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| Title | Houstonian 1968 |
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| Date | 1968 |
| Description | This edition of the Houstonian, published in 1968, is the official yearbook of the University of Houston. |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Location | LD2281.H745 H6 v. 34 1968 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1158762~S11 |
| Digital Collection | Houstonian Yearbook Collection |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/yearb |
| Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/special-collections |
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| File Name | index.cpd |
| Title | Colleges |
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| File Name | yearb_1968_236.jpg |
| Transcript | Programming and Noise Reduction The College of Engineering has centered all its activities around its goal of educating young men for careers, not jobs. Realizing that rapid changes in techniques and application will date an individual's knowledge, Dean Charles V. Kirkpatrick noted that the school wishes to provide all students with a background for the future. With last year's addition of 13 new faculty members and the continuation of research programs worth one million dollars, the role of quality education in engineering was emphasized. Monies from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense and NASA encouraged an increase in the number of graduates working on specialized problems. Dr. R. L. Motard, associate professor of chemical engineering, is current ly engaged in a long term study of computer programming. Dr. Motard is working with the Department of Defense to devise a universal computer language that will allow even the unskilled to feed problems into a machine. Such a computer system would enable the engineering discipline to coordinate its many interrelated design problems. Using a $150,000 anechoic chamber, Dr. Douglas Muster, chairman of Mechanical Engineering, engaged in experiments in noise reduction. This soundproofed room, the only one in the Southwest, was designed as a working lab for speech therapists, psychologists, engineers, and architects who need to understand the effects of sound. 317 |