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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Thursday, April 26, 1951
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CHENEY SUB-WATERSHED
seen reviewing the plans for the Cheney sub-watershed project.
Flood and Caddy are co-chaimen of the civil engineers displays
and exhibits for E Week.
Welcome From Dean . ,
" Engineer's Week Is the "daddy of them all".
The students of the College of Engineering and Architecture will
observe what Is officially known as the Thirty-ninth Annual Open
House for the College on Thursday, April 26, from the hours of 2
to 5 and 7 to 10 p. m.
-" Those who attend will see a small pin formed and given as a
trophy In 1895 at the first Open House display of the Electrical
Engineering department. The two demonstrations attracting most at
tention upon that occasion, so I am told, were an. electrical popcorn
popper and the electro-plating of little E. E. pins given as souvenirs.
The popcorn quickly disappeared, of course, but at least one of the
pins Is still extant.
Z, The pin was recently sent to my office by E. Y. Porter, E. E.
86 of Corona Del Mar, California. It will be on display when you
visit Ferguson Hall during Open House.
Growing out of this initial departmental demonstration has
. emerged the annual Engineers' Week. As in 1895, the students of
; the College will welcome visitors from near and far. According to
tradition, visitors this year will see some of the facilities of the
College and many interesting exhibits indicating student ingenuity
and Initiative.
The program for Engineers, Week is conceived, planned and di
rected by the students. Organization and planning starts early in
the first semester. Every detail is worked out in advance with the
Intention of making the occasion both interesting and informative
to all visitors. During the hours of exhibition, several hundred
students will perform their pre-deterrnined duties in a spirit of
helpful cooperation. If during your tour you have any questions,
please ask the students in charge. They will be happy to help you.
Our doors are open to you. Both faculty and students in engi
neering and architecture extend to you a hearty welcome.
Dean Roy M. Green,
College of Engineering
and Architecture
Engineering Displays to Range From Lemon
Drop Machines
Lemon drop machines and city
planning projects both are dis
plays planned by the chemical,
civil and electrical engineering
departments for E Week open
house. The displays will be open
from 2 until 10 pjn. Thursday.
The chemical engineering de
partment has planned several pro
jects. The lemon drop machine
will show the required equip
ment and raw materials neces
ary to manufacture them. In ad
dition there will be a display of
plastics and synthetic gems.
Photography, glassware, water
softening and rubber will be an
alyzed and explained to the pub
lie. The principles of electroplat
ing and heavy water will be pre
sented in other exhibits. The
variac display will explain how
the Intensity and angle of light
causes variation in the visibility
of class.
Pieces of laboratory equipment
will be featured as a part of open
house. One shows the controlled
drying of solid particles at spe
cific humidities. Absorption col
umns and fractional columns will
explain chemical principles in
volving gases and mixtures such
as wood alcohoL
The production of clean water
from river water with large
amounts of soil particles will be
demonstrated by the Dorr thick
ener. A similar piece of equip
ment is the Oliver filter. Evap
orators will also be on display.
A city planning project is one
of the major displays of the civil
engineering department Maps,
charts and pictures will show the
basic steps In planning the "Traf
fic flow" for the city of Lincoln.
Another feature of the project is
the analysis of the Lincoln public
school system.
.. A scale model of the Cheney
eubwatershed, located south of
Lincoln, will show soil conserva
tion methods used to reduce flood
damage. It will depict an actual
area of drainage and plans for
the project.
The highway display will show
the stages involved in the con
struction or a mgnway rrom plan
ning to the completion of the
road. Models of road building
equipment win be included in
this exhibit Maps and drawings
1 Z r:rrrr.IENT Henry Kadavy, left and Jerry Roberts, right,
f 9 running the E Week show for the m.-rhanical engineers,
f i y are pictured with a Trane climate char.gcr recently installed
in the mechanical engineering power laboratory.
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Dal e Flood and Dale Caddy are
to City Planning Projects
will stress the realism of the dis
play.
Other projects of the civil en
gineering department includes a
soil mechanics display showing
the functioning of quick sand.
There will be exhibits of engin
eering equipment used in soil
analysis and surveying.
The electerical engineering de
partment has a new and differ
ent show this year. Eugene Kirsch
and Don Wilson, department
chairman, have planned displays
in keeping with the opening of
Ferguson halL
Electric Chair, Lie Detector
These include an electric chair,
mechanical man, Sparky the dog,
E E CO-CHAIRMEN Eugene
shown after they were elected to
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department during E Week.
