University of Wisconsin Madison - Badger Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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THE College of Engineering has long been a part of the Wisconsin campus. Its various divisions, Electrical, Civil, Mechanical, Chemical, and Mining and Metallurgical have reached top ranks in their respective fields. Long dispersed about the campus in scattered buildings, the current trend towards concentration of buildings, partially accomplished last year in moving the Engineering Library to the new Mechanical Engineering Building, is yet a vital necessity. Working along under these complications, the activities of the College are extensive, Instruction and research are predominant fields. It is due to Wisconsin developf ments that many technical improvements have been made. It is due to Wisconsin training that many men, capable and learned in the use of these improvements have gone forth into the American fields to apply them properly. Engineering requires extensive and expensive laboratories. Equipment of a mechanical nature is costly and constantly becomes outmoded by progress. So, progressive engineering is difficult. Against these obstacles, the leadership of the Wisconsin college has carried it along and today Wisconsin graduates are well in demand in every field.

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F. ELLIS JOHNSCN DEAN OF COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING A Wisconsin graduate who eventually became Dean of the very college from which he received his degree . . . so reads the romantic story of E. Ellis Johnson. Active on the campus in his youth, Dean Johnson continues to be an active participant both on his Engineering campus and in his field on a national scale. The newest of Wisconsin's deans, from point of term, F. Ellis Johnson directs the program of the Engineers whose lot it may well fall to reconstruct the World that is currently being destroyed.

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l.fT has long been a part of the Wisconsin idea to take education out into the state-to the very homes of the people desiring it. Under the Extension Division with its Milwaukee branch, its regional centers in many state high schools, and its active correspondence and extension speaker service, this is being done every day of the year. The campus of the University is as broad as is Wisconsin to the Extension Division. The single building, halffway up the hill to Washburn Qbservatory houses merely administrative offices. A headquarters, perhaps, but not repref sentative of the active, persistent organization which occupies it. lt is the policy of the Extension Division to refrain from performing any prof grams that duplicate those of already established state institutions. However, it is a further program of the Division to encourage their programs in localities in which no other State program is operating. Carrying the campus to the public is as involved in methods and procedures as it is an expansive program. It requires efficient personnel and progressive, alert administration to accomplish this. Fortunately, Wisconsin's Extension Division, constantly pushing forward to new frontiers of extension advancement, has this administration. A Q Q Q l