Jobs that just might change the world MOVe people through rush hours at Desalt the world's oceans Build a City from scratch-the way a 80 mph. Westinghouse built the experi- Westinghouse has 73 water-desalting city should be built. mental transit expressway in Pittsburgh. units operating or on order around the Westinghouse has just purchased an And we are building the computerized world. Now we need people to help us embryo city. We're looking for people controls for the San Francisco mass- design and build facilities that can de- to help us rebuild many of the existing transit system that will be the model for salt 150 million gallons a day—and solve cities in America. We can do it—Westing- others throughout America. We're look- some of the toughest water-supply prob- house now provides more products, sys- ing for people to help us build equipment lems we've ever tackled. tems and services for construction than that will move people as they've never any other single company. been moved before. These graduates needed: Engineering, Physical Sciences, Social Sciences, En- gineering Administration, Industrial Tech- nology, Business & Liberal Arts. These graduates needed: Engineering, These graduates needed: Electrical En- Physical Sciences, Social Sciences, En- gineering Administration, Industrial Tech- gineering, Chemical Engineering, Materi- als Science, Physical Sciences, Industrial Fly to Mars nology, Business & Liberal Arts. Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, Me- When the first expeditionary vehicle takes chanical Engineering, Civil Engineering. off, Westinghouse will be there. We are building the nuclear engine for voyages into deep space—to Mars and T a p t h e atom with the company that Venus and beyond. The jobs are exotic. started it all. Westinghouse supplies some Take a dive and explore the ocean We need more people to help us now. of the largest nuclear generating plants in 20,000 feet down. Westinghouse is devel- the world. We are building nuclear rocket oping a fleet of self-propelled undersea engines. Our reactors power nuclear sub- vehicles. In them we will dive deep, ex- marines. But this is only the start. We plore, salvage and probably discover need people for some of the most fas- more than any other single company in cinating projects we've ever attempted. oceanography. We need adventurers to join the quest that has already taken us all over the world, These graduates needed: Electrical En- gineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Nuclear Engineering, Aerospace Engi- neering, Physical Sciences. Want to change the world? Your best opportunity lies with a company like Westinghouse. Contact L. H. Noggle, Westinghouse Education Center, Pitts- These graduates needed: Electrical En- burgh, Pa. 15221-or see the Westing- gineering, Mechanical Engineering In- house interviewer on your campus. dustrial Engineering, Chemical Engineer- An equal opportunity employer. ing, Engineering Mechanics, Marine These graduates needed: Electrical En- Engineering, Structural Engineering Ce- gineering, Mechanical Engineering, ramics, Nuclear Engineering, Materials Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Science, Physical Sciences. Marine Engineering, Ocean Engineering & Science. "I was skeptical about IBM as a place for a me- chanical engineer to work. E.E.'s, sure. But M.E.'s?" (This is Dick Driscoll, B.S.M.E. '67, a Manufacturing Engineer at IBM.) "I was wrong. There are plenty of opportunities for M.E.'s in just about all areas, especially in development and manufacturing. "When I joined IBM, I chose manufacturing engineering. In my case, this got me involved in producing core planes for memory components. After the component has been designed, I coordinate the tooling and all the other manufacturing processes. I initiate basic ideas on the design of tooling and work closely with the machine tool and die designers and builders, and with the install- ers of the production machinery. "It's sort of like solving a very difficult three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle. And it's a 'pure' engineering job. The kind I was trained for. Because, in the final analysis, product responsibility for manufacturing the memory component rests with one person. Me. Interdisciplinary environment. "You get exposed to a lot of dif- ferent disciplines in manufacturing engineering. Electronic. Metallurgical. Chemical. This kind of interfacing broad- ens you as an engineer. "It may sound square, but I think IBM is a great place for an M.E. to work." If you'd like to know more about a career in me- chanical engineering with IBM, visit your campus placement office. Or send a brief outline of your educational background to Irv Pfeiffer, IBM Cor- poration, Dept. E, 100 South Wacker Dr., Chicago, 111. 