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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1981
Improvements estimated at $209,500
Renovations planned for A&M pools
By JOHNA JO MAURER
Battalion Reporter
■ Seven renovation projects tor
the two University swimming
Ipools have been planned by the
Texas A&M Department of
Health and Physical Education
and the physical plant.
■ The renovations will cost an
lestimated $209,500. Grady Wink
ler, physical plant planning and
estimating supervisor, said the re
novations could begin within the
next 30 days to six months. Bids
and contracts are still pending.
At the Wofford Cain outdoor
pool, high-pressure sodium fix
tures installed on 30-inch alumi
num poles will replace the 27 ex
isting underwater lights, which
will be removed. The new lights
are to be arranged around the
perimeter of the pool. The esti
mated cost of this renovation is
$7,500.
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By SANDRA K. GARY
Battalion Reporter
I Instead of using traditional
books and dissertations as learning
|ly ((, pels, several Texas A&M Univer-
ity students and researchers will
f0l] | r .use a robot to help them under-
gind automated industry.
I The robot, however, doesn’t fit
le stereotype tin man with blink-
[g lights and a bleeping voice. In
t, the robot doesn’t have any
|al human characteristics but re-
Imbles the equipment seen in a
lentist’s office connected to a
Imputer display terminal.
! Dr. Robert E. Young, assistant
fessor in the industrial en
gineering department, is project
JSpervisor of the robot that will
11 I Perform dangerous industrial
My tasks such as loading parts onto
1 machines in factories.
-I Pinching his thumb and index
\ jjmger together, Young indicated
how the robot functions. “It’s an
Bticulated arm,” he said. “It
Besn’t have a hand, just a gripper
with two fingers that open and
lose.
l“We wanted to know the prob-
w ''' Bns associated with building
robots, as well as information on
[sign, control, software and
dware. In order to get a handle
on it, we decided to build our
own."
■The robot, constructed of alu
minum and steel, will cost the
University’s industrial engineer
ing department $1,000 in mate-
This is anywhere from
|9,DOO to $39,000 less than a
rtufactured robot would cost,
ung said.
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A micro-computer will control
the robot named Aggie I. Young
said the computer will cost be
tween $2,000 and $3,000 and will
be used for other projects besides
Aggie I.
The computer parts, expected
to arrive after Christmas, have de
layed completion of the robot.
Young said. “We expect to have it
in operational order sometime in
the spring,” he said.
The Aggie I project began early
last fall. “But that’s deceptive, be
cause students often wait to work
on semester projects until two
weeks before they’re due,” Young
said.
Graduates and undergraduates
are constructing the robot de
signed by Young.
“Different sections have been
built for different directed stu
dies,” he said. Students working
on the project receive credit for an
industrial engineering problems
course (I.E. 485).
Aggie I is part of the depart
ment’s plan to implement a spe
cialization program in automated
manufacturing and to continue to
meet the needs of Texas industry.
By offering a number of special
ized courses, students can achieve
expertise in those areas. Young
said.
Students will need and want
training when they enter their
profession because of industry’s
increased interest in robots.
Young said.
“We’re trying to start up some
courses in robot applications,”
Young said.
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The gas heaters at the P.L.
Downs indoor pool will be
cleaned, inspected and adjusted.
The estimated cost of this renova
tion is $6,000.
Proposals for the two projects
are being processed by the physic
al plant. Before the proposals can
be released for completion, they
must go through scheduling and
purchasing procedures. No actual
timetable has been set up for the
jobs, Winkler said.
The remaining five items — the
installation of new filtering sys
tems for both pools, the replaster
ing of Cain pool, the repainting of
the natatorium ceiling and the in
stallation of a new lighting system
at Downs pool — are subject to
approval by Texas A&M President
Frank E. Vandiver.
Dr. Leonard Ponder, head of
the health and physical education
department, said the first priority
for pool renovations is to keep the
pool operative. “The next is to
make it not just a pool, but a good
recreational facility,” he said.
Both the Cain and Downs pools
keep busy schedules. Up to 830
students a week use the Cain pool
for classes. When the pools are not
being used for classes or swim
team workouts, Texas A&M stu
dents and area residents use them
for recreation.
“On a peak day, from 300 to 500
people use the Cain pool for re
creational swimming, ” Ponder
said.
Hours for swimming at the
Cain Pool are: Monday through
Friday — 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and
3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday
and Sunday — 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.
The Cain pool is open March
through November.
The Downs Pool is open from
November through May. Hours
for open swimming are: Monday
through Friday— 12 p.m. to 1:30
p.m. and 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Weekend hours are 1 p.m. to 6
p.m.
University students are admit
ted free with a Texas A&M I.D.
card. The admission price for non
students is $1.
Student injured
in bike accident
A pedestrian-bicycle acci
dent Wednesday sent one stu
dent to A.P. Beutel Health
Center with an injured ankle
and left the other apparently
unharmed.
“I was walking with my head
down, and I looked up, and
there he (the cyclist) was,” said
Mona Wilkerson, a freshman
management major from San
Antonio. “I really don’t know
what happened.”
Wilkerson was taken to the
health center for x-rays. The un
identified cyclist left without
going to the health center.
The Emergency Care Team
responded to a call about the
accident, which happened
shortly after noon. Dorian
Bravenec, an emergency care
attendant, said the team takes
calls itself regarding campus
accidents and from the health
center, but the health center
isn’t always notified when an
accident occurs.
Tom Dittman, an ECT com
mittee chairman, said all acci
dent victims are taken to the
health center and checked over,
unless injuries are too severe for
the center to handle. In that
case, victims are taken to St.
Joseph’s Hospital in Bryan, he
said.
Dittman said the ECT has re
sponded to about 30 accident
calls this semester. Five or six
accidents occurred the first day
of classes, he said.
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