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Illinois Tech Engineering and Alumnus collection, 1941-1949

 Collection
Identifier: 004.08.04

Issues of the Illinois Tech Engineer and Alumnus from 1941-1949, incomplete run. Contains the following issues:

October 1945 (Vol. 11, No. 1)
Contents: "Mexican- American Conference" by Paul D. Hermann; "Institute of Gas Technology: Annual Report" "Fire Protection Engineering" by Kent H. Parker; "Grease: New Industrial Applications" by John R. LeVally; "Small Business: Can It Have Research?" by Dr. Francis E. Godwin; "The Endless Frontier" by Dr. John D. Larkin; "Man of the Month: David Siegel" "Iron Ore" by Charles A Scarlott
December 1945 (Vol. 11, No. 2)
Contents: "Carbon Black in War and in Peace" by Leonard H Cohan; "The Veteran in Contemporary Education" by John F. White; "Fire Protection and Safety" by the Western Society of Engineers; "Our Future Engineers" by Harry McCormack; "Alice and the Slide Rule" by L.A. Hawkins and Sanford A. Moss; "The Five Year Gap" by R.C. Kinter; "Midwest Power Conference" by Stanton E. Winston; "Training for Battle" by Lincoln Maytham; "Iron Ore (Part III)" pepared by Charles A Scarlott; "Industrial Research" by Harold Vagtborg
March 1942 (Vol. 7, No.3)
Contents: "Our Ships Begin to Come In" by Paul O. Ridings; "Automobile Driving as a Problem in Mechanics" by J.F. Mangold; "Porcelain Enameling" by Warren L. Decatur; "Selection and Training for Tomorrow" by Alfred J. Cardall; "Punching Card Methods of Recording and Analyzing Statistical Material" by E.C. Schroedel; "A Women of the Eighties" by James C. Peebles; "New Cooperative Courses" by Kathryn Judkins; "Better Mouse Traps" "Obituary: Bion J. Arnold" "The Engineer Staff" "Forty-Seventh Commencement" "Help! Help! Help!" "Midwest Power Conference" "The Book Shelf" by F.R. White and Robert C. Kintner; "New Alumni Secretary" "The American Mathematical Monthly" "The Schoolmaster" "From Year to Year"
May 1942 (Vol. 7, No. 4)
Contents: "The Development Program" "Research Equipment in the Department of Electrical Engineering" by Jesse E. Hobson and LeRoy T. Anderson; "Our Wartime Calendar" "Unusual Engineering Opportunities in Public Health Work" by Herman N. Bundesen, M.D.; "Metallurgical Research in the Armour Research Foundation" by Raymond G. Spencer; "More Architects Wanted" "Eliminating Waste in Wartime" by Henry P. Dutton; "Better Mouse Traps" by R. J. Tinkham; "Good Neighbors" by Paul O. Ridings; "Help! Help! Help!" by John J Schommer; "Facts and Digures on E.S.M.D.T" "The Society of Sigma Xi" by Clark Crawford; "1942 Illinois Tech Relays" "Book Shelf" by F.A. Rogers and A.E. Flanigan; "The Schoolmaster" "From Year to Year: Alumni Section" "Junior Chemists Needed" "Pre-Engineering Programs"
October 1942 (Vol. 8, No. 1)
Contents: "Research in the Department of Physics" by J.S. Thompson; "Extinguishing Fire with Low Pressure Carbon Dioxide" by H.W. Lange; "The Schoolmaster" "The Engineer Staff" "Taylor at Colgate" "Professional Opportunities for Home Economists Trained in a Technological Institution"by Ruth Cowan Clouse; "Training for Defense becomes Training for War" by John I. Yellott; "War Training in Radio" by Gordon Lund; "Unintentional Sabotage" by Captain Laurence B. Tipton; "Better Mouse Traps" by L.R. Oaks; "Help! Help! Help!" by John J. Schommer; "The Book Shelf" by R.E. Peck, S.M. Spears and Roe L. Stevens "From Year to Year: Alumni Section"
December 1942 (Vol. 8, No. 2)
