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Alumni, Engineers Plan
Look At Future Problems

Some 200 alumni of the University
School of Engineering and Applied
Science, as well as interested engineers
from throughout the Eastern United
States, are expected to attend the eighth
annual Engineer's Day at the University.
October 31-November 1.

Sponsored by the Virginia Engineering
Foundation and the University's engineering
school, Engineer's Day will offer
engineers a chance to hear noted men in
the field speak on various aspects of
"Engineering and the Challenge of the
Future," as well as to get together
socially.

Exciting Look At Future

"Engineer's Day will provide an exciting look
at the future and the engineer's role in making
the world a better place in which to live," said
Lawrence R. Quayles, dean of the engineering
school.

"In the past half century, technology has
radically changed our way of life. Now
engineers must face the challenges of solving
problems of pollution, housing, transportation
and health," he said.

On Friday, October 31, at p.m. the
engineers will hear James illir executive
vice-president of Radio Corporation of America's
David Surnoff Research Center in Princeton,
N.J., speak on "Electronics Engineering,
Harbinger of Change." At 3:15 p.m., Roland W.
Schmitt, research and development manager of
General Electric Company in Schenectady
N.Y., will examine "Problems and Promises
Materials in the Future."

At a banquet Friday evening, Guy Fridell,
editorial page editor of "The Virginian-Pilot,"
Norfolk, will be the speaker.

Saturday, November 1, the engineers will
hear Dean Quayles discuss "Your School of
Engineering and Applied Science." At 10 a.m.,
Frust O. Attinger, chairman of biomedical
engineering at the University, will examine
"The Future of Biomedical Engineering." At 11
a.m., Louis T. Rader, chairman of electrical
engineering at the University, will discuss "The
Future of Engineering Education and Industry."

The lectures, in the aero-mechanical building,
will be open to the public with
pre-registration through the School of Engineering
and Applied Science required.

Saturday afternoon, football-minded engineers
and their wives will have an opportunity
to see the University Cavaliers in action against
the University of North Carolina in Scott
Stadium.