Thayer School

The Thayer School will be a busy place this summer. In addition to continuing research activities at Cummings and the Radio Physics lab, three courses will be offered. Dean Tribus and Associate Professor Paul Shannon will give a two-week course, "The Uses of Information Theory in Science and Engineering"; Assistant Professor Graham Wallis will direct an intensive, two-week course, "Two-Phase Flow and Heat Transfer"; and Associate Professor Robert Dean, assisted by Professors Paul Shannon and Russ Stearns '38, will direct a "Design Education Workshop for Engineering Teachers" from other institutions. This workshop, which will use the third summer course, "Introduction to Engineering Practice" (ES 21), as its "guinea pig," is described in detail elsewhere in this issue.

Last fall's ES 21 course was received with great interest on the campus and nationally. Design News, a national design magazine, used the course for its cover and feature story in the February 17, 1965, issue.

The Overseers of the Thayer School and the officers of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers will visit Hanover May 20 and 21. The faculty and students look forward to the annual DSE student dinner, and the opportunity to meet with these alumni.

Majid Arbab '57 is located in Torrance, Calif., where as Senior Research Engineer, National Cash Register Co., he is involved in developing ultra-highspeed, magnetic memories. Majid obtained the M.S. from Cal. Tech. in 1958 and started work on a Ph.D. there last fall. ... Craig Hausman'53 dropped in for a short chat while in Hanover recruiting. Craig is manager, Forward Plans Dept., Ford Motor Co., and a member of the finance staff. ... The October 1964 issue of American Highways shows a picture of Ed Byrkit '47 at a National Management Conference. Ed is Chief Design Engineer for the Wisconsin State Highway Commission.... Ed Pearson '63 is enrolled at the Univ. of California in City Planning, while working in San Francisco for the Dept. of Public Works, County of San Francisco.

Byron McCoy '34, who as vice president of the Vermont Electric Power Company is located in Rutland, sent an announcement for the Engineering Societies of New England February luncheon which featured Walter S. Douglas '34 as the principal speaker. Walter, a partner of Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade & Douglas, has been heavily involved in transportation planning and rapid transit studies, design and operation .... A most interesting account of "a completely planned city for 125,000," was received from Jim Holway '48. This city is Columbia, Howard Co., Md., and the plans call for development of highways, streets, utilities, schools, industry, etc. starting from farmland.

Merit White '31 has been on leave for 1964-65, from his position as Head, Department of Civil Engineering, Univ. of Massachusetts. He is at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw dividing his time among research, lectures, and visits to European laboratories.

Davenport, lowa, hometown of Bill Kimball '29, welcomed another Thayer alumnus in February. The Times-Democrat printed a picture of Mike Pender '50 and an account of his talk to the Engineering Societies on the occasion of National Engineers' Week. Mike, who is in charge of state exhibits at the New York World's Fair, outlined opportunities for engineers in public service.

Nick Costes '51 received his Doctorate in February 1965 from North Carolina Sfate College and is now with NASA in Huntsville, Ala. He is in charge of coordinating the NASA research effort in soil mechanics which includes lunar landings, and is located at the Marshall Space Flight Center. ... Carl Parsons '33 visited Thayer School recently and described his busy career as superintendent for Lane Construction Corp. in charge of interstate highway construction in Connecticut. ... Professor George Taylor's Moot Court in March was honored to have as judges Bob Jelley '53 and Dick McMahon '53, civil engineers turned lawyers. ... Gary Crellin '64 has been in Edinburgh for five months and is buffeted between the crush of a metropolis and the beauty of the city. Gary is at Heriot-Watt College and his work for the Ph.D. will be in applying the techniques of thermo-economics to steam power plants.