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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
