Thayer School
Thayer School Visitor of the Term was Dr. Lillian Gilbreth who is known to millions as the mother who found them "Cheaper by the Dozen" and is internationally recognized as an authority on scientific management. The holder of innumerable earned and honorary doctor's degrees and the recipient of important awards recognizing her ability as an engineer, Dr. Gilbreth, an unbelievable 85, spent three days at Thayer School: days crowded with lectures to classes, seminars with faculty and students and social functions all adding up to a schedule of activity quite unthinkable for anyone of fewer years or lesser youth.
A study entitled "Peak-Period Control of a Freeway System — Some Theoretical Considerations" has been received from author Joe Wattleworth '60. The study formed the basis for his Ph.D. dissertation at Northwestern University. Joe has recently moved to College Station, Texas, where he has accepted an appointment as Assistant Research Engineer and Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Texas A. and M.
An interdisciplinary activity conducted at Dartmouth last year has received first place in the University Competition for the annual Methods Improvement Award of the Industrial Management Society. The project was a joint venture of Warren Loomis '62, Peter Lothes '62 and members of the English Department and the Dartmouth Players. Receiving the plaque for Dartmouth at the award ceremony in Chicago was Barry Mac Lean '61.
The fall meeting of the Thayer School Board of Overseers was held at the Dartmouth Club in New York City on November 21, with practically full attendance including President Dickey, Vice-President Hicks, Provost Masland and Dean Tribus. Elected to fill the vacancy created by the completion of Hartness Beardsley's '37 term as Overseer is Dr. James H. Wakelin, Jr.'32, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and Development since June, 1959.
One of the football programs this fall carried a dignified and effective advertisement for the Jackson Construction Company, Inc., of Newton, Mass., builders of Dartmouth's new Charles Gilman Life Sciences Laboratory. Friends and classmates will recognize the proprietor of this new company as Phil Jackson '44, the master builder who is to be credited for having carried primary responsibility for the construction of much recent construction in Hanover, including the Nervi-designed Leverone Field House.
The end of the 1963 fall term brought, in addition to the usual final examinations, a day of excitement and public recognition to some 58 sophomores in the Engineering Science 21, Introduction to Engineering, course and to 17 seniors and graduate students in the Engineering 172, Methods Engineering course. The afternoon and evening of December 6 were devoted to the presentation by these students of the results of their course projects before an audience of distinguished judges and visitors from foreign parts. Out-of-town visitors included the Editor of Design News, the Associate Editor of Chemical Engineering, representatives from International Science and Technology, and visiting professors from the University of Waterloo in Ontario.
The project on Plasma-Torch Tip Design by R. Van Mell '63 and R. Whitfield'62 was adjudged the winner of the Methods Engineering contest by a panel of judges consisting of six company presidents from the New England area under the chairmanship of Professor George Taylor.
The Engineering Science 21 course project this year was the design of a brackish water conversion unit for the home. The class was divided into five groups (engineering companies), each with a Thayer School faculty member acting as "Consultant." The design proposed by BRACON, INC. was selected as the best by a panel of judges which included, in addition to Dean Tribus, a patent attorney, a director of an industrial laboratory, a professor of chemical engineering from the University of Delaware, and a project director from the Office of Saline Water, U. S. Department of the Interior.
Both presentations were praised by the judges and visitors for their subject matter, quality, manner of presentation and organization.
Ed Boies '63 describes his "methods engineering project" to visiting lecturer Dr.Lillian Gilbreth as Professor George Taylor and Thayer School class kibitz.
