus facilities of Purdue University and available to

employes through the popular Tuition Refund Program.

College graduates will find exciting and challenging
programs in the development of germanium and silicon
devices, ferrites, solid state diffusion, creative packag-
ing of semiconductor products, development of labora-
tory equipment, rehabiUty techniques, and apphcations
and manufacturing engineering.

If your interests and qualifications lie in any of these
areas, you're invited to write for our brochure detailing
the opportunities to share in forging the future of
electronics with this outstanding Delco-GM team.
Watch for Delco interview dates on your campus, or
write to Mr. C. D. Longshore, Dept. 135 A, Delco
Radio Division, General Motors Corporation, Kokomo,
Indiana.

An equal opportunity employer

solid stote electronics 4

Delco Radio Division of General Motors

</ ^^^ Kokomo, Indiana

TECHNOGRAPH

We cool an astronaut with
100 times less power than

it takes to air condition your car

It takes an average of 7 horsepower to air condition an automobile. You'd think the complexities of
keeping an astronaut cool and comfortable would require at least as much power. But Garrett-AiResearch

designed and built a system that requires about the same energy as a 60-watt light bulb. And
that's important in space, where power is at a premium, n The Garrett system takes advantage of the
low boiling point of water in space to absorb heat from the astronaut's space suit and spacecraft. The system
is tiny, lightweight, and works in zero gravity. D This remarkable cooling unit is part of the entire
environmental control system which Garrett supplies for the NASA-McDonnell Project Mercury missions.
It not only cools, but provides and circulates oxygen, controls pressure, and removes carbon dioxide, water
vapor and odors, n For further information about many interesting project areas and career opportunities at
The Garrett Corporation, write to Mr. G. D. Bradley at 9851 S. Sepulveda Blvd.,
Los Angeles. Garrett is an equal opportunity employer.

THE FUTURE IS DUILDINC NOlMf AT

Los Angeles — Phoenix

OCTOBER, 1963

A DECADE OF ACHIEVEMENT IN INDIA

This article, from the Engineering Publication Office, first appeared in the
September ASEE International Newsletter.

This year marks the tenth anniver-
sary of a new era in engineering edu-
cation in India. In 1953 the University
of Illinois became involved in dis-
cussions about an assistance program
for the Indian Institute of Technolog\
at Kharagpur, West Bengal. IIT
Kharagpur, founded in 1952, was the
first engineering college established
by the Indian National Go\ernment.
Through the United Nations-spon-
sored negotiations an assistance pro-
gram was established with the U. S.
International Cooperation Adminis-
tration, and in 1954 the first contin-
gent of University of Illinois profes-
sors arrived at Kharagpur and went
to work.

IIT Kharagpur has become the out-
standing engineering school in India.
Assistance of University of Illinois
professors under contracts of the ICA
and its successor, the Agency for In-
ternational Development, has played
a significant part in this success.
Over the years the University of Illi-
nois has served as purchasing agent
for 1% million dollars worth of
equipment purchased by the U. S.
Government agencies. More than a
score of University of Illinois pro-
fessors have been at the Institute,
both as full-time members of the
staff and as visitors making executive
insnections and giving lectures and
serninars. Hundreds of Indian stu-
dents and faculty members have
been brought to America to study in
their respective fields of engineering
and to learn American methods of
teaching before returning to India.
Approximately 80"^,' of the students
who came attended the Unixersity of
Illinois.

Today IIT Kharagpur is a progres-
sive engineering school with 1580
undergraduate students and 287 grad-
uate students. The school is strong in
research and graduate training. Last
year it granted 20 Ph.D.'s, 1 D.Sc,
and 165 Master's degrees, in addition
to nearly 400 undergraduate degrees.

Improvision is essentiol in vast areas of Ir
materials and equipment. Above, Professor Jar
neering Deparfment shows foundry apprentice
Kharagpur how to dry a mo!d and core using a

Leach is one
last ten year!

of many University of Illinois faculty

io isolated fiom supplies of conventional foundry
;s L. Leach of the Mechanical and Industrial Engi-
trainees at the Indian Institute of Technology at
vood fire when they have no drying oven. Professor
nbers who have worked at Kharagpur over the

Of the 287 students doing graduate
\\'ork, 69 were Research Scholars and
Fellows, 41 were teachers trainees,
and the remaining 177 were post-
graduate students. The success of the
Institute has caused four other similar
institutions to be started in India,
none of which are more than four
years old. The Institute at Kharagpur
has served as a model for the other
schools.

In addition to its large graduate
program, the Institute is well known
for its outstanding research programs
and its use of the American system of
teaching and evaluating student ac-
complishments. Examples of current
research projects being directed by
University of Illinois professors are
the development of a smokeless fur-
nace for high-ash-content India coal,
a smokeless locomotive engine, a com-
puter program, and a central instru-
mentation services center as a model
for all India. The American system of
teaching and grading, which is very

much diflFerent from the Indian sys-
tem, includes giving exams every
term and grading on the letter-grade
basis. The other Institutes of Tech-
nology in the country have copied
this system. The Kharagpur IIT is
also known throughout India for its
excellent agricultural engineering pro-
gram, \\'hich was developed imder the
direction of U. of I. Professor Ralph
C. Hay.

Professor Hay's work is unique
because he organized the first agri-
cultural engineering department in
India. He designed the building,
organized a staff of teachers, and
trained them for their work. He made
a great contribution to the establish-
ment of an agricultural engineering
program that is considered second to
none in India, primarily because it
was specifically designed to study and
solve Indian agricultural problems.
IIT Kharagpur is presently the only
educational institution in India offer-
ing a master's degree in this field.

TECHNOGRAPH

The Uni\'ersit>' of Illinois has long
been acti\e in international educa-
tional programs. According to the
Institute of International Education
in New York Cit\', Illinois ranks third
among the states with the most for-
eign students, the University of Illi-
nois is third among uni\'crsitics with

the highest foreign student enroll-
ment, and the University ranks ninth
among U. S. institutions with the
largest number of faculty members
abroad. The work at IIT Kharagpur
represents the largest, single interna-
tional effort the University has made
to date.

During the past year, ten Univer-
sity of Illinois faculty members have
been at Kharagpur. These men are
continuing to build on the achieve-
ments of the last ten years— a decade
that has seen the foundation laid for
modern engineering education in
India.

Lifted From Outlook

Every once in a while the college's newsletter, Engineering Outlook, runs
something interesting. When this happens we steal it. How's that for student-
staff cooperation? Sometimes to suit oiu" own whims, we make changes— and we
haven't been sued yet.

Science, Technology, and Space
Navigation

Could Albert be \\Tong? . . . \Xc
may soon know. A new electric vac-
uum gyro, developed over the last
five years in the U of I Coordinated
Science Laboratory (C.S.L.), is po-
tentially sensitive enough to prove or
disprove Einstein's theory of rela-
tivity. According to Einstein's general
theory of relativity, the spin axis of a
gyroscope mov'ing around the earth
should change in direction a few
seconds of arc o\er a year's time. This
change is so small that it could not
be measured with conventional gyros,
v.-hich drift much more than that in
one day. The new CSL gyro, how-
ever, is virtually drift free and stud-
ies are now under way concerning
the feasibility of putting the electric
vacuum g\TO in orbit around the
earth to attempt such a measurement.

The electric \'acuum gyro was in-
vented by Dr. Arnold Nordsieck, who
was a U of I faculty member from
1947 to 1961. His concept has been
translated into an elegant precision
instrument, originally for nautical nav-
igation, by a group of C.S.L. re-
searchers under the leadership of
Professor Howard Knoebel. The in-
herent precision of the instrument
promises many applications in the fu-
ture, including use for space flight
navigation.

Basically the gyro consists of a two-
inch beryllium ball— balanced and
spherical to within a few millionths
of an inch— suspended by electric
fields in an ultra-high vacuum (about
one thousandth of one billionth of
atmospheric pressure). Tliis rotor is

OCTOBER, 1963

The hear! of

the electric

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during ass

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m housing.

brought up to its rotation speed by
induction coils which produce a spin-
ning electrical field. After a few
minutes of initial acceleration, the
power to the coils is turned off, allow-
ing the ball to "coast," spinning a
few thousandths of an inch away
from the walls of its chamber. Ef-
fectively isolated from the rest of
the universe, the rotor will continue
spinning for years.

In the laboratory version, two pairs
of mutually perpendicular photomi-
croscopes, which are focused through
sapphire windows in the ceramic hous-
ing, read position data from a zigzag
line etched on the equator of the
ball. The entire gyro assembly is
placed on a two-a.xis gimbal which
follows the motion of the rotor spin
axis. The motion of the gyro relative
to the stars can then be measured
from the gimbals.

A careful sequence of refining and
testing have resulted in excellent per-
formance figures which are continu-

ally being improved. Even in its pres-
ent form, performance is far better
than any other gyro being produced.
Still better performance is expected
when presently planned modifications
are introduced. One of these ideas,
for example, is the fabrication of a
preshaped hollow rotor which be-
comes perfectly spherical under the
natural deformation of high speed
rotation. Such modifications will im-
prove the present performance capa-
bilities of the gyro to the point where
the incredible accuracy requirements
of the relativity experiment in space
could be fulfilled.

Friction: A Tool for Welding

Friction is a paradox. While even
an engineer couldn't five without it,
many of his efforts are spent in trying
to overcome it. At the University of
Illinois, however, friction is being
exploited. In the Departinent of Me-
chanical and Industrial Engineering
the heat generated by friction be-
tween two metal specimens is being
used to weld the specimens in a bond
as strong as any other weld currently
in use.

While the phenomenon of friction
is not yet completely understood from
a scientific standpoint, the process of
friction welding has been used on
metals in Russia and on plastics in
the United States for several years.
Because of the lack of research, how-
ever, its application has been severely
limited.

Friction welding studies at the Uni-
versity of Illinois are being conducted
by Mr. M. B. Singer in the Mechanical

(continued on page 43, column 1)

Engineers

In Choosing a Career,
Consider these
Advantages-

Location: Fisher is basically an "Engineering"

company with 1,500 employees located in a
pleasant midwest community of 22,000.
It's less than 10 minutes to the Fisher plant
from any home in Marshalltown.

Type of work: You'll become a member of
an engineering team that has produced some
of the outstanding developments in the field
of automatic pressure and liquid level controls.

Growth : Fisher's products are key elements
in automation which assures the company's jj^^
growth because of the rapid expansion of "

automation in virtually every industry.

Advancement: Your opportunity is
unlimited. It is company policy to promote
from within; and most Fisher department
heads are engineers.

If you want to begin your engineering career
with one of the nation's foremost research and
development departments in the control of
fluids, consult your placement office or write
directly to Mr. John Mullen, Personnel Director,
Fisher Governor Company, Marshalltown, la.

// it flows through pipe
anywhere in the world
chances are it's controlled by..

fISHER

TECHNOGRAPH

Pardon me if I sound as if the
executive position I've landed
deals with the whole future of
the world.

It does.

Certainly, there's no organization today conduct-
ing more vital business than the business of the
United States Air Force. And very tew organiza-
tions that give a college graduate greater oppor-
tunities for responsibility and growth.

As an Air Force officer, you'll be a leader on the
Aerospace Team— with good pay. a 30-day paid
vacation each year, educational opportunities.

How can you get started? For many, the best way
is through Air Force ROTC. But if you missed out
on AFROTC. or if there's no unit on your campus,
you can still apply for Air Force Officer Training
School. This three-month course leads to a com-
mission as a second lieutenant in the United
States Air Force.

For more information about Air Force OTS, see
your local Air Force representative.

U.S. Air Force

OCTOBER, 1963

The Society Page

Engineering Activities

We hesitated to call this the "Societ>' Page." Society
pages are about what people wear on various social
occasions and other bits of trivia which do not belong in
an engineering publication. On the other hand, several
TECHNOGRAPH staff members spent over twenty hours
contacting and interviewing oiBcers from various engi-
neering professional societies and Engineering Council;
our efforts turned up little but bits of trivia: hence
"Society Page." Our conclusion: we aren't quite sure if
engineering activities need a sedative or a stimulant.

This page (and other pages . . .) was reserved to
report the plans of the engineering societies and their
officers . . . plans which seemingjij do not exist. We say
seemingly because we are confident Engineering Council
and the Professional Societies are in a position to have
tlieir most progressive and constructive year. We say
this even though the kindest thing we can say about the
first Engineering Council meeting is nothing.

Perhaps it is as one professional society president said,
"Right now it is a matter of getting my own bearing."
This is quite understandable and we are willing to
wait . . . until the next TECH issue.

We hope we won't have a meaningless "Society Page"
in our next issue. Members of the Professional Societies
and other student engineering organizations have indi-
cated an emphatic desire to use TECH to advance their
ideas and their plans. We hope we \vill be able to report
real ideas of real people trying to do real things, working
together for the benefit of their societies and the student
body in general.

If this is not the case by then, we will again have a
"Society Page"— \vith pictures sho\\ing what they are
wearing these davs!

Open House

During our discussions with \ arious engineering acti\-
ity officers and other students, one thing was unanimous:
Every student we talked with indicated a sincere desire
to make Engineering Open House something besides the
depressing carnival it has been for several years . . . de-
pressing to the college student participant, and a carni-
val to spectators who get nothing but trivia from it. No
concrete ideas were voiced by these students; however,
a variety of "hints" were voiced ranging from a central
theme to complete elimination of Open House.

Subsequent discussions with various faculty members
revealed a similar desire to improve Open House. Mr.
David O'Bryant, Chairman of the faculty Open House
Exhibits and Tours Committee, remarked that, "A change
in Open House is long overdue! Our Committee is
prepared to give engineering students and their societies
all the assistance, advice, and cooperation possible to
change and improve Engineering Open House. Each
Committee member is prepared to enlist the aid of other
faculty members who will gratefully work with students
to change it and make it a worthwhile event."

Students and faculty are obviously agreed a change
is long overdue. The question now is how and when.
We contend that there is one missing ingredient to con-
structively change Open House: ideas . . . ideas that
have a chance to get out into the open and receive
the scrutiny of students and faculty'.

These ideas can come from only one place— you, stu-
dent and faculty. Bring your ideas for changing Open ■
House out into the open; talk them up; and most im-
portant, write them down and send them to us so every-
one can scrutinize and help incubate them. With every-
one's ideas from both sides of the lecturn, we guarantee
a change for the better ( things can't get any worse! ) .

G.M.D.

National Electronics

Conference

October 28, 29, 30

McCormick Place, Chicago

fhe doorway to a

new world of

Electror)ic Achievement

The Illinois Chapter of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers is sponsoring a one day trip, Octo-
ber 29, for all EE students to attend the largest NEC
in history. Special and new product seminars, exhibits
and displays, refresher courses, and specially organized
programs for university students will give electrical
engineering students a preview of the latest challenges
and career opportunities offered by the field of elec-
tronics. A wide variety of activities ranging from techni-
cal papers and audience participation panel discussions
to a lectiu-e on "Man's Attempt to Communicate with
Other Species" will be a part of the conference.

Engineering Faculty members are urging all students
to attend this conference if at all possible. Students plan-
ning to attend should call Marvin Rogers (367-2769)
or Bill Mayberry (359-1808) after 6 p.m. for specific
information concerning transportation, registration, and
so forth. (Ed. . . . Our apologizes to the IEEE for putting
their non-trivia article on the "Society Page.")

TECHNOGRAPH

An idea grows from one mind to another.

It may begin with nothing important. Just a word. Or a notion. But as each succeeding mind brings a fresh viewpoint, the idea begins
to grow and mature.

If you like working in an atmosphere that breeds ideas, you'll like working at Northrop. Stimulating minds and stimulating proj-
ects are all a part of the climate here. We have more than 70 active projects in work, and we're constantly evaluating new lines of
inquiry. Projects cover such fields as interplanetary navigation and astro-inertial guidance, aerospace deceleration and landing, man-
machine and life support systems for space, automatic checkout and failure prediction systems, laminar flow control techniques and
world-wide communications. ^^ ^^

For more specific information, see your placement counselor. Or write to Dr. Alexander |kl^^|STftJ Bl^l^'

Weir, Northrop Corporation, Beverly Hills, California, and mention your area of special interest.

OCTOBER, 1963

WHAT DO YOU KNOW

ABOUT CO-OP

PROGRAMS?

by Lawrence Heyda

Less than a year ago, I received
information concerning a cooperative
training program sponsored by Mac-
Donnell Aircraft Corporation of St.
Louis, Missouri. After reading theii-
brochure and interviewing with one of
their company representatives, I be-
came interested and subsequently
joined their co-op program.

Now, having completed one sum-
mer's work with the organization, I
feel it would benefit other engineers
to learn about this program and the
unseen advantages which it offers. As
their brochure points out, "basically,
the cooperative plan is the integration
of classroom work and practical in-
dustrial experience in an organized
program under which college engi-
neering students alternate periods of
attendance at college with periods of
employment in industry. The student's
employment is related to his field of
study and his industrial assignments
increase in complexity as he pro-
gresses through his college curricu-
lum. The rates of pay are on an
ascending scale, increasing each aca-
demic year and are paid on an hourly
basis for a forty-hour work week
during the scheduled in-plant assign-
ments." The entire program extends
the nonnal four-year curriculum to
only five years.

A co-op program offers many ad-
vantages but these advantages often
pass unnoticed before the analytical
eyes of many engineering students. I
shall therefore describe some of them
in tlie hope that you will investigate
further if you feel such a program is
for you. Remember that many of the
opportunities which this particular
program offers are also a part of other
co-op programs.

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Foremost in every student's mind
is the subject of money— the funds he
needs each semester to finance his
college education. MacDonnell co-op
students work every other semester
and earn enough money to finance a
full semester at the University of
Illinois. To be specific, my salary this
summer was $1.93 per hour and it will
increase by ten cents each time I
retiun for a new work session. For an
average twelve-week work period, the
wages total $926.40 before taxes.

A second big advantage of tliis type
of program is the year of industrial
experience students obtain while at-
tending college. As a result the stu-
dent obtains t^vo benefits: valuable
industrial education and an opportu-
nity for a higher starting salary when
he graduates. Industrial co-op pro-

grams, such as MacDonnell's, are also
highly respected by other industries
across the country who are eager to
hire graduates of the program.

Another important student benefit
is the opportunity he has to explore
in industry the areas of engineering
in which he may specialize after
graduation. MacDonnell's plan allows
students to work in any or all major
areas of their company: manufactur-
ing and service, engineering design
and analysis, and engineering labora-
tory operations. Thus the co-op stu-
dent obtains a wide view of current
competitive industry and a back-
ground from which he can choose his
field with a broader understanding
of other areas.

These are the advantages which
most co-op programs provide. In par-
ticular, my stay at MacDonnell ga\c
me an additional benefit which I had
not previously anticipated. Since Mac-
Donnell is responsible for Mercury,
Gemini, and other government space
projects, I returned to classes feeling
that I had done my own small part in
furthering the free world's progress
toward peace and the conquest of
space.

This cooperative plan and similar
ones have much to offer. Why not
look into them yourself? Regardless
of whether you decide positively or
negatively, your time will not be
wasted. If you are in high school, ap-
plication can be made through your
high school counselor. If you are a U
of I student watch for co-op pro-
gram notices on the bulletin boards.
You may find, as I did, that the pro-
gram ideally fits your needs.

TECHNOGRAPH

FROM THE LAUNCHING TO THE TARGET. EVERY
MAJOR U. S. MISSILE DEPENDS UPON SYSTEMS,
SUB-SYSTEMS OR COMPONENTS DESIGNED,
DEVELOPED OR PRODUCED BY BENDIX TALENTS

FOUR OF THE U.S. SPACE DETECTIVES THAT SPOT,
SHADOW AND REPORT ON EVERY MAN LAUNCHED
OBJECT IN OUTER SPACE DEPEND ON EOUIPMENT
OR TECHNICIANS, OR BOTH, SUPPLIED BY BENDIX

EVERY TIME YOU BRAKE YOUR CAR. CHANCES ARE
YOU DEPEND UPON BENDIX. SINCE 1924 BENDIX
HAS DESIGNED AND BUILT MORE BRAKES FOR MORE
CMFFERENT VEHICLES THAN ANY OTHER PRODUCER

TODAY. AUTOMATED TAPE- CONTROLLED MANUFAC-
TURING AS DEVELOPED BY BENDIX HELPS TURN
BLUEPRINTS INTO FINISHED PRODUCTS. GETS PROTO-
TYPES INTO PRODUCTION FOUR TIMES FASTER

L--

IN THE CONQUEST OF THE UNKNOWN, BENDIX
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IS EXTENDING
MAN'S ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE THROUGH THE
OCEAN DEPTHS AS READILY AS THROUGH SPACE

AT TAKE OFF. IN THE AIR, ON LANDING . . . WHENEVER
MAN FLIES, IT S LIKELY BENDIX EQUIPMENT MAKES
HIS TRIP SMOOTHER. SAFER. BENDIX HAS LOGGED
MORE FLIGHT TIME THAN ANY NAME IN AVIATION

WHEN SPACE TRAVEL BECOMES A REALITY, PILOTS
WILL RELY ON DEVICES CONCEIVED AND DEVELOPED
BY BENDIX TO NAVIGATE. GUIDE AND STABILIZE
THEIR SHIPS, AND RETURN THEM SAFELY TO EARTH

CREATIVE ENGINEERING . . . Q.E.D.

Thevariety of challenges The Bendix
Corporation offers the college gradu-
ate is practically unlimited. Bendix
participates in almost every phase of
the space, missile, aviation, elec-
tronics, automotive, oceanics and
automation fields. We employ top-
notch engineers, physicists, and
mathematicians for advanced prod-

uct development to further Bendix
leadership in these fields.

Bendix operates 32 divisions and
subsidiaries in the United States,
and 12 subsidiaries and affiliates in
Canada and overseas. Our 1950
sales volume was $210 million. Last
year it was over $750 million.

Look over the materials we have in

your school's placement office. Talk
to our representative when he's on
campus. If you'd like a copy of our
booklet "Build Your Career to Suit
Your Talents," write Dr. A. C.
Canfield, Director of University and
Scientific Relations, The Bendix Cor-
poration, Fisher Building, Detroit 2,
Mich. An equal opportunity employer.

WHERE IDEAS

UNLOCK

THE FUTURE

^x^Oim^r

FISHER BUILDING. DETROIT 2. MICH,

THERE ARE BENDIX DIVISIONS IN: CALIFORNIA, MISSOURI, IOWA, OHIO, INDIANA. MICHIGAN, PENNSYLVANIA, NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, MARYLAND.

OCTOBER, 1963

gesnip for more

Result: All 3-speed manual
transmissions in
Ford-built cars with V-8's
now are fully synchronized
in each forward gear

To get more "go" in low, Ford engineers
were asked to upgrade the conventional
3-speed transnnission to give drivers
more control in ail three forward gears—
to make "low" a driving gear— and they
tackled the problem imaginatively.

Their achievement, another Ford First,
is the only U.S. 3-speed manual trans-
mission with all three forward gears
fully synchronized I No need now to come
to a complete stop when you shift into
low— and no clashing gears! It lets you
keep more torque on tap for negotiating
sharp turns and steep grades. It makes
driving more flexible, more pleasurable.

Another assignment completed and
another example of how engineering
leadership at Ford provides fresh ideas
for the American Road.

SoTcC

MOTOR COMPANY

The American Road, Dearborn, Michigan

IMHERE ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP

BRINGS YOU BETTER-BUILT CARS

Shown: 196 Jt Ford Galaxie 500/ XL two-door hardtop

TECHNOGRAP

Construction in Blui

Art, New York. Motion-study photograph by Herbe:

What makes a Company "Modern"?

Not size. Not capital resources. Certainly not
age. At Celanese, we believe it is the degree to
which a company is equipped to meet the present
and future needs of its customers.

Efficient plant. Contemporary product. Aggres-
sive management. Industrious work force. The
abihty to think ahead of the situation and be ready
for the problem when it occurs.

Celanese /;a/)/)ens to be a young company. Much
more important, it's a modern company.
- Perhaps you're among the men who will help

keep us modern. If you are trained in chemical
engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical
engineering, chemistry, or physics, we hope you
will stop in to see our representative when he
visits your campus. Or write directly to us, briefly
outlining your background.

Address your correspondence to: Edmond J.
Corry, Supervisor of College Relations, Celanese
Corporation of America, 522 Fifth Avenue,
New York 36, New York. ccu„«d®

AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

C3^^

■*^ig<4ig>

CHEMICALS FIBERS POLYMERS PLASTICS

OCTOBER, 1963

Would you like to choose

from a broad spectrum of openings?

J Would you welcome an early chance
to work on whole projects?

Do you give high priority
to fewer steps to the top?

Do you tend to prefer

a formal training program?

Can you handle the challenges
of early responsibility?

Is job security one of your
most important factors?

Is choice of geographical location
important to you?

Will employee benefits

strongly influence your decision?

Do you welcome

individual attention by management?

Is unlimited growth opportunity
an important prerequisite?

Test yourself. Are you a small or large company man?

If you answered "yes" to six or
more questions, it indicates that
you're strongly attracted by the ad-
vantages of both large and small
companies. If so, you might be espe-
cially interested in Babcock & Wil-
cox, a manufacturer primarily con-
cerned with the conversion and
control of energy.

B&W is certainly a large and pro-
gressive company. Its 1962 sales, for
example, were more than $330 mil-
lion. And every year, B&W invests
millions in research and develop-
ment. B&W can offer you all the ad-

vantages of a large company— train-
ing program, wide variety of job
openings (17 facilities in 10 states),
plus the security and benefits of a
large 96-year-old company.

B&W can also be considered a
small company. There are 154 larger
industrial companies in the U.S.
Growth opportunities are enormous.
Yet only 60 bachelor-level students
will be hired this year. This select
group will be given an opportunity
to work on important projects at an
early stage in their professional
careers.

Right now, B&W has challenging
job openings for both graduate and
undergraduate engineers and scien-
tists, including M.E., E.E., Ch.E.,
Met.E., Cer.E., Nuc.E., chemists and
physicists. For more information,
talk to the B&W interviewer when
he is on your campus or write to
J. W. Andeen for "Your Career Op-
portunity at Babcock & Wilcox."
The Babcock & Wilcox Co., 161 East
42nd Street, New York 17, N. Y.

An equal opportunity employer

Babcock & Wilcox

TECHNOGRAPH

Friction: A Tool for Welding

(continued from page 33)

Engineering Welding Laboratory.
Tests have been conducted primarih"
on low-carbon steels, although a few
other materials have been tested. The
weld, produced by rotating one speci-
men while pressing another specimen
against it. occurs in four stages: wear
in, preheat, constant heat, and upset.
The whole process takes less than four
seconds for a Va -inch-diameter speci-
men, and can be achieved using a
modified lathe. Less power is con-
sumed by this system than by arc or
resistance welding, and no special
ecjuipment is needed to weld many
dissimilar metals. Further, there is no
contamination from the heat source,
and studies of welding environments
are feasible.

One of the current questions being
considered in this project concerns
the welding of malleable iron, which
loses its malleability when subjected
to high temperatures for long periods
of time. Because of the short welding
time the problem of brittleness in
TTialleable iron welds may be over-
come b\- this technique. The basic
properties of materials are also being
investigated for this process. For in-
stance, the transition temperature of
the base material is being established
and subseqent tests on transition tem-
peratures in the weld area will be
conducted. Once the principles be-
hind this welding process are more
fully understood, the area of appli-
cation ma\- broaden considerably. In
addition, knowledge will be gained
of the phenomena of friction, the

generation of heat by friction, and the
deformation of materials.

Why Does A Culvert
Cross the Rood?

In our haste to construct super-
jiighways and improved roads, it is
quite easy to concentrate on large
bridges, cloverleaf patterns and so
forth with little thought of the smaller
but all-important items such as cul-
%erts. Each year over one billion dol-
lars is spent on the construction of
culverts and these unobtrusive struc-
tures take 15 to 25 percent of the
highway maintenance dollar. In fact,
there are so many cuK erts in modern
highway construction that their total
construction cost exceeds the total
costs of large bridges.

Obviousl)-, culverts cross the road
for one reason— to get water to the
other side. The reason is easily under-
stood, but determining the culvert
size is a complex problem. It involves
such uncertainties as the amount of
rainfall and various t\'pes of soils and
their runoff conditions. If the culvert
is too big, costs are excessive; if too
small, they cause floods.

In the past engineers have relied
on their own past experience to
make such decisions. Now a new
method of determining culvert sizes
which minimizes such "educated
guessing" has been developed by Pro-
fessor \'en Te Chow of the U. of I.
Civil Engineering Department.

The new method is primarih' based
on scientific knowledge of the water
runoff speed on \arious types of soils
and other surfaces. Professor Chow's
method has many advantages over the
Talbot Formula, a method currently
used for most culvert computations
and proposed 74 years ago by an-
other U of 1 professor, A. N. Talbot.
The new method promises great sav-
ings in highwa\- and maintenance
costs, as well as in farm drainage
programs and flood protection work.

Engineering students can obtain a
bulletin describing the entire theory,
including supporting data, pertinent
h}drological information, design
charts for easy use by engineers, and
two bibliographies at half price from
the U of I Engineering Publications
Office.

A group of N.R.O.T.C. midshipmen
were gathered dismally by the rail
after their first day at sea. An old salt
joined them and inquired sarcastical-
ly, "\\'hat's the matter, Jones, got a
weak stomach?"

"Hell no," gasped Jones, "I'm tlirow-
ing it as far as the others."

Mrs. ^^'orthmore and her French
poodle were shopping one day, when
she noticed the man standing next to
her at the counter was lookmg fear-
fully at the puppy frisking about his
legs.

"My, my," she said, "don't be afraid
of Felix; he won't bite you."

"Madam," said the man, "I wasn't
afraid he'd bite, but I noticed him
lifting his hind leg and I thought he
was going to kick me."

Tech's New Look

(continued from page 5)

a student can become involved in
such activities; qualifications to enter
the College of Engineering Honors
Program and the number of students
active in the program; and changes
that have been made in engineering
curricula and their efi^ect. Information
on these and many other subjects has
remained unavailable to most engi-
neering students in the past. Wayne
Crouch, Teclmograph's editor, has re-
cruited a number of well-qualified
staff members and is recruiting more
to help him produce a new type of
magazine which will provide some
of tliis information.

From the printing of address labels
on the IBM 1401 to the deletion of
the joke page, Technograph has a
new look. I wish the best of luck
to editor Crouch and his staff in im-
plementing their ideas and may they
ha\e the benefit of your support. If
you agree or disagree with something
in Technograph, let the editor know.
If \-ou feel strongly enough about
the matter— write an article.

OCTOBER, 1963

Printed circuits tliat
STAY STUCK

Printed circuits may pull away from the laminate
during the soldering operation. To reduce this possi-
bility — to practically eliminate it — Synthane produces
a special glass epoxy base grade of copper clad — G-IOR
-with high HOT PEEL STRENGTH (2 to 4 lbs. per
inch of width after immersion for 15 sees, at 500°F* as
compared with the usual 0.1 to 0.2 lbs. per inch of
width). G-IOR also meets or exceeds NEMA and MIL
specs for Room Temperature Peel Strength. Write for
folder of all Synthane metal-clad grades.

•Tests made on Vii" and '/a" wires.

^ — W — ^

CORPORATION

OAKS, PENNA.

GLendale 2-2211 (Area Code 215) TWX 215-6660589
Synthane-Pacifrc, 518 w. Garfield Ave., Glendale 4, Calif. TWX 213-240-2104U

! Synthane Corporation,

13 River Rd., Oaks, Pa.

1 Gentlemen:

j Please send me your
1 other Synttiane copper

latest folder on Synthane G-IOR and
-clad laminates.

1 Name

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After De

•itt handed ove

check to TECH'S Editor for two

dollars, Ihe Business Manager pointed out that it was unfair to charge
faculty members two dollars for a year's subscription when we were
giving !hem the first issue free. We have since, without telling the Dean,
changed the faculty subscription rate to one dDllar-seven!y-five — TECH
is, for the first time in history, twenty-five cents in Ihe block.

TECH IVIOVES

48 Electrical Engineering Building

We didn't complain when a polite ■wall transformed
our original office in CEH into a shoe box, but when
tJictj installed two IBM card punch machines before
our door— \A'ell, we are now in the basement of EEB
. . . next to the boiler room! This has its "heated" dis-
advantages, but at least more than two people can
find a seat. Feel free to drop in to complain, compli-
ment, or just shoot the breeze.

Scenery around this end of campus is improving with the increased
enrollment of women engineering students. This year there ore 24
\o:nen enrolled in the College of Enginee ing plus those in ihe L.A.S.
clepr-.-tment; of Chemistry, Physics, and Chemfcal Engineering. TECH's
phoo^rapher found Ihe girl: at Ihe home of Miss Wilson, their ad-
vi:o-, enjoying o picnic; and, v/e ruspecl, coordinating Ihev- stratagem
lo l,"'l;e a few of thoce precious A's away from the men.

TECHNOGRAPH

Your life at Du Pont I one of a series for technical men

Arm yourself "with facts about DuPont

These booklets helped persuade some 700 new B.S. graduates
to join us in 1963. It was mostly a matter of getting facts.

For example, if you want to start your career in a certain
section of the country, you'll find that Du Pont— with facilities
in 28 states — will try to accommodate you.

If you're interested in growth for what it can mean to you
personally, you'll be interested to know that our sales have
increased 750% since 1937. You've probably heard that R&D
expenditures are a good indicator of a company's future success.
We spend $90 million a year on it, $60 million of which goes
straight into "pioneering research" — the discovery of new
scientific truths and new materials.

Our booklets will answer most of your preliminary questions.
Later— or even now if you wish— we can talk specifics by letter,
or face to face. Why not write us or send our coupon? We'd
like to know about you.

m^m

BETTER THINGS FOR BETTER LIVING

. . . THROUGH CHEMISTRY

An equal opportunity employer

TECHNICAL MEN WE'LL NEED FROM THE CLASS OF '64

Chemists Industrial Engineers

Chemical Engineers Civil Engineers

Mechanical Engineers Physicists

Electrical Engineers

E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. (Inc.)

2531 Nemours Building, Wilmington, Delaware 19898

Please send me the literature indicated below.

Q Du Pont and the College Graduate G Reprint of Saturday

n Mechanical Engineers at Du Pont Evening Post article

n Engineers at Du Pont on Du Pont, July, '63.

D Chemical Engineers at Du Pont

n Also please open in my name a free STUDENT SUBSCRIPTION

to the award-winning Du Pont Magazine-the official bi-monthly

publication of the Du Pont Company.

Name

Class

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Degree expected

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OCTOBER, 196:

Wi*WMN«M#PI

We'll print either compliments, crit-
icisms, or complaints as the pictorial
heading suggests. The letters printed
this month were received either the
first few weeks of school or last year.
TECH will try its best to answer
questions and quell feuds (we might
even start a few). So drop us a note.
Anonymous letters tvill not he printed,
but when requested only the Editor
will have access to the names of the
authors.

Dear Editor:

I wish to call attention to a minor
engineering matter that has perplexed
me for several years.

Many students living in the dormi-
tories have noticed a background
noise when playing their record play-
ers or radios that is particularly an-
noying. This interference can easily
be heard on any good quality hi-fi
or stereo, especially during the more
restful passages of classical music.

I understand that this interference
is due to the University's Betatron
and its pulsing six times a second.

During the New Year's Convoca-
tion last Sunday there was a brief
period when the same noise could be
heard over the loudspeaker system,
hence I feel this problem may exist
in all buildings served by Abbott
Power Plant.

Could Technograph determine the
cause of this interference and suggest
measures that would eliminate or fil-
ter out this headache?

Sincerely yours,
Walter Hadcock

Certainly some student or faculty
member can devise a solution or at
least tell us why none has been put
into effect to date. We'll tell you,
when someone tells us. Ed.

Dear Editor;

I have calculated, on the basis of
probability theory, that within fifteen

years the College of Engineering will
be all research and no education.
Seriously, I am concerned about the
weight that seems to be given to re-
search on this campus. It seems to me
that these programs do nothing for
the students, and I have always
thought that teaching was the main
mission of the college. If this is true,
how can the existence of these many
research programs that get so much
attention and money be rationalized?
A Taxpaying Student

TECH too is concerned about re-
search activity at the Vniversity, its
relation to the undergraduate, and its
relation to education. The above in-
quiry has prompted us to investigate
further. One of our senior writers is
studying the problem and preparing
an article for the December issue. Ed.

Dear Editor:

I am writing because I have an old
l)ut functional submachine gun. I am
hoping that you could direct me to
the appropriate person to see about
renting this gun to the Engineering
Library.

I suspect they are about to install
one as I have already had experience
with their recently installed turnstile.
I innocently walked through the "in"
turnstile, looked but could not find
the book I wanted, and was about to
rush from the library before uttering
those words which seem so appropri-
ate at such a time. But my hasty re-
treat came to a sudden halt; it seems
the "out" turnstile is LOCKED. After
recovering from being turned into a
ninety degree angle with a very un-
comfortable vertex, I did utter those
words I had been suppressing. Con-
sider where that iron bar catches you.

Well, if they are going to use guns,
I would like to get my bid in. I sup-
pose a locked turnstile is only the first
step to armed guards.

Name U'ithheld

One of TECH's advisors had a lit-
tle run-in with that turnstile also.
We'll see what Mr. Coburn, director
of the library, has to say for the No-
vember issue. Ed.

Dear Sir:

A friend of mine who is a graduate
stiident in Electrical Engineering told

me that we were going to play a big
part in the recent eclipse studies, but
I read in Life only of Stanford's work.
When I asked him about this article,
he still maintained that we partici-
pated. If we did, why did we get so
little pubhcity?

Name Withheld

TECH received a news release
July 3 announcing tlxat we woidd
participate, but nothing since of our
achievements. We'll check with Prof.
George Swei^son who, according to
the news release was head of the proj-
ect. Ed.

(I.S.P.E. continued from page 17)
The Illinois examination consists of
two parts, the engineer-in-training
and the professional. Each engineer-
ing student may take the first part
during his last semester in school, the
examination being held here on the
campus in December and in May.

There are refresher courses spon-
sored by three departments to assist
the senior in preparing for the En-
gineer in Training (E-I-T) Exam.
Civil: Oct. 9 for six sessions, Rm
110 M.E.B. 7:00-10:00 P.M.
Prof. W. W. Sanders
Mechanical: Oct. 7 for seven ses-
sions, Rm 253 M.E.B., 7:00-
10:00 P.VI. Prof. C. Dale
Greffe
Electrical: Starts approximately
same week as others. Prof.
J. P. Neal
The cost will depend on the enroll-
ment, running approximately $5.00 to
$7.00. Consult each group for book
and study materials. The exam itself
will be held on Thursday, December
5. The application forms, which will
be due in Springfield one month prior
to the exam, will soon be available
from the Office of the Associate Dean
of Engineering, 103 C.E.H.

C. Dale Greffe, P.E., professor of
Mech. Engr., is the state president of
I.S.P.E. J. Raymond Carroll, P.E., a
partner in the local consulting firm
Carroll, Henneman, and Associates is
a member of the National Board of
Direction. Robert A. Jewett, P.E.,
Associate Prof, of General Engr., is a
member of the Student Professional
Development Committee at the na-
tional level.

TECHNOGRAPH

WHO is at work on a satellite system for global telephone and TV transmission?

WHO provides the communications channels for America's missile defenses?

WHO is girdling the globe with communications for America's first man into space?

WHO tapped the sun for electric power by inventing the Solar Battery?

WHO used the moon for two-way conversations across the country?

WHO guided Tiros and Echo into accurate orbit?

WHO made your pocket radio possible by inventing the Transistor?

WHO maintains the world's largest, finest industrial research facilities?

WHO supplies the most and the best telephone service in the world?

