Northwestern University - Syllabus Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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...X ,.,..,.-..sf- i . 3 l 1 Dr. William Brinker, who developed the chemical engineering curriculum and estab- lished a competent staff. A good-humored scholar he has a reputation for giving hour exams that require no less than a week end. Dr. Brinker can, on occasion, shed a little professional dignity as he did last fall demonstrating a rough and tumble style of football against the seniors on Garrett Field. s Professor V. C. Williams expanded the department to two with his coming and has since made himself known by his varied interests and the many Havored anecdotes he is able to inject in unexpected places during a lecture. Originally suggested as a way of meeting the labor shortage, construction of equip- ment in the unit operation laboratory of the chemical engineering department with stu- dent help has been found to be an excellent way of acquainting students with the fundamentals of the chemical equipment involved in basic processes, as well as a method for keeping the laboratory up to date. Equipped with the facilities for staging the spectacular displays expected by a movie educated public, the Electrical Engineering Department has in its wing a one and a half million volt impulse generator of sufficient current capacity to imitate some of nature's lightning strokes. Under the direction of Professor Richard Jones, many industrial research problems are investigat- ed in the laboratory. On leave from school while engaged in government work at Pearl Harbor, Professor john Calvert, chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department, witnessed the activities of December 7, 1941, and has on his return served as a source of many stories. The electrical machinery lab is equipped with a complete variety of equipment and facilities for power connections and measure- ment. A source of absorbing interest to the electrical engineers, the Electrical Machinery lab is a requirement for all departments and is good naturedly con- sidered a good place to stay away from, inasmuch as the wiring of the machines often involves a complicated maze of spaghetti whose ultimate function is never trusted until a trial Hip of the switch is made. Represented by some of the most spec- tacular testing equipment in the building, the Civil Engineering Department is no less represented by a competent faculty. Chairman of the department, white-haired, distinguished-looking Professor George Maney is a nationally recognized authority on concrete and structures. Author of a , , ,., . vw ,fl ll ' - , X rn, I , !,,V,.,,,T-.-iK Y. ,fl f f b xx 'Lf-:V . - - 1 f in 1:5 . ' i,- .1-f 1 i f ' .-' - ' ,fill Nlfzf ,. ,gy-f'l .ff5t.'ffazf.f-f 'J iw, lg. I 'rv 9 'J' 'I flfnimij'!f fg,1llllllllllll' I -3' V-.i mtg- -KQV .J..,'l I , Lk. f zz, lv 'r I aj M A 1 igffn11l'i, ,523 J l ,Q i Xfl'i ul 'l41i217f!,.i 1 V, f .A - '-QL! -rms ' gg .. . x - . - , --ra -, .- ,,.-wi -. X X xp X' id LJ Jl'giZ,if'ulljllYi,llijjjil kj -3, l 7,1 .0 E.. ff, . ,- X- W. ,... . i -Y.,--..,, L, ,l I. .vw fre-, 1, . fr--1 ,, , . .L-.ii 4- fi X ilu... I, vi --..- i -. ,',,i,,.v,uL -W l lea 1 ill' Ht K f ,els-Elisa ' D' ful? 1 '-all f Q. , plz .- . ai-f--S Elf wif- 'ul -- W -- 1- . H . 1 ' -'.' 27 , fgfjfi, -5j'ff . P Ev' fa 1' ,film J X 'll 72, tv?- -,-ff ' fi f- 1' U' .ian i- rj pw it -3 1 fig. q4,,, ,, , V. X 1 ll 1-A ,,, . fi4'5:72Tf'Vj ' ,pg-,1P,r1f'f -ff' 4 I ' .wff-1-ffl' 54 'efffr' ' -H 'Mm lJH + Y , ' .. ,, I i . 'uigzv gn V,-' i-iii., J Vi . k:'4S'a'TQ dozen scientific papers and a well-known text, a consultant on major construction projects, he was recently connected with the much talked about concrete barges. In its normal function the Olhce of Industrial Relations, headed by Professor George F. Seulberger, arranges for the employment of engineering students in various manufacturing plants and their cooperation with the Institute. These number about 80 and are located through- out the country. Present pressure on engineering schools has necessarily curtailed the effective application of the program and only a small number of students are now employed on the cooperative plan. The long schedules and tough courses allow very little free time for engineering students, but a small competent group 21

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TECI-INCDLGGICAL I N S T I T U T E In December, 1943, the first graduating class left the Technological Institute, youngest of Northwestern's schools, and was immediately absorbed by the technological demands of acountry producing for war. The need for young men, trained in sound engineering practice and already wise to the methods of industry, justified the founding of an engineering school on the cooperative basis. Walter P. Murphy's gift to the University for the establishment of such a school was an expression of vision and a contribution to the needs of an increasingly complex industrial machine. More recently, a board of advisors composed of leaders in education and industry has been organized. It includes such famous men as Charles F. Kettering, Henry Kaiser, Karl Compton, Ralph Budd, and others who will keep the Institute apace with the swiftly moving mechanism of modern production. A teacher of long and varied experience and a former executive in business, Dean Ovid W. Eshbach has witnessed the com- pletion of the Institute and the installation of a progressive teaching program. A wise administrator, Dean Eshbach has worked hard to make the Technological Institute an outstanding school, yet he is never too busy to talk to students who stop by his office with their many and separate prob- lems. Good humor and restraint char- acterize his administrative methods, and his tireless devotion to a job extends even to his pitching duties on the faculty baseball team. Administrative secretary for the Tech- nological Institute and the dean's per- sonal secretary, genial Miss Skelly is quite as efficient as the dean in doing business, and the perplexed undergraduate often finds it unnecessary to take up the dean's valuable time, having found his answer in the outer office. 