Award of Merit Given at Dallas Meeting
M. E. Prof Gets Recognition
An award of merit in recogni
tion of “outstanding- work in
teaching and advancing the princi
ples of the industry and profes
sion,” has been awarded to Les
ter S. O’Bannon, professor in the
Department of Mechanical Engi
neering.
The award was made,, at the
semi-annual meeting of the Amer
ican Society of Heating-, Refriger
ating and Air Conditioning Engi-
Lester S. O’Bannon
. receives ASHRAE award
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neers, which ended today in Dal
las. The nomination for this award
came from the Life Members Club
and was approved for the national
organization by the Honors and
Awards Committee.
O’Bannon, who came to A&M in
1948 from the University of Michi
gan, has been a member of the so
ciety since 1922, while on leave
from the University of Kentucky.
He was working at the society’s
research laboratory, then located
at the Bureau of Mines in Pitts
burgh, Pa.
A native of Kentucky and a
graduate of the University of Ken
tucky in 1915, O’Bannon began his
teaching career at Kentucky in
1920 as assistant professor of
steam engineering, later was pro
moted to professor of heat-power
engineering. In 1935 was named
head of the Department of Me
chanical Engineering. From 1936
to 1946 he was research mechani
cal engineer for the Kentucky Ag
ricultural Experiment Station. He
went to the University of Michi
gan in 1946 where he was research
engineer and visiting professor of
mechanical engineering until 1948,
when he came to A&M.
ASHRAE Member
O’Bannon is a member of the
Houston Chapter of the ASHRAE
and until recently was sponsor of
the A&M Student Branch. He is
author of several papers published
in engineering or scientific jour
nals, a life member of the Ameri
can Society of Mechanical Engi
neers, member of the American
Assn, of University Professors,
American Society for Engineering
Education, Texas Assn, of College
Teachers, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi,
Alpha Sigma Phi and Phi Mu Al
pha.
Before becoming a teacher Pro
fessor O’Bannon worked in the
Steam Engineering Department of
the Illinois Steel Co., Chicago, 111.
After a brief term in the army
(AEF, France 1918) he was em
ployed as Efficiency Expert in the
Coke Plant Department of the Na
tional Tube Co., Lorain, Ohio, an
other subsidiary of the U.S. Steel
Corp.
Taught in Kentucky
While teaching at the Univer
sity of Kentucky between 1920 and
1935 O’Bannon worked under the
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direction of the late Dean F. Paul
Anderson as a researcher in the
field of heating and air condition
ing. His pioneer experiment on
the simultaneous flow of water
and air in pipes supplied informa
tion for the code committee on
pipe sizes for steam heating sys
tems. Research related to steam
boilers and unit heaters was' of
similar importance to other tech
nical committees of the Society.
Laboratory Designer
For the Kentucy Agricultural
Experiment Station he designed
two laboratories for experiments
on the influence of temperature
and humidity upon the quality of
air-cured tobacco. His tobacco-cur
ing research was cited by a super
visor in the Department of Agricul
ture at Washington as the “best
that has been done” in that field.
Another major project at Ken
tucky was testing the burning
characteristics of seventeen differ
ent coals in small underfeed
stokers, a project sponsored by the
C. and O. Railway Co.
Bearing Research
At the University of Michigan
his research had to do with the
performance of bearings operating
with different lubricants at tem
peratures between minus 70 and
300 degrees Fahrenheit.
O’Bannon says that he is a living
denial of advice he gives his stu
dents, that is, to specialize. He
says the only thing he has specia
lized in is non-specialization. The
list of equipment he has tested or
used in various investigations—
I’anging from open hearth steel
furnaces, boilers and engines to
fuels, lubricants, tobacco, weed
killers and human comfort—reads
like “the index of a mechanical
catalog.”
“Dabbled” in Other Fields
He has “dabbled” in fields re
mote from engineering. On three
occasions he has read papers be
fore the division of Philosophy and
Psychology of the Kentucky Aca
demy of Science. One of these en
titled “Ontology of Consciousness,”
is about as far from engineering as
one can get.
A two-page “Condensed Theory
of Education” was once prepared
for a special group of his col
leagues. He has lectured to en
gineering and scientific groups on
business cycle theory, using as a
basis for those lectures a three-
dimensional diagram which he
claims is a synthesis of business
cycle theories.
Now on modified service at A&M,
he says that he would like nothing
better than to find, time to pursue
these non-engineering hobbies.
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