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Poq 2 The Doily Nebroskon Fridoy. Arril 24, 1959 -Week Displays Volts and Jolts i E THE MAGIC TOUCH that brightens these floorescent lights tsnt really that of Brace Abernethy, shown holding them here. It's the thousand volts of high frequency elec tricity found in the column snpporting the lightbulb on the left side f the picture. The power is transmitted without wires. This is a display given by the electrical engineers la Ferguson Hall.. Mansion's Construction Is Featured by CE's The bar-joist construction of toe Governor s Mansion is fea tured in the civil engineering E-Week display. This particular display gives some insight on why the Mansion's floors shake. Highway Photos A modern highway is pic tured in an aerial photo dis play which shows the design of the highway in relation to the terrain of the land. The civil engineers also have set up a model of a dam which Is used to show the wa ter seepage which escapes from the dam. A concrete yard in which concrete is casted with steel has been set up. Another display is the un derground apparatus of a fire hydrant which is shown in diagrams and drawings. The purpose of this display is to explain how fire hydrants op erate. Reconstruction Priority They also have displayed the system by which the pri ority of reconstruction is de termined in Nebraska. This system is used to determine which roads shall be repaired. E-Week Shifts Program; Purpose Remains Same Although E-Week has be come an established tradition on this campus, it has not al ways been an annual affair. Started in 1913 as an even ing open house, the public demonstration was discon- Kansas V j Has Jump On E-Week Th engineers at Kansas University beat Nebraska's engineers by a few days with an E-Week project "Pioneering in Engineer ing" opened with a ribbon cut ting ceremony witnessed by Nancy O'Brien, KU relays queen, and Carol Earls, Big Eight relays queen, among others. Sixteen displays constructed by engineering, industrial de sign, mathematics and ROTC students were featured. The displays showed advances, processes and concepts in engineering and its associated fields. The Kansas engineers did without a queen this year be cause "of a lack of work for her." - The annual dance, at which the queen was usually pre sented, had been previously discontinued. The president of the Engi neering Council said of the queen, "In the past the Ex position Queens have been more trouble than they were worth." OTTT-EIGHT TEAM latereollefiato Pvttm gipf$eittstiTe: National Advertising Serriea, Incorporated Publish eft At: Room 28. Student Union LSsseta, Nehrafka Mil A R Pm May ftwnMama m (tt.ltf((S mm4r, Toatdnr. W:aea tut mdnf nrtnR ckoM jrmr, ntt fur l mm pertixl, by rtwiTit of the atrtml Nrtr mxft tHnl ml ttm '.Mni: o MM ftifuJr. m aa rtftmstaa af ata mi aptetmi. FvMtratliM oMktr tt larMtottaa at tfea ItlumwHM mi fnxifit PaWiittMi hull Iw l fnn tttanrsal mnmtoMv aa tlw aart af the HnbimnfntHce at as tw tmn amm iw at famitr af tt ri- i f" -.. ' " it ' The hydraulics laboratory has set up a model of a cul vert under a road. . .Twotnovies also have been added to the display. One is on highway construction and the other shows the Mackinac Bridge, which was recently constructed between the United States and Canada. Egg Throw, Sack Race Compete with Beauties E-Week isn't all displays and beauty queens. A tug-of-war and a cross country race between stu dents of the College of Engi neering and Architecture will be held Friday at Pioneer Park. Egg throws, a sack race, a three-legged race, a wheel barrow race and a baseball throw are the other events of the engineer's annual field day. Each department within the college may enter two teams in each event except the tug- of-war and the cross country tinued during the war years. When the number of students attending college increased, the forerunner of today's E Week was renovated. Object The object of the week has remained the same to edu cate the public. On that first open house, over 3,000 parents and guests were shown the classrooms and laboratories of the Engi neering and Architectural Col lege. Among the guests were many of Nebraska's legisla tors, who had been especially invited to the affair. Displays Displays at that time were held principally in Richards Hall. They showed the theo retical and practical work done by the department rath er than featuring displays. The crowds attending the open house have swelled, dur ing the past 46 years, from 3,000 to the 8 or 10 thou sand people that now view the displays. Zipp to Speak At Convocation Harold W. Zipp is the speak er for the E-Week Convocation at the Stuart Theatre at 11 a.m. this morning. Mr. Zipp, a former Lincoln ite and University graduate, is the assistant to the senior vice-president of Boeing Air plane Company in Seattle. Daily Nebraskan OLD mtmOf naasabia irnnm, rflnmry a. atairrlaMoa t, k 3 r fsssata t SS far Urn txntemte rmw. Bna . anma elan antttr at the pam afflw k Umm, NabnMks, ndr Ihr mrt af aatnat 4. I Kit. EtotTORlAL HTAKF t.-. - nmrnr Mwm '"" F-lttw Wan. M.twMI Junior Staff Witter OrMch mnM 5? 5? Kawflan Utnbrrt Jmw Editor ObitoII Kram Copy Mlim Carrnll Krnni, tandra Knllr rnN, Clnrty Korhau. 