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Show Engineers Predict Future X ' '4 C- SAfOAMO hSfV TO Sf4 Mil H; IWisiAaMiil 111 ' Jv ' """""" "JSSTJ?w f f ' v . w . j 1 IV ru ...IM , iim 1i mmmmmgim IMHH ..' , - . ' jf " ' ' 0 iZX 4 .'V ..'. . : A!.'i By FRANK STITIIEM Chronicle Staff Writer In the year 2000 the earth's pop-u'ations pop-u'ations will be over five billion, ccran farming and mining will be well developed, simple artificial life will exist in laboratories, human genetic defects will be ccrrectable and an international language developed de-veloped by computers will exist, according to Dr. Max Williams, dean of the College of Engineering. Dr. Williams was a member of a seminar panel Wednesday that discussed dis-cussed "Engineering in the Future." Fu-ture." The-engineering seminar, moderated moder-ated by President James Fletcher, consisted of distinguished engineers . from industry and the University. 10 Year Half-Life Dr. Williams also said a 19GG engineering degree had a "half-life of 10 years." An engineer could expect ex-pect knowledge learned in obtaining obtain-ing the degree would be useful for onl ylO years, if the engineer did not supplement it with additional schooling or experience. Dr. George Hill, dean of the School cf Mines and Mineral Industries, In-dustries, said the University was working towards a Master of Engineering En-gineering Degree, which would require re-quire five years at the University. Presently, engineering students are required to complete up to 230 hours for a B.A. degree; or 45 j Blue-eyed, 5-foot-3 sophomore Stephanie Goble was crowned Engineering Engineer-ing Queen to reign over this week's activitis. She is a psychology j major affiliated witli Delta Delta Delta sorority, Symphony Debs and I scholastic honorary Alpha Lambda Delta. How dees engineering effect industry or your health? Visit the exhibits ex-hibits displayed in Merrill Engineering Bldg. and find out. hours more than a liberal arts major ma-jor must have for his B.A. Robert Goodfellow, deputy chief engineer at Hill Air Force Base, commented that the conflict in South Vietnam is a testing ground for the technical competence and engineering ability for the U.S. and Russia. Demonstrations Displays and " demonstrations of artificial kidneys and hearts, laser beams, magnetic ceramics, simulated simu-lated speech and "artificial" music are todays scheduled events for Engineers Week. The exhibits and demonstrations will be on display at Merrill Engineering Engin-eering Bldg. and the Mines Bldg. from 2 to 10 p.m. Students from each engineering department and engineering fraternities are providing pro-viding the exhibits. Visitors will be provided with a list of displays and a map of the building showing their locations. Lasers, Artificial Kidneys In keeping with the theme for the week, "Engineering, Design for. World Health," the Mechanical Engineering En-gineering Department will present demonstrations of functioning artificial arti-ficial kidneys and hearts. Mechanical Mechan-ical engineers will also have demonstrations dem-onstrations testing the strength of metals. The Bio-Engineering Department will show an analog computer which simulates on graphs and meters the physiological functions of the body. Minature lightening (Tesla Coil) and artificial electronics music will make up part of the electrical engineers en-gineers displays. The Physical Electronics Lab will have hourly demonstrations of Ruby and Carbon Dioxide Lasers. Free samples of magnetic ceramics ceram-ics will be distributed by ceramic engineering students. . |