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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 29, 1983)
Monday, August 29, 1983/The Battalion/Page 3 Engineering lab caters to grads by Wanda Winkler t. 1 was m to what previously :n confei re conference :enturywoi ry, I came ioi| j ited theo| of America! unity tobe] ts fully engi » and oppoi a nd enthusii dth before, und compla ;s for Dan ver been ob in the- >ed every range ofthi to govern ~um — an tarting myi ional thing > ration. Ifsi Battalion Staff The Engineering Labora tory Center, which opened in July, offers laboratory and re- iearch facilities to graduate students doing research in civil, mechanical and electrical engineering. The three-story building located on Bizzell Street also has 12 conference rooms that allow graduate students and faculty to meet, discuss and exchange information on re search projects. Each confer ence room holds about 12 ople. "It’s a pretty informal I approach where people just Tdon’t come to class but they interchange research ideas in small rooms,” says David Nor ton, assistant director for re search of Texas Engineering Experiment Station. The founders of the center planned for five years and tried to cater to local resear- b: jpeo chers who quested s rooms. Laboratory facilities were designed for research areas such as microelectronics, tur bomachinery, trace metals, productivity, hazardous mate rials, and water quality. The center also offers a preparation laboratory, an electronic shop, a darkroom, a machine shop, a heat room for sterilizing lab equipment and a room to house samples that must be kept refriger ated. Other engineering labor atories include rotordynamics for mechanical research, elec tro-optics and power systems for electrical studies, and three metallurgy labs for met als research. Metallurgy is the science of purifying metals and creating useful objects. Graduate engineers will use a microbiology laboratory for strategic petroleum reserve research and a plastic mate rials laboratory to develop plastics mainly for packaging items. The administrative offices of the Texas Engineering Ex periment Station are housed on the third floor of the build ing. TEES, part of the Texas A&M System, is responsible for engineering and technolo gy research. The Institute for Ventures in New Technology and Strategic Technology has its headquarters on the third floor of the engineering center. Strategic Technology re searches the long-range needs of the United States and fo cuses on potential technolo gies and economies of foreign countries. The TEES research library and copy center are available on the second floor. Norton said facilities in the laboratory center are de signed to support and encour age productive engineering research. Civil Engineering Building renovation starts Thursday by Wanda Winkler Battalion Staff The Civil Engineering Build ing located on Ross Street will undergo renovation beginning Thursday. Civil engineering classes for the fall semester have been relo cated to Goodwin Hall, the Animal Industries Building, Zachry Engineering Center and the McNew Engineering Lab. Engineering classes have been centrally located for con venience and to minimize walk ing time between classes. Two divisions within the civil engineering department — geotechnical, and construction and materials — have tempor arily moved their administration offices to the second floor of the Highway Research Center, adja cent to the civil engineering building. Environmental Engineering, another civil engineering divi sion has temporarily been relo cated to the second floor of the new Engineering Laboratory Center on Bizzell Street to accommodate the renovation. Other changes involve the Civil Engineering Student Ser vices office which will be in 108 Highway Research Center until November 1984, the month scheduled for completion of the civil engineering building. That office is responsible for keeping academic records of civil engineering students, pro viding advisers and keeping up dated schedules of civil en gineering classes. “If you’re having problems with your schedule, come in to see us as soon as possible,” says Diane Lesure, secretary for Civil Engineering Student Services. “These advisers will talk to you about everything from boyf riends and girlfriends to civil en gineering,” she saicl. Lesure said civil engineering students can receive personal attention and academic counsel ing from advisers even though the civil engineering depart ment is large. partment will relocate his office During the renovation, the to 104 Highway Research head of the civil engineering de- Center. America’s Diamond Store since 1924 isZales,your neighborhood jeweler. ay it ; Act passed! oyeescomt, istrations. rry guns, died itsh William H< White Hi >ffice seeki Battalion Reporter Many changes in shuttle bus irvice, are planned for the fall wester, including transporta- on to football games. Limited shuttle bus service on day of home football games ill be available to anyone with a ijM as pass, John Lake, manager of o/Andf us operations, said. Parents of udents with passes also can de the bus at no additional summer nanysij utive mans is Sen. W nid thes/ogai n an sowetti jreaucril fjitt expeit his.” ould male :y’s Thankj ving cry fori iates! ■e carried to Id do away re preside! 3n ^inventions nikli 1 Shuttle buses to run on home game days by Rose Marie Delano “We will run a limited service lilar to the one run after 6 m.on school days,” Lake said. Buses will start leaving one id a half hours before the ameand will make at least two ins after the game. Students ho are located on the north mule routes — Lincoln and ilia Maria — will be dropped ff at the Ireland Street stop, icated near the Reed McDo- ald Building. All other routes ill drop off at the Throckmor- Street stop, located near udder Complex. “We hope a lot of people wall utilize this service so we can eli minate some of the parking problems on game days,” Lake said. “We will put as many buses out there as necessary to handle the number of people that want to ride it.” Student bus passes, for regu lar use during the semester, cost Limited shuttle bus service on the day of home football games will be a vailable to any one with a bus pass, John Lake, manager of bus operations, says. Parents of stu dents with passes also can ride the bus at no additional cost. $42 — an increase of $2 from last semester. Faculty/staff pas ses cost $56 — an increase of $3 from last semester. A coupon book for 10 rides may be purch ased for $5. Lake said starting in the fall, spouses of faculty and staff will have to purchase a bus pass if they want to ride the bus. In the past they were issued a pass along with the purchase of a pass by their spouse. The inter-campus shuttle sys tem does not require a bus pass. It operates between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. running between the main campus and the campus area lo cated west of Wellborn Road. Bus passes may be purchased at the fiscal office and picked up in 103 Rudder. Pro-rated pass refunds also can be obtained in Room 103 during the first four weeks of class. Students purchasing bus pas ses may also receive a free night parking permit allowing them to park their cars on campus from 4 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. daily, as well as all day on weekends and staff holidays. 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