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A recent addition to thecollege of engineering faculty is RichardL. Huntington, a graduate of the 1917class. Huntington is teaching classes inthe school of petroleum engineering .

Petroleum EngineeringBy GEORGE WEBER,'34eng

Member St . Pat's Council

A SCHOOL in the college ofengineering may be judged from fourgeneral aspects .

First, one thinks of the curriculum ofstudy which comprises the body of theschool . Next in importance is the admin-istration of the school, its director and hisfaculty . The equipment of the laboratoriesplays a great part in the degree of excel-lence which the school may hold, both incomparison of like schools and in thepreparation of the student for the expe-rrence which he is to need . Lastly, thestudent body itself has an influence on theprestige of the unit, depending upon thedegree of scholarship maintained, andthe interest shown in extra-curricular ac-tivities pertaining to the school . In thereorganization of the petroleum school,we believe that an improvement has beenmade in its every phase.Ever since the organization of the pe .

troleum school, it has followed the pro-gram of expansion and improvement incourses which is typical of the college ofengineering as a whole. It is necessary, inso progressive an industry as this, to makechanges every year . This year new coursespertaining to the transportation of oil andgas and their storage and measurement,have been added, and greater emphasis isbeing laid on the research courses. Thesummer field course is also being bettered .The announcements for this course willbe out in a short time . The mailing listwill include engineers who might be in-terested in petroleum engineering in allthe principal countries of the world. Pro-fessor Irwin Bingham will conduct thefirst section formed in the field course thisyear .

Perhaps the greatest change in theschool took place in September of 1933 .Professor H. C. George, who was the

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head of the school, accepted a position ashead of the petroleum department at theUniversity of Pittsburgh, and ProfessorF. W. Padgett, who had charge of therefining courses, is now with the Sun Oilcompany of Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania .This constituted a great loss to the school .Professor W. H. Carson of the mechanicalengineering school was picked to headthe school in September. The Universityalso was fortunate in obtaining for thefaculty, Dr. Richard L. Huntington, agraduate of the college. Dr . Huntingtoncomes from the Phillips Petroleum com-pany, and is head of the refining branchof the school .The equipment in the school has under-

gone a complete rearrangement, muchnew apparatus being added and some dis-carded . Much valuable space was occupiedby tools and other display equipment.Such equipment was consolidated andsome entirely eliminated . The unit fortesting the antiknock qualities of gasolinewas moved into the southwest corner ofthe main laboratory room downstairs inthe petroleum engineering building. Theremainder of the south side of this roomwas put into readiness for the gas mea-surement laboratory which had previouslyoccupied floor space in the EngineeringLaboratory building . The lay-out of thisequipment was designed by Sylvan Cro-mer and installed under his supervision .All mechanical equipment relating di-rectly to the production of oil was movedfrom the upper floor to the lower floor.The mining equipment laboratory has

been eliminated and a twelve-inch experi-mental bubble tower is being erected inits place, under the supervision of DoctorHuntington . The front downstair roomformerly used as an office is being con-

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verted into a laboratory for glass workingmodels .The building has been painted through-

out and all tables, racks and cases havebeen painted a light grey . Walls through-out the building have been hung withframed pictures of outstanding pieces ofequipment and methods of refining andproduction . In the downstairs hall a largewalnut bulletin board has been set up .In the upstairs portion of the building allof the wire partitions have been removed .Three rooms, twelve feet square, haveben constructed . They are located in thenortheast, northwest, and southwest cor-ners of the main laboratory . The northeastroom is a constant temperature room usedexclusively for calorific testing of solidand liquid fuels. The oxyken bomb typeof calorimeter is used for the tests . This isProfessor H . V. Beck's laboratory . Thenorthwest room is divided into two parts,both being constant temperature rooms.The outer part is used for making certainphysical tests on oils ; the inner part is adark room for making flash and fire pointdeterminations . The southwest room isused as a constant temperature room andthe Podbeilmak Fractionating in this roomhas been improved materially by DoctorHuntington by the use of neon tubes, etc .This room is also used as a calorimeterlaboratory for determining heating valueof natural gas.

Doctor Huntington's refinery researchlaboratory is located in a half-walled roomon the west side of the main laboratory .The American Petroleum Institute flowtube which formerly occupied space on thelower floor has been moved to the upperfloor. This is being erected under the super-vision of Professor Cloud . Many improve-ments are being made on the new set-up .

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Bill Walner, '29ex, recently sailed for Carte-gena, Colombia, South America, where he willbe employed as a pilot for an oil company . Wal-ner, after leaving the University in 1929, Com-pleted the United States Army training course atRandolph Field, San Aantonio, Texas .

Louise Cox, '32as, is becoming one of the out-standing feature writers of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram . She was women's editor of the Dhla-hotna Daily during her last year at the Univer-sity .

Streeter S . Stuart, '32as, is teaching Spanishand social sciences at El Reno high school .

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(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 132)A doorway has been built on the northside of the second floor, and a walkwayon the refinery tower and the laboratoryconstructed between the run-down houseroom . This eliminates the necessity ofcarrying samples down the refinery stairs,through the building and upstairs to thetesting laboratory .The instrument room is being made

over by adding inclined shelves whichcarry sawed-out sections to fit the variouspieces of apparatus and glassware.Cutaway models and the like have been

secured to build a typical Oklahoma CityChristmas tree . This will be assembled atthe front of the building south of thewalk . A circular type cellar will be used .Just north of the walk an electrically op-erated Lufkin pumping unit will be in-

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stalled. Doctor Huntington and ProfessorBennie Shultz are planning to install asmall cracking unit just west of the re-finery superheater.A decided increase in the enrollment in

the petroleum engineering school was not-ed this year . The student body is well rep-resented in the engineering honor societiesand takes a great part in outside activitiesbeside holding a scholastic standing wellabove the average. Last fall the PetroleumEngineers club was organized. This meetstwice a month to study and discuss papersgiven by students and men in the industry .The club is affiliated with the AmericanPetroleum Institute and the American In-stitute of Mining and Metallurgical En-gineers.With these and other improvements

planned for the future, the faculty andstudents of the school of petroleum en-gineering mean to hold the prestige of thefinest petroleum school in the country ifnot in the world .

"The Adding Machine"The fourth Playhouse presentation of

the year will he Elmer Rice's "The Add-ing Machine" scheduled for March 23 and24 in the University auditorium . The fan-tasy will be directed by Larry A. Haydonand will include a cast of twenty-five dra-lnatic art students .

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