Competition to Highlight Field Day
The Engineers will begin their
annual Field day at 12:30 p.m.,
Friday, April 27.
The Day's activities will be
carried on at Pioneer Park: or.
in case of bad weather, will be
held under the'east stadium.
All Engineers take part in the
day's festivities, which carries on
departments.
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Jay Wright Forrester, Univer
sity graduate in Electrical Engi
neering, will address an Engi
neers convocation Friday morn
ing at 11 a.m. at the Stuart the
ater. Forrester will speak to the con
gregated Engineers and public on
"The Important First Years of
Your Career."
Each year for E-Week activi
ties, the college attempts to bring
to the University a UN graduate
to speak on something of current
interest.
University Graduate
Forrester, now director of the
servo-mechanism lab at the Mas
sachusetts Instiatute of Technol
ogy, graduated from the Univer
sity in 1939 in Electrical Engi
neering with high distinction.
After graduating from the
University, Forrester joined the
Electrical Engineering depart
ment of MIT, Cambridge, Mass.,
as a graduate student and re
search assistant.
In 1940 he was assigned to the
servo-mechanism lab for gunfire
control work. In 1943 Forrester
helped to. develop an antenna
drive for a new form of fighter
director radar system for the In
stitute Radiation lab.
He was awarded the Naval
Ordnance development award
for contribution in the field of
servo-mechanisms and stabiliza
tion in 1945.
Forrester's major contributions
Engineering
To Demonstrate Progress
The agricultural, mechanical
and architectural engineering de
partments are planning a host of
displays and exhibits to be shown
in their respective buildings dur
ing E Week open house.
The department of architec
ture will endeavor to show the
various phases of progress the
engineering student passes
through to graduate.
The work on display will show
the simple first year design
through and including the com'
plex fifth year. Pencil and color
exercises will snow now the stu
dent is learning to communicate
with a client through a picture.
working drawings as used by
the contractor to erect a build
ing as well as some typical build
ing material will be shown.
Numerous scale models built by
the students will be used
tic-toc-toe game and a lie de
tector. Bob Vollmer will show a
radio-controlled car operated by
a hand transmitter. Jesse Gra
ham is in charge of the Jacob's
ladder, an electrical volt ma
chine. An exhibit of highway patrol
equipment will be included in the
display. Induction heating, mag
netic blowout, synchronizing of
generators, a reasonance demon
station and ham radio sets can
also be seen.
Television featuring "Flying
Spot Scanning" demonstration is
another feature of the show. In
addition, there will be an Eddy
current clutch on display.
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and Donald
Nelson are
head the Electrical Engineering
the traditional competition witn-
In the six Engineering College
A softball game, three-legged
race, egg throw and tug-of-war
are scheduled for the Engineers.
The Field day will be led off
with a box lunch at the park. All
Engineering students are invited
to the event, including any Engi
neering College faculty - member
who would bke to attend. '
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ARCHITECTURE CO-CHAIRMEN Bob Tbei
sen, left, and Dave Richards, right, view a
problem done by Richards in first year de-
in recent years have been in the
field of automatic computers
electronic digital computers.
Forrester was chosen in 1948
by Eta Kappa Nu as one of
America's three outstanding
Young Electrical Engineers.
He was' a member of AIEE,
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CONVO SPEAKER J. Wright
Forrester, University graduate
with distinction in the field of
Electrical Engineering, will
address the Engineers Friday,
April 27, at the Stuart theater
at 11 a. m.
Departments
Architectural Engineer's Training
From his own department the
architectural engineer receives
training in the field of building
design, interior decoration, prep
aration of working drawings for
construction and architectural
history.
He also draws on the mechan
ical, and electrical engineering
departments for his education. In
the five years that the engineer
spends in school he broadens his
education with cultural subjects
in conjunction with engineering.
In the mechanical engineering
department will be shown a fly
ing saucer. Its principle of op
erations is based on the expan
sion of liquid air at room tem
peratures. "Birds in Flight"
A sideline of the ME foundry
will be exhibited in Morrill hall.
An abstract, "Birds in Flight,"
was cast in the foundry by the
lost wax process. In this process
the figure is molded in wax. The
foundry will show how castings
are made. Die and aluminum
casting processes will be demon
strated continuously.
bucn operations as drilling,
reaming and gear catting will be
demonstrated in' the machine
shop. A miniature locomotive,
made by students in the machine
shop, will be running.
