Penn State University - La Vie Yearbook (University Park, PA)

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IIHIHIIIHU His principal society athliations are: Past President of the Engineers Society of Penn- syl'auia. Past President of the Land Grant College Engineering Association, Past Vice- President and Director of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, Fellow 0f the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Members Of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Honorary Member of the Engineers Society of Northwestern Penn- sylvania, l'tlonomry Member of the Electrical Society of Pennsylvania, Member of the Engineers Society of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Member of the iVestern Society of Engi- neers, member of the Harrisburg Club, the Harrisburg Cmmtry Club, member and past di- rector of the University Club of State College. Member of the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity. and charter member of the Pennsylvania State College Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi. He is also chairman of the Pennsylvania Industrial Board, and member of the Penns'ylvzmiu Engineers' Commission to investigate the advisability of licensing engineers. He is joint author with his brother. Dngald C. Jackson of Alternating Currents :md Alternating Current Machinery, hAlternating Currents, and Elementary Electricity and Magnetism. The hrst two of these have been adopted by a large number of American Colleges and the third by many technical high schools. He has contributed to 'zirious periodicals and society t-ansactions and has delivered many addresses before engineering and industrial gatherinm He has acted in a consulting capacity in the preparation of sev- 0111 bulletins 0f the Engineering Experiment Station of The Pennsylvania State College and has directed the preparation and puhliezition 0f the Iirst Industrial Directory of Penn- sylvania, a compilation of the Lahor Laws of Pennsylvania, and a monthly Pennsylvania Bulletin 011 Industrial Safety and Health. He was married on December '38, 1890, to Miss Margaret Bedow Jones, of Minersville. Pennsylvania, :1 g'mluzite of this college in 1890. They have one. daughter, Mary Catherine. It is the wish of his many friends among the faculty, the alumni and the student body. that Cmnmissioner Jackson may continue to achieve Success in his present work for which he is so eminently fllliliiiiCii. u-ww'n-w m alt t ' 5. ENGINEERING BUILDING i m i

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Illnlllll Che 1916; LAVIE established in 1893, he was placed in charge of the department and was made Professor of Electrical Engineering in 1894. In 1907 he was appointed Acting Dean of the School of Mathematics and Physics, aml in the fall of that year was made Dean of the School of .Engineering. As a teacher his aim, as often expressed, was to lmiltl 11p 21 strong bond of sympathetic contact with his students individually, striving; to get their viewpoint, to lead them to an enthusiasm for their work, and to inspire them to think for themselves; and to make the technical course one of broad, 11'ell-1'011ndetl training. including nineh general study, and at the same time providing a tlelinite line of work, based on a thorough foundation of scientilic subjects in direct preparation for the future professional work of the student. He placed eunsitlerahle emphasis, especially during the last years of his administration of the School of Engineering, on the importance of so training the students as to broaden their views 211111 to develop their characters that they might assume later in life positions as leaders and exert 21 strong inHuenec on their surroundings. Chancellor McCormick. 0f the University of Pittsburgh. doubtless had this in mind, when in conferring on him the degree of Doctor of Science he used the words, tlfur eminence in science and engineering and leadership in introducing the teaching of applied humanities to engineering students. Conspicuous among the qualities which have 11121th Dr. Jackson valuahle t0 the college is his power of initiating and nrganizing new lines of work which have pronmted its effi- ciency and have broadened the scope of its service. He had a prominent part in the forma- tion of the Engineering Advisory Board organized to advise 1111011 matters pertaining to the construction and improvement of the buildings and grounds, and in the development of the Engineering Experiment Station. He was also instrumental in establishing the state-wide work 0f engineering extension 21ml the development of local centers of instruction. Among these are the apprentice school CUntlllClCtl at Altonna in eo-operation with the Pennsylvania Railroad, prnhahly one of the best of its type in the United States; the school at XVilliams- port, established in eo-operatiun with the local hoard of education; and those in Erie, Phila- delphia. Jnhnstown and other cities of the state. He was deeply interested in the good roads 111111'Clllt'lll and. in hehalf 0f the college, he developed and personally directed an exhibit and lecture train which traveled over Pennsylvania with the eo-operatinn 0f the Pennsyl- vania Highway Department, the United States Ottice of Public Roads, and the Pennsylvania Railroad Cumpany for the purpose of giving instruction in road making. This enterprise did much to stimulate an interest in the good roads 11101'e1nent throughout the state. He was responsible for the adoption of the unit form of construction of the buildings recently atltletl to the e110inee1inrr group, and it was also during his administration that the thermal l21hnr11t01ie. fountlrx, 21nd 11'i1eless station were constructed. XV hile he 11'. 1s chairman of the Committee 011 Athletics which position he held for many years the 1:121th 0f scl101211 slnp required of all students participating in athletic events 11215 matei 1ally aisetl. In 1.013 Gmernm Trene appointed Dr Jackson Connnissioner of Labor and lntlnstry, and the l320n'tl 0f T1nstees 0f the Cnllee e granted him an indetinite le'11'e of absence. 111 this newly created department he. found 0111101t11n1ty fur the exercise of his prm'en 21hility as an organizer, and the work which the department has accomplished speaks fm' itself as 2111 added evidence of his qualifications along this line. This work in his new held, dealing with industrial problems in their relation to men, is the natural development of the ideas on which he was placing especial emphasis during the later y 1211's of his college work. In January of the current year his resignation as Dean of the School of Engineering was accepted by the Board of Trustees, but his influence in the affairs of the college will re- main with us not only as a result of his past Work, hut also because of his present relation to the institution as a member of its governing board.

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