The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, June 06, 1968, Image 4

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, June 06, 1968, Image 4

Newspaper Page TextPage 4 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Thursday, June 6, 1968 Computer Theory Taught By 6 Adam’ wmmm — ■si Student Makes Good Despite Money Problems First Year At Texas A&M, electrical engi neering and computer science graduate students have designed and built a computer — a first for them — and named it Adam. In this instance, Adam stands for automatic digital arithmetic machine. Assistant Professor Thotaas :<hyne said the computer is limited in accuracy and flexi- bilit , but noted that its construc tion has helped students grasp basics of computer theory. “Truthfully, the machine is an all-student project,” Rhyne re marked. Seven graduate students de signed and constructed the com puter in six hours of class and identical time in the laboratory. “Some of ’em fudged a little,” Rhyne grinned. “They worked on their own over the weekend and spent extra time in the lab.” The student engineers attacked the problem in three divisions to simulate an industrial situation. John Berk of Nanticoke, Pa., Edward Travis of San Antonio and A. S. Rao of Bangalore, In dia, tackled the arithmetic sec tion. Controls were the assignment of James Byram aand Wallis Mc- Math of Bryan and Augustine Chang of Dallas. Sandy A. Scal- co of Meridian, Miss., worked on input-output. That’s data, in structions and computed results. Rhyne said the computer can handle nine basic instructions. It adds, substracts and multiplies. “We plan to add a little intel lect to the machine each semes ter,” Rhyne pointed out. “Maybe next year we can program a computer to multiply auto matically, reducing time now re quired.” Adam, like some women con tend about their husband, does n’t have a memory. A student fulfilled the memorization chore this spring. Even he had to write bits of information on pa per and feed the knowledge- hungry Adam. Like all men, Adam is not long for this world. He’s to be torn to pieces this fall. From his parts, possibly like Adam’s rib, a fancier mechine will be built by future EE365 classes. Adam is worth about $2,500 compared to almost $1 for chem ical ingredients of a man in this inflation-oriented era. There’s no doubt about it. The more sophisticated machine to be constructed next year, one that has a good memory and does everything but sweep out, al ready has its name ready and waiting. DETERMINED MONEY-MINDER Juan Lopez started his college career with $5 in his pocket and recently graduated with honors here and with money to spare in the bank. Bolyard To Chair MSC Camera Club Dale Bolyard of La Marque will chair summer activities of the Memorial Student Center Camera Committee. Summer meetings in the same MSC rooms will be on June 10 and 24, July 15 and 29 and Aug. 12, Black added. Bolyard is a senior architecture major. Chairman Bill Black of Pratt, Kan., said Bolyard will assume duties after the committee’s last semester meeting Monday, at 7:30 p.m. in Rooms 3B and 3C of the MSC. The popular image of the col lege student who frequently writes home for a handout from Dad doesn’t apply to Juan De Dios Lopez of San Diego, Texas. Here is a young man who not only has worked his way through college — Texas A&M — but has a small sum in the bank after all expenses. Couple this with the fact that he has won the designation of “Distinguished Student” every semester, and he fills the best requirements for a hometown- boy-makes-good type of story. LOPEZ WAS graduated May 25 with honors and with a BS degree in entomology, the study of insects. In those four years, his grade point ratio averaged 2.68 out of a possible 3. This means that his grade record each semester was dominated by A’s. He can look back on a college career that has known triumphs and despair, tempered with hard work. The fledgling entomologist is the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Juan De Lopez of San Diego. He has a sister, Maria Herminia, and a brother, Arnoldo. With some financial help from his father and brother, Lopez came to Texas A&M in the fall of 1964. Although he managed to get a job as a waiter in Duncan Dining Hall on campus, things darkened in a hurry. “I HAD BEEN here two weeks and had $5,” he recalled. “I was homesick, discouraged and about ready to go home when Dean Potts called me in and presented me a Sears Foundation Scholar ship for $300.” The award was the turning point. Dr. R. C. Potts is associate dean of agriculture at A&M and spends considerable time looking out for promising students with money troubles. More than a few Aggies, penniless at the time,, owe their college educa tions to jobs and scholarships ar ranged by the dean. The following summer, Lopez found work at the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture Entomology Research Division at Brownsville. CAME HIS sophomore year, the student returned to his wait er job in the dining hall and found himself the recipient of a Darnell Scholarship of $900 at $300 a year. 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THE HARVESTER is designed to replace nets on shrimp trawl ers’ tow cables. It takes ad vantage of the fact that shrimp feed at night and burrow during the day. BOSH will allow shrimpers to work 24 hours a day. Shrimp boats using nets must work only in darkness, when shrimp leave ocean floor burrows to feed. “Research on the feeding and burrowing habits of shrimp will be required before final designs are drawn,” noted Dr. C. A. Rod- enberger, instructor of a systems engineering course in which the harvester was designed. With pi oper research and plan ning, BOSH should work best in daylight w’hen all shrimp are burrowed, the graduate students figure. “It has been estimated that two shrimp are burrowed for every shrimp that is feeding dur ing the night,” their report states. “Yet, shrimpers are con tent to bypass two-thirds of the shrimp over a given area by trawling for shrimp which are feeding.” AT NIGHT, lights on the ship ahead of the harvester would cause shrimp to burrow where they will be more accessible to the machine. If accepted, the ocean-bottom operating gadget will be the shrimping industry’s first notable equipment improvement in over 40 years. Shrimp nets get