Page 4 College Station, Texas Wednesday, September 10, 1969
THE BATTALION
Board Of Directors 9 Requests Approved
A&M Gets New College, Department, 7 Degree Plans
Creation of a College of Edu
cation and a Department of For
estry Science at A&M, approved
by the A&M board of directors
last April, was given final ap
proval in July by the Coordinat
ing Board, Texas College and
University System.
A&M also received Coordinat
ing Board approval to offer seven
new degree programs, including
doctoral degrees in architecture,
environmental design, and com
puting science.
The new College of Education,
authorized for establishment prior
to the start of the fall semester
this year, will include six depart
ments: agricultural education, in
dustrial education, health and
physical education, educational ad
ministration, curriculum and in
struction, and educational psy
chology.
University officials noted that
the latter three departments will
be new, evolving from A&M’s
current Department of Education,
part of the College of Liberal
Arts.
The other three departments
are now included in the Colleges
of Agriculture, Engineering, and
Liberal Arts.
Agricultural education will be
jointly administered by the Col
leges of Agriculture and Educa
tion.
Enrollment in the various
teacher education curricula at
A&M, officials pointed out, has
increased from about 500 to 1,200
in the past five years.
The Department of Forestry
Science will be part of the Col
lege of Agriculture’s School of
Natural Biosciences. A&M was
authorized to offer B.S. and M.S.
degrees in forestry.
The bachelor program, which
includes majors in wood science
and technology and forest re
source management, will be offer
ed to entering freshmen this fall.
The first undergraduate degrees
in forestry, however, can be grant
ed from A&M no earlier than
1973, the Coordinating Board
stipulated.
In addition to the doctoral pro
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grams in computing science, ar
chitecture, and environmental de
sign, A&M was granted a Ph.D.
in veterinary medicine science.
The university also received
permission to offer master’s de
grees in veterinary medicine
science, epidemiology (veterinary
medicine) and statistics.
During its July meeting, the
board of directors awarded con
tracts totaling $8,143,384 for a
new engineering complex and the
first project for a marine campus
in Galveston.
Meeting in Galveston for the
first time, the board also approv
ed establishment of an Institute
of Food Science and Engineering
at A&M.
The board also increased the
maximum penalty for delinquent
room and board payments from
$5 to $10 on the basis of $1 per
day. Whereas delinquent students
could be dropped from the uni
versity rolls after five days, he
will now have ten days under the
new policy.
W. S. Bellows Construction
Corp. of Houston received a
$7,546,000 contract to build the
317,575 - square - foot engineering
complex. The facility will include
accommodations for both under
graduate and graduate instruction
and research.
A $597,384 contract for con
struction of docking facilities at
A&M’s new Mitchell Campus on
Pelican Island was awarded to
Brown & Root, Inc., also of Hous
ton.
The 100-acre campus will even
tually house A&M’s Texas Mari
time Laboratory and other ocean
ographic installations.
Appropriations for Texas A&M
itself included $25,000 for detailed
design of an oceanography-mete
orology building, $237,000 for
additional equipment for the cen
tral utilities plant, $50,000 for
detailed design of a sanitary
sewage collection and treatment
system, and $42,000 to remodel
a hanger for use as a flight
mechanics laboratory.
Other appropriations were ?55,-
000 for dormitory rehabilitation
and $7,000 for improvement of
parking facilities at Prairie View
A&M College, $29,750 for instal
lation of fire-stopping devices for
four Tarleton State College dor
mitories, and $3,000 for prelimi
nary planning for an agricultural
research station at Munday.
University officials said the
new Institute of Food Science and
Engineering will coordinate aca
demic activity in food science and
be a point of contact for interest
ed individuals and commercial and
governmental agencies.
The board members also ap-
proved a $ 1 increase in the fee
for identification cards for A&M
students. Officials explained the
current $1 fee for the cards is
insufficient to cover expenses for
the new lamination process and
color photography now being em
ployed.
A&M Selected By NASA
To Design ‘Space Bus’
NASA selected Texas A&M in
July to help design a “space shut
tle bus” as part of a feasibility
study for a manned sattelite.
The earth-orbital laboratory is
one of the future projects pro
posed by the National Aeronau
tics and Space Administration’s
Manned Spacecraft Center. Such
a laboratory would be used to
conduct earth-oriented studies,
rather than being geared for
space exploration.
A major consideration in the
preliminary study for such an
operation is the problem of get
ting men and supplies to and
from the satellite, noted Harry
Whitmore, director of A&M’s
Space Technology Division.
“It will amount to sort of a
shuttle service,” Whitmore ex
plained, “using a vehicle which
is a combination of spacecraft
and airplane.
He said such a space shuttle
craft must have the capability to
go to the manned platform, re
turn to earth and land at an air
base, rather than splash down in
the yater.
The major problem, Whitmore
pointed out, will be construction
of a craft which will withstand
re-entry into the earth’s atmos
phere and still fly like an air
plane.
The university’s main effort in
the project will be devoted to
subsonic airplane problems. The
study will involve aerodynamics
theory, design and construction
of a shuttle craft model and test
ing in the university’s large wind
tunnel.
The program will be an inter
disciplinary effort joined by the
Aerospace, Mechanical and Civil
Engineering Departments. Stan
ley Lowy and Dr. W. P. Jones
of the Aerospace Engineering De
partment will be in charge of the
theory and wind tunnel aspects,
The model will be built in the
Research and Instrument Shop
headed by Joe Brusse.
Whitmore noted Texas A&M
was awarded the project on the
basis of other research conducted
for NASA and the university's
recent selection by the Depart
ment of Defense for establish
ment of a “center of excellence”
in subsonic flight dynamics.
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