Westinghouse needs engineers who understand this generation or this generation. In the next ten years, demand for electric company. What about West- computers, transportation, medical electricity will double. What's West- inghouse, the schoolteacher? In its science, air pollution, oceanograpny. inghouse doing about it? Plenty. first two years, Westinghouse Learn- and more. Is that any way to run an We're number one in commercial ing Corporation had over 60 govern- nuclear power. We're working on ment and private contracts, including electric company? .. an advanced breeder reactor. We're We think so. If you think so. talk training for the Peace Corps, Job with our campus recruiter, or rite spending $450 million to boost our Corps, and private industry. Luke Noggle. Westinghouse Educa- production capacity. Which doesn't even start to de- tion Center, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15221 Okay, that's Westinghouse, the scribe Westinghouse. We're also in An equal opportunity employer. Absolutely. If you're a 30-year-old engineer who's offered, and about 2,400 engineers will study there failed to keep up with the latest developments in his in 1969. It's the most advanced facility of its kind. field. Ask around. You'll find that when it comes to antici- Because Western Electric's an acknowledged in- pating change, Western Electric is way out in front. dustrial leader in graduate engineering training, that's And we make every effort to keep our engineers there one worry our engineers don't have. Our nearly- too. See our recruiter or write College Relations, completed Corporate Education Center near Prince- 222 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 10038. ton, N. J., for instance, will have a resident staff of A lot of study, and hard work, never hurt anyone. over 100. More than 310 engineering courses will be Dictionaries define hurdling as jumping over a hurdle in a race. Obviously, Webster never made the track team. "A good hurdler never jumps," the experts tell us. "He tries to duplicate the movements of sprinting. The head stays level. It's never higher over the hurdle than it is between them." A level head helps overcome any obstacle. Take bearing problems. They're best approached by a person with training, determination and the ability to think things through. Are you such a person? When you run up against a tough problem, are you able to take it in stride? And do you like the challenges of rugged competition, and the rewards that come from winning? Then write The Timken Roller Bearing Company, Canton, Ohio 44706. Ask our Manager of College Relations to give you a tryout. An Equal Opportunity Employer. STAFF T. M. Schafer editor "Dear 1 9 6 9 Engineering Graduate . . . " 7 Dean L. W. VonTersch Art Bell features editor Superengineer 13 Davis Chase art editor David Sumner advertising manager Spike Cline circulation manager DEPARTMENTS: Allen Shratter staff writer Editorial 5 Student Organizations 8 Mary Harvey editorial assistant Engrineers 20 Russ Andre humor editor Flying Fickle Finger of Fate Award 20 ADVISOR Mr. Logan Blank Then come to work at IH. We'll listen to you. And give you a chance to stand on your own two feet. Right from the start. You see, we believe your point of view is just as important as ours. We want new ways to do things. Better ways. And this calls for fresh ideas. That's why you'll have to be a thinker. An innovator. A guy who has the guts to stand up for what he thinks is right. You show us your stuff, we'll give you the freedom to swing. You'll find plenty of action in motor trucks, farm equipment, construction equipment and steelmaking. And the faster you prove yourself, the quicker you'll move up. Without a lot of red tape. Get the picture? Now why not get into the act. Talk to your campus placement officer about us. He'll give you the word on the good jobs we have in engineering, accounting, production management and sales. Because the way we look at it, if we give you a good job you'll want to stick with us. And that's exactly what we have in mind. I've done some naive things in my life, but few as potentially costly as saying, "I'll never see this again" to a block of material in one of my courses. I remember saying it once as a sophomore while taking a math course. The magnitude of my error was vastly impressed upon me in one of my senior, major-area, required courses when that material which I had been so sure I would "never see again" turned out to be the only method presently used to solve a very important type of problem. Had I not gone, with great difficulty, back to that sophomore level material I would not be writing this editorial, continuing my education or contemplating as bright a future. Whether you are a freshman or a senior, if you ever say "I'll never see this again", you probably will. And you may not be as lucky as I was in having the time to play catch-up. It has come to my attention that certain individuals have felt personally criticized in a recurring feature of this magazine. I would like to apologize and to try to set the record straight. Superengineer was not created to point out faults of individuals. Instead, it was supposed to show that there exist some areas where a little improvement wouldn't hurt, though, admittedly, the criticism wasn't "constructive" in the sense of advancing specific, better alternatives, it wasn't "destructive" in the SDS genre. The idea was to try to stimulate thought among students and faculty as to alternatives to, or improvements in, the institutions and/or attitudes which were our sometime targets. Finally, I would like to thank the people throughout this College who gave more of themselves than just the bare minimum needed to get by. I speak of the administrators, staff, faculty and students who have put out 101% in order that this College of Engineering might be a better place this year than it was last year. Here's hoping that these people and those like them will continue to flourish here. You don't have to sacrifice critical properties for workability With cast-steel you don't have to sacrifice critical You can specify cast-steel components in com- properties like abrasion resistance just to get ma- positions which are difficult or even impossible to chinability or formability . . . Any steel composition machine, forge or weld. Whether you need hard- can be cast directly to shape. ness, toughness, resistance