Contents: "Research in Acoustics and Vibrations at Armour Research Foundation" by H.A. Leedy; "The President's Report" "Research in the Department of Language and Literature" by Walter Hendricks; "Sigma Xi at IIT" by Rufus Oldenburger; "War Research Committee" "The Pre-Engineering Course" "1800 Ensigns" "New Faculty Members" "Student War Council" by Raymond W. Smith; "Better Mouse Traps" "The Schoolmaster" "What are we Going to Do to Win the War" by Benson Jewell; "Help! Help! Help!" "The Bookshelf" by M.J. Murray, C.O. Harris and H.L. Nachman; "From Year to Year: Alumni Section" "Was You There, Charlie?" "Midwest Power Conference, 1943"
March 1943 (Vol. 8, No. 3)
Contents: "What's Cookin' in the Department of Chemistry" by M.J. Murray; "We Still Measure our Freshmen" by William C Krathwohl; "Heald and Grinter Assis W M C" "Yellott Recieves Award" "The West Side Campus and the War" by Clarence L. Clarke; "Howard M. Raymond: Obituary" "Tech Relays" "Midwest Power Conference" "Better Mouse Traps" by Ernest W. Landen; "Help! Help! Help!" by John J. Schommer; "S.P.E.E" "New Trustees" "The Book Shelf" by Howard P. Vincent; "From Year to Year: Alumni Section" "Foresight" by Paul O. Ridings; "Crop Production Specialists Needed" "Any Ideas?" "Bird Guns Test Plane Windshields" "Conservation of Critical Materials by Use of Alternates" by John Horn
May 1943 (Vol. 8 No. 4)
Contents: "Research Comes to the Pampa" by Francis Godwin; "Domestic Underfeed Stokers" By Walter Knox and C.H. Sawyer; "War Training Courses in Electrical Engineering" by J.E. Hobson; "Physical Training Goes to War" By Arthur E. Wright; "A Progress Report on the War Training Program" by J. I Yellott; "Automobile Driving as a Problem in Mechanics" by J.F. Mangold; "The Tech Relays" "The Alumni Fund" "Placement Department" by John J. Schommer; "Better Mouse Traps" "S.P.E.E Meeting" "The Schoolmaster" "From Year to Year: Alumni Section" "Student War Council" by Harry E. Gillespie, Jr.
October 1943 (Vol. 9, No. 1)
Contents: "Fire Loss Prevention" by Geo. W Booth; "The Armed Forces at Illinois Tech" by C.A. Tibbals; "Social Science Research at Illinois Tech" by Yale Brozen and Herbet A. Simon; "Wood in War in Peace" by C.J. Hogue; "Psychology and the War Effort" by David P. Boder; "Changes in Shop Courses for Engineering Students at Illinois Institute of Technology" by J. S. Kozacka; "Better Mouse Traps" by Francis Godwin; "Obituaries: Alfred L. Eustice; C.W. Hills Jr; C. Paul Parker" "Help! Help! Help!" by John J. Schommer; "The Book Shelf" by E.C. Paustian and V.I. Komarewsky; "From Year to Year: Alumni Section" "Record Voice on Hairlike Wire" "Smoke was a Lifesaver in Sicily Invasion"
December 1943 (Vol. 9, No. 2)
Contents: "New Industrial Uses for Farm Crops" by Harry E. Barnard; "General Semantics at Illinois Tech" by Sanford B. Meech; "Physical Properties of Rubber Compounds" by Charles O. Harris; "Prophylactic Automobile Driving and Care" by Daniel Roesch; "New Trustees" by Paul O. Ridings; "The Schoolmaster" "Better Mouse Tramps: Automatic Control for the Paper Industry" by Clark E Thorp; "Midwest Power Conference- 1944" "The Sun Salutes Heald" "Institute of Gas Technology" by John I. Yellott; "New Faculty Members" "Help! Help! Help!" by John J. Schommer; "From Year to Year: Alumni Section" "Obituary: Bernard N. Sunny" "Dean Alderson" "Engineer Staff" "Book Shelf" by Arthur Howe Carpenter; "New Electronic Tube Flaw Detector"
March 1944 (Vol. 9, No. 3)
