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

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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING the east i’Ew decades ha vc witnessed a very rapid development in mechanical processes and transportation, notably the airplane. Mechanical Engineering comprises the science anti technology of power generation of mechanical transmission of power, and of the production of machine tools and their products. In addition to the research, design, development, and investigation required in creating these services and products, mechanical engineering includes the organization of men, money, and materials and their coordina- tion for effective and economic production. Mechanical Engineering at M. S. M. is taught with the object of giving the student a comprehensive training in the fundamentals of mechanical engineering which will be of use to him in practically any industry which he might choose to enter. After the present war a large reserve of professional men will be needed to supervise a vast reconstruction program. The complex problems encountered will involve the establishment of new inter- connect ions-laws of communication and understanding between fields of human activity that in the past have been held separate. The solu- tion of these problems and the restoration of the war-torn world will in no small measure be effected by the mechanical engineer.

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CERAMIC ENGINEERING ceramic engineering is that engineering concerned with the manu- facture of products useful to civilization From the non-metallic, inor- ganic-material , in the processing of which high temperatures are employed. The ceramic branch of engineering includes the following fields of manufacture: structural clay wares; refractories and lire brick; porcelain enamelware; glass wares; electrical porcelain; dinnerware: abrasive wheels; and cements, limes and plasters. I hese products are greatly needed by our present-day civilization and have made possible many of the marvels of the modern age. The students in the Ceramic Engineering course receive a well- grounded basic course in chemistry, physics, and mathematics before branching out into the various ceramic subjects. 1 he most important of these is chemistry, since ceramics is vitally concerned with high- temperature chemistry, or the reactions which take place in various mixtures when they are healed to the extremely high temperatures usually employed. The Missouri Clay Testing and Research Laboratories are operated in connection with the Ceramic Engineering Department, which allows ceramic students to gain an intimate knowledge of standard testing methods and research procedure. Since 1898, when ceramic education began in America, less than two thousand graduates have gone out into this oldest and most diversified industry composed of more than thirty-five hundred plants in the United States. During the present war emergency, the demand for ceramic engineers is even greater while l he supply is seriously depleted.

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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING THE role OF the chemical ENGINEER in the industrial world is to translate chemical (laboratory) processes into profitable manufactur- ing operations. These usually involve the co-ordination of chemical reactions as well as unit physical operations. The training of chemical engineers supplies the foundation and tools needed to start a professional career. Organic, inorganic, ana- lytical and physical chemistry; mathematics, physics, mechanics and economics form the basic training lor the professional chemical en- gineer. Industrial stoichiometry, chemical engineering unit opera- tions, design and thermodynamics emphasize the professional aspects. The chemical engineer will be found in every large industrial organization participating in the rapid march of progress. His duties may confine his efforts to the executive department, research develop- ment. plant and equipment design, plant construction and operation, process control or technical sales. The Chemical Engineering Department of the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy has moved into the new building which was completed in the summer of 194 • 1 he work ol the depaitment is now carried on in this portion ol the new building and the old chemistry building. The new building is essentially devoted to labora- tories for chemical engineering, organic, analytical and general chem- istry. It is excellently equipped with modern apparatus needed in the instruction and research program.