20 Traditionally turning out the largest group of the divisions, the Mechanical Engi- neering Department is headed by quiet- voiced and perpetually busy Professor Burgess Jennings, who still retains the eastern accent native to his former post at Lehigh University. Nationally known for his publications and professional work, he is frequently consulted and directs governmental research in the Mechanical Engineering laboratory. A protege of Professor Emeritus Phil- brick and a lover of bewildering questions, Professor Edward Obert is the Institute's expert on internal combustion engines. Used to a passive acceptance of material, the initiate in Professor Obert's class Ends himself slightly fiabbergasted when asked to repeat in different words an explana- tion which has just been developed by the class. Professor of Practical Experience and a strong believer in ten minute quizzes, Mr. Royal Bigelow, who has been teaching in the engineering school since 1920, is familiar' to every student in school who has taken machine shop or Industrial Production Methods. Equipped with fuel research engines, a low temperature cold room, air condition- ing equipment, and other testing facilities, the Mechanical Engineering laboratory is occupied by research projects of a varied nature. Youngest among the Tech family, the Chemical Engineering Department was at its very beginning represented in foto by I I A, . ,N .N ., W ,g W I V 01, .N ix H- I 4 Alia A, I 1, ' I 61.12, i ily ii 1 rt .. ,...x-

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of journalistically inclined Tech men have found time enough to publish a semi-tech- nical magazine, the Northwestern Engineer, which has achieved an important position among college publications and has been complimented for its professional appear- ance. VVritten for the layman, the Engineer includes historical articles, a news page, biographies, and, in keeping with under- gfaduate expression, satires and sketches in the lighter vein, in addition to the technical articles written by student and faculty authors. ak COLLEGE OE LIBERAL ARTS CC Liberal education is a broad mys- terious term, usually found cropping up guiltily from the pages of some decaying textbook or from the editorial columns of the Dezibf Northwestern, but never being finally and adequately defined. Liberal Arts, once associated mostly with diehard profs who forced Greek verbs, Latin nouns, and the glories of ancient history on bored students and said it was education, has now taken on an entirely different aspect. People wrote obituaries for that type of education long ago. Today, Liberal Arts colleges are more alive than ever. This new importance is largely the result of readjustments in methods and curricula so that the colleges might better meet the needs of students in a contemporary civilization. In the last analysis, it somehow seems clear that the true purpose of a college training is the development for oneself of a philosophy of life. In short, the end of education is to encourage the student to find himself, his individual capacities, and to discover his own powers and enthusiasms. Thus the formalized, stereotyped pro- gram, which in the past turned out every 22 graduate just like every other graduate, has been forgotten, and in lieu of it, in- dividualized college work has become the dominant development among the forward- looking colleges of America today. The ideas of the foregoing discussion were put forth in a bulletin by Addison Hibbard, dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Northwestern, almost ten years ago. It can be seen now, by looking at the cur- riculum, that Northwestern has kept pace with this development since it began. In 1933, the system introduced into the college met the new conditions of increased enrollment and greater complexity of civilization, which were characteristic of the times. A few of these are included to give greater recognition to the individual capacities and interests of the student, to reduce the number of specifically required courses that the student might have more time to follow fields of learning particularly congenial and valuable to him, and to encourage students with special interests 'MTL' lzilfll 1 :fs lip it Ii - llw ,- lil N 1 ill il fl lf I E l I 5 I l at lla u -si M li A 'nil A M? ,I . , , lllll El gllllplll 4 q WJ ' Ill ll 7 I ,J .,... ' i f-I V. f , - -aa at . M' ,1.., ,f ,grzgff to begin work in these fields in their fresh- man 'yearff Although this curriculum was more liberal than the old one Cshades of Greek and Latin lj, certain broad principles have been retained by requiring him to become familiar with the culture of another civiliza- tion other than his own through foreign