to heat and corrosion, In this gyratory crusher, standing up to rough or what-have-you, cast-steel frees you to choose the taconite and hematite ores meant using a difficult- best composition and shape for design require- to-work high carbon steel. Casting the critical spi- ments. der arms not only eliminated machining and form- Want to know more about cast-steel? We're offer- ing problems, but made an exceptionally rigid ing individual students free subscriptions to our hollow box design economically feasible. . . . d ) quarterly publication "CASTEEL" . . . Clubs and Seven other major components were also made other groups can obtain our sound film "Engi- of cast-steel—each composition selected for a neering Flexibility." Write Steel Founders' specific job without compromise for working Society of America, Westview Towers, 21010 characteristics. Center Ridge Road, Rocky River, Ohio 44116. Dear 1969 Engineering Graduate: A number of years ago the College of Engineering formed its own alumni association in order to further improve the relationships between the College of Engineering and its graduates. We are interested in your career after graduation and would like to follow your professional growth and development. In order to do this we will keep a personal record of your college activities and add to this record as you progress in the profession. We hope you will keep us informed of your activities and we will try to keep you abreast of alumni events and other activities and news of this College. It will be helpful If you will return the card which is being sent to you for this purpose. I wish you the best of success in the final weeks of your college career. Editor's Note: Professional organizations provide the student with an opportunity to gain insights into his chosen field at a time when he still has the most options open to him. Descriptions of the student branches of professional organizations and the activities of these student branches will be a continuing feature of the Spartan Engineer. Engineer's Wives The Engineer's Wives is made up of wives of students majoring in engineering. The purpose of the organization is to aid the wives in becoming acquainted with the field of engineering through lectures, movies and discussion, thus enabling them to better understand the future work of their husbands. Meetings are held every month—all wives are invited to attend. Eta Kappa Nu Eta Kappa Nu is an honor society for students in electrical engineering. Its purposes are to promote scholarship, to recognize the outstanding students, and to further the profession of electrical engineering. Members are elected from the junior and senior classes in electrical engineering on the basis of outstanding scholastic work and character. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) The Michigan State Student Branch of the IEEE is a student organization for electrical engineers. It is affiliated with the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc. The purpose of the organization is the furtherance of the professional development of the student as well as increased knowledge of the theory and practice of electrical engineering and related sciences through lectures, films, and field trips. Membership is intended for Electrical Engineers, both Graduate and Undergraduate, but is open to students enrolled in programs related to electronics, power systems, and computer science Chi Epsilon Chi Epsilon is the national civil engineering honorary fraternity. Its purpose is to bestow honor upon those civil engineering students of outstanding character who have demonstrated exceptional scholastic ability. The members are elected from the upper one third of the junior and senior classes in civil engineering. The activities of Chi Epsilon include bi-weekly meetings which are professional and social in nature; bi-annual banquets; and other activities. With such genius, who needs a genie? Verily, these young people demonstrate remarkable intellectual acumen, for a successful career is indeed more precious than great riches. And the guidebook to a rewarding career is none other than that perennial favorite, "Careers with Bethlehem Steel and the Loop Course." Pick up a copy at your placement office. Or write: Manager of Personnel, Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Bethlehem, PA 18016. Your money and your life. You're living dangerously, and you love it. You fought the professor all semes- ter, and got an A in spite of it. The girl you've been eyeing likes your style. It's spring. That's dangerous. But the one place w h e r e you shouldn't have to live quite on the edge is on the road. Now you don't, thanks to new safety features in cars... and the remarkable radial tire. Radials are a marvelous invention in rubber and rayon cord. They last twice as long as regular tires, and even give you better gas mileage. On wet, slip- pery pavements, they grip like fly paper. A point of interest—The Dynacor* rayon cord in radial tires is made by FMC Corporation, the same company that makes rayon for the "throwaway bikini" your date is working up courage to wear. This same company that builds egg handling systems also builds fire engines. Each day you see FMC products around and you've never known it. FMC also makes petrochemicals, pumps, freeze dry equipment, practically anything dealing with food growing machinery and industrial chemicals, and more. We are one of the country's top 60 corporations. FMC is a creative company that's making an impact on the American way of life. Perhaps you'd like to help. For more information, write for our descrip- tive brochure,"Careers with FMC." FMC Corporation, Box 760, San Jose, Califor- nia 95106. We are an equal opportunity employer. Which discipline will Ed Whitaker use tomorrow When Delco says multi-disciplinarian, they mean it. Just ask Ed Whitaker. And the solid professionals who have helped him grow into jobs like developing the microcircuits for a fire and overheat detection computer for jet aircraft. Twenty-five hundred components in a package 4" x 2" x ]/2". From concept to hardware in eight months flat. And then a fast hop to Air Force testing. From beginning to final delivery, Ed was a full member of the team. The question is . . . does your job permit you this kind of growth? Take a good look at how your career shapes up, compared with Ed Whitaker's and his colleagues at