Tuck-Thayer Changes

ANEW degree, Bachelor of Industrial Administration, will be awarded for successful completion of the five-year Tuck-Thayer course, it was voted by the Dartmouth Trustees at their fall meeting. The new degree will begin with the class graduating in June 1962 and will constitute one of the moves recommended to the Trustees for developing the program offered jointly by the Tuck and Thayer Schools and designed for specially qualified students who are preparing to assume management responsibilities in engineering-oriented industries.

President Dickey has named George A. Taylor, Professor of Engineering and Management, as adviser to Dean William P. Kimball '28 of Thayer School and Dean Karl A. Hill '38 of Tuck School in administering the program. These three men formed the committee that recently made a report to the Trustees recommending a strengthening of the Tuck-Thayer course. Donald C. Burnham, vice-president of Westinghouse Electric Company, and Robert H. Roy, dean of engineering at The Johns Hopkins University, served as consultants to the study.

"At Westinghouse," said Mr. Burnham, "we often have to send engineers we've hired to business school to equip them for jobs at the top management level. The dual aspects of the Tuck-Thayer program make it ideal in this respect."

Other recommendations in the report approved by the Trustees were: (1) that the engineering science curriculum in the undergraduate College be adopted as a basic preparation for Tuck-Thayer, and (2) that two new courses, "Engineering Analysis and Design" and "Scientific Analysis in Industry," be added to the program. The first course will introduce students to the philosophy and methods of engineering design, and the second, to be taught by members of both faculties, will require special studies and written reports on analyzing industrial problems through scientific methods.