TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1941 THE MICHIGAN DAILY :- Engineering College Offers Opportunities For Research In Modernized Laboratories College Of Architecture Is One Of Leading Schools In Country - 1 Latest Facilities, Libraries Supplement Instruction In All Technical Courses Crawford Brings Broad Experience Freshman engineers I entering the University this fall will be given a greater opportunity to learn than ever before, as the College of Engi- neering, under the able guidance of its Dean Iivan C. Crawford. is keeping well apace with modern times and methods. Engineering at the University to- day is a far cry from the few tec'h- nicak courses offered in the Literary Department back in 1853. Even then Michigan pioneered, however, and four years later De Volson Wood in- stituted a systematic course in en- gineering, making the University the sixth school in the country to offer such a course. Independence day for the College of Engineering came sometime in the year 1895, and Charles E. Greene was the first dean of the independent college. In the interim, however, the engineers had been leaping ahead. Cooley Starts Lab The first little laboratory at Mich- igan, costing but $1500, was erected in 1881 by Prof. Mortimer E. Cooley, who has since then helped plan the projected million dollar research building and seen the establishment of the Mortimer E. Cooley Founda- tion for the encouragement of engi- neering research, set up by his former students. Engineering education has come a long way in the almost-one hundred years of its growth. What was once part of the "Litergrry Department" now spreads out over one entire cor- ner of the campus and occupies two entire buildings while overflowing into others. Crawford Heads College Today, thei progressive spirit of the engineering college finds its counter- part in its leader, Dean Crawford. A graduate of the Army School of the Line in 1918, at Langres, France, and of the G-1 course of the War College in Washington, he brings to the col- lege a wide experience in the field of engineering education. Prior to tak- ng his position at Michigan in July; 1940, Dean Crawford taught civil en- gineering at th University of Idaho for 14 years, and was dean of the School of Engineering and Architec- ture at the University of Kansas for three years. Under his guidance now rests the administration of not just the little research lab of 1881, but a myriad of others which have sprung up along- side it. Youngest department in the college is that of aeronautical engineering, established in 1930. Its labs now in- clude two wind tunnels and a labora- tory for testing structures. Engineering Branches Out Chemical and metallurgical engi- neers can avail themselves of a large number of labs, where they may learn evaporation, distillation, heat trans- fer, air conditioning, refrigeration, filtration, melting and heat-treating, metallography, physical properties, gas, fuel, combustion and technology. Civil engineering, once confined to just, that, now comprises structural, hydraulic, transportation, sanitary and municipal engineering, and is spread out as far as Wyoming, where the University maintains a surveying camp. Other facilities are the trans- portation library, the highway lab- Press Club Will Meet Here On Oct. 23-25 The annual conference of the Uni- versity Press Club of Michigan will be held October 23, 24 and 25 at the Uni- versity of Michigan, Emmet Richards, president, and Prof. John L. Brumm, chairman of the Department of Jour- nalism and treasurer of the Club, have announced. The theme of the conference this year will be "The World in Prospect," and one session will be devoted prin- cipally to the outlook for the state of Michigan. Speakers of national and international reputation will be invited to participate in the conven- tion's session. On the final day of the yearly meeting, the editors in attendance will be guests of the #Jniversity Ath- letic Association at the Michigan- Minnesota football game, to be played here October 25. Architectural Student Council: Back Row-Paul Van Wert; Milford Romanoff; Doris Golding; John Bickel; Gene Walder. Middle Row- William Nuecherlein; Frank Butters; David Proctor; Linn Smith; Sue Holtzman; Dean Hill. Seated-Jean Ranahan, Jack Moehlman. oratories and the hydraulic experi- ment equipment. Electrical engineering too has branched out to offer electrical ower engineering, electrical communica- tions, illumination engineering, de- sign, electronics and industrial elec- trical engineering. The labs include the dynamo lab, the communica- tions labs, the photometric lab, elec- tronics lab, heat transfer lab and the power plant. Mechanicals Are Largest In the realm of mechanical engi- neering, the largest under-graduate department in the engineering col- lege, are steam-power engineering, internal-combustion engineering, hy- dromechanical engineering, automo- tive engineering, industrial engineer- ing