Carnegie Mellon University - Thistle Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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Comprising approximately sixty per cent of the total enrollment of Carnegie Institute of Tech' nology, the College of Engineering stands as the bulwark of the school. In this age of specialized production and intensive research, its job to pro' vide the human motivating power for industry is of vital importance. The three major divisions of the College, the engineering, science, and printing departments, are capable of training men for every phase of technical and scientific endeavor. The engineering division consists of six basic departments: Chemical, Civil, Metallurgical, Electrical, Mechanical, and Manage' ment Engineering. Each of these departments presents a fundamental training in the first two years followed by an intensive of subjects peculiar to the respective departments in the third and fourth years. The science departments—Physics, Chenv istry, and Mathematics and the Printing Depart' ment are modeled along the same general lines in their respective fields of learning. The entire college made up of these ten units—is integrated into a smoothly operated educational machine by its Director Doctor Webster Newton Jones. During the past decade Dr. Jones has brought Carnegie Tech to be regarded as one of the foremost engineering schools in the country and whose Machine Shop The Wind Tunnel Qualitative Analysis Electrical Lib w m

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Glendenning Kekblk Director, College of Fine Arts ADMINISTRATION Director, Metals Research Laboratory Robert F. Mehl Director, Coal Research Laboratory H. H. Lowry Commanding Officer, Reserve Officers' Training Corps Oscar O. Kuentz Chairman, Division of Physical Welfare. Clarence Overend Acting Manager, Bureau of AJetos and Publications Max E. Hannum Executive Secretary, Alumni Federation.. Marguerite Spilman 25 Charles Watkins Director, Margaret Morrison Carnegie College

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Engineering Hall graduates are second to none in technical training and ability. Nor is the technical aspect the only one to be emphasized. To broaden the engineer's outlook and to enable him to more readily compre' hend problems of social significance, the College of Engineering instituted the Social Relations Program which [has accomplished this purpose through courses in economics, human relations, and the characteristics of society. Such has the College of Engineering come to be. The repercussions of modern war are, however, far reaching, and those of World War II have invaded this intellectual sanctity and transferred it to the assembly line. The normal college course may be completed in four years, but due to the terrific expansion of war production, the industrial world is clamoring for more and more engineers and demanding them immediately. To meet this de mand, the normal schedule has been expedited. By means of eliminating final examinations and the Easter vacation, the class of '42 will graduate a month ahead of schedule. In addition, the class of '43 has adopted the trimester plan and will attend school throughout the summer. Thus it will be able to graduate in December of 1942—five months ahead of schedule and join in this, the greatest of national efforts. Polishing a Specimen 27 I