WHO has the UNIVERSAL communications organization:

THERE'S ONLY ONE ANSWER TO ALL TEN QUESTIONS

Pioneering in outer space to improve communications on earth

...staffed by graduates
of virtually every engineering
school in the United States..,

CONVAIR: FORT WORTH

p. O. BOX 748-C6
A DIVISION OF

GENERAL DYNAMICS

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€HNOORAPH

)VEMBER

VOLUME 79 NUMBER 2

25 CEXTS

To Catch a Hummingbird

Haiv the Gemini Spiicecmfr u-ill fiihi its target . . .

Suppose \iiu h.id to capture alive one little liummingbird
fixing -.1 know n course high over the Amazon jungle.
Difficult? Sure, but no more so than the job assigned to a new
radar system \\ cstinghouse is building for the
NASA-Ccniini space program.

The bird is an Agcna rocket, orbiting the earth at 170O0 miles
per hour. The hunter, in an intersecting orbit, is the
Gemini two-man spacecraft being built by McDonnell Aircraft.
.-\nd so the hunt begins. The spacecraft radar finds
the target and starts an electronic qucstion-and-answer game.
A computer keeps score, giving the astronauts continuous
readings on angles and approach speeds until the vehicles arc
joined. The hummingbird is caught.
1 he Gemini experiments will be a prelude to the first
moon trip. And A\ cstinghouse is already working on advanced
radar systems for lunar landings and deep space missions.
You can be sure ... if it's Wcstinghousc.

For infoT/ihitiori on a cneer at Wrstinghoiise, an equal
opportunity employer, ivrite to L. H. Noggle, W'estinghoiise
Educational Dept., Pittsburgh 21, Pa.

• Westinghouse ( W

TOP ROW (left to right) : Australia, Switzerland. G:
MIDDLE ROW: Thailand. Malaya, Philippines. South Afr

lin. India. Mexico. New Caledonia,

il, Pakistan, Hong Kong. BOTTOM ROW: Argenli

Canada, France, Gliana.

land, Colombia, Nigeria.

Meet the ambassadors

Around the world, Union Carbide is making friends for America. Its 50 affiliated companies abroad serve
growing markets in some 135 countries, and employ about 30,000 local people. ► Many expressions of
friendship have come from the countries in which Union Carbide is active. One of the most ajspealing is this
collection of dolls. They were sent here by Union Carbide employees for a Christmas display, and show some
of the folklore, customs, and crafts of the lands they represent. "We hope you like our contingent," said a
letter with one group, "for they come as ambassadors from our country." ► To Union Carbide, they also
signify a thriving partnership based on science and technology, an exchange of knowledge and
skills, and the vital raw materials that are turned into things that the whole world needs.

A HAND IN THINGS TO COME

UNION
CARBIDE

WRITE for the booklet, "International Products and Processes," which tells about ^^^^

Union Carbide's activities around the globe. Union Carbide Corporation, 270 Park Avenue, New York, N. V. 10017

NOVEMBER, 1963

THE ILLINOIS

TECHNOORAPH

VOLUME 79, NUMBER 2 NOVEMBER, 1963

table of contents

ARTICLES

Graduate School . . . Good Deal or Ordeal? Henry Magnuski 8

Business Wants ... of You 12

Brains or Bust Stuart Umpleby 1 4

CQ de W9YH Paul Gihring 1 5

Ho-Hum 7 8

FEATURES

The Good Olde Days Mike Quinn 5

Technocutie Photos by Bob Seyler 23

Society Page 28

Engineering Societies Calendar Bill Lueck 31

Brickbats and Bouquets 40

November's heat transfer problem.

(Thanks to Richard Harmer, a graduate student in Ceramic Engineering, and Clark's
Turkey Farm, Mahomet, Illinois. Photo by Bob Seyler).

Copyright, 1963, by lllini Publishing Co. Published eight times during the year (October, November. De-
cember. January, February. March, April and May) by the lllini Publishing Company. Entered as second class
matter, October 30. 1920. at the post office at Urbana. Illinois, under the Act of March 3 1879. Office 48
Electrical Engineering Building. Urbana, Illinois. Subscriptions $2.00 per year. Single copy 25 cents. All rights
reserved by The Illinois Technograph. Publisher's Representative— Littell-Murray-Barnhill, Inc., 737 North Michigan
Ave., Chicago II, III., 369 Lexington Ave., Nev/ York 17 New York.

TECHNOGRAP"

Editor-in-Chief
Wayne W. Crouch

Assistant to the Editor

Sfuart Umpleby

Editorial Staff

Gary Daymen, Director

Rudy Berg

Rebecca Bryar

Harold Gotschall

Torn Grantham

Larry Heyda

Lester Holland

Roger Johnson

Cheryl Konetshny

Richard Langrehr

Jay Lipke

John Litherland

Bill Lueck

Hank Magnusk;

Thelma McKenzie

Mike Quinn

Mike Stavey

Production Staff

Scott Weaver. Manager

Pat Martin

Del Hartfield

Business Staff

Art Becker, Manager

Phil Johnson

Jerry Ozane

Roger Va- Zele

Circulation Staff

Larry Campbell. Manager

Paul Rinnington

Glenn VanBIaricum

Photo Staff

Tony Burba. Manager

Jim Alex

Dave McClure

Bob Seyler

Secretary

Kathie Llermann

Advisors

Robert Bohl

Paul Bryant

Alan Kingery

Edwin McClintock

Dale Greffe, Photo

Chairman: J. Gale Chumley

Louisiana Polvtechnic Institute

Ruston. Louisiana

Arkansas Engineer, Cincinnati Coopera-
tive Engineer. City College Vector, Colorado
Engineer. Cornell Engineer, Denver Engineer,
Drexel Technical Journal, Georgia Tech Engi-
neer, Illinois Technograph, Iowa Engineer,
Iowa Transit, Kansas Engineer, Kansas State
Engineer, Kentucky Engineer, Louisiana State
University Engineer, Louisiana Tech Engineer,
Manhattan Engineer. Marquette Engineer.
Michigan Technic. Minnesota Technolog, Mis-
souri Shamrock. Nebraska Blueprint, New
York University Quadrangle, North Dakota
Engineer, Northwestern Engineer, Notre Dame
Technical Review. Ohio State Engineer. Okla-
homa State Engineer. Pittsburgh Skyscraper.
Purdue Engineer, RPI Engineer, Rochester In-
dicator, SC Engineer. Rose Technic, Southern
Engineer, Spartan Engineer. Texas A & M
Engineer, Washington Engineer. WSC Tech-
nometer, Wayne Engineer, and Wisconsin

Gripe, Gripe, Gripe!

Do you like to gripe? If you start to say "no," don't bother — we wouldn't believe
you anyway. Most likely in the last few hours you swore under your breath at least
once and astounded a fellow student with your brilliant and cutting criticism of
something he didn't like either. But did it do any good? Could he help?

Most gripers and sympathizers have no more influence in changing things than
you do. But fortunately there are people in the college who do: Dean Everitt, his staff,
and the faculty. Contrary to popular opinion they are willing to listen and even are
anxious to hear students' views, especially constructive ones about which something
really can be done.

As an example, not long ago an irate and courageous undergraduate took the
time to talk with Dean Everitt concerning a couple of his gripes. He had two particu-
lar items that he thought were significant injustices. Perhaps to the surprise of many
students, he had no trouble reaching the Dean to air his complaints; even more signifi-
cantly, he got results. On one point he simply did not have enough information and,
after talking it over, finally agreed his criticism was unfounded, hie tried with the
other problem. This time he scored, and remedial action was taken in line with his
suggestions.

Of course, most of you don't have the time (or the courage) to step in the Dean's
office with your complaints and ideas. Likewise, the Dean hardly has time to meet
with over 3700 students. You can, however, talk with your instructors; they may not be
as Inhuman as you think. Just in case you do find them inhuman and unreceptive, there
is still a third and perhaps even a better way to accumulate support for your views
from a broader audience.

We of the Tech staff are thoroughly convinced that the Dean, his staff, and many
of the faculty will read carefully "Brickbats and Bouquets" as well as other expressions
of student opinion In Tech. The spontaneous response to your letters from other
readers and resulting articles by members of the Tech staff should answer your ques-
tions and get action on your complaints.

If you have questions, we'll try to find someone who has the answers. Stop by
the Tech office or write us a letter. We want to hear what you think, what you need
to know, and what you're disturbed about. As to action, we don't say we know all
the right people but the right people know us.

Engine

NOVEMBER, 1963

More than ever in the Space Age.

PROGRESS THROUGH POWER

All the way from the down-to-earth task of high-speed cutting of adamant metals to the
performance of such a dramatic test as simulating atmospheric re-entry heat for testing
nose cone design — the plasma arc torch is truly a versatile space age tool. Here it is pic-
tured cutting through stainless steel at a rate of five feet per minute. It out-performs any
previously known cutting method for any metal, including refractory and exotic metals. Its
flame speed is 10,000 miles per hour at temperatures from 20,000 to 60,000 degrees F.

Only electric power can supply the energy requirements of space age tools like the
plasma arc torch. One of the jobs of our power sales engineers is to add these new appli-
cations to the seemingly unlimited uses for electricity.

As a power sales engineer, you can grow with the electric power industry as you play
a vital role in technological progress. Investigate a career with us where engineering and
sales ability are limited only by your imagination. Look forward to personal progress
through power.

WISCONSIN electric power company

SYSTEM

Wisconsin Electric Power Co. Wisconsin Micliigan Power Co. Wisconsin Natural Gas Co.

MILWAUKEE, WIS. APPLETON, WIS. RACINE, WIS.

TECHNOGRAPH

\ (Bltp (Baah }

You young whippersnappers are
the poorest excuses for engineers I've
ever seen! Wh\-, in the good old da\'s
engineers were honest, hard-working
people who did their calculations
with the proper dignit\— using a
pencil and a sheet of foolscap. Do
those unintelligible machines you use
today help you to learn a real man's
job? What do they teach you about
the basic principles of long division?
Not enough, that's what!

Just to show you what the pro-
fession was like back before the slide
rule took the real fun out of engi-
neering, before this campus was filled
with fanc\"-pants striplings who have
no respect for the fine old traditions,
here are a few excerpts from Tech-
nograph during the days when being
an engineer meant something more
tlian money— work, for instance.

The first excerpt appeared in Jan-
uary of 1924 in an article on coal
consumption in the United States, and
shows Technograph's almost legend-
ar\- abilit)' to predict what the future
will bring:

"Any plan for the substitution of
petroleum (for coal) must be summarily
dismissed, .■\lthough at present it is very
important, our oil reserve has been so
depleted that it will be exhausted within
the next two decades." (You people have
been running on air since '44.)

Electrical Engineering was a grow-
ing profession back in January of '26:

"In the lighting field there has been

some progress also. A tjpe of lamp has

been put on the market in which the

frosting is on the inside of the globe."

I (Sorta takes the fun out of bulb-snatch-

I ing, doesn't it?)

I Finalh-, here is an excerpt printed
I in our November, 1926, issue from a
speech by Major R. \\'. Schroeder,
former chief test pilot for the army
air ser\'ice at McCook field showing
a few of life's dangers back in 1926:

"A man in a plane engaged in ordi-
nar>- straightaway flying is safer than on
the ground. I have noted that during a
recent year eight persons lost their lives
in the entire United States while en-
gaged in civilian flying while during that
same year, in the state of Missouri alone,
eighty persons — just ten times as many
— were kicked to death b>' mules.' ♦ ♦ ♦

NOVEMBER, 1963

"You were born to be free. You were also born with a
responsibility to contribute to our common defense. For
as long as a trace of avarice exists in the hearts of men,
there will be a need for the defense of men and their
established institutions."

General James M. Gavin, from the book
"WAR AND PEACE IN THE SPACE AGE"

This isn't an appeal to your patriotic
sense of duty. But, we would like to
suggest that the people at MITRE con-
tribute significantly to the first line of
defense of this country and of the free
world.

What kind of work is this? Systems
work mostly. Computer-based "L"
systems for the Air Force. World-wide
systems for collecting, transmitting,
processing and displaying information
necessary for the command and control
of our forces.

V/hat sort of people enjoy this work?
Talented systems engineers and scien-
tists. Men able to deal in broad areas
of weapons and people and radar and
computers, as well as with the specific
technical problem at hand. People like
this are hard to come by. So, we en-
courage them by offering enough lati-
tude to permit an imaginative, inquisi-
tive approach to problems. They are
part of a team doing original and
challenging work in the field of military
command technology. And, as we said
before, they are responsible for an im-

portant part of our national defense
effort.

Current projects include: BUIC (Back-
up Interceptor Control for the SAGE
system); NORAD Combat Operations
Center; Nuclear Detonation Detection
and Reporting System; Post-Attack
Command and Control system; NMCS
(National Military Command System);
and many others.

MITRE always has openings for quali-
fied men and women in every level from
recent graduate to senior project di-
rector. Minimum requirement, B.S. The
greatest need is for scientists and en-
gineers in the areas of electronics,
physics and mathematics. Address in-
quiries in confidence to Vice President
— Technical Operations, The MITRE
Corporation, CP-4, MC Square,
Bedford, Massachusetts.

THEl

Mil RE

■^.■■■J.M.WmjM.M.-l

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Pioneer in the design and development of command and control systems, MITRE was
chartered in 1958 to serve only the United States Government. The independent non-
profit firm is technical advisor and system engineer for the Air Force Electronic Systems
Division and also serves the Federal Aviation Agency and the Department of Defense.

Engineers

III Choosing a Career,
Consider these
Advantages—

LoCdtlon : Fisher is basically an "Engineering'
company with 1,500 employees located in a
pleasant midwest community of 22,000.
It's less than 10 minutes to the Fisher plant
from any home in Marshalltown.

Type of work: You'll become a member of
an engineering team that has produced some
of the outstanding developments in the field
of automatic pressure and liquid level controls.

Growth: Fisher's products are key elements
in automation which assures the company's
growth because of the rapid expansion of
automation in virtually every industry.

Advancement: Your opportunity is
unlimited. It is company policy to promote
from within; and most Fisher department
heads are engineers.

-SKffl®*^-

«" .-

If it flows through pipe
anywhere in the world
chances are it's controlled by.

flSHEn

TECHNOGRAPH

This could be the start of something ... BIG!

If you are completing your BS or MS degree in EE, ME or
Physics, AC-Miiwaukee's "Career Acceleration Program" is ttie
perfect way to get your career oft the ground . . . and keep it
moving! In just 32 weeks you can become an important member
in one of the aerospace industry's leading developers of inertia!
guidance and navigation systems. Candidates who participate
in Program A will attend formal class two hours a day, have one
hour of supervised study, and spend five hours in AC-Milwau-
kee's Engineering, Reliability and Manufacturing Divisions.
Candidates who participate in Plan B will spend one hour daily
in formal class work and the remaining seven hours on the job
in their home departments.

Courses include: ADVANCED THERMODYNAMICS, INERTIAL
INSTRUMENTS, DIGITAL COMPUTERS, GUIDANCE EQUA-
TIONS, BASIC ASTRONOMY, TELEMETRY AND DATA ANALY-
SIS; mathematics to develop an advanced maturity level and
undergraduate disciplines, as required. (Judicious selection
from these courses will be made according to the needs of
each individual.)

In addition, ACMilwaukee has a Tuition Refund Plan which
enables you to improve your skills through additional education.
Upon satisfactory completion, you will be reimbursed for all
tuition costs for courses of study at college level, undertaken
voluntarily. AC also offers an "in-plant" evening program for
your personal technical development.

You will work on these important programs at AC; Titan III
Guidance System, Titan II Inertial Guidance System, Apollo
Navigation-Guidance System, B-52C&D Bombing-Navigation
System, Polaris Navigational Components and other guidance
and navigation projects for space vehicles, missiles and aircraft.
Positions also exist for recent graduates at AC'S two advanced
concepts laboratories;

BOSTON— Advanced Concepts Research and Development On-
the-Job Training Program— AC'S Boston Laboratory is engaged
in research projects in avionics, space navigation and inertial
instrument development. This laboratory works from theory
to prototype, advancing the state of the art in navigation and
guidance.

LOS ANGELES— Advanced Concepts Research and Develop-
ment On-the-Job Training Program— AC'S Los Angeles Labora-
tory is occupied with advanced guidance research for space
vehicles and ballistic missiles, plus research and developmentin
special purpose digital computers.

For further information on AC'S "Career Acceleration Program,"
contact your placement office or write Mr. G. F. Raasch, Director
of Scientific & Professional Employment, Dept. 5753, AC Spark
Plug Division, General Motors Corporation, Milwaukee 1,
Wisconsin.

PhDs, please note: Positions are available in all three AC loca-
tions for PhDs, depending on concentration of study and area
of interest. You are invited to contact Mr. Raasch for further
information.

INTERVIEWS ON CAMPUS NOV. 11 THRU 15. CONTACT YOUR
PLACEMENT OFFICE FOR APPOINTMENT.

AC SPARK PLUG ^

THE ELECTRONICS DIVISION

OF GENERAL MOTORS

MILWAUKEE • LOS ANGELES . BOSTON
An Equal Opportunity Employer

FLINT

NOVEMBER, 1963

GRADUATE SCHOOL

GOOD DEAL OR ORDEAL ?

The undergraduate engineering
student must make a very important
decision long before graduation. He
must decide whether he wants to
continue his education in a graduate
school, find employment in industry,
or join the armed forces. This article
will help the undergraduate make this
decision, for it contains much timely
information and advice concerning
graduate school and thesis programs.

There are many reasons why
people go to graduate school. Some
people have a desire to learn more
about their field of interest. Others
choose this escape to dodge the draft
or evade the responsibility of going
out and earning a living. A few more
simply like adding letters to their
names. Regardless of the motivation,
graduate school enters the mind of
every undergraduate at one time or
another.

Opportunities for advancement and
increased pay are two of the main
reasons students attend graduate
school. Statistics prove that engi-
neers with advanced degrees tend to
make more money in less time than
their classmates with no advanced
schooling. A recent survey by the
U of I Engineering Placement Office
shows that the average salary of 438
Illinois graduates with five years of
industrial experience is $795. Those
engineers with a M.S. degree and less
than five years work experience earn
$847 per month, while engineers with
a Ph.D. degree (7 out of the 409 em-
ployed engineers) earn an average of
$1038 each month. In other words,
even though engineers with no ad-
vanced degree have more work ex-

By Henry S. Magnuski EE '66

perience than those with advanced de-
grees, the engineer with advanced
schooling earns from $50 to $250
more per month.

Money, however, is not the only
benefit derived from graduate school.
Many engineers feel that they have
not had enough training as an under-
graduate to be a really competent
engineer. The undergraduate cur-
riculum is packed with required
courses, and many times an under-
graduate engineering student cannot
pursue the study of a specific area he
is interested in. Graduate school is
the ideal place to study those sub-
jects which were missed as an under-
graduate.

Occasionally a student would pre-
fer to do graduate work in a field
which is entirely different from his
undergraduate studies. The two year
course for a Master's Degree in Busi-
ness Administration (M.B.A.) is such
a program, and it is designed for stu-
dents who did not major in business
as an undergraduate. This program
will be discussed in greater detail
later.

Before a student decides whether
or not to attend graduate school, he
must answer two important ques-
tions: What kind of degree does he
want, and what finances are avail-
able?

Types of Degrees

\hiny different types of degrees
are available at the various graduate
schools. The most common types are
Master of Science (S.M. or M.S.);
Master of Business Administration
(M.B.A.); Engineer's Degrees
(Mech.E., E.E., Nucl.E., and others);
Doctor of Science (Sc.D. ); and Doc-
tor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

The master's degree is the first de-
gree which is normally obtained after

the Bachelor of Science Degree. This
degree requires completion of eight
units of graduate work, which is
equivalent to thirty-two semester
hours; it can be completed within one
year if a full academic load is taken,
and in some cases must be completed
within five years from the date of en-
rollment in the graduate college. A
thesis based upon individual research
is usually required, and it accounts
for approximately twenty-five percent
of the graduate work. The number
and types of courses required vary
with each school, but usually four
units of credit must be obtained in
graduate level courses. The additional
units can be obtained from under-
graduate courses or additional grad-
uate courses.

The M.B.A. degree at the U of I
is awarded to students who success-
fully complete a minimum of sixty-
four semester hours ( sixteen units ) of
work, normally requiring residence of
two years or four semesters. No thesis
is required, and the program is de-
signed for full-time students.

The Engineer's Degree requires a
minimum of t\vo years of work be-
yond the baccalaureate degree. The
aim of this degree is to develop in
the engineer a greater competence
than that required for a master's de-
gree, but there is less emphasis
placed on research work than in the
doctoral course of study. Although
Illinois does not offer an Engineer's
Degree, schools such as the California
Institute of Technology and M.I.T.
offer these degrees in the same fields
as the engineering departments here
at Illinois. A thesis is required, and
students who obtain this degree will
usually not be admitted for doctoral
work. Grade and residence require-
ments for this degree vary from
school to school just as in the cases

TECHNOGRAPH

of the M.S. and the M.B.A. degrees.

The Doctor of Science Degree is
very simihir to the Doctor of Philos-
ophy degree, except that this degree
is awarded only for studies in the
fields of science and engineering.

The Doctor of Philosophy Degree
is the climax to many long years ot
study. A number of requirements
must be met to obtain this degree,
and these requirements vary from
school to school but usually consist
of the following:

A.) A student must successful!)
complete the work required tt)
obtain a master's degree or
equivalent.

B.) The candidate must declare
and complete \\ork in a major
and minor field of study. The
major is in the same field in
which the thesis work is done.
Minor or minors must be taken
in a department entirely dif-
ferent from the one in \\hich
the major work is done. Major
and minor course work, a total
of eight units, should be com-
pleted within the first \ear of
work for the doctorate.

C.) Proficiency in reading tech-
nical literature in two lan-
guages, French, German, or
Russian, must be demon-
strated.

D.) When tlie above requirements
have been met, the candidate
must complete an oral examin-
ation in his major and minor
fields of study.

E.) The final eight units of study
are devoted to the thesis and
associated research work. Most
schools require the candidate
to reside at the school while
completing the thesis. The
thesis and research work
should show the candidate's
ability to do independent and
original work in his chosen
field of study.

F. ) \Vhen the candidate has com-
pleted his thesis, he must
undergo a final oral examina-
tion which will cover his re-
search work and its results.

The doctorate, then, is a degree
designed to certif\- that the holder

NOVEMBER, 1963

Prospective gi
jblications Off!

has de\eloped his skills to do creative
work in his field of study and has a
thorough knowledge of the funda-
mentals which are required to under-
stand tliis field.

Finances

^\'hen and if the student decides to
go to graduate school, the next prob-
lem is that of finances. There are a
variety of funds available for the
graduate student, and these include
fellowships, assistantships, tuition and
fee waivers, and loans.

Fellowships \ary from $1,500 to
$2,400 per year and are awarded on
a basis of high scholarship. Many
sources provide fellowships; among
these are the University of Illinois,
various industrial firms, private in-
dividuals and organizations, the Na-
tional Science Foundation, and the
National Defense Graduate Fellow-
ship program. No obligations are in-
curred b\- the student, except that he
is expected to take a full academic
load while the fellowship is in effect.

Assistantships are appointments
awarded to graduate students for the
purpose of letting the student earn
money while obtaining experience
working for the university. This work,
in the case of a teaching assistantship,
consists of class instruction, super-
vision of labs, grading papers, and so
on. In other words, a teaching assist-

ant is the grad instructor who is so
dear to the hearts of man\' under-
graduates.

.\ research assistant helps faculty'
members conduct research, and often
this work coincides with the gradu-
ate's field of study. Salaries range
from $1,000 to $4,000 per year, and
the maximum number of courses
which the graduate is allowed to take
depends upon whether the assistant-
ship is full or part time.

Counselorships are similar to assist-
antships, except students are paid to
live in the residence halls and hous-
ing units in order to enforce univer-
sity regulations and quiet hours.

Tuition and fee waivers exempt the
student from tuition and fees as long
as he takes at least a prescribed mini-
mum load and does not do more than
a specified amount of outside \\ork
every week.

Loans are made at low interest
rates to students from various loan
fimds such as the University' Loan
Fund or the National Defense Ed-
ucation .Act service. These loans may
be canceled either fully or in part if
the student takes up a specialization
such as teaching; if they are not can-
celed, the loans must be repaid with-
in a given number of years after
graduation.

{continued on page 35)

In just a few short months, those
new graduates spanned the dis-
tance from the classroom to the
space age. They joined with their
experienced colleagues in tack-
ling a variety of tough assign-
ments. On July 20th, 1963, their
product went off with a roar that
lasted two solid minutes, provid-
ing more than 1,000,000 pounds
of thrust on the test stand. This
was part of the USAF Titan III C
first stage, for which United
Technology Center is the con-
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will provide over 80% of all the
thrust developed by the vehicle.
Some of you now reading this
page may soon be a part of that
program. ..or a part of other sig-
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The Laboratories' steady rate of
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NOVEMBER, 1963

Business Wants ... of You

By Fredrick R. Kappel

The editor of Technograph has
kindly invited me to say how I think
engineering students can best prepare
themselves for careers in business
organizations.

Persona/ Responsibility

The most important thought I can
offer may seem rather simple, but
it is still the most important in my
judgment. This is that each man un-
derstand that he is now, and always
will be, primarily responsible for his
own development.

If you ask a man, "Who is mainly
responsible?" he will almost always
say, "I am." But experience shows
that in many cases his acceptance
is more in his mouth than in his
mind. Many people seem to think
that self-development consists of
working hard in a course of study, or
learning additional skills on a new
job. However this is not self-devel-
opment. This is responding to
activities that are put in one's way,
and being a responder is not enough.
If a man is not his own prime mover,
then a company's efforts to help him—
or a college's— are not worth the time
and expense.

To many young men, when the\'
enter business, it apparently comes
as a new idea that strengthening and
developing their individualit}' is their
own personal problem; this despite
the fact that they have just finished
sixteen or more years of education
that should have driven the point
home.

These comments about self-devel-
opment apply generally, but I assure
you that in my mind they apply no
less to engineers than to others.

To make a specific suggestion on
the content of engineering study, I
think a good basic grounding in engi-
neering economics, in the principles
for achieving sound economic balance
in engineering decisions, is an in-
creasingly important element in the
training of young engineers who as-
pire to positions of leadership.

Individual Vitality

But speaking more broadly again,
what a well conducted, progressive
business will want from you above
all is your individual vitality. This
in my definition comprehends sus-
tained competence; creative, venture-
some drive; and a strong feeling of
ethical responsibility, which means
an inner need to do what is right
and not just what one is required
to do.

Perhaps you sense a connection be-
tween this feeling of ethical respon-
sibility and what I have already said
about self -development. If not, let me
see ff I can suggest the relationship.

Engineering (to put my thought
in the context of your interest) means
making decisions. But when a de-
cision is made, should it be judged
on the basis tliat it represented the
best choice the engineer could make
at the time? Or rather, should it be
judged on the basis that he did or
did not make sufficient effort to fore-
see the necessity for decision, and
that he did or did not thereupon
make the further effort to come up
with a better choice than would have
been possible without the exercise
of foresight?

If the answer is, "he did not," then,
in the view I am suggesting here, he
did not meet his ethical responsi-
bilit}'.

In other words, if you stumble be-
cause you are not prepared, the fail-
ure is not at the time of stumbling.
The real ethical failure came earlier,
in not using foresight and develop-
ing the abilit}' to meet a future need.
Self-development, therefore, is a mat-
ter of moral obligation.

Management Ability

To conclude no\\— what should an
ethical, capable manager be able to
do? I will summarize four tests that
we want every manager in our busi-
ness to be able to meet.

Frederick R. Kappel has been chairman of the
board of the Americon Telephone and Telegroph
Company since August, 1961, ond is author of
Vitalily in a Business Enterprise, a short book
which treats the ideas put forth in this article
more extensively.

First, he is able to state a goal and
reach it. The ability to say, "Here is
where I intend to go," and get there,
is the first requirement.

Second, he reaches these goals by
organizing and inspiring others. Heg i
is able to lead others so that they find!; i
their pursuit of the goals a satisfying
experience.

Third, his judgment is respected by 'i
those whose cooperation is needed

Fourth, he performs well undei '
stress. Whatever the cause of the*
stress, he sees it as a challenge rather
than as a threat.

I think these tests are just as im-
portant in our engineering activities <
as in any other phase of management. .
And for those \\'ho aspire to engineer- ■
ing leadersliip, ability to meet them i
is essential.

Good luck to you, and remember— -
your development is \our o\\ti per-
sonal problem.

TECHNOGRAPH i

AN INVITATION TO
RESEARCH-MINDED PEOPLE

from the

U.S. NAVAL
LABORATORIES
of the POTOMAC

You may already be familiar with one or more of the Navy's research and
development organizations in suburban Washington and nearby communi-
ties. But this will be your first contact with all EIGHT as an entity . . . the
first in a series of personal messages frankly intended to acquaint engineers
and scientists of almost all disciplines and levels of experience with the un-
usual advantages offered in common by the U. S. Naval Laboratories of the
Potomac— i'n the heartland of the nation's research effort.

Nowhere else can you find . . .

• The opportunity, not occasionally
but constantly, to work on and contrib-
ute to large-scale programs of national
significance.

• Outstanding — and oftentimes
unique — facilities and equipments,
backed up by the vast resources of the
Navy itself.

• Broad-ranging responsibilities — far
beyond what you're likely to find else-
where — for a number of programs, or
in a variety of study areas. (Your best
way to know what's going on, and to
become widely known yourself.)

9 The stimulation of the Nation's
Capital, but in suburban areas, out of
traJEc and congestion.

• The freedom to think and act on
your own initiative, unfettered by the
corporate "profit-motive" limitation.

• A nice blending of stability and op-
portunity, enhanced by the fact that
the Washington area has grown to be-
come one of the four largest private
research centers in the nation.

• Career Civil Service — up to 26 days
paid vacation and 13 days sick leave
per year, partly-paid insurance pro-
gram, a new inflation-proof retirement
policy, etc. — and a variety of graduate
education programs for advance de-
grees.

Send your qualifications and career Interests direct to the

Employment Officer (Dep't C) of the activity In which you are

Interested, or watch for Laboratory representatives to Interview on campus.

If no local address Is given, send your Inquiry

c/o Department of the Navy, Washington 25, D. C. A

NAVAL RESEARCH
LABORATORY (NRL)

—heavy emphasis on pure and basic research
Into all the physical sciences under sponsor-
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to increase knowledge of these sciences them-
selves ... as well as to improve materials,
techniques, and systems for the Navy.

NAVAL ORDNANCE
LABORATORY (NOL)

-conducting RDT & E of complete ordnance
systems, assemblies, components and ma-
terials pertaining to existing, advanced, and
proposed weapons . . . principally to missiles
and underseas ordnance. Located at White
Oak, Silver Spring, Md.

NAVAL WEAPONS
LABORATORY

—engaged, first, in studying ballistics, astro-
nautics, and advanced weapons systems
through research in mathematics, physics,
and engineering . . . and, second, in working
on various classified DOD projects with the
latest computer technology and systems. NWL
Is located at Dahlgren, Virginia.

NAVAL OCEANOGRAPHIC
OFFICE

-growing programs involving environmental
investigations of, and new developments,
methods, techniques, and equipment in ocea-
nography, hydrography, gravity, magnetism,
instrumentation, and related navigational sci-
ence . . . including charts and publications.
Was the Navy's Hydrographic Office.

DAVID TAYLOR
MODEL BASIN

-a complex of four laboratories (Hydrome-
chanics, Aerodynamics, Structural Mechanics,
and Applied Mathematics) conducting funda-
mental and applied research into submarine,
surface ship, aircraft, and missile design
concepts . . . applied mathematics . . . and
related instrumentation.

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—conducts studies in chemistry, chemical
engineering, chemical process development
and pilot plant operation for solid and liquid
propellants ... as well as manufactures, tests,
and delivers missile propulsion units from
their Indian Head, Maryland, facilities,

NAVAL AIR TEST CENTER

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and airborne weapons systems, with emphasis
on improving carrier operations (esp. launch
and recovery), and aircraft radars, radio,
IFF, data link, computers, ECM, etc. Today,
nearly half of the professional effort at this
Patuxent River, Maryland, facility is devoted
to research.

NAVAL OBSERVATORY

—continued fundamental observations of posi-
tions and motions of celestial bodies . . .
basic research in positional astronomy and
celestial mechanics . . . determination of
precise times and frequencies . . . computing
and publishing astronomical ephemerides and
catalogs.

NOVEMBER, 1963

BRAINS

BUST

Engineering Honors Program

By Stuart Umpleby EE '66

Throughout the history of the Uni-
versity, tlie College of Engineering has
been characterized by steady improve-
ment in the quality of students and by
the college tradition of continuous
modernization of curricula. A logical
extention of these two facts was the
establishment of the Engineering
Honors Program within the College
of Engineering. It was initiated for
two reasons; number one, to enable
exceptional engineering students to
advance to the fullest extent of their
capabilities, not only in the requii'ed
courses of their curriculum, but also
in actual research experience and in
more diversified study of the humani-
ties and social sciences; number two,
to improve the quality of all under-
graduate instruction.

Presently, admission to the program
requires only a 4.5 grade j)oint aver-
age for at least one semester. How-
ever, the College Honors Council
plans to revise the program's entrance
requirements so that the number and
difficulty of courses, time devoted to
employment, research assistant work,
and other scholarly activities under-
taken by the students are also con-
sidered. Approximately 150 students
or 3 to 4% of the total college en-
rollment participates in the program
each semester.

As a member of the Honors Pro-
gram, a student enrolls in special sec-
tions ("starred" in the time table of
courses ) offering more comprehensive
and flexible approaches to the usual
subject matter. An honors student is
also encouraged to take proficiency
examinations whenever possible and

to receive exemptions from the usual
prerequisites in order to enter higher-
level courses directly.

For seniors and juniors with ex-
ceptional backgrounds, the Honors
Program provides special seminars, re-
search participation, individual proj-
ect arrangements, and senior theses.
Interdisciplinary seminars are espe-
cially emphasized, both between de-
partments and between colleges. Em-
phasis throughout the program is on
advanced work and self-generated
study. The motivating force is indi-
vidual inspiration, fostered through
personal contact with outstanding fac-
ulty members both as advisors and
as study or research directors.

But the Engineering Honors Pro-
gram was not established solely for
the benefit of a small elite group. The
Honors Council will organize an ex-
perimental course on any subject
where sufficient demand indicates a
new course would be beneficial, and
it is through the establishment of
such pilot courses that the Honors
Program performs its most vital func-
tion for the college. Each new honors
course either may be the forerunner
of a new course for all undergradu-
ates or may furnish additional ma-
terial to be incorporated into existing
courses. The significance of this
method of upgrading all undergradu-
ate engineering curricula was pointed
out by Professor Charles A. Wert,
chairman of the College Honors
Council, who said, "Seniors today
learn material which a few years ago
was obtained only in Ph.D. studies.
The council hopes that the Honors
Program will accelerate the rate at
which advanced material can be suc-
cessfully assimilated into the under- .
graduate curriculum."

All students interested in the En-
gineering Honors Program should
contact either Dean Opperman in 103
CEH or Professor Wert in 217 Metal-
lurgy and Mining Building (formerly
Physics Laboratory). ♦ ♦ ♦

Morris Dahlstrom, sophomore, and Chuck Dollins,
□ tus they have used to moke large single crystals
ir. Wert, Professor of Metallurgical Engineering, is

ienior, show Professor Chorles A. Wert the oppa-
of niobium for use in graduate thesis research,
'heir honors advisor.

TECHNOGRAPH

CQ de
W9YH

by Paul Glhring GE '64

W'lien radio amateurs enter college,
tlK'\^ often discover it isn't as easy to
turn off their hobby as it was to turn
off their receivers after a night on
the ham bands. This fact explains the
existence of Synton Amateur Radio
Club at the University of Illinois.

Many of the traditional character-
istics of the hundreds of amateur
radio clubs in the United States are
found in Synton. Some of the more
familiar ones are, of course, a nucleus
of licensed amateurs, a meeting place
filled with cigarette smoke and the
smell of coffee, a constitution filed
away in some forgotten drawer, and
equipment to permit members to get
on the air when they have an urge
to "fire it up."

All of Synton's 25 to 30 members
are college students as well as hams.
Monthly meetings consist of a tech-
nical talk of general interest to radio
amatuers and an informal business
meeting. The speaker for the evening
is usually a member of the club, but
occasionally a faculty member speaks.
Topics presented in the past have
ranged from "VHF Construction
Techniques" to "Vertically Polarized,
Log Periodic, Zig Zag Antennas." At
a meeting last spring, the club presi-
dent gave a talk on a research project
carried out by the Antenna Lab where
he has worked part time since his
freshman year. He showed "home-
made" movies of a L5-kw ground con-
trol transmitter which he worked on
for many months, electronic equip-
ment which was packed into a small
research rocket, and finally the rocket
firing at Elgin AFB in Florida.

As a club project, a small com-
mittee has been doing preliminary
work on a series of television pro-
grams featuring amateur radio in the
United States. The series will present
some of the important activities of
amateurs in this country, and infor-

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Ronald M. Foster, Jr. Part 2 contains six
case histories about the problem-solving
techniques involved in designing a com-
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in outer space, and repairing it even
after it has been placed in orbit.

Satellite Communications Physics is
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Synton's president, Bill Henry (K9GWT), re-

loxing at the club station W9YH, during last

year's Engineering Open House display in ttie
EE Building.

mation on how to obtain an amateur
radio license. If a suitable program
is completed early enough, the Uni-
versity television station, WILL-TV
in Champaign, will telecast the series
during their spring season.

As an annual project for the Engi-
neering Open House weekend, Syn-
ton members set up and operate the
club station, W9YH as a display in
the Electrical Engineering Building.

Synton's radio shack is located in
the basement of a University owned
building on Oregon Street. The "big
rig," which has recently been re-
stored to operating condition after a
long period of "de-bugging," is a
severely modified surplus BC-610
transmitter which runs about 500
watts input to the final amplifier. A
Collins 32RS-1 Single Sideband
Transceiver which runs 100 watts
PEP was donated to the club this fall
by Collins Radio Company. A Halli-
crafters SX-71 receiver, a low power
CW transmitter, and other equipment
are also available in the shack. The
antenna is an end-fed Zepp.

Anyone interested in amateur
radio, whether he holds a license or
not, may become a member simply
by paying the dues of $2.50 per se-
mester or $4.00 per year. The club
has no female members at this time,
but has had in the past, and they are
certainly welcome. Any student in-
terested in obtaining his ham license
can get help from the club. All in-
terested students are invited to visit
Synton's meetings, which are held at
7:30 p.m. on the second Thursday of
each month in the Electrical Engi-
neering Lounge. ♦ ♦ ♦

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i NOVEMBER, 1963

J4o

Wayne Cruucli
Technograph Editor
48 EEB
Dear Editor:

What in the IicU is the idea of sending somchodij over
here to interview me? EspceiaUy a spineless ninny like
the one wlio just left (after being told off good and
proper). He was a shifty-eyed runt of a kid with baggy
pants— you can't trust anyone that's shifty eyed— he
stole one of my pencils, in fact. I don't want to be
bothered by tJtis kind of visitation. My work is stifp-
eiently well reported in a manner I consider optimal in
the technical journals. I have nothing more to com-
municate. But I am writing this also to tell you a feu-
facts about this ill-clad, uninformed young boob. . . .

I was hard at work on mtj advanced study, the ob-
ject of which is to understand some basic underlying
phenomena and things. I have been on this complex
problem for seven years, happy, alone, engaged in a
■scientific search for truth, and in walks this student and
starts asking questions and throwing my thoughts all out
of whack. At first, before I found out he was from tech-
nograph, I talked to him; I thought he was trying to
register in my course "Electricity for Fun."