In the fuels and lubricants lab
the various tests used to deter
mine the condition and quality
of oils will be performed. A
Cushman engineer will be used
to demonstrate detonation test
ing. Another Cushman engine has
been modified to run on propane
gas. Welding demonstrations, the
uses of a smoke tunnel and other
individual displays will also be
shown.
Agricultural Engineering Displays
Included in the agricultural
engineering displays will be a
b i c y c 1 e-generator, operating
milking machine, model grain
dryer and a chick brooder utiliz
ing heat lamps.
The displays are relatively
simple but demonstrate a few
of the 400 ways in which elec
tricity may be used on the farm.
The farm machinery exhibits
will be made up of: A demon
stration showing the effects of
various types of loading on trac
tor stability and a tractor
mounted ammonia applicator.
Nebraska tractor test equipment
will also be on hand to show
what is being done to Insure the
state farmer that he is getting
the horsepower paid for.
Farm structure displays will
show: A model farm sewage dis
posal system, methods of bracing
farm buildings with scale models
and scale models of new types
of farm structures illustrating
construction- features.
Farm Power Display
The farm power display will
include: A propane carburetor, a
"mammoth" stilted tractor, a
tractor tent in operation, an
anhydrous ammonia fertilizer
! spreader and a flea size tractor.
Irrigation exhibits will show
equipment for preparing land for J
irrigation, inside model, and
sprinkler irrigation equipment,
outside.
The displays of the various de
partments will be judged and
the winner will be awarded the
new Engineers plaque. Judging
is based on: E ribbon sales, win
dow displays and open house
exhibits.
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sign. Th two men are heading the Architec
tural c'Tnijtment. within the Eingineerinp coi
lege for E Week.
Sigma XI, Sigma Tau and PI Nu
Epsilon.
Forrester came to the Univer
sity on a Regent's scholarship
irom Anselmo, Neb.
He now lives at Wellesley,
Mas.
All Engineers and anyone In
terested are invited to attend the
Friday morning convocation at
the Stuart.
E Plaque
Contest Won
By McClurg
A newly designed Engineers'
week plaque will be awarded to
the department which wins En
gineers' Week Open House. The
department may hang the plaque
in their departmental building
the following school year.
Each year the winning depart
ment's name was stamped on a
brass plate on the old plaque. In
the spring of 1950, the existing
one was nearly filled with names.
The Civil Engineering depart
ment won E Week in 1950. They
chose to be the first department
to have their name stamped on
the new plaque.
Represent E College
Since a new plaque was needed,
the engineers debated the ques
tion of using the old emblem
which was the University seal.
It seemed more appropriate to
make a new emblem which was
representative of the College of
Engineering and Architecture
rather than the University as a
whole.
The group of over-all commit
tee chairmen and the departmen
tal co-chairmen made this deci
sion. Designs for the new em
blem were to be obtained by spon
soring a contest open to the whole
Umversity. There was to be a
cash award of fifteen dollars for
the design chosen by the judges
to be the most suitable.
McClurg Wins
J. R. McClurg, architecture stu
dent, won the contest. The win
ning design is a circle with a
slide rule and dividers. The
names of the Engineering College
departments are arranged in
orderly and attractive positions
inside the circle.
The following points formed the
basis of judging: general appear
ance, arrangement of details and
suitability.
The Plaque contest design
judges were: E. J. Marme, pro
fessor, Engineering Mechanics de
partment; Peter Worth, professor,
Art department; J. G. Porter, in
structor, Architecture depart
ment; Leo L. Bock, student, Elec
trical Engineering department:
Robert H. Holder, student, Civil
Engineering department; and
Myron M. Sees, student, Mechan
ical Engineering department.
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AVERY LAB EQUIPMENT Norman Case, right, and Stanton
Vierk, left, inspect a Dorr Thickener which has been Installed in
the wing of Avery lab. The chemical engineering department -chairmen,
have arranged a display of all equipment in Avery lab
for E Week exhibits.
Engineers Plan
The open houses, scheduled for
this afternoon, as part of E-Week
activities, are the public part of
the annual event,' but a convo
cation, field day and banquet for
the engineers and their guests
are also included in the activi
tnes of April 26-28.
This year the co-chairmen of
E-Week are Clayton Hanson, a
senior In chemical engineering,
and Glen Johnson, senior in ag
ricultural engineering.
