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Engineering School

That is what the
University's School of
Engineering and Applied
Science has done in a program
concluded this weekend under
the sponsorship of the National
Science Foundation.

The students, 17 boys and
six girls selected on the basis of
their abilities in high school
science, took part in a program
that reintroduced their
understandings of science and
math, moved to more advanced
subjects that none of them had
had, such as calculus, and got
down to the basic work of
chemical
engineering—controlling
chemical reactions, unit
operations such as distillation
and the handling of materials,
and the operation of a small
pilot plant–a miniature plant at
the University to produce
hydrogen.