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THE BATTALION Page 7
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1977
United Press International
NEW YORK — Construction work in
Alaska is a race against time and the rigors
of the Arctic winter but ultra-modern
computer peripheral equipment is making
it easier.
Take the case of Litwin Corp., a Hous
ton petrochemical construction subsidiary
of Royal Little’s Amtel Corp. of
Providence, R. I. Litwin has a big job
underway at the appropriately named
hamlet of North Pole, Alaska.
“In that climate, if you miss a deadline
or two between March and September,
you’ll have to wait until the next spring
thaw to make up the lost time -— if you
have good luck, ’’ says LeRoy Fronk, direc
tor of data processing for Litwin.
And, he explained, today’s building
methods, particularly those that must be
employed in sophisticated petroleum and
petrochemical projects, require the rapid
transmission and digesting of vast amounts
of data.
“The problem until recently,’ he said,
“was that by the time the data was
gathered and processed, it frequently was
outdated before management and the top
engineers had time to react to it. This
forced a contractor to resort to educated
guesswork and often the guesses missed. ”
One thing that had to be calculated was
“local productivity. ”
Litwin has engaged in sophisticated
construction much around the world and it
has discovered that the productivity of
labor fluctuates greatly by area and so does
machine productivity because of different
conditions.
Management back in Houston needs up
to date information about productivity on
the job in order to make decisions and
transmit them to the men on the spot.
For example, it is vitally important to
keep abreast of all piping activity. “Piping
is half the cost of any petroleum or pet
rochemical building project,’’ Fronk said,
“If you keep on top of the piping, you’re
on top of the job.”
Litwin has managed to do that on the
job for Energy Co. of Alaska at North Pole
by installing a key-diskette communica
tions system made by Data 100 Corp. of
Minneapolis.
Fronk said the system has enabled it to
process four times as much data on the job
and do it in 48 hours, compared with up to
three weeks for older computer systems.
Litwin used to have the coded data from
remote construction sites as far away as St.
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Croix in the Virgin Islands or Russia sent
to its Houston office, then key-punched
and transmitted to United Computing Sys
tem at Kansas City for processing.
The new Data 100 Model 77 system al
lows a lot of the essential work to be done
right on the job in North Pole with the aid
of a 256-character cathode ray tube before
the data goes to Houston.
Then it gets to Kansas City within three
or four hours and is processed and the re
sults are sent to North Pole and back to
Houston the next day.
“We know the data is virtually error-
free when we first get it under the new
system,” Fronk said — “There aren’t any
unpleasant surprises three weeks later as
there used to be.”
And that, he said, means “neither Lit
win nor the client is left out in the cold.”
Young engineers
receive awards
Twenty-seven recent high school
graduates were singled out for
awards in August at the close of the
6th Engineering Concepts Institute
(ECI) of Prairie View A&M Univer
sity.
Those honored were among about
160 enrolled in the program de
signed to give early exposure to en
gineering as a career and the course
work required. Funding this year’s
ECI were Aluminum Co. of
America, Bechtel Corp., Bell
Laboratories, Dow Chemical, Ex
xon, General Electric Foundation,
Mobil Oil and Xerox Corp.
Selected as outstanding students
in engineering communications
were Harry Duffy of Crosby High
School, Shirley Holland of
Hempstead High, Samuel Kempt of
Houston Kashmere, Annette Moore
and Debbie Cosby of Houston Yates,
and Melanie Ridley of Dennsbury
High in Fairless Hills, Pa.
Honored in engineering graphics
were Keith Mouton of Beaumont
Hempstead High, James Williams
and Michael Mosley of Hempstead,
LaShon Mitchell and Oliver Wool
dridge of Houston Worthing, and
John R. Williams of Leto High in
Tampa, Fla.
Awards in engineering concepts
went to Robert Montgomery of
Houston Kashmere, Keith Smith of
Baytown Sterling, Alane Mavis of
Houston Smiley, Michael Collins of
Crosby, Walter Swindell of Dallas
Carter and Ronald Robinson of
McCall High in Tallulah, La.
Engineering mathematics laurels
were received by Smith, Cosby and
Swindell, plus Michael Lightfoot of
Fort Worth Dunbar, * Earnetta
Moore of San Antonio Houston,
Byron Lewis of Houston Kashmere,
Rosalind Blacknell aVid Chiquita
Davis of Houston Jones, and Brenda
Sherrod of Cleveland High in Buf
falo, N.Y.
Funds supplied
for community
agency training
Nationwide training of state edu
cation agency personnel in com
munity education has again been
funded by Texas A&M University.
Dr. Robert I. Berridge said
seminars are planned in
Washington, McAllen, Indianapolis
and Salt Lake City. They will be
conducted by Texas A&M’s Center
for Community Education in Oc
tober and January, April and June,
1978.
Federal funding of $77,884 from
the U.S. Office of Education
(USOE) supports the program. It
will involve state community educa
tion directors from all 50 states.
State grants will fund some direc
tors’ participation. Directors from
non-funded states will be supported
through the Texas A&M Center
budget.
Berridge directs the Texas A&M
center and heads the USOE grant
program assisted by Mike Killian.
The 1976 series of seminars in
Kansas City, Denver, Atlanta and
Seattle was conducted under a
$70,080 USOE grant.
Many veterans
at A&M despite
drop nationwide
The number of veterans attending
Texas A&M University on the GI
Bill continues to run about 1,200
annually, a sharp contrast to large
drops reported nationwide, said
campus VA officials.
The Veterans Administration
stated last week that the November,
1976 enrollment figure was consid
erably lower than the figures for
November, 1975 because the 10-
year eligibility period had just run
out for 3.6 million veterans in the
post-Korean and early Vietnam
period.
Texas A&M liaison spokesmen,
however, noted that the number of
veterans attending on GI Bill bene
fits remains about the same as in
the past — 1,200 in the long terms
and 650-700 for the summer
sessions. It remains to be seen if the
number will significantly change
this fall, they added.
In the 33-year life span of the GI
Bill school plan, nearly 17 million
veterans have been educated since
World War II. Even with the small
er enrollment figures for last fall,
said the VA, about 1.2 million per
sons were using GI Bill benefits at
that time.
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