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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.
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