Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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School of Engineering and Architecture Ni INE instructive curricula provide the educational war program of the School of Engineering and Archi- tecture. These curricula are intended to give basic elements of general education, as well as the discipline of a professional training, especially important in war-time. Practical Experience Given Work studied in the classroom is supplemented by actual experience in the laboratory and field. It is the desire of the School that these studies will constantly bring out the relationship of the practical industrial application to the thec retical side of such knowledge. R. A. Seaton is the Dean of the School of Engineer- ing and Architecture. It is his job to see that men from this School are properly prepared to go into key positions in the war effort. It is part of the training program that these men will know as much as pos- sible about war engineering, in addition to regular problems of industry. Training Is Shortened In spite of the speeding up of the terms of the Col- lege, little of the actual training is omitted for the engineer. Fullest cooperation with the new semester and summer school schedules makes it possible for the engineering student to complete his College train- ing in two and two-thirds years. Under the Selective Service program, most engineering students are de- ferred until graduation.

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FUTURE MILLERS lesl flour in a milling! lal.oralory (ali Students study soils on a field trip (rijshl), while an j miniature of the Smoky Hill River valley (below) gives a tieal study in drainage problems for students studying soils

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DEAN R. A. SEATON, Engineer ins t rough h s work as 1 ead of the School. Belov is M. A. Dv rlan I. assistant dean, wl o has played a major role in the Col- lege at w ar act med se vice representa. live for Kansas Slate men. At eft is the foliase-c iverec enginee ingbu Ulin ?• Provides Educational War Training Special war training under the Engineering, Science and Management War Training program has been offered at Kansas State for the last three years as a contribution toward the war cause. Such courses are offered at institutions of the nation in an effort to meet the shortage of trained workers in war plants producing vital materials for the fighting fronts and to train persons to operate instruments vital for the protection of the nation. Such training is given in the pre-radar courses. Hundreds of men and women are given secret and highly technical training at Kansas State and then put to work for the United States Army Signal Corps. Other courses offered are analytical chem- istry, explosives, drafting and inspection. Prof. W. W. Carlson, head of the Department of Shop Practice, is institutional repre- sentative.