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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Page 3 Engineers9 Week Begins April 29; Open House Heads List of Events Friday, April 23, 1948 Engineers' Week is a week set aside for the students of the Col lege of Engineering in which the students and the faculty of the col lege work together to demonstrate to themselves and to the public the many varied aspects of en gineering education. It is a time for serious thought, for hard work, but also for fun and for personal satisfaction for the students. Ac cordingly Engineers' Week has several serious features and sev eral humerous ones. The chief feature, is the annual open house which will be held Thursday, Apral 29, from 2:30 until 11 p. m. At the Open House the students seek to demonstrate to the people of Nebraska not only the importance, but the variety and the quality of engineering education at their University. Organization Under Dean Roy M. Green and the faculty sponsor, Mr. James Blackman. the organization of En gineers' .Week is almost entirely a student project. The Engineering executive board, a student body, appoints two co-chairmen for En gineers' Week. These co-chairmen in turn, appoint the departmental and the special chairmen who are responsible for the planning, de velopment, and presentation of the various events of Engineers' Week. The committee this year: Max H. Bailey, Richard M. Cretn, Co- chairmen. Pcpai tmenls: Paul Exstrom, Ae Eng. Robert Brown, Arch. Kng. Marshall Boker. Arch. Kng. Otto Krai, Chem. Eng. Arnold I. Johnson. Civil Eng. Charles Talbert, Civil Eng. Clarence Lewia, Civil Eng. Herbert Tenure, Elect. En. Dick Stoneaier. Elect. Eng. Jack D. White. Enc. Mech. Gerald Pipher. Vech. Eng. Irwin Reis, Mech. Eng. Neal Kennedy, Mil. Eng. Pat. Cfcristet, NaTal Enc. Special: George Flebbe. Beey.-Treaj. Paul Rnhter, Banquet. Wilbur Lehnert, Contest. Eldon Clapham, Convocation. Robert Rot turn. FieM Day. Wayne Scott, Inquiries. Powph Ropers, Photographer. Al. Henry, Program. Bruce Clausen, Ribbon Sale. Warren Koenig. Sledge. Jay Funk. Traffic. fstan Liedtke, Window Pifplay. Don. McCarthy. Blue Print. Fred Peiton, Publicity. The departmental chairmen are responsible for the organization of their departments for open house and for the other Engineers' Week activities. The several special chairman or ganize their own parts of the week's events: the banquet, the convocation, the field day, the in-ter-deparmental contests, inquiries and invitations to special groups of high school students, ribbon sales to departments, open house pro grams, Sledge, the humor maga zine, open house traffic control, special window displays. Blue Print magazine articles, and pub licity. In addition, there are hundreds of engineering students working with these chairmen to make open house 1948 the biggest and best that has ever been presented to the public. Program The schedule of events for Open House and Engineers' Week is as follows Thursday, April 29 Open House 2:30 p.m. until 11 p m. AU engineering labora tories and buildings on the city campus will be open to inspection by the public. Friday, April It Convocation 11 a.m., Stuart Theater building. ' Field Day 1 p.m. until 5 p.m., Pioneer park. Banquet 7:30 p.m., Student Union bunding. Commenius Club will meet in Room 313 of the Union Friday, April 23, at 7:30 p. m. All mem bers are urged to attend. if 1 triw"w;?wwi,!i m u ft r h - ENGINEERS INSPECT model house designed by Robert Gibb. This will be one of many designs presented during Engineer's Week which begins April 29. Pictured from left to right are Edgar Cole man; Robert Gibb, designer; Keith Christianson; Robert Brown; and Marshall Boker. Brown and Boker are co-chairmen of Archi tectural section of Engineer's Week. Convocation Details Each year the Engineers' Week committee invites a nationally known member of the Engineer ing profession to speak to the students of the college at the special convocation. This year the committee has been especially fortunate in being able to present one of the top men iu Chemistry: Mr. Francis J. Cur tis, Vice President of Monsanto Chemical company. Mr- Curtis comes to Lincoln from the St. Louis offices of the company where he has been, a Vice Presi dent since 1943. Mr. Curtis was educated at Cambridge, Mass., and is a graduate of Harvard Uni versity. He was engaged in re search and in operating and technical sales with the Merrimac Co. until 1935 when he joined Monsanto. Since that tim h has been assistant director and then director of development for Mon santo, and later, vice president. He has been especially active in the American Institute of Chemi cal Engineers being chairman of the committee on junior activities in. 1943 and a diVector in 1943, '44, and '47, besides holding sev eral other important offices. He is also a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Institute of Chemists, and the Society of Chemical Industry. Field Day Events Following the convocation, the students adjourn to Pioneer park fnr tho annual field day and ir Inter-deDartment contests i are held on ticket sales for the field day and for the evening banquet; and at field day itself the various departments compete in sports. This year these events will include baseball, a sack race, an egg throw, and other contests of energy and ingenuity. In the evening two special awards are presented at the banquet to the winners of; the field day events and the Engineers' Week contest. r'nffor Hour in the Student Union at 5 p. m., Main Lounge. The free variety movie "Cluny Brown," starring Jennifer Jones and Charles Boyer, begins at 7:30 Sunday evening in the Union Ball-iroom. jf' .f t . Open House For all concerned, students, faculty ,and public, the annual Engineers' open house is the chief feature of Engineers' week. At Open House the engineering laboratories are al lopen to pub lie inspection ,and numerous spe cial displays, lectures, demon strations, films ,and exhibits have been prepared by the students to show the principles, methods, and quality of engineering and en gineering education at the uni versity. All nine departments are represented: agricultural, archi techtural, chemical, civil, elec trical, mechanical, military and naval engineering and engineer ing mechanics. The locations of these department and their dis