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College Station, Texas
Wednesday,' December 1, 1971
THE BATTALION
Simmons sees computer science courses added to rural areas
“The computer is here to stay
and it will be a part of the life
work or profession of almost eve
ry student now on the campus at
Texas A&M University.”
This was the thrust of a mes-
Dinner planned
for Gen. Smith
A formal dining-in with Maj.
Gen. James C. Smith, command-
indg general of the 1st Cavalry
Division at Fort Hood, will be
held Dec. 3 for military personnel
at A&M and in the Bryan-College
Station area.
Invitations to the event have
been extended to Brig. Gen. Joe
G. Hanover, 420th Engineer Brig
ade commander; retired general
officers at A&M, all officers as
signed at A&M for study and
university military personnel
headed by Col. Thomas R. Par-
Seventy participants are ex
pected at the 6:30 p.m. Ramada
Inn dining-in.
General Smith also will meet
with Army ROTC cadets for dis
cussion of air mobile and TRICAP
activities of his division. The 1st
Cavalry was redesignated a TRI
CAP (triple capability) division
last spring.
The two-star general will ar
rive and depart by military heli
copter.
Colonel Parsons, A&M com
mandant and professor of mili
tary science, will preside at the
dining-in. It was organized by Lt.
Col. Stanley D. Cass, senior Army
student at A&M. He is working
on a master’s degree in meteor
ology.
Center dedicated
to A. P. Beutel
Dow Chemical Co.’S Texas Di
vision Administrative Center was
dedicated Tuesday evening to
Dr. A. P. Beutel, vice president
of the A&M University System
Board of Directox-s and first gen
eral manager of the Texas Divi
sion.
Dr. E. B. Barnes, president of
Dow Chemical U)S.-A'4 presided
and was main speaker at the
dinner that followed.
Dr. Beutel has been a Dow ex
ecutive for 55 years. He was in
itiator of the chemical industry’s
move to Texas and the Gulf Coast
and was the founder, among oth
ers, of Dow’s Texas and Louisi
ana Divisions and organizer and
president of Dowell.
The A. P. Beutel Building is
the administrative headquarters
for the Texas Division.
Vogel receives
geoscience award
Air Foi’ce T. Sgt. John Everett
Vogel of St. Louis, Mo., is reci
pient of the College of Geosci
ences Faculty Achievement Award
at A&M.
The award is presented by the
college faculty to the outstanding
graduating senior, based on aca
demic excellence and leadership.
Vogel, son of E. A. Vogel of
3637 Koeln Ave., St. Louis, will
receive the B.S. Degr-ee in me
teorology Dec. 11 here. He is a
graduate of St. Louis’ Cleveland
High School.
Dr. K. C. Brundidge, assistant
dean for student affairs, pointed
out Sgt. Vogel attended several
colleges and studied under the Air
Force extension program prior
to his enrollment in 1970 at A&M.
He is a Distinguished Student at
A&M.
Dredging Studies
to combine with
world conference
The annual seminar sponsored
by A&M’s Centex* for Dredging
Studies will be combined this year
with the Fourth World Dx*edging
Conference in New Oi'leans Tues
day through Friday, announced
Dr. John B. Hex-bich.
Dr. Herbich, center director,
said approximately 400 engineers
from throughout the world will
attend the joint meeting.
The center will sponsor 13 tech
nical papex*s, including four au
thored or co-authored by Drs.
Roy W. Hann, J. F. Slowey, R. M.
Sorensen, D. R. Basco, Richard
F. Dominguez and Herbich, all of
the Civil Engineering Depart
ment.
TRY
BATTALION CLASSIFIED
sage from Dr. Dick Simmons, as
sociate professor of computing
science, to students in computing
science and those who have not
yet realized the immediate need
for their enrollment in some
courses-—for as little as elective
credit—in data px'ocessing. He
said coxxxputer science coux-ses can
be coupled with industrial engi
neering, statistics, physics, eco
nomics, agriculture, etc.
Dr. Simmons said any student’s
regular course schedule can be
fortified with minimal electives
in computing sciences. He speci
fically listed undergraduate minor
courses as introduction to com
puters, computers in program
ming, computer organization and
data structure. In addition, four
new courses have been approved
for the computing science option.
They are programming languages,
(C.S.401), compiler design (C.S.
402) , systems programming (C.S.
403) and information processing
(C.C.404).
Dr. Simmons said the need for
personnel in computer related
fields is growiixg all over the na
tion. He pointed out that only
teachers and engineers exceed in
number the computer designers,
analysts, programmers and re
searchers at work in 1971. He said
by 1975 the number of computer
oriented personnel will almost be
equal to those in teaching.
Records show that of the four-
year universities in Texas, A&M
has taken the lead in establishing
a strong computing science pro
gram to meet the demand for re
lated pex*sonnel.
Service coux*ses in computing
science have been offered since
the first computer was installed
late in the 1950s. Since then the
master’s degree and subsequently
the rix.D. degree have been add
ed. The courses ax*e given in the
computer and information science
division in the Industrial Engi
neering Department of the Col
lege of Engineering with a staff
of 17 professionals, nine of whom
have their Ph.D.’s. To promote
academic excellence in computing
science, A&M has founded the
computing science national honor
society, Upsilon Pi Epsilon.
At present more than 1,300 stu
dents are enrolled in undergrad
uate computing science courses.
A bachelor of computing science
degree is in the process of ap
proval and may be offered in the
fall of 1972. It will require 124
credit hours. It will also have an
18 credit hour minor
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