Columbia University School of Engineering - Yearbook (New York, NY)

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The 1933 COLUJICIBL4 ENGINEER of endeavor, While making a decision often involves tremendous nerve strain. You came here in accordance with a decision that circumscribed your activities for .a period of years, you depart into a life where decisions may require making, and re-making, at frequent intervals. Within the limit of our abilities We have been trying to help you prepare to make wise decisions, that will Work out satisfactorily for you and yours. College might be likened to the training period of a fighter, and life afterward to an unending series of bouts. We hope you will win oftener than you lose. No one can look upon the World today and fail to observe that men have made much more progress in learning how to do things than in deciding what to do. As a specific example, business men and engineers combined have set up means of produc- tion that seem far beyond our capacity to distribute and exchange their products, though the people of the world are still far from having all they want or need of those things. Somebody ought to do something about it is a natural reaction, but the question is what to do? I would not for a moment suggest that the world is to be remolded nearer to our heart's desire by engineers Who, having been so successful in finding out how to do things can now turn to the problems of finding out what to do in the con- fident expectation of equal success. But I do want to point out that human progress up to novv has mostly resulted from individuals deciding what they ought to do, and then doing it. A large and vocal group now tells us that While that procedure Works well in a simple civilization it breaks down in the complicated one that has gradually arisen. We are invited to try instead a scheme in which all-Wise central planning boards will decide for us what we ought to do. Skeptics point out that central planning led to reclaiming the arid lands of our West but ended in a situation where farmers cannot make a living even on land that did not need to be reclaimedg central planning led to the promoting of agricultural production and now finds itself confronted with the problem of huge surpluses of agricultural products. Years ago We had a professor of mechanics Whose favorite expression was I can't think with your head. Instead of believing that we can safely pass our decisions on to planning boards, I am convinced that the World situation today is the result of too narrow rather than too wide a distribution of the responsibility for making decisions- fclozztizzzzed on page 562 DOWN UNDER ORE DRESSING Thiriy-nine

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The 1933 COLUIWBIA ENGINEER RELATION OF GEOLGGY TO ENGINEERING CHARLES P. BERKEY F LATE YEARS Geology has be- come in part an Applied Science. Geologists serve as advisors in many helds of practical endeavor, but the principal service is in mining and certain other engineering undertakings. The principal reason for calling a geologist into consulation in connection with engineering projects is because he is expected to judge better than others the character and structure and physical condition and probable behavior of the ground. If the geologist has special com- petence, or has a knack for practical problems, he can contribute something to understanding of the actual physical conditions that have to be met. Such understanding is now considered of vital importance and consequently the de- mand for the advice of a specialist has become more and more insistent as en- gineering structures have increased in size. Features and conditions which in the case of small structure might be ignored, may in the case of large ones introduce difficult and unwarranted expense, or actually endanger the stability and safety of the structure. Kerr, Berleey, .4gzlr A reliable judgment of the expectable reaction to the new conditions to be imposed by the engineering development is an essential element in deciding upon the design and method of construction of many such works, and there is no substitute for this kind of information. Almost anything can be done if the conditions to be met are accurately known. In former times, before the era of buildings a thousand feet high, bridge spans half a mile long, and dams impounding waters that flood a whole valley for a hun- dred miles, it was practicable for the engineer of experience to judge geologic fea- tures himself. That day has gone for good, and there are just two reasons for the change,-first, greater economy in handling projects when all of the conditions to be met are understood, and second, the public demand for safety. Experience shows that failure is not uncommon where critical conditions are not understood, and that it costs more to find them out that way. It is not surprising, therefore, that in many states now such structures as dams must have authoritative approval. The major question presented in most of these cases is whether the proposed structure will be safe. There is no magic or peculiar insight attached to this kind of service. The geologist is not to be credited with unusual powers. He is a very matter-of-fact individual and his method is virtually always the same. Critical observations have to be made and the known fact have to be interpreted in the practical terms required bv the problem in hand. If the evidence is not sufficiently clear, no amount of speculation, or bluster, or personal inHuence, or salesmanship will do. Additional KCOIIIIIIIIFI1 on page 582 Forty-one