Thayer School Partner

Thayer School has announced that the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company has joined their Educational Partners program by presenting the School with an unrestricted grant of $20,000 and agreeing to provide a minimum of 15 man-days each year to the School's program of professional engineering education. The firm will also cooperate with faculty and students visiting 3M plants

where engineers will pose real-life problems for their solution. Thayer's other Educational Partners include Foxboro Instruments, Carpenter Steel, Hooker Chemical, Scott Paper, General Foods, and Owens-Illinois. Under the partnership agreement, Thayer School arranges conferences and special courses for representatives of the partici-ating firms. Through these visits to the School the personnel of the companies are brought into contact with important developments in science, engineering, and education.

In describing the importance he attaches to the Educational Partners program, Dean Myron Tribus of Thayer School emphasized that "cooperation between an engineering school and a vigorous industrial concern can produce a form of engineering education in which the student is helped to bridge the gap between what he learns from books and what happens in the real world."