Purdue University - Debris Yearbook (West Lafayette, IN)

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mproving means of air power Jets . . . rockets . . . guided missles . . . progress moves on in the airways and in scientific research. For defense and for peace, aeronautical engineering and engineering science streak forward. In fifty short years the airplane industry has progressed from the flimsy craft fiown at Kitty Hawk to the F-84 Thunder Jet and far beyond. The School of Aeronautical Engineering offers two options to meet the needs of students planning a career in the research or design phases of AE. The theoretical aeronautics option is for the student who wishes to go into graduate study, while the airplane and powerplant option is for the student who chooses aerodynamics, structures, or aeroelasticity as his specialty. Moving along side by side with aeronautical engineering is the School of Engineering Sciences. The principal objective of its curriculum is to prepare students for careers in basic research and development in the engineering field. The program contains extensive mathematics and basic science courses to develop the student's skill in precise physical reasoning, analysis, and synthesis. Students who wish to pursue studies in research in engineering science will find many fertile fields. Paul F. Chenia, Head ei V i. '5 3, y U 1 f I . .4 ' '39 S4 . ., ,6g,,gkQ,f .ffl A .. we :swims 1-.941 . M... lf,-. - f- Was '-1:-1- ' 2' -Q. my '-5, QQ tg-.' as - Q , 5-La, f 35- 'ii - 'Q if--we - ., f ., 'fair'-41,0 1' ' 'z S :ffm ' if- Z V f ' Harold M. DeGrof. Head The windtunnel is a fundamental and basic symbol of aeronautical engineering 26

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SOIHGQHSteoiermopreblems The agricultural engineer is behind the scene as the farmer plows his fields with the help of the modern tractor, plants his seeds with an up-to-date planter, and gathers his crops with a streamlined combine. Striving to improve the machinery and to find methods by which to lighten the farmer's task, the AgE student studies the design and operation of agricultural equipment in our laboratories equipped with modern types of field machinery and tractors. He also studies the modern types of water systems, and the new apparatus for the determination of moisture contents, rates of drying' and cooling grains, and air How measurements in bulk drying. George E. Spencer' Head Since the development of the future depends on new knowledge gained through research, current research is being conducted in the material utilization laboratory on the possible uses of agricultural products for the manufacture of low cost building board and panel. With technical training in one or more of the many specialized problems, the agricultural engineer, in industry or in public works, is well prepared to bring his knowledge of engineering and agriculture to the solution of farm problems. w x ir An agricultural engineering instructor demonstrates various fundamentals of tractor construction and repair to his class 28 vb-si .- J