But his questions were im))ossible. "What are you try-
ing to find in your research? Is it important?" Of course
it's important, but as I told him: "I can't answer crack-
pot questions like these— I don't know what it's for, and
I don't care— I come up with new ideas and other people
can decide what to do icith them." But I was tolerant-
I figured he wanted to know something and just didn't
know how to ask the right questions. He ivas a pathetic
little snook. I volunteered information: "The object of
'Electricity for Fun' is threefold," I said. "Namely, to
teach you about electricity, to give you fun, and to show
you how to engage in a .scientific search for truth— just
like it .says in tlie catalog."

At this iwint. looking around furtively with his .shiftii,
dishonest-looking eyes, he said, "Vd like to do an article
about your research. What are you trying to do?"

"What am I frying to do?" I don't tell anyone what Vm
trying to do— this is the age of idea theft— for all 1 knew
he could have been from General Electric or some other
electricity manufacturer who icould just love dearly to
probe my understanding of basic underlying phenomena
and things. Beside, although perhaps it .shows immodestu.
I would have thaught that even an undergraduate would
know something of my work in current transmission. No
secret has been made of my winnini^ the J. Oliver
Armbuster Award for Vnderstanding Basic Underlying
Phenomena Behind AC-DC Current Transmission and
Things. Have you heard of it? Did you write it up? If
not, you may. if you think it is still newsworthy . I got
it in 1946.

Well, I tried to play along good-naturedly— I feel

sorry for you stupid kids and will do all I can to hel])
you as long as it doesn't involve telling you what I'm
doing. What I mean is students are enough trouble
taking up your time, hitting you with their bicycles,
getting in your way in the cafeteria, and .so on. without
coming right into yoiw laboratory. So I asked the boy
if he was in engineering: I didn't think he could be, he
had been so illiteratized .somewhere along the line. Then
he admitted, shamefacedly, that he was from techno-
graph. He said he couldn't imagine why you had given
him such a tough assignment. In fact, his remarks did
not make him sound particularly loyal to you or tech-
nograph. but I coiddn't blame him for thai. I saw that
it ivas hopeless, so I threw him out. calling him an
ignoramus. He said nothing back, I'll say to his credit
—at least he respects his betters.

I have decided to help you out, in spite of my anger
at your pencil-stealing reporter. 1 am sending you a 14
.X 18 photograph of myself accepting the Armbuster
Award, a copy of the citation, and the text of my ac-
ceptance speech. You have my permission to use it.

Please keep your so-called reporters away from me.
I like to read about what other people are doing, but I
refuse to stoop to writing such things about mi/.self. It's
not dignified. I woidd rather discover something and
keep it secret than tell about it in any publication of
lesser caliber than Electric Chair and Round Table.

Sincerely,

Chester Mervin Balderdash, Ph.D.

Professor of Electric Home Wiring

Dear Prof. C. M. Balderdash:

I ivas sorry to hear about your interview tJiat
tvent awry. People like the one you had the mis-
fortune to meet make life more difficult than it
should he, and they certainly do not make much
of a contribution to improving communications.
But unfortunately one often has to work with
such people and make the best of it. This illus-
trates the sort of problems Technograph has to

face in doing its job.

Please accept my personal apologies for getting
you into this. I regret involving you in a situation
that was so bad you almost lost your temper, and
I thank you for your forebearance and restraint
in a nasty situation.

Sincerely,
Wayne Crouch
Technograph Editor

TECHNOGRAPH

^J^uml

Dear Wain:

Today I uent over too Professor C. M. Balderdashes
office as ijou instructed and tried to £:.et an articJe on
his elektronics research. He is a mousey little man witi}
large, ivide, dtdldookin^i eyes— the kind that hetrey stu-
pidity— and he acted like he was scared to death of me.
He miwt fit in well as an instructor because he couldn't
begin to understand my questions, so I didn't get an
article. At first I thought maybe I'd handled it wrong
—but I couldn't see where I'd made any mistakes (ex-
cept for forgeting to take a pencil icith me). Here's
what hap])ened—see what you think . . .

First I asked him what is happening in his work, and
he got pale and started stammaring some sillyness about
"Electricity for Fun"— I never did understand that. As
you suggested, I kept probing: "What exactly is it you
are trying to accomplish? What are the possible apli-
cation.s? Why is it important?" And he would answe: "I
don't konw." He was shaking like a leif. Well, it went
on and on like thii, me asking sensable, intelligent ques-
tions, and him muttering nieve, ignorant ansers. I never
thought a Prof, could be like this; they are always so
dominering in class.

Finally we .mt staring at each other (I staring boldly,
him fritenly). After a time he said, "Where arc you
from, young man?" I told him. once again, from Tech-

nograf and pationately explained, for the aighth time,
what you wanted (I hope you don't mind my using your
name and po.iifion—I thought it might help). After a few
uncomplimentry remarks about the magazene, he as-ked,
"What is your field?" "Machanical engineering." I said,
thanking God in my mind that I wasn't in his feild!
"Do you engage in scintific .searches for truth doun
there?" he asked. How stupid. Vd already told him I'm
in Machanical Engineering— not Physics.

I tried to get back to the ta.sk at hand. "I understand
you are interested in current transmision . . ." I began,
and for the first time he came alive. "So you know about
my Armbustcr Award," he said, grinning foothlissly at
me. His big cow-eyes were really shining. "Do you want
to write about that? It's interesting . . ." "No," I said.
"I'd like to write about what you are doing right now.
Can you tell me what it is?" "Well," he said, "I'm talking
to you— but I should be icorking—you know, engaging
in a scintific search for truth."

Well, Wain, Vm sorry to admit it, but I lost my temper
then and told him off. I told him coldly and preciselly
why we must communikate with each other, and how an
altitude like his is so harmful to science and engineering.
But just as I was really getting wond up I .sate that he
was not going to try to defend himself, that he was really
getting nervious, so I just walked out of his office. He
didn't say one word back to me, probly because he knew
I was right.

Maybe we'll do better with hiuj next time, althounh
I hope you don't ask me to talk to him again. In fact,
up until I met this jerk I thought reporting for Tech-
nograf was really going to be fun. I .still think I'm tcell
qualafied to do it, but perhaps I have to much of a
temper to talk too these spincliss profes.sors. Have you
another job opening on the staff I could consider?—
Something that doesn't require a person to meet the
public? If you have, I'd like to take it; I don't want my
exter-ordinary temper to get you in trouble or me
thrown out of school.

Who knows? Next tinie I might get aroused to the
l)oint of physacally attacking a researcher— we sure
wouldn't want that to happen.

Sincearely,
Wally

Dear WaUtj:

I was Sony to hear about your interview tJiaf
went to awry. People like the one you had the
misfortune to meet make life more difficult than it
should he, and they ceiiainhj do not make much
of a contribution to improvinf!. communications.
But unfortunately one often has to work with
siwh people and make the best of if. This ilhi.s-
trates the sort of problems Technograph has to

face in doing its job.

Please accept my personal apologies for getting
you into this. I regret invoking you in a .situation
that was .so bad you alnurst lost your temper, and
I thank you for your forehearance and restraint
in a nasty situation.

Sincerehj,
Wayne Crouch
Technograph Editor

NOVEMBER, 1963

TECHNOGRAPH

ON THE MOON...

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spanning the evolution of power from yesterday's reciprocating
engines to today's rockets. Tomorrow will find that same Pratt &
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to even more distant reaches of outer space.

Engineering achievement of this magnitude is directly traceable to
our conviction that basic and applied research is essential to healthy
progress. Today's engineers at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft accept no
limiting criteria. They are moving ahead in many directions to advance
our programs in energy conversion for every environment.

Our progress on current programs is exciting, for it anticipates the
challenges of tomorrow. We are working, for example, in such areas
as advanced gas turbines . . . rocket engines . . . fuel cells . . . nuclear
power— all opening up new avenues of exploration in every field of
aerospace, marine and industrial power application.

The breadth of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft programs requires virtually every tech-
nical talent . . . requires ambitious young engineers and scientists who can con-
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or Ph.D. in: MECHANICAL . AERONAUTICAL . ELECTRICAL . CHEMICAL and
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Career boundaries with us can be further extended through a corpo-
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regarding opportunities at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, consult your col-
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Department, Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, East Hartford 8, Connecticut.

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NOVEMBER, 1963

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you want to ask

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ing the answers is the job of the Alhed Chemical
campus interviewer. He will be here, on
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get the facts you need in order to make
a sound career decision.

If we may make a suggestion: Don't
hesitate to ask our representative the

He'd like to be helpful— to supply you with answers
that will make your career choice easier.
Your placement office can tell you
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Jechnocuti

1 1' I in Aoan ^ate

46-23-38

. . . arc the types of numbers ]oiin is interested
in. To her these figures represent intelligence
quotients, major factors in her field of special
education— an appropriate field since she is a
SPECIAL type girl. MaitUaining over a 4.0
average, she has varied interests ranging from
camping to reading. Activities play a major role
in her college life. She is currently un officer of
her sorority Chi Omega, publicity chairman of
Campus Talent and Greek Week. She has worked
as a manager of University Theater and Star
Course. Other titles she has held include Miss
Ford County, Runner-up Dolphin Queen, Gar-
net Ball Queen and first Runner-up Miss Illinois
County Fair. All in all, she would make a .special
catch for any engineering student.

NOVEMBER, 1963

Assignment: match the performance of our finest
automatic drive in a lighter, less expensive version!

Result: A new Ford-built 3-speed
torque converter— ideal
"traveling companion" for our new,
hotter, medium-displacement V-8 engines

A completely new Ford Motor Company 3-speed
automatic drive for 1964 delivers improved
passing performance . . . smoother acceleration
. . . better start-ups (up to 35% higher torque
multiplication in Low) . . . more flexible down-
hill braking . . . quieter operation in Neutral.

With the introduction of this lighter, highly
durable and efficient transmission in 1964
Comet, Fairlane and Ford models, our engi-
neers have taken still another step toward
putting extra pep per pound into Ford-built cars.

Simplified gear case design and a one-piece
aluminum casting result in a lighter, more
compact transmission— one that has fewer
components and is extremely easy to maintain.
Built to precision tolerances akin to those in
missile production, the new automatic trans-
mission is truly a product of the space age,
and is typical of technical progress at Ford.

Another assignment completed; another case
of engineering leadership at Ford providing
fresh ideas for the American Road.

MOTOR COMPANY

The American Road, Dearborn, Michigan

WHERE ENGINEERING LEADERSHIR BRINGS YOU BETTER-BUILT CARS

TECHNOGRAPH

THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANIES
SALUTE: WARREN ROSKE

Whether a simple voice circuit for a small trunk line, or
a complex high-speed data circuit for the Strategic Air
Command. Northwestern Bell Engineer Warren Roske gets
the nod. Warren ( B.S.I. E.. 1959i. and the three engineers
who work under him, design telephone facilities for private
line customers.

On earlier assignments. Warren engineered communica-
tion lines through the famed Dakota Black Hills, helped in
the Mechanized Teletypewriter cutover in Sioux Falls, S. D.,

and contributed a unique application of statistics to a
Plant Engineering study.

But Warren's greatest success has come in the Trans-
mission field where, after only seven months, he was pro-
moted to his supervisory engineering position.

Like many young engineers, Warren is impatient to
make things happen for his company and himself. There
are few places where such restlessness is more welcomed
or rewarded than in the fast-growing telephone business.

(MJl BELL TELEPHONE COMPANIES

NOVEMBER, 1963

THESE GRADUATES THRIVE ON CREATIVE CHALLENGES... THEY'RE

SALES ENGINEERING

R. J. Hummer

University of Toledo-BSEE-1961

DEVELOPMENT ENGINEERING

J. H. Trumble

University of Dayton-BSEE-1960

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

R. J. Hayes

Indiana Tech-BSME-1956

There's a challenging, rewarding fiiture for

C.W. Ludvigsen, Manager — Systems Sales,
tells how creative graduates contribute to
pioneering, automation developments.

Now, to meet the pressing challenge
of industrial automation, Cutler-
Hammer has formed a number of
automation project teams.

These teams combine the techni-
cal and manufacturing talents of
versatile, seasoned specialists and
you, creative-minded engineering
and business graduates.

Their primary job: to make sure
that a customer's automation in-
■"estment pays an adequate return.

How they work

How do they meet this challenge?
By working with customer engineers
and consultants to isolate cost
problems in industrial process.

manufacturing, and warehousing
operations. Then, by applying their
individual talents and creative
ingenuity to develop, design, build,
and install practical automation
systems that will insure good return
on investment.

Where they work

Automation teams work together
in a Milwaukee-based, modern,
500,000 square foot plant specifi-
cally designed to house every
activity involved in the evolution
of a complex system ... in a creative
climate that is conducive to imagi-
native planning and pioneering
development.

What they have
done already

This approach has paid off! Though
industry has barely scratched the
surface of the automation potential,
our credentials already are quite
impressive.

Profit-making automation sys-
tems such as ... a bundle-handling
system for 30 major newspaper mail
rooms ... a package-handling sys-
tem for a prominent publisher . . .
U.S. Post Office mail-handling
systems in 14 major cities . . . pallet-
handling systems . . . more than a
score of major steel-mill finishing
lines . . . automatic warehouse con-
trol systems . . . and auto body-line
handling systems are just a few
examples of our creative planning
and developmental skill at work.

What is your opportunity?

What are the advantages to you

TECHNOGRAPH

AUTOMATION PROBLEM SOLVERS

MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING

R. H. Menzel

Michigan Tech— BSME— 1955

CONTROL ENGINEERING

L. Gall

University of Illinois— BSEE- 1960

ANALYTICAL ACCOUNTING

A. E. Morgan

University of Wisconsin — BA— 1960

you,too,on a Cutler-Hammer automation team

as a young, creative-minded grad-
uate? Short range, it's an exceptional
opportunity— if you spark to the
challenge of finding new solutions
to tough manufacturing problems.
An unusual opportunity to get
deei)ly involved in problem solving
right from the start!

Long range, being a key member
of a Cutler-Hammer automation
team is an excellent way to get the
diversified experience so essential
to continuing career development
and future advancement. It's parti-
cularly beneficial if you have
aspirations to move into manage-
ment ranks.

Want to know more?

Write today to T.B. Jochem, Cutler-
Hammer, Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
for complete information. And, plan
to meet with our representative
when he visits your campus soon.

WHAT'S NEW? ASK.

A CUTLER-HAMMER AUTO-
MATION TEAM helped the
WALL STREET JOU RNAL solve
major production and distribu-
tion problems of a national
newspaper by designing and
building control systems for
two new, highly automated
printing plants. Controls per-
mit the world's fastest presses
to produce newspapers at the
rate of 70,000 per hour.

Cutler-Hammer is an equal
opportunity employer.

CUTLER-HAMMER

NOVEMBER, 1963

Society Page

ENGINEERING COUNCIL

Many readers of last month's "Society Page" seem to
have mistaken Engineering Council for a faculty com-
mittee.

Generally

Engineering Council is a student organization repre-
senting the four thousand engineering students. Next
to Student Senate, Engineering Council is the largest
representative student body.

The purpose of Council is to organize the student
activities of the College of Engineering. Council works
to produce closer cooperation among the professional
societies; to improve communication between students
and faculty members within the college; to coordinate
engineering activities with other groups on campus;
and to aid in planning and execution of combined pro-
grams of the engineering societies, such as St. Pat's Ball
and Engineering Open House.

Students are represented on Engineering Council
through their professional societies. Council members
consist of two delegates from each professional society
and Technograph. Chairmen of St. Pat's Ball and Engine-
ering Open House are also members.

NEVER HEARD OF IT!

Specifically

At the second meeting of the year President Don
Rouse submitted a list of recommendations for the re-
organization of council. He then resigned. Rouse ex-
plained that obligations to another organization
prevented effective execution of liis Engineering Council
responsibilities. Mce President Bob Seyler advanced to
leadership.

So far Council's major problem has been its inability
to get individual society members interested in Council's
objectives. Council's activities have been inadequately
presented at societ}' meetings and few suggestions from
societ)' members have been brought before the Council.

As one specific attempt to improve society-council
communication and to generate ideas, President Bob
Seyler established six standing committees. Approved
at the third meeting, the committees are as follows:
Instructor Rating, Open House, St. Pat's Ball, Intra-
mural, Public Relations, and Grievance.

Seyler feels that controversial subjects such as in-
structor evaluation wiU stimulate interest and urge
society' members to give questions and suggestions to
their representatives. Only with the backing of the
individual societies will Council be effecti\e. ♦ ♦ ♦

ENGINEERING OPEN HOUSE

No Box Tops and Nothing to Fill Outf

TECH is proud to report Engineering Open House
is moving. Students and faculty members are working
together making plans, building displays, and doing
publicity work. Much remains to be done, but the event
is taking shape and a different shape than ever before.

TECH's reporters have heard numerous rumors about
small-sized conducted tours through laboratories that
have never before been open to the public ( or students! ) ;
displays that will be more engineering-oriented than e\'er
before; tours tlirough the Assembly Hall for visitors
interested in the engineering aspects of the structure;
and the possibility that there will be one large all-
college display that will show the many facets of the
engineer and the interrelated phases of the engineering
profession.

These changes, particularly the effort to slant Open
House toward giving a more meaningful picture of the
College and of engineering as a profession, looks like a
healthy move to members of TECH's staff. The College's
Open House and Exhibits Committee has already met
and its members have expressed their wilUngness to
support the students' program of proposed improve-
ments.

This committee which is chaired by David O'Bryant,
General Engineering, consists of: R. W. Anderson, C.S.L.;
F. W. Barton, C.E.; A. C. Bianchini, T.A.M.; R. W.
Bokenkamp, G.E.; P. T. Br\ant, Editor of Eng. Exp.

Sta.; R. N. Fenzl, Ag.E.; J. L. Hudson, Chem.E.; All
Kingery, Asst. Ed., Eng. Exp. Sta.

L. J. Koester, Phy.; J. L. Loth, Aero.; E. C. McClintock,
G.E.; J. P. Neal, E.E.; D. R. Opperman, Asst. Dean; D. R.
Reyes-Guerra, G.E.; T. J. Rowland, Met.; J. W. Seyler.
C.E.; W. F. Stoecker, M.E.; N. Street, Mining; J. E. ^^il-
liams, E.E.; T. A. ^^'illmore, Ceramics.

Dave Jones, the student chairman of Open House for
1964, is pleased with the progress made so far. Accord-
ing to him, "We have a considerable number of talented,
willing people working now— but we need more. We
need students with ideas, with imagination, and with
a desire to help. Everyone I have talked and worked with
feels that Open House has needed a change for a long
time— and now we have the opportimity to change it.
Anyone wishing to lend a helping hand should come to
48 Electrical Engineering Building or call me at 356-
1847."

A Project Contest

TECHNOGRAPH finds these rumors encouraging,
and, effective immediately, extends a helping hand. To
indicate our appro\'al and support for the most consi'.-
tent rumor— an improvement in the qualit\' of displa\s
—TECH is sponsoring a contest with the full backing

(continued on page 31)

TECHNOGRAPH

ENGINEERS
SCIENTISTS

Career mobility, based on the ability to
develop in the direction of your best
talent or interests, is made possible
for you at Sylvania Electronic Systems.

You will actively contribute to advanced work
spanning disciplines and areas such as earth/space
communications; electronic reconnaissance, detec-
tion, countermeasures; radar; information handling;
aerospace; and complex systems for military com-
mand and control.

Nineteen interrelated research and advanced de-
velopment laboratories throughout the country, as

well as sites around the world, provide
an environment permitting planned
growth — personally and professionally.
Three parallel paths of advancement
opportunity to progress as a technical
technical specialist or program/project
• all with equal rewards.
Sylvania Electronic Systems is a major division
of Sylvania Electric Products Inc., supported by the
impressive technical and financial resources of the
parent company, General Telephone & Electronics
Corporation.

SYLVANIA ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS

Go\rriiiiirnt Systrnis ManafSf-mcnt V*I»'y

J„r GENERAL TELEPHONE &ELEDTRONICS^

For further information see your college placement officer or write to Mr. Robert T. Morton

40 SYLVAN ROAD-WALTHAM 54, MASSACHUSETTS

An Equal Opportunity Employer

NOVEMBER, 1963

starting in a single 1956
automotive engine, pearlitic
IVlalleable crankshafts are cur-
rently used in eight passenger car
engines and one truck engine. With
more than 3,800,000 now in serv-
ice, these pearlitic Malleable iron
castings have compiled an excel-
lent record for field reliability.

Trunion-type rear axle differential
carriers of Malleable have been
used since World War II without
any reported warranty claims. The
carrier, which is stressed during
assembly when steel tubes are
forced into the openings on either
side, continues to absorb tremen-
dous stresses throughout the life of
the car . . . with complete reliability.

7 years of serv-
ice with no record
of field failure is the
enviable achievement
of these pearlitic Malleable
slip yokes and U-joint flanges.
Continuously subjected to varying
speeds and reversing torques,
these parts amply demonstrate
Malleable's capability for dynamic
applications.

Car

Manufacturers'

Extended

Warranties

Rely on 273

Malleable

Casting Designs

Each of the five major automobile com-
panies is represented by these examples.

Not one service failure has been
reported in the period now covered
by the warranty (two years) on
these pearlitic Malleable rocker
arms. Used since 1955, field prob-
lems are termed "insignificant" by
the automotive manufacturer.

Two of the twenty-seven different
Malleable castings warranted by
one automotive company are the
transmission band lever and the
transmission torque converter hub
shown here. Both have been used
in automotive transmissions with
no warranty claims turned in to
the company in five years.

The extended warranties now being given by
automobile manufacturers are not sales gim-
micks. They are based on exhaustive statistical
studies that conclusively demonstrate the reli-
ability of each component involved.
Duringa single model year, these two to five year

warranties will cover 90,000,000 individual Mal-
leable iron parts of 273 different designs. The
confidence which automotive companies have in
Malleable's quality is responsible for the use of
Malleablecastingsfor more and moreapplications
on cars and trucks . . . and throughout industry.

Send for your free copy of this 1 6-page
"Malleable Engineering Data File." You
will find it is an excellent reference piece.

For further Information on Malleable castings,
call on any company that displays this symbol—

Malleable Founders Society, Union Commerce Building. Cleveland 14, Ohio |

TECHNOGRAPK

ENGINEERING SOCIETIES CALENDAR

Future isfiues of Technosiraph trill include an En<iinccrin^ Activities Calendar
in place of the Engineering Societies Calendar. Leaders of each professional
society, each engineering honorary, and any other engineering activity desiring
publicity sliould notify Technograph, room 48 EEB. A lu^t of activities should
be submitted one montti prior to our publication date which is the twelth of each
month. B. L.

SOCIETY

MEETIN6

LOCATION

AGENDA

American Ceramic
Society (ACS)

Wed.. Nov. 20.
7:30 P.M.

mini Union: room
be announced

Mr. Burt Clark of
dustry."

Harbisc

n Carbor

undum will speak on

"Cera

mic Photography In In-

American Foundrymen's
Society (AFS)

Wed.. Dec. II.
7:30 P.M.

101 Foundry Lab

Not determined.

American Institute of
Industrial Engineers
(AIIE)

Student-Staff Bowling
Tournament: Sunday.
Nov. 23

Not determined.

American Institute of
Mechanical Engineers
(ASME)

Wed.. Dec. II.
4:00 P.M.

Wed.. Dec. 18,
4:00 P.M.
Wed.. Dec. 18.
7:30 P.M.
Tues.. Jan. 7.
7:30 P.M.

253 MEB

273 mini Union

273 llllni Union

Movies — to be announced.

Speaker, business meeting, refreshments.

Business meeting and election of officers.

American Nuclear
Society

Tues.. Dec. 3
7:00 P.M.

Contact Larry Miller,
2-3976

Dr. Walter Lowenstein, who is in charge of the physical design and analysis of the
$30,000,000 Experimental Breeder Reactor II currently being prepared for operation by
the Argonne National Laboratory will speak. The public is invited.

American Society of
Civil Engineers (ASCE)

Tues.. Dec. 3.
7:30 P.M.

279 mini Union. South

Mr. John VanNort, sales engineer from Chicago office of U. S. Steel, will speak on
"New Steels In Industry." In addition, he will show slides & present Literature on all
steels presently available to commercial buyers.

(lllnols Society of
Professional Engineers
(ISPE)

Wed., Dec. II,
7:00 P.M.

Adult Society; first &
third Thursday of each
month.

ISI EEB

George L. Sodemann of Sodemann & Associates will speak on "Professional Engineer's
Liability in Design Failure."

Institute of Electric
ond Electronic Engi-
neers (IEEE)

Speaker from the McDonnell Aircraft Corp.

Mineral Industries
Society (MIS)

Annual Christmas Card Not definite.
Party: time not definite.

The group will attend the monthly meeting of the A.S.M.-A.I.M.E. in Chicago with
a tour of the Wisconsin Steel Corp. scheduled earlier In the day. The one-day trip
will include luncheon and dinner.

ioclety of
Engineers

Open House

(continued from page 28)

of the Engineering Open House student and faculty
committees to encourage the design and construction
of neu- outstanding exhibits that realh^ tell the story
of engineering. First, second, and third place awards
will be awarded in each of the following three cate-
gories :

1. The displays that best represent the university
research in a given area or field of engineering at the
TJniversitv' of Illinois.

2. The displays that best describe the academic life
of an undergraduate engineer in a given field at the
University of Illinois.

3. The displays that best tell what the profession of
engineering is and how the engineer relates to our
:societ\-.

All Engineering Open House displays will be judged
for this contest. The judging committee consists of W. L.
Everitt, Dean; Dave Jones, student chairman of Open
House; D. C. O'Bryant, chairman of the College Open
House and E.xhibits Committee; Wayne Crouch, editor
of TECHNOGRAPH; Paul Bryant, editor for the Col-
lege; Bob Seyler, president of Engineering Council;
Gerrv' Welton, display designer for the College; Larry
Campbell, president of Tau Beta Pi.

TECH \\'ill run feature stories on the w'inners after
the\- are judged. We will try to include a background
on tlie display and the students who worked on it, as
well as the reason for its winning. We hope that this
is just a start. The ground work is being laid, and we
hope tech's contribution will add an additional ele-
ment of incentive and competition. What happens from
now on is what realh" counts. It shoidd be good! ♦ ♦ ♦

■NOVEMBER, 1963

Freedom & Discipline

Modern physics has identified 34 elementary
particles of matter — each with its twin anti-parti-
cle. The inevitable two opposing forces that keep
the universe in balance.

We think at the heart of most well-run modern
companies there are also two opposing and equally
important forces — freedom and discipline.

Freedom to innovate, to change, develop and
invent. Plus the discipline to stick to the facts, to
stick to the problem, to stay within the budget.

At Celanese we try to combine freedom and dis-
cipline to better serve our customers, our share-
holders, and our employees.

Perhaps we are the company at which you can
best pursue your career. If you are trained in
chemical engineering, electrical engineering, me-
chanical engineering, chemistry or physics, we
hope you will stop in to see our representative
when he visits your campus. Or write directly to
us, briefly outlining your background.

Address your correspondence to: Mr. Edmond
J. Corry, Supervisor of College Relations, Celanese
Corporation of America, 522 Fifth Avenue,
New York 36, New York. ceianeseg)

AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

CHEMICALS FIBERS POLYMERS PLASTICS

TECHNOGRAPH

for product design and development at Allison

OPPORTUNITY
IS AT ALLISON IN
TURBINE ENGINE
AOVANCEMENT

Allison — long-famous leader in the development and
production of aircraft engines — is pacing state of the
art advancement in the turboprop area.

A regenerative turboprop engine — embodying con-
cepts further advanced than in any known turboprop
in the world today — is being developed for the U. S.
Navy by Allison . . . The Energy Conversion Division
of General Motors.

Featuring a regenerative cycle which transfers heat
from exhaust gas to compressor discharge air, Allison's
T78 will extend long-range and on station capabilities
of anti-submarine warfare through greatly improved
fuel economy . . . thus projecting the usefulness of
turboprop engines well into the future.

Too, hollow, air-cooled turbine blades — under de-
velopment at Allison for the last 5 years — will permit
higher inlet temperatures for a major improvement in
engine performance. Greater reliability and simpler
maintenance will be achieved with a unique, unitized
propeller-reduction gear box.

Perhaps there's a place for you in our long-range
engineering program here in the creative environment
at AUison. Talk to our representative when he visits
your campus. Let him tell you what it's Like at Allison
where Energy Conversion Is Our Business.

An equal opportunity employer

^Allison

THE ENERGY CONVERSION DIVISION OF
GENERAL MOTORS. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

NOVEMBER, 1963

Your life at Du Pont I one of a series for technical men

/ /

You never stop grooving at DuPont

Growth is a 150-year habit with us. Take sales. Since 1937
they've increased 750%-to $2.4 billion in 1952.

We spend more than $90 million a year in R&D. In fact,
there are at least 200 new products under investigation at this
writing and more being developed each day.

What could Du Font's growth mean to you? Since we always
fill important positions from within, it could mean fast advance-
ment, new responsibilities, new horizons-growing financial and
creative satisfaction.

It could mean, too, more numerous and more varied oppor-
tunities. The new Du Pont engineer is likely to move from his
original assignment to one or two others in the course of his
first five years. This gives him a chance to "change jobs" right
inside Du Pont.

In 1953, more than 700 new B.S. graduates planted their
feet at Du Pont. Perhaps you'd like to join us, too. Write today.

TECHNICAL MEN WE'LL NEED FROM THE CLASS OF '64

Chemists

Chemical Engineers
Mechanical Engineers
Electrical Engineers

Industrial Engineers
Civil Engineers
Physicists
Metallurgists

BETTER THINGS FOR BETTER LIVING . . . THROUGH CHEMISTRY

An equal opporluniiy employer

E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. (Inc.)
2531-B Nemours Building
Wilmington, Delaware 19898

When I'm graduated, I'll be a_

(List profession)

Please send me more information about how I might fit
in at Du Pont.

Class
Coileee

Major

Decree exoected

Mv address

Cifv

Zone

State

TECHNOGRAPh

Graduate School

(confimicd from page 9)

For those students who rel\- on
their owii financial resources, costs for
tuition and housing will be between
$1,000 and S2,500 per >ear.

There are, then, quite a number
of financial aids a\ailable. One thing
to keep in mind, howe%er, is that the
deadlines for applications to many of
these awards are as early as ten or
eleven months preceding the time of
graduate enrollment. Complete de-
tails are in "Financial .\id for Grad-
uate Students." a pamphlet which is
available from the University- of
Illinois Graduate College. A number
of the forms and applications re-
quired for entr\- into graduate school
and for graduate awards are shown
on page 9.

Getting In

The procedure to get into graduate
school is not terribly complicated if
it has been well thought out in ad-
vance. Earl\- in his senior year the
undergraduate should start thinking
about advanced studies and his area
of special interest. He should find
out which schools are strong in his
field of special interest and write to
them for their catalogs. Such catalogs
are also pictured on page 9 and
can either be obtained from the in-
dividual departments or from the
graduate college. The University of
Illinois has a pamphlet which dis-
cusses graduate school in general, and
it can be obtained by asking the
Graduate College for 'The Road to
Graduate School."

After deciding on the school or
schools to attend, a letter of inquire-
to the dean will produce the neces-
san,- application forms for admission
and financial aid. The applicant must
then arrange to have all necessar\
forms and letters of recommendation
in by the time they are due. Februar>-
first is a very popular deadline for
many assistantships and fellowships,
and the graduate who fails to check
in time ma\ be sorn, afterwards. B\
April the announcement of financial
awards are normalh- made, and b\-
May all other items such as tran-
scripts and housing arrangements
should be completed. ♦ ♦ ♦

U of I Antennas Play Several
Roles in the Space Program

The U.S. .\tlantic and Pacific satel-
lite tracking ranges are being
equipped with special conical an-
tennas in\ented at the University of
Illinois. These frequency-independent
antennas, similar to those now used
on the Transit series satellites and
planned for use on future generations
of the Ranger moon probes, will be
employed as feeds for the large dishes
of the tracking ranges.

Log periodic and log spiral an-
tennas, which were in\'ented at the
U of I in 1954 and 1955, are still
under development in the Electrical
Engineering Department's Antenna
Laboratory. At the Uni\-ersit\- they are
used in the line feed (286 log spirals
in a linear array) for the U of I radio
telescope, which is being used to map
extra-galatic radio sources, and as a
feed (a paired log periodic dipole ar-
ray) for the 28-foot parabohc dish
antenna, which is used to monitor
signals reflected from the moon. Log
spiral antennas are particularly well
adapted to space applications. They
can receive signals over an e.xtremelv
wide band of frequencies and for any
arbitrar\- orientation of the input
signal. These qualities make them
ideal for use on satellites and satellite
trackers, where the direction from
which the signal comes, as well as the
polarity of the signal, changes con-
stantlv.

FROST ON THE
WINDOW?

BIG
DECISION

^■M

Lead borote crystals magnified 225 times,
shown in a process of growth in glass.

For Engineers
■Jo-Be...

SHALL IT BE

#9000 Castell Wood
Drawing Pencil or
#9800SG Locktite Tel-
A-Grade Holder and ^^
#9030 Castell Re- y
'ill Drawing Leads ■

Perhaps you will
choose Castell wood
pencil, because you
;ike the feel of wood,
because you like to
shave the point to the
exact length and
shape you desire.

Or you may vote for
Locktite TelA-Grade,
the lightweight bal-
anced holder with its
iong tapered, no-slip
serrated grip that
soothes tired fingers.
And its ideal team
-nate, Castell Refill
leads, of the same
grading, undeviating
uniformity and bold
image density of
Castell wood pencil.

Whatever your choice,
you will be using
Castell tight-textured
microlet-milled lead
that gives you graphite
saturation that soaks
into every pore of
your drawing surface.

A.W.FABER-
CASTELL

Pencil Company, Inc.

41-47 Dickerson Street

Newark 3, N. J

E
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I

NOVEMBER, 1963

We go from A (Aubum) to Y (Vale)

This recent Bethlehem Loop Course class includes 202
graduates of 78 colleges and universities. They are fresh from
campuses in 32 states and the District of Columbia . . . from Maine
to California, from Minnesota to Georgia.

If you are interested in a career in the management of a diversified
and growing industrial corporation, and if, in all modesty, you consider yourself
qualified to meet the challenge— consider the Bethlehem Steel Loop Course.

Most Loopers are Engineers

All the technical degrees indicated here are represented in this Loop class, and in
virtually every Loop class. Of the 202 members, 154 are engineering graduates;
twelve have non-engineering technical degrees; and 36 possess business administration,
liberal arts, or other non-technical degi'ees.

Your career at Bethlehem Steel might be in steelmaking operations, research,
sales, fabricated steel construction, mining, shipbuilding, or other activities
depending on your specific interests. All require the talents of college trained men.

You can get a copy of our booklet, "Careers with Bethlehem Steel and the Loop
Course," at your Placement Ofi"ice, or by sending a postcard to our Personnel
Division, Bethlehem, Pa.

An equal opportunity employer

BETHLEHEM STEEL

■SS'

BETHiEHEK,
STEEL

TECHNOGRAPH

CIRCUITS

>really-enlarged cose-off
uf SOLID CIRCUITt semicoi
'tr network held in tv

AMAZINGLY BROAD is the spectrum
of Professional Opportunities at Tl!

Integrated circuits represent just one of 89
fields'^' of opportunity for scientists and engi-
neers at Texas Instruments, a multidivisional
company employing professionals with academic
training in business administration, ceramics,
chemistry, electricity, electronics, geology, geo-
physics, industrial engineering, mathematics,
mechanical engineering, metallurgy, and physics.
TI's Semiconductor-Components division an-
nounced deselopment of the industry's first
integrated circuits in late 1958 and since then
has constantly advanced the state of the art.
The multivibrator pictured above, a typical
SOLID CIRCUIT" semiconductor network, con-
tains the equivalent of 12 electronic components
in one miniaturized element. TI's objective is
further miniaturization with greater reliability.

Fascinating careers in integrated circuits are
open to men of all degree levels in fields of
electrical engineering, solid state physics,
chemistry, and metallurgy — specifically in
areas of application, circuit, device, process,
and product development.

INVESTIGATE TI OPPORTUNITIES by
submitting your resume, or
sending for "Career Oppor-
tunity for the College
Graduate", to MR. T. H.
Dudley, Dept. C-25. Ask
your College Placement Of-
ficer for TI interview dates

on your campus.

♦Listed at right
^Trademark ot Texas

^^.^

Texas Instruments

INCORPORATED

p. O. BOX 5474 • DALLAS 22. TEXAS
An Equal Opportunity Employee

• AIRWAYS CONTROL

ALLOYING

AUTOMATION

AVIONIC SWITCHING

BONDED METALS

CAPACITORS

CERAMICS

CIRCUITRY

CLAD METALS

COMMUNICATIONS

COMPONENTS

COMPUTER ELEMENTS t

PROGRAMMING

CONTROLLED RECTIFIERS

CONTROLS

CRYOGENICS

CRYSTAL GROWTH i

CHARACTERISTICS

CYBERNETICS

DATA RECORDING

DEVICE DEVELOPMENT

DIELECTRICS

DIFfUSION

DIODES

ELASTIC WAVE

PROPAGATION

ELECTROCHEMISTRY

ELECTROLUMINESCENCE

ELECTROMECHANICAL

PACKAGING

ELECTROMECHANICS

ELECTRO-OPTICS

ELECTRO THERMIC5

ELECTRON PHYSICS

ENERGY CONVERSION

ENVIRONMENTAL &

QUALIFICATION TESTING

FERROMAGNETICS

GEODETIC SURVEYS

GEOMAGNETICS

GEOPHYSICAL

EXPLORATION

GEOSCIENCES

GLASS TECHNOLOGY

GRAVIMETRY

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEEKtNG

INFKAREO PHfNOMENA

INSTRUMENTATION

INTEGRATED
aRCUITS

INTSBCOMMUNICATIONS

LASER PHENOMENA

MAGNETIC DETECTION

MECHANIZATION

METALLURGY

MFfE* MOVEMENTS

MICROWAVES

MISSILE i ANTIMISSILE

ELECTRONICS

NAVIGATION ELECTRONICS

NUCLEAR FUEL ELEMENTS

OCEANOGRAPHY

OPERATIONS RESEARCH t,

ANALYSIS

OPTICS

PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES

PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY

PHYSICS

PIEZOEIECTRICS

PLASMA THEORY

PLATING

QUALITY CONTROL

QUANTUM ELECTRONICS

RADAR

RARE EARTHS

RECONNAISSANCE

RECTIFIERS

REFRACTORY MATERIALS

RELIABILITY

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

RESISTORS

SEISMOLOGY

SEMICONDUCTORS

SOLAR CELLS

SOLID STATE DEVICES

SOLID STATE DIFFUSION

SONAR

SOUND PROPAGATION

SPACE ELECTRONICS

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY

SURVEILLANCE

SYSTEMS

TELEMETRY

THERMOELECTRICITY

THERMOSTATIC DEVICES

TRANSDUCERS

TRANSISTORS

UNDERSEA WARFARE

Deico Means

Challenge to

^ EdWhittaker

■ Edward G. Whittaker, III received his BS
Degree in Engineering Physics from Colorado
University in January of 1963. Shortly there-
after he joined the Research and Advanced De-
velopment Group at Delco as a Physicist.

As Ed puts it, "Believe me, it's a real chal-
lenge for a guy fresh out of college to see an
idea through from the development stage to the
finished product. Here at Delco in my work on
materials for new semiconductor devices the
creative experiences are endless — and the at-
mosphere seems to encourage your best efforts."

As a college graduate, you too may find excit-
ing and challenging opportunities in such pro-
grams as the development of germanium and
silicon devices, ferrites, solid state diffusion,
creative packaging of semiconductor products,
development of laboratory equipment, relia-
bihty techniques, and applications and manu-
facturing engineering.

