Texas A and M University - Aggieland Yearbook (College Station, TX)

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This 1890 photograph of the Mechanical Engi¬ neering Shop shows crude beginnings from which an extensive College of En¬ gineering has developed.

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COOEiSe OF ARTS SCIENCES The College of Arts and Sciences has expanded from its early headquarters in the Academic Building to include operations in ten buildings. At A AA, a well-developed program of liberal arts and basic sciences is considered of vital importance to a complete edu¬ cation. These studies are administered through the College of Arts and Sciences, composed of 14 departments embracing the natural and social sciences, business, education, language and literature, journalism and physical education. The College of Arts and Sciences has a two-fold purpose: it serves as a partner of the other degree-granting colleges by directing the liberal and scientific education of technical students. It also offers complete courses of study for students specializing in an area of arts or sciences. For all students the study of the humanities, the social and the natural sciences provides instruction essential to cultural, civic and economic development. It also helps develop orderly thought and analysis required to solve new problems and trains students to express themselves clearly and concisely. Wayne L. Sterling, graduate student in entomology, is shown setting the lighting and temperature for boll weevil eggs in the controlled environment cab¬ inet. ► Students participate in wrestling under A M ' s Physical Education program.

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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING Engineering has been an integral part of the curricula at A AA for almost 90 years. A typical engineering student at A M may work on a fission problem utilizing an atomic reactor, study guidance systems for space vehicles, or pore over the principles of a beautiful bridge. The College of Engineering occupies 14 buildings on the campus and is ranked among the highest degree granting schools of engineering in the United States. Guided by a distinguished faculty of engineers, students have the latest training and research equipment available for their use. Some of the facilities—the 41 2 million dollar Data Processing Center, the five-megawatt Nuclear Science Center and the Activation Analysis Laboratory located at the Old Bryan Air Force Base—cannot be equalled on any campus in the Southwest. Three state research and extension education agencies with headquarters on the A M campus are closely asso¬ ciated with the College of Engineer¬ ing and add stature to its instructional program. The three: the Texas Engi¬ neering Experiment Station, a basic and applied research center; the Texas Engineering Extension Service which disseminates new technology to in¬ dustry and the Texas Transportation Institute, a planning and development organization concerned primarily with highways. Thus A M ' s College of Engineering contributes greatly to the new era of technology in our nation. Theo Holleman, architecture graphics profes¬ sor, instructs students in modern and spacious architecture labs. This year the Department of Architecture came into its own, moving from the top floor of the Academic Building to its $900,000 structure.