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WHO'S WHO .AMONG STUDENTS IN AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES By D. C. McAuliffe Dean of College Following the custom of past years. Montana School of Mines is participating in the annual "Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges." This is not the "Who's Who" of A. N. Marquis and Company, nor the publication known as "Who's Who in America." The national office for selecting candidates for "Who's Who" is located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and each year invites American colleges and universities to select candidates for "Who's Who" from among their students. The method of selection is left to the participating schools with the suggestion that the following qualities be considered in the nomination of each student: Excellence and sincerity in scholarship. Leadership and participation in DEAN D. C. McA ULIF~E extracurricular anti academic activities. Promise of future usefulness to Citizenship and service to the business and society. , Candidates are selected from senschool.
What
Is A Metallurgical
Engineer?
By Charles W. Haynes The need to be able' to extract Iers to emphasize. The department metals from minerals efficiently and also offers the degree with the Mineconomically, or to determine how erai Dressing Option for those who to combine metals and process them wish to sepcialize in this field. advances which The coninued so that -they are best suited for a particular application, has led to metallurgical engineers are making the science of metallurgy and the 'in the science is evidence of the acmetallurgical engineer. In general, tivity and importance. of the field. an engineer may be thought of. as a OJ~e has on ly to look closely at such person whose job it is to adapt the a casually accepted commodity as 'materials and forces of nature for the automobile to see the results of the good of mankind. The metal- the metallurgical engineer's work: high quality cast iron for the enlurgical engineer endeavors to im- gine block, c_ast aluminum alloy prove on methods of taking metals pistons for lightness, .: alloy steel. from the minerals that nature sup- forgings for the steenng mechanplies us with, and to find new and ism, the radiator made of cOPl?er for high heat" conductivity, the stainbetter ways to use th~ metals. less steel or chromium plated trim Such a broad field has come to for corrosion resistance and beauty, be separated into narrower branches, and special alloy' electrodes 111 the spark plugs, the highly formable namely, mineral dressing, which is sheet steel for the fenders, and the science of concentrating or sepa- body, the silicon alloy magnet steel rating the metal-containing minerals. in the generator, and so on. The adf om worthless waste material, ex- vances in all· branches of science are calling more and mor.e for th.e tractive or pro c e s s metallurgy, services of the metaUurglcal engiwhich is the science of extracting neer. the commercially pure metal from the minerals. and physical metallurgy, which is the science of the processing of the metal from the raw form to the finished product. The metallurgical engineer normally takes, a four-year college course to prepare himself· for his profession. On graduation he may obtain a position in industry,. wi~h a branch of the governm~nt, I.n teaching, or he may establish a bUSIness of his own. He may be engaged in research and development where his task is to find new facts about metals or to develop new processes for extracting or treating them. He may be connected with the production processes of industry, ,or 'with thtl< design of equip-, ment \Ised in. those processes. He may go into lq:uality control work, checking on> fhe processes and the prOQuct to make sure ttrey-"meet the - neces§ary requirenients. Or, he may . go inoo' any pf the, other c1os~ly. related.. jobs in the· metallurgical field, ."
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DECEMBER
5, 1957
Walton Conducts Seminar on Chelation
iors who are eligible for .graduation in June. Each college is assigned a quota and the size of the quota :lepends upon the number of stuDr. Harold Walton, .professor of charge sign on an exchanged resin dents enrolled in the institution. chemistry at the University of Colo- while uncharged molecules and ions Under no circumstances may the rado, conducted a seminar on Chelanumber exceed the quota by more tion in the Metallurgy Building on of opposite charge pass on;' second, than two. This year, the quota for Friday afternoon, November 22. the successive displacement of ions Montana School of Mines was set Many students and faculty mern- of like charge from a resin bed. The at five; two. additional nominees bel's attended the meeting, including first principle is the simpler and may be submitted to eliminate ties. faculty members from Montana has many analytical applications, For several years, the Dean of State College and Montana State h' . as the separation of ferric the College at Montana School of University. The general public was sue Mines has submitted seven names also invited. ions and sulfate ions by changing to the national office for approval. Chelation deals with complex in- their ionic partners.' Following approval, the names are organic molecules, their structure, The second principle is used to returned to the school for a final composition, and method of prepacheck on spelling, addresses, etc. ration. separate alkali metals, rare earths, After the final 'check, the names On Friday night, Dr. Walton and numerous acids and' bases of are returned to the national office spoke to the Montana Section of biological interest, Separations are so that certificates can be prepared. the American Chemical Society on greatly facilitated by forming comfor presentation at a later date. the subject of ion exchange sepa- plex ions. For separating the 'metals