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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 16, 1966)
Transportation School Offers Public Service By RONALD BOTT Special Writer How to use and develop trans portation to its greatest potential in serving the public is the objec tive of research and educational endeavors of the Texas Transpor tation Institute here. The institute came into the Sys tem in 1950 to: Research transportation of per sons and property, including the economy of transportation, physi- —Job Calls — WEDNESDAY Ingersoll - Rand Company — civil engineering, electrical en gineering, industrial engineering, mechanical engineerng. Swift and Company — agri cultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal husbandry, animal science, civil engineering, electrical engineering, mechani cal engineering. Department of Agriculture Con servation Service — agricultural economics, agricultural education, agricultural engineering, agrono my, animal science, plant sci ences, range management, wild life science. Chicago, Rock Island and Paci fic Railroad Company — civil engineering, electrical engineer ing, industrial engineering, me chanical engineering, business administration, accounting, eco nomics. Upjohn Company — agricul tural education, animal husban dry, biology, business adminis tration, marketing. General Mills — chemical en gineering, chemistry. Lone Star Gas Company — chemical engineering, civil engi neering, electrical engineering', industrial engineering, geology, mechanical engineering, petro leum engineering. United States Steel — chemi cal engineering, electrical engi neering, mechanical engineering, accounting. Trane Company — aerospace engineering, chemical engineer ing, civil engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineer ing, mechanical engineering. Upjohn Pharmaceutical Sales — biology, chemistry, zoology, animal science, agricultural edu cation, marketing. cal plants and property, the mov ing carriers with regard to their medium, air transport and any other phase or activity concerned with the movement of persons or things. Receive and expand funds do nated by approved sponsors to these objectives. Provide graduate instruction for advanced degrees in this field. The Institute receives guidance from an advisory committee of about 60 men who represent the social, financial, economic and engineering phases of transpor tation and are vitally interested in and familiar with the problems of all forms of transportation. The institute may take advant age of other facilities and person nel of the A&M System, includ ing the Data Processing Center, largest campus-based computing center in the Southwest. Also available are the Nuclear Science Center laboratories, with a reactor designed for 5-mega watt operation at each of two positions and buildings and paved areas for the A&M Research and Development Center which occu pies nearly 2,000 acres north of Bryan. The institute utilizes the inves tigative approach of theory and evaluation through experimenta tion and practical application. Project advisory committees of highly qualified engineers from the sponsoring agencies and re search personnel from appropri ate teaching groups provide val uable advice and guidance for each project. Projects conducted in highway research include planning, design, construction, operation, main tenance, safety and economic ef fects. TTI cooperates extensively with the Texas Highway Depart ment and the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads. Through various academic de partments, the institute provides graduate work leading to Mas ter’s and Doctor’s degrees. It of fers information to the trans portation industry through spe cial adult education courses and publications, and conducts the annual transportation conference, short courses in traffic engineer ing and highway short courses. TTI also assists in bringing transportation specialists to cam pus. Institute researchers have al ready provided successful solu tions for many problems in trans portation: More enduring pave ments, methods of utilizing more readily available aggregates for construction, test advancement and improving the quality of pav ing asphalts. Although public demand has placed considerable emphasis on highways, operations of the in stitute are planned in four other areas: water, rail, pipeline and air. Versatility of asphalt as a pav ing material has long been recog nized in construction of pave ments. Research at TTI has been directed toward develop ment of asphaltic mixtures such as slurry seals for light treat ments of road surfaces and to ward the evaluation of new ma terials for use in paving. An investigation is in progress to evaluate the quality of paving asphalts. The effects of time, heat, oxygen and sunlight are be ing determined on representative asphalt cements. Economic research is being conducted on a broad front. Vari ous aspects of transportation are being studied. In cooperation with the Texas Highway Department and the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads, a con certed effort is being made to determine and evaluate the econ omic consequences of construct ing new highways throughout the state. These effects are measur ed in terms of influence the new highways have on land values and use, business activity, travel habits and other areas. Economists further aid trans portation by studying special area, such as costs of operating private trucking fleets to provide information on alternative costs for better procurement and dis tribution of goods. Transportation costs the U. S. more than $100 billion annually. It is a vital force upon which much of the nation’s economic and social well being is depend ent. The A&M affiliate is doing its share to understand and solve many of the industry’s problems. ^®qof §)g)Msy 0@ (Dodd 3 GBod@dod@@§ aft Tirgstone ^ vvnere uuaiiiy comes i SI a AH this Week! Buy 3 SHOCK ABSORBERS at our low everyday price get the 4th for only $100 Wheels bounce off the road Famous brand INSTALLED SHOCKS BUSTED? Here's how you can tell... Front or rear of car sags NO MONEY DOWN on CAR SERVICES COMPLETE SET OFFER 'firestone De Luxe Champion New Treads RETREADS ON SOUND TIRE ^ODIES OR ON YOUR OWN TIRES for $ only ANY SIZE WHITEWALLS '^1 Ch 49 of same off your car. FIRESTONE STORES Phone 822-0139 HOURS 8 A. M.—6 P. M. Corner College Avenue & 33rd Street SEISMOGRAPHIC HAMMER Floyd Mauldin, operator for Independent Exploration Com pany of Houston, sits on a device used to send vibrations into the earth for seismographic study. Gas is injected into the 4^-foot chamber by lines and the mixture is deto nated by eight sparkplugs. Such equipment is being used to chart sub-surface formations on campus. Campus Delegation To Attend Engineering Banquet Thursday Three Texas A&M representa tives will share in the St. Pat rick’s Day Thursday honors and awards banquet of the South Texas Section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in Houston. Dr. Dale F. Leipper, A&M oceanography professor, is the main speaker. “Approaches to Research in Oceanography” is his subject. Ronny John Chauviere of Waco will receive the Hugh Scott Cameron Awards as A&M’s out standing senior mechanical engi neering student. Dr. George H. Thompson, pro fessor of mechanical engineering, is a member of the awards com mittee and will appear on the program. Other participants include Dr. Clifford M. Simmang, Depart ment of Mechanical Engineering head, T. A. Noyes, assistant pro fessor of mechanical engineering, and C. W. Crawford, retired mechanical engineering professor. The banquets scheduled at the Houston Engineering and Science Society building, 2615 Fannin. Bulletin Board WEDNESDAY Aggie Wives Bridge Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Memo rial Student Center. Hillel Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in B’Nai B’rith Building. Aerospace Wives Club will hold a cake sale in front of the Ex change Store. THE BATTALION Wednesday, March 16, 1966 College Station, Texas Page 3 Seismograph Study Made On A Texas Aggie-sized 18,000- pound hammer is swinging at the ground around A&M. Resulting vibrations determine sub-surface structures of College Station. An Independent Exploration Company seismographic unit is performing the study along Jersey St., in preparation for a proposed highway bypass across the southside of the campus. In dependent’s equipment is also used in oil surveys. The Dynoseis Exploration unit of Houston requires two primary pieces of equipment. A record equipment truck is connected to a series of geophones strung Campus along a half-mile wire line. The phone, smaller than an ink bottle, can record vibrations of a person walking nearby. The “gun truck” packs an 18,000-pound, pan-shaped cham ber that is lowered to the ground at intervals. Gas is injected into a 41/2-foot chamber and detonated by means of eight sparkplugs. The “thump” is a geological measuring tape. Roscoe Wilber of Houston, in charge of the unit, said two-mile lines of phones are normally used with two “gun” units for seismo graphic work. The equipment takes the place of regular oil field seismic charting equipment-. r <u 1— Fly-in for half the price. 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