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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 17, 1966)
ION dent, ines- eulty ders’ 5 iS. Co*- ale, A educiti le bgild- ■light or lor oil; d, dll 18.2!(t: wagoo, 282t< iw lira 282U aihin; C.Wil- Phot! 268tli 8dt2 THE BATTALION Thursday, March 17, 1966 College Station, Texas Growth Rapid For Industrial Engineering By JAMES SIZEMORE Battalion Special Writer Productive labor are the key words for the Department of In dustrial Engineering 1 at Texas A&M. Their importance is ap parent in the recently rapid growth of the department. Dr. A. W. Wortham, depart ment head, said the past year’s increase has made the depart ment one of the fastest growing on campus. He points to progress such as new personnel, building and courses, research programs and a stepped-up graduate pro gram. Four full-time doctorates are on the staff, with one or two more to be added by September. Dr. Glen Self joined the de partment last September, and two others — Dr. J. M. Nash and Dr. D. D. Drew — joined the doctorate ranks in January. Wortham comes to the depart ment from Texas Instruments where he was manager of ad vanced planning. A number of staffers with master’s degrees have been added, including some who went to work immediately after receiving their degrees here. Wortham explained it is not the quantity, but the quality in education and background which has been a welcome addition to the department. He points out Leonard R. Lamberson, who has a master’s from North Carolina State and a background of work with General Motors. The department will soon occu py all the third floor, part of the first and most of the basement in the Space Science Building now under construction adjacent to the Data Processing Center. The Center is, itself, a part of the Department of Industrial En gineering, and is the finest such installation in the Southwest — possibly the nation. The growing use of computers has necessitated addition of some of the five new courses now of fered by the department in opera tions research, including linear programming, non-linear pro gramming, mathematical model building and simulation tech niques. The department has also be come very active in research. A two-year, $45,999 contract with NASA titled “Study for Probabilistic Long-Range Plan ning” currently involves seven department staffers: Clifford Trimble — Space Ma terial; Jim Koonce — Probabil istic Manpower Consolidations; Hubert Jones—Manpower Costs; Jack Doyle — Project Selection and Smoothing; Bob Bowman — Manpower Acquisition and Term ination; Rick Letk—Long Range Planning Model and Application, and Dale Peterson — Forecasting Budgetary Limitations. A $51,103 cost research grant, also with NASA, has involved four more people: Grady Haynes — Utilization of Subjectively Determined Data in Mathematical Models; Sid Brown — Runout Costs for Fu ture Spacecraft; Jack Britain — Selection of Weighting Factors in Mathematical Models, and Bill Cooke — Estimation of Para meters. In addition to these programs, proposals for $300,000 to finance proposed research programs are scheduled. The graduate school represents one of the largest graduate en rollments in the university. Of the 100 graduates enrolled in the department, 90 are in Computer Science. Graduates in industrial engi neering have increased from one h) 15 in the past year, all of which are in the master’s pro gram. The department does not M offer a doctorate, but one niay be available in the next year or two. All this growth testifies to pro ductive labor and is representa tive of the growth in many de partments which makes A&M more and more of a research and education center for the South west. make . up schedule for corps soph omores AND JUNIORS FOR 1966 AGGIELAND, march 14-18 at uni versity STUDIO SDSBOBMlf V^SP£CIALS FOPtHUPSCAY' FPiP^-mAi2<:H n lt> PEP STAMK POO IMPS] iMPtm ! MAS£ LI6MTMEAT lir :': : v ‘■yy.:! si§P ::: 1 PCTEP6ENT $ m pl : ,J m&m: 6nI£&V UMIT * With $2.50 Purchase l&VOFf HiL SSP j * .•••••I U/vw-T * wm-i With $2.50 Purchase & -qrf) rUUiiJi. % m &ONe *4 BMPBQ&r v M Ir*x^*i*>x**‘ PWAL GOAtltt PB$fRn STEAK-’ — GKkkWT *1j9, vmfflem'tyz iiisi: Full Ills:::® Oif i-M ’iliiii F'^X'X’X* FREE 100 EXTRA S&S RED STAMPS With Purchase $10.00 or More Limit One—Expires 3-19-66 Pi*X*2 ^X*X* ^****** r. : x : l||p : 'CfefFPGENT ( Limit?.) p| _6yr gq/ 1 &XX TOft; ts:; Alamo wim vtw 06A “|;s::jWoamr<i»ftWNP C*2*X # 2*2v yyy^ •*•*•*•j wEtWHsKbi <&&&& 19 PAhl M A paNiir aurfER i; 59 Blackman Made jt-u' WASHINGTON FANCY (<TP m/C/Ot/S LIPDf?KlA^itAW$rMAVEL (J\£frCO MS) U^l VW-OW ORM6ES 2- f 7-S C^UjO) ONIONS •Iw 15 CA**otS ■7—zr QUANTITY RIGHTS RESERVED ahd * at‘Sooth /laost modern TEyAs AT 8 A"-8 PM. CLOSED SUNDAY A*. <, 6PfA*-Q)lUbESKM(l