If your interests and qualifications he in any
of these areas, you're invited to write for our
brochure detaihng the opportunities to share
in forging the future of electronics with this
outstanding Delco-GM team. Watch for Delco
interview dates on your campus, or write to
Mr. C. D. Longshore, Dept. 135 A, Delco
Radio Division, General Motors Corporation,
Kokomo, Indiana.

An equal opportunity employer

Delco Radio Division of General Motors Corporation

Kokomo, Indiana

TECHNOGRAPH

OWARD HUGHES DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS. If you are

iterested in studies leading to a doctoral degree in engineering or
hysics, you are invited to apply for one of tfie several new awards
I 1964 on the Howard Hughes Doctoral Fellowship Program.

his unique program offers the doctoral candidate the optimum
jmbination of high-level study at an outstanding university plus
ractical industrial experience at the Hughes Aircraft Company,
ach Howard Hughes Doctoral Fellowship usually provides about
9,000 annually. Of this amount approximately $1,800 is for tuition,
lesis and research expenses, other academic fees and books, and
om $2,000 to $3,300 is for a stipend. The remainder is composed
f salary earned by the fellow.

oward Hughes Doctoral Fellowships are open to outstanding stu-
ents. A master's degree, or equivalent graduate work, is essential
store beginning the Fellowship Program.

UGHES MASTERS FE:.LOWSHIPS. The Hughes Masters
ellowship Program offers u,. usual opportunities for education lead-
ig to a master's degree ... and, in addition, provides each fellow
ith practical industrial experience at the Hughes Aircraft Company.

ew awards will be made in 1964 to qualified applicants possessing
baccalaureate degree in engineering, physics or mathematics.

he great majority of the award winners will be assigned to the
'ORK-STUDY PROGRAM and will attend a university sufficiently
sar a facility of the Hughes Aircraft Company to permit them to
otain practical industrial experience by working at the company
t least half time. Those associated with a Southern California
icility usually attend the University of Southern California or the
niversity of California, Los Angeles. An appropriate stipend will
s awarded in addition to salary earned and certain academic
<penses paid by the company.

small, highly selected group will be offered FULL-STUDY Fellow-

Hughes

Fellowship

Programs

ships. These fellowships permit attendance at an outstanding uni-
versity on a full-time basis during the regular academic year with
a substantial stipend.

After completion of the Masters Program, fellows are eligible to
apply for a HUGHES DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP.

For both programs, typical areas of research and development to
which fellows may be assigned while working for Hughes full time
during the summer, and where appropriate, part time during the
academic year, include: theoretical and experimental work in some
basic technology such as atomic, nuclear and solid-state physics,
chemistry and metallurgy— space technology including stability and
trajectory analysis, thermal analysis, energy conversion, and struc-
tural design and analysis — computer and reliability technology,
circuit and information theory, plasma electronics, microminiaturi-
zation, and human factor analysis — research, development and
product-design on such devices as parametric amplifiers, masers,
lasers, microwave tubes, antenna arrays, electron-tube and solid-
state displays, and components — design analysis, integration and
testing of space and airborne missile and vehicle systems, infrared
search and track systems, radar systems, communication systems,
antisubmarine warfare systems, and computer and data process-
ing systems.

The classified nature of work at Hughes makes American citizen-
ship and eligibility for secret security clearance a requirement.

Closing date for all applications: February 1, 1964. (Early appli-
cation is advisable, and all supporting references and transcripts
should be postmarked not later than February 1, 1964.)

How to apply: To apply for either the Howard Hughes Doctoral
Fellowship or the Hughes Masters Fellowship, write Dr. C. N.
Warfield, Manager, Educational Relations — Corporate Office, Hughes
Aircraft Company, Culver City, California.

Creating a new world with electronics

HUGHES

I I

HUGHES AIRCRAFT COMPANY
An equal opportunity employer.

ittiWH«iiltl#l

In regards to last month's con-
tributor who was trying to sell a sub-
machine gun to the Engineering
Library: keep your safety on. A talk
with Mr. Coburn, director of the li-
brary, revealed the reason for those
insidious turnstiles— last year more
than two thousand books were stolen
from the university's libraries; several
hundred of them were from the en-
gineering library. Since most of us
are still tender around the wallet
from buying textbooks, the expense
of replacing those stolen books looms
ominously, even though the taxpayer
actually foots the bill.

The worst thing about the stolen
book is that it's gone, but not for-
gotten—oh, no— not by the guy who
watched that hole on the shelf for
five weeks in order to read for his
class work, and not by the librarian
who tried to track the book down.

So they put in locked turnstiles.
Nobody wants those gadgets, but no-
body wants a library full of empty
shelves; and turnstiles are better than
tommy guns.

Quieter, anyway. . . . RDB

To the Editor:

The prejudices of the rhet depart-
ment have become quite evident again
this year. Several freshman friends
of mine have found their instructors
already have an opinion of their
ability.

I cannot understand how a group
of college instructors could be so
biased. It is not logical that students
of one college are naturally poorer
MTiters than students as a whole.

Something must be done to get the
engineers' rhet grades up to the level
of the rest of the campuses. Every-
one has heard the riduculous state-
ment that engineers are poor writers,
and I think it has been accepted to
such an extent that it is hurting the
profession.

But what really aggravates me is
to see my friends fighting those prej-
udiced instructors for that required
grade. Since this condition takes con-
siderable time away from engineer-
ing studies, the College should do
whatever possible to eliminate prej-
udice in rhetoric.

Name Withheld.

To the Editor:

Sadly, I noticed that the author of
"The Supernatural Nature of Super-
conductors" did not mention whether
or not superconductivity could be ap-
plied to women— to produce zero re-
sistance. That would be an accom-
plishment!

Joe McGinnis

Last month's letter asking about
the U of I's relation with Sanford
on the eclipse studies will be an-
swered later. Prof. Swenson is out
of the country for a few weeks and
could not be reached for comment.
Ed. ♦ ♦ ♦

First co-ed: "My boy friend is a per-
fect gentleman at all times."
Second co-ed: "Well, I guess that's
better than having no boy friend at

all!"

Brains are what a man looks for
in a wife after he's looked over
everything else.

COMPLIMENTS OF

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• M.G.

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payments are due.

An ideal wife: a beautiful, love-
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What we can't figure out is, if
everybody has so much trouble find-
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parked cars belong to?

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SELLING TECHNOGRAPH ADVERTISING
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$10.50 Commission Per Advertising Page

Contact Art Becker, Business Manager,
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TECHNOGRAPH

This kind of chemical engineering
is not as easy as it looks

An outmoded stereotype should not
scare a good Ch.E. off from a highly
satisfactory career in marketing. We
are proud to say that the job calls for
more than a collection of shaggy dog
stories plus a con\incing manner of
taking two more strokes than the
customer on that dogleg 14th hole.

Often a marketing career in our
non-photographic operations starts
out much like the traditional concept
of chemical engineering, except that
you work on the customers' production
problems instead of our own. Then
you get to meet a few live customers
who come to see what you are up to.
Maybe you are sent to a trade con-
vention where you meet more than a
few customers. To your amazement,
they seem to regard you as a foun-
tainhead of valuable technical infor-

mation in a given area. To your further
amazement you realize it's true— they
do badly need to know exactly what
you are being paid to tell them and
show them. (Willy Loman never had
it so good.) By and by, you may do a
tour of duty in one of our field sales
offices, or even get into the advertising
end. As another course, you may settle
down into liaison with manufacturers
of equipment that needs to be fed with
our plastics, fibers, solvents, chemical
intermediates, or fine chemicals.

We define the chemical marketer as
a chemical engineer who forges the
most rational links between what we
can most efficiently turn out and what
other companies can most efficiently
use. He is a hero of the chemical
industry today.

As for the chemical engineer of

different personality bent who, early
in his career, prefers to put down roots
in one of the three communities where
we manufacture— Rochester, N. Y.,
Kingsport, Tenn., Longview, Tex.— we
need him too. And of course, diversi-
fied as we are, we also need engineers
of other than chemical persuasion, to
say nothing of scholarly chemists and
physicists to lay down good, solid
foundations for all that engineering
and creative salesmanship.

EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY

Business and Technical Personnel
Department, Rochester 4, N. Y.

IS®(SaIk

An equal-opportunity employer

An Interview

with G.E.'s

J. S. Smith,

Vice President,

Marketing and

Public Relations

Mr. Smith is a member of General
Electric's Executive Office and is
In charge of Marketing and Public
Relations Services. Activities report-
ing to Mr. Smith include marketing
consultation, sales and distribution,
marketing research, marketing per-
sonnel development, and public rela-
tions as well as General Electric's
participation In the forthcoming
Nev^ York World's Fair. In his
career with the Company, he has
had a wide variety of assignments
in finance, relations, and marketing,
and was General Manager of the
Company's Outdoor Lighting De-
partment prior to his present ap-
pointment in 1961.

r more informo

ion

reer in Technical

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te Generol Electri

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Section 699-08, S

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'w York 12305.

COULD YOU OUT-THINK A COMPETITOR?

Consider a Career
in Technical Marketing

Q. Mr. Smith, I know engineering plays a role in the design and manufacture
of General Electric products, but what place is there for an engineer in
marketing?

A. Fur certain exceptionally talented individuals, a career in technical market-
ing offers extraordinary opportunity. You learn fast what the real needs of
customers are. under actual industrial conditions. You are brought face-to-face
with the economic realities of business. You participate in some of the most
exciting strategic work in the world: planning how to out-engineer and out-sell
competitors for a major installation.

Q. Sounds exciting. But I've worked hard for my technical degree. I'm worried
thai if I go into marketing, I won't use it.

A. Uont worry — youll use all the engineering you've learned, and you'll go
on^learning for the rest of your life. In fact, you'll have to. You see, the basic
purpose of business is to sense changing customer needs, and then marshal
resources to meet them profitably. That means that you must learn to know
each customer's operations and needs almost as well as he understands them
himself. And with competitors trying tlieir best to outdo you, believe me —
every l)it of kmiwledgi' and skill you've gut will be called into play.

Q. Is that why you said you wanted "exceptionally talented people"?

A. Technical marketing is not everybody's dish of tea. It takes\great personal
drive and energy, and a talent for managing the work of others' in concert with
your own. It takes flexibility . . . imagination . . . ingenuity . . . quick reflexes
. . . leadership qualities. If you're nervous with people or upset by quick-
changing situations, I don't think technical marketing's for you. But if you are
excited by competition, like to help others solve technical problems, and enjoy
seeing your technical work put to the test of real operation — then you may be
one of the ambitious men we're looking for.

Q. Now what, actually, does a man do in technical marketing?

A. Let me describe a typical situation in General Electric. A field sales
engineer is in regular contact with his customers. Let's say one of them makes
an in(]uiry, or the sales engineer senses that the time is right for a proposition.
With his field application engineer, he determines the basic equipment needed.
Then he contacts the marketing sales specialist in the G-E department that
manufactures that equipment. The sales specialist, working closely with his
department's product engineers, specifies an exact design — realistic in function
and cost. Then the sales engineer and his supporting team try to make the
sale, changing and improving the proposition as they get cues from the competi-
tive situation. If the sale is made — a very satisfying moment — then the installa-
tion and service engineers install the equipment and are responsible for its
operation and repair. With the exception of the product design engineers, 4II
these people are in technical marketing. Exciting work, all of it.

Q. In college we learn engineering theory. How do we get the sales and busi-
ness knowledge you mentioned?

A. At General Electric, a solid, well tested program of educational courses will
quickly advance both your engineering knowledge and your sales capacities.
But perhaps even more important, you'll be assigned to work with some of the
crack sales engineers and application and installation men in the world, and
that's no exaggeration. A man grows fast when he's on the sales firing line. As
a FORTUNE writer once put it, the industrial sales engineer needs "that prime
combination of technical savvy, tactical agility, and unruffled persuasiveness."
Have you got what it takes? 699-08

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Because it is leading to new discoveries in physics, electric power and space travel.

coil is made with a most remark- directly from a stream of hot pases; build- bulb. But it has twice the strengi

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becomes a super-powerful magnet.

In labs all over the country, scientists are
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directly from a stream of hot gases; build-
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travel and communications.

The Westinghouse super-magnet oper-
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That's why this little Westinghouse mag-
net is a bargain at $4100.

You can be sure . . . if it's Westinghouse.

For information on a career at Westinghouse, an equal opportunity employer,
write to L. H. Noggle, Westinghouse Educational Department, Pittsburgh 21, Pa.

Assignment: design a car for tomorrow...
that could be built today!

Result: Allegro, an experiment in advanced automotive ideas
that are practical for the near future

Allegro means "brisk and lively," which certainly
describes Ford Motor Company's new dream car,
a handsome tastback coupe. More than that, Allegro
has unique functional features that could be adapted
forfuture production cars. (This has already occurred
In the case of retractable seat belts!)

A major innovation is a cantilever-arm steering
wheel with an electronic "memory." The steering
wheel is mounted on an arm that extends from a
center-mounted column. The wheel swings upward
for easy exit, returns automatically to its former
position at the touch of a button. Power adjustment
enables it to be moved three inches fore and aft and
five inches vertically. This, plus power-adjustable

foot pedals, permits use of a fixed seat design for
low overall height.

Basically a two-seater in present form. Allegro has
rear floor space that could be converted to carry
two additional passengers. The car could be powered
by either a V-4 made by Ford of Germany or by the
domestic 144- or 170-cubic-inch Sixes.

Allegro is one of a series of Ford-built dream cars
which will be shown at the New York World's Fair
to test consumer reaction to styling and mechani-
cal innovations. This will help determine which of
their forward-looking features are destined for the
American Road— as further examples of Ford Motor
Company's leadership in styling and engineering.

MOTOR COMPANY

The American Road, Dearborn, Michigan

WHERE ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP BRINGS YOU BETTER-BUII.T CARS

DECEMBER, 1963

Editor-in-Chief

Wayne W. Crouch

Assistant to the Editor

Stuart Unipleliy

Editorial Staff

Gary Daymon, Director
Rudy Berg
Rebecca Bryar
Harold Gotschall
Tom Grantham
Larry Heyda
Lester Holland
Roger Johnson
Cheryl Konetshny
Richard Langrehr
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Thelma McKenzie
Mike Quinn
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Production Staff

Scott Weaver, Manager
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Business Staff

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Photo Staff

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Jim Alex
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THE ILLINOIS

TECHNOGRAPH

Volume 79; Number 3

December, 1963

Table of Contents

ARTICLES

U of I Rocket Research in the Ionosphere. . . .Richard Langrehr 5

The Forgotten Man Gary Daymon 6

The llliac and the Oddity Lester Holland 10

Where Has Physics Gone? Tom Grantham 14

Engineering for People John Litherland 17

A Gauge of Undergraduate Research Larry Heyda 25

Man Against Machine Henry S. Magnuski 29

An Engineer's Night Before Christmas 33

Camels, Committees, and Colleges Stuart Umpleby 35

The Dean's List 38

Open House Contest Rules 39

FEATURES

The Good Olde Days Mike Quinn 9

Technocutie photos by Bob Seyler 23

Brickbats and Bouquets 40

Cover: Did you bring the physics y^
book I asl<ed for, too?

Photo by Dave McClure

Copyright. 1963, by lUini Publishing Co. Published eight times during the year
(October. November, December, January, February, March. April and May) by the
mini Publishing Company. Entered as second class matter, October 30, 1920, at the
post office at Urbana. Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Office 48 Electrical
Engineering Building, Urbana, Illinois. Subscriptions $2.00 per year. Single copy 25
cents. All rights reserved by the Illinois Technograph. Publisher's Representative —
Littell-Murray-Barnhill, Inc.. 737 North Michigan Ave., Chicago 11, 111., 369 Lexing-
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TECHNOGRAPF

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t»ECEMBER, 1963

Research

Pacesetter or Parasite?

In dollars spent by universities on research, the U of I College of Engineering is
third in the nation following MIT and Michigan. How does this twelve million dollar
research program affect our undergraduate training when compared with graduates
of other less research-conscious universities?

From the undergraduate's viewpoint, the College of Engineering has spread and
maintained a cloak of secrecy over these research activities, and it appears campus
research isn't really a part of his undergraduate education. We believe it should be.

In fact, three dollars are spent on research for each dollar spent on our under-
graduate education, and our dollar volume of research has doubled during the past
four years. Even so, the College of Engineering maintains that educating the under-
graduate is the number one purpose of the College. Could it be we are only the
afterbirth of a highly profitable research center?

This issue of TECH, a research-oriented issue, attempts to answer a few of these
questions by uncovering the cloak of secrecy to reveal research as it is related to the
undergraduate.

The Forgotten Man is, in effect, an editorial which unravels and reveals many of
the important aspects of engineering research as it relates to the undergraduate in the
College of Engineering. This article should not be overlooked since it is the foundation
for many articles of this issue.

A Gauge of Undergraduate Research is a personality page that tells how one
undergraduate recognized and used the educational and financial rewards of campus
research, obtaining a patent in the process. Engineering for People illustrates the
Immediate dissemination of campus research to the "man on the street" through our
various University engineering extension services. U of I Rocket Research in the
Ionosphere, a typical example of how research finances an advanced degree, describes
how a doctorate candidate got Into the rocket business.

The llliac and the Oddity is a report on the advanced level of computer tech-
nology at the U of I; such research and practical applications account, in part, for
the new computer design and programming courses now available. Man Against
Machine, a humorous play on words (or is it a diagram?!), shows what will happen
when man's creativity exceeds his speed of application.

Your response to this research-oriented issue will determine further efforts along
this direction. May we hear from you?

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heart of Connecticut, our million and a half square-foot
plant with its complex aerospace-product facilities pro-
vides top-flight career potential.

ENGINE CONTROL LABORATORIES-ln this High-Temperature Labora-
tory, an advanced turbine pump can drive a fuel control
in ambient temperatures up to 1,000°F. A 60-point
data logger presents a typewritten display of product
performance in terms of pressure, flow, speed and
temperature. The facility handles up to 60,000 pph of
fuel at temperatures to 500°F. Other fuel control test
facilities simulate altitudes to 80,000 feet, refrigerate
fuel to — 70°F, control relative humidity from 20% to
95%, subject hardware to salt water spray, sand and
dust conditions, shock loading, and simulated vibration
and "g" acceleration loading.

PROPELLER TEST LABORATORIES-ln this Vibration Lab
are motors capable of vibrating full-scale propellers
from 20 to 500 cycles per second. During full-scale
testing of advanced design integral gear box propellers,
a special data acquisition facility automatically records
steady-state and transient performance data.

LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS LABORATORIES-This new, highly ad-
vanced, man-rated space simulator will help develop
Project Apollo Moon Suit. Chamber is designed to
attain a vacuum of 1 x lO^^torrin lOhourswhen empty,
5 X 10 5 torr in PA hours with two astronauts in space
suits. Other problems under investigation: improved
cryogenic storage systems for zero "g" applications,
carbon dioxide removal and reduction, two-gas at-
mosphere pressure control systems, and rejection of
metabolical equipment heat via space radiators.

Other intensified Hamilton Standard
programs are conducted in:

• ground support equipment

• electronic control systems

• thrust vector controls

• air inlet controls

• electron beam machines

• physiological monitoring systems

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TECHNOGRAPHI

U of I ROCKET RESEARCH
in the Ionosphere

by Richard Langrehr, ME '66

Richard Hodges, program super
tests on the rocket's instrumentation.

Mail}- years ago, people \ie\ved the
ionosphere with m\stery and awe. Sci-
entists knew \ery httle about it, and,
indeed, showed little interest in in-
vestigating it. But back then, of
course, the ionosphere did not play
an intricate part in everyone's life;
today the ionosphere aflFects every
single person. Scientists are now on
an accelerated program to investigate
it, and engineers are seeking new
ways to use it to provide instant global
communication, improved long-range

weather forecasting, and many other
related benefits.

Although there is no direct corre-
lation between these uses and a recent
series of rocket experiments by tlic
U of I, the Air Force Cambridge Re-
search Laboratory, in 1959, awarded
a $250,000 contract to the Electrical
Engineering Department at the U of I
for the purpose of conducting a series
of ionospheric rocket experiments.
These experiments were to demon-
strate the possibility of controlling
ionospheric processes through the ap-
plication of radio energy and to deter-
mine the magnitude of the eflPects
produced, to relate these eflFects to
properties of the ionosphere, and to
e\entually devise new ways of prob-
ing the ionosphere.

Supervision of the program was
given to R. Richard Hodges, Jr.
Hodges himself obtained both his
Bachelor's (1955) and Master's (1957)
degrees from the U of I and is cur-
rently studying for his Doctor's De-
gree in Electrical Engineering. Hodges
began work on the rocket program in
1960 upon his return from Collins
Radio and in October, 1961, became
project supervisor.

The basic experimental procedure
in\olved in Hodges' project consists
in the radiation of energy pulses at
the electron gyrofrequency from a
transmitter onboard a rocket. The
gyrofrequency is that frequency at
whicli maximimi encrg\' can be gi\en

to the electrons of a certain volume
of space. These periodic pulses in-
crease the energy of electrons near
the rocket. Increasing the electron
energy increases the electron-molecule
collision frequency, thus causing dis-
turbance in the ionosphere. The mag-
nitudes of these disturbances and
their decay rates are detected by a
measurement of cross modulation pro-
duced on a carrier wave which travels
up from the ground, through the dis-
turbed region, and is detected at the
rocket. The results of these measure-
ments can be related to ionospheric
properties and a quantitative picture
of cross modulation in the ionosphere
can be obtained.

To date, two highly instrumented
Aerobee rockets have been laimched
from Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.
Both flights were largely successful,
despite the fact that on the first launch
a failure in a small motor caused pre-
mature termination of several of the
experiments.

After the flights were over, Richard
Hodges stated that he was certain
these experiments would make easier
man's eftorts to harness the ionosphere
for the benefit of all mankind. ♦ ♦ ♦

One of the two Aerobee rockets that were fully instrumented by U of
personnel.

The engineer studying for his
bachelor's degree at the U of I is said
by the administration to be the Col-
lege's number one product. At the
same time the College is spending
three times more money on research
than it is on education. So are we or
is research really the major product of
the College?

A Closer Look

Updating Professors. According to
the administration, before a faculty
member can teach effectively he must
be an example of learning himself; he
must be able to work with and gener-
ate new ideas— to keep up to date.
Updating has become increasingly
important since no other field is

changing more rapidly than engi-
neering. In fact, the total fund of en-
gineering knowledge is expected to
double during the four to seven years
it takes us to obtain a bachelor's or
advanced degree. Research's updating
function, so the argument goes, is the
main reason why teaching and uni-
versity research are integrated at the
U of I.

TECHNOGRAPH

Hesearcli is also intended to en-
tourage industry to team up with our
atlxanced University research pro-
Uiams in industry's area of interest.
Si all teamwork, created by research
and its by-product consulting, can be
\aluable for the College of Engineer-
ing; by creating a cross-fertilization of
ideas with industry, by giving faculty
numbers a view of the latest appli-
cations and needs of industry, and by
(licreasing the time lag between in-
dustrial discoveries and classroom
instructions.

As undergraduates, we can appreci-
ate the faculty's problem and updating
itforts. But what benefit is research
to the undergraduate if faculty mem-
lieis are too busy ujxlating themselves
t(i update their 1958 classroom notes
for our dail\- lectures?

Tlie problem here, of course, is that
present administrative policies reward
good research more clearly and
promptly than good teaching. Many
individual faculty members have no
incenti\'e to be good teachers and,
therefore, are not interested in the
undergraduate. Like all human beings,
facidty members are interested in
furthering their own careers.

The results of such an administra-
tive policy are at times most obvious
and discouraging to the undergradu-
ate. For example, one engineering de-
partment at the U of I has t\vo faculty
members per undergraduate student,
yet this writer recently took an hour
exam which was almost identical to
one given several semesters ago— the
instructors were too engrossed in their
research projects to write an exam
which was not on file in every frater-
nity on campus. In addition, five
weeks elapsed before the exam was
graded and returned.

Research is supposed to decrease
the time bet\veen discovery and the
.classroom, but old hour exams and
outdated lecture notes seem to indi-
icate the opposite. In fact, standing
ptill and failing to update our daily

instruction is, in reality, moving our
nstruction backward. Campus rc-
jearch is surely not this important
and the undergraduate's education
this unimportant to the College of
Engineerina.-

.\ttracting a Top Faculty. Theoreti-
calh', each research program at the U
of I is determined primarily by the
interests and activities of the facultv.
Many industries, for example, depend
for their existence on comparatively
short range returns on their invest-
ment; therefore, their teaching and
research functions are directed pri-
marily toward short-range goals. Top
engineers and educators who concern
themselves with long-range research
naturally seek an atmosphere of
greater freedom such as that promised
at the U of I.

This freedom of selection has no
doubt been partly responsible for
an engineering college recognized
throughout the world as the leader in
many areas such as solid state physics,
advanced electronics, and structin-es.
Understandably, the College of Engi-
neering could not hire and retain the
top minds in the country without
promising them an atmosphere con-
ducive to professional excellence in
their field.

The shortcoming here, of course, is
that these "top faculty" are tops in
research, and little is said about their
ability or interest in teaching. In fact,
a recent study by Brookings Institute
of 3,000 faculty in small and large
colleges and universities showed that
no matter how little time faculty at
every rank devoted to undergraduate
teaching, all wished to reduce it still
further. Again, could it be reseach is
attracting and updating researchers
rather than teachers primarily inter-
ested in education?

Supporting a Graduate Program.

The average graduate student educa-
tion costs an estimated three to four
times as much as the average under-
graduate education. \A'ithout the
financial support of research a strong
graduate program could not exist.

Modern facilities, for example, arc
financed almost entirely by research
contracts; thesis research for advanced
degrees requires expensive tools for
its very existence (see U of I Rocket
Research in the Ionosphere, page 5).
The day of the scientist-philosopher,
who thought he needed nothing but
his sense of logic, is long past. Like-
wise, research provides suitable thesis

topics and requires the advanced fac-
ulty necessary to supervise instruction
—a first-class faculty from which the
undergraduate should also benefit.

Undergraduates, whether they
plan to attend graduate school or not,
can certainly appreciate this assist-
ance, but how "educational" is it?
Let's look at percentages. In a speech
in Chicago on November 12, Walter
H. Koltun of the National Science
Foundation said that "perhaps 30-40
percent of research at colleges and
universities proper is not related to
graduate education." If that's the pic-
ture for graduate students, how do
you suppose this percentage looks for
the undergraduate?

In fact, since research is considered
so important by the administration
it would seem that the teaching of
basic research techniques should be
a part of our undergraduate cur-
riculum. Dr. Jack X. Irion, a research
participant at Newmark College of
Engineering, said, "Undergraduate re-
search is important, not so much for
its contribution to man's knowledge,
but rather for its developmental as-
pects in terms of reflection, inspection,
analysis and refinement of methodol-
ogy. Young minds need challenge and
inspiration to mature. . . . Often our
courses of study are a dull accumu-
lation of facts, rather than facts avail-
able for use in tliinking. Such courses
fail to show our students that engi-
neering is a living process, an ac-
tive force— something which research
never fails to reveal, and often in
dramatic and impressive ways."

If students were properly moti-
vated, existing departmental special
problems courses could be used, in
part, for undergraduate participation
in research. Unfortunately, however,
no overt effort has been made by the
college to inform students of the re-
search activities under way, the op-
portunities available, or the directors
in charge.

Financing Research. One of the
College administration's justifications
for campus researcli is that it is "free"
—free in the sense that most research
is financed by the Federal government
rather than the State of Illinois. Last
year, for example, of $12,262,000 the
(Continued on page 22)

DECEMBER, 1963

In just a few short months, those
new graduates spanned the dis-
tance from the classroom to the
space age. They joined with their
experienced colleagues in tack-
ling a variety of tough assign-
ments. On July 20th, 1963, their
product went off with a roar that
lasted two solid minutes, provid-
ing more than 1 ,000,000 pounds
of thrust on the test stand. This
was part of the USAF Titan NIC
first stage, for which United
Technology Center is the con-
tractor. Two of these rockets
will provide over 80% of all the
thrust developed by the vehicle.
Some of you now reading this
page may soon be a part of that
program... or a part of other sig-
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TECHNOGRAPH

Back in '26 wc had a cDiideiiser that
was a condenser, no pnny little piece
of junk either. It belonged to the
W'estinghouse Electric and Manufac-
turing Company and weighed 985,000
pounds! The whole thing stood thirty
feet high and needed a dozen steel
flatcars to move it from plant to plant.
Now there was a real condenser. It
worked too— not like this little misfit
that EE gave me. Our old time con-
denser could circulate 150,000,000
gallons of water a day. \\'hy, would
you believe that that so-called con-
denser he gave me can't even con-
dense enough steam for one good
bath? That new-fangled thingamajig
just sits there in the tub and rusts.

We were a lot sharper back in my
da\\ We had research then too, you
know. Look at what we were doing
' back in 1927 when this reprint from
Power Plant Engiiieciiuii appeared in
our January issue.

Recentl>', Dr. Karl Mueller, member
of the sfaH of the Physical Technical
Institute of Berlin, has succeeded in
producing sheets of sleel so thin that
they are as transparent as the clearest
glass. The new method of making sheets
of metal of unprecedented thinness seems
likely to prove of far reaching industrial
as well as scientific importance. Test
plates used to test the transparency of
optical glass, which were ruled with
cross lines 2,.'>00 to the square inch, were
photographed through such a metal
sheet, and when enlarged to 400 diam-
eters, the scale showed distinctly, with
no trace of distortion. This absence of
aberration jiroves that the structure of
the film was perfectly even and uniform
in all directions. The metal sheets are
so thin that atoms will penetrate them
without impediment, yet so strong that
when fastened in a frame they may be
bent (by blowing) to the extent of 1-16
inch without rupture. The delicate sheets
are made by depositing an extremely fine
film of the steel on a smooth surface by
means of an electric current, then sep-
arating the film from the foundation on
which it was fixed.

Now young fella, it's been almost
37 years since Dr. Mueller did his
experiments. How many of your
friends ]ia\e e\er hard of transparent

steel? That's how far ahead of tho
game we were.

And what do you suppose an engi-
neer earned back then? (All you
modern engineers are money mad.)
Well, I'll tell you. Here is an excerpt
from our November 1926 issue telling
graduates what a man could e.xpect to
make (provided he wasn't a smarty-
pants and knew something about how
to make a real condenser).

An eastern university has kept a record
of Alumni of its engineering college and
presents the following formida for an
engineer's salary:

$ = 1,500 + 300;/
Where "y " is the number of years after
graduation.

Say, sonny, when you graduate, arc
you going to be worth the ten years
of experience a man needed to earn
$4,500 back in my day? ♦ ♦ ♦

NOTE: Head structural engineer
Bouregard Dangerbridge whose com-
ments appear in this column, has
agreed to take time out from his usual
duties as chief sidewalk smasher on
the etigineering campus to write a
few words about his views of the'
engineering profession. MLQ.

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DECEMBER, 1963

THE ILLIAC

AND THE ODDITY

Eleven years ago the University
of Illinois put llliac I into operation.
It was not only one of the world's
fastest computers, it was the only one
at that time owned by a university.
Today it has been taken out of serv-
ice and replaced by llliac II (it is not
really called "The Oddity"; a wag
suggested that name "so that everyone
could talk about the llliac and the
Oddity"). Times do change, and very
rapidly, in computer technology.

Today llliac II stands in the Digital
Computer Laboratory (DCL). Con-
struction of the computer, a solid
state successor to llliac I, was be-
gun in 1956, and it now occupies most
of the first floor of DCL. This pro-
digious digital computer, built by
grants from the Atomic Energy Com-
mission and the University, has been
in operation since September, 1962,
but is not yet operating at its ultimate
capacity. Work is presently underway
on the attachment of a large array of
input/output equipment which the
International Business Machines Cor-
poration has donated for this purpose.

llliac I, world famous for its pio-
neering achievements and a fast com-

by Lester Holland, EE '66

puter in its era, used vacuum tubes
and high-current circuits which pro-
duced a great amount of heat. llliac
II, using solid-state devices and em-
bodying techniques such as asyn-

chronous circuits, is more reliable,
and although heat is still a problem,
the main heat-producing components .
are resistors rather than active com^
puting components.

W. L. Huffman of DCL makes an adjustment on llliac ll's new control panel.

1 FUTURE
' CIVIL ENG.
I BUILDING

I I

STOUGHTON AVE.

.NEW ADDITION

FUTURE
■ ADDITION

DIGITAL COMPUTER
LABORATORY

SPRINGFIELD AVE.

A new addition to the DCL is
planned for next fall. Tie-in cable
new Civil Eng. BIdg.

completion. A future addition is
eventually link tfie DCL witfi the

'OUTPUT
DEVICES

Block di
to single

igram of the
data channel.

ADVANCED
CONTROL

CORE
MEMORIES

MAGNETIC DRUI^
STORAGE

DELAYED
CONTROL

ARITHMETIC
UNIT

lO-WORD
MEMORY

llliac M. Input output devices may be connected

TECHNOGRAPH

ADVANCED
CONTROL

Mliac lis T shaped design is approximately
10 feet high, 16 feet long, 3 feel thick, and 12
feet wide. It contains several miles of wire.

— Built for Speed —

Illiac II represents an increased
speed of 120 times that of Illiac I. A
small core storage was used to gain
tliis speed at reasonable cost. Rather
than emphasize the size of the core
storage, emphasis was placed on the
efficient use of memory by a tightly-
coded instruction format as well as on
the provision of a hierarchy of aux-
iliary storages, both fast and slow.
Since core memory access is slow
compared to the speed of arithmetic
operations, Illiac II utilizes a 10-word
fast transistor memory located ad-
jacent to the arithmetic units (Fig. 1).
This temporary memory supplements
core storage and has an access time of
0.2 microseconds, about one-tenth
that of core storage.

Another innovation that increases
speed is the physical location of the
aritlimetic unit. Located in the stem
of a "T," the ends of the 52 arith-
metic register are adjacent to the con-
trol unit located in the head of the "T"
(Fig. 2). This proves advantageous
since many operations, especially
those that test for special number
values, are conducted in the ends of
the registers.

The arithmetic unit, supervised by
a special arithmetic control, called
Delayed Control, is kept busy work-
ing on numerical operations and need
not wait for the decoding of machine

Plug-in panels containing thousands of solid state de

used in Illiac II.

orders. This method of operation is
possible because a supervisory con-
trol, called Advanced Control, handles
the necessary order modification, in-
dex register arithmetic, and general
bookkeeping. The arithmetic unit
could actually be considered a slave
computer to Advanced Control. In
total, by means of parallelism, three
controls (Delayed Control, Advanced
Control, and Interplay Control, which

46,000 transistors

98,000 diodes

39,000 capacitors

139,000 resistors

Illiac II ought to be fast; it cer-
tainly contains enough parts.

is used for input/output) operate
simultaneously to allow the computer
to work on different phases of a prob-
lem at one time.

To further decrease unnecessary
time delays, it is possible for Illiac II
to operate in a multi-program mode.
In this condition the computer will

not necessarily wait for information
concerning a particular program to
arrive from some input device but
will switch operation to another pro-
gram which is prepared to run. Thus
the computer may actually work on
several programs "at once" in a time-
shared manner.

— "Slow" Operations —

Regardless of the internal speed of
a digital computer, the data input/
output devices are necessarily slow
because of their mechanical opera-
tion. Illiac II uses Interplay to simul-
taneously control tlie 32 data
channels to a great extent independ-
ent of the other computer units. In-
terjolay supervises the transfer of
information to the memory from the
driun, magnetic tape, or paper tape
at relatively slow speeds while the
computing units continue to operate
at full capicity.

Characteristic of these "slow"
speeds is the transfer from core stor-
age to magnetic tape at the rate of
one word per 100 microseconds or the
transfer from punched paper tape
to core storage at 1000 characters per
second. One of the 32 data channels is
connected to an IBM 1401 computer

DECEMBER, 1963

111

■l_tl| l_! I I I J'

llliac I, built by the U of I
recently retired.

which facihtates card- to- tape and
tape-to-printed-page operations. It
also allows llliac II to "delegate"
minor ojierations to the 1401. Inter-
connections are provided so that the
llliac may check the status of opera-
tions done by the 1401.

Under the control of Interplay, the
ultimate rate of data transfer for all
32 channels in simultaneous operation
is 10 million bits per second. When
in full operation, llliac II will have

10 magnetic tapes on four channels,
two disc storage files on two channels,
the IBM 1401 computer on a single
channel, and four data channels for
interconnection with ILLIAC III, a
highly sophisticated pattern recogni-
tion computer which is already under
construction on the second Hoor of
DCL. With the IBM 1401 and the
four tape channels listed above, llliac

11 could handle 36 additional mag-

1952, and the first computer eve

netic tape units as well as hundreds of
slower input/output devices.

As an example of the versatility of
llliac II, 10,000 electric typewriters
could be connected to a single data
channel. One such innovation already
in the planning stage is the installa-
tion of remote input/output units in
various departmental offices. If a trial
installation is successful, similar units
will make the computer available to
more users.

— Computer Courses —

Engineering undergraduates will
soon be able to take advantage of
more comprehensive undergraduate
computer courses covering not only
programming but also design and cir-
cuit theory. Though llliac II is pres-
ently not used in course work, this
situation may soon change. Mathe-
matics 195, first oflFered only two years

ago, is a very popular course (except
for the hour exams!) in general com-
puter operation and programming
and presently has an enrollment of
530 students. At the sophomore engi-
neering level it gives students a back-
ground in computing with the IBM
7094 which may then be used to solve
problems for other courses or for re-
search. Among courses now available
in computer design are Mathematics
and Electrical Engineering 294 and
394 and EE 393. A new set of digital
computer courses covering computer
design and operation is being devel-
oped and may soon be available.

One microsecond = .000001
second. In one microsecond, a
beam of lighf fravels less ihan
1000 feet (approximaiely 985
feet) or about .2 mile. If a student
works physics homework problems
5 nights a week, an hour and a
half each night for three semesters
(Physics 106, 107, 108), he will
accomplish what the llliac 11 can
do in less than 2.5 minutes.

Other changes may be expected at
DCL. Present plans indicate that the
IBM 7094 (now in ERL) may be
moved to the second DCL addition so
that all the large digital computers
can be in one central location where
they will probably be interconnected
(see below). When fully completed,
the U of I facilities at the Digital
Computer Laboratory will be one of
the most advanced centers in the
nation for the study of computer
technologv. ♦ ♦ ♦

llliac I

TABLE OF COMPARISON
IBM 7094

llliac II

length of
binary word

40 bits

36 bits

52 bits

(1) W word transistor memory
.2 microsecond access

(2) 8,192 word core

2 microsecond access

(3) 65,536 word rotary drum

8 microsecond access

Memory

1024 words

1 8 microsecond access

32,768 word core
2 microsecond access

Multiply time

700 microseconds

6 to 18 microseconds

6.6 microseconds

Input Output

1 channel (paper tape or
printed page)

8 channels

(magnetic tape, printed

page, or punched cards)

32 channels (paper tape,
magnetic tape, printed page,
or punched cards)

Index Registers None

TECHNOGRAPH

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DECEMBER, 1963

■14

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ll!li

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PHYSICS
BUILDING

!p n

Where Has Physics

by Tom Grantham, EE '66

The steep angle in lecture Hall B
liminates the need for "neck stretch-
ng" — ideally suited for dozing.

TECHNOGRAPH

"\\'here has physics gone?" was a
question asked by many confused
^ Indents this fall. The Physics Depart-
iiunt, which was housed in the old
rliNsics Laboratory for the past half
tciitury mo\ed during the summer to ,
the University's new Physics Building,
two blocks further east on Green
street.

The New Physics Building

Construction of the new multi-
iniUion dollar Physics Building began
III 1957 and was completed this sum-
mer. The new building, according to
I'rofessor G. M. Almy, associate de-
li, trtnient head, represents a 60% hi-
ucase of the department's facilities
111 eded to handle the increased en-
rollment in physics courses, which
has risen from 2147 to 3173 students
since 1959.

