General Motors Institute - Reflector Yearbook (Flint, MI)

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Fall, L961: Electrical Engineering The Circuits and Networks lab areas provide the latest equipment at the students’ fingertips on these new work stations. The addition to the west building is being used to im- plement the expanded Electricity and Electronics program. The new addition houses seven classrooms, approximately 10,000 square feet of laboratory space, offices for the depart- ment’s faculty, and a small lounging area. In constructing the new addition, rearrangement of the adjoining areas of the existing building produced a new projection room seating 100 people. Air conditioning was installed in laboratory areas, Classrooms, and offices which no longer have outside windows as a result of the building addition. The laboratory facilities were designed to accomplish these objectives: versatility of student work areas and equip- ment, efficient use of faculty and student time, safety and ease of maintenance, pleasant atmosphere, good communica- tions, easy identification of work areas, and appropriate laboratory equipment for training electrical, industrial, and mechanical engineering students. The analog computer laboratory offers excellent training in electronics. Thousands of dollars of new electrical and electronic equipment have been added to the E.E. lab.

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of Many Improvements The 35 acres immediately adjacent to the Institute has long been recognized as the key to future physical develop- ment of General Motors Institute. The family home on the property was occupied for the past several years by Miss Margaret Hasselbring, a cultured and charming lady who took great interest in the Institute until her death at 81 on January 7, 1962. As a final gesture of her friendship for the Institute, Miss Hasselbring incorporated in her will a request that the property be offered for sale to General Motors for the use of the Institute. Miss Hasselbring’s heirs—have made the offer to sell and they and General Motors are negotiating the terms of the sale. The Institute has rented approximately five acres of this property since 1953 for use as a softball field. Three dia- monds are currently being used by students at the Institute for intramural softball. The Hasselbring property would be used as a site for expansion of the Institute building program. Proposed use of the property includes heavy equipment laboratories, student and faculty centers, an auditorium, a possible athletic build- ing, library, and dormitories with parking facilities, all ap- propriately placed and properly landscaped. The proposed use of this property, subsequent to its purchase, will likely occur slowly over a period of time. The wooded Hasselbring property is located directly across Third Avenue from the Institute. The Third Avenue frontage of the Hasselbring property extends from North Garden street to the Flint River.

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Students Move Into Completed Wing ' The Electricity and Electronics faculty moved into these new offices adjacent to the new laboratories. ASRRBRE SE The new lounge area gives both the students and faculty an area in which to relax between classes. Another special feature is a patch system which allows as many as three circuits to be connected between any or all stations in the lab and one pro- jection room and two adjoining classrooms. This allows the transmission of a closed circuit television signal from the laboratory to the projection room or classrooms for a lecture-demonstration. The student project area is used by students to conduct lab projects which may require several weeks for completion. The GMTE Electronics Club utilizes this area for meetings and demonstrations. The faculty laboratory development area is used to develop laboratory experiments and class demon- strations, investigate new theories, devices, and equipment, and to perform original investigations. With the new patch system installation, laboratory demonstration can be transmitted by closed circuit T.V. The electrical engineering laboratory facilities include areas for the following activities: Circuits and Networks, Electrical Machines, Basic Electronics and Semiconductors, Instrumentation and Measurement Standards, Controls and Servo, Electronic Process Equipment, Systems (Analog Com- puter), Student Projects, Faculty Development, and Supply and Maintenance. Several special features have been incorporated in the laboratory facilities. A shielded room has been installed in an annex to the instrumentation and measurement standards area. The room is used whenever it is necessary to use electrical instrumentation in an area of minimum electrical interference, or, whenever it is desired to prevent equipment or experiments from causing possible interference to other sections of the lab or the surrounding neighborhood. 9