Contents: "Evolution of the 3-Phase 60-Cycle A.C. System" by Thomas James Higgins; "The Treatment of Wood to Reduce Combustibility" by A.J. Steiner; "Serving the Army and Navy" by L.E. Grinter; "Industrial Training- War Style" by J.H. Hazlehurst; "Better Mouse Traps" by Norman C. Penfold; "Have You Any Foreign Maps?" "Institute of Gas Technology" by J.I. Yellott; "Red Cross War Fund" "Help! Help! Help!" by John J. Schommer; "Midwest Power Conference" "New Faculty Members" "Obituary: Bernard L. McNulty" "From Year to Year: Alumni Section" "Motor Keeps Gyros Spinning" "Electrical Systems of Tomorrow's Aircraft"
May 1944 (Vol. 9, No. 4)
Contents: "Toppling the Tower of Babel" by Howard P. Vincent; "Physical Training at Illinois Tech" by Bernard Weissman; "The Importance of Business Subjects in the Engineering Cirriculum" by C.R. Glaves; "War Training for Women" by Paul Ridings and Marie Seaberry; "The Small Plant Can be Safe" by E.C. Woodward; "Two Recent Conferences in Chicago" by Roland A. Budenholzer and Sanford B. Meech; "Recipients of Honorary Degrees from Illinois Institute of Technology" by Sanford B. Meech; "Better Mouse Traps" by C.O. Dohrenwend; "Institute of Gas Technology" by J.I. Yellott; "Help! Help! Help!" by John J. Schommer; "Book Shelf" by S.I. Hayakawa; "From Year to Year: Alumni Section" "Tech Men, If You are Inducted" by William C. Krathwohl
October 1944 (Vol. 10, No. 1)
Contents: "Education for Veterans" by Dean C.A. Tibbals; "Electron Waves and Their Use in Microscopy and Diffraction" by Paul L. Copeland and Carroll W. Lufcy; "Illinois Tech a Sponsor of the First Electronics Conference" "The Fire Protection Problem" by Arthur H. Jens; "Facing the Modern World" by George D. Birkhoff; "The Present and Future of ESMWT" by William Bachrach; "Help! Help! Help!" by John J. Schommer; "Better Mouse Traps" by Robert Tinkham; "Ordnance Award" "The Book Shelf" by W.I. Hayakawa; "From Year to Year: Alumni Section"
December 1944 (Vol. 10, No. 2)
Contents: "Jet Propulsion" by J.I. Yellott; "New Electrical Machinery Lab" by E.H. Schulz; "New Illinois Tech Trustees" "Chemical Detectives" by Loretto Fox; "New Staff Members" "Veterans in College" by Arleen Wilson; "Better Mouse Traps" by W.R. Mehaffey; "The Automotive Laboratory" by Daniel Roesch; "From Year to Year: Alumni Section" "Midwest Power Conference"
October 1945 (Vol. 11, No. 1)
Contents: "Mexican- American Conference" by Paul D. Hermann; "Institute of Gas Technology: Annual Report" "Fire Protection Engineering" by Kent H. Parker; "Grease: New Industrial Applications" by John R. LeVally; "Small Business: Can It Have Research?" by Dr. Francis E. Godwin; "The Endless Frontier" by Dr. John D. Larkin; "Man of the Month: David Siegel" "Iron Ore" by Charles A Scarlott
December 1945 (Vol. 11, No. 2)
Contents: "Carbon Black in War and in Peace" by Leonard H Cohan; "The Veteran in Contemporary Education" by John F. White; "Fire Protection and Safety" by the Western Society of Engineers; "Our Future Engineers" by Harry McCormack; "Alice and the Slide Rule" by L.A. Hawkins and Sanford A. Moss; "The Five Year Gap" by R.C. Kinter; "Midwest Power Conference" by Stanton E. Winston; "Training for Battle" by Lincoln Maytham; "Iron Ore (Part III)" pepared by Charles A Scarlott; "Industrial Research" by Harold Vagtborg
Spring 1946 (Vol. 11, No. 3)
Contents: "The Work of the Industrial Engineer" by Joesph Palma, Jr.; "Heating Requirements" by Dr. Stephen S. Visher; "A Neglected Chapter" by Dr. Arno B. Luckhardt; "A Review of Atomic Energy" by Philip W. Swain; "Armour Research Foundation, Annual Report"
Summer 1946 (Vol. 11, No. 4)