9f' Writar. fcarnra 0Ka. aooarm WbaifM. Staff riratatraplwr Mlnrlta Tartar , BlTgrVE8 STAFF Maimiw trrrf wiimHa AHfai.t Buoianw Maaarn Htan Kalmaa. ( h.Mi, nrm,. Nana Rohlft. rj,,,trMl Minnirr Iin firm ClmUattou Maaacer........ ..Don Youncdaal Plaque To Be Presented Tonight Feature of Annual Awards Banquet The six engineering depart ments which participata in E-Week will discover tonight which one is the winner of the coveted championship plaque. At the E-Week Banquet the department with the highest number of over-all points in the six areas of competition will be named. The competition consists of separate contests in: window displays, open-house displays, E-Week banquet ticket sales, E-Ribbon sales, field day and Blue Print sales. Window displays and open house displays are judged by Lincoln business and profes sional men. Total points won in field day and the results of the selling campaigns determine the win ners of the o t h e r phases of competition. An Open House plaque and Field Day plaque are also awarded at the banquet. Other awards will be given to individual students at the E-Week Banquet. Gold keys are awarded to veterans of Blue Print. The C. J. Ferguson Award is given to an outstanding sen ior. Other awards are the Hamilton Award and the Sig ma Tau Freshman Award. Miss E-Week, Kay Livgren, is also scheduled to be pre sented at the banquet and to receive a traveling trophy. race. Only one team may be en tered for those events five men on the cross-country teams and 10 on the tug-of-war. The tug-of-war and cross country race are scored at 10, 7 and 3 points for first, second and third places, re spectively. The Softball tournament (won by the electrical engi neering department last year) is worth 29, 14 and 7 points for the top three places. All other events are scored on a S, 3, 1 point basis. Field day tickets cost 75 cents, which includes the price of lunch. In case of rain, the tEast Stadium w i 1 1 be used. Lunches are to be prepared this year by the University Dames. CE Displays Keyed to Uniqueness The chemical engineering rtisnlavn r keveH in shnw the uniqueness of design and operation for the n e e d s of chemical engineers. One display features a sep aration of m a g n e t i c com pounds and a non-magnetic compound. The magnetic com pounds cling to a magnetic pully. One room is devoted to the curriculum of. a chemical en gineer to explain to prospec tive students what some of the courses they wiU be taking wiU be like. E-Week Games Wizardry Shows Talents Learned Like games? Try the E-Week open house! Nearly each department chose to display some of their talents in the form of a game. The electrical engineering department devoted nearly one room to displavs of this kind, characterized by nn electronic Tic-Tac-Toe and target shoot. An airplane could be direc ted towards a target by radar control and visitors could also make their own TV test pat terns. far wti ttwy av, or a ar i I : , i ; ; . ; J , " ' . ' ' T1 - J : - " ' f f ... jl rtl - - ,r.A r -- " v I . . u I I ij - f ' I I' x 13'"! mmmKmmmmmlu -1 "JACOB'S LADDER" is the title of this E-Week display, set up is Ferguson Hall by the electrical engineers. Bruce Abernethy (left) Is operating the exhibit as Ronald Thedens (center) and Leo Tyrpell (right) watch. Engineering Magazine Blueprint Is 58 Years Old The Nebraska Blueprint, the the offset method of printing. ( Income for the magazine Engineering CoUege magazine The magazine was originat- j comes from advertising which which celebrates its 58tb anni-1 ed in 1901 and was published is handled by New York ad versary this year, is the old-' on an annual basis until 1911, j vertising agencies. The maga est engineering magazine in ! when distribution on a quart-1 zine has its own publications the country. Blueprint is also the only engineering magazine to use Quick Cakes Baking a cake in two min utes and turning on a light by passing your hand over a switch these are just two dis- ! piays in uie eieciucai enSi- Architects Feature 'Aesthetic' The aesthetic and the func tional combine to make the architectural display one of the most versatile among E Week displays. ' Models and drawings repre sent Nebraska's architecture of the past, present and fu ture. The students are as signed design projects similar to those they will confront in actual practice such as schools, supermarkets and office buildings. The designs of the buildings are complete to the last de tail. In one model of a house, tiny slips of colored paper represent magazines on a desk. Displays of modern art and sculpture show what the arch itectural student does as a hobby or in classes which give him credit for his particular course of study. 