60606. We're an equal opportunity employer. WHY? 9 Gary Romans editor By Ed O'Brien Tom Schafer features SUPER ENGINEER 11 Davis Chase staff artist By Davis Chase Jack Simmons circulation THE ENGINEER AND EDUCATION 15 Patti Stephayn copy By Robert K. Braden Andrew Levenfeld staff writer THE SOCIAL ENGINEER 17 Mike Fellberg staff writer By Dennis Faulkner DEPARTMENTS: EDITORIAL 5 THE NEW DEAN 7 INDUSTRIAL NEWS 18 ENGRINEERS 22 No other major corporation in our industry has grown so Like rewards based on performance—not on how old you fast. In the last ten years, sales have zoomed from $286.4 are, or how long you've been with us. By the same token, million to over $1 billion. we do not subject you to long formal training programs. But that's just the beginning of the beginning. We cto have a deep interest in helping you grow just as We have a lot of serious growing to do. Right now. And fast as you can. And in giving you as much responsibility some substantial, ground-floor opportunities to offer you. as you can handle. If you can help us grow. We believe that is the reason for our success —and as- We need competent, imaginative, flexible people —with sured growth —in international markets for chemicals, degrees in chemistry, chemical or mechanical engineer- fibers, plastics, coatings, petroleum and forest products. ing, physics, or industrial engineering. People who can be- If a pace like this sounds good to you, discuss us come a part of our continuing leadership in areas such as with your faculty and placement officer. And see our acetyl chemicals, vapor-phase and liquid-phase oxidation representative when he is on campus. Or write to: John processes, fiber technology. And many more. B. Kuhn, Manager of University Recruitment, Celanese Frankly, we expect a lot. But we offer even more. Corporation, 522 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. 10036. an equal opportunity employer We are all forced to take the Humanities series at MSU, and the one thing I remember from those courses is that there is such a thing as human ethics. No matter how few people follow the principle, it is right and just not to harm a fellow human being. The engineer who believes a deferred job will help him follow this code is only fooling himself. If a person eliminates the possibilities of leaving the country or going to jail, he is left only with the alternatives of the Army or a deferred job. If he wants to choose the least destructive of these two alternatives, he must choose the army. A soldier with a weapon can only be responsible for those he As is obvious from the size of this issue, most of actually kills, and the property he actually our advertisers have given up hope of hiring any destroys. The engineer who helps design the more graduates and have said goodbye to our weapon, however, plays a part in each killing, and readers until next year. Many of the seniors have each piece of destruction done by the soldier. The accepted jobs with these and other companies, and sad part, which I learned on some of my interview soon will be reaping the rewards of four (or more) trips, is that very few of the deferred engineers feel years in the College of Engineering. (Note the responsible at all. picture of one of these fine lads on the cover.) It is extremely hard to make decisions such as As was stated in the last issue, these graduating this. Many feel no qualms at all about the war, but seniors are faced with the prospect of spending the for those who do, accepting fighting as a lesser evil next two years of their lives in the armed services. than sitting in a lab designing new weapons is very We delved into many aspects of the draft in that difficult. issue, but the ramification expressed in Ron Diehl's This is my last issue as editor. In a few weeks I I poem needs further inspection. will join this country's labor force in a There has been much talk going around the non-deferred job and wait for my draft board. By senior class about trying to find jobs with this time next year, I will probably have to make deferments, which are still available from some the decision discussed in this editorial. Perhaps I local draft boards. Most of those seeking will not have the courage to stick to my deferments are just afraid of Viet Nam or mad at convictions and accept soldiering rather than losing two years of experience in their chosen field. engineering, but I hope otherwise. I wish myself, But there are the other so-called pacifists who and all other graduates, good luck. believe that the war is wrong, and that by obtaining a deferred job they will not have to participate in it. RCA in Electronic Components and Devices When you select the Company that Development, Manufacturing, Satellites, Broadcast Studio you want to join, consider how Operations Research, Finance, Equipment, Conversion Receiver and important it is for your future career Management Information Systems Power Tubes, Laser and Electro-Optic to join the leader. For example, in and Purchasing. Devices, Microwave Systems, Medical this one area alone—Electronic We welcome the opportunity to Electronics, Graphic Systems. Components and Devices—you