torn on underwater obstructions, are non-selective in catch, require considerable maintenance and must be hauled to the surface for unloading. Dennehy, de Steiguer, Dudek and Flechtner believe many shrimping operations ■— from lo cating shrimp to dressing and refrigerating the delicacy — could be modernized. Shaped much like the old wheeled floor sweeper, their steel alloy harvester employs several engineering principles to in crease shrimp harvest. BOSH HAS a series of tapered holes on its front edge to force a jet of water—produced by for ward movement of the vehicle — onto the sea floor. The agitation, they believe, will cause shrimp to pop from the ocean floor into the water to be swept up by a 15- foot wide rubber-lipped mouth. Channeled into a bag-type re ceptacle on the back of the ma chine, the shrimp pass over an other series of holes that “grade” the harvest, returning the small er crustaceans to the ocean floor. The remotely detached and re placed shrimp receptacle is de signed to be lifted to the surface for dumping while the trawler and BOSH are under way. Like an airplane wing, the receptacle depends on forward movement and aerodynamic principles of life, drag, gravity resistance to surface its load. BOSH’s towing hawser serves as a guide and a separate towline for added lift ing force. DESIGNERS OF the unique system are Ph.D. candidates in various fields with backgrounds in civil engineering and physics. In the systems engineering course, they crossed engineering discipline lines for information in other areas. Consultation with A&M scientists and engineers in structural mechanics, hydraulics, ocean engineering, biological sci ence and oceanography preceded design selection. They believe BOSH will be safer to operate and relatively maintenance free. Research indi cates it won’t damage the catch and will leave the ocean floor un disturbed for future shrimp growth and harvesting. But primarily, the harvester has the capability of catching two-thirds more shrimp than a net. Hors d’oeuvres, anyone? For all your insurance needs See U* M. Alexander, Jr. ’40 221 S. Main, Bryan 823-361G State Farm Insurance Gompanies - Home Offices Bloomington,Til. THE NORTH TEXAS FARRIERS SCHOOL can be of tremendous value to Veterinary students or to any horseman who wishes to follow the Farrier trade either full time or part time. Competent farriers make from $15,000 to $25,000 per year. You DO HAVE TIME to attend this unique school and prepare yourself for an interesting and rewarding occupation because ours is the only school in the world that can produce a competent farrier in just two weeks of intense work for about half the cost at most Farrier Schools. By offering experienced instruction and the most ad vanced teaching techniques, we have produced successful farriers from 41 states and three foreign countries. This special summer course, mainly for A&M stndents will be offered from August 12-25. Those interested write direct or contact Veterinary student Dwight L. Gailey, 106 Kyle Street College Station. NORTH TEXAS FARRIERS SCHOOL Box 666, Mineral Wells, Texas USDA at Brownsville the next summer. As a junior, he waited tables again. At the end of the school year, he was named head wallet, In his senior year as head waiter, he met many dignitaries who came to eat with the Corps of Cadets, including A&M Presi. dent Earl Rudder. The John Charles Koerth, Jr., Scholarship of $300 was awarded him during this period. Lopez must have been a wizaid at budgeting his time. While holding down the head waiter joli, he also went to work at the uni. versity’s Entomology Research Laboratory. The entomologist figures he has earned about $4,000 in his four years at A&M. As a student, Lopez was a member of the A&M Corps oi Cadets, Entomology Club, Fresh man Agricultural Society, Phi Kappa Phi, chancellor of Alpha Zeta, secretary of the Agricuh tural Council, interpreter for the Student Conference on National Affairs (SCONA), and is listed in “Who’s Who in American Uni. versities and Colleges. During the semester just end. ed, he was one of four Merit Award recipients for seniors is the College of Agriculture. Dean Potts said he remembers when Lopez came to his office for consultations. For maximum use of time, the student always brought a book or class notes to study while he waited in the outer office to see the dean. “It’s this kind of determina tion and spirit that has led to Juan’s success,” Potts pointed out. “I think that just about any young man who is willing to study hard and work and save his money can get a college edu cation.” Drawing Worksho|) Slated This Week Thirty teachers from 18 Texas junior colleges are participating in a technical drawing workshop this week at Texas A&M. Purposes of the sessions are to discuss common problems and to suggest means of improving con tent of course programs, Dr, James H. Earle, associate profds- sor in charge of Engineering! Graphics, said. Included in the programs are talks by R. D. Furay, Ling Tern- co Vought Aerospace Corpora-1 tion, Bryan engineers Jack God win, John W. Hall, and Bill Kel- lett, and Texas A&M faculty members including Assistant En gineering Dean Clifford Ransdell and Profs. North Bardell, Mi chael P. Guerard, Richard Vogel and Earle of the Engineering Graphics Department. COL. FLOYD A. LAMBERT of the Electronics Institute and Pro fessor Edward Romieniec of the Department of Architecture also will address the junior college instructors. The participants will tour the window manufacturing and heavy equipment divisions of Alenco Engineering Corporation, the human factors lab and other facilities of the Industrial Engi neering Department, the Elec tronics Institute, and the Depart ment of Architecture. Discussions will be conducted on such subjects as brain-storm ing, nomography, quiz adminis tration and grading, design by computer, team projects, course ideas, and the Visiting Engineer Program at Texas A&M Univer sity. Ben Wickersham of Angelina Junior College, Charles Potter of Henderson County Junior College, Billy Windham of Southwest Texas College, and Texas A&M graduate student Dennis Ny- strom will give demonstrations and discussions on teaching methods. PARDNER You’ll Always Win The Showdown When You Get Your Duds Done CAMPUS CLEANERS -4

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