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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1978
A<b-M grad researcher studies
responses to foreign products
Trade protectionism is beginning
to sweep through the United States,
says a Texas A&M Uhiversity re
searcher who is trying to determine
whether political, economic or cul
tural reasons are behind the trend.
A survey was initiated here this
week using 36 countries as a basis for
the study.
Several major labor leaders, in
cluding AFL-CIO President George
Meany, report that free trade today
is a myth, with the American worker
on the losing end.
Many foreign products are coming
up against an intangible barrier, ex
plained Chih-Kang Wang, a
graduate researcher who is working
Groundbreaking
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the five gold shovels. College Station Mayor Larry
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mark the site of the new Regional Multi-Use Facil
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expected to be completed in November 1978.
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“American political leaders are
under increasing pressure from
business and labor to use trade policy
to insulate domestic industries from
foreign competition, said Wang. He
said there is a political action aimed
at curbing imports of everything
from TV sets from Japan to textiles
from Brazil.
“The problem, though is that the
protectionists are ignoring the ad
verse position in which many foreign
products are placed," he said.
“When a foreign producer enters the
U.S-market, there are tangible bar
riers like quotas and tariffs. But there
is an intangible barrier, too, that
might cause consumer prejudice
even before the product enters the
country.
After working for more than six
months in two pilot projects, Wang
began the final part of his consumer
research program this week. His
study centers on consumer attitudes.
There is a difference between
male and female response to buying
products from different countries, he
said. “Women had a greater ac
ceptance of buying goods from
foreign markets, Wang added. "It
also seems that the higher the eco
nomic ranking, the higher the ac
ceptance of foreign goods.
According to previous research
there should be some indication that
people would rather buy from a
highly industrialized country rather
than from an underdeveloped coun
try. In the case of two highly de
veloped countries, like Germany
and Japan, the trend is toward the
western culture of Germany, Wang
said.
In political matters, the two prior
projects indicated a better response
to non-communist countries over
communist-controlled nations.
The study lias a May completion
date.
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in yearly award
Don Ivey, Texas Transporta
tion Institute assistant director,
last week was named Outstanding
Engineer of the Year by the
Brazos chapter of the Texas Soci
ety of Professional Engineers.
Ivey and Don Phillips, Young
Engineer of the Year, were hon
ored at the annual Engineers
Week awards banquet at Briar-
crest Country Club. Both are
Texas A&M University profes
sors.
Plaques and certificates were
presented at the banquet featur
ing insurance executive M.L.
"Red Cashion as speaker.
Ivey was cited for 18 years of
contribution in engineering, the
last seven as head of TTTs High
way Safety Research Center. He
became TTI assistant director last
month.
TTI life-saving research was
conducted under Ivey’s direction
on highway fixtures such as signs,
light poles, guard rails, crash
cushions, and on vehicle handling
and stability on pavements.
Ivey developed the first Fed
eral Highway Administration re
gional field test and evaluation
center for skid resistance mea
surements of pavements at Texas
A&M.
A 1960 Lamar University
graduate and Fort Worth native,
Ivey joined TTI in 1962. He con
ducted research in structures and
crash dynamics. His civil engi
neering specialties are structural
engineering and mechanics. Ivey
received masters and Ph.D de
grees at Texas A&M in 1962 and
1964.
AIP is a membership organi^
tion of the leading societies i
physics and astronomy. It pul
fishes 44 scientific journals i;|
cooperation with its men4|
societies.
Clark, who joined the Ten mik e
A&M faculty in 1973, isak
president-elect of the Texasss,
tion of AAPT.
Marshall Award
for Army senior
DON PHILLIPS
Dale Lazo of Fort Worth!,
been chosen for the Georgt
Marshall Award as the outstan
ing senior in the Army
program at Texas A&M Unis#
si tv.
Associate professor of indus
trial engineering, Phillips was
recognized for teaching and re
search in stochastic (random)
network flow analysis, system
simulation and mathemetical
programming.
Phillips is considering a na
tional authority in geometric pro
gramming. He is involved in two
TTI research projects and has di
rection responsibilities in pro
grams for the National Science
Foundation and U.S. Depart
ment of Energy.
One of three textbooks he co-
authored, “Operations Re
search," received a 1977 Book of
the Year award from the Ameri
can Institute of Industrial Engi
neers.
A 1965 Lamar graduate, Phil
lips earned advanced degrees at
Arkansas in 1967 and 1968. He
taught at UT-Austin and Purdue
before joining the Texas A&M in
dustrial engineering facultv in
1975.
Both TSPE honorees arc
members of numerous profes
sional organizations in which they
sen e national leadership roles.
Lazo, operations officer on |
Corps of Cadets staff, receive
certificate and a set of $
biography of Gen. Marshall,
The political science.seniorak,
will attend an ROTC Award Cm
ference April 20-22 in Lexingta
It will feature speakers sum
Dean Rusk, former secretaryj
state on national security issuei
Formerly in Company A1
the Aggie Corps, Lazo is a four,
year Army ROTC sclioIarslii|
winner and a Distinguished Ml
tary Student. His overall grai
point average is 3.27. Lazoal
tended U.S. Army Airhornt
School at Fort Benning, Ga.,ant
summer camp at Fort Riley.Kan
On graduation he willbecommis
sinned a Regular Army sen*
lieutenant in the infantry
The award is given by the 11
Army in each of 280 colli
university ROTC detachment!.
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Dr. Robert Clark of Texas
A&M University has been
elected to a two-year term on the
governing hoard of the 50,000-
member American Institute of
Physics (AIP) and to a two-year
term as treasurer and executive
board member of the 10.000-
meinber American Association of
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