The dominating features of the
I M w building are the two ultra-modern
1. dure rooms, one seating 310 and
tlie other 210. Due to the semicircular
design of these two rooms the lobb\^

Gone?

outside which eventualh' will ser\e
as a lounge is bounded by a long
curved wall. The rooms themselves
are equipped witli both tire comfort
and enlightenment of the student in
mind. For his comfort the seats are
plushly upholstered and for his ease
of vision they are on a steep incline.
For his enlightenment the rooms are
equipped with closed circuit tele-
vision and modem lecture demonstra-
tion facilities.

In addition to the two rooms there
are nine classrooms with capacities
of 25 to 100 and twenty laboratories
equipped for general physics experi-
ments. The new building will contain
all physics actixities except nuclear
physics. From the student's viewpoint,
the new structure represents only a
longer hike to class, but from the
Physics Department's viewpoint, it
represents the administration's recog-

DECEMBER, 1963

Two circu:^: I^^.l:^ ioo.:;l -^:;!i:'9 310 and 210
in lounge area.

nition of its e\er-increasing enrollment
and ever-increasing importance in sci-
entific research on this campus.

Meiallurgy Moves

The almost-historic old laboratory
is being dressed up for a change of
occupancy. "Metallurgy and Mining
Building" is its new name. Dean
E\eritt of the College of Engineering
announced, as a changeover moved
the department of Mining, Metal-
lurgy, and Petroleum Engineering
into the building. Among the fa-
cilities to be provided is a nuclear
metallurgy laboratory' with equipment
for experiments involving production,
purification, alloying, heat treatment,
fabrication, testing, and inspection of
uranium and other metals of interest
to the nuclear field. Four electron
microscopes will also be added, one of
them equipped to study materials at
445 °F below zero.

Pre\'ious to this fall the mining and
metallurgy department was scattered
in ten structures, several of them old
houses being used temporarily. Now
all staff offices and activities are in the
Metallurgy and Mining Building and
the nearby Mining Laboratory.

Professor Thomas A. Read, depart-
ment head, has a staff of 41 full and
part-time members. Enrollment in-
cludes 120 undergraduate and 60
graduate students. Research during

the past year in\olved $750,000 from
government and private organizations.

The metallurgy department has ex-
perienced a number of transitions
since its inception in 1867 as one of
the four original areas of engineering
planned for the brand new University
of Illinois. Training in metallurgy and
mining was dropped in 1893 but rein-
stated in 1909 on the urging of mine
operators, unions, and others inter-
ested in the field. Upon its re-
establishment the department was
situated in the then newly completed
Physics Laboratory, but was moved
in 1912 to the Transportation Build-
ing and since 1941 has been in the
Ceramics Building until its present
mo\'e back to the Physics Lab.

During the more than half a century
in which the Physics Deparhnent
occupied this building it achieved
world-wide renown. Among projects
carried out there was the invention by
Professor Donald W. Kerst of the
betatron-type atom smasher. Another
invention in this building was that of
sound-on-film motion pictures by Pro-
fessor Joseph T. Tykociner of the
Department of Electrical Engineering.
He was assigned temporary space in
the then Physics Building, and, in
1922, he presented the first public
demonstration of modern sound
movies. The mining and metallurgy
department hopes to add to the tradi-
tions of the proud old building it in-
herits.

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TECHNOGRAPH

ENGINEERING FOR PEOPLE

Illinois farmers arc untong the richest in the world. Two of the reasons are
cns,ineerin<s. and extension.

Most engineering research at the
University of Illinois is of little im-
mediate use to the man on the street.

In order for any research to be-
come truly significant, its practicality'
must be determined, and the neces-
sar\' information must be distributed
to the persons who can use it. Far too
imich engineering research fails to ad-

tl vance through either or both of these

I stages.

Every engineering department has
its own extension system to use and
distribute results of research. How-
ever, none of these systems has the
state-wide scope and completeness of
organization as the program found in
the Agricultural Engineering Depart-
ment. Their extension program is part
of an over-all plan in tlie College of
Agricultvire in cooperation with the
U.S. Department of Agriculture. This

Extensionist Wendell Bowers explains minim
Each will take the information back to the fo

age demonstration plots to county to
in his county.

by John Litherland, Ag.E.

plan was established as part of the
land-grant college system.

One of the basic concepts behind
the land-grant system was to provide
people throughout tlie state with
practical information, in addition to
teaching the student body. To accom-
plish this purpose, tlie Cooperative
E.xtension Service was organized in
1914.

The Ag. Engineering extension pro-
gram is only a small part of the entire
Extension Service, but even so, six
of approximately thirt>'-five staff
members in Ag. Engineering are em-
ployed in full-time extension work.

The six extensionists work in all four
phases of Agricultural Engineering;
Power and Machiner}', Electric Power
and Processing, Soil and Water Con-
servation, and Farm Structures. How-
ever, no extension specialist is limited
to one phase; each is familiar with all
programs. In addition to distaibuting
results of engineering research the
specialists are often called upon to
help other extension groups, such as
those in agronomy, plant pathology,
or animal science.

Minimum tillage, a recent extension
project in the Power and Machinery
pliase of Agricultural Engineer, dem-
nnstrates the value of the Extension
Ser\'ice and the vastness of the work
involved in developing the project.

Minimum tillage refers to tlie re-
duction of the time and labor involved
in preparing a seedbed for grain
crops. Usually, jireparing a seedbed
requires plowing, discing and har-

(Please turn page)

DECEMBER, 1963

(Continued from page 17)
rowing tlie soil to produce a fine,
loose condition for tlie planting of
the seeds. Research engineers won-
dered if there was a faster metliod
to get the seed in the ground \\'ithout

ings during tlie 1959-62 period.

In 1962, the extension department
produced another package program
and a circular based on more research
and evaluation. These items are being
used in county meetings today.

seriously reducing yields.

In 1951, research on the subject
began at the U of I Agricultural En-
gineering Research Farm. After tlie
results showed that the discing and
the harrowing operations could be
eliminated successfully, the extension
staffs joined the project. The research
and extension staffs worked together
until 1956, when the extension
workers started eight demonstration
plots throughout the state to show
farmers that minimum tillage would
work on their farms.

From 1956-58 the workers prepared
extension materials, assembled data,
showed slides, and conducted tliirty
or forty county meetings in an at-
tempt to persuade fanners to try the
new method on their fanns. In 1959,
the extensionists distributed a package
program consisting of a movie, slide
set, and printed information to about
eighty counties in Illinois. Count}'
farm advisors used these programs for
almost two hundred farm group meet-

During the period of presentation
to farmers, the extension specialists
continually evaluated the acceptance
of the minimum tillage program by

the farmers. Their job was to con-
solidate results obtained across the
state and make tliem available to any-
one interested.

Although the extensionists from the
University do most of the introductory
work, they cannot conduct every
meeting or visit every farmer. For
this part of die work, tlie extension
service depends on farm advisors,
home economics advisors and other
leaders in the individual counties.
^^'ithout their help the extension work
would lose much of its effectiveness.

Extension work does not always
mean the relaying of information

Research engineers erect a rigid-frame build-
ing for study. As final plans are developed,
extensionists will present to farmers ttie advant-
ages of this type of structure.

from the University to the farm. This
exchange is reciprocal; farmers are
continuously inventing new devices
and methods for making their tasks
easier. In Uiese cases the extension
engineer's job is mainly one of de-
termining the practicality of the idea
for the common farmer, as well as de-
termining whether or not it is useful
in all situations. If the idea is prac-
tical, the extensionist turns the idea
over to research engineers for ex-
tended study. Later the information
is given back to the extensionist to
relav to farmers. ♦ ♦ ♦

I (See Jan. issue for further notes on surveying

John LaCost wanted a part in scientific progress

He has it at Western Electric

John LaCost received his B.S.E.E. from the University
of Illinois in 1952. One of the factors w/hich influenced
him to join Western Electric was the quick manner in
which new engineers become operational.

During the short time John has been with us, he
has worked in several areas which are vital to the
nation's communications complex. And with his future
development in mind, John attended one of our Grad-
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front-line Electronic Switching System. He is current-
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John's future at Western Electric looks promising
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DECEMBER, 1963

The Forgotten Man

(Continued from page 7)

U of I College of Engineering spent
on research, $9,802,400 came from
federal sources, $1,716,700 came from
general University funds, and $743,000
came from industry.

Actually, the taxpayer receives sev-
eral additional rewards for each tax-
dollar (educational or federal) spent
on research. Faculty members render
a service to our country while pro-
tecting themselves from obsolescence;
their findings are openly displayed
in the form of published papers, lec-
tures, and seminars; and many devel-
opments such as sound on movies,
reinforced concrete, and synthetic
rubber have resulted from U of I
research.

Large funds are available to solve
difficult problems, and government
agencies and industry need the tech-
nical-scientific help that professors are
qualified to supply. In fact, many
times the financial returns of research
to the taxpayer often exceed the initial
investment. For example, a govern-
ment-sponsored highway research
project at the U of I cost $25,000 and
is conservatively estimated to have
saved more than 20 times that cost
on a single six-mile stretch of dual
roadway in Illinois, and the same
results have been used in further con-
struction. Another research program
in agricultural engineering is saving
Illinois farmers eight million dollars
a year (see Engineering for People,
page 17). No evaluation can be made
for the lives saved by such projects,
for the increased national security
gained through research for the
Armed Forces, the Department of
Defense, and the Atomic Energy
Commission, or for the medical ad-

vances from research in biophysics
and similar areas.

No argument here— this is fine for
the taxpayer, the American Consumer,
and the general public.

Now What?

Obviously, research serves an im-
portant role in the College of Engi-
neering. As it now exists, however,
undergraduates benefit from the
College's research activities by in-
direct means only: research is sup-
posed to attract new forward-looking
faculty members, keep those already
on the stafi: up to date in their fields,
provide cross-fertilization of ideas
with industry, bring in modern
facilities, and support the graduate
program. But these are all indirect
and sometimes questionable benefits
for the undergraduate. Wouldn't we,
as undergraduate engineering stu-
dents, be better off if there were
more direct advantages? Clearly, it
would be a direct advantage to each
undergraduate if he knew specffically
what is going on in the various pro-
grams—what is happening behind
closed doors labeled "Biological Com-
puters," "Gaseous Electronics Labo-
ratory" or "Danger X-Rays." Shouldn't
that be a part of our education here?

Evidently the College administra-
tion thinks so. According to a 1963
administrative publication, "A (uni-
versity) research atmosphere helps
keep the undergraduate aware that
engineering is a progressing, develop-
ing field that requires continued
learning and development through-
out the engineer's professional life."

The administration's statement is an
attainable ideal. Under present con-
ditions, however, such a statement is
not true. The fact is that we have no
real knowledge of what goes on in

most of the research programs, of
what their actual worth really is, even
to us. This is the knowledge we must
have to derive a direct benefit from
them.

Research is fine as far as it goes-
it just doesn't reach the undergradu-
ate in the proper form. The time has
come for everyone— faculty members,
undergraduates, and administrators—
to recognize and strive to correct the
current lack of undergraduate under-
standing of research.

An efi^ort should be made by pro-
fessors to inform us about aspects of
their research that are related to our
classroom work and to welcome and
encourage undergraduate interest and
questions. Lab directors should be
invited to visit classes and describe
research that is being done in their
laboratories. We, as undergraduates,
should show a desire to know by
asking about research and insisting
on knowing. Likewise, we should
encoiuage members of Engineering
Council and the student societies to
help all of us keep informed through
organized tours of research labs and
other conscious efforts.

Technograph's reporters have been
knocking on many of these laboratory
doors and will continue to tell what
goes on behind them. Fart of Techno-
graph's new purpose in life is to tell
the full story— a story each of us
shoidd be interested in.

As it now stands, the extensive re-
search programs at the U of I are
obviously beneficial— to the consumer,
the tax-payer, and the professor. Only
the undergraduate receives no direct
benefit. He is not the "major product"
of the College— he is the forgotten
man. ♦♦♦

A fugitive scientist from a Boris
Karloff horror picture dreamed up
a serum that would bring inanimate
objects to life. He surreptitiously tried
it out on the statue of a great general
in Central Park. Sure enough, the
statue gave a quiver and a moment
later the general, creaking a bit in
the joints, climbed down from the
pedestal. The scientist was over-
joyed. . . .

"I have given you Ufe," he ex-
ulted. "Now tell me. General, what is
the first thing you are going to do
with it?"

"That's easy," rasped the general,
ripping a gun from his holster. "I'm
going to shoot about two million
pigeons!"

Overheard in an E. E. lab:
"Take hold of that wire."

"This one? Okay."
"Feel anything?"
"Nope."

"Then don't touch the other one. J
It's carrNang 50,000 volts." \

Salesman: "This slide rule is some-
thing you'll really need. It will do half
your work for you."

Up and coming freshman en-
gineer: "Fine, I'll take two."

TECHNOGRAPH

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Tech has decided to run these heart-warming pic-
tures for those cold December nights. We feel fortu-
nate to have such an attractive model in Arlene
Karhens, an Allen Hall resident.

Arlene is new on campus this semester, having
transferred from Morton junior College in Cicero,
Illinois, where she was active as a cheerleader and as
president of the Women's Club. She is a junior in
E. E. (exciting engineers . . . oops, we mean ele-
mentary education, of course) and maintains a 4 point
scholastic average. Besides her interest in little chil-
dren, she enjoys sports, sewing, music, painting, and
children of the larger variety, namely men.

Costumes compliments of W. Le

Photos by Bob Seyier
and Blums, Champaign

DECEMBER, 1963

Who is Olin?

What does Olin make?

What are the types of work at Olin?

What are the opportunities at Olin?

Who is Olin? Olin is a world-
wide company with 39,000
employees developing, pro-
ducing and marketing prod-
ucts from seven divisions:
Packaging, Squibb, Win-
chester-Western, Chemicals,
International, Metals and
Organics. With corporate
offices in New York City, the
firm operates 56 plants in 30
states with plants and affili-
ates in 37 foreign countries.

What does Olin make? Major
brand names include Squibb,
Winchester-Western,* Way-
lite,"' Ramset,* Roll-Bond;*'
with fully integrated product
lines in industrial and agri-
cultural chemicals, medici-
nals and pharmaceuticals,
arms and ammunition, brass
and aluminum, fine papers
and transparent films, kraft
papers, multi-wall bags and
containers.

What are the types of work
at Olin? Olin's great diver-
sity provides a broad range
of opportunities in the tech-
nical science and engineering
fields. Emphasis is placed on
the B.S. and M.S. chemical,
industrial, mechanical and
metallurgical engineering
student for assignments in
plant operations, process
control, product develop-
ment, quality control, pro-
duction and marketing.
Advanced degree M.S. and
Ph.D. chemists and metallur-
gists work in central research
and development improving
existing products and devel-
oping new ones. Men with
liberal arts and business
backgrounds find rewarding
career opportunities in the
administrative functions,
marketing, and some areas
of manufacturing.

What are the opportunities
at Olin? Olin recognizes peo-
ple as its greatest asset. Your
future growth and career is
as important to the company
as it is to you. Beginning with
corporate and divisional ori-
entations, you will be given
thorough on-the-job training
in your first job. You will
learn and progress, accord-
ing to your ability, working
with skilled and experienced
men in various assignments.
For additional information
about Olin please contact
your Placement Office or
write Mr. M. H. Jacoby, Col-
lege Relations Officer, Olin,
460 Park Avenue, New York
22, N.Y.

Olin

460 Park Avenue, New York 22, N.Y.
"An equal opportunity employer."

TECHNOGRAPH

A GAUGE OF
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH

by Larry Heyda

Recently an undergraduate at the
U of I invented a vacuum gauge
which is now being produced by RCA.
Wilfred Schuemann, an electrical en-
gineer by curriculiun, began working
as a researcher in the University's Co-
ordinated Science Laboratory when
he was a freshman, and he has be-
come a respected member of a re-
search team interested in ultra-high
vacuums.

Will's new vaciumi gauge \\'as both
a product of his own ingenuity and
the unselfish cooperation and help

which he received from the director
and other members of the lab. The
Bayard- Alpert vacuum gauge (one of
the co-inventors was Dr. Alpert, tlie
director of CSL) is tlie accepted
standard instrument for measuring
ultra-high vacuvim pressures. The B-A
gauge is, however, limited by a so-
called "X-ray efiFect" which prevents
it from reading into a low pressure
range, now of interest to researchers.
\Viirs invention eliminates this re-
stricting efiFect, and makes it possible
t(j measure pressures at least two

orders of magnitude lower than pre-
vious instruments. It has been pat-
ented by the University Foundation.

Schuemann, wlio is now a graduate
student in physics, has a great range
of interests. He is an active member
of the U of I Clider Club, and soaring
has become one of his greatest satis-
factions. In addition, his past mem-
bership in the band as an accom-
plished flute player and his interests
in painting, sketching and all forms
of athletics attest to the fact that he is
liardly the proverbial image of the
dried-out engineer.

His main interests, however, have
always centered around mechanical
and electrical equipment. Like many
of us, he spent his spare time during
high school tinkering with junk, con-
cocting gadgets, building model cars
and airplanes, and blowing the house
fuses now and then. As a freshman in-
terested in continuing his tinkering
while working his way through col-
lege, he requested and received a job
as research assistant in the Coordi-
nated Science Laboratory.

According to Will, "I believe that
research experience can be as valua-
ble for an engineering student as what
he learns in the classroom. It certainly
was for me. I belie\e that any under-
graduate who is interested in research
should consider applying for a job
with one of the research labs."

So if you want to be a researcher,
pick out the group that interests you,
find out who the director is, and ask
him for a job. You might just get it—
^^'ill Schuemann did. ♦ ♦ ♦

DECEMBER, 1963

Are you interested in a career in management?

The key words are "career" and "management."

The Bethlehem Loop Course is designed not to place a
man in a job, but to start a man on a career. Although we
have a specific initial job assignment in mind for every
man we recruit for the Loop Course, that assignment is
just the first step toward increasing levels of responsibility.
The Bethlehem Loop Course is designed to train men for
management. We select men whom we feel have the po-
tential; we start them out with an intensive five weeks'
course that gives them a comprehensive knowledge of the
Company's operations; we follow this up with a training
program at the facility or within the department to which
he is first assigned. A steel plant man, for instance, will

be given general plant training for a number of weeks; a
sales looper trains for a full year before he starts actual
selling.

Think it over. It should be abundantly clear that we
have a big stake in our loopers. We do everything in our
power to assure that you make good progress— the rest
is up to you.

If you are interested in a career in management with
one of the nation's largest and most dynamic industrial
concerns, we urge you to read our booklet, "Careers with
Bethlehem Steel and the Loop Course." You can get a
copy at your Placement Office, or by sending a postcard
to our Personnel Division, Bethlehem, Pa.

BETHLEHEM STEEL

BETHllEHEM
STEEL

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TECHNOGRAPH

Research at RCA Laboratories

Superconductive Computer Memory

Piciurcd abose is a radicall> new t>pc of
thin film superconductive array capable of
storing 16,384 bits of data in an area smaller
than a playing card. This array is a step toward
a high-speed all electronic memory of hundreds
of millions or billions of bits, which is a
storage capacity now attainable only in slow
electromechanical devices.

The structure becomes superconducting with
its immersion in liquid helium: two pulses of
positive or negative electric current are sent
through the selection trees to a selected inter-
section. Their combined efTect at the chosen in-
tersection produces a "normal" or non-super-
conducting area in the tin layer directly beneath.

When this occurs, a microscopic ring of
electric current is induced and instantly trapped
in the tin at this point. As the pulses cease,
the area again becomes superconductive, and
the stored current remains, moving in its micro-
scopic circle in either a clockwise or counter-
clockwise direction according to the positive
or negative character of the pulses that induced
it. In computer language, this stored current
represents one bit of information — a "zero"
or a "one." depending upon its direction.

When the information is to be recalled by
the computer, two pulses are again sent to
the same intersection. If their polarity (positive
or negative) is the same as that of the stored
current, nothing happens. If it is opposite, the
direction of the stored current will be reversed
and a read out voltage will be induced in a
simple box-like structure extending under the
whole memory plane. The presence or absence
of this signal is part of a code which is deci-
phered electronically to obtain the desired
information.

Reference — L. L. Burns, Paper presented at the
Fall Joint Computer Conference, Las Vegas,
Nov. 12-14, 196J and puhlisliedin the Proceed-
ings of the Fall Joint Computer Conference.

Sun-Pumped Continuous Laser

Laser (optical-maser) action has been
achieved in CaF!:Dy-+ at liquid neon tem-
perature (27'' K) using the sun as the pumping
source. The minimum power required to obtain
laser oscillations could be supplied with a
10-inch-diameter condensing mirror. Laser
action at liquid-nitrogen temperature is antici-
pated using a 20-inch-diameter condensing
mirror.

Laser action in the CaF!:Dy-+ system was
reported at 2.36 microns. The laser oscillation
lakes place in the sharp 'h — >- 'I« 4f-4f
iransitions, and it is pumped in broad 4f- 5d
.ibsorption bands starting at 10,000 cm-' and
extending throughout the visible region of the
spectrum. The low pulsed laser threshold, the
long lifetime (10 msec for a 0.05 molar '",-
Dy-+ in CaFi) and the convenient location of

the broad pumping bands of this system make
it especially suitable forsun-pumped operation.

The photograph shows the experimental
arrangement. A 1-inch long, '/i-inch-by-'/s-inch
cross-section CaFj: 0.05 M '~( Dy=+ laser
crystal is placed in a dewar filled with liquid
neon just outside the focal point of a 14-inch
spherical mirror. The dewar was wrapped with
aluminum foil except for the area of illumi-
nation to insure better optical couphng.

From the known values of the pulsed laser
threshold at 27° K and at 78° K, we estimate
that a 20-inch-diameter condensing mirror will
be sufficient to operate the laser at liquid
nitrogen temperature. Experiments using much
larger mirrors are in progress to evaluate the
high power output capabilities of the sun-
pumped laser.

Reference — Z. /. Kiss, H. R. Lewis, R. C.
Duncan — .Applied Physics Lirs. 2, 93, 1963.

Beam Plasma

An experimental RCA tube which may open
new communication and radar channels near
the frequencies of infrared light is shown being
prepared for test at RCA Laboratories. The
device uses the interaction of an electron beam
with a cesium plasma to amplify 23 Gc micro-
wave power.

The device consists, basically, of an electron
gun, input and output helixes and a cesium
plasma. The gun sends an electron beam
through the input helix where the input signal
impresses a space-charge wave on the beam.
The beam then traverses a three centimeter
length of plasma. The plasma is generated by
a cesium Penning-type arc. The resonant fre-
quency of the plasma electrons, which is pro-
portional to the square root of the plasma
density, is set equal to the signal frequency.
Interaction occurs between the space-charge
wave and the plasma oscillations which results
in an amplification of the space-charge wave.
In the above tube, power in the space-charge
wave is amplified ten thousand times. The

amplified signal is delivered to the load by the
output helix as the beam passes through the
helix.

Reference— G. A. Swart: and L. S. Napoli,
Proceedings of Conference on M'ave Inter-
action and Dynamic Non-linear Phenomena
in Plasmas, Pennsylvania Stale University,.
February 1963.

These are only a few of the recent
reports by Members of the Tech-
nical Staff of the DavicJ Sarnoff
Research Center. Many scientific
challenges await the atdvancecJ
(degreecancJidatein Physics, Elec-
trical Engineering, Chemistry ancJ
Mathematics.

To learn more about these research programs you are invited to meet our
representative when he visits your university or write to the Administrator,
Graduate Recruiting, RL 9, RCA Laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey.

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DECEMBER, 1963

Engineers

l7i Choosing a Career,
Consider these
Advantages—

LoCdtion : Fisher is basically an "Engineering'
company with 1,500 employees located in a
pleasant midwest community of 22,000.
It's less than 10 minutes to the Fisher plant
from any home in Marshalltown.

Type of work: You'll become a member of
an engineering team that has produced some
of the outstanding developments in the field
of automatic pressure and liquid level controls.

Growth : Fisher's products are key elements
in automation which assures the company's
growth because of the rapid expansion of
automation in virtually every industry.

Advancement: Your opportunity is
unlimited. It is company policy to promote
from within; and most Fisher department
heads are engineers.

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chances are it's controlled by...

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TECHNOGRAPH

MAN AGAINST MACHINE

by Henry S. Magnuski

Statisticians have drawn all kinds of
curves showing the passing of time
and the accumulation of scientific
knowledge and data. Some of these
curves are exponential, and show the
tremendous increase in knowledge,
while others show how man asymp-
totically approaches the "Truth."
Well, here is one cune, an ordinary
straight line, that shows the decrease
in the time lag between the discovery
of a scientific principle and its appli-
cation for use by mankind— the pre-
dictions are most revealing.

The horizontal axis shows the year
of discovery of some scientific knowl-
edge, and the vertical axis shows tlie
difference in time between tlie dis-
covery and the practical use of this
knowledge. The portion of the curve
above the zero axis indicates that the
scientific principle was discovered be-
fore it was fully appreciated, and the
portion of the curve below the zero
axis indicates that the scientific princi-
ple was in use before it was dis-
covered.

This idea may not seem very clear
at first, but it will after the following
selected points are noted. In 1800,
Volta discovered his voltaic pile, an
invention which led to the electric
battery. A full forty-three years later
Morse used this principle to power
a telegraph, and Western Union has
been making money on that idea ever
since. In 1873, Maxwell published his
famous equations, predicting the ex-
istence of radio waves, and it took
Guglielmo Marconi only twenty-three
years to prove that Maxwell was
right. In 1948, Bardeen and others
discovered the "transistor effect." Six
years later engineers developed the
transistor radio, and tubes have been
dying since. Thus, the time lag be-

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tween the discovery and use of an
invention has decreased as the cen-
turies roll on.

Clearly, as the curve indicates,
there must be a time when the delay
between discovery and use becomes
zero. This time is coming soon, and
in fact, it is scheduled for June, 1966.
On a morning in that June, some
young, bright physicist is going to
walk out of his lab with a brand new
scientific concept in his mind, and find
someone selling an application of the
idea on the very same day. When this
happens, the curve will have crossed
zero, and we'll be in an era where
we build and use things without
knowing why they work.

At first this situation won't be too
bad or disturbing. The consumer ap-
plications divisions of many industries
will put a new product on the market,
and a month or two later the engi-
neering research department will find
out what makes the thing work. As
time goes on, however, this delay be-
tween the marketing and the com-
pletion of research on a new product
will become longer, and men will be
using things that they built but know

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absolutely nothing about. For in-
stance, in 1980, some computer will
produce a revolutionary theory that
will startle the world. It will be used
immediately by engineers but it will
take a group of scientists a year and
a half of tedious hard calculations to
prove that the computer is right.

The above rather embarrassing situ-
ation, coupled with others like it, will
start a revolt against computers brew-
ing in the minds and hearts of scien-
tists. Unfortunately, by this time both
scientists and engineers will be rely-
ing heavily upon computers, and they
wouldn't dare attack their machines
right away. As the years go on, how-
ever, computers will start beating men
at everything, including thinking,
playing chess, athletics, and man's age
old favorite, sex.

This state of affairs will trigger an
open revolt against the machines, and
man will do everything nasty he can
possibly think of to the computers, in-
cluding pidling their plugs. Within
forty-eight hours the revolt will be
over, scientific progress will be set
back fifty years, and man will be
master of the world once more.

♦ ♦♦

To Continue To Learn And Grow . . .

At Delco Radio, the college graduate is encouraged
to maintain and broaden his knowledge and skills
through continued education. Toward this purpose,
Delco maintains a Tuition Refund Program. Designed
to fit the individual, the plan makes it possible for an
eligible employe to be reimbursed for tuition costs of
spare time courses studied at the university or college
level. Both Indiana University and Purdue University
offer educational programs in Kokomo. In-plant gradu-
ate training programs are maintained through the off-
campus facihties of Purdue University and available to

employes through the popular Tuition Refimd Program.

College graduates will find exciting and challenging
programs in the development of germanium and silicon
devices, ferrites, solid state diffusion, creative packag-
ing of semiconductor products, development of labora-
tory equipment, reliability techniques, and applications
and manufacturing engineering.

If your interests and qualifications he in any of these
areas, you're invited to write for our brochure detailing
the opportunities to share in forging the future of
electronics with this outstanding Delco-GM team.
Watch for Delco interview dates on your campus, or
write to Mr. C. D. Longshore, Dept. 135A, Delco
Radio Division, General Motors Corporation, Kokomo,
Indiana.

An equal opportunity employer

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TECHNOGRAPH

Engines of the future . . . engines of today. Low compression
engines . . . high compression engines. Air-cooled engines . . .
water-cooled engines. Four, si.x and eight cylinder engines.
And all he has to do is figure out which gasolines we should
produce to make them all happy.

One of the key scientists in American Oil's Road Anti-
knock Quality Program is Charles Karabell, 31, B.S.,
Chemical Engineering, PhD, Mechanical Engineering from
Purdue University. To say that his job of establishing and
predicting fuel characteristics for today's and tomorrow's
automobile engines is a challenge, is a vast understatement.

If you're thinking about a career with a future, think
about us. American Oil offers a wide range of new research
opportunities for: Engineers— chemical, mechanical, and
metallurgical; Chemists — analytical, electrochemical, phys-
ical, and organic; Masters in Business Administration with
an engineering (preferably chemical) or science background :
Mathematicians; Physicists.

For complete information about interesting careers
in the Research and Development Department, write:
J. H. Strange, American Oil Company, P. 0. Box 431,
Whiting, Indiana.

IN ADDITION TO FAR-REACHING PROGRAMS INVOLVING FUELS, LUBRICANTS AND PETROCHEMICALS, AMERICAN OIL AND ITS SISTER COMPANY, AMOCO
CHEMICALS CORPORATION, ARE ENGAGED IN SUCH DIVERSIFIED RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AS; Organic ions under electron impact, Radiation-
induced reactions Physiochemical nature of catalysts Fuel cells/ Novel separations by gas chromatography/Application of computers to complex
technical problems Synthesis and potential applications for aromatic acids Combustion phenomena Design and economics: new uses for present
products, new products, new processes, Corrosion mechanisms Development of new types of surface coatings.

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DECEMBER, 1963

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN...

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The Corps of Engineers embraces virtually the entire range of modern
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LOCATION

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A CAREER NOT A JOB

The Corps offers a well defined 18-month rotational training program
for young graduate engineers covering all facets of the varied work
program. This is followed by planned career development assignments.
These assignments enable a young man to develop his special aptitudes
in the engineering field. As he progresses, special attention is given
to the development of managerial and executive abilities.

ADVANCED EDUCATION AVAILABLE

Attendance at special seminars, symposiums, and university courses
and participation in professional societies and activities are encour-
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TECHNOGRAPh'

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Imprinted from the December 1962 Outlook

Twas the night before Christmas, and all thru

the plant,
Not a creature was working but me and Van Zant.
The specs were all written and ready to go,
In hopes that the drawings would soon be, also.
A batch had been finished, and already checked
But others were not, as you might well expect.
So we, both as zealous as Scrooge's poor clerk,
Had just settled ourselves for a long evening's

work-
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
We sprang from our desks to see what was the

matter.
The security lights on the new-fallen snow
Gave the luster of blastoff to objects below.
When, what to oiu' wondering eyes should appear.
But a miniature space capsule and eight tiny ( but

extremely powerful) hydrazine-propellant

boosters tandem mounted in series so the pilot

could steer;
And a little round astronaut, so lively and quick,
I thought for a moment he might be Saint Nick.
But then Van Zant asked me, "Did vou hear him

yell
All those names to his boosters as his capsule fell?
'Now Atlas! now Saturn, now Vanguard and

Gemini!
Let's make our next landing beside that old

chimney!
On Nike! on Redstone! on Titan and Polaris!
It's only tonight that Canaveral can spare us!"
As we drew in our heads and were turning

around,
Down the chimney the astronaut came with a

bound.
He was dressed in a spacesuit from his head to

his foot.

And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and

soot;
"This soot, " he said, smiling, "is not from your

chimney.
It s caused by the heat of atmospheric re-entry! "
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head
Soon put us at ease, although he then said:
"Tell me, are your schedules really so tight.
Or do you get overtime for working tonight?"
I looked at Van Zant; then he looked at me;
I said, "It's a matter of deadline, you see . . . "
"We've got a tough problem, " Van Zant said with

a groan,
"In hanging the micronite up in the T-zone. "
The astronaut chuckled, "Well, that's why I'm

here.
In packaging, I was the first engineer."
He spoke nothing more, but went straight to the

work.
And studied the problem; then turned with a

jerk,
He smilingly told us to take a good look.
And held out a Christmas tree ornament hook.
Even though we both knew he had foimd the

solution.
By then we felt ripe for a state institution.
"Well, fellows," he said, "All your systems are
go;

It looks A-OK, so I've now got to blow."
And laying his finger astride of his nose.
And giving a grin, up the chimney he rose.
He sprang to his capsule and into the door.
And then blasted off with a Titanesque roar.
"Happy Christmas, ' he xelled, as he flew out of

sight,
"Keep >our stuff simple and its bound to be

right!"

DECEMBER, 1963

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TECHNOGRAPH

CAMELS, COMMITTEES,

AND

COLLEGES

The camel has been defined as a
horse designed by a committee. This
remark, of course, is really a comment
on the efficiency of committees rather
than on the beauty of camels. The
work of our ci\'ilization is executed
tlirough committees; we have commit-
tees for . . . , committees against . . . ,
and committees with less well defined
purposes. The College of Engineering
has twenty-two of them, most of
wliich directh' affect the campus life
of undergraduates.

This year several new committees
were created and their establishment
reflects the concern of the College for
continuous curriculum re\ision, con-
tinued education after graduation,
better campus facilities, and the need
to sufficiently anticipate the future
educational requirements of a rapidly
growing profession.

The Library Committee has been
directed to consider plans for either
expanding present library facilities or
construction of a separate building
which woidd house the library with
other needs of the College. One spe-
cific project the committee will con-
sider will be a net\\'ork of carrels
{ small study-conference rooms ) . Plans
may also include increasing the pro-
portion of graduate level material and
providing more literature and refer-
ence books to meet the changing em-
phasis of undergraduate engineering
education. A new building would cer-
tainly ehminate the fire hazard and
the squeaking, vibrating floors in
Civil Engineering Hall. In fact, rumor
has it that if the termites ever stop
holding hands, the building will surely
collapse.

The Continuing Education Commit-
tee will determine what formal study
programs can be initiated to help
engineers in industry keep abreast of
current dexelopments. As committee
chairman Professor Jack Briscoe said,
"The undergraduate studies the funda-
mentals of the various engineering
sciences in order to provide a founda'

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tion for his ad\'anct'd work at the
Uni\ersity and, equalh- or more im-
portant, to enable him to follow the
scientific and engineering advances
that occur after his graduation. It is
essential that every young engineer
realize that his undergraduate educa-
tion is only the beginning of all that
he must learn if he is to really be an
engineer."

The new Committee on Earth Sci-
ence Oriented Engineering, by study-
ing the interrelation of such fields as
mining and reservoir engineering, geo-
physics, rock mechanics, and mineral
processing, will analyze the effective-
ness of the present departmental
organization of instruction. The work
of this committee may have a tremen-
dous effect on the curricula and the
administrative subdivisions of the Col-
lege in the future. The chairman of
the Earth Sciences Committee is Pro-
fessor Don U. Deere.

The new Engineering Technology
Curriculum Advisory Committee,
headed by Professor J. S. Dobrovolny
will consider the needs of engineering
technician training programs for jun-
ior colleges. According to informed
estimates, the United States should
have three times more engineering
technicians than it now has for the
best use of engineering manpower.
The work of this committee will be
related to the studies on tliis problem
conducted over the last several years
for the Illinois State Board of \'oca-
tional Education.

The many committees in the Col-
lege of Engineering have great influ-
ence on the direction the College is
moving and, consequently, on the
lives of students. Yet one wonders if
another new committee shouldn't be
established next year: the Committee
to Study \\'hy the College of Engi-
neering Has Twenty-Two Committees
^^'hile the Largest College on Cam-
pus, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Has
Only Seven, That would be interest-
ing ,. ,

YOU

DECEMBER, 1963

General James M. Gavin, from the book
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there would be sufficient electionic
brainpower to solve his problems and
bring happiness and tranquility to all.
Centered in this vast array of ma-
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a liquid-transistor, gas-operated, nu-
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The hook-up was completed in a
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about what the super brain should be
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buzzed, belched, clicked, and di-ew
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DECEMBER, 1963

Honors Students in Engineering

Includes James Scholars and particlpanfs in the College Honors Programs

FRESHMEN

ANDERSON, Richard Ernest
BARKER, John L.
BEALL, Charles W.
BENJAMIN, William M.
BIHNER, James W.
BOYER, Gerald Rodney
BRYAR, Rebecca Marie
CARLSON, Robert D.
CARTER, Richard Cochran
CLARKE, Arthur
COHEN, Barry Eugene
CONLIN, Richard
COOK, James Howard
DYSTRUP, Andrew C.
EARLE, William R.
ENTWHISTLE, George
FERGUSON, Donald W.

FITZJARRALD, Joel
FORNANGO, James P.
FREESMEYER, Sherrill F.
FULTON, James Michael
GIESEKE, Werner James
GREENE, Gordon J.
HANSEN, Gerhard
HAUSCHULZ, Keith A.
HAY, Carl Martin
HAYEK, Joseph Charles
HEIDENREICH, Richard
HELFINSTINE, John David
HELM, Richard Bradley
HICKS, Russell William
HILLMAN, Arthur B. Ill
HOVIOUS, Joseph Carl
HOWREY, David Kirby

JENSKI, Raymond Alan
JOHNSON, Glenn Carl
JOHNSON, Jared Logan
JOYCE, James Albert
KALINOWSKI, Leonard E., Jr.
KOT, Seechun
LEWIS, Jon Ellis
LLOYD, Thomas Carl
LUCAS, Neil Alan
McLOUGHLIN, Patrick J.
MEECE, Jerry Lee
MERRIS, William Dale, Jr.
MICHELETTI, William J.
MILLER, Paul Albert
MINCH, William Raymond
MORR, Alan Ray
MOULIC, Robert Lee

PHELPS, Keith Richard
REED, Robert Bushnell
ROSE, Wayne Myron
SCHWARZ, George W., Jr.
SIMON, Stuart Ellis
STAPLETON, John Patrick
STOCKS, Joseph
SULLIVAN, Robert F.
TRAYLOR, Marvin Lee, Jr.
VANSWOL, Richard M.
WARNKE, Roger Allen
WEIGEL, William E., Jr.
WEITZ, Barry Allen
WELCH, John Lawrence
WHITNEY, Robin R.
WILLIAMSON, Warren L.
YOUNG, Stephen Charles

SOPHOMORES

ANGEL, Roger K.
BACKER, Lois June
BAHMANYAR, Reza
BAILEY, Peter T.
BARTON, Henry R.
BAXTER, Byron Lee
BENDULL, Ernest A.
BOHABOY, Philip E.
BOXLEITNER, Gregg
BRACHHAUSEN, Eric
BULLARD, Clark W.

BUNTING, Marcus
CAMPBELL, Ronald
CONLEY, Kenneth D.
DAHLSTROM, Norris
DAY, Gordon Wayne
DONZE, Richard L.
DRAKE, Jerry F.
ELLIS, Paul David
GLADDING, Gary E.
GRANTHAM, Thomas
GROSZ, Oliver J. H.

HALE, Carl Edwin
HENDRIX, Robert A.
HOLLAND, Lester M.
ISAACSON, Michael
JOHNSON, Robert B.
KAMO, Masayuki
KEUNE, David Lee
KOCH, Paul D.
KOLMAN, Joseph L.
LANGREHR, Richard
LEVIN, Michael A.