will review your personal interests and See your college placement •find that RCA has set standards of career objectives, and show you how director, or write to College Relations, engineering excellence, in an RCA can further your individual RCA, Cherry Hill, New Jersey 08101. environment for learning, that is development and growth in many We are an Equal Opportunity second to none. fields, such as: Home Instruments, Employer. We are looking for EE, ME and IE Communications, Solid-State Devices, graduates for positions in Corporate Computers, Control Systems, Radar, Programs including Design and Weather and Communication NEW DEAN OF ENGINEERING Dr. Lawrence W. Von Tersch, Acting Dean of Michigan State University's College of Engineering for the past 15 months, has been appointed dean of the college. His appointment, effective immediately, was approved Thursday (April 18) by the MSU Board of Trustees. He succeeds Dr. John D. Ryder, who is currently on leave of absence and who will continue as professor of electrical engineering. Dr. Von Tersch was chairman of MSU's electrical engineering department from 1958 to 1965, when he was named associate dean for academic affairs of the engineering college. He joined the MSU faculty in 1956 as professor of electrical engineering and director of the Computer Laboratory. He has held the latter post since then, supervising installation of the 3600 Computer now in operation and directing construction of its predecessor computer, MISTIC. A native of Waverly, Iowa, Dr. Von Tersch holds bachelor's, master's and Ph. D. degrees from Iowa State University, where he taught for 10 years before joining the MSU faculty. At Iowa State he also served with the Institute of Atomic Research. Dr. Von Tersch is past president and former chairman of the board of the National Electronics Conference, sponsored annually by professional organizations and midwestern universities. He is a co-author of the book, "Recurrent Electrical Transients" and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. Doesn't it seem like yesterday when you took everything in the house apart. First the toy cars and trucks . . . then your electric train . . . finally moms toaster. You caught it for that, but you found out how everything worked, and later why. At Teletype we're looking for answers too—on a bigger scale, and we need bright young engineers to help us find those answers. As one of the nation's largest manufacturers of message and data communications equip- ment and a member of the Bell System, we need the kind of minds that can take apart a problem and find the answer to tomorrow's equipment. If you're an Electri- cal. Mechanical. Indus- trial, Chemical or Metal- lurgical Engineer with a need to find the answer—we need you. Talk to your Bell System recruiter when he visits your campus, or write for more information to: It finally happened one fine day. The world, with all its delights, misery, and hope supposedly, everlasting hope, ignited. In ten minutes all was gone and the war was over. The war that had ended all war and all hope. Thepyramidshadneverbeen built. What color had the sky ever been but black? Who could remember when the Kansas plains were filled with waving, golden wheat? Who was left to know? Did the ideas live on? Did the ideas that had taunted that extinct race called "Man" to lay claim to his brothers' lands-and lives, still live on? Oh, but such power they had given him! In but a few seconds of eternity, Man had mastered his plantet and dreamed of the heavens. Longingly, he searched the sky and studied the winged creatures and one day he found the secret to flight and bombers- and m i s s i l e ! A boy in Venezuela looked up into the sky. How blue the sky was! A flash, then blindness. In the darkness he clutched his mother's leg. She too stared sightlessly, only love remained-then all was heat, and gone. Did Democracy win, did communism? Did the idea live on? The question, unasked and unanswered, drifts over the blighted, charred lands. The clouds of radiation, like prehistoric mist cling to the newly bared rock, but no trace of creation can be seen. Why? "Peace." An emergency meeting of the U.N., called too late-members caught in the panic -their ears stopped - angry, rushing faces, clutching, pushing arms-then nothing. "Peace," was that a word of these people? Did they know what it meant? Oh, but it was different with "War"-war—defense, fight, win, kill, victory—war. They knew war! Patriotism, what did it mean to them? The love of mankind as a brother, or only the tolerance of those who live near, in their area, in their country. Did the ideas live? John Thomas remembered the day that the cloud was first sighted off Australia. Dark and poisonous, all said. But life and crops had to go on Where could you hide? He remembered the first time the sickness took his body. Yet he worked on among his dying crops. Others movedawayor stayed, either way they died. John struggled to lift himself from the brown grass-it was the clouds they all had said, the clouds; the air. John lost the thought-tried to regroup it, and forgot all. His mind slowly sank into the blackness-engulfing his consciousness cell by cell as lights are turned off in an apartment building, until the last was gone. No matter what your field of inter- fboth color and monochrome) and lent schools . . . excellent residential est, if you work for Magnavox, re- stereophonic sound equipment for areas. With Magnavox, you're not sponsibility comes early. 