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Heroes In Space Their giant steps became sym-

bols of American achievement.

By John Dunn

Today Georgia Tech alumni, students and faculty are blazing many new trails in the exploration of spacethe next frontier.

The Job's

The Right Stuff Tech students take advantage of

NASA opportunities.

By Jerry Schwartz

Point Man Charles Kohlhase is working to

keep Cassini on track to Saturn.

By Hoyt Coffee

Star Search SETI investigator Jon Jenkins

scans the sky for signs of life.

By Shawn Jenkins

Back to the Future A new series ofX vehicles is

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Space Vacations Are we there yet?

By John Dunn

Cover: From space, the look backward doesn't excite as much as the look ahead.

14 Tech Notes Popularity Problem Surge Space High Rankings Little Learning, Big

Universe Revving Up Microchips Horse Sense Tech's First Olympic

Medal Community Pride No Ouch!

Dean jean Lou OJSjj says Georgia Teem expand engineering programs in the state

94 Profile Professor John Olds: Space for Fun and Profit

96 Picture Perfect Images of Imagination

Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine (ISSN: 1061-9747) is published quarterly (Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter) for Roll Call contributors by the Georgia Tech Alumni Association, Alumni/ Faculty House, 225 North Avenue NW, Atlanta, GA 30332-0175. Georgia Tech Alumni Association allocates $10 from a contribution toward a year's subscription to its magazine. Periodical postage paid at Atlanta,GA., and additional mailing offices. 1998 Georgia Tech Alumni Association POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine, Alumni/Faculty House, 225 North Avenue NW, Atlanta, GA 30332-0175. Editorial: (404) 894-0760/0761. Advertising: (404) 894-9270. Fax: (404) 894-5113. E-mail: [email protected] www.alumni.gatech.edu

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That's My 01' Cap As a former editor and publisher, I extend my congratulations on the beautiful job of the 75th Anniversary edition. It was my honor to be on your cover in the Winter 1997 issue on "Memory and Aging." The article noted that I was the oldest volunteer in the 1996 Olympic Games in At-lanta.

As rat caps go, I see on Page 9 that you have my old rat A cap, Class ol jM 1923, mixed kfg with other memora-bilia. My name is on the bill, and holes are in it. I had to re-trieve it from the garbage once because my wife had tossed it out! [After attending Georgia Tech] I graduated from the business school of the University of South Carolina, and I have been informed that I am the oldest living graduate.

I am looking forward to Tech's Homecoming, but I never get to see my 1923 classmates anymore. I turned 96 on July 6. And if the tem-perature is under 90 degrees, I still get out and cut my own grass.

Charles Fram, Cls '23 Atlanta

One-Word Summary In a word, the Spring 1998 Georgia Tech Alumni 75th Anniversary edi-tion is SUPER! I read it cover-to-cover. It is a job extremely well done. (Now, of course, you will have to bet-ter your performance next time around.)

Marion D. Kitchens, AE '58 Oakton, Va.

Fascinating Capsule Thanks for the grand job of editing this fascinating capsule of Georgia Tech history and traditions. The 75th

Anniversary issue is the best edition of the ALUMNI MAGA-

ZINE I have ever seen. Keep up the good work!

R. R. "Randy" Stevens, IE '61 Lutz, Fla.

Never Looked Back The 75th anniver-sary issue was great! You have in-

vited submissions significant to Georgia Tech's history: I offer you the true story about Tech-nology Park/Atlanta.

Around 1970,1 was in New York City, sitting in my office

when the phone rang. It was my old friend, Tom Hall, who was then

an executive at the Georgia Tech Foundation. He said he wanted me to attend a presentation in New York City on a new development called Technology Park/Atlanta. He pointed out that this was an important devel-opment for Georgia Tech because all of the investors were alumni, and many of them would probably give their shares to the Foundation some day.

I knew that the Georgia legislature sometimes under-funded Georgia Tech because so many of its graduates moved out of the state. The real prob-lem was the lack of sufficient high-technology jobs in Georgia. The de-velopment of TP/A (which was mod-eled after a similar successful devel-opment at Stanford University) would ameliorate this "brain drain."

I attended the presentation as Tom requested and sent back to him a can-did report. I was embarrassed to learn that my candid report had been

relayed to the sponsor of TP/A, Paul Duke, a successful Tech alumnus. My phone rang again. "Why don't you come down here and give us a hand with this thing," Duke said. The next thing I knew I was in a fabulous housea replica of Tara and petting his golden retriever, aptly named "Tech." Duke converted me to the cause, and quickly I be-came both an investor and a director in TP/A.

