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77/ may start check
on modifications
in cars for disabled
By Deborah A. Haring
Reporter
The Texas Transportation Insti
tute, headquartered at Texas A&M,
soon may be responsible for quality
control inspections of vehicle mod
ifications for the disabled, says Dr.
Rodger J. Koppa, head of the insti
tute’s human factors division.
In July, the first comprehensive
standard for modifications of auto
mobiles and other vehicles for the
disabled was adopted by the Texas
Rehabilitation Commission, Koppa
says.
“Everybody is disabled,” he says.
“Everybody has some sort of disabil
ity. We want to take the handicap
out of that disablility.”
Often this is done by giving the
disabled person a method to drive a
car and, as a result, be more inde
pendent.
This may require an elaborate set
of hand controls, wheelchair lifts,
automatic doors and windows,
raised roofs or lowered floors,
Koppa says.
The rehabilitation commission
pays the cost of most adaptations,
which ranges from several hundred
dollars for a set of hand controls to
more than $10,000 or $15,000 for a
complete conversion, he says.
Several other states are consid
ering adopting a standard, he says.
Koppa, also an associate professor
of industrial engineering at Texas
A&M, helped in the development of
the standard for the transportation
institute and rehabilitation commis-
The commission, which pays for
most of the modification done to ve
hicles seen on campus and through
out the state, will decide whether to
accept the institute’s proposal within
several weeks, Koppa says.
If the proposal is accepted, techni
cians and engineers will go to those
businesses that rebuild vehicles for
severely disabled people and inspect
the vehicles. These inspections will
help those businesses that need
more skills and guidance and will
find those that are not following
modification standards, he says.
One vehicle modifier would be in
spected each week and each inspec
tion would take about one day,
Koppa says.
The commission’s goal with devel
opment of a standard and modifica
tion of vehicles is to get disabled peo
ple back to work. Rehabilitation
engineering, the name for this mod
ification work, has a similar goal —
taking the handicap out of the disa
bility, Koppa says.
About six businesses in Texas are
large-scale modifiers and 10 or 15
others are smaller operations. These
smaller modifiers may be one-man
garages and each generally modifies
one or two vehicles a year, Koppa
says.
Many types of adaptation allow
people with many types of handicaps
to be able to drive, Koppa says.
sion.
But, Koppa says, “A standard is
only good as long as you can get peo
ple to follow it, so quality control
work is needed.”
The transportation institute has
now proposed to take responsibility
for follow-up inspections of the use
of this new standard by vehicle man
ufacturers and modifiers, he says.
Vehicles most often are modified
for quadriplegics. People with spinal
cord injuries form another large
group that uses adapted vehicles be
cause some arm movement is gener
ally needed to be able to operate a
modified vehicle, he says.
People affected by multiple scle
rosis or cerebral palsy, burn victims
and stroke victims are others who
also have vehicles adapted to enable
them to gain some independence,
Koppa says.
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Prepared by: Charlie Bras
Staff Meteor#
A&M Depa rtmenl of Meteora
Engineering researchers from A&M
to hold turbomachinery symposium
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By Leslie Guy
Reporter
Mechanical engineering research
ers at Texas A&M, working in con
junction with NASA to build a space
shuttle engine, will hold a turboma
chinery symposium in Dallas Oct.
26-29 for users and manufacturers
of industrial turbomachinery to dis
cuss design problems, said Dr. Dara
Childs, A&M’s turbomachinery labo
ratory director.
The symposium, started 17 years
ago, is designed to educate engi
neers in the petrochemical commu
nity who work with turbines, pumps
and compressors, he said.
More than 1,000 people from the
United States and foreign countries
involved in the manufacture of oil
and petrochemical products at
tended the symposium in Corpus
Christi last year, he said, and the en
tire turbomachinery lab staff will at
tend this year’s symposium. The
proceeds from the event will be used
to support education and research in
turbomachinery at A&M, he said.
“What makes it unique is that en
gineers from companies like Shell
and Exxon will have an organized
bull session,” Childs said. “They
don’t see themselves as competitors
on that level, but as allies against the
manufacturers.”
Since Childs came to A&M, his
project has involved the devel
opment of the main space shuttle en
gine for NASA, which provides fi
nancial support for the program.
The part of the engine Childs is
marily of manufacturers, but two ed
ucators also are on it — Childs and
Dr. Alan B. Palazzolo, an assistant
professor of engineering at A&M.
A one-day introductory course
precedes the symposium that in
cludes tutorials, lectures and dis
cussions led by industry leaders,
Childs said. Also, the symposium will
feature over 100 exhibits as a large
trade show for people buying and
Rather than working in apl
laboratory, the lab is madef
group of professors whoconii
rious projects. Researchist
the Engineering Physics Bid
and the Research Annex,hesai
Projects involving high wincl
water pressure are doneafdej
nex, he said.
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“The long-haul development goal of the department is
to have a strong internationally and nationally recog
nized department. ”
— Dr. Dara Childs, AScM’s turbomachinery laboratory
director
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developing isn’t the part that ex-
E loded on the space shuttle Chal-
mger, he said.
“This one burns liquid hydrogen
and supplies the thrust after the
boosters drop off,” he said.
The symposium is organized by
users for users in industry, he said.
Its advisory committee consists pri-
selling machinery.
To satisfy the demands for effi
ciency aijd performance im
provements, A&M’s turbomachinery
program has grown to include about
10 faculty members, 30 graduate
students, three or four undergrad
uates and seven staff members, he
said.
Most turbomachinerylabs,!i
ing A&M’s, grew outofeonne
with industry, he said.
“A&M probably hasabetwl
nection with turbo manufe-1
than any other school, butH"!
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supported by government Wl San Am
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the utility companies, nesaid
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — FBI Director-desig
nate William S. Sessions, who was released from a
hospital Monday after treatment for internal
bleeding, said he expects his delayed swearing-in
ceremony to come sometime next week.
Sessions, chief federal judge for the western
district of Texas, was admitted to Methodist Hos
pital last Tuesday for treatment of bleeding that
stemmed from an ulcer in his small intestine.
The ailment twice delayed his swearing-in as
FBI director while doctors ran a battery of tests
that determined the bleeding had stopped and
that there was nothing else wrong with him, Dr.
Richard Rubio said.
Of the ulcer’s flare-up, Sessions, 57, said, “I
think this was a one-time occurrence. I feel fine.
I’m not ready to arm wrestle yet, but I feel fine.”
Rubio has asked Sessions to undergo a low-
profile convalescence in San Antonio for a few
more days, and the jurist said his swearing-in will
come “whenever the pleasure is of the attorney
general and the presiefent.”
“I expect it will be next week,” he said.
Sessions, who for a while was on a liquid diet,
said he can now get back to a normal men:
“I can eat anything again,” Sessions^
should avoid an empty stomach, eatm^
larly and take no aspirin on an empty 8
And avoid reporters.”
Sessions first became sick Sept. SOoti
from Dallas to Washington where he»'
sworn-in as FBI director the next day D*’
George Washington Hospital detected
viously undiagnosed small ulcer in #
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