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College Station, Texas Thursday, June 6, 1968
Computer Theory
Taught By 6 Adam’
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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. It was back to the
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Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in Geology
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Sh rimp Ha rvesting
A idedBy ‘Sweeper ’
Shrimp de jonghe, souffles,
creole, casseroles, hors d’oeuvres
and other shrimp dishes may be
come common menu choices with
the entry of aerospace, mechani
cal and civil engineering into
shrimping operations.
Texas A&M graduates in those
fields have a new idea for remov
ing the whiskered crustacean
from the ocean floor.
They’ve contrived through sys
tems engineering a “bottom ori
ented shrimp harvester’ the four
students believe will more than
double production of present
shrimping methods.
“BOSH,” as they call it, is the
product of the interdisciplinary
thinking and research of Bart
Dennehy of College Station;
Allen de Steiguer, Lampasas;
Conrad Dudek, Detroit, Mich.,
and Robert Flechtner, Renn-
selaer, N. Y.
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.
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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
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and discussions on teaching
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