Tulane University - Jambalaya Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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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

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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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ARCHITECTURE — Front Row: Leo Oppenheimer, Robert Helmer, Errol Barron, Timothy Culvahouse, Ron Filson, Christopher Young; Back Row: William Mouton, Humberto Codriguez-Camieloni, Malcolm Heard, Bruce Goodwin, Eugene Cizek, Mark Denton, Stephen Jacobs, Mark Shajiro, John Rock, Susan Ubbelohde, Wilford Colongue. CIVIL ENGINEERING — Charles Grimwood, Robert Bruce Jr., Frank Dalia, Walter E. Blessey, S.C. Das, Walter Sherman. EARTH SCIENCE - George Flowers. Elizabeth Seale, Ronald Parsley, Hubert Skinner, Robert Horoyski, John McDowell, Harold Yokes, Emily Yokes. EDUCATION — Rita Zerr, Nancy Nystrom, Gene D ' Amour, Kippy Abroms, Jean King, Marguerite Bougere, Bob Wimpelberg. 30 Architecture Architecture Since it takes Architecture stu- dents five years to get the same degree that other students get after four, you ' d expect them to be doing something special — and they are. Under the guidance of Dean Ronald Filson, Tulane ' s School of Architecture has been plotting the future of the University. Fac- ulty members and students have completed the beginning of a four phase plan designed to utilize the stadium site, and improve exist- ing facilities and grounds. Original plans, formed by an outside architecture firm in 1978, advised the development of con- dominiums on the stadium site. Concern over that kind of a rec- ommendation led Tulane ' s ad- ministration to look within the University. The School of Archi- tecture was hired to design a plan for Tulane that would have the objectives of the university in mind. A project team composed of five faculty members and six stu- dent members immediately went to work, evaluating the condition of existing campus structures, conducting numerous interviews with students, faculty, and ad- ministrators, to find out what they perceived as the most critical problems, and prioritizing the needs of the growing university. Although using resources with- in the university seems to be a sound idea, it is not a common practice. It ' s a very progressive idea, stated David Walter, one of the students involved in the pro- ject. Tulane is one of the first schools to use its architecture school in this capacity. Filson and his task force ob- served that Tulane had been con- stantly expanding and changing with no real plan for the future. Part of the problem, explained Filson, was the lack of a day to day, comprehensive planning pro- cedure. There had been no guide- lines. Filson ' s group determined to create a plan for Tulane. The students involved in the project were instrumental during the preliminary work. We did a lot of the basic things; interview- ing faculty and surveying build- ings, Walter said. Yet the way that the team was set up, both faculty and students had input into the planning stages. The way we arranged it, Walter explained, there was a lot of wide-ranging discussion. We had as much input as any faculty member. Although the four phase plan has been completed, Filson is not sure just how much of the plan will be followed by the university in the future. He does believe, though, that Tulane will take ad- vantage of the work of its own stu- dents and faculty, and possibly in- clude them in future plans. Sophomore architecture student, Alan Thomas, constructs a design lab project.