Page 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 :Tu.n „,w) gitY.hoTi Twr» blocks from e lot. May 577. 573tfn TRY BATTALION CLASSIFIED SOSOLIKS TV & RADIO SERVICE Zenith - Color & B&W - TV All Makes B&W TV Repairs 713 S. MAIN 822-1941 HOME & CAR RADIO REPAIRS SALES & SERVICE KEN’S RADIO & TV 303 W. 26th 822-2819 GM Lowest Priced Cars $49.79 per mo. With Normal Down Payment OPEL KADETT Sellstrom Pontiac - Buick 2700 Texas Ave. 822-1336 26th & Parker 822-1307 ENGINEERING & OFFICE SUPPLY CORP. REPRODUCTION & MEDIA — ARCH. & ENGR. 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Ford Dealer 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. 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