Dr. Myron Tribus of UCLA Named Dean of Thayer School

PROFESSOR MYRON TRIBUS of the University of California at Los Angeles has been named Dean of Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering. His appointment, effective for the next academic year, was announced last month by President Dickey following the winter meeting of the Board of Trustees.

In addition to teaching at UCLA, Professor Tribus has done prize-winning research in several branches of engineering, primarily heat transfer, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics.

As Dean he succeeds William P. Kimball '28 who asked last spring to be relieved of his administrative duties so he could devote full time to developing a new concept in civil engineering education that he calls "environmental engineering." This program would train the prospective engineer intensely in one sector of engineering technology and extensively in the social, economic, political, cultural and physical conditions in which men live. As a practicing engineer he would apply this education to such fields as water resources, waste disposal, transportation, housing, land use or urban development.

Dean Kimball has served as the head of Dartmouth's engineering school since 1945 and has been Professor of Civil Engineering since 1939. Under his direction the Thayer School in the fall of 1958 introduced a new program of engineering education in conjunction with the liberal arts and science departments of the College. Now offered are a four-year engineering science major and fifth-year curricula in civil, electrical and mechanical engineering.

Professor Tribus, a native of San Francisco, was graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1942. He received his doctorate in engineering at UCLA in 1949.

While serving in the Air Force in World War II he developed thermal ice protection equipment for aircraft. For this he received the Thurman H. Bane Award in 1946 from the Institute of the Aerospace Sciences and The Wright Brothers' Medal from the Society of Automotive Engineers. He also was awarded the Alfred Noble Prize in 1952 by the American Society of Civil Engineers and was cited in 1951 by the American Geophysical Union for a paper on water-conservation problems.

Since 1946 Professor Tribus has taught thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer and design at UCLA. From 1951 to 1953 he was Visiting Professor of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering and Director of Icing Research at the University of Michigan.

He served as chairman of the Heat Transfer Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and was general chairman of the Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics Institute in 1955. He was a consultant to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in London in 1953.

Professor Tribus also wrote and appeared as host in a Columbia Broadcasting System television series, Threshold, devoted to presenting problems of science and society.

Thayer School's new dean is married to the former Sue Davis of Kentucky, a registered social worker and the author of cook books. They have two daughters, one aged five years and the other less than a year.

Dean-elect Tribus in his California study.