Missouri University of Science and Technology - Rollamo Yearbook (Rolla, MO)

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CERAMIC GI EERI G THE CERALIIC INDUSTRY is over 4,000 years old, but the scientific aspects of manu- facturing and rapid industrial progress have developed only within the last forty years. Coincidental with this accelerated rate of development, ceramic engineering education was begun and helped in the rapid advancement. Ceramic engineering is that engineering concerned With the manufacture of products useful to civilization from the non-metallic, inorganic materials, in the process of which high temperatures are employed. The ceramic branch of engineering includes the following fields of manufacture: structural claywaresg refractories and fire brickg porcelain enamelwareg glass waresg electrical porce- laing dinnerwareg abrasive wheelsg and cements, limes and plasters. These products are greatly needed by our present-day civilization and have made pos- sible many of the marvels of the modern machine age. The metallurgical,

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x w - X, , .Mxxix X X!! lt iffy , application in a special Held, thus giving training for a position ing? l5rapclgf9,?Y it A of the electrical engineering profession. The theoretical classroo,g16i7l5'fis jljf ,N accompanied by laboratory courses. The purpose of the laboratory Workfis ii., X 'X f 'N only to present fundamental electrical testing methods, but also to aiclfthef XP if in the formation of habits of accurate observation, in the clevelopgp nt in ti.. X jf! y initiative and resourcefulness, and in gaining experience in the preparationgf.:QllF.fN i XM X A 1, technical reports. f 3' QYQ if Upon graduation Electrical Engineers Hnd employment in such depai'ti1ic5Qlsf i My vp as test, design, application, construction, patent law, research, salesl CO11SLlllLlflgifii'lTfil' A and administration. The organizations employing Electrical Engineers 'y lg widely from private Hrms to large manufacturing -concerns, fronritetslgg''!eti5Q-f4? fi1 T' gineering companies to completely non-engineering organizations 31, pitals and theatres, and from civilian projects to government projects. Ijigwiidtiifff ii 'E 'l possibilities in the usage of electricity assure the electrical engineer a promising V future. l i l gi r l Q MM' 234 V v'i: f 1. 3 lg- .

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