University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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IT . . . pretty short to include as much as it does . . , College of Engineering and Architecture . . . School of Chemistry . . . School of Mines and Metallurgy . . . with a total enrollment of 2,265 during Winter quarter, as compared with last year's total of 581. The beginning of the postwar era found the Institute swelling with returned veterans . . . and more and more Women invaded the sacred halls to vie with masculine minds in solving Engineering problems. In the College of Engineering and Architecture alone are eight classifications . . . anyone of them a major . . . Electrical Engineering was the most popular Held in the group this year . . . included specialized courses in tele- phone and radio communication . . . illumination . . . radar. Aeronautical Engineering had the top enrollment last year . . . it was not a training course for pilots but a preparation for research, construction, and design of aircraft . . . and because Hying experience helps to under- stand the subject better, the department purchased an Army B-17. Chemical Engineering . . . included instruction for students in developing processes from the laboratory stage to a large-scale industrial production stage. Although Electrical, Aeronautical, and Chemical are the Big Three, there are other divisions that are equally important. Roy Jones, Head of the School of Architecture. chats over a plan with Newt Griffith. Page 29 Dean Samuel C. Lind George M. Baggs runs static rib tests with the help of Aero seniors Harriet Schmitt. Lawrence Bodin, and Melvin Fligstein. Professor Charles A. Mann explains chemical engineering apparatus.

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Institute of Technology

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Mechanical Engineering gives broad training rather than highly specialized work . . . the object of Civil Engineering is to train the student in tech- nique-to make him an economic asset to his em- ployer .... Architecture has three definite sets of courses-one, in theory, two, practice in drawing and modeling, and three, practice in composition and construction .... Pre-business gives the student basic technical training along with business adminis- tration .... Agricultural Engineering is comparatively new and uncrowded . . . includes rural electrification and farm power and machinery. Chemistry and research were synony- mous . . . Dr. Alfred O. Nier had the slow job of isolating carbon 13-heavy isotope of carbon . . . to be used as a tracer in watching digestion .... Morris Blair and Carl Bailey, graduate students, worked with Dr. Williams on redesign- ing the atom smasher .... Professor I. N. Kolthoff still felt that he should remain silent on his synthetic rubber discoveries. Charles Alstad and William Jarvey oper- ate a gas testing apparatus. Page 30 Another first this year was the long hoped for, long debated five-year plan . . . combined the engineering and arts course . . . study of the plan was begun two years ago .... Professor W. S. Cooper is liaison committee gineering . . . beginning Sep- tember, 1946, all freshmen Qex- cluding veteransj will start the five-year curriculum. Hathaway. Hentges, and Mattison work some EE tests with a motor l generator. A first for this year was the two-year terminal course for technical aides . . . students trained for specific positions in industry . . . work was of sub- professional nature . . . qualifies hard workers for five major occupations: chemical analyst-labor:-L tory positions in industries . . . draftsmen-drafting room work in contracting and engineering offices . . . maintenance and operation-aid in operation and repair of equipment . . . production-minor super- visory positions in manufacturing plants . . . and gen- eral construction-office and field work. chairman between Arts and En-