Purdue University - Debris Yearbook (West Lafayette, IN)

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The pressing need for new materials, substi- tutes for scarce products, new processes, and methods of recovering waste products taxed the ingenuity of research chemists. The results of many of Purdue's research projects helped a great deal to shorten the war. Now the war is over, but research goes on in peace as vigorously as in war. The demands of the future give chem- ical and metallurgical engineers trememdous opportunities. They will be the men who will carry scientific progress forward to unknown heights. -.....,.,.,, -.....,-,.........-... ...... .... . -..,-.. c :5.jg-,szzsg-.: I L4 -'2T3,'.-gg.3lfA.,'w.' 53feE:..f4m:v1...., i Dr. J. I.. Bray, who is in charge ofthe Chemical and Metallurgical School, has quite a jolw now that the school is in process of changing from wartime research to peacetime research. A flew of the immediate tasks include a lead coating for steel, work on war chemicalsg the application of certain solvents to the treatment of garbage, sweet potatoes, carrots, and coalg the hydrogena- tion of coal to provide a high heat value gas similar to natural gasg a humidity control for prefabricated housesg and the venting of direct gas heaters. 27

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Chemin! and Mein flmfcgzbazl EnCgz'nee1fz'ng si. of 1 ff' t i Ask almost any chemical engineer what he thinks is the Utoughestn school X 7' in the 1'niversityg his answer is bound to be the Chem. and Met. school. The Q ' school has a reputation for being perhaps the most difhcult at Purdue, but its .K graduates also have a reputation for being some of the best equipped and most U 1 ingenious engineers in the country. N- X li The Chemical lfngineering School was established at Purdue in 1911 with a X faculty ol' six men. Since those early years the faculty has been nearly tripled, Q and the facilities at hand and the r if, scope ol. the curriculum have been enlarged immensely. ln 1939, Met- allurgical lingineering was incorp- orated with the Chemical lnfngineer- ing School. In that same year, the Chem. and Met. building was completed, making available to Purdue engineers some of the most modern and up-to-date equipment in the country. Good use was soon made ol' the new equipment since scientific re- search was stimulated by the de- mands of a nation and a world ll 1' XVHT. Professor bl. L. Bray, Head of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering. V 1 1 , 1',.4v

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,yi-,--. ,qi Q T7 L.. 1 Wm V 1 Since 188-1 the Purdue University School of Pharmacy has been a leading school in preparing young men and women for the Held of pharmacy and related subjects. Since that time more than 14011 students have been graduated from the school now headed by Dr. G. L. Jenkins. In 1929 Purdue University constructed 21 building to be used solely by the Pharmacy School which is now one of the best equipped LS Professor G, L. Jenkins, Head of Pharmacy buildings on the campus. The school has four large 1aboratories-pharmacy, analytical chem- istry, organic chemistry, and pharmacognosy- which are in the Pharmacy Building. Also in this building is the Apothecary which is equipped as a modern drug storeg students bring their prescrip- tions from the Student Health Service and have them hlled here. The Commercial Pharmacv Laboratory, the Practice Dispensary, the 'vi Re- ' Y' V U MU' i 41 N.. ,A 8 WL - ' .. '- IW an -..-... -.--. ,.,-.......,-.......-.--.....-........-. -