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That's why no two Mondays ever look alike to Bob Byse and his colleagues at Delco. The question is . . . can you say the same? Take a good hard look at how your responsibility shapes up, compared with Bob's. In fact, why not discuss it with us. By letter or telephone. Collect. Area Code 317/459-2808. Contact: Mr. C. D. Longshore, Supervisor, Salaried Employment, Dept. 300, Delco Radio Division of General Motors, Kokomo, Indiana. One major criticism of the engineering other engineering students is that of high interest profession by those outside of it is that, in general, towards the student's own studies. Because of the engineers have too narrow a perspective on many very nature of an engineering education the subjects. These people contend that because of the student must possess a high degree of interest in his technical nature of an engineer's education, he studies lest he become discouraged and decide to loses sight of the world around him. They cite case change his major. The student that possesses the after case of engineers who have retreated into motivation to succeed in engineering often lacks their own little world, thereby avoiding the many interest in other fields because he sees his own as trying experiences of our complex society. being the most important. This leads to a rejection The sad part about the general public's view of or avoidance of courses that may be far removed engineers is that in many cases it is true. Many from the subject of engineering. students of engineering feel that the only subjects Another determining factor for some students is in their curriculum that are worthwhile are the based on a practical approach. They feel that ones of a technical nature. Their attitude is one of taking courses outside of their major will be disregard for subjects not directly related to their wasting valuable time which could be spent on major field of study. They feel that their time is their engineering courses. Because of the difficulty too valuable to waste on subjects that they will not of most engineering curricula many students need directly need in their profession. all the time they can get just to do well in their This attitude on the part of students can be required courses and thus could not take additional attributed to several factors. One of these is the courses even if interested in them. structure of our educational system. The student in Because of all these factors, it is not hard to see engineering in the United States usually has his why the average engineering student is more or less final two years in college completely filled with trapped in the narrow path of his curriculum. What technical courses. Because he knows this, the most students don't understand is the need to student usually tries to get as much background as attempt to escape it. possible by taking as many technical courses as The engineer must constantly strive to learn all possible in his first two years of college. This fields; not just his own. He needs to understand his effectively eliminates many of the various other surroundings and to interact with others in a way courses that the student may have had an interest which will be a credit to his profession. While it is in taking. In a way, the student is forced into a true that he cannot learn all this at college, he must narrow path which traps him unless he actively start there or he will not possess the basis for attempts to escape it. future understanding. A second factor determining the attitude of ROBERTK. BRADEN International Harvester. We take a back seat to nobody. We're the world's largest producer of heavy-duty trucks. One out of every three on the road today is an International. Roll with us. We're rolling in high gear in farm and construction equipment, too. There will be another three billion mouths to feed in this world in your time. And by the time you reach middle age, the new construction will dwarf today's most ambitious projects. It's a mush- rooming world, with International Harvester right on top of it. Our biggest challenge for tomorrow is to provide an ever-increasing number of machines to meet the world's increasing demands for basic mechanical power. If you're graduating now, you couldn't have picked a better time to join us. Ask your College Placement Office more about us. social science is the counterpart of the engineer, a so called social engineer. The