'Mister Roberts9 Is Sunday Film "Mister Roberts" is the featured movie this Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in the Union Ball room. A World War II Navy come dy, the film stars James Cag ney, Henry Fonda, William Powell, Jack Lemmon and Betsy Palmer. It will be pre sented in Warnercolor. The Roadrunner will star in a featured short, "Guided Muscle." Admission is free with Uni versity identification. ( ' 1 tre 4 1 ierly basis was inaugurated. Blueprint was issued only i once during World War I. EE Feature neering department. The cake is cooked by di electric heating. The heat comes through two prongs which hold the cake in place. The light switch display compares light switches of the present, past and near future. The most modern example, the future switch, turns on by simply passing your hand over it. Cigarette smoke vanishes quickly with the electrostatic home air cleanser while in dustries save time and money with an electronic brain that solves mathematical equa tions. A practical exhibit, an ex planation of police radar units, concludes the double E displays. 'Bar-Joist' To Enliven Displays Civil engineers, who boast that civil engineering expands into all phases of living, help to prove their claim with a variety of displays. A model of an actual earth en dam shows how water passes through the dam and shows ways that seepage can be prevented. , The shaking floors in the new governor's mansion are the result of a type of construction-, known as a "bar joist." A joist of this type is on display. Other displays concern the state highway and aerial sur veying. One feature explains what l prestressed concrete is, hew it is made, and what the ad vantages of its use are. A movie and photographs of the 5100,000,000 span which connects the two peninsulas of Michigan, and Mackinac Straits Bridge, are also shown. r if (I board. Carroll Novicki is the Blueprint editor. The Blueprint also shares the distinction of being one of the founders of the Engineer ing Collegiate . Magazine As sociation, which is the govern ing body of engineering maga zines throughout the United States. The magazine was original ly modeled after the high school "annual" but evolved into a magazine covering en gineering and information and stories concerning other fields of study. Iowa Offers Traineeship Scholarships Eight traineeship stipends for graduate study in rehabili tation counseling are avail able in the College of Educa tion, State University of Iowa, for qualified students wishing to begin their work in Sep tember, according to Dean E. T. Peterson. Traineeship awards, made available by the Office of Vo cational Rehabilitation, are $1,800 for the academic year for beginning students. After completion of two semesters, the student receives help at the rate of $2,000 per year. Financial support, on a pro rated basis, is also available for students who continue their studies through summer sessions. These stipends are tax free. Recipients accept a moral obligation to use their education in some rehabilita tion work. Students graduating from this rehabilitation counseling curriculum receive an M.A. aegree in education with a major in rehabilitation coun seling. Three semesters and one summer session are usu ally required to complete the 38 semester hour non-thesis program. Dr. John E. Muthard, Assis tant Professor, College of Edu cation, State University of Iowa, Iowa City, la., should be contacted for more information. A PROTECTIVE SPACE SUIT to be worn by U.S. Navy fliers riding ever 45,000 feet is. demon strated by the civil en gineers. The suit costs $$,000 and weighs 27 pounds. It is being dis played as part of the E Week activities. Lincoln Buildings Portrayed Architect Display Stresses History The fame of past, present and future architecture of Lin coln is portrayed in the archi tect's E-Week display. Reproduced photos were ob tained from pictures in the State Historical Society and other sources to show the past architecture of Lincoln. The buildings of Lincoln from the 1820 's to about the 1920's are shown in this group. The group also includes many University buildings. Models and paintings show the style of architecture which we may see in reality during the future. Some of the buildings shown are ones which are being built or will be built in the near fu ture. Models of the Kellogg Cen ter are included in this group. The modernistic displays feature the architecture of small houses to large office buildings and shopping cen ters. The displays of the future were prepared by professional men and architectural stu dents. The architect's display also features their work in sculp turing, painting, sketching and ceramics. 'Cavitation' Takes Month Display Explains BoUing EjfecC More than one month wag spent on a cavitation display in the mechanical engineer ing building. The display shows the boil ing effect of water caused by reduction in the pressure of water behind a blade. This exhibits how a boat propeller will allow very little increase in boat speed although there is a large increase in propeDer speed. Explosions of accumulated dust show dangers in the home. Visitors also take home small cast iron souvenirs en graved with U of N as a re m ember ance of the ME build ing. Open House Gets Early Attention Letters to high schools r,Vo..t U TTT V ... Tt, wui uic n-Bctk ipeu nuusc go out to every school in the state several months before the event. Then thos schools which are interested send back let ters and the engineering de partment sends them informa tion. Many schools spend the rest of the day touring Mor rill Hall, the Historical Soci ety and the Capitol. if l!,,.!