MAGNUSKI, Henry S.
PETERSON, Wayne A.
PFLEDERER, Larry
RIES, Roger P.
SCANLAN, Ronald M.
SHUGARS, Henry G.
STANLEY, Stanley
STREDDE, Edward H.
SWAIN, Carl Eugene
WEISS, Richard T.
WINKEL, William J.

JUNIORS

ALLEN, Charles H.
BARTHOLOMEW, David
BRANCA, Thomas R.
BRANDT, Larry K.
BREWER, Ernest L.
BURGE, David A.
CARLSON, Charles
CHAN, Shiu Kwong
CHANG, James S.
CLEMINS, Archie R.
COTTON, William B.
COULSON, James H.

CROCIANI, Danton
EVANS, Allan R.
FIGUEIRA, Joseph
ERASER, William T.
GATES, James H.
HENDERSON, John J.
HUISJEN, Martin A.
JOHNSON, Clyde R.
JOHNSON, Roger L.
JORDAN, Bernard E.
KRAKOW, William
KRAYBILL, David M.

LABER, Douglas
LANGE, James Jose
LITHERLAND, John
MASLOV, Alvin
MILLER, Robert A.
MORANGE, Theodore
NAFZIGER, Lee E.
NIXON, Larry S.
NOLTE, Kenneth G.
NOMM, Enno
PETERSON, Larry M.

PINSKY, Stephen S.
RENDER, Donald J.
SCHOMER, Paul D.
SCHOONHOVEN, Gerald
SCHWARCZ, Ronald
SHUFELDT, Warren
SMIRL, Richard A.
VANBLARICUM, Glen
VIETH, Gary Lee
WIEGEL, Roger E.
WILKEN, Irvin D.

SENIORS

BIRD, George R.
BLEHA, William P.
BRADY, Richard H.
CAMPBELL, Larry M.
CHANG, Milton M. T.
CHRISTOE, Charles
COOPER, Gilbert E.
CRINER, Douglas E.
CUSEY, Robert E.
DELLER, Richard W.
DOLLINS, Charles
FOX, John Alan
HALL, John Albert
HATFIELD, Frank J.
HEMMER, Joseph C.

HUTNER, Mark Allen
JENNY, Jon Arthur
JOHNSON, John A.
JOHNSON, Milo R.
KIRBY, John S.
KNIGHT, Thomas D.
KOSTELNICEK, Rich
KUECK, Thomas L.
KUPPERMAN, David
LEBECK, Alan O.
LENDRUM, Lester M.
LENKSZUS, Frank R.
LEVEY, James R.
MADDEROM, Douglas

MADSEN, John E.
MILKINTAS, John C.
MILLER, Gerald D.
MRSTIK, Adolph V.
MUSICK, Charles R.
NICHOLSON, William
OZANNE, Jerry
PAVIK, Alvin L.
PLECK, Michael H.
RADTKE, Erich
ROCKWELL, Donald
ROKUS, Josef W.
SAAD, Michael W.
SANDBERG, Charles

SCHUBERT, Curtis
SILBERSTEIN, Ikon
SMITH, Edward C.
STEELE, David L.
STEINER, William
VEATCH, George E.
VOLODKA, Livdas K.
WERNER, Ronald A.
WHITESIDE, Stephen
WICKERSHEIM, Robert
WILTON, Donald R.
WININGS, Clifford
YANG, Henderson C.
YAREMA, Raymond J.

TECHNOGRAPH

OPEN HOUSE . . .

EXHIBIT CONTEST

Criteria for Judging

How well does the basic idea or theme of
the display depict one of the three cate-
gories below? (30 pts.)

A) The display that best represents the
university research in a given area
or field of engineering at the Univer-
sity of Illinois.

B) The display that best describes the
academic life of an undergraduate
engineer in a given field at the Uni-
versity of Illinois.

C) The display that best tells what the
profession of engineering is and how
the engineer relates to our society.

2) Ability of the display to attract attention
(suggestion: the device for getting atten-
tion should be related to the exhibit).

(15 pts.)

3) Aesthetic quality of the display (attractive-
ness, neatness, professional appearance).

(15 pts.)

4) Ability of the exhibit to convey its theme
and ideas to visitors (suggestion: the visual
presentation and use of symbols should con-
vey the theme of the exhibit). (20 pts.)

5) Ability of the exhibitor to expand on the
theme of the exhibit (suggestion: the ex-
hibitor should have ( I ) a good knowledge
of the exhibits basic theme, (2) ability to
talk to visitors, and ( 3 ) a neat appearance).

(20 pts.)

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An E.E. professor eyed the class as
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circle. That would make me liable for
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"Why?" the E.E.'s wanted to know.

"I could be arrested for maintaining
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Her lips quivered as they ap-
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as he held her close to him. The moral
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the engine running.

If Adam came back to earth, the
only thing he'd recognize would be
the jokes.

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To the Editor:

Being in full accord with the Tech-
nograph serving as a source of news
and open forum for engineering stu-
dents and faculty, I enclose my check
for my subscription this year. How-
ever, that is not the principal purpose
of this letter.

I plead for clarity, honesty, and in-
tegrity, and highly commend you and
your staff on the excellence of your
October issue. I stress this because I
take issue with only one expression,
namely, the statement about Open
House on your Society Page. I do not
question that many students and staff
would like to see Engineering Open
House greatly improved. I do ques-
tion the statement that it has been
a "depressing carnival."

Many exhibits in many departments
were highly educational, excellently
conceived, well constructed, and com-
petently presented. In fact, the pro-
portion of carnival-type exhibits has
decreased greatly in the last few
years. Departmental exhibits were
not the "worse"!

Spreading the geographical extent
of open house over the campus last
year, and staging it at the same time
as the Junior Academy of Science
exhibition, greatly reduced the den-
sity of attendance at individual en-
gineering exhibits. However, tlie dis-
satisfaction with the quantity of
visitors should not impugn the quality
of the departmental exhibits or ex-
hibitors.

Sincereh',
J. P. Neal
Ex-Chairman
Exhibits and Tours
Committee

To the Editor:

In last month's Technograph there
was an article describing the U of I
Engineering Honors Program. Well,
I've be€'n in the Honors Program for

my first two years here at Illinois, and
for the most part have been very dis-
appointed. My complaints center
about the treatment that incoming
Freshman and Sophomore honors stu-
dents receive. During the first two
years these students attend honors
sections in courses which are required
of all engineering students, and these
honors sections, in my opinion, leave
much to be desired.

The article stated that the honors
sections offer a more comprehensive
and flexible approach to the usual
subject matter. I have not found this
to be true. For instance, there is
nothing honorable about the GE 103
honors section; the work and class
hours are virtually identical to the
regular classes.

Also, the Physics 106, 107, 108
honors students go to the same lec-
tures, cover the same materials, and
have the same labs as the other sec-
tions. No extra material was covered
in the sections which I was in.

A nimiber of important courses in
my curricula (E.E.) have no honors
sections (T.A.M. 154, Math 195, and
E.E. 250 for instance).

On the other hand. Honors Rhetoric
107 & 108 are four semester-hours
courses, and involve a great amount
of extra reading and writing. Many
engineers who do not care to get the
extra hours of credit in Rhetoric have
no choice but to get stuck in the reg-
ular 101 & 102 sequence.

I really fail to see what benefits the
underclass undergraduate engineer
gets by being a James Scholar. Pres-
ently, about the only thing I get from
the James Program is a postcard each
semester asking me where I live. The
preregistration "privilege" does me no
good, because I pre-tally. The Mathe-
matics Department has its own Hon-
ors Program, and requires everyone,
including James Scholars, to take a
test in order to determine who is
eligible for the mathematics honors
sections. The College of Engineering
requires that James Scholars make a
4.5 all-university average before they
are enrolled in the departmental
honors courses. These departmental
honors courses start during the Junior
year, and until that time the student
is left on his own.

I feel that the James Program could
do much more for the first and second
year students. The honors sections
should be revised to make them
worthy of the name, and the people in
these sections should be capable of
taking a closer look at the material
covered in the course. The James Pro-
gram should help its scholars get ac-
quainted with each other and with
faculty members on an informal basis.
Presently this is done only through
the classrom, and a class is really not
a very good place to meet people.

I hope that in the next two years
the Engineering Honors Program will
live up to its reputation. The James
Program certainly didn't.

Sincerely,

Henry S. Magnuski

To the Editor: I

1. Your October issue came today.
The "New Look" sounded so good, I
stopped in the middle of putting up
the storm windows and raking the
leaves, to check the issue page by
page. Attached is a check for t\\o
bucks— sold!

2. I think we need the additional
communications discussed there.

3. Dean Everitt's "A Year of
Achievements" was good for we "old
timers" on the outside, as well as the
newcomers.

4. I was so far behind the times that "
I did not know we had the reports and
theses abstracts available, page 23; so
you see, a little repetition is good.

5. I see you have one of my working
associates, Henry Magnuski, on your
editorial staff— wonderful. Your
"Lffted from Outlook" was well done, g
Keep it up. ^

6. Lawrence Heyda's "What Do You
Know About Co-op Programs" could
be the beginning of something very n
fine and helpful for future co-ops. q
How about a continual follow-up on
this sort of thing for better informa-
tion for the co-op, for the school, and
for the industry/work sponsor?

Good luck in the New Look. ■

Very truly yours,
Lloyd P. Morris
2947 North 78th Court
Elmwood Park, 111.

TECHNOGRAPH

TURN OUT THE LIGHTS AND PRESS THE BUTTON

No preconceptions, please. Too often they point you
away from the buried treasure. Because Kodak is
properly known as a grand place for chemical engineers
and chemists, fledgling electronic engineers may over-
look us. All the better for those who don't. Particularly
for those who would rather apply ideas than dream
them, unfashionable as candor compels us to sound.

It takes all kind of electronic engineers to make to-
day's world, but we think we clearly see the ones likely
to wind up nearer the helm here 25 years hence:

When his projects are evaluated, he'd rather be right
than ahead of his time.

He works few if any miracles with sealing wax, old
shoestring, and new developments in plasma harmonics,
but when they turn off the lights in the big darkroom,
his machine from the very first crack starts inspecting.

processing, or otherwise handling light-sensitive prod-
uct smoothly, bugless, and at the miraculous rates he
had promised in the preliminary design report. He ac-
complishes this by keeping abreast of the state of his
art instead of considering his diploma an exemption
from learning anything new.

He deals with people as smoothly as with things.

He would rather put his roots down in the community
where he lives than root himself in one narrow box of
engineering specialization. He welcomes changes of pace
more than of place.

He finds it cozy to know that if times change, our
diversification leaves dozens of directions to go without
fighting the cold world outside.

Care to talk to us? Above remarks apply to more than
just electronic engineers.

EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, Business and Technical Personnel Department, Rochester 4, N. Y.

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marketing?

A. For lertain exceptionally talented individuals, a career in technical market-
ing offers extraordinary opportunity. You learn fast what the real needs of
customers are. under actual industrial conditions. You are brought face-to-face
with the economic realities of business. You participate in some of the most
exciting strategic work in the world: planning how to out-engineer and out-sell
competitors for a major installation.

Q. Sounds exciting. But I've worked hard for my technical degree. I'm worried
that if I go into marketing, I won't use it.

A. Don't worry — you'll use all the engineering you've learned, and you'll go
on learning for the rest of your life. In fact, you'll have to. You see, the basic
purpose of business is to sense changing customer needs, and then marshal
resources to meet them profitably. That means that you must learn to know
each customer's operations and needs almost as well as he understands them
himself. And with competitors trying their best to outdo you, believe me —
every bit of knowledge and skill you've got will be called into play.

Q. Is that why you said you wanted "exceptionally talented people"?

A. Technical marketing is ncjt everybody's dish of tea. It takes great jiersonal
drive and energy, and a talent for managing the work of others in concert with
your own. It takes flexibility . . . imagination . . . ingenuity . . . quick reflexes
. . . leadership qualities. If you're nervous with people or upset by quick-
changing situations, I don't think technical marketing's for you. But if you are
excited by competition, like to help others solve technical problems, and enjoy
seeing your technical work put to the test of real operation — then you may be
one of the ambitious men we're looking for.

Q. Now what, actually, does a man do in technical marketing?

\. Let me describe a typical situation in General Electric. A field sales
engineer is in regular contact with his customers. Let's say one of them makes
an inquiry, or the sales engineer senses that the time is right for a proposition.
With his field application engineer, he determines the basic equipment needed.
Then he contacts the marketing sales specialist in the G-E department that
manufactures that equipment. The sales specialist, working closely with his
dejjartments product engineers, specifies an exact design — realistic in function
and cost. Then the sales engineer and his supporting team try to make the
sale, changing and improving the proposition as they get cues from the competi-
tive situation. If the sale is made — a very satisfying moment — then the installa-
tion and service engineers install the equipment and are responsible for its
operation and repair. With the exception of the product design engineers, all
these people are in technical marketing. Exciting work, all of it.

Q. In college we learn engineering theory. How do we get the sales and busi-
ness knowledge you mentioned?

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For information on a career at Wenmglwuse, an equal opportunity employer,
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Editor-in-Chief

Wayne W. Crouch

Assistant to tlie Editor

Stuart Umpleby

Editorial Staff

Gan,' Daymon, Director
Ruciy Berg
Rebecca Br\ar
Tom Grantham
Larry He\da
Lester HoHand
Roger Johnson
Richard Langrehr
Jay Lipke
John Litherland
Bill Lueck
Hank Magnuski
Thelma ^IcKenzie
Mike Quinn

Production Staff

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Business Staff

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TECHXOGRAPII

Volume 79; Number 4

January, 1964

Table of Contents

ARTICLES

Your Job Interview — Good or Bad? Mrs. Chapman 5

Recruiting Practices and Procedures 6

Engineering for Education Dean W. L. Everitt 1 4

The Great Challenge Bill Lueck 1 8

The Organized Elite Roger Johnson 1 9

It's Just One Little Building, But Becky Bryar 22

What Does Open House Do for Me 26

Alice's Adventures in the Engineering Council. . .Stuart Umpleby 27

Behind Closed Doors 27

Surveying Gets the AX Jay Lipke 35

Proposed Undergraduate Library Roger Johnson 38

FEATURES

The Good Olde Days Mike Quinn 1

Technocutie Photos by Bob Seyler 31

Personality of the Month Rudy Berg, Editor 44

Activities Calendar 41

Brickbats and Bouquets 55

Chairman : J. Gale Chumley

Louisiana Polytechnic Institute

Ruston, Louisiana

Arkansas Engineer, Cincinnati Coopera-
tive Engineer. City College Vector, Colo-
rado Engineer. Cornell Engineer. Denver
Engineer, Drexel Technical Journal Georgia
Tech Engineer, Illinois Technograph, Iowa
Engineer, Iowa Transit, Kansas Engineer,
Kansas State Engineer, Kentucky Engineer,
Louisiana State University Engineer, Louis-
iana Tech Engineer, Manhattan Engineer,
Marquette Engineer, Michigan Technic,
Minnesota Technolog, Missouri Shamrock,
Nebraska Blueprint, New York University
Quadrangle, North Dakota Engineer, North-
western Engineer, Notre Dame Technical
Review, Ohio State Engineer, Oklahoma
State Engineer, Pittsburgh Skyscraper.
Purdue Engineer, RPI Engineer. Rochester
Indicator, SC Engineer, Rose Technic,
Southern Engineer. Sparton Engineer.
Texas A & M Engineer, Washington Engi-
neer, WSC Technometer, Wayne Engineer,
and Wisconsin Engineer.

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COVER: FINAL DREAMS

Photos by E. Scott Hoober.

Photo: Mike Quinn.

Skis and ski poles compliments of

Redwood and Ross, several frozen toes compliments

of Mike Quinn.

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(October, November, December, January, February, March, April and May) by the
Illini Publishing Company. Entered as second class matter, October 30, 1920, at the
post office at Urbana, Illinois, under the Act of March 3. 1879. Office 48 Electrical
Engineering Building. Urbana. Illinois. Subscriptions S2.00 per year. Single copy 25
cents. All rights reserved by the Illinois Technograph. Publisher's Representative —
Littell-Murray-Barnhill, Inc., 737 North Michigan Ave., Chicago 11, 111., 369 Lexing-
ton Ave., New York 17, New York.

TECHNOGRAPH

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In this issue

Are you looking for a summer job or interviewing for a permanent
position? If you are a U of I undergraduate engineering student,
chances are four to one that you fit one of these two categories.
But will you get a summer job or the permanent position you have
your heart set on? Probably not unless you know exactly how to
approach your prospective employer.

Interviewing Practices and Procedures will give you the thorough
understanding of the employer's, the college's and your responsibility
in interviewing. Mrs. Pauline Chapman, U of I Engineering Placement
Officer, has used her exceptionally wide and comprehensive knowl-
edge of company requirements to add the personalized touches you'll
need; don't miss Your Job Interview — Good or Bad, It's up to You.
Read these two articles closely, follow the advice and guide lines,
and we'll guarantee you'll improve your chances of getting that one
and only job. . . . Oh yes. Good luck!

Engineering for Education, written by Dean Everitt, is this month's
thought piece. The problem of properly educating engineers is be-
coming increasingly acute, and the problem of updating graduates
is equally disturbing. Although the undergraduate often overlooks
these problems, the future success of any engineer is governed by
his updating efforts after graduation. As indicated in this article,
"engineering is, indeed, a learning profession which requires a plan
for a lifetime of such learning."

Engineering Professional Societies, Engineering Honoraries, Engi-
neering Council — what are engineering activities, and are they worth
your time? TEChH took a close look at these activities, and three
articles in this issue (A Challenge, The Organized Elite, and Alice's
Adventures in Engineering Council) give an excellent inside view of
our engineering activities. To answer the question "Are engineering
activities worth your time?" TECHH asked a prominent electronics
engineer, an interviewing specialist, and others how valuable em-
ployers consider student participation in such activities as Open
House. What Did Open House Ever Do For Me? turned up some
very interesting replies . . . replies you might be glad or sad to hear
depending upon your interest and participation in engineering ac-
tivities.

A new monthly feature. Personality of the Month, has been ini-
tiated this month. This feature will present a variety of outstanding
student, faculty, and alumni personalities. Rudy Berg, our Personality
of the Month Editor, has gotten off to a grand start this month
with an article by Mr. Herman Krannart, a 1912 ME graduate who
donated the Krannart Art museum to the U of I. Your response to
this feature will be most welcome.

JANUARY, 1964

In just a few short months, those
new graduates spanned the dis-
tance from the classroom to the
space age. They joined with their
experienced colleagues in tack-
ling a variety of tough assign-
ments. On July 20th, 1963, their
product went off with a roar that
lasted two solid minutes, provid-
ing more than 1 ,000,000 pounds
of thrust on the test stand. This
was part of the USAF Titan III C
first stage, for which United
Technology Center is the con-
tractor. Two of these rockets
will provide over 80% of all the
thrust developed by the vehicle.
Some of you now reading this
page may soon be a part of that
program. ..or a part of other sig-
nificant, long-range programs.
■ UTC now offers career oppor-
tunities for promising graduates
at the bachelor's, master's, and
doctoral levels in EE, ME, AeroE,
and ChE. Positions are impor-
tant and offer personal and pro-
fessional reward in the areas of
systems analysis, instrumenta-
tion, data acquisition, prelimi-
nary design, aerothermodynam-
ics, stress analysis, structure
dynamics, testing, propellant
development and processing. ■
If your idea of a career in the
space age includes joining a
young, vital, aggressive com-
pany... then get in touch with
us now! If you want to work with
men who can develop and build
a wide variety of sophisticated
propulsion systems, see your
placement officer for a campus
interview or write Mr. Jay Waste.

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TECHNOGRAPH,

YOUR JOB INTERVIEW .

Good or Bad?

- It's Up To You -

Your campus job interview may well be the most
important 20 or 30 minutes of )Our life— if you are well
prepared. Tiirough this interview you may enter a career
job that will eventually lead you to a top executive posi-
tion. But— you may lose the opportunity for the same job
if you go to the interview without proper preparation.

Remember the interview is a cooperative venture— you
are looking for the best job for you and the interv ieuer

by Mrs. Pauline Chapman

U of I Engineering

Placement Officer

One of the most delightful memories of every
U of I engineering graduate is the personal help
he received from Mrs. Chapman and her staff.

is looking for the best man for his company.

Follov\ing are an even dozen do's and an even dozen
don'ts that will help \ou prepare for this important
occasion. A more general and inclusive treatment of re-
cruiting practices and procedures appears on pages 6 and
7. These rules set down by the American Societv' for
Engineering Education are a good introduction to your
interv iews this spring.

1. Beginning Monday, Febru-
ary 3, pick up a list of
scheduled company inter-

_ views in the Placement
- Office— 109 Civil Engi-
neering Hall. After that
first list, the\' will be a\ail-
able e\ery Friday.

2. Keep the Placement Office
adWsed of your employ-
ment negotiations.

3. Read all company informa-
tion a\ailable in the Place-
ment Office. The Library
also has some excellent
outside reference material.
Thomas's Register of
American Manufacturers,
Moody's Manual, Standard
and Poor's Corporation
Records.
Check
ments.

company require-

5. Interview only those com-
panies in which you find
an interest and which have
indicated an interest in a
man with your back-
ground.

6. Be prompt for the inter-
view.

7. Dress as a prospective em-
ployee — clean, well-
pressed clothes, shined
shoes, haircut.
Be alert and ask intelligent
questions.

Be a good listener.
Give honest, straightfor-
ward answers.
Sell your strong points.
Be polite — remember
"please" and "thank you"
are among the most im-
portant words in tlic Eng-
lish language.

DON'T

1. Don't do all the talking.

2. Don't immediately ask
about the possibilit>' of a
military deferrment.

3. Don't wear unusual "off-
beat" hair style, mustache,
or beard.

4. Don't ask about salary at
the beginning of the inter-
view.

5. Don't be overaggressive.

6. Don't smoke unless inter-
viewer suggests it.

7. Don't withhold requested
information.

It is the function of the Placement
Office to do everjthing possible to
help you during your interviews. We
welcome your questions and we will
do our best to give you honest and
factual information. Don't overlook
the facultv— staff members are will-
ing and able to give you valuable
advice and information about com-
panies. Ask for advice, information,
and guidance; evaluate it, and make

your own sound decision.

Remember— if a particular em-
ployer does not make you an offer,
it does not necessarily mean you
have failed or that you are not quali-
fied. It only means he has found
others whom he feels more nearl)-
meet his requirements. So keep on
trying until you find the right one.
It may be hard to take no, but it
only takes one right yes. ♦ ♦ ♦

Don't brag about how
many "high money offers"
you have already received.
Don't interview any com-
pany without knowing
something of their prod-
uct, sales, financial condi-
tion, etc.

Don't prolong the inter-
view — remember the inter-
\iewer has a schedule to
maintain.

Don't cut classes for an
interx iew — remember — you
m'.ist graduate before you
can accept a job.
Don't be negative.

mors examine the Placement Office files
ipanies with whom they hope to inter-
first scheduling list will be available
ebruary 3.

I JANUARY, 1964

RECRUITING PRACTICES

■^.

Reprinted with permission from the pamphlet "Recruiting Practices
and Procedures — 1959" published by the American Society for Engi-
neering Education.

Foreword

Certain recruitment practices liave developed from time to time,
in the stress of competition for engineering graduates, which have
not been consistent with professional standards. In an effort to
implement the best interests of the engineering profession, the
American Society of Engineering Education has compiled this
statement of recruiting practices and procedures.

The code has been endorsed by the Ethics Committee of the
Engineer's Council for Professional Development and constitutes
a supplement to the ECPD Canons of Ethics. Its purpose is to aid
in the development and maintenance of high etliical standards in
the procedures of college recruiting and in the relations between
the employing organizations, college authorities, and college
students who are engaged therein.

The pamphlet reprinted below can be obtained from W. Leigh-
ton Collins, American Society for Engineering Education, Univer-
sity of Illinois, for 10 cents a copy.

General Principles

It is in the best interests of students, colleges and employers
alike that the selection of careers be made in an objective atmos-
phere with complete understanding of all the facts.

Therefore, the recruiting of college students for employment
by business, industry, government and education should be car-
ried out by the employers, students and college authorities to
serve best the following objectives:

1. To promote a wise and responsible choice of a career by the
student for his own greatest satisfaction, minimum wasteful turn-
over and most fruitful long term investment of his talents for
himself, for his employer and for society.

2. To strengthen in him a high standard of integrity and a
concept of similar standards in the employing organizations of the
countrv.

rs sign up for

3. To develop in the student an attitude of personal respon-
sibility for his own career and advancement in it, based on per-
formance.

4. To minimize interference with the educational processes of
the college and to encourage completion of the individual's plans
for further education.

Piactices and Procedures
Responsibilities of the employer

1. The employer should contact the Placement Office well
in advance regarding desired interview dates, broad categories of
eniployinent expected to be available, college degrees and other
pertinent requirements. He should advise promjjtly any change in
his original request or subsequent arrangements with the Place-
ment Office.

2. The employer should provide suitable literature to give
students a true and factual picture of the employing organization.
This material should be supplied in sufficient quantities and well
in advance of the interviewing date.

3. When both the parent organization and subsidiary or
affiliated organization conduct interviews in the same college, the
respective interviewers should explain clearly their missions and
the connections, both to the Placement Office and to the students.

4. Not more than two and preferably only one interviewer
representing an employer should appear for each interview sched-
ule. Arrangements for more than two interviewers should be made
in advance, and only for reasons considered adequate by the
Placement Office.

5. The Placement or other appropriate officer of the college
should be advised in advance of any plans for campus visits by
the representatives of an employer, including alumni of the col-
lege, to acquaint faculty members or students with company
employment activities or opportunities. Such representatives
should exercise scrupulous care to avoid undue demands on the
time of faculty members or students.

6. An employer who desires to contact an individual student
at the time of his interview visit should communicate with the
individual well in advance, with a notice to the Placement Office.

7. The interviewer should clearly explain to the Placement
Office and students any special requirements such as the passing
of tests, physical examinations, signing of patent agreements, or
if his job is affected by any union contract.

8. The interviewer should be punctual. He should tell the ■
Placement Office when he will arrive as well as his expected de-
parture time. Every effort should be made to avoid last minute ■
cancellations.

9. The interviewer should very carefully follow the inter- •
\iew time schedule agreed upon with the Placement Office.

10. As soon as possible following an interview, the employer
should communicate with the student and the Placement Office
concerning the outcome of the interview.

11. The employer should give the student reasonable time to
consider his offer, and in no case should the student be pressured
into making a decision concerning employment.

TECHNOGRAPH

AND PROCEDURES

,exf few weeks the Engineering Place-
! will become the focal point for many
decisions by grocJuating seniors and
npioyees . . . ore you prepared for
interview?

12. If the employer invites a student to visit his premises for
further discussion of employment, the \isit should be arranged
to interfere as little as possible with class schedules. He should
explain what e.xpenses will be paid, how and when. Invitations for
this purpose should be made only on an individual basis and the
employer should avoid elaborate entertaining or overselling.

13. The eniplo\er should not offer a student special pa\ments,
gifts, bonuses, or other inducements, nor should he compensate or
fa\or a third party to pre\ail upon the student to accept an
employment offer.

14. Emplo\ers should not raise offers already made except
when such action can be clearly justified as sound industrial rela-
tions practice, such as, when an increase in hiring rate is required
on an overall basis to reflect salary adjustments in the employing
organization.

15. The employer should keep the Placement Office informed
concerning his interest in jiarticular students and his negotiations
with them.

16. When a student has declined a job offer, the employer
should accept that decision as final. If for any reason the employer
wishes to re-establish contact with the student, he should do so
only through the Placement OfiBce.

17. The emplo>er should engage each student who has accepted
his offer except when failure to do so is the direct result of
contingencies explained during the interview or unavoidable
economic factors not foreseen when the offer was made.

Rcsponsiliilitics of the College

1. As part of its general obligation for the development of
I the student, the college should accept responsibility for stimula-
I tion of his thinking about his career objectives and for assistance
I in overcoming handicaps which may hinder his progress toward
objecti\'es appropriate for him. Competent counseling services
I should be pro\ided for this purpose, available to individual stu-
I dents.

I 2. The Placement OfiBce should inform employers concerning
the number of students a\ailable for interview in the several
curricula, and the dates of graduation. This information should be
sent as soon as it is available.

3. The Placement Office should announce to students carl>- in
the school year which employers will interview students and when.
The Placement OfiBce should make revised announcements from
time to time as may be necessary.

4. The Placement OfBce should make emplovnient literature
available to students and faculty.

5. When an employer is looking for graduates in several
fields (e.g., engineering, psychology, physics) the Placement Office
should issue announcements to all qualified students concerned,
and, so far as practicable, should schedule interviews for those
who ex^press interest.

6. The Placement Office should not restrict the number of
interviews per student, except as necessary to discourage indis-
criminate "shopping."

7. The college should provide adequate space and facilities
for quiet and private interviews.

8. The Placement Office should provide interviewers with
available records of those students in whom they are interested.

9. The Placement OfiBce should arrange for interviewers to
meet faculty members who know students personally and can
provide information about their work and qualifications.

10. The Placement officer and faculty members should counsel
students but should not unduly influence them in the selection of
jobs.

11. The Placement OfiBce should make certain that students are
acquainted with this statement of "Principles and Practices of
College Recruiting."

Responsibilities of the Student

1. In seeking company inteniews, the student should recognize
his responsibility to analyze his interests and abilities and con-
sider carefully his career objective and appropriate ways of meet-
ing it. He should read available literature and consult other
sources for information about the employer and organize his
thoughts in order that he may intelhgently ask and answer ques-
tions.

2. The student should contact the Placement OfBce well in
advance regarding desired interviews or cancellations.

3. The student should use care in filling out such forms as
may be requested in preparation for interviews.

4. In his interviews, tlie students should recognize that he is
representing his college, as well as himself, and should be punctual
and thoroughly businesslike in his conduct.

5. The student should promptU- acknowledge an invitation io
visit an employer's premises. He should accept an invitation only
when he is sincerely interested in exploring employment with that
employer.

6. When a student is invited to visit an emplover's premises at
the employer's expense, he should include on his expense report
only those costs which pertain to the trip. If he visits several
emplovers on the same trip, costs should be prorated among them.

7. As soon as the student determines that he will not accept an
oflFer, he should immediately notify the employer.

8. The student should not continue to present himself for
interviews after he has accepted an employment offer.

9. Acceptance of an employment offer by the student should
be made in good faith and with the sincere intention of honoring
his employment commitment.

10. The student should keep the Placement Office advised
concerning his employment negotiations in accordance with the
policy of his Placement Ofifice. ♦ ♦ ♦

JANUARY, 1964

solid stole electronksa

Deico Means
Challenge to
EdWhittaker

As a college graduate, you too may find excit-
ing and challenging opportunities in such pro-
grams as the development of germanium and
silicon devices, ferrites, sohd state diffusion,
creative packaging of semiconductor products,
development of laboratory equipment, relia-
bility techniques, and applications and manu-
facturing engineering.

If your interests and qualifications lie in any
of these areas, you're invited to write for our
brochure detailing the opportunities to share
in forging the future of electronics with this
outstanding Delco-GM team. Watch for Delco
interview dates on your campus, or write to
Mr. C. D. Longshore, Dept. 135A, Delco
Radio Division, General Motors Corporation,
Kokomo, Indiana.

An equal opportunity employer

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mhe iaga

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Several days ago, as I was standing
over by the new physics building
watching the shoring up of the
mighty Boneyard in progress there,
several thoughts (as well as a few
snowballs thrown by the irresponsible
idiots that try to pose as engineers
on this campus) struck me.

Now I have been somewhat suc-
cessful to date with but a limited
education (C.E. '35, '36, '37, and
finally '38). Still, when graduation
time rolls around, I cannot help but
think that I might have bettered my
lot (as if that were possible) had I
attended graduate school. (Yes, we
had graduate school back then; as a
matter of fact, you see reprinted on
this page a sketch from the January
1926 issue of Technograph which
deals with that very subject.) But,
then, my present employment is quite

satisfactory," and I never did like
those high-falutin' administrative and
original research jobs anyway.

We have, a few problems at the
lower levels too, you know. Why, the
November 1926 issue of Technograph
proves that the civil engineer sixty
years ago had troubles that the pres-
ent crop of snowball-throwers would
never dream of, (or would they?)

Why ihere are so few lady engineers

... In 1905 two girls were em-olled
in the depaiimcnt. They took a hiking
trip with the instruments, but some-
how tlie instriunents would not work
correctly when the girls were near
them. The instructor said he had
often heard of girls having magnet-
ism, but surely not enough to affect
the compass needle. Further investiga-
tion caused the instructor, blushingly,

to inform the girls that their corset
stays were causing the trouble.

/ wonder tvhat his solution was . . .

"NOTE: Chief Dangerbridge has been
switched from his former position as head
sidewalk smasher to a new, vitally important,
research project involving the effect of
sonic vibrations on particles in the Bone-
yard which adhere to the new pilings being
driven into the banks of this river. You may
have noticed him in his crane out behind the
physics building raising a chunk of concrete
into the air and suddenly letting it drop to
the ground near the water. After repeating
this procedure several hundred times in suc-
cession, engineer Dangerbridge is lowered to
slightly below the surface of the water
where he takes sample scrapings of the
matter accumulated on the pilings. These
scrapings are then analyzed to determine
how many particles have been shaken off by
the dropped weight. Dangerbridge may be
seen hard at work on any bright day. On
foggy days he may be found by tlie odors
that seem to stick with him after submission.

MLQ

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Their products range from chemicals to chemi-
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sources. Their diverse activities create oppor-
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manufacturing, and marketing. Yet, because
each is an important member of the Monsanto
corporate family, the Monsanto Professional
Employment representative coming to your
campus is fully prepared to give you complete
facts on any or all of them . . . show you where
you may fit in.

You will have a better opportunity to learn
more about us . . An a single interview. See

your Placement Director now to set up that
interview when we visit your campus soon.
Or, write for our new brochure, "You And
Monsanto," to Manager, Professional Recruit-
ing, MONSANTO, St. Louis, Missouri 63166.

Monsanto

AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

JANUARY, 1964

Opportunities at Hughes {or EE's — Physicists — Scientists:

from the ocean floor to the moon. ..and beyond

Hughes sphere of activity extends from the far reaches of outer space to the bottom

of the sea . . . includes advanced studies, research, design, development and produc-
tion on projects such as: © SURVEYOR — unmanned, soft-landing lunar spacecraft
for chemical and visual analysis of the moon's surface; (2) SYNCOM (Synchronous-
orbit Communications Satellite)— provides world-wide communications with only three
satellites; ® F-111B PHOENIX Missile System— an advanced weapon system designed
to radically extend the defensive strike capability of supersonic aircraft; ©Anti-
iCBM Defense Systems — designed to locate, intercept and destroy attacking enemy
ballistic missiles in flight; ©Air Defense Control Systems— border-to-border con-
trol of air defenses from a single command center — combines 3D radar, real-time
computer technology and display systems within a flexible communications network;
® 3D Radar— ground and ship-based systems give simultaneous height, range and
bearing data— now in service on the nuclear-powered U.S.S. Enterprise; ©POLARIS
Guidance System — guidance components for the long-range POLARIS missile;
® Hydrospace — advanced sonar and other anti-submarine warfare systems.

Other responsible assignments include: TOtV wire-guided anti-tank missile, MTE automatic checl<-

out equipment. Hard Point defense systems R&D worl< on ion engines, advanced infrared systems,

associative computers, lasers, piasma physics, nuclear electronics, communications systems, microwave
tubes, parametric amplifiers, solid state materials and devices . . . and many others.

B.S., M.S.and Ph.D. Candidates

Members of our staff will conduct

CAMPUS INTERVIEWS

November 6 & 7, 1963

Learn more about opportunities at Hughes,
our educational programs, and the extra
benefits Southern California living offers.
For interview appointment and litera-
ture, consult your College Placement
Director. Or write: College Placemen!
Office, Hughes Aircraft Company, P. O.
Box 90515, Los Angeles 9, California.

Creating a new world with electronics
I 1

HUGHES

U. S. CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED

An equal opportunity employer.

You get one . . . then what?

Your first job after college can be a good
beginning. Or it can be the first step in a
succession of disappointments. That's
why it's so important that you make the
right career choice now. But how do you
choose?

You're young, enthusiastic, eager . . .
and you've worked hard to earn your
degree. You want to make the most of
your capabilities. You want plenty of
room to grow. . .yet with it all you'd like a
good sense of security.

So take a look at us — Phillips Petro-
leum Company. By industry standards,

we're young. We, too, are enthusiastic—
and we've been growing rapidly. This
enthusiasm, plus curiosity, and, some-
times just plain hard work have led us
profitably into many diverse fields— agri-
cultural chemicals— atomic energy-
plastics— rubber— specialized chemicals
. . . with more coming to complement our
line of conventional petroleum products.

We feel the success of our work rests
with the dedicated people we have, in-
cluding thoughtful young men like your-
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grasp of their basic discipline. Men like

that really enjoy working for us. And
nothing pleases us more than promoting
our own people from within.

Whatever your specialty— from re-
search to sales — check your campus
placement office for an Interview or write
to us today.

PHILLIPS PETROLEUM ('^Simps^
COMPANY

BARTLESVILLE, OKLAHOMA

An equal opportunity employer

'JANUARY, 1964

About a century ago, the industrial
revolution and other forces created a
need for organization of the intel-
lectual content of the expanding
technology. . . While engineering
schools had been known before that
time, the need for their broader de-
velopment was recognized most viv-
idly in the United States. . .

But . . . sixty years later one stUl
found that only about half of the prac-
ticing engineers were college gradu-
ates. In fact, at the time I graduated
from college, one commonly met skep-
ticism as to whether a college edu-
cation was necessary to be a good
engineer, or even an optimum use of
a young man's time, which many felt
might have been better used to gain
practical experience in the "college
of hard knocks." The ingenious in-
ventor was still regarded as tlie most
productive innovator. Westinghouse,
Marconi, Edison, and Ford were con-
sidered by most men to be the leaders
in the profession of engineering-
men who were self-educated and de-
pended on intuition and repeated
trial and error. . .

But also by the early part of this
century a new force was developing.

ENGINEERING
FOR

EDUCATION

ing and industry by the application
of scientific knowledge to the devel-
opment of new services and products
for the welfare and enjoyment of
mankind.

This revolution, as it spread
tliroughout engineering, has been
criticized by many as not moving fast
enough, but it has been criticized
equally by others as moving too fast.
. . . The impact of solid-state physics
on materials, of new concepts in ener-
gy processing, of feedback in automa-
tion, of new methods of instrumen-
tation, of atomic energy, of rocket
propulsion, of the use of satellites for
navigation and communication, and
most of all, of the use of the computer
as a means of optimization and ap-
proach to engineering design, has

This speech, given here in a shortened version, presents Dean Everitt's view of the
changes necessary in engineering education. The Dean suggests that these ideas must
be implemented within the next few years to meet tlie increasing demands of tech-
nology. The speech was presented by Dean Everitt at the National Electronics Con-
ference, in Chicago, on October 30, when he received the Mervin J. Kelly Medal in
Telecommunications and Eminent Membership in Eta Kappa Nu.

frequently referred to as the scientific
revolution. One may recognize two
distinct aspects of this scientific revo-
lution. The first is the eruption in the
physical sciences through the devel-
opment of the quantum and relativ-
ity concepts of Planck, Einstein, Bohr,
de Broglie, Schroedinger, Paul, Fermi,
et al. A second and equally explosive
idea was that science and organized
research could transform engineer-

been felt in all branches of engineer-
ing.

Now, engineering teachers quite
generally recognize that modern as
well as classical science has great im-
portance in the education of all mem-
bers of our profession and will have
an even greater potential for the en-
gineering of the future. I believe that
the computer alone, with its wide ap-
plication in engineering and in many

Dean

W. L Everitt

t966

other fields, represents a step function
in the processing of information that
can only be compared to the inven-
tion of movable type by Gutenberg
in the 15th Century, which made the
modern book and magazine possible.