job of the social engineer would be to implement social philosophies into actual working methods used to control the social system. To do this, one would first have to define a deterministic system through which to work. In such a system human whims and desires would be inputs instead of the variables that define the system. Under such a system one could determine the outcome given a certain set of conditions, and determine controls which would give desired outcomes. Therefore one could discover how a society would be affected without actually experimenting with the society itself. Once the necessary controls are decided upon, they could be introduced into society to produce the desired results. Basic to this approach would be the determination of the variables of the system. Since it is the humans in a society that must be "controlled", human factors could not be chosen as variables. These factors would instead be introduced to the system as inputs which would be acted upon by control variables to give desired outcomes. Choosing variables to relate these inputs to actual outcomes would probably be the hardest task required to set up this deterministic system, but not an impossible task. The feasibility of applying this approach to a social system can be judged by looking at how it has been applied to other fields. An example is its application to economics. In spite of man's increasing sophistication Kaines did this in his theory of games and in the world of science, he is still living in a economic behavior. Me formulated a general primitive society. From the earliest of man's model where one could study the relative societies, where witch doctors attempted to effects and properties of the economic control the actions of the tribe by imposing system. Setting up such a system for a social taboos and rituals, man has attempted to system should certainly be no less possible control his society. Today much time and than it was for an economic system. effort is being expended toward this end in Steps in this direction have already been the field of social science. taken. Perhaps the best example of this is the Social science is supposedly concerned with book Games People Play by Eric Berne. Here defining and controling man's social systems. the relations between people are defined so It calls itself a science, but is it really? The that individual human traits can be social scientists have created a large and introduced as inputs to find the relations superfluous terminology in an effort to create between certain people. Enlarged and a science dealing with social systems, but have extended such a system might be applied to not met all the qualifications necessary for a society as a whole, using the very powerful science to exist. First they have never defined mathematics of game theory. a deterministic system to describe society, In its present state, social science is just a a nd second there is no method of plaything for philosophers, people who dream implementing social philosophies into of changing society but have no way of working ideas. The social scientists are accomplishing their dreams. Until a system of actually social philosophers, the counterparts implementing ideas into working plans is of the physical scientists. What is lacking in developed, it will remain that way. CONSOLES Selected classrooms at the University of California at Santa Barbara have been equipped with computer display consoles to help students and teachers solve a variety of problems in mathematics, engineering and the sciences. An IBM computer, a System/360 Model 50, has been installed to implement an advanced research and instructional system. Classrooms in five departments have been equipped with display consoles for experimental use in a variety of courses including calculus, electrical engineering, sociology and psychology. U s i n g a t e c h n i q u e called on-line computation- developed by Dr. Glen J. Culler, Director of the UCSB Computer Center, and Dr. Burton D. Fried, Professor of Physics at UCLA—a time-sharing system eventually will link various other universities throughout the country to the computer via a network of telephone lines. At present, consoles at UCLA and the Harvard Computation Laboratory, Cambridge, Mass., are lined to this computer. The display consoles, called "teleputers", consist of a calculator-like keyboard labeled with mathematical symbols and a screen similar to a television tube. A student or researcher enters his problem into the computer through the keyboard. Each step toward a solution may be displayed on the screen in numerical or graphical form, as desired by the user. The capabilities of this system will broaden the boundaries which have traditionally limited the study of mathematics and the sciences. For the student, the system will help provide a better grasp of the abstract concepts common to these fields. The student who is able to see successive steps in an experimental solution of his