Contents: "The Ohmite Laboratory" by L.W. Matsch and Herbert Levy; "Engineering Education" by Dr. Alfred C Ames; "City Noise" by Haldon A. Leedy; "Institute of Gas Technology, Research Activity" by Captain Elmore S. Pettyjohn; "Radiant Heating" by Napier Adlam; "The Impact of War on Economic Theory" by Dr. Pearce Davis; "Coal as the Fuel for the Gas Turbine" by John I Yellott and A. D. Singh; "Development and Evaluation of Crankcase Oils" by Norman C. Penfold; "The Consumer and Product Design" by Emmet J. Lowry
October 1946 (Vol. 12, No. 1)
Contents: "Lithography Comes of Age" by Wade E. Griswold; " Fire Causes and Lessons They Teach" by John J. Ahern; "Linear Relationships in Gas Turbines" by John T. Rettaliata; "Technology in Selected Mexican Industries" by Milton E. Nelson; "The Professional Man's Education" by John Day Larkin; "Incentives to Production" by Henry P. Dutton; "Safety- Training and Testing Drivers" by Robert C. Peterson; "Schoolmaster" "Radio Communication and its Import in International Relations"
May 1947 (Vol. 12, No. 4)
Contents: "Some Modern Uses for Packaged Gases" by J.I. Banash; "Romance in Steel" by Henry Penn; "The Graduate School" by W.A. Lewis; "Lightning Protection in Review" by E.R. Whitehead; "The Engineering Library- Storehouse or Laboratory" by William H.Hyde; "Armour Research Foundation- Recent Developments in Magnetic Recording" by Marvin Camras; "Safety- Home is no Haven from Harm" by E. Clark Woodward; "One of Ours" by Earl C. Kubicek; "Notable Books of 1946" by Harvey Curtis Webster; "University Conference on Corrosion and Metal Protection" "The Schoolmaster" "Pocket Research"
October 1948 (Vol. 14, No. 1)
Contents: "Food Technology Comes into its Own- and to Technology Center" by Milton E Parker; "The Engineer and the Weatherman" by Joanne Starr Malkus; "Hermann Hesse: Nobel Prize Novelist" by F.K. Richter; "Sports and Illinois Tech" by Frederick W. Jauch; "Research Facilities in Illinois" by Roy C. Newton; "Mark Twain's Adventures in Inventions" by Earl C. Kubicek
December 1948 (Vol. 14, No. 2)
Contents: "You Can Read Faster- and Learn More" by Elizabeth A. Simpson; "Magnetic Records for Home Entertainment" by Marvin Camras; "A Community Mobilizes for Engineering Education" by Harold L. Minkler; "Sports and Illinois Tech" by Frederick W. Jauch; "Midwest Power Conference" "Why Not Higher Octanes?" by Daniel P. Barnard; "Blueprint for Economics Education" by Pearce Davis
March 1949 (Vol. 14, No. 3)
Contents: "A Visit with Grandma Moses" by F.K. Richter; "Engineers and Unions" by James W. Fairchild and William H. Harrison, Jr.; "Current and Future Research at the Institute of Gas Technology" by Elmore S. Pettyjohn; "Biology in Action" by Leslie R. Hedrick; "A Year of Research" "Midwest Power Conference"
May 1949 (Vol. 14, No. 4)
Contents: "Keep the Home Fires from Burning" by Jack S. Castiglia; "Mr. Sherlock Holmes: Scholar and Scientist" by Earl C. Kubicek; "Occupational Aptitude Testing" by Phil S. Shurrager; "Dionysius Lardner: Purveyor of Useful Knowledge" by Mentor L. Williams; "How Foreign Policy is Made" by Royden Dangerfield; "Please Print Plainly!" by Otto Eisenschiml

Dates

  • Creation: 1941-1949

Creator

Language of Materials

Records are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

Available for Research

Collection Size

25 Issues

Biographical Note

The Illinois Tech Engineer and Alumnus was a subscription-based magazine published by the Armour College of Engineering with articles about the college, general engineering news and projects in Chicago, and alumni news. It published four issues a year starting in 1934.

Provenance

Taken from 1998.130

Part of the Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections Repository

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