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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.”
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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.
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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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