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NEWS AND COMMENT
TlHE contributions of the College of'Engineering of this Universityto:
    industry, have been of great benefit to the people of the state and of
    much practical value to many, engaged in manufacturing. A few
instances of. this -work that have- been dompiled by Dean F. E. Turneaure
give an idea of the sort and variety of problems the Engineering School
is best able to study.
                          "In the- field of interest especially to the
civil
nii-e rsit-y=le lations-::- ~enigineerit-was-an-,er- pioneer-in- hestudy-o.
    with Industry       principles, relating to the design and -strength
of
                        reinforced concrete, and its work, with that::- of
the University of Illinois, made- up a large part of the information upon
which the correct design of this form of construction came-to be under-
stood. I1ts representative was a member of- the. first Joint Committee-to
iUiJiiLt.LL uti  U.~WU i~pIAukdLIU11.W aviuy
of the engineers and contractors in Mil-:
waukee learned the fundamentals ofthe-
subject, intthese laboratoricsi.-'Its several- -
investigations,-on the 'rinciples Land effi-7
ciency1,of,-the: air lift pwtn-p'have b een'the'"
most important-.o -,their kind. lt:.-has.
cooperated- with, the Wisconsin Highway
Commission -in: an- economic stid. of
local sands and gravel deposits -ofi the
state for their use in road construition
leading toL the development.- of: iany.
local deposits with considerable gain, in
economy, and the same laboratoryhas
cooperated with national engineering so-
cieties in such :questions, as the -best pro-
p6rtions for concrete,effect of freeziing on
.concrete and, on clay tile. It has -con-
ductesd     e    m     e            on
bridges under moving. trains,ý and, the L      '
*results-of this study have formed the-
-basis. of the rules of practice of many: L
railroads.
    DEAN F. E. TURNEAURE.        "In the Mechanical Engieering lab-
                               oratory, its investigations on t
ing'-Oroperties of commercial pipe coverings'have been the most th6rough
an-up to date, and the results are used inthe. various handbooks covering
thev'subject. In -the Electrical Engineering -laboratories, much .work is
being done through its Standards Laboratory, maintained in qooperation:
withf the. State Railroad Commission, for the promotion of' better service
by.the electrical utilities of the-state. This has included such studies
as
high tension insulators, transformers for the lighting systems of Milwau-
kee, high voltage circuit breakers and fuses, and a great amount of: work-
in the testing and improvement of -standards used. by the utilities. In
this department, also, a very considerable amount of hard study has been
given to- problems of radioI communication, some of which are highly-
mathematical in their nature and published results hardly readable by
the ordinary engineer, but none the less of practical value. An interesting
example of the importance of scientific studies not at first appreciated
came to. our attention- recently. One of our. graduate students- of about
.fifteen.years ago was aided for two years or more by University- funds in