Tulane University - Jambalaya Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING — William Van Buskirk, Moshe Solomonow, Joon B. Paik, David Rice, Cedric Walker. CHEMICAL ENGINEERING — Front Row: Henry Luttrell, Aysel Atimtay, Young G. Kim, Kyriakos Papadopoulos; Sec- ond Row: Danny McCarthy, Ray V. Bailey, Bert Wilkins; Back Row: Richard Freedman, Sam Sullivan. Engineering ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING — Paul Duvoisin, Robert Drake, James Cronvich, S. T. Hsieh, Edward Williamson. Charles Beck, Daniel Vliet. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING — Kamal-Eldin Hassan, Chester Peyronnin Jr., Robert Watts, Paul Lynch, DeWitt Hamilton Jr., Harold Sogin. 28 Engineering The Tulane Engineering school has just emerged from a decade of sustained growth. If the market is indicative, the Tulane Engineer- ing school has a good record. The average salary for an Engineering Graduate is a staggering $27,000. This growth is due to an in- crease in the academic quality of the students. The school searches for 245 high quality freshmen to enroll in the Engineering School. Fully 25 percent of the class is female. The Engineering school has provided excellent career op- portunities for women as well as men. According to Engineering Dean Hugh A. Thompson, soci- ety is moving towards the devel- opment of a postgraduate engi- neering program. Right now graduates cannot afford to con- tinue their education and go right into the job market. This has led to a shortage of faculty. There will be no solution to this problem until society pays faculty more. It takes six years to produce a PhD, six years of not being employed. The only answer, it seems, is to increase faculty salaries to the point where the University pays more than industry for a PhD. This way the investment made by the professors will be repayed. Currently, the Engineering school is divided into six major divisions. These are Biomedical, Chemical, Civil, Electrical, Me- chanical and Computer Science. The school ' s goal is to graduate 35 seniors in each field. Mr. Thompson notes that Tu- lane ' s size is optimal for interac- tion between the divisions, and the Engineering school interacts well. For example. Engineering students often go on to Law or Business school. If Tulane was a larger institution, he added, there would be administrative barriers between the divisions. What lies in the next decade for the Engineering School? Dean Thompson points out that the technological rate of progress staggers the imagination. The ad- vancements in artificial intelli- gence and robotics are as unbe- lievable as landing a man on the moon was a few years ago. Growth has actually been cur- tailed by lack of classroom space. But hopefully, fundraising will add more space, expand oper- ations, and provide new pro- grams. The Tulane Engineering school will have more growth in research, and rise in National sta- tus, he said. Eleanor Comer, Larry Korn and Bill Dillingham examine University Center displays during Engi- neering Week in March.

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Chrisluphcr ( hriMophcr « ak» u Crulcsvjr of I j» jnd Dircdof of ibc Tu- lane Intiiiulc of Comparaiive Law He holds a LL B . L L.M.. and Ph.D. from Moscow Slale L ' niversiiy School of La and a J.S.D. from ihc L ' niversiiy of Il- linois College of Law. Since 1970 he has held (caching posi- tions al several universiiia. Pusineii , 27

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Hugh Thompson Hugh A. Thompson . ,••• -i sef-i-s as dean ot the School oJ Engineering and professor o( Mechanical engineering He earned his B S m Mechancal En- gineenng from Aubom and his MS and PhD n Mechanical En- gineenng from Tulane Thomp- son has held several teach g posiiions at Vtonlana State and at Tulane and serves as a coos«i- tant to many pfonwienl oi com- panies Engtneenng 29