Rochester Institute of Technology - Techmila / Ramikin Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY Let’s mix glycerine and nitric acid and . . . Better forget it before you land in another world! Our chemistry department is justly proud of its grad- uates who have mixed glycerine and nitric acid and are still here. Our young men and women who are on cooperative jobs are in fifteen different industrial plants in and around Rochester. They are laboratory assistants which means they have great responsibility. They are obtaining the experience they need to become real chemists, chemists the w orld of today needs. Large numbers of our graduates have become full-fledged chemists. Others are doing laboratory control work or are laboratory assistants. The year 1945-46 in our Chemistry Department means the addition of an Industrial Ceramics Curriculum. It will follow' the chemistry course but from a Ceramics point of view. Graduates will not only be chemists and laboratory assistants but also will occupy supervisory positions in industrial plants manufacturing a variety of ceramic products. G1LLARD, VAN PEURSEM, BRADEN 11

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APPLIED ART DEPARTMENT Webster says 'Art is the employment of means to the accomplishment of some end ’ But when we come here as Freshmen we can't even recognize the means, let alone accomplishing the desired ends. Our year begins with the very fundamentals, learning the tools with which we are to write our masterpieces. We lug our sketch books from place to place in order to record on paper our impressions of people and places. For two more years we specialize in the medium we prefer—whether it be oils, water colors, clay, or other vehicles for our talents. The first life drawing gives an art student one of his biggest thrills. Each works at his particular interest and at the same time gets a taste of the many different means of self-expression which our art school stands for. The illustrators specialize in design; designers create borders and letters; and the interior decorators study architectural composition. By looking up to the old masters we strive to keep tradition unbroken and at the same time project the usefulness of art into our modern, scientific war- fare. Here camouflage and map-making call on our skills as never before. Now looking back as Seniors on our time here, we agree that this truly specialized course has lived up to all our expectations as Freshmen. BOND, WELLS, LAPP, CLEMENTS, HORN RAU, WYMAN, ULP 10

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ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT In spite of the fact that few can define electricity, our instructors have discovered a lot of things to teach us about an unknown,” Though the electrical lab appears first to the novice as a maze of coils, batteries and generators, we soon discover that they have definite purposes in making our studies fascinating—and, occasionally, our lives perilous. By learning the hard way, we soon find out just what this world of amps, volts, and kilometers is all about. Such simple classes as mechanical thermodynamics, magnetic circuits, and trig form the basis of our courses. From here on we're on our own. Although the course is on a three-year basis, some of us like it so well you'll find us here a fourth year! Our individual application units give us the opportunity to specialize in subjects most dear to our hearts—whether it be fixing our mothers’ flat iron or operating the giant turbines at Boulder Dam. KARKER, TUJTES, MQRECOCK 12