problem gains many insights not available with the traditional theoretical approach. For the researcher, the speed and advanced problem-solving capability of the new system will enable him to extend his investigations into areas which have been too complex for solution using ordinary techniques. Teachers, by means of a master console, will be able to monitor each of the students in a classroom and review their progress. The teacher can also construct examples of problems on his console and display the images on all other stations in the classroom. SUPER SWITCH This new electrical switch, called a vacuum interrupter, can turn "on" and "off" as much as 12,000 amperes of electric current—enough to brightly light 2,500 six-room homes or several modern office buildings like those silhouetted behind it. Developed by the electronic tube division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Elmira, N. Y., the interrupter switches all of this current at 15,500 volts and in less than one-fiftieth of a second. In contrast, the wall switch beside it has a rating of 15 amperes at 125 volts. The new super switch, only about six inches in diameter and eight inches long, is used for the high-power switching of power line equipment, motor controls, radar transmitters and similar applications. Fatigue Life Analysis. Eutectic Cell around the corner. Computer control as witnessed by the $75 million Size. Carbon Equivalent Determina- of melting cycles will soon be applied expansion program now under way. tions. Those titles represent just a on a practical basis. Die casting of Its future is as bright as that of its few areas of current investigation by iron may be coming out of the theory major customers — producers of Malleable foundries into methods of stage. The pace of new discoveries cars, trucks, and other transporta- improving their product and its will be just that much faster in the tion products, farm, construction method of production. Research has years ahead. and other types of machinery. produced literally volumes of new Take a hard look at a career in The image of the foundry labora- and useful data in recent years . . . the Malleable castings industry. tory as a cubbyhole is being shat- so much so that there is a dearth of Malleable foundries are of a size tered. Pictured above is one of engineering talent to put this know- where you will have the opportunity several new laboratory facilities built ledge to work. to put your top skills to use almost by producers of Malleable castings Many important changes are just immediately. It's a growing industry, in the last few years. Can you make this part without a drawing? Casting is so versatile that a designer can often promising for machinability or weldability. Cast develop complex components that are almost too in a ceramic mold, the impeller has fine surface difficult to draw . .. That's why many prototype finish and close dimensional tolerances, thus steel castings are developed directly from models. eliminating costly machining. Take this high-speed refrigerator impeller. Want to know more about cast-steel? We're Worthy of a sculptor's efforts, it not only looks offering individual students free subscriptions good, but must perform faultlessly. . . And it to our quarterly publication"CASTEEL"..Clubs does, at 12,500 rpm in subzero temperatures. and other groups can obtain our sound film Cast-steel permitted the designer to "Engineering Flexibility." Write Steel Founders' choose the right composition for maximum Society of America, Westview Towers, 21010 toughness at low temperatures, without com- Center Ridge Road, Rocky River, Ohio 44116. 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Eddy made a quick beautiful wife had left him. Down men. comeback with acceleration (a) to the river he went, and as he was stripping off Smith's outer clambering over the bridge railing a gnarled hand fell upon his arm. Se electrons; this so upset the villain's equilibrium that he was converted He turned and saw an ancient A woman saw an elephant in into cosmic radiation and vanished crone in a black cloak, with her yard and immediately called in the realms of space, leaving wrinkled face and stringy gray the police. "Chief," she said, Eddy the resultant vector in the hair. "there's a queer-looking animal combat. out here in my backyard. He's "Don't jump," she rasped. "I'm Old Cat Ion, attracted to the picking flowers with his tail." a witch, and I'll grant you three spot by Smith's oxidation, "Yes," said the sergeant, "and wishes for a slight consideration." beamed upon the young dipole. what does he do with them after "I'm beyond help," he replied, "Brave young lad," he emitted, he's picked them?" and told her his troubles. "you have satisfied the boundary "Nothing to it," she said cackling. conditions and by the theorem on "Alacazam!" The money is back in the vault. Alacazam! Your wife be uniqueness are the only one for my daughter." is waiting for you at home with He: "Pardon