University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Single war training courses were offered to the general public under the Engineering Science Man- agement War Training. These dealt with subjects useful for practical work in war plants, and some forty different ones were offered. Several thousand people took these courses with tuition paid by the government. Enrollment decreased greatly in the ESiM VT courses this year due to the fact that most potential workers were employed in industry. Students in the Institute published their own magazine, the Technolog. It was written by tech- nology students and overseen by a faculty board. The College of Engineering and Architec- ture was subdivided into eight classifications. A student could major in electrical, chemical, aero- nautical, architectural, civil, mechanical, agricul- tural, or pre-business engineering. However, IT students spoke of the three largest classifications — chemical, electrical, and aeronautical. Enrollments in these fields gradually decreased up the class scale. Of course, emphasis was placed on wartime proj- ects this year, as it has been for the last four years. The college worked on problems facing the armed forces, trained Army and Navy students, and ac- celerated their courses so some were able to gradu- SAMUEL C. LIND, dean of the Institute, at the right, and Elmei John- son, professor of electrical engineering, tinker with an unused piece of lab equipment in the dean ' s private laboratory. PROFESSOR AND CHIEF of the division of inorganic chemistry, Lil- lian Cohen and M. Cannon Snced discuss Army and Navy chemistry programs . . . AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING PROFESSOR Jean F. Piccard is doing special aeronautical work for the armed forces. He plans to make a 100,000 foot post-war stratosphere flight — best of luck to him! Page 51

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SUPERVISING THE PLAV of nursery school children, Nancy McCabe Leib holds the door of a toy shed In the nursery yard while the children put their toys away. The division of childhood education was de- signed to give pre-school education to children from two to five years of age. Undergraduates re- ceived experience in story telling, plastics, and clay modeling through this function. This day nurser ' served as a blessing to working mothers and a good training center for both students and children. Inst, of Technology And many went into IT — despite great rumors floating about campus as to the character of en- gineers! Under Dean Samuel C. Lind, the Institute of Technology included the School of Chemistry, the College of Engineering and Architecture, and the School of Mines and iMetallurgy. During winter quarter a new curriculum was added to the Institute — a two-year terminal course of pre-professional training for technical aids. Stu- dents were trained for such jobs as draftsmen, ana- lysts, and management work, and at the end of six quarters, a certificate was awarded to students com- pleting the course. x lthough designed especially for veterans, it was open to anyone. OPERATING THE MACHINES in a shop course are Bill Reiser, James Wolff, and Howard Lennire. In spite of a decreased number of stu- dents, this year, the machine shop lab has almost returned to normal. Since the equipment is no longer needed for special war production, the machines were once again put to good use by the students in the classes. Page 50

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ate before being drafted. At the end of this summer the college completed the cycle of acceleration. A beginning class will start next fall for the first time in three years. The faculty took great pains to iron out the problems of the engineering students. They have found that, for their cases, the faculty-alumni rela- tionship was more important than a student-faculty intermediary board. The reason was that the stu- dent in such a technical field had no idea of what was the best course for him. But the graduate out using the information he got in school was better able to judge the more valuable courses. Plans were being laid for a five-year course after the war which would require students to take one year of pre-engineering. This was a scheme to eliminate uncultured engineers. Statistics, how- ever, showed that engineers were better informed in the arts than arts students were in the sciences. So perhaps some of those accusations everyone heard were fallacies! Other statistics showed that the most important phase was mathematics. The School of Mines and Metallurgy, a divi- sion of the Institute, was established in 1891. It, too, participated in war training; and members of its staff took part in government research. T. L. Joseph, head of the School, was a member of the War Metallurgy committee. In this School the fields of geological engineer- ing, metallurgical mining, and petroleum engineer- ing were covered. The geological engineer dis- ASSISTANT PROFESSOR of drawing and descriptive geometry, Ivan Doseff explains a detail of geometrical design to a student in one of his classes in engineering. covers ore deposits; metallurgical engineers con- cern themselves with the conversion of ore to metals; mining engineers have charge of the actual ore production; and the petroleum engineer does just what the name implies — has charge of the find- ing and development of petroleum. The School of Chemistry was under the direc- tion of Administrative Assistant Lloyd H. Reyer- son. There were five divisions within the School: inorganic, which gave the foundation for all other types of chemistry; analytical, which studied the quahtative and quantitative composition of sub- stances; organic, which developed in this country in the last thirty years (previous to that time all organic chemistry was German); physical, which had to do with the generalizations and theories of chemistry; and chemical engineering, which dealt PROFESSOR THOMAS L JOSEPH is the acting head of the School of Mines and Metallurgy. Professor Joseph is a member of the War Metallurgy committee and the National Research Council. with the direct practical application of chemical theories. Research on war projects was being carried out by the School of Chemistry on a rather extensive scale. There was some big research on synthetic rubber according to L. H. Reyerson, but the details could not be disclosed. Other projects in- cluded two in the division of physical chemistry. These were undertaken under the National Defense Research committee, a branch of another agency, the Office of Scientific Research and Development. Page 52