Carnegie Mellon University - Thistle Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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The American Institute of Chemical Engineers is a national society for students in the Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. Membership is open to students enrolled in their sophomore year or above including those in graduate courses. The activities are of such a nature as to supplement the courses given in the Chemical Engineering Department. The object of the society is to foster a professional attitude toward Chemical Engineering by combining the social aspects with the technical side of the course. At Homecoming, A.I.Ch.E. sponsored a laboratory display of unit operations AlChE in the basement of Engineering Hall. The Tech division of the society, under the direction of Dr. C. C. Monrad, also offered their services at the National Conference of A.I.Ch. E. held this year in Pittsburgh. Tech members then held a Student Night with the University of Pittsburgh and other Tri-State schools where representatives of industry delivered informal talks in different phases of Chemical Engineering and then held panel discussions. Most of A.I.Ch.E.’s activities were planned by junior members, this year the officers being Richard Dciningcr, Delbert Button, Gerald Daurellc, and William Schcffy. ROVC' 1—G. Djurelle, R. Deininger, R. Wilt, E. Greene. RO X' 2—XT. Scbtgy, . Schramm, „ Ingham, . McAJoo, D. Button.

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DEPARTMENT of CHEMICAL ENGINEERING CARL C. MONRAD As the comparatively young field of Chemical Engineering expands, that department at Carnegie Tech also has continued to grow. Under the direction of department head. Dr. Carl C. Monrad, many improvements, both in course organization and in the physical plant of the department, have been made within the past year. The Unit Operations Laboratory, scene of senior experimental work, has been brightened by a complete paint job and many new pieces of apparatus have been added. Research has been encouraged through expanded facilities and work in this important field has continued on a large scale. Included among the studies being made by the members of the faculty are investigations of fluid flow, gas absorbtion, thermo-dynamic P-V-T correlation, vapor-liquid equilibrium, heat transfer, and liquid extraction. One new man, Dr. E. W. Grohsc of the University of Delaware, has been added to the faculty which also includes Dr. Monrad, R. Rothfus, R. Beckman, and J. C. Edmister. Fifty-five men will be graduated from the department this year as compared to last year’s class of seventy-five. The difference in size is an indication of the return to pre-war normalcy. FACULTY ROW 1—R. Bjckmjnn, R. Rotbfus. ROW 2—tt . Edmister, E. Crohse. C. Monrtd.

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DEPARTMENT of CIVIL ENGINEERING FREDERICK T. MAVIS FACULTY At mid-year, the department’s move to new quarters was completed. New offices, new classrooms, and new laboratory space in Industries Hall have fulfilled a long-standing need. A centralizing of activities has been effected that remedies a sore point in the old Engineering Hall location. Centralization of the physical plant enhances pursuance of the departmental policy of team working. Problems arc attacked by organized squads rather than disorganized individuals, with the result that greater amounts of more difficult work arc done. Incidental to the problem solution, the individuals learn cooperative action, pooling of resources and cross-checking of results. Undergraduate research projects parallcd the graduate and faculty laboratory exercises. Not content with standard testing of their specimens, the lab-technicians have designed and built new testing equipment for both the structural materials and the hydraulics sections. Old and new equipment provide a physical plant adequate for all foreseeable research and demonstrative purposes. Such varied activities as testing of soil samples, measuring energy differentials in a hydraulic pump, and pouring a reinforced concrete beam proceed simultaneously.