Names are not to be published until rations. the most useful complexing agent is final confirmation has been reDr. Walton received an A. 8. the' chloride ion. By raising the conceived from, the national office .. degree from Oxford University in centration of hydrochloric acid, one Seven nominees have already been 1937. He then came to the United metal after another is made to form selected from the school and will be States, spent a year at Princeton a negatively 'charged chloride compublished at a later date. ' and two years at the Permutit Co., plex, which can either be held on The method of selection of seniors where his interest in ion exchange an anion exchange' resin or driven at Montana School of Mines for this began. He began his academic ca- out of a cation exchange resin. Sulyear has been completed in the reel' in 1940 at Northwestern Un i- fate complexes are lesscommon, but Dean's office. and under the same versity where he spent six years. the absorption' of the 'uranium (\'1) method used in past years. Heads Following his service with the Brit- _:_sulfate', complex 'on '.'anion exof the degree-granting departments, ish Red Cross he settled in Colo- changers is' used .on: <;1. vast, scale to the registrar, and the student body rado and became a naturalized U. S. recover uranium from low-grade president are asked to submit to the citizen in 1948. Currently he is chair- or.es. Complex .ions "are' 'also used Dean names of seniors who they. man of the Colorado Section of to separate organic compounds" such believe are qualified for nomina-' the ACS. Dr. Walton's publications as aldehydes, sugars, and diketbnes. tion. Those receiving the highest are in the field of electrochemistry, . through' their bisulfite,. borate. and number of votes are nominated. analytical chemistry, colloidal elec- metal compl~xes respectively. ," Votes are strictly confidential and trolytes and ion exchange. He has . '_. when results are tabulated, they are published two text books and has:; ," " ~,' . submitted to the national headquar- 'contributed chapters for two coDr. -Edwin G. 'Koch attended the .tel's for approval. Nominations for operative works on ion exchange. November rrr e e ti.ng .of·.the State this year have been tabulated and Ion exchange can separate any Board of Education in Helena on submitted to the headquarters for pair of elements except inert gases 'November 18 and 'the ineetings of final confirmation and should be and a great many organic com- the Executive Council of the Uniavailable for publication in the near pounds. Two principles 'are used: versity of MOlltana: on .November future. first, the retention of ions of one 17, 18, and 19.
Copper' Guards Promote Campus .Activities The' Copper Guard, a sophomore honorary service society, consists of ten members this year. Their .services include familiarizing the freshmen with the campus on Orientation Day, ushering for various programs such as plays, games, and commencement exercises, sell i n g tickets at games, p I ann i n g the
M-Day picnic, and decorating the Library-rnuseumhall for the M-Day dance. Each year the Copper Guards execute one major project. In previous years projects included putting up "Welcome to Butte" signs on the' 'outskirts of the city, and refinishing the Marcus Daly statue.
Funds are obtained mainly from ASSM appropriations and the pop, machine in' t1'i~' Coffee' Shop. Thd organization uses this money for several dinners throughout the year for partial payment for Coppe~ Guard sweaters for members, and for financing their project if neces~ sary. .Officers. 0f. th;e group 'are Dick V111celette, duke; Don Rolfe chancellor; .:Geo,ge Grandy, scr.ibe, and Don Roberts, recorder. Dick is from Billings, Montana. Doh is from Wil~ bur, Washington. George and Don Roberts are from Butte and White~ hall. respesti:,ely. Professor Johll G. McCasltn. IS the faculty advisor'. To become a member of the Copper Guards.a future sophomore must have hiS nanle nomInated by. the faculty for scholastic achievehlent and a'll-round school, service.! Then the present Copper Guards' . vote on members from a list of ap_; prox-imately forty names, ' ; Members: Ed Erickson Darref Day, Bob Garey, George' Grandy Don McMillan, Don Roberts Do~: Rolfe. Allen, Rovig,. Diek Vinc~lette,: and Douglas Wadman. !
I NTRAMU RAtS All .students who' 'are inter.ested: in ilitramural sports should checl~ the bul1etin board in the gym. Apool list has already been postedi and the basketball list will be upl soon, For any inf6r'ination, consult: :John Templin or Coach Simonich. ,Templin is the intramural manager:
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What dues a metallurgicaf engineer earn? His starting salary as a graduate with a B,S. degree would be similar to thaf for engineers of other branches, i.e. chemical, electrical, mechanical, etc., at perhaps ~400 -to $450 per 1110nth.The rate in . increase after 'the first couple of Years will depend to a large "extent On the individual's abilify. Many engineers after ten or fifteen years of e~perience go into supervision Or management positions. The Montana School of Mines Department of Metallurgy offers a cOurse leading to the B.S. degree including basic studies in both process and physical metallurgy. The Ba,ck Row (L to R): Professor McCaslin, Don McMillan, Ed Erickson, Bob Garey, Dougias Wadman, Student can decide through the use Day, Allen Rovig. Front Row (L to R): Don Rolfe, Don Roberts, Dick Vincelette, George' Grandy. of elective' courses which he pre-
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COMING EVENTS
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Student wive~ meeti;lg will be;,. held at 8;00 in the coed room on/ Jan. 8. Anderson-Carlisle wil1 hold its!, meeting at either 7 :30 or 8 :00 on I Jan. 9. ' Basketball : Rocky Mountain-Jan: lL ..Here Rocky Mountain-Jan. 17..There Eastern-Jan. 18 , There Western-Jan. 18 _ He~e