plays are shown in the attached map together with the two start ing points for visitors and the traffic route. This year open house begins at a new time, 2:30 p. m., and will continue until 11 p. m. on Thurs day, April 29. The early morn ing is planned to accommodate out-of-town student visitors, other students at the University, and those of the public who are able, or prefer, to attend in the after noon. Special guides will be fur nished to visiting student groups and printed programs will be available for all guests. By organ izing traffic routes from two start ing points it is hoped that much of the traffic congestion of pre vious years may be eliminated. Many new and spectacular fea tures characterize this year's open house. A partial list of exhibits, lectures, and demonstrations by each department is given below. Part of the inter-departmental contest includes the window dis plays which each department will have in the business district of Lincoln the week preceding Engi neers' Open House. The location of these displays are as follows,: Agricultural Engineering, Lwlors. Architectural Engineering. Magee'f. Chemical Engineering. Latsch Brothers. Civil Engineering. Gold Co. Electrical Engineering, Ben Simon Sunn. Engineering Mechanics, Miller A Paine. Mechanical Engineering, Hardy Furni ture Co. Military Engineering, Bean Roebuck A Naval Engineering. Harvey Brotnera. (No. 4 on Map). Ivy Day Poem contest entries must he turned in to the Union office by 5 p. m. Friday. Poems must concern the Ivy Day tradi tion and must be handed in, un signed, in triplicate with a sealed envelope- containing the poet's name. - ..., w . .. . .. ..... ...t. V f - 1 1 ; A v . . 'X 4.-. u--' S) v sfjVV A I 5 I t - i NAVAL SCIENCE STUDENTS observe Sonar Training Device used for detection of underwater vessels. The device is housed in the University Armory. Students shown are Douglas Keilty, Walter Chaney, Arthur Tirro, Kenneth Hornbacker, and Bill Allison. Architectural Engineering The theme of the architectural engineering display wil be "Mod ern Housing," and the central point of interest is a complete model house designed by Robert Gibb. This house was designed for a particular type of terrain and takes full advantage of those nat ural conditions. Students of the department have designed furni ture for this model home. A model of the living room will be fur nished completely with models on a A -inch scale. Interior decora tion schemes for all the rooms will be shown by means of water color illustrations. Lincoln mer chants have made it possible for the public to see how one part of the living room will look by lend ing the department furniture from their stores. Thru the co-operation of many other Lincoln firms a wide variety of construction ma terials will be on display showing the latest methods, materials and techniques of construction. Also on display will be drawings of the future buildings for the Uni versity of Nebraska which will enable the public to visualize the building plans of their Univer sity. Chemical Engineering Tie 'heme of the Chem. Eng. dept. is "The Chemical Engineer ing Curriculum Step by Step." A triD throueh Avery Lab. at Open House will reveal, by means of projects, displays, ana lectures, the courses, lab. work and equip ment with which a student works at the university. There will be two main lec tures given throughout Open House, one on thermite and chemical curiosities, and one on explosives. The Thermite and curiosities lecture will be given at 3, 7, and 10 p. m., the lec ture on explosives at 4:ju ana at 8:30 p. m. The thermite lec turo will be accompanied by a demonstraiton of how this sub stance can burn through thick steel. The chemical curiosities demonstrations will show many of the spectacular phenomena oc curring in chemistry. The explo sives lecture will show types, uses and techniques of handling of the various types of high ex plosives and interesting, educa tional, and safe demonstration. Other highlights of the chem. show will be the production of the famous coal tar products from , the destructive distillation of coal, k St v. l m Civil Engineering Highlights of the C. E. dept. demonstrations will include a spe cial project on highway safety and design. This project will con sist of a working model of a highway intersection. The public will also be able to take driving tPRts nn a sDeciallv designed ma chine which tests drivers' brak ing reaction sDeed. Another fea ture that promises to attract in- terest is a complete moaei rau with bridtres. embankments. cuts and fills. Freight and pas senger trains can be seen cross ing streams and traveling across a large realistic terrain. In addi tion to these there will be spe cial displays on aircraft struc tures, on the materials and ap plications of geological engineer ing, on the many other mate rials of construction from clay and glass to bituminous and metal substances, models, of various types of bridges, an illustrative history of the developemnt and use of surveying instruments, ex amples of the hydraulic spillway and of waterway design. In addition to these the sev eral government agencies will be officially represented by displays showing their work in Nebraska and the Missouri River Basin. These agencies are the U. S. Geological Survey, the Soil Con servation Corps, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the U. S. Army Engineers. Electrical Eng ineerni2 The EE displays are divided between two buildings: The old EE Lab and the new quarters I in Temporary L. Accordingly their displays are divided into two major categories: Electrical power machinery ana electronic equipment. The EE students real i'tp that their stock in trade, the smoothly running power gener ator or motor ana tne radio cease to be novel or interesting since ihpv are in common use every where. As a result the EE's have attempted to set up numerous Set Elec Eng-uieers, P. 4, Col.5 an operating sulphuric acid plant, and a demonstration of the manu facture of rayon and of sugar re fining. Many new technical in sturments and methods will ba on display including the expen-4 sive new unit rotary drier, the Oliver filter, the bubble tower, the filter press, and complete il lustrations in the laboratories of the courses in fundamental, ana lytical, physical, and organic chemistry and chemical engineering.