In spite of the fact that engineering
is one of the oldest professions, . . .
it was decades after the onset of the
industrial revolution before our nation
or other nations began to develop an
adequate form of education for engi-
neering to meet its needs. Finally,
society recognized that the revolution
called for a radical new approach in
the training required by engineers—
a change in our whole educational
system. Now the scientific revolution
is demanding equally revolutionary
changes in our concepts of the needs
of engineering education.

. . . The time has come to look at
the needs of engineering education
on a much broader basis than ever
before. In other words, I am asking
tlie question: While we have devoted
much effort to "Education for Engi-
neering," have we applied the proper
amount of effort, ingenuity, and per-
ception to "Engineering for Edu-
cation"?

TECHNOGRAPH

Last year, in a paper before the
j American Societ}' for Engineering
Education, I said, "Engineering is
not merely a learned profession— it is
a learning profession— a calling whose
practitioners must first become and
then remain students throughout their
aeti\e careers." This is a truism of
such general acceptance that it al-
most becomes trite. Yet I do not
think we ha\e paid enough attention
to the problems indicated b\- the com-
bination of tliis concept with the ex-
plosive contributions of the scientific
revolution. If we really engineer for
education, we must plan better for
the lifetime needs of the members of
our profession. . . . Hence, consider-
able attention has been devoted to
programs of "continuing education,"
to combat what has been termed
"human technological obsolescence."
During the past decade, much of
this effort has been expended on the
development of out-of-hour courses,
both with and without academic cred-
it for ad\anced degrees. But much of
the emphasis on part-time graduate
programs has been based on a notion

1967

that a certain amount of additional
I course work during the earh- indus-
trial life of a practicing engineer will
' bring him up to a point where he
I can continue his education in the fu-
ture on his own. They are also based
on the concept that young men can
be induced to drive themselves to the
' limit of endurance, sacrificing both
their families and their participation
in communit}- affairs, so long as they
' see a tangible goal whose attainment
will w'arrant relaxation in the not too
distant future. Personally, I do not be-
i lieve these programs will serve the
I needs for the engineering careers of
i the future. In fact, the\- ma\- well
; dissipate efforts which could be better
I applied in other directions.

The time has come to recognize
that e\en the indi\-idual who receives

a Ph.D., or continues for an imme-
diate period after the receipt of such
a degree into post-doctorate study,
will not be able to meet the needs of
the future without additional formal
education as science moves forward
at an accelerating pace.

The Quaker philosopher. True-
blood, has said.

The terrible danger of our time con-
sists in the fact that ours is a cut-
flower civilization. Beautiful as cut
flo\\ers ma\' be, and much as we may
use our ingenuity- to keep them look-
ing fresli for a while. the\' will even-
tually die, and they die because they
are se\ered from theu" sustaining
roots.

Trueblood was commenting upon the
lack of religious and moral roots in
our modern ci\'ilization, and his view
deserves the consideration of think-
ing men in its original contex"t. But
I am quoting his comment because it
is also important that we do not have
"cut-flower engineers" in our indus-
trial organizations, in government, or
in our universities. Unless these engi-
neers maintain tap roots which can
pick up and deliver intellectual nour-
ishment from the constant flow of
knowledge welling up through re-
search and de\-elopment, the\' too will
eventual])- sicken or die as effective
members of our profession.

All tliis clearh" indicates to me that
engineering career planning in the
future must pro\ide for periods of
formal intellectual interaction with in-

formed associates or teachers, periods
devoted primarily to the learning
process and distributed fairly regu-
larly throughout the lifetime of a pro-
fessionalh' acti%e engineer. And while
an engineer should e.xpect to partic-
ipate in a lifetime of hard work, as
well as intellectual activity, I do not
believe he can be most productive if
his employer assumes that the needs
of intellectual rejuvenation are pri-

marily the employees' responsibility,
to be taken out of the hide of the
individual.

In the future, the industries func-
tioning in the rapidly developing
areas based upon research and new
knowledge must accept the fact that a
part of the cost of doing business will
be to release time, and appreciable
amounts of time of their engineers
and scientists over periods of weeks,
months, or even a year. This will be
a cost of doing business, which can
and should be treated like any other
cost in\olved in an engineering
product.

This is not an entirely new concept.
Universities, and particularly the
stronger ones, have long recognized
the desirability of the "sabbatical
year." In such universities these are
not considered an earned vacation
and, in fact, are commonly not
granted if the faculty member so con-
siders them. Rather, they are periods
for intellectual regeneration which re-
turn a dividend to the university as
well as to the individual in renewed
intellectual vigor and capability.

A broad, nation-wide program for
the continuing engineering education
should involve an interchange of per-
sonnel, not only between university
and industn,', but also between indus-
try' and industry. Some of the difficult
questions involved in implementing
such an exchange may well be patent
and trade secret problems, and I do
not mean to brush them off as inconse-
quential. But I feel that programs of
this t^-pe are part of the needs of
engineering for education.

... if we really engineer for edu-
cation, we \\iU not simply pile
advanced programs on advanced
programs without considering wheth-
er our present base is the proper one.
(Continued on page 49)

JANUARY, 1964

a man
likes to
get

involved
in his job

Involvement is what you are offered at
Collins. A chance to work on projects
you can get your teeth into. A chance
to work with some of the best engineers
in the business. A chance to learn, to de-
velop your talent and ability with guid-
ance from experienced, creative profes-
sionals.

This involvement is demanding — but
we are looking for the graduate who
won't settle for anything less...who won't
be satisfied unless he puts something of
himself into everything he does. We

want the man who can come to grips
with a problem and solve it. Sometimes
alone. Using his knowledge, his initia-
tive, his imagination, his creative talent.

The scope of our work — Data Process-
ing, Space Communications, Avionics,
Microwave, Antenna Systems and HF,
VHF and UHF communication — offers
graduates of this caliber every opportun-
ity for growth, involvement, job satisfac-
tion.

Contact your college placement office
for full information.

COLLINS RADIO COMPANY

Cedar Rapids. Iowa • Dallas, Texas
Newport Beach, California

COLLINS

An equal opportunity employer

TECHNOGRAPH

Problem Solvers Wanted

How do you guide a manned, maneuverable re-entry vehicle
to a routine landing . . . from 200 miles up, 10,000 miles out?

What are the basic system requirements, the operational con-
cepts of a Recovery Control Center? What limits and tolerances
will exist for each stage of the recovery process (re-entry, hyper-
sonic flight, terminal approach, etc.)? What are the flight param-
eters, the human factors? What is needed in the way of vehicle
energy management, ground guidance, range instrumentation,
data processing, data handling, display, communications, tra-
jectory analysis, information flow analysis?

These are typical of the problems challenging young engineers
and scientists at Raytheon in an exciting variety of advanced
projects. For EE's, math, and physics majors — in all the varied
fields of engineering and science — Raytheon offers unlimited
opportunity for growth and continuous advancement.

Personal career development is encouraged by a wide variety

of educational assistance . . . seminars, special courses to meet
individual needs, and work-study programs leading to advanced
degrees from renowned universities are all available.

You may well qualify for one of the exciting, career-building
projects underway at Raytheon. Originality, imagination, and
high technical competence are your tools — the rewards are
prompt and appropriate for success.

For detailed information, arrange an on-campus interview
through your placement director or write G. W. Lewis, Manager
of College Relations, Raytheon Company, Executive Offices,
Lexington, Mass. 02173. An Equal Opportunity Employer.

Raytheon offers opportunities for BS, MS, and
Ph.D. levels in Solid State / Microwave Electronics /
Infrared / Lasers / Communications & Data Processing / Radar
/ Missile Systems / Sonar / Electron Tube Technology /
Underwater Technology

RAYTHEON

JANUARY, 1964

THE GREAT
CHALLENGE

by Bin Lueck, EE— L.A.S. '67

As the peoples of the world must
learn to look beyond the common and
expected, engineers are constantly
challenged to reach beyond the nor-
mal textbook study and into the dy-
namic field of engineering itself.

Helping to meet the challenge of
continuing education are the engi-
neering professional societies which
an engineer normally joins while still
a student. The student engineering
societies, well over a dozen at the U
of I, are groups of people bound
together by a common interest in a
particular field of engineering.

How do these student societies meet
this challenge? In such an everchang-
ing society as ours, technological ad-
vances catapult upon each other in a
formidable avalanche of new knowl-
edge. The engineer is expected to be
up to date in the very latest tech-
niques and processes. Textbooks can-
not possibly provide this infomiation.
Here is where engineering societies
provide one of their most valuable
services. By bringing top-flight speak-
ers from various industries, research
organizations, and the government to
the campus, the societies are able to
inform their members of recent devel-
opments and research projects as well
as present new information on existing

fields of study. Hence, a member en-
gineer is often better qualified and
more able to accept responsible posi-
tions in industry.

As most engineering students real-
ize, an actual job is certainly different
from classroom study of a problem.
Few academic courses present the
professional side of engineering. What
arc the ethical and non-ethical prac-

AMERICAN
SOCIETY OF

CIVIL
ENGINEERS '
' FOUNDED
' 1852 '

tices in engineering? Should engi-
neers be unionized? How related
should engineers be to world prob-
lems? These are a few of the questions
raised and discussed by qualified
teachers and representatives of var-
ious companies and organizations.

Engineering societies provide a
chance for students to meet their
fellow students and teachers, and to
become better acquainted with them.

And perhaps more important, so-
cieties offer unparalleled opportuni-
ties to increase contacts with
professional practicing engineers.
Usually, membership in the student
chapter of a society entitles the stu-
dent to attend the adult society meet-
ings as well. Here, too, a great many
professional contacts can be made.

At the same time, societies provide
an excellent atmosphere for the ex-
change and nourishment of ideas,
aid in the development of attitudes
and habits essential to the profession,
and help the student form his per-
sonal code of ethics, a big step toward
success as a practicing engineer.

In addition, a major benefit comes
to participants from the development
of initiative and originality in plan-
ning and carrying out the student
program. The students and faculty
sponsors are responsible for planning
all chapter activities. Each meeting is
designed to encourage professional

thinking and develop leadership
ability'.

Other goals of some engineering
societies include studying local prob-
lems related to their field, encour-
aging expansion of facilities at the
University, and stimulating general
interest in their particular engineering
field.

What do the professional engineer-
ing societies do to meet their chal-
lenge? The answer has already been
given. Almost every society con-
ducts either bi-weekly or monthly
meetings to which a guest speaker,
well versed in some pertinent topic,
is invited. Movies and other illustra-
tive material are often used.

As is shown in the goals presented
above, societies are not interested ex-
clusively in facts. A large part of the

(Continued on page 41)

TECHNOGRAPH

THE ORGANIZED
ELITE

Roger Johnson, EE '66

Excellent grades, good leadership,
outstanding character, and good cam-
pus citizenship — they all add up to
the high qualifications of the organ-
ized elite. Their purpose is serious,
yet their members are congenial, wit-
ty, and above all the "cream of the
crop" on the Engineering Campus.
Yes, they have a right to be proud

eral and engineering at Illinois, or-
ganize tours of various research
facilities, and constnict displays.

Some of the honoraries confer vari-
ous scholarsliip awards; Chi Epsilon,
for example, gives the Morrow Award
to the civil engineering sophomore
\\'ith the highest scholastic average.
Tau Beta Pi places its annual "out-

— the_\- are the dozen engineering
honorary societies on campus.

The engineering honor societies at
Illinois are actively pursuing a num-
ber of worthwhile activities. Their
primary goal is the continued better-
ment of the engineering profession
and its institutions by recognizing
distinguished scholarship and attain-
ment along with qualities of charac-
ter. Included in their efforts are
employment and placement, scholar-
ship awards, communication and co-
operation within the profession, pro-
motion of college activities, and
improvement of course instruction
through constructive criticism.

Practically every honor societ\', for
instance, participates in Engineering
Open House. They distribute infor-
mation (especially to high school
students) about engineering in gen-

standing freshman award" upon the
individual who has shown superior
ability and potential in his freshman
year of engineering.

Membership requirements differ to
some extent in each society. The list
on page 52 shows the requirements for
membership in each of the engineer-
ing honoraries on the U of I cam-
pus. Invitation for membership is
automatic; don't call them, they'll call
\ou. Scholastic eligibility is not the
only qualification — character, leader-
ship, and initiative are also consid-
ered. Selection of new members
(often preceded by an interview) is
usually by vote of the active mem-
bers of the organization.

Indeed, it is an honor to be se-
lected for membership in the organ-
ized elite. It is a worthwhile goal for
c\'ery undergraduate to look forward
to— provided he is qualified. ♦ ♦ ♦

V/.

JANUARY, 1964

TURBOPROP ENGINE FOR LIGHT

AIRCRAFT

This 600 horsepower turboprop engine is designed to power the new generation of light, fixed wing

aircraft for both civil and military applications. • The Garrett-AiResearch TPE-331 has a specific

fuel consumption of .62 pound per shaft horsepower-hour, and a weight to power ratio of .45 pound per

horsepower. The engine has a response rate from flight idle to full power of approximately 1/3 of

a second. A military version has been designated the T76 by the U.S. Navy. • Designed specifically as a

prime power plant, the model 331 is backed by the company's experience in producing over 10,000 gas

turbine engines. • The Model 331 engine is programmed for additional performance growth. The turboshaft

version (TSE-331) has been flight tested as a power plant in rotary wing and vertical lift vehicles.

For further information about many interesting project areas and career
opportunities at The Garrett Corporation, write to Mr. G. D. Bradley at
9851 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles. Garrett is an equalopportunity employer.

THE FUTURE IS BUILDING NOlAr AT

ASRESEARCH

Phoenix • Los Angeles

TECHNOGRAPH

If I join

the Timken

Company

after

graduation,

what

will they do

for me?

Every man with any job liunting experience knows not to ask tliat question.

And yet, we think it lias some validity. After all, a man's growth can
depend as much on the company he works for as the company's growth
depends on the man (remember, there are no statues to committees).

So to invest in your growth, and ours, every young graduate engineer
who joins the Timken Company spends from one to four years in one of
22 individualized training programs.

Extensive training

Instruction takes place on the job and in training sessions. Later there are
executive development programs at leading universities.

But don't misunderstand us. The Timken Company is not a graduate
school. With us, you earn as you learn.

As one of our engineers, you'll learn much of what we know about tapered
roller bearings, or fine alloy steel, and their infinite applications. Hopefully,
you'll teach us something, too.

You can be an indoor-type working on straight application engineering,
research, testing and production. Or you can be an indoor-outdoor-type
and work in sales engineering. It doesn't matter — choice of assignment is
up to you.

Challenging assignments

If you choose the latter group, you'll work in automotive, industrial, and
railway bearing sales — or steel sales — helping customers solve their engineering
problems, which are also ours.

Some of our recent efforts: bearing engineering for a telephone cable-laying
ship now crossing the Pacific, the Alweg Monorail, the world's tallest crane
and biggest strip mining shovel, Craig Breedlove's Spirit of America, a
moveable grandstand for the new District of Columbia stadium. Steel prob-
lem solving for Atlas missile silos, Project Mohole, the latest Kaman Heli-
copters, a 400-foot crane boom and hundreds of automotive gear and die
applications.

We won't forget you

Advancement is not restricted to one department or division. A steel sales
engineer may be transferred to automotive sales and from there to Inter-
national. Whatever your job, we'll never forget where we've put you. This is
one of the advantages of working for a company that is the world's largest
producer of tapered roller bearings and a foremost producer of seamless
steel tubing, but is not the world's largest corporation. We employ about
20,000.

The Timken Company has three products: Bearings, Steel, Rock Bits.
Uses for these products number in the growing thousands. And there is
always something new stirring.

The dramatic switch of the nation's railroad freight cars to roller bearings,
a field we pioneered, is an example.

An international company

There are 31 Timken Company sales offices in the United States and Canada.
Practically every major city has one.

We serve markets in 119 countries from 14 manufacturing plants located
in Australia, Brazil, Canada, England, France, South Africa and the U.S.
And we're still growing strong.

If you are, too, we'd like to hear from you. Write to Department MC for
Career booklet.

An equal opportunity employer.

The Timken Roller Bearing Company FB Canton, Ohio 44706

JANUARY, 1964

Keyholes and cracked window panes may soon be a thing
of the past if two U of I Civil Engineering faculty members
have their way.

IT'S JUST ONE LITTLE BUILDING

BUT . . .

by Becky Bryar, Aero '67

\\t

a7\

It must be radiation-proof, air
tight, and able to withstand an in-
terior pressure of 76 centimeters of
mercury and an exterior pressure of
nearly zero. It must be made of ma-
terials which can withstand a vacuum,
bombardment of meteorites, tempera-
ture variation of — 183°C to 1.30°C,
unusual stresses due to possible
"moonquakes," and a gravity of only
1/6 that of the earth. Construction
materials must also be light enough to
carry on a spaceship and durable
enough to survive take-offs and land-
ings. The building must also be easily
assembled.

Ridiculous? Two U of I Civil En-
gineering faculty members, Prof. J.
P. Murtha, and Capt. Stewart W.
Johnson, are considering this seeming-
ly impossible problem— lunar struc-
tures.

Because of the lack of definite
knowledge about the environment of

the moon, great, nearly impossible,
tolerances must be met for any lunar
construction. Until more of the
guesses and assumptions about the
lunar environment can be determined
more accurately, factors like the great
temperature change must be prepared
for, or the occupants of any lunar
structure would be unsafe. Without
an atmosphere on the moon, any
building failure— even a slight punc-
ture from a meteorite shower or a
crack from a moonquake (if these
exist at all)— would allow the inner
atmosphere to escape, and the occu-
pants would die.

Another problem is the prediction
of the behavior of our elements in
a vacuum for a long period of time.
Many elements and compounds com-
mon in earth construction would sub-
lime or crumble on the moon. Cement,
for example, cannot be used since
there is no water on the moon. Sub-

stitutes are being sought for numerous
construction materials used on the
earth.

Gravity must also be considered,
and the results of its force calculated.
On the moon the ratios of the weight
of an object to be supported to the
weight of its support will certainly be
different, but how can we test them?

Methods of construction or assem-
blage must also be considered. In
fact, we don't even know what sort
of surface buildings must be built
on; it may be volcanic lava, a few
centimeters of dust, or several miles
of quicksand-like dust. Construction
personnel will be working under
unusual gravity conditions, in an ab-
sence of atmosphere, in unusual
temperature ranges, and in possible
radiation and meteorite showers. Con-
ventional tools such as wrenches may
prove useless; a construction worker
may find himself spinning around in
space when he tries to tighten a nut
b\' conventional means.

Such are the problems facing Prof.
Murtha, Captain Johnson, and other
civil engineers who are determining
the future requirements for lunar
structures. An entirely new branch of
civil engineers may be developing—
Space-Civil Engineers. ♦ ♦ ♦

TECHNOGRAPH

Here are 6 reasons why you should
spend at least the next four years
with us...

You'll find that at least a few of
these six advantages are exclusive
with the civilian Navy generally,
and especially with the world-
renowned Naval Ordnance Labo-
ratory because of its perenially
powerful role in government weap-
onry research. No "Blue Sky"
promises here — you'll soon see
why these advantages make sense
individually, and why collectively
they represent a career develop-
ment opportunity you really
should consider.

1 Vital assignments of national
importance

Whatever programs you may work
on . . . missile guidance, weapons
systems, re-entry components,
underwater ordnance, fire control,
sonar, fuzes, sonobuoys, nuclear
explosives, propellants, solid state,
acoustics, infrared . . . you see
and follow the big picture, from
initial concept to fleet acceptance.
More than 95 major weapons de-
vices developed at NOL are in
fleet use today.

i. Training programs encourage
Breadth of Experience

During your first year you will
rotate through four assignments
in research, engineering, and
evaluation. This enables you to
understand the whole and to help
select a permanent assignment
area.

3 Wholly- or Partly-Paid
Graduate Education Programs

Various accredited graduate pro-

JANUARY, 1964

grams, both with local institutions
or the university of your choice,
permit you to attain your ad-
vanced degrees. Many courses are
held right at NOL, and enable
young professionals to work full
time while participating. Most
such programs provide for reim-
bursement of tuition. Stipends, in
some cases, are available.

4 Professional Stature and
Future Opportunity

NOL retains patents in the em-
ployee's name for professional
purposes, and for commercial
rights in some instances. Attend-
ance at professional meetings is
encouraged, and there is ample
opportunity to conduct founda-
tional research. At the end of
these four years, many doors to
the future will be open to you . . .
as a professional engineer with an
unusually strong R&D back-
ground.

5 Top-Flight Equipment &
Facilities

Because so much in-house work

—$30 MILLION annually— goes
beyond the existing and known,
NOL has many of the finest re-
search and development facilities
available anywhere. NOL head-
quarters spread over nearly 1,000
acres of suburban Maryland just
outside Washington, D. C. (now
one of the nation's leading R&D
centers). You may also work at
NOL test facilities elsewhere in
Maryland, in Virginia, and Florida
... as well as with the operating
units of the fleet.

6 Reach the $10,000 to $12,000
level within 4 years

New and virtually unknown is
the fact that the new government
salary structure lets you earn more
than $10,000 within four years . . .
PLUS all the benefits of Career
Civil Service.

Watch for the NOL
representative on campus

If you would like to contact NOL
directly, write to Mr. Emil Kranda,
Personnel Officer.

IMAVAL ORDNANCE LABORATORY

WHITE

OAK

SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Construction in Bi

What makes a Company "Modern"?

Not size. Not capital resources. Certainly not
age. At Celanese, we believe it is the degree to
which a company is equipped to meet the present
and future needs of its customers.

Efficient plant. Contemporary product. Aggres-
sive management. Industrious work force. The
ability to think ahead of the situation and be ready
for the problem when it occurs.

Celanese happens to be a young company. Much
more important, it's a modern company.

Perhaps you're among the men who will help

Address your correspondence to: Edmond J.
Corry, Supervisor of College Relations, Celanese
Corporation of America, 522 Fifth Avenue,
New York 36, New York. ceUneae®

AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

CHEMICALS FIBERS POLYMERS PLASTICS

TECHNOGRAPH

CHALLENGE IN CALIFORNIA

IN ALL PHASES OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

California's far-flung state engineering projects are no boom-time enterprises.
They are sustained, long-range operations planned to keep pace with the
continued growth of the West. We ofFer employment stability, good salaries,
job rotation and professional advancement. Let us send you illustrated litera-
ture and campus interview schedule of our representatives. Please state your
field. State Personnel Board, 801 Capitol Mall, Sacramento, California 95814.

JANUARY, 1964

WHAT DOES OPEN HOUSE

DO FOR ME?

Technogiaph's staff asked this ques-
tion of various people, and got some
interesting answers.

A prominent electronics engineer
with wide experience in industry, as
a member of the boards of directors
of various companies and other engi-

Everitt, formed from more than 30
years of experience in industry, teach-
ing, research, and administration. "If
we didn't feel that the students bene-
fitted from the effort they put into
Engineering Open House, we would
stop having it," Dean Everitt said.

Aha! F doesn't equal

neering groups, and on several ad-
visory committees of the Department
of Defense, said: "Participation in an
activity like Engineering Open House
gives the student invaluable experi-
ence as a part of liis preparation for
a career in engineering. All through
his professional life he will have to
explain his work to others— super-
visors, boards of directors, customers
for his company— and the engineer
who can do this best is the one who
will be most successful. Open House
gives the engineering student a
chance to get practical experience by
providing him with an audience of all
ages and levels of technical under-
standing. It is one of the best experi-
ences he could have as a part of his
engineering education, and the only
way he can get this experience is in
activities of this kind."

These are the views of Dean W. L.

^\'alking farther down the corridor
in Civil Engineering Hall, we stopped
in the Engineering Placement Office
and asked the same question of Mrs.
Pauline Chapman. As head of the
placement office for one of the largest
of the nation's engineering colleges,
Mrs. Chapman has an exceptionally
wide and comprehensive acquaintance
with the needs and interests of com-
panies that hire engineering gradu-
ates, and a clear picture of what
becomes of engineering graduates
once they leave college.

Mrs. Chapman said: "If an engi-
neer is to move up the ladder in
industry, he has to be able to organize
and get things done. He has to be
able to work with other people, direct
tlie efforts of a group, and carry proj-
ects through to successful completion.
Engineering Open House is one of
the best ways to get this kind of ex-

perience, and participation in Open
House is a good way to show inter-
viewers from industry that you have
had this kind of experience. Tech-
nogmph, by the way, is another."

We thanked her for remembering
us.

She continued: "Private companies
are always looking for leaders— people
who can get along with others and
lead and organize their activities.
Technical competence is important, of
course, but many interviewers will
tell you that they consider the ability
to organize projects and work with
others in carrying them out is at least
as important as technical ability. I
would say a student who has par-
ticipated in Engineering Open House
has a decided edge in experience over
one who has not taken part in any
such activity."

We left Mrs. Chapman with her
telephone ringing and busy secretar-
ies rushing in and out, and went on
our way. If you want more of her
good advice on the subject of getting
a job when you graduate, see her
article on interviewing on page 5.

We talked to others about Open
House, and the responses, though not
always as eloquent, carried the same
message. Finally, going from the sub-
lime to the ridiculous, we even asked
the Technograph staff why anyone
should bother to take part in Open
House. Their response, as you might
expect, was on a lower level, but it
still contained a certain elemental
shrewdness. "There will be prizes for
the best exhibits," they said. "Didn't
you read the November Technograph?
Fame and fortune await the winners!"

We checked, and you know, they're
right. Look at the bottom of page 28
in the November issue and follow the
contest rules on page 39 of the Decem-
ber issue. Cash prizes totaling $525
are being awarded. So get busy on
your Open House project. ♦ ♦ ♦

TECHNOGRAPH

— '^dvcn III res
(^naineenna

L^oiincil

by Sluort Umpleby

The \va\c of enthusiasm and daring
which lias swept engineering activities
this year is finally rousing Engineer-
ing Council from its traditional in-
activity.

In a way Engineering Council is to
the College of Engineering what Stu-
dent Senate is to the University.
Council is composed of two represen-
tatives from each society while Stu-
ilent Senate has two representatives
from each district. Each body serves
as a type of student government, but
whereas Student Senate conducts its
business tlirough wTitten legislation,
Engineering Council fmictions more
as an executive organization to co-
ordinate the student activities of the
College of Engineering.

The most curious part of the

thing was, that the trees and the

other tilings round them never

changed their places at all; however
fast they went, they never seemed
to pass anything. "I wonder if all
the things move along with us?"
thought poor Alice. And the Queen
seemed to guess her thoughts, for
she cried "Faster! Don't try to talk!"

To make talking easier and more
effective. Engineering Council has
I'stablished six standing committees
\\ Inch provide an indication of the
programs widi which Council is pres-
ently most concerned. Their success
or failure is as yet undetermined.
Little has been accomplished, but
much is being planned, and Council
is certainly more aware of its prob-
lems now than it has been for a long
time.

The Engineering Open House Com-
mittee is helping coordinate the Open
House weekend with otlier engineer-
ing activities. George Puzey, the head
of the committee, was Chairman of
last year's Engineering Open House.

The St. Pat's Ball Committee is con-
cluding arrangements for the annual
engineering dance, to be held this
year on March 14. Queen finalists and
knights are selected by tsvo specially
chosen student-faculty committees.
Each society may nominate one queen
candidate and two candidates for
knighthood. Technograph can also
nominate two knight candidates, and
Engineering Council can sponsor five.

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

Some of the world's outstanding engineering research is conducted at
the University' of Illinois. True or False? This spring you will have a chance
to find out. During the Engineering Open House weekend many labora-
tories will be open to the public (which includes undergraduates) for the
first time.

Because of the delicate, expensive, and sometimes dangerous equipment
in these labs, the tours will be limited to six persons with a guide. Each
tour has been planned for persons interested in a specific area of engi-
neering and who would like to talk to a professional in the field— a wonder-
ful opportunity for high school students considering engineering and for
\J of I undergraduates who have never seen the laboratories.

You must register in advance for these tours, and the registration dead-
line is March 1. Illinois high schools. Junior colleges, JETS chapters, and
other interested groups and individuals can obtain a list of the labora-
tories which will be open. Write Bob Phelps, 117 Transportation Building,
University- of Illinois, Urbana, or call him at 3.56-9756. ♦ ♦ ♦

ine queen or or. rats nan is cnosen
by vote during the dance, and is
crowned following the knighting cere-
mony.

Early in November the Instructor
Rating Committee decided there was
not sufficient time to conduct an eval-
uation during the fall semester. They
proceeded instead to study methods
of financing a venture to change the
wording in existing questionnaires to
make them more applicable to engi-
neering instructors. They also at-
tempted to estimate the benefits
which could be derived from conduct-
ing an evaluation for the College of
Engineering so soon after last year's
University-wide evaluation conducted
by the Student Senate and to decide
whether the cost and effort in\'olved
could be justified.

Originally the Engineering Council
evaluation was proposed as a result of
dissatisfaction with the manner in
which Student Senate was to publish
its result. Since Senate obtained its
funds from the administration, it nec-
essarily had to comply with the Uni-
versity's request diat the results on
individual instructors be distributed
only to die instructor, with the de-
partments receiving composite results.
Vice President Bob Lodygowski ac-
curately expressed the opinion of the
Engineering Council at the December
meeting: 'Tf the results won't be dis-
tributed to the administration and die
students, let's just forget the whole
diing."

But although Council may not con-
duct an evaluation at all diis year, the
idea of students rating instructors is
as old as organized education and will
certainly not be dropped completely.
However, Student Senate learned in
its recent evaluation the tremendous
problems encountered in conducting
one for the entire University. Due to
the fact that many departments and
individual instructors periodically
conduct their own opinion polls, the
Engineering Council's study may
result in a proposal tliat instructor
evaluations in the future be the re-
sponsibility of the college councils.

The Intramural Committee has or-
ganized a bowling tournament among
the professional societies. The Sug-
gestion Box Committee, under chair-
man Bob Palm, spent the first semester

(Continued on page 48)

JANUARY, 1964

THERE WILL BE AN EAGL

ON THE MOON...

Our world-recognized trademark— "the P&WA eagle"— has been
identified with progress in flight propulsion for almost four decades,
spanning the evolution of power from yesterday's reciprocating
engines to today's rocl<ets. Tomorrow will find that same Pratt &
Whitney Aircraft eagle carrying men and equipment to the moon and
to even more distant reaches of outer space.

The breadth of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft programs requires virtually every tech-
nical talent . . . requires ambitious young engineers and scientists who can con-
tribute to our advances of the state of the art. Your degree? It can be a B.S., M.S.
or Ph.D. in: MECHANICAL . AERONAUTICAL . ELECTRICAL . CHEMICAL and
NUCLEAR ENGINEERING . PHYSICS • CHEMISTRY . METALLURGY . CE-
RAMICS • MATHEMATICS • ENGINEERING SCIENCEor APPLIED MECHANICS.

Pratt & Whitney Rircraft

CONNECTICUT OPERATIONS EAST HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT
FLORIDA OPERATIONS WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA

ED AlP

DIVISION OF UNITED AIRCRAFT CORP.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

SPECIALISTS IN POWER .. . POWER FOR PROPULSION-POWER
FOR AUXILIARY SYSTEMS. CURRENT UTILIZATIONS INCLUDE
AIRCRAFT, MISSILES, SPACE VEHICLES, MARINE AND IN-
DUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS.

Whafs new at Bethlehem Steel ?

New $

40-n

lillion research laboratories in Bethlehem, Pa.

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Building a $250-million steel plant at Burns Harbor, Ind.

Fabricating and

erecting steelwork

for World's Fair

structures, including

the magnificent

Federal Pavilion, fef

Producing thin tinplate
on the notion's
newest tin mill, at
Sparrows Point, Md.

Building nuclear-powered
submarines at Quincy, Mass.

Installing new

oxygen steelmaking

furnaces at

Lackawanna, N. Y.

New facilities

Developing such
exciting new products
as steel foil, far thinner
than this page.

new products , . . new processes.

All this means career opportunities for alert and aggressive college grad-
uates ... in steel plant operations, sales, research, mining, shipbuilding,
fabricated steel construction, and many other activities.

You can get a copy of our booklet, "Careers with Bethlehem Steel and
the Loop Course,'" at your Placement Office, or by sending a postcard to
our Personnel Division, Bethlehem, Pa.

BETHLEHEM STEEL

BETHIEHEM

5T ;el

An equal opportunity employer

TECHNOGRAPH

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Wu.

K^nsicli

Did you cicr licar the expression "Euiiincers
lead a dog's life"':' Anyone interested in Stuffed
Animals 301? Kay's interests are more academic.

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\\ ith a twinkle for looks and a spark for intelligence,
Cusick's campus activities vary from Dolphin Queen Co
n and Paddle to Alpha Lambda Delta (scholastic
Kay, a Chi O, is majoring in French.

Engineers

hi Choosing a Career,
Consider these
Advantages—

Type of work: You'll become a member of
an engineering team that has produced some
of the outstanding developments in the field
of automatic pressure and liquid level controls.

Growth : Fisher's products are key element.'-
in automation which assures the company's
growth because of the rapid expansion of
automation in virtually every industry.

Advancement: Your opportunity is
unlimited. It is company policy to promote
from within; and most Fisher department
heads are engineers.

JE—iii

If it flows through pipe
anywhere in the world
chances are it's controlled by...

flSHEK

TECHNOGRAPH

I Reuben C. Gooderum, BSME
Wisconsin, 1962, is shown examining
combustion liners after a thermal
paint engine test at Allison Division,
General Motors, Indianapolis, Indi-
ana. Thermal paint, developed by
Allison, is used to determine temper-
ature gradients existing on engine
parts.

Gooderum is one of the young engi-
neers at Allison assigned to design
and development of air-cooled tur-
bine engine hardware. This work in-
volves rig testing of turbine engine
parts to determine optimum configu-
rations. Parts later are endurance-
tested on engines to prove the design.

New, air-cooled turbine blades de-
veloped by AUison engineering have
permitted more than 250 °F higher
turbine inlet temperatures on turbo-
prop engines, providing as much as
63% increased horsepower for the
same engine envelope.

We think you, too, will like the
creative climate at Allison, as well as
the advantages of being associated
with a long-estabhshed leader in the
design, development and production
of high performance aircraft engines.
Talk to our representative when he
visits your campus. Let him tell you
what it's like at Allison where Energy
Conversion Is Our Business.

An equal opportunity employer

t .Allison

THE ENERGY CONVERSION DIVISION OF
GENERAL MOTORS. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

JANUARY, 1964

"How many new products have
been developed recently?"

'Hoiv many new plants built
in the past 5 years?"

"What is the annual
expenditure for research ?"

Students very rarely ask a campus interviewer ques
tions like these. But they should. The answers will re
veal a great deal about a company. Allied
Chemical has the answers. Ask our repre-
sentative next time he visits your campus.
When you talk with him, be sure to ask
the questions you want to ask. Answering
your questions is an important part of our

representative's business. He's on your campus to be
helpful— to give you all the facts you need in order
to make a sound career decision.

Your placement ofiBce can tell you when
our representative will arrive— and sup-
ply you with a copy of "Your Future in
Allied Chemical." AlHed Chemical Corp.,
Dept. 200, 61 Broadway, N. Y. 6, N. Y.

DIVISIONS: BARRETT • FIBERS • GENERAL CHEMICAL • INTERNATIONAL

BASIC TO AMERICA'S PROGRESS

NATIONAL ANILINE • NITROGEN • PLASTICS • SEMET-SOLVAY • SOLVAY PROCESS • UNION TEXAS PETROLEUM
AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

TECHNOGRAPH

by Jay Lipke, CE '66

Civil Engineering students have
been quarantined from south campus!
No longer can CE's take their tripod
mounted telescopes and "survey" the
spacious south campus and unsus-
pecting co-eds.

All Civil Engineering surveying
courses are now being held indoors
in the \\'oodshop Building at Spring-
field and Romine on engineering cam-
pus. Formerly, CE surs'eying courses
were held in the Surveying Building,
located on Gregory across from the
main library; this location was near
the spacious south campus where
practical surveying exercises could be
conducted. After forty years at this
c()n\enient location, why have the
surveying activities been moved to an
area which offers little possibility' for
outdoor work?

Under the new Ci\il Engineering
curriculum adopted this fall, Civil
Engineering students are required to
take only six to eight hours of sur-
vcNuig instiuction. The new curric-
ulum follows the general trend in the
College of Engineering toward greater
emphasis on engineering theor\
courses at the expense of practical
lab— shop courses. Since in-class in-
sti'uction now replaces the former out-
side work, greater classroom facilities
than those existing at the old Sur\ey-
ing Building were needed to handle
the increased classroom instruction.
Hence, the Woodshop has become
the new home for surveyors.

Also because of the new curricu-
lum, the Civil Engineering summer
surveying camp (a five-hour course
stressing surveying skills and tech-
niques) has been replaced by a three-
hour theory-oriented course on cam-
pus. During 1963, the 18th and final
summer surveying camp was held at
Camp Radideau in the Chippewa
National Forest near Blackduck, Min-

nesota. .According to Dr. Milton O.
Schmidt, who served as camp director
since 1957 and who now heads the
surveying activities on campus, "In
the camp's 18 years of operation, a
total of 1747 Civil Engineering stu-
dents were enrolled with an average
of nearly 100 men per year."

As could be expected, reaction to
the deletion of summer surveying
camp is varied. Civil Engineering
undergraduates have welcomed the
change since most of them feel it
takes too much time, expense, and

travel; however, the surveying faculty
and past CE graduates recall the sum-
mer surveying camp as one of the
department's most useful courses.

We agree the limited amount of
work done in open areas around the
Woodshop Building can't match sur-
veying exercises on south campus and
the six weeks' surveying experience in
the wooded terrain of Minnesota.
Then, again, perhaps this change re-
flects the trend toward a more profes-
sional Civil Engineer. We hope so.

♦ ♦♦

On this particular day Bob Ti
to notice the lack of open area
parison for the spacious south

nai and Ron Schworcz were too busy complaining about the weather
to survey. The '■cluttered" engineering campus is certainly no com-
Dmpus once used by CE surveying students, but. . . .

JANUARY, 1964

Like everyone else who must meet the
expanding challenges of science and in-
dustry today, IBM banks heavily on
initiative. By initiative, vje mean the de-
sire to forge ahead. We believe this kind
of initiative benefits not only a corpora-
tion and its customers, but the individ-
ual as well.

For IBM, the exercise of initiative re-
sults in an expanding line of products
ranging from electric typewriters to
complete computer systems. It is evi-
dent, too, in the advanced systems for
space programs and national defense
which IBM also produces.

For our customers, it brings new
methods, new efficiencies, and new di-
rections for expansion in step with the
growing economy of our nation.

For the individual, encouragement of
initiative means the fullest possible
growth of personal talent, ability, and
stature. In the course of building their
professional careers, IBM's engineers
and scientists are given all the respon-
sibility they are ready for. In fact, IBM
encourages each individual to tackle
progressively tougher problems by pro-
viding the stimulating associates, pro-
fessional atmosphere, and educational

opportunities that form a sound basi"
for career growth. There are no barrier
to individual achievement at IBM.

For example, the story of Oliver V
Johnson, the young engineer picture
here, demonstrates how an individu;
can apply his full range of talents an
interests at IBM to further his profe;
sional career. Since he first joined IBIV
he has been assigned to several diffe
ent project areas, including: speci;

TECHNOGRAPH

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ansistor circuits, cryogenic develop-
lent, experimental studies on voice
utput from computers. He is now be-
ig recognized for his success in devel-
ping a new method of compressing
peech by which time might be saved in
Dice transmission of data.

His colleagues in development, re-
earch, and manufacturing are making
18 same kind of individual progress,

for at IBM the accent is on initiative-
no matter what type of work, or what
field of interests. Broad education pro-
grams, among the finest to be found in
industry, enable each individual to study
in his field of specialization or range be-
yond it as he desires. These educational
programs are designed for the individ-
ual's personal satisfaction as well as
professional advancement.

