Purdue University - Debris Yearbook (West Lafayette, IN)

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M T U BETA PI Membership in Tau Beta Pi symbolizes the highest achievement attainable for engineers. It means a life-long association with the old- est and largest engineering fraternity in the country. This organization has over sixty chap- ters located in the major engineering schools and has more than twenty thousand living members. Tau Beta Pi is the oldest honorary frater- nity on the campus, having been established in 1893. More men have been graduated from the Purdue Chapter than from any other of the sixty-three chapters. In addition to the usual routine activities, the chapter holds fre- quent dinner meetings which strengthen the bonds of friendship between the undergradu- ate members and the faculty. Unlike the reg- ular business meetings, the dinners are social in purpose. Prominent speakers are invited, mainly from the non-engineering professions, and the members are thus enabled to keep in touch with views and opinion from outside the technical world. To the wearer of the little golden bent, ini- tiation into Tau Beta Pi marks the beginning of a fruitful and active service in the engi- neering profession. Rather than an honor be- stowed for past achievements, the Tau Beta Pi key is a constant incentive which carries its owners through a successful campus career into professional leadership in the engineer- ing Helds. As a proof of its readiness to serve the stu- dents of the University, Alpha Chapter of Indiana, as the Purdue chapter is ofhcially known, has carried on the extensive program of counseling delinquent students. This plan was originated by the University's personnel office and was recently taken over by Tau Beta Pi in cooperation with the other school engineering honoraries. Every freshman in the engineering schools whose work for the hrst third of the semester proved unsatisfactory was assigned a senior counselor. The latter's duty was to discover the reasons for the fresh- man's delinquency, whether it be due to lack of intelligence, financial difhculties, or defi- ciencies in living conditions and social envi- ronment. Having found the freshman's dili- culty, the counselor, under the guidance of the personnel ofhce, would advise the neces- sary changes for improving the delinquent student's condition. The counseling plan is one of the most successful endeavors to mini- mize the difhculties of a student,s first year at the University. Firsf Row: Kinyon, Campbell, McComb, Magnuson, Imes, Dierstein, Greiner, Purcell, Adashko, Steen, Shure, Whitham. Second Row: Donaldson, Burnett, Cordier, Wylie, Minneman, Shper, Meier, E. Wright, Florek, Kochrnan, Wright, Andrew. Third Row: Moss, Hutchins, Graham, Roberts, Fecht, Bollinger, Yeager, Roby, Knoy, Koontz, Winemxller, Hall. C255

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SCHOOLS OF E GI EERI G Dean A. A. Potter, head of the Schools of Engineering, received the highest honor which can come to an engineer within his own pro- fession when he was recently elected to the presidency of the American Society of Me- chanical Engineers. This honor was accorded to him for his years of work and research in the field of engineering. The University is honored to have as the head of its engineering school such a leader. Dean Potter manifests a sincere interest in all those who come to him with their problems, and everyone acquainted with him recognizes him as one having a pleasing personality and a gift for making permanent friends. Foremost among the offices which Dean Potter fills at the University is that as Dean of the Schools of Engineering. In this capac- ity he is responsible to the president and to the trustees of the University for the curricu- lum, methods of teaching, and equipment used in the various engineering schools. He is the head of the departments of applied me- chanics and practical mechanics which serve these schools, and, although there was a cer- tain amount of personnel work being carried on by the University when Dean Potter came in 1920, the present system was inaugurated by him. He aids in the development of the personality of the students under his supervi- sion either directly or through the medium of the personnel system. In addition, he makes an earnest effort to see that each graduate of the Schools of Engineering is placed in a posi- tion after leaving school in which he is inter- ested and for which he has been adequately trained. Dean Potter is a representative of the Uni- versity in all engineering matters, and it is 'one of his tasks to insure complete coopera- tion between the University and the different industries throughout the state and nation. Not only has he been interested in research at Purdue University from an administrative point of view, but he has taken part person- ally in much of the research. As director of the Engineering Experiment Station, Dean 6245 Potter supervises all research problems. This part of his work has resulted in an efficiency and thoroughness of investigation of engi- neering problems which has made the Univer- sity highly respected by the practical business world, and much of the experimentation on problems of world interest is being done at present at the University. DEAN A. A. POTTER Dean Potter has taught different under- graduate and graduate courses. In addition to this work he has found time to write a great number of papers and several textbooks on engineering. He is the author of three popu- lar text books, Tl701'll10dj'lIcIllZfCS, Sfeanz and Gas Power, and Farm Mofors. He has acted as consulting engineer for many utilities, in- dustries, and engineering institutions, as well as for the United States government. Dean Potter is one of the very prominent engineers in the country, and, under his guidance, the University has made rapid progress, until now it is indisputably the largest engineering school in the nation.

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THE PURDUE E 'GI EER For twenty-eight years the Purdue Engineer has served as the publication of the Engineer- ing Schools of the University. Growing from a small pamphlet to a technical record pub- lished eight months of the year, it has made rapid strides toward providing an opportunity for the engineering students interested in jour- nalism to become familiar with the editing and managing of a technical journal. The staff, in publishing the Purdue Engi- neer, provides the engineering students of the University, alumni, and other readers with a knowledge of research projects being carried out on the campus, with news of successful alumni, and with discussions of current engi- neering developments in industry and research. Material in the magazine is prepared by a staff of forty students headed by the Editor- in-Chief, the Associate Editor, and the Busi- ness Manager. Each of these three positions is held by a senior, juniors are in charge of the various editorial, sales, circulation, and adver- tising departments. In each issue there are articles written by alumni, students, and faculty members. Sub- jects for student articles are assigned by the editor and are prepared by the freshmen and sophomores, in addition to their routine work concerning the preparation of material and make-up of the magazine. All material going into the magazine is edited by the student staff and the arrangement of this material with the sizes and kind of type is determined by them. The copy is sent to the printer and two sets of proof are returned. One set is read by the stu- dent staff and corrections are made, while the other proof is pasted in the dummy by the issue editor. The dummy is a sample maga- zine prepared for the purpose of instructing the printer making up the magazine. Ranking as one of the foremost of the pub- lications in the Engineering College Magazines Associated, a group of twenty-two college magazines of similar nature published in vari- ous parts of the country, the Purdue Elzgirzeer has been commended for the excellent quality of the articles presented in its columns and for its original and pleasing typography. First Row: Burchby, Daly, Swarr, Hutchins, Lickey, Florek, Roby, Martin, Keller, Rossiter, Wenger, Heiss. Sccoml Raw: Harper, Mengerink, Stites, Marsteller, Pearson, Eckman, Strawbridge, Southmayd, Lewis, Gniewosh, Webb, Prechter, Langer. Third Row: Lilly, Sims, Jacobi, Challis, Hays, Cornelius, Miller, Carton, Hitz, Voigt, McCoy, Bostwick, Condit.