me, but you look " O u r love will not be love in her heart. Alacazam! You like Helen Brown." transient," said Eddy as he formed now have a personal bank account She: "Yeah, and I don't look a closed circuit about her. of two hundred thousand too groovy in blue either." "Darling, we'll raise a one dollars!" parameter family of second order T h e m a n , s t u n n e d to Se infinitesimals," murmured Anne speechlessness, was finally able to Wisdom: Knowing what to do. happily. As time (t) approached a s k , " W h a t - w h a t is the Skill: Knowing how to do it. infinitely, they lived happily. consideration I owe you?" Virtue: Not doing it. "You must spend the night with me," she smiled toothlessly. The thought of staying with the Si be old crone repulsed him, but he And then there was the tugboat A young engineer took his girl decided it was worth it. In the that committed suicide when it to an open air opera one beautiful morning, the distasteful ordeal found out that its mother was a warm summer evening. During the over, he was dressing to go home tramp and its father was a ferry. first act he found it necessary to when the old crone asked him, "Say, sonny, how old are you anyway?" s£ excuse himself. He asked the usher where the men's room might be A covey of fledgling pilots was found. "I'm forty-two years old," he given physical examinations at the "Turn to your left, and walk said. "Why?" induction center. After being down to the big oak tree, and "Ain't you a little old to believe poked at, thumped, weighed, there it is." in witches?" listened to, the doctor at one end The young engineer did as he of the room announced: "There was told and in due time returned be are a number of bottles on this to his seat. table. I want a sample from each "Is the second act over yet?" he "My girl got a new car." one of you." asked his girl. "Chevrolet?" "From here?" squeaked one of "Naw." "You ought to know," she the boys in disbelief. replied, "you were in it." Research Socialism: You have two cows, keep one, government takes other for poorer people. opportunities Communism: You have two cows, government takes both, gives you some milk. in highway Fascism: Government takes both cows, shoots you. Unionism: Two cows go on strike for more hay. No feed, no engineering The Asphalt Institute suggests milk. projects in five vital areas Capitalism: Sell one cow to buy bull. Phenomenal advances in roadbuilding techniques dur- Modernism: Shoot the bull and ing the past decade have made it clear that continued highway research is essential. breed artificially. Here are five important areas of highway design and construction that America's roadbuilders need to know more about: 1. Rational pavement thickness design and materials Si evaluation. Research is needed in areas of Asphalt rhe- ology, behavior mechanisms of individual and com- bined layers of the pavement structure, stage construc- tion and pavement strengthening by Asphalt overlays. The best way to get through Traffic evaluation, essential for thickness design, re- Engineering is to be like a quires improved procedures for predicting future amounts and loads. swimming duck. Keep calm and Evaluation of climatic effects on the performance of cool but paddle like hell the pavement structure also is an important area for underneath. research. 2. Materials specifications and construction quality-con- trol. Needed are more scientific methods of writing spec- Si ifications, particularly acceptance and rejection cri- teria. Additionally, faster methods for quality-control tests at construction sites are needed. Girl: "You play the piano 3. Drainage of pavement structures. More should be known about the need for sub-surface drainage of As- beautifully. When did you take it phalt pavement structures. Limited information indi- up?" cates that untreated granular bases often accumulate E.E.: "I started playing the moisture rather than facilitate drainage. Also, indica- tions are that Full-Depth Asphalt bases resting directly piano the day my glass of beer fell on impermeable subgrades may not require sub-surface off my violin." drainage. 4. Compaction of pavements, conventional lifts and Si thicker lifts. The recent use of much thicker lifts in Asphalt pavement construction suggests the need for new studies to develop and refine rapid techniques for The other day I took a test and measuring compaction and layer thickness. my head was as empty as the 5. Conservation and beneficiation of aggregates. More study is needed on beneficiation of lower-quality base- breakfast room in a hotel at course aggregates by mixing them with Asphalt. Niagara Falls. For background information on Asphalt construc- tion and technology, send in the coupon. Definition of a nervous guy: A man with a wife, a girl friend and a bank note—all a month past due. 5e Did you hear about the sleepy French bridegroom who fell asleep the minute his feet hit the pillow? 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