and machine design. Used in the instruction of these courses are the mechanical engineer- ing laboratory, divided into parts for the study of many allied subjects, and the automotive and internal combus- tion engine laboratory for automo- tive engineers. Students in naval architecture and marine engineering will have ample opportunity to test their design ideas in the University's experimental naval tank, 300 feet long, 22 feet wide and 10 fee deep. Libraries Are Advantageous Engineering libraries, in addition to the general library, include the West Engineering Library in the West En- gineering Building, the East Engi- neering Library in the East Engineer- ing Building, and the Transportation Library for transportation engineers. Changes in personnel have kept the teaching starr of the college well up to the pace set by the facilities, making the College of Engineering well deserving of the prominent place it now holdshamong the engineering colleges of the nation. Many Recitals Offered By School Of Music In adidition to providing all types of musical instruction to its own students the University School of Music offers a comprehensive ser- ies of musical programs for the gen- eral campus body during the year. Among the featured presentations are a series of concerts given by the University Band and the University Symphony Orchestra, several pro- grams offered by members of the faculty, organ recitals by Prof. Pal- mer Christian and carillon recitals by Prof. Percival Price. One of the leading architectural schools in the country, the Univer- sity's College of Architecture and De- sign, is housed in one of the newer buildings on the Campus, and offers a full quota of courses in all phases of architecture, drawing and paint- ing, landscape architecture, interior decorating and industrial design. Student activities in the architec- tural school are under the jurisdic- tion of the Architectural Student Council as the governing body of the Arichitectural Society. The Society is comprised of the student body and faculty of the school, and is set up for the purpose of promoting activities that are for the betterment of the school. A tentative schedule of activities has been proposed for the coming year by the Society, and will include: 1) A mixer for freshmen during Orientation Week. 2) A student - faculty reception during the first or second week of school., 3) Faculty teas to which students are invited. 4) Discussion groups and lectures University Names 'Perfect' Students Headed by fifty-three "All-A" stu- dents in tig literary college, one hundred ten perfect blueprints were gained during the summer session in five University divisions. According to the registrar's office, the L.S.A. students making A's in three or more hour programs were John E. Allen, Lawrence S. Bartell, Olive N. Barton, Marie Bedell, Helen Benson, Lawrence E. Bohrer, Taze- well M. Bott, William A. Brokaw, Annabel Brown, Walter M. Bury, Pratap Chand, Jack M. DeLong, Pa- tricia J. Donnelly, Anne G. Evarts, Rosa Feigenbaum, Terrance R. Flynn and WallaceR.tGriffitts. The list continues with Mary L. Gunn, Ruth Herschberger, Margaret (Continued on Page 5) throughout the year by prominent ment in various fields. 5) Design awards for outstanding work by students. 6) Twenty-four hours design com- petitions in various fields. 7) Architectural Ball to be held in conjunction with the Business Ad- ministration School. 8) Trips to points of interest for architectural students and faculty, including Cranbrook, Toledo, New York and Chicago. 9) Art mart to be set up in League ,to sell student's work. 10) Any othe- activities which the student body may desire. eautVistas Are Features Of Arboretum Relatively well-known to every up- per-classman but likely to escape the attention of entering freshmen is the Arboretum, garden spot of Ann'Arbor and the University. Visitors to Ann Arbor have called the Arboretum one of the mpst beau- tiful spots of its kind in the Middle West, and students are equally ap- preciative of its charm. From May through October its 96 acres of roll- ing ground are ideal for long, thoughtful walks, and during the winter skiing and tobogganing enthu- siasts hold forth there. Foliage in the Arboretum is now at its best, although most of the flowers are gone. Relatively damp weather during the summer ,ensured heavy crops of leaves on the matiy maple and oak trees, and within the next few weeks frost should turn them to brilliant colors. Greatest fame of the Arboretum, however, is duo to University students who have made its 96 acres their fav- orite locale for starry-eyed hand-in- hand walks during lazy, lovelorn hours. r I klow t SM A -: TI PARKER Debutante ;$J5 pen With matching Writefine pencil in dainty white P is %RT STUDENTS CHOC HE SUPER-CHARGED arJ It's the pen that never lets you down in an emergency. FulliTele- vision Barrel warns days in advance to refill. 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