Trine University - Modulus Yearbook (Angola, IN)

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■ 1 Kenneth Steele, Professor, Head of Department PHYSICS DEPARTMENT John Tressler, Assistant Professor Lester W. Long, Instructor

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Paul A. Nurnberger, Carl Becker A. A. Hockey Minard F. Rose Professor Professor Professor Professor Head of Department MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT George E. Associate Anspaugh Professor Ross A. Butler Associate Professor Harry Whittern Assistant Professor George Assistant Rowley- Professor Robert K. King Instructor Patricia Eyer Instructor

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WHAT IS AN ENGINEER??? An engineer is a person totally dedicated to applied science, production, and his wife—in that order. Like the poet, his primary concerns are those of time and meter. His terminology may and usually does include such prosaic works as modulator, Kovar, voltage, oscillation, and some words not found in the dictionary. Engineers come in assorted kinds and sizes. First, we have the you ng bow-tied type (just graduated from Midwestern, magna cum lousy) who believes with all his heart that there should be more unison and less formality between himself, other engineers, and secretaries. Our second type of engineer is a kind of choleric mastermind (gen¬ erally middle-aged) whose only goal in life is visualized in terms of steel, symmetry, and swiftness. And, of course, there is the soft-spoken, gentle kind whose years of experience have made him the real, but humble, genius. Engineers are usually found leaning toward an assembly line, discussing electrons near a water cooler, or north of their incoming baskets—stooped over in an attempt to find that last paper clip. An engineer ' s morphology is such that he can (to the dismay of his secretary) overlook the most obvious notations and forget the most important meetings. No other phenomenon on earth can equal his capacities to be deaf to the loudest page system, take the longest time to walk from the adjoining office to his own, write the hiero¬ glyphic memos (rough draft, please), tolerate the most cluttered up drawers, drink the most coffee, dictate the longest letters, and request the most prints for Services. Certainly no other form of animal life could manage to train a 47 by 32-inch desk to hold a thermos of coffee, a calendar pad, an incoming and out-going basket, two rulers, a spotted blotter, an inkwell (sans plume), a nameplate at half-mast, four Spec, books (to be returned at 5:15), an ash tray, somewhere a telephone, assorted parts from distorted tubes, a cartoon from some other frustrated engineer, and a handbook, text book, and pocket book on Transcendental Functions, Industrial Organi¬ zation, and Girls. His object is precision; his product is progress; his imagination is his only tool. He is a rationalist with a dream of what could be. The human in him is evidenced by his casual hello in the hall and his unusual thoughtfulness when you need such. And when you ' re all but exhausted from tabulated reports, letters, and efforts to page him, the world seems just a little nicer when he says, How ' s the boy friend? 18 -