IBM offers graduates with degrees in
Engineering, Mathematics, and the Sci-
ences exciting assignments with room
to move ahead . IBM is an Equal Oppor-
tunity Employer.

Education programs are conducted
along the following lines: initial training;
continuous education to stimulate de-
velopment and help prepare for ad-
vancement; master's and doctoral study
with company support.

See your college placement officer to
determine when we will be interviewing
on campus. We will be glad to discuss
typical openings and opportunities at
IBM. If you prefer, you may write, out-
lining your education and interests, to:
Manager of College Relations, Dept. 915.
IBM Corporation, 590 Madison Avenue,
New York 22, N. Y.

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JANUARY, 1964

PROPOSED UNDERGRADUATE LIBRARY

by Roger Johnson, EE '65

As yet a dream, but someday U of I
students may study in a subsurface
library under what is now the south
quadrangle.

Due to the critical need for study
space on campus, a new undergradu-
ate library plaza, suggested by the
Champaign architectural firm of
Richardson, Severns, Scheeler, and
Associates, has been submitted to the
University for study.

The proposed two story structure,
designed primarily as a reading li-
brary, would be completely imder-
ground with tsyo open courts which
would provide natural lighting for
reading rooms. The structure would
provide study space for 5.000 students
and storage space for 100,000 volumes.

Each supporting column will be
topped by a tree at the ground level;

see top drawing of a cross-section of
the proposed structure. The court-
yards will be ornamented with statues
and fountains. A very practically de-
signed structure, the library could also
serve as an underground fall-out shel-
ter for 15,000 persons during an emer-
gency.

The location on the soutli mall was
selected because of its convenience to
all students.

Those engineering students who stay clear of
the engineering library for fear that CEH may
collapse will welcome the new undergraduate
library plaza proposed for the south quadrangle.

TECHNOGRAPH

Progress in the Bell System . .

AND LIVES AND BREATHES...

Progress takes many shapes in the Bell System. And among
the shapers are young men, not unlike yourself, impatient
to make things happen for their companies and themselves.
There are few places where such restlessness is more wel-
comed or rewarded than in the fast-growing phone business.

^ Bell Telephone Companies

JANUARY, 1964

Room and Board

Intramural Sports

Social Activities

Quiet Hours for Study

Close to Engineering
Campus

MEDEA

412 and 408 East Green

and

MEDEA LODGE

Two Blocks from Engineering Campus

A skit for relaxation

Medea, one of the finest Independent Men's
houses on campus, offers small group living
with the advantages of a larger house. Liv-
ing at either Medea or Medea Lodge assures
you of an excellent location, fine food (T-
bones once a week), coffee an' served every
morning, good study conditions, and Uni-
versity approved Counselors.

Evidence of effort

Freshman applications for the fall semester must be approved
by April 1, 1964. Write for applications to Robert Sollinger,
House Director, 412 E. Green, Champaign, Illinois.

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TECHNOGRAPH Ut

The Great Challenge

{Contiinwd from page 18)
hriicfit from a meeting comes in the
MK-ial gathering itself: in the chance
1(1 meet fellow students, instructors,
engineers, and guest speakers. Here
is \\here ideas are exchanged and
problems proposed and discussed.
Social activities themselves serve tliis
same function, onl\- to a greater de-
gree.

Field trips are another kind of ac-
ti\ity in which engineering societies
frctiucntly engage. Trips allow on-
tlie-spot observation of engineering
processes. The gap between classroom
study and actual practice can often
be bridged by such field studies.

Societies, too, try to tell their fel-
low students and the public more
about their profession by participat-
ing in numerous campus activities,
such as Engineering Open House and
^arious types of "job information"
nights. Some groups use their facilities
to help local charities. And we cannot
()\erlook the benefit members receive
merely by working together in worth-
w liile activities.

Nearly once a month on some part
lit campus a few lights burn at night
in some normallv dark room. What

goes on in this room is far more im-
portant than most people realize. In
that room an engineering society is
holding a meeting. And in that room
people are meeting a challenge— a
challenge of education, a challenge
not to be content with the usual and
the commonplace, a challenge of cour-
age to meet the future with under-
standing and certaint}'.

If \()u want to help meet this
challenge, be on the lookout for
announcements of meetings of our
campus societies in Technograph and
on bulletin boards in the halls of the
engineering buildings. They are
neither long nor boring, you will not
be required to join, and you will be
most welcome. ♦ ♦ ♦

To form the curved reflecting "mii-
ror" for the giant University of
Illinois radio telescope, earth moving
machines scooped out approximately
58,000 cubic yards of earth. The para-
bolic reflector is equal in area to five
football fields put together.

The first all-engineering Open
House was started at the University
of Illinois in 1920.

Father: "W'iiat do you mean by
bringing my daughter home at this
hour of the morning?"

Engineer: "I can't help it, I have to
be in class by eight o'clock."

Doctor: "You have acute appendi-
citis."

Girl: "Listen, I came here to be
examined, not admired. "

When you see the handwriting on
the wall, chances are you're in a pub-
lic building.

A good listener is usually thinking
about something else.

"My uncle tried to make a new car.
He took wheels from a Ford, a radi-
ator from a Chevy, tires from a Ply-
mouth ..."

"\^^lat'd he get?"

"Two years."

A bandleader who had played over
5,000 dance dates was being inter-
viewed by a radio commentator.
"What is the one request you've had
most?" he was asked.

"Where's the men's room," was the
instant reply.

ENGINEERING ACTIVITIES CALENDAR

Engineering Council /<«.« taken over the responsibility of coUeeting and orga-
nizing the Engineering Activities Calendar. As soon as meeting dates are estab-
lished, all engineering activities desiring piiblicitij should submit material to the
TECHNOGRAPH-Engineering Council office, 48 EEB. (Don't miss the four
articles on engineering activities pages 18, 19, 26, and 27).

Society

Meeting

Location

Agenda

Annerican Nuclear
Society (ANS)

Fri., Feb. 7
3jOO P.M.

Lecture Room A
Physics BIdg.

Dr. Albert V. Crewe, the Director of the Argonne National Laboratory, will speak oc»
"Current and Future Research Programs at Argonne."

American Society of
Ci.il Engineers (ASCE)

Tue., Feb. II
7:30 P.M.

Tue., March 10

279 mini Union
279 mini Union

Speaker— Mr. Melvin A. Jabara, Supervisory Civil Engineer, U. S. Bureau of Reclamation.

Mr. William Downs, Jr., Commissioner of Aviation, City of Chicago, will discuss the
■'Planning and Construction of O'Hara International Airport."

Engineering Council

Feb. 13, 7:00 P.M.
March 12. 26
April 16, 30
May 7, 21

209 mini Union
209 mini Union
209 mini Union
209 mini Union

Election of officers.
Business meetings.
Business meetings.
Business meetings.

Illinois Society of
Professional Engineers
(ISPE)

Thurs., Feb. 19
Tiiurs.. March 19
Tue., April 14

151 EEB

mini Union
(Faculty Lounge)

mini Union S.

Election of officers and special meeting to be announced later.

Engineering careers in the armed forces both as a service man and as a civilian.

Movie: "Beyond Teaching," an excellent film showing research at the U of 1 and some
of the developments which have made the U of 1 world famous.

JANUARY, 1964

Where

do you

picture

yourself

tomorrow?

Consider John Deere where do your interests lie? In research and
development? In design and engineering? In the marketing, administrative, or financial
aspects of industry?

One of the 100 largest industrial corporations in the United States, John Deere is
the leading manufacturer of equipment for the nation's farmers. John Deere also pro-
duces tractors and equipment for the construction, logging, landscaping, and material
handling fields, as well as important chemicals for farm and home.

Since the Company's founding in 1837, its. history has been one of continuous growth
— in capitalization, diversification, and employment. Annual sales total more than a
half billion dollars; employment totals approximately 35,000.

John Deere has 14 manufacturing plants, 2 chemical plants, and 18 major sales
branches in the United States and Canada. The Company also has plants in Germany,
France, Spain, South Africa, Argentina, and Mexico. Sales branches and sales outlets
are strategically located throughout the free world.

John Deere has pioneered in personnel practices that encourage initiative, creativeness,
and individual growth.

Consider all these and the many other advantages of a position witti John Deere.
You can learn about them by writing: Director, College and University Relations, Deere &
Company, Moline, Illinois, An Equal-Opportunity Employer.

TECHNOGRAPH

& DATA HANDLING

I in orbit .
of AOlO
■•/aw: Portion of Tl subtyttt

AOSO Program Emphasizes Broad Spectrum
of Professional Opportunities at Tl!

AOSO (Advanced Orbiting Solar Observatory)
is a new satellite project of the NASA's
Goddard Space Flight Center. Republic Avia-
tion Corporation is prime contractor. Impor-
tant to AOSO's scientific mission will be a
sophisticated communications and data handling
subsystem conceived and built by the Appara-
tus division of Texas Instruments.

While the satellite orbits the earth and
studies the sun, the Tl subsystem accepts com-
mands from the ground, decodes and verifies
them, relays them to proper spacecraft con-
trols or stores them for later disposition, ac-
quires scientific data about the sun, stores
it, and transmits it back to the ground on
command.

TI's major role in this space exploration pro-
gram results from important capabilities —
including experience in the design of extremely
reliable equipment using microelectronic com-

ponents, and a decade of creative innovation
and problem-solving in the telemetering science.

Communications and data handling are only
two of 89 fields of opportunity (listed at right)
for scientists and engineers at Texas Instru-
ments, a multidivisional company with fasci-
nating careers open at all degree levels. At
least a dozen of these professional fields con-
tribute to the execution of TI's AOSO subsys-
tem assignment.

INVESTIGATE Tl OP-
PORTUNITIES by submit-
ting your resume, or sending
for "Career Opportunity
Guide for the College Grad-
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Dept. C-29. Ask your Col-
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Tl interview dates on your
campus.

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CONTROLLED RECTIFIERS

CONTROLS

CRYOGENICS

CRYSTAL GROWTH i

CHARACTERISTICS

CYBERNETICS

DATA HANDLING

DEVICE DEVELOPMENT

DIELECTRICS

DIFFUSION

DIODES

ELASTIC WAVE

PROPAGATION

ELECTROCHEMISTRY

ELECTROLUMINESCENCE

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PACKAGING

ELECTROMECHANICS

ELECTRO-OPTICS

ELECTROTHERMICS

ELECTRON PHYSICS

ENERGY CONVERSION

ENVIRONMENTAL *

QUALIFICATION TESTING

FERROMAGNETICS

GEODETIC SURVEYS

GEOMAGNETICS

GEOPHYSICAL

EXPLORATION

GEOSCIENCES

GLASS TECHNOLOGY

GRAVIMETRY

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

INFRARED PHENO/VUENA

INSTRUMENTATION

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS

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LASER PHENOMENA

MAGNETIC DETECTION

MECHANIZATION

METALLURGY

METER MOVEMENTS

MICROWAVES

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f-^erionalltij of the ll'lonth

Herman C. Krannert

Text by Mr. Kronnerl
Introduction by Rudy Berg

A degree in engineering can be
more than a slide-rule license, as this
month's personality shows. Mr. Kran-
nert, a 1912 U of I mechanical engi-
neering graduate, has been an active
patron of the arts and higher edu-
cation.

He was born in Chicago, in 1887,
and grew up there. After graduating
from the U of I with a bachelors
degree, he began work with the Chi-
cago Telephone Company. From
there he moved to other and higher
positions until, in 1925, he was offered
■a position on the board of directors
•of a container manufacturing firm.
For reasons he outlines below, he
boldly declined the position, resigned
from the firm, and founded the In-
land Container Corporation, which
has grown to be the second largest
corrugated box company in the United
States.

And — glory of glories — he icas
■once Editor of TECHNOCRAPH!

The following is an address to stu-
dents of the Krannert Graduate School
of Industrial Administration of Pur-
due University.

It is a pleasure to speak to you,
although I am a little puzzled about
■what I should say. There are many
things I would like to tell you. You are
on the edge of an exciting career as
an engineer-businessman. As I look
back over my own career as an engi-
neer-businessman, I am convinced
that tlie task of putting people, ideas,
and money together to produce prod-
ucts to be sold profitably in a free
enterprise economy offers the most
exciting career a man can have.

In tliis connection, I would like to
tell you how fundamentally sound I
think our enterprise economy is, with
its emphasis on profits. Oiu- economy

offers creative people a chance to do
new things and to be rewarded for
their success. But I am going to leave
this speech for another occasion.

Today I want to talk about what it
means to be an effective person in a
business enterprise. I want to talk
about what education can and cannot
do to make you more effective.

When I started in business in 1925
we didn't have any college-trained
persons. It happened this way: I was
offered an advancement by the com-
pany by which I was then employed
because of my good perfonnance with
them for a ten-year period. I was to
be manager of the tliree production
plants of the company and, in addi-
tion, I was to be elected a director.
However, the Chairman of the Board
requested, as a consideration, that I
vote as he directed. This, to me, was
contrary to good business principles
and ethics. I believe a director should
be free to exercise his own judgment.

In recognition of his occomplistiments,
Krannert has received honorary doctorate degre
from Indiana, Butler, and Purdue Universities oi
was awarded the U of I Achievement Award
1960.

Inasmuch as I could not agree with
the Chairman, I resigned from the
company. I telephoned my wife that
evening and informed her of the ac-
tion I had taken. She said I had taken
the right step and that we would
somehow make out. My decision-
making career had started. With very
little money, but with many friends
and a burning desire to succeed, we
started the Inland Container Corpora-
tion in 1925. Shortly after I resigned,
six of my former associates called at
oin- home and informed me that they
too had resigned and would join me
in our new company. This took real
courage on their part, but it placed on
me the necessity of succeeding. None
of these six men was a college-trained
person. These men who came with me
from Anderson (Ind.) had the courage
to cast their lot with a new enterprise
and a new businessman, and their
courage carried them a long way.
Working together we were able to
develop a business which now has
some 4,000 people in it with annual
sales of over 120 million dollars, and
it is the second largest corrugated box
company in America. Courage and
the willingness to act can take peo-
ple a long way.

Now that we are a \\'ell established
company we are recruiting college-
trained people because these trained
minds are readily available. Although
I don't want to sound discouraging,
I am not sure that when the score is
finally taUied the college-trained peo-
ple will prove to be any more effec-
ti\e than the courageous men who
came with me from Anderson. I
know this may sound like heresy to a
group of students completing their
master's degrees in industrial admin-
istration, but I am worried about the
emphasis schools of business and in-

TECHNOGRAPH

dustrial administration are placing on
processing of information as a means
of making decisions. These days I
hear a lot about what computers
can do for us, how they can process
enormous amounts of information and
finally print out the right decision. I
hear also about the wonders of cor-
porate staff and how the>- can digest
information and prepare carefully
worked-out alternatives as a basis for
executive decisions.

Both of these ways of processing
information are based on the propo-
sition that if a man has more informa-
tion he will make better decisions.
Right note I want to challenge this.
I am not sure this has been demon-
strated. I am inclined to tliink that
this excessive reliance on data proc-
essing and on staff work is another
one of those "cure-alls" which have
been tried in the past and found
wanting.

Let me explain: Ever\" time you
make a decision there is something
unique about that decision. You can
never be absolutely sure of the out-
come; tliere is alwa\^s some element
of gamble. I w^ould guess from \\-atch-
ing la\\yers and physicians and other
professional men work that there is
an element of risk-taking in the prac-
tice of ever}- profession. Allow me to
illustrate:

At the end of ^^'orld Wiu 11. In-
land Container had a successful busi-
ness, converting paperboard into
corrugated boxes to sers^e industr}-.
Many of m\- associates \\ere satisfied
with our position. Our balance sheet
was health}- and we had a number
of offers from larger companies who
wanted to pay cash for our business;
and it looked as though we could
"play it safe" b\- either staving small
or by selling out. But it was also
clear to me that only by becoming
an integrated company, vvith control
over our raw material supplies,
could we survdve the competition of
the period ahead in the 1950"s and
1960's. And so we took the plunge—
we used our cash and put our credit
on the line— to go into partnership
^vith The Mead Corporation. We or-
ganized a joint venture in wliich each
partner had a fifty per cent interest.
We started with one mill and sup-

JANUARY, 1964

Mr. Kronnert, o 1912 U of I ME graduate, donated the Kronnert Art Museum to the U of 1 in 1961.
He and his wife hove been very active as patrons of the arts ond of higher education. Their
philanthropic activities have produced, besides our art museum, the Kronnert Memorial YMCA in
Indianapolis; the Kronnert Hall of Fine Arts Building at Evansville College, Evonsvilie, Indiono; the
Kronnert Heart Research Institute in Indianapolis; the Kronnert Graduate School of induslrioi Adminis-
tration ol Purdue University, and other gifts too numerous to mention here.

porting timberlands. Then, as we
grew, with the increasing demand for
our product and ser\-ice, we expanded,
using profits generated from the busi-
ness, until today we operate three
large mills with a production capac-
it>- of more than 2000 tons of Kraft
paperboard per day, supported by
more than one million acres of tim-
berland. We had no assurance at tlie
time that this venture would succeed.
We had to have faith and be prepared
to take the risks of doing something
new.

All of the significant business de-
cisions you will be called on to make
in \our career will involve a large
element of risk-taking. This will be
particularly true in the next ten years
while \ou are learning your trade as
an engineer-businessman. We are in
the midst of tremendous changes
which I am convinced are going to
affect the way we do business, and
you are going to have to estimate
what these changes will mean to you.

You may think that risk-taking is
something which is reserv-ed for top
management; let me assure you it is
a necessary ingredient for success at
each stage in your career. Every time
you delegate a job to a subordinate
you are taking a risk. Your boss will
hold vou responsible even though he
knows you may have to work through
other people to get the job done. You
can delegate the authority," but you
cannot delegate responsibilitv'.

If you are going to be an effective
engineer-businessman, you must be
prepared to take calculated risks in

situations where there are no ex-
perience tables, no ways to hedge.
You must "stick out your neck" and
go ahead with what you believe
should be done, even though you
can't be sure in advance that you
have made the right decision.

I don't want you to think that busi-
ness is just one painful decision after
another. You can have a lot of fun
in your chosen career. The business-
men who are right more times than
they are WTong can make a profit.
Profits are not only the life blood of
business; they are the reward for real
skill in risk-taking.

Frequently I wonder why so many
people want to "play it safe." Why do
so many middle managers, who
should enjoy the challenge of busi-
ness, spend their time "laying mat-
tresses" in strategic places so that
they will have a place to dive when
the shooting starts? Possibly, from the
beginning of time, we have tried to
fool ourselves about the kind of
world we live in. We have wanted to
believe that there is some way to
beat the game— to succeed without
reallv- trving- to have the profits with-
out taking the risks. Maybe it is just
too painful for us to admit that the
world is full of accidents and chance
results. We have wanted to beheve
that if we do "the right tiling" we
can somehow be 100 per cent sure
that we will get the right answer.

In the days when primitive inan
was primarily superstitious, he tried

(Continued on page 56)

WHA T YOU COULD BE ENGINEERING A T

Hamilton Standard

Shown with an artist's conception of proposed Lunar Excursion
Module, a mockup of a typical spacecraft Environmental Control
System currently under development at Hamilton Standard.

One possible assignment: participate in the advanced
development program to produce the environmental
control system for the Lunar Excursion Module. Utilize
your training in:

heat transfer
thermodynamics
control dynamics

(flow, temperature,

pressure)

fluid dynamics
atmospheric supply for

human life
contamination control for

human life

to develop a regenerable system to provide for life sup-
port on long-duration space flights.

Other ECS activities: optimization of atmospheric stor-
age methods • development of pressure control con-
cepts for two-gas atmosphere • testing of catalytic
oxidizers as a method of eliminating atmospheric con-
taminants • reclamation systems for water and oxygen
• fabrication and testing of heat exchangers, water
boilers, etc., under manned spacecraft conditions.

ground support equipment

OTHER

advanced propeller systems

MAJOR

electron beam machines

HAMILTON

air inlet controls

STANDARD

electronic control systems

PROGRAMS:

physiological monitoring systems

space life support systems

See your placement officer for a campus interview, or write:
SUPERVISOR COLLEGE RELATIONS

Hamilton
Standard

DIVISION OF

United
fi ire raft

WINDSOR LOCKS, CONNECTICUT

an equal opportunity employer

TECHNOGRAPH'!

Your life at Du Pont I one of a series for technical graduates

Ho'w to tell a career from a job

A job is a job. A career is a place to grow. A career has a future.
A job lives from day to day. In a job you get what you can, do
what you must. In a career, rewards parallel your contributions.

We're a career company. More than a third of our 90,000
employees have been with us at least 15 years; 10,000 for more
than 25 years. There are reasons for this. To assure growth we
invest over $90 million a year in research. Fifty percent of last
year's sales ($2.4 billion) came from products unheard of just
28 years ago. Because customers [ike these products, we've
grown 750% since 1937.

Our career men share in this growth because we fill virtually
all responsible positions from within. Our young men work in
several areas to develop their capabilities. This way they can
change positions without leaving the company.

There are job men and career men. If you seek a career, we'd
like to tell you about an interesting and rewarding one at
Du Pont. Write us a letter or clip and mail our coupon today.

(Ml^

BETTER THINGS FOR BETTER LIVING . . . THROUGH CHEMISTRY

An equal opportunity employer

TECHNICAL MEN WE'LL NEED FROM THE CUSS OF '64

Chemists Industrial Engineers

Chemical Engineers Civil Engineers

Mechanical Engineers Physicists

Electrical Engineers Metallurgists

E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. (Inc.)
2519-A Nemours Building
Wilmington, Delaware 19838

When I'm graduated, I'll be a_

(List profession)

Please rush me more information about how I might fit
in at Du Pont.

Class

Major

Deeree expected

Colleee

Mv address

Cifv

Zone_

State

JANUARY, 1964

•ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS-PHYSICISTS-

FIND OUT NOW
WHAT NORDEN
CAN 00 FOR YOUR CAREER

LOOK OVER THESE 3 PRIME PROFESSIONAL ASSETS

CHOICE — what ever your interest in
electronics may be, it is almost certain
that you can satisfy it at NORDEN:
computer techniques, display integra-
tion, radar and communication sys-
tems, TV, IR, microelectronic or more
conventional circuitry, stabilization
and navigation systems. Applications
run the gamut of advanced under-
water, shipboard, aircraft and space
vehicle systems and ground support
complexes.

CLIMATE FOR ACHIEVEMENT—

the working atmosphere at NORDEN
is designed to encourage continual
learning and growth. You gain broad
exposure to all technical aspects of a
problem through our method of assign-
ing projects to problem-solving teams.
You will be backed by a strong sup-
port group of engineering assistants
and technicians. Opportunities for
advanced study at nearby academic
institutions are open to qualified en-
gineers under our graduate program.

AN ENVIRONMENT FOR LIVING

that's second to none. NORDEN'S lo-
cation in famous Fairfield County,
Connecticut, offers a rare combina-
tion of cultural and sports activities
the year 'round. Close by is Long Island
Sound. Hunting country and ski cen-
ters are within easy driving distance,
as are a number of nationally-known
cultural events. And New York City is
a short 41 miles away.

A few typical project areas are de-
scribed at the right.

Electrical Engineers and Physicists
graduating in 1964 are invited to con-
tact your College Placement Officer to
arrange an oncampus interview. Or
you may forward your resume directly
to: Mr. James E. Fitzgerald, Technical
Employment Manager.

CONTACT ANALOG DISPLAY SYSTEMS —

project a roadway on a TV screen
to aid in the guidance and control
of submerged submarines. Appli-
cations also to manned space ve-
hicles and aircraft.

INERTIAL NAVIGATION — a field of
continuing importance at NORDEN,
involves many engineering groups
both in device development and
applications engineering. A recent
accomplishment: 20 lb. all-atti-
tude inertial platform providing
3-dimension reference of position. '

PRECISION COMPONENTS.— For ex-
ample, 60 basic models of shaft
position encoders are now being
produced. This is just one of many
types of precision components
where our R&D people continually
work to set new standards of per-
formance while reducing weight
and costs, simplifying circuitry.

Norden

Norwalk, Connecticut.

) AIRCR

DIVISION OF UNITED AIRCRAFT CORPORATION

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Alice's . . . Council

(Continued from page 27)

looking for tlie key to the boxes' locks.
But now the old locks have been re-
moved, and new ones installed.
Henceforth, the committee plans to
open the boxes prior to each meeting,
discuss the suggestions, and present
them in tlie form of motions to the
Engineering Council.

The Public Relations Committee
has assumed responsibility for
TECHS Engineering Activities Cal-
endar.

Last year, as in previous years,
things looked dim. Alice looked
round her in great surprise, "Why,

Professor BernI Larson (right). Engineering Coun-
cil advisor, discusses plans for Engineering Open
House wilfi (L to R) Ron Kessner, George Puzey
(Cfiairman), and Bob Lodygowski.

I do believe we've been under this
tree the whole time. Everything's
just as it was!" "Of course it is," said
the Queen. "What would you ha\ e
it?"

This fall a large, experienced, dis-
satisfied group of seniors undertook
plans to reorganize and revitalize the
Engineering Council, a potentialh'
powerful organ for instrumenting stu-
dent suggestions on curricula and
educational facilities. If notliing has
been accomplished by the end of May,
Council's failure will seem greater
only for its having attempted more.
Your support and ideas can make the
difference ♦ ♦ ♦

TECHNOGRAPH

Engineering for Education

(Continued from page 15)

IF and when we gain general ac-
ceptance of the fact that engineering
is, indeed, a learning profession which
rt'cjuires a plan for a lifetime of such
karning, then we must go back to
our imdergraduate and graduate pro-
grams and consider them in a new
light. We might even modify the con-
cept, \\'hich is too prevalent, that we
must stuff so much material into the
imdergraduate curriculum because
tliat may be the only place where
most engineers will receive fomial
education in their entire lifetime.

We should rather seek answers to
the following and other questions.
How ma)- we best design an edu-
cational system which will optimize
the contribution of the individual and
allow liim to find the niche which
he best can fill? How can we meet the
challenge of the requirement that en-
gineers must ha\e breadth in order
to communicate, and yet depth in
order to contribute? Should separate
treatments and means be used for
conducting the two distinct functions
of any engineering curriculum,
^'Training" and "Education?" For ex-
ample, how may we make optimum
use of such training aids as teaching
systems which can use the sophisti-
cated information processing of mod-
ern computers, or better yet, the
computers of 1970 and beyond.

Of course, I recognize that a major
diflBculty in Engineering for Educa-
tion is that we do not operate under
a planned econom\' in which any con-
ceivable group can design and imple-

ment the adoption of a complete
educational system for the nation in
the sense that an A T & T organi-
zation can develop a Direct Dialing
S\stem for the entire country. As a
practical matter, we must tn,' to devel-
op a program through democratic
means, making use of our professional
societies and educational organiza-
tions. We need discussion and com-
munication through conferences,
literature, etc.

However, there are two new
programs under way which should
provide vitality and direction to con-
tinuing education. One is the proposal
of Harold \\"ork, Director of the En-
gineering Foundation, for the forma-
tion of an American Institute for
Continuing Education of Engineers.
Planning for this institute is proceed-
ing through a grant from the Engi-
neering Foundation to the Engineers'
Council for Professional Development.
\\'hile the proposal is still in the de-
velopmental stage, already a number
of ver\' important concepts ha\'e been
recognized. Such an institute could
be an important coordinating body
which could exchange information,
recognize needs, and help support
their development. The other is an
active program of the .\merican So-
ciet\' for Engineering Education in
which the interests of the whole soci-
ety in continuing education for engi-
neers is being studied by a task force
under the Engineering College Ad-
ministrative Council.

The need for experimentation b\'
both industry and universities will
still be a major requirement. Most of
all, there is the need for a recognition,
b\' both foundations and industry,
that proper implementation of pro-

grams of engineering career develop-
ment will involve costs of considerable
magnitude. But one may well add this
question: If our nation does not rec-
ognize and make such an investment
in its engineering manpower, will not
the hidden costs of not doing such a
job be much greater? From past ex-
perience of our own and that of other
nations in the world, we know that
an inadequate educational program
is dangerous.

In 1916. Alfred North Whitehead
made a profound comment which has
been cited frequently, but \\'hicli has
such a bearing on our problem that
I cannot refrain from quoting it
again.

^^'hen one considers in its length and
in its breadth the importance of this
question of the education of a nation's
>-oung, the broken lies, the defeated
hopes, the national failures, which re-
sult from the frivolous inertia widi
which it is treated, it is difficult to re-
strain within oneself a savage rage. In
the conditions of modem life the rule
is absolute, the race which does not
value trained intelligence is doomed.
Not all your heroism, not all your
social charm, not all your wit, not all
\our victories on land or at sea, can
move back the finger of fate. Today
we maintain ourselves. Tomorrow
science will have moved fonvard >et
one more step, and there will be no
appeal from the judgment which will
then be prounounced on the unedu-
cated.

I would make only one change in his
famous statement. No longer is there
importance merely on the "education
of the nation's \oung"; today there is
comparable importance on the con-
tinuing education of the practitioners
of any learning profession which must
continue until the practice of their
profession ceases. ♦ ♦ ♦

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Someone is listening!

To the Editor:

I noticed with much interest your editorial on page 3 of the
November issue of the Technograph. I want to endorse your state-
ment that the College of Engineering administration and faculty
are sincerely open to suggestions on how we can improve the
College, particularly with reference to the needs of the students.
As I often tell tlie freslimcn in my annual appearance on the
rostrum of General Engineering 100, facult>- members normally
enter the educational field because they like students. This is
particularly true in Engineering, where there are so many and
frequently reiterated attractions in industry, especially for anyone
more interested in things than in people.

I want to point out also that in addition to the column, "Brick-
bats 'n' Bouquets," and direct appeal to the Dean, there is
another route that I would recommend. I have frequently dis-
cussed with succeeding chairmen of the Engineering Council how
I hope for the Council to ser\e as a source of ideas from the
viewpoint of the student on how to improve the College of En-
gineering. One advantage of transmitting ideas tlirough the
mechanism of the Council, whose representatives, in turn, are
selected by the several engineering societies, is that this gives a
forum for discussion so that any ideas can be threshed out and
improved by the give and take of discussion. In fact, in the case
of the example you cited in your article, I did refer the matter
to the Engineering Council and asked their advice on the student's
suggestion. It was out of that discussion that we decided to take
action on one part of the suggestion, whUe putting aside that part
of the proposal that the broader student group did not endorse.

As a result of a discussion with an earlier Engineering Council
president, we did set up suggestion boxes in several places on the
Engineering campus. I well remember the first one was put up
outside the Engineering Library. After a period of time the box
was opened. Out of twelve suggestion slips, ten were to the point
that "there should be a ladies' room on the first floor of Civil
Engineering Hall." While obviously these suggestions did not come
from the students, still not too long afterwards there was a ladies'
room on the first floor.

One of the problems with gripes pubhshed in any press is the
tendency of letter writers to withhold their names. As you pointed
out in \our editorial, sometimes the individual just does not have
full information on whst our resources ma\' be, what we can
afi^ord, or what other limitations may apply boundarj- conditions.
In map)' cases I would like to discuss such letters with the writer,
l>nt have no way of contacting him. For the most part, one
innot really take too seriously gripes that do not carrj' the
-.trcngth of conviction that makes the writer willing to sign his
name.

Sincerely,
W. L. Everitt,
Dean
To the Editor:

In an article ( The Forgotten Man by Gary- Da>mon ) in last
month's issue of Technograph, Gar>' mentioned the unfortunate
rircumstances which may cause an instructor to be too busy
updating" himself to give adeauate time to the undergraduate.
.\iiy communication between professors and students about present
ri search in fields related to (or even completely unrelated to)
el.issvvork is, of course, highly desirable.

There is, in addition, another aspect of our campus activities
which instructors might find at least as important as that of in-
forming undergraduates of present research.

Since there is a great deal of construction now in progress on

our campus, it seems only natural that some of the instructors in
stnictural design courses would be willing, if not eager, to show
their students the practical aspects of what they teach in class
by taking tliem to visit these sites.

If the instructor's time is too precious for this simple task, and
as an undergraduate I sometimes get the admittedly dangerous
notion that time should not be too precious to be devoted to
students, I wonder how many have even mentioned the benefits
an individual student might derive from personally tnmdling
down to look. I also wonder if students in re-enforced concrete
classes are ever told any details about the construction of build-
ings on campus. They might just be interested.

Mike Quinn

A reply from the Rhetoric Department

To the Editor:

Having been invited to comment on the letter in the November Techno-
graph accusing the Freshman Rhetoric staff of prejudice against engineering
students, I cannot foibear first commenting on it as a piece of writing. In
this connection, the first observ.ition to be made is that it makes a charge
without offering any evidence to substantiate it. It indicates that some engi-
neering students feel that some rhetoric teachers are prejudiced against
engineers. It then converts this feeling by some people in a group about
some people in another group into a fact about all the people in the second
group. The writer of the letter assumes to be a fact what he is obliged to
prove to be as fact. In short, the letter is a perfect example of begging the
question.

A prejudice is, by definition, an opinion formed prior to the facts or with-
out reference to the facts. Let me put beside this definition a sentence from
the letter: "Several freshman friends of mine have found [thatl their in-
structors already have an opinion of their ability." Presumably, this is offered
as evidence that the instructors of these freshmen are prejudiced. If this
opinion was formed before the teachers saw samples of the students' work,
it was a prejudice: if it was formed after seeing examples of the work, it
was not a preiudice. Moreover, a rhetoric teacher would have opinions about
the abilities of all of his students, not merely the engineering students, after
seeing examples of their work. The soundness of these opinions would de-
pend on many variables — and the opinions would always be subject to re-

Another sentence ;n the letter goes as follows: "It is not logical that
students of one college are naturally poorer writers than students as a
whole." The question whether students of one college write less well than
students as a whole is a question of fact, not logic. Moreover, even if tests
revealed that students in one college write less well than students as a
whole, the question of why they do would be quite open. I don't k-now what
would be the test of the "naturalness" of such a situation.

One other sentence requires comment: "Something must be done to get
the engineers' rhet grades up to the level of the rest of the campuses." Any
rhetoric teacher would first point out that this is an illogical comparison;
"rhetoric grades" and "level of the rest of the campuses," being wholly
unlike, cannot be compared. Presumablv, the writer means that something
must be done to get the engineering students' rhetoric grades up to the level
of the rhetoric grades of the rest of the campuses. I have to assume that
campuses here is used as a synonym for colleges. If this is what he means,
then he implies that engineering students make low'er grades in rhetoric than
do the students of any other college on our campus. If he has figures to
demonstrate this, I should be most pleased to see them.

I cpnnot compare the grades earned in rhetoric by engineering students
with those earned by students in any other college, but I can compare them
with the grades earned by students as a whole. The figures below compare
the results in Rhetoric 101 in the fall of 1962. They are fairly typical of the
results over the past three years. Percentages for all students come from
English Department records: those for engineering students come from
Dean Pierce's office.

AH students Engineering students

\ 4.1<^ 3.7fo

B 22.47f^^ 17.7%

C 45.73r-„ 47.0%

D 19. .11% 2.1.0%

E 8.37% 8.4%

I see nothing in these figures to validate the accusation of preiudice. Even
if the figures showed that engineering students earn significantly lower grades
in rhetoric than do students as a whole, they still would not prove preiudice.
Many other factors might account for a discrepancy. As it stands, they do
not even show S'gnificant differences.

Aly own experience has been that students are more likelv to be prejudiced
than are their teachers. The writer of this letter does his friends and fellow-
students no service bv encouraging them in a demonstrablv false belief
that thev are victims of persecution. However, he may unwitt-ngly have done
them a verv real service: if they will use his letter as a model of what not
to do in their Freshman Rhetoric classes, they may do very well there. It
is, at best, a D theme.

T^nprejudicedly yours,

Frank B. Moake

Acting Chairman of Freshman Rhetoric

To the Editor:

The first two issues were no doubt a real test of endurance.
Tliumbing from advertisement to advertisement, I noticed a
distinct scarcity of articles. The December issue was indeed a
pleasant surprise! The qualitv' and quantity of writing interspersed
among the pages of company propaganda was the best yet. May
Tech continue to provide interesting articles about campus sci-
ence and engineering research.

And please, comic covers belong on comic books! A magazine
of Tech's caliber should not have to rely on Santa (and his
presents!) and turkeys to attract potential readers. I believe it
would be more fitting if Technograph would adopt covers more
relevant to the articles within. Sincerelv-.

David Washburn
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land the right job. Ed.

JANUARY, 1964

Personality of the Month

(Continued from page 45)

to eliminate risks b>' making sacrifices
to the gods; today he is using science,
believing that for every result there is
an antecedent cause; and that if he
just leams enough about the web of
cause-and-effect relationsliips in the
world, he can figure out with cer-
tainty what will happen. And if he
knows with certainty what will hap-
pen, he can figure out what to do to
make the right things happen.

In the Twentieth Century, domi-
nated as it is by science, in place of
offering sacrifices to the gods, we are
careful to take our vitamins, to avoid
cholesterol in our diets, to get enough
but not too much exercise. Or in the
field of corporate management we are
careful to spend enough on research
and development or to spend enough
on advertising. We all want to be
"on the right side" of science. We
don't want to admit that some things
just happen— that even the most care-
ful person can be killed by the ran-
dom twitch of a drunk dri\er coming
toward him on the highway.

From where I sit, this excessive
reliance on science is another "cure-
all" and as bound to fail as primitive
man's reliance on his sacrifices. The
plain fact is that, regardless of what
you do, you will always live in a
frightening world. Regardless of the
amount of information you have, you
will make some wrong decisions.
Each decision is a bet on life's rou-
lette wheel, and the best you can do
is insist that the odds match the risks.
If you wait for sure things, you will
never do anything. There is no way
to avoid taking risks.

Facing the risks of decision-making
takes not only courage but a philos-
ophy of life which will help you
keep your bearings regardless of how
well or how badly you are doing at the
time. You must develop your own
style of play. If you are the kind of
person who insists on being sure you
will be right, you will never play for
very large stakes. If you are the kind
who wants to play for larger stakes,
you will have to take larger risks. My
own style of play is to be conserva-
tive on small things and take sub-

stantial risks on big things. But I
can't tell you what style of play you
should have. The important thing is
to develop a style of play which fits
your personality and then maintain
it. There is always the danger, after
a series of good decisions, that you
will get soft and start taking foolish
risks; or, after a series of poor de-
cisions, that you will become too
conservative and insist on playing it
too safe.

At the risk of upsetting your pro-
fessors, I am going to tell you my
favorite way of making difficult de-
cisions: I think about all the possible
outcomes for the decision; I some-
times even write myself letters rec-
ommending various courses of action.
I talk it over with my wife. I examine
all the evidence I can, but I don't
agonize over the problem. Once I
have thought the problem through, I
look over my left shoulder and there
is the answer. And once I see the an-
swer, there is no question about what
to do; the way is clear. Then it is
time to act. There is a time for think-
ing and a time for acting. To be
effective, one must know when to stop
thinking and start acting. If you are
going to be a successful leader, never
question a decision once it is made.

It may turn out that the decision
you have made is wrong. This isn't
too serious if you accept my premise
that this is a risky world, that in every
decision there is an element of the
gamble. It doesn't reduce your effec-
tiveness to make a 180 degree turn.
If you have been wrong, don't waste
your energy blaming yourself. To
other people you may want to say
that the situation has changed and it
is time for a new look at things. You
may want to say to yourself that the
original decision was a gamble and
not all gambles succeed. The impor-
tant thing is to keep your courage
and your judgment, so that regardless
of the outcome of any particular de-
cision you are in a position to make
an intelligent gamble the next time
you are called upon to make a
decision.

I have heard people say that there
is a lot of luck in life, and I would
agr