Carnegie Mellon University - Thistle Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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(3lu (iKentoriam departtneMut of JOSEPH BERNHARDT ROSENBACH It is with extreme regret and sorrow that wc record the sudden death of Professor Joseph B. Rosenbach on November 6, 1951. With the utmost reverence and respect wc dedicate this space to his memory. Professor Rosenbach received his undergraduate education at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and the University of New Mexico, and his graduate education at the Universities of New Mexico, Colorado, and Illinois. He joined the Carnegie faculty in 1920 as an instructor in mathematics, and in 1950 was made Head of the Mathematics Department. He held the distinction of being one of the ablest teachers on the Carnegie campus. He made important contributions to the Carnegie Plan for Professional Education, and served as secretary of the Basic Course Committee for many years. 11c was a close adviser to both day and evening students, and took an active part in the guiding and counseling of freshmen. He was well known throughout the colleges of the United States as the co-author of successful textbooks in Algebra and Trigonometry. But he will be best remembered by those who knew him for his warm friendship, his charming personality, and the many activities in which he indulged for the welfare and inspiration of students at Carnegie. A truly great person and a friend has departed; he will not be easily replaced. Though the loss is great, his family and friends may be consoled with the memory of a life well lived and devoted to the service of others.

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electrical engineering This year, as in the past, the Electrical Engineering Department is improving old courses and adding to keep abreast of new knowledge in the electrical engineering field. Dr. Tcarc also intends to continue his policy of teaching by effort, mistakes, and experience. The work of the department has been fully adapted and coordinated with the Carnegie Plan of Professional Education. Response of Physical Systems, a new course offered to seniors this year, studies the analysis systems, especially simple servomechanisms. Besides an excellent undergraduate program, extensive graduate research is being carried on, thirty-two students being engaged in various forms of research. Magnetic amplifiers, network and transmission line theory, electronic circuits, electrostatic precipitation, and servomechanisms arc subjects presently under investigation. BENJAMIN R. TEARE, Jr., Department Head So it's a test; who’s worried?' Oscilloscope takes a beating in AC machinery lab

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mathematics The Department of Mathematics at Carnegie Institute of Technology offers two intensive four-year programs in mathematics at the undergraduate level, one in pure mathematics and the other in applied mathematics. Each of these programs leads to a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics. Graduate work, leading to the degrees of Master of Science and Doctor of Science, is directed toward study and research in analysis, applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and statistics. Extensive research programs, under the direction of members of the Department, are currently in progress in elasticity and plasticity, electromagnetic theory and acoustics, fluid dynamics, mathematical economics and programming, network theory, mathematical statistics and statistical quality control, relativity and quantum mechanics, and vibrations. DAVID MOSKOVITZ Acting Department Head pi mu epsilan No fancy apparatus here, just the old noodle Pi Mu Epsilon is a national honorary mathematics fraternity composed of faculty, graduate, and undergraduate members, without restriction as to department or college. It maintains chapters in over fifty of the larger colleges and universities in the United States. Its purposes are to further interest in mathematics and to encourage and stimulate advanced study and research. The CIT Chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon sponsors lectures by both distinguished mathematicians and students. Professor Peter Chiarulli is the faculty advisor. P. Chiarulli, D. Shaffer, F. Smith, R. DiPrima, W. Warner