New Mexico State University - Swastika Yearbook (Las Cruces, NM)

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%. • fi fiiifc ' . L 1 At the atmospheric sciences office at W ' liite Sands Missile Ran j;e. h ' I in L. Ronsh tests a demultiplexer. Fourth ear coop program student. Ralph P. ' Shelton. adjusts ' a TR 10 Ana- logue computer in his experiment. Christopher A. Eddy, working at White Sands Missile Range acceptance testing branch, tests an Askinia camera as part of his job. 29

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many students benefit from co-op program The University operates several cooperative educational plans with federal, state, county, university and private agencies to enable students to acquire practical experience in their chosen fields. Cooperative education at the university be- gan in 1952 with the establishment of the White Sands Missile Range Program. Since that time agreements have been reached with the New Mexico Highway Department Physical Plant De- partment, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Lea County Board of Commissioners, Physical Sci- ence Laboratory, Boeing Company, Ling-Temco- Vought, Inc., Federal Communications Commis- sion, Kirtland Air Force Base, and Phillips Petro- leimi Company. The greater part of the cooperative students are chosen from majors in engineering, mathma- tics, and physics, but a program for students of teacher education has been recentlv added. Women students are accepted only by teacher Education and by White Sands Missile Range. To be eligible for cooperative training a stu- dent must demonstrate more than average scho- lastic ability. The minimum grade average varies but all employers are inclined to accept the best students available. Students usually attend the university for at least one semester before being placed on a job. This enables the student to prove his scholastic ability as well as bring additional scientific knowl- edge to his work. Cooperative students live in student housing and eat in the cafeteria while they are on school- phase and also while on work -phase in the vicin- ity of the university. They are expected to enjoy the same privileges and obey the same regulations as other students. Electrical engineering major, Lee R. Smith, tunes the telementrv package for an instrumentation package at the Instrumentation Division White Sands Missile Range. John R. Carpenter, sophomore electrical engineering major at New Mexico State Unixersity, performs main- tanence on an electronic multiplier. 28

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engineering college builds research programs when the Engineering College moved into the two new wings of Jett Hall this year, it more than tripled its floor space, gaining needed room for research instruction and equipment. Building their research programs has been one of the major concerns of most of the five en- gineering departments this year. The Ci il Engineering department saw the greatest gains in research and equipment. It con- centrated most of its effort in water resource and sanitar) ' engineering studies. The aerospace lab was expanded in the Me- chanical Engineering department. Hypersonic wind tunnels were installed and more space made available for low-speed wind tunnels. Facult) ' also set up a vibrations lab for testing strength of structures used in flight, missile frames, and skin assemblies. Chemical engineers enlarged their faculities for studying metal structure as related to engi- neering properties. They acquired .x-ray ma- chines, grinding, polishing, and photo equipment. The largest department on campus. Elec- trical Engineering, drew up preliminaiy plans for their new building which will go up south ofGoddardHall. The Agricultural Experiment Station utilized the resources of the Ag Engineering department for projects improving cotton planting equipment and developing methods of underground irriga- tion. For the United States Department of Agri- culture, Ag Es studied range reseeding in at- tempts to grow grass on desert land. Engineering Technology, newest academic addition to the college, sent a mobile lab to NMSU branch colleges diis year. With $10,000 of equipment and room for 16 students, tiie mo- bile van furnished facilities needed for instruc- tion in an electricit) ' course. The department also added electro-mechanics to its two year programs and began offering one year drafting certificates. I Dr. Charles Hotchkiss and Prot. Cluirles Wilcoxson dis- cuss the best ways for using plastic models to demon- strate perspectives in an ME 105 drafting class. John Wright lines up his camera for another shot of polarized light rays as they are refracted through trans- parent solids in compression tests. Don Patterson and Willie Lujan observe. 30