Coastal engineers discover course has unusual element Participants in the two-week Coastal and Ocean Engineering Short Course at Texas A&M Uni versity have found their field also includes the fair sex. Janis M. Hote, a 1969 engineer ing graduate of Louisiana State University at New Orleans, is among the 41 engineers from throughout the world on the A&M campus for the highly-technical course. Miss Hote is a hydraulic engi neer employed by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers in New Or leans. Dr. John Herbich, short course director, noted it is unusual to have a young woman employed fjniitn mt*/ r Cfj. 'J'tantonef tfUlofat* wc have a layaway plan that will enable you to get a < <£'4m« tamond at the retail jeweler's wholesale cost! r in coastal engineering. “I enjoy my work and have found this course very interest ing,” Miss Hote said. The at tractive blonde said she worked for the Corps of Engineers prior to graduating from college with a B.S. degree in engineering- science. Herbich said the course en rollment includes representatives from seven foreign countries — Belgium, France, The Nether lands, Japan, Nicaragua, Mexico and Canada. Nine states and the District of Columbia also are represented. The course continues through Friday and is sponsored by the Coastal and Ocean Engineering- Division of The Civil Engineering Department and the Sea Grant Program of the National Ocean- ographic and Atmospheric Admin istration. Saturday the participants will travel to the Houston-Galveston area for an inspection trip aboard the RV Plxcellence. A&M’s water quality research vessel will take the group to the Houston Ship Channel, Galveston Bay and A&M’s marine science facilities in Galveston. iSunday the university’s aircraft will be used for an overflight of the Texas Gulf Coast from Sabine Pass to Corpus Christi-Padre Island. The aerial inspection will in clude observations of stable and unstable passes, beach formations and estuaries. Classes last week had guest in structors speaking on hydrody namics, wave theories, tidal phe nomena, coastal sediment process es, offshore structure design and current and wave forces. This week’s sessions center around offshore construction and oil spill containment and removal. Herbich said A&M’s Hydrome chanics Laboratory is being used to demonstrate wave theories and lectures are held in the Civil Engineering Building. Most of the students represent governmental agencies or off shore industries, he added. Janis Hote of New Orleans and Andre Sagot of Petraki Pan, France, look over notes at a coastal and ocean en gineering short course session. Miss Hote is the only woman in the 41-member international class. — BATTALION CLASSIFIED WANT AD RATES Oi.e day o