Other committee heads include:
Secretary-treasurer, G e o r g
Andreason; agricultural e n g i
neers, Stanley Marcotte and Wil
liam Sprick; electrical. Eugene
Kirsch and Don J. Nelson; chem-
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DEDICATION CEREMONIES
gineering building, will be dedicated during E Week ceremonies
Saturday, April 28, 11 a. m. The building has been named after
O. Ferguson, Dean Emeritus of the Engineering College. -
Ferguson Hall Dedication
Scheduled Saturday at 11
Forty years of planning will
come to a close for the electrical
engineering department Saturday.
At 11 a.m. Ferguson hall will be
dedicated as part of the E-Week
celebration.
The new building is located pn
the site of old University hall. A
plaque in tribute to the first
building on the University campus
is placed on the front of Fergu
son hall.
The main wing of the building
is three stories high with a full
basement. Extending to the north
is the one-story lab wing. Every
room in Ferguson hall is provided
with modern equipment. The
rooms have been planned for new
developments and improvements
in electrical engineering. Large
glass windows and green and red
asphalt tile add to the attractive
ness of the builing.
Basement Rooms, Labs
The basement has the following
rooms and laboritories:
1. A power lab shop for equip
ment repair work.
2. An industrial electronics lab
containing new pieces of practical
equipment.
3. An X-Ray laboratory and ad
joining dark room. t
4. An illumination and photo-
Varied Events
ical, Norman Case and Stanton
Vierk; mechanical, Gerald Rob
erts and Henry Kadavy; civil,
Dale Flood and Dale Caddy; ar
chitectural, David Richards and
Robert Theisen; engineering me
chanics, Jack Lliteras.
Publicity, Darell Cast and Har
old Bonness; inquiries, Nolan
Jones; guides, Edward Thomp
son; banquet, Frank Dutton; con
vocation, Edward Bartene; field
day, Robert Holder.
Sledge, Pat O'Dea; contest,
Vincent Cunningham; window
display, Norman Vicek; traffic,
Douglas Johansen; ribbon sales,
Verl G. Glee; program, Ralph
Ruhter; photography, Bernard
Lindstrom.
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Ferguson hall, new Electrical En
metry lab with no windows.
5. A meeting room and kitchen
ette for students and faculty.
Classrooms, instructors' offices,
and private laboratories are on
the first floor of Ferguson hall. In
addition there is the main power
laboratory an a study room. At
the northeast corner is the depart
mental suite.
Second Floor
The second floor is similar to
the first. Dean Roy M. Green has
a suite on this floor. A large lec
ture hall with projection equip
ment is at the southwest corner
of the floor.
Laboratories and offices occupy
the third floor. Communications
television, radio and transmission
labs are located in the south
rooms. A lab for, graduate re
search in addition to individual
labs is provided to emphasize this
phase of engineering education.
A special room on third floor may
be used for any sensitive radio
active or non-magnetic experi
ments. The astronomy department has
telescope installations on the
roof of Ferguson hall. Classroom
space is also provided for the de-.
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The building is named in honoj
of Dean Emeritus O. J. Ferguson.
As chairman of the electrical en
gineering department and dean of
the college, he took an active part
in the planning for the building.
He will occupy an office on the
second floor.
E Week Debut
In 1913 Begun
By EE Idea
E Week began with a decision
of the electrical engineers in 1894.
They decided to amaze the
public with the latest marvels of
the electrical science. The rest of
the departments thought it was
a good idea and in 1913 Engineer's
Week made its official debut.
During E Week the various de
partments compete to see who has
the most (1) original ideas for
the window display contest and
(2) athletic skill in field day
maneuvers.
Convocation during the official
engineer's period are designed to
give students a broader back
ground in practical engineering.
But the most obvious part of
E Week is the open house. Engine
students show the miracles of
modern developments in their
line to the many visitors who
come to the campus for the tours
and displays.
This year E Week is a part of
College Days.
History Teachers
To Meet This Weekend
The 38th annual meeting of the
Nebraska History and Social
Studies Teachers association will
be' held at the Lincoln hotel Fri
day and Saturday, April 27 and
28. "
Speakers will include Dr. A. T.
Anderson and Dr. Robert F. Bow
man of the University, and Dr. S.
Harrison Thomson of the Univer
sity of Colorado.
Their subjects .will concern
current - International affairs.
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Huuse ana displays.