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lilts mefi Local THE BATTALION TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1981 Page 5 Inlemationil ie Senate t 10'! rexans to enefits. 1 by Sen. ;doches, i iswbovoli or are fir; they have! irked at la hat this hi n from iln they quit: Engineering head returns aid. “It iii pie that' mefits to : out of w id approvfi ■r, and series ol he plan,h ir’s signafe into effect se meat bill. The) ntentofth those v4; ired form to wort's the unea; rogram,"! ite agenoi thadgote ;opleofTa being it id gotta i i the laws istered b s, R-Dala voting a h the Hi ebilLTw imendme; louse to enefits By KITTY FRALEY Battalion Reporter Roy Hann, the former head of $4 million environmental en gineering division of the civil en gineering department at Texas A&M University, recently re turned to his old duties after serv ing as acting director of the Sea Grant Program for IV2 years. “EE is an academic division of the CE department and a research division of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station,” Hann said. Hann is in charge of several areas within the environmental engineering program. One of these areas is the environmental systems group. “In this group we’re particular ly interested in evaluating the en vironmental aspects of engineer ing works and products,” Hann said. “The group is currently de termining the environmental aspects of the brine discharge from the government’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve Program.” Brine has high concentrations of salt, especially sodium chloride. The concept behind the SPRP is a simple one, Hann said. “The SPRP was established to store oil so that if we were cut off from our imported oil, we would be able to carry on business as usual until we could adapt through rationing, conservation and more production,” he said. The SPRP now receives $4 mil lion but started with a $25,000 project through the Sea Grant Program, as have many of the re search programs. “The Sea Grant Program was established in the 1960s in order to educate students with regard to the development of our ocean and marine resources,” Hann said. “It’s an excellent program that has done a lot in stimulating the de- Statistics help desk aids researchers Battalion Reporter Faculty and students at Texas A&M University with statistical questions in their research can go to the Statistical Assistance Ser vice (STAS) for help. Known as the statistics help desk, STAS is located in 203F Teague Research Center. The stu- |dent or faculty member must set up an appointment with the sec retary for the initial visit. “Students enrolled in a statis tical consulting course are the ones who provide the assistance,” Dr. R. J. Freund, STAS coordina tor, said, “but they are always su pervised by a faculty member.” The help desk is open nearly 30 IRANClj GIES: :Webb nee Giwl 82Jlf RVICE action t: ipmenl Ave. 16 JT GUST, to ; mins, hone- $751 . part oft- :nda. ■IT iE 0 L UP IM® iif :ivii All* ; S |T« Applications open for law scholarship The Texas Aggie Bar Associa tion has announced that applica tions are open for a $500 scholar ship for students entering law school in 1981. Applications are available to any Texas A&M University stu dent who is a Texas resident and is entering law school in 1981. The winner will be the applicant with the highest GPR and LSAT scores. The Texas Aggie Bar Associa tion is made up of attorneys who received bachelor’s degrees from Texas A&M. Applications can be picked up in the Academic Services Office, 100 Harrington Tower. Deadline for application is March 23. iiaiMp vr The Wednesday Sneciall good FOODI tadlKW. This little ad is nothing special. But our food is. 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LOUSY ADVERTISING. velopment of our marine re sources.” Another area that the environ mental systems group is involved in is the Oil Spill Technical Assist ance Program. “We put on training courses around the world to help upgrade the educational level of people that are going to be managing oil spill control programs,” Hann said. “Many of the countries don’t even have oil control programs.” As research program manager and head of the environmental en gineering division, Hann is re sponsible for the administrative aspects of the projects and the en vironmental engineering division. “This means that I have less time to work on the projects be cause I have to make sure that re ports get in on time, the resear chers know what’s going on and everybody’s happy,” he said. Hann has been at Texas A&M for 16 years. He received his bachelor's degree and master’s de gree in civil engineering and his doctorate in engineering science from the University of Oklahoma. As for the future, Hann wants to have both an academic environ mental engineering program and an environmental research prog ram that are consistent with the nation’s largest engineering program. “I feel that the engineers that come out of Texas A&M should realize and understand their abil ity to shape and have an impact on the environment,” Hann said. Hann was head of the environ mental engineering division and Texas Engineering Experiment Station from 1970-1975, but he re linquished this position to become acting director of the Sea Grant Program, where he remained un til Dr. Robert Able became the director in 1976. Able remained with the Sea Grant Program until February 1978 when Feenan Jennings be came the director. ybrm/y^m/.. WANTADS hours every week, and the hours really depend upon the student’s schedules, he said. All work is done by appointment. “We don’t charge anything for the assistance,” he said. “We ask that all users take Statistics 691 to help finance the service, but the researchers aren’t forced. “We’ve been providing this service all along, but it was only recently that we’ve had to account for our time better because of a lack of finances.” The statistics department was a natural way to help the resear chers, he said. “Statistics is a research tool which everybody uses and a lot use it wrong,” he said. “This is how we got started helping the researchers.” Researchers are asked to be prepared for the first visit and to request the service as early as pos sible in the research process. “We sometimes help in the de sign of the questionnaire and make suggestions on the type of questions to ask,” Freund said. “We don’t write the questions for the researcher, though.” STAS also helps in the analysis of data and the interpretation of results of statistical analysis. “We’re always busy but we’ll try to help anyone who needs it, ” he said. 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