Delco. You might even call us collect. Or, write: Mr. C. D. Longshore, Supervisor, Salaried Employment, Dept. 600, Delco Radio Division of General Motors, Kokomo, Indiana. TOUGHNESS One of the outstanding advantages of Malleable Iron Castings. Toughness is the ability of a mate- of the strength of many components rial to withstand impact or repeated in the cab, including the Malleable loading. iron cab support hinges, the truck Any material will fail. The key in was crashed at high speed into a Malleable is that it will not fail sud- barricade of ice. Although the cab denly. Under severe impact, Malle- itself was battered beyond repair, able will bend or stretch before there was no damage to the Malle- fracture occurs. able parts, proof of the outstanding Malleable's impact strength is il- impact resistance of this material. lustrated in this test by a truck Another facet of toughness is a manufacturer. To be absolutely sure material's ability to withstand re- peated loads of low magnitude. Fail- ures of this type are due to fatigue, and usually start with the appear- ance of a crack at the stressed area which progresses through the part until fracture occurs. Fatigue strength is a major factor in design of automotive connecting rods. The loads on these parts alter- nate between tension and compres- sion of varying magnitudes. In de- "The 'pick and mule' days of mining are gone. • We continuing exploration program carried on both in the minerals and metals industry are using many here and abroad, seeking new deposits of lead, highly sophisticated production tools in our enter- zinc, and other minerals to meet the demands of an prises, and it is a fact that this great basic industry expanding international market. • Wherever you has introduced automation and computerization in look — in our mines and mills, our research and every area from planning and production, to mar- development laboratories—there are challenges for keting and sales. • At St. Joe we take special pride young engineers with imagination and enthusiasm. in having developed, with our own engineers, one • Whatever your field of interest, be it civil, elec- of the most modern mines and mills in the world — trical, mining, metallurgical or chemical engineering our Fletcher facility in Missouri. We constantly —at St. Joe there's an opportunity to use yourtalents seek, moreover, new and better ways to make older and imagination, and to work with men with the mines more productive and efficient in this era of knowledge and experience that have made St. Joe a increased competition. Q Added to this is St. Joe's leading member of the mining and metals industry." We've created a special program to give you invaluable experience in all phases of manufacturing engineering: product processing and costing techniques; sys- tems analysis and development; plant equipment and facilities layout; design of tools, dies, and gauges; industrial rela- tions; materials handling; shop super- vision; and work measurement. You'll be assigned to our manufacturing engineering Technical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Here you will receive carefully selected project assignments at many dif- ferent Eaton Yale & Towne manufacturing plants. This program leads directly to place- ment at one of our division locations in 45 cities, 17 states, and 18 nations of the world. You'll see no end of challenges. We produce 3,000 products for all kinds of business and industries. In addition to our special program for industrial engineers, we offer mechanical and electrical engineers unique oppor- tunities in research, product engineering, manufacturing engineering, and sales engineering. Check your placement office for an inter- view date or send your resume to Richard S. Potter, Director of Management and Technical Recruitment. Two men met at a cocktail party and as they stood talking, one glanced across the room and remarked, "Get a load of that ugly woman over there, with a nose like a pomegranate and what looks to be a fifty-five-inch waistline." "That's my wife," said the man. "Oh, I'm sorry," said the first man. "You're sorry?" * * * While lecturing the Sunday schoolers on the nature of sin and damnation, the rural minister asked one lad: "Do you know where little boys and girls go when they do bad things?" "Yes, sir," replied the boy. "Back of Fogarty's barn." n> 1* IS Ever hear about the Aggie who stepped in a fresh cow pile and muttered, "My gosh, I'm melting!" * * * Victor went to a Polish wedding. The guys at the office began to wonder when he didn't show up for work the next day. Finally, two weeks later, in walked Victor. Naturally the guys were a little curious, so they asked him what happened. "Well, after the ceremony, there was this e n o r m o u s reception- drinking, dancing, fun-and-games. And they had this drawing for door prizes, too. Well, I got lucky and won second prize—two weeks alone with the bride!" "What was first prize?" "$1.25!" * * * Did you hear about the Ag.E. who entered the Indianapolis 500 and won, making only five pit stops? Two for gas and three for directions. ^P ^P 1 * It's just been discovered that Adam was a Polack. Who else would sit next to a naked woman and eat apples? Jim Brix is helping raise an infant technology As an undergraduate Jim Brix recognized the potential With this potential, fluidics is almost certain to have a of an infant technology known as fluidics. technological impact similar to the one solid-state de- Now, after a BSEE degree from South Dakota State vices made recently in electronics. University '67, Jim's devoting full-time at General Fluidics is one of many fledgling technologies General Electric to solving some uniquely difficult control system Electric people are pursuing to improve man's life in problems. and beyond the 70's. If you'd like to know more about By combining the use of fluid flow and the interaction fluidics or another area of technology, write and tell us of forces, fluidic circuits can perform logic, amplification of your interests. General Electric Company, Dcpt. and control system functions. The absence of moving 801R, 570 Lexington Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10022. parts promises almost indefinite operating life, with improved safety and reliability. These advantages can push back frontiers in space exploration, manufacturing, transportation, and medicine, to mention only a few.