Unfortunately, before TP/A could reach its critical mass, a violent real estate recession hit Atlanta. In a few years, with virtually no sales, TP/A was faced with a maturity of all of its debt and no money to pay it. Georgia Tech's great president, Joseph M. Pettit, quietly eased off our board of directors, and people wondered how we were going to avoid embarrassing the school. Once again, my telephone ran and it was a few of the TP/A di-rectors. They thought that my finan-cial background could be helpful to the project if I got more involved, so they asked me to become chairman of the board. I wasn't sure what I would be able to do, but I was sure I ought to do something, so I accepted.

We quickly decided that we had to find a high-powered salesman and make him president. We recruited Charlie Brown, a Tech architectural graduate, and he immediately created a lot of sales prospects. (Charlie and I still joke about how lucky it was for all of us that he did not know how to read a financial statement when he took the job.)

After a few months, Charlie had some tenants who wanted to rent a building, but TP/A didn't have an empty one, and no financial institu-tion would loan us money to build one because they were afraid they would get caught up in some kind of bankruptcy. TP/A's debt to the C&S Bank was getting extended by the bank, but they did not have an appe-tite to loan any more money. Fortu-

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nately, the First National Bank of At-lanta was run by two great Georgia Tech graduates: Tom Williams was chairman and Raymond Riddle was president. They decided to loan TP/A the money to build the new build-ingproviding that the individual board members personally guaran-teed the loan. To the credit of the loyal directors, we all signed the loan, and the building

was built. Then more companies came to TP/A, and our growth had started.

We never looked back. Technology Park/Atlanta became a renowned development for high-technology parks. A few years later, we sold the majority interest to an English com-pany, and many of us gave our shares to the Georgia Tech Foundation. These gifts, in aggregate, represented one of the largest gifts to the Founda-tion at that time. The portion of TP/A that the Foundation still owns is a source of significant dividend income each year, and it is now worth quite a bit more than what TP/A was valued at when we sold. The many high-tech jobs that TP/A created in Atlanta probably contributed to the critical mass that today makes Atlanta a lead-ing location for such activities.

So, thanks to the great salesman-ship of Charlie "Sparkplug" Brown, the vision of Paul Duke, the patience

of the C&S Bank, the courage of the First National Bank of Atlantaand the loyalty of the TP/A directors this saga had a happy ending.

Michael Tennenbaum, IE '58 Los Angeles

Searching for Burdell It seems everyone else has told their Burdell story, and I am 30-plus years

overdue in telling this one:

In the mid-'60s, I was assigned as Air Liaison Officer/For-ward Air Controller with the Third Bat-talion, Eighth Ma-rines. I shared a jun-ior officers' four-man bunk room on the USS Guam with another first lieu-tenant, an infantry officer named Fred Mastin.

When we real-ized that we were apparently the only ones to have extra bunks in our room, we created two bunkmates: He cre-ated Lt. j.g. Charles Cromwell, and I created 1st Lt. George P. Burdell. We made nametags for them and put them on the hatch of the bunk room.

Our little joke was unknown to anyone but us; even our neighbors in the same passageway would ask us who Burdell and Cromwell were, and

what their jobs were. As anyone with military experi-

ence knows, we were awash in unfa-miliar acronyms and jargon that made our charade believable. When asked who this guy Burdell was, I would reply that he was the "PROVMAG liaison to the PHIBGROUP," and we hardly ever saw him. We said this secure in the knowledge that nobody would admit that they had no idea what we were talking about, and, of course, neither did we. After a few weeks of this, the joke got stale and evolved into only an occasional paging of Burdell on the ship's intercom.

We were satisfied that we had cre-ated a mildly successful ruse and happy-hour story.

Then came the night before we disembarked, when Ensign Barczikowski, the wardroom trea-surer, appeared to beg for help in finding Burdell and Cromwell. It seems they had not paid their mess bill for our several months aboard ship, and he was in fear of getting stuck with the bill himself. We said we would pass the word if, by chance, we saw either of them.

I have always felt slightly guilty about this, so Ensign Barczikowski, if you read this, there is a check waiting for you from George P. Burdell.

Larry Taylor, IM '62 Major General (retired) USMC Atlanta

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Unforgettable Days When reading the summer edition of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, I vividly re-called my unforgettable days at Tech during the '70s. Coming from Puerto Rico at age 17 with limited resources, my first stop was at the financial aid office. After several hours of review-ing many financial packages, the counselors offered their advice. Later that day, I was ready to begin my un-dergraduate studies. Language proved to be no barrier, thanks to the

teachers and staff who recognized my interest and effort.

After obtaining my bachelor's de-gree in chemistry with highest hon-ors, I was fortunate to meet a won-derful group of people at Emory Uni-versity who helped me in a similar fashion. At that institution, I not only completed my medical school stud-ies, but also my internal medicine residency. In July 1986,1 began fulfill-ing my National Health Service Corps Scholarship obligation in a

small community along the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona, where I have lived and practiced since.

I thank the clerks, professors, as-sistants and other staff who contrib-uted to my dream to become a physi-cian, allowing me to help the needy Hispanic population of Nogales, Ariz. I will remain forever grateful.

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Center Nogales, Ariz.

Hey, Look Us Over! I enjoy your excellent magazine and was particularly in-terested in the article about [Tech's campus in] Metz [France], with its high-quality photography and design [Summer 1998]. As you probably know, Georgia Tech has a base in Oxford at Worcester College.

The Provost of Worcester College met with President Wayne Clough in July to discuss the growing demand for places on this particular study-abroad program. The pro-gram director is Professor Art Koblasz and he, the faculty and 200 students [were] in residence from Aug. 9 to Sept. 12. We would be willing to assist you with [develop-ing] an article. I am sure you would find some exciting shots around Oxford University.

Col. D. E. King Worcester College Oxford University

Metz Campus 'Modern Relic' As an undergraduate and master's graduate of the Col-lege of Architecture, I am dismayed at the representation of the Georgia Tech Lorraine campus [Summer 1998 ALUMNI MAGAZINE]. This building is a "modern relic" and an example of suburban sprawl at its worst!

How can we address the degradation of environment and abuse of resources [as presented in the profile on Dr. William Chameides] on page 79 and ignore our de-grading planning influence on the town fabric of Metz, France? Georgia Tech recognizes today that sensitive urban planning is at the heart of environmental sustainability, yet our built legacy is to reinforce the high-way sprawling out from Metz.

Perhaps our unwillingness to integrate our building

design into the fabric of the town is also a reflection of our inability to integrate linguistically into the culture. Oi French-based programs are a great opportunity for learning and exchange. Let's bring home from Metz a great lesson about planning pedestrian-oriented towns for a sustainable future.

Greg Ramsey, '81, M Arch '91 Atlanta

The Georgia Tech Lorraine campus building, owned and built by the French, while clearly visible from the Strasbourg highway, is located in Technopole Metz 2000, a science and technology park that specializes in com-munications and software. Its modern architectural de-sign is consistent with other buildings within the technol-ogy park. The building is owned by the city of Metz and rented by GTL. Georgia Tech Lorraine is a French aca-demic and research organization created and operated under French law, but its research and academic pro-grams, including degree-granting programs, are the re-sponsibility of Georgia Tech.

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Native Son My first day at Georgia Tech in September 1934, found me walking around campus investigating my new home. In the "Rob-bery," a combi-nation soda foun-tain and small convenience store in the basement of the Administration Building, there were photos of Tech's all-time football team. One was of Joseph Napoleon Guyon, a four-time All-America football player, who gained gridiron fame as "Indian Joe." Close by was an action photo of the "Dream Team Backfield" of coach John Heisman's 1917 National Cham-pionship teamEverett Strupper, Albert Hill, Judy Harlan and, carry-ing the ball, Joe Guyon.

Years later, Joe Guyon and I be-came friends, and he asked me to be-come his partner in organizing an all-Indian baseball team that would play a series of exhibition games nation-wide. Joe had a sister in my home-town of Tulsa, Okla., and was plan-ning to move there. Unfortunately, I was transferred from Tulsa to Denver and our plans were postponed and later abandoned.

Though a terror on the football field, off the field Joe was a gentle-manlight-hearted, bright, animated and witty. He was also the only Tech player named to both the National Professional Football Hall of Fame and the National Collegiate Football Hall of Fame.

He played halfback under Heisman in 1917 and 1918.

Ralph McGill, who was a sports-writer before becoming the celebrated editor of The Atlanta Constitution,

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wrote, "There is really no ar-gument of identity of the greatest football player who ever performed in Dixie.There is a grand argument about second place, but for first place there is just one, Joseph Napoleon Guyon, the Chippewa brave from Georgia Tech."

Guyon was born on the White Earth Indian Reservation near Brainerd, Minn., on Nov. 26,1892. Although he received only an el-ementary education on the Indian reservation, Guyon said he realized that sports and school went hand-in-hand, and he was determined to overcome his educational handicap.

"It was hard trying to make some-thing of yourself," Guyon once said, "and sports was one of the few ways a youngster could pull himself up."

Guyon's older brother, Charles, was an excellent athlete and Joe's role model. In about 1904, Charles left the reservation to enroll at the Haskell Institute, a school for Native Ameri-cans near St. Louis. He was a standout on the Haskell football team and transferred to Pennsylvania's then-famous Carlisle Indians football team. It wasn't long until Joe also en-rolled at Carlisle.

Joe's football career at Carlisle was shaped by two football legends: coach Glen "Pop" Warner and team

captain Jim Thorpe. The Philadelphia

Enquirer marveled at Joe Guyon's natural talent, and one head-

line read, "Joe Guyon may turn out to be another Jim Thorpe."

Following his years at Carlisle, where he was Thorpe's other halfback and earned All-America honors in 1912 and 1913, Guyon attended Keewatin Academy in Prairie Du Chien, Wis., to bolster his grades for admission into one of the major universi-ties.

When he finished the academy, Guyon received several scholarship offers and decided to visit some of the schools. At a stop on the way to visit a North Carolina school, he was met by his brother Charles, who had become an assistant coach under Heisman at Tech. Joe changed his plans and decided to play for Tech.

Joe's football career at Tech for the 1917 and 1918 seasons was spectacular.

"There are lots of Tech backs of Guyon's day that owe most of their enduring fame to Joe Guyon," McGill wrote. "They could follow that big fellow and run to glory because he cleared the way, and I mean he cleared it!"

Another writer who watched Guyon at Tech reported that "survi-vors of the teams Tech played in those days still shudder to recall the multiple impacts when Guyon blocked or tackled them, and he could punt over 60 yards consistently, place-kick from midfield and pass with the best."

When Guyon finished at Tech, Jim Thorpe sent for him. Thorpe was president, coach and a player for the professional Canton Bulldog football

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team in Canton, Ohio, and in 1919 and 1920, Guyon teamed with Thorpe at halfback, and Canton did not lose a single game.

A 179-pound back, Guyon played seven seasons in the National Football League, which was organized in 1920, for six different teams. He finished his profes-sional career with New York in 1927. "I did ev-erything except sell pro-grams," Guyon quipped.

Yet Guyon said the "greatest time of my life" happened off the fieldat Thorpe's wedding. "1 was Jim's best man!"

In 1966, Joe Guyon received the ultimate career recognition induc-tion into the Professional Football Hall of Fame in Canton. Among those invited to the ceremony was Presi-dent Dwight D. Eisenhower, who had been one of Joe's opponents when Carlisle defeated Army's football team many years before.

Joseph P. Byrd III, GE' 38 Lufkin, Texas

V-12 Program Was Vital The Spring edition of the GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE had the most

fascinating bit of writing I've ever read. And being part of that history made it even more interesting. You asked for anecdotes and recollections: Here's mine.

During the war years, I was pulled out of the fleet and entered Tech in 1944 as a sophomore in the Navy's V-12 program. The previous year, I was a freshman in the program at the Uni-versity of North Carolinaa two-year program to become an ensign. However, "A" and "B" students could transfer to Georgia Tech's four-year program to become ensigns, which I chose to do.

What a difference! 1 didn't know

what I was getting into. While at UNC I was an "A" or "B" student, at Tech I soon became a "C, D, E, F, G" student, even though I had never studiedor prayedso hard in my life.

I'm sure the V-12 program kept Georgia Tech alive during World War II. I don't understand how Tech could have survived without it, with 12 mil-lion men in uniform.

I stayed at Tech until the war ended, and re-enrolled immediately after being discharged. Soon thereafter, I married and suddenly became an "A, B" student. After marriage, I had no reason to cat aroundplus my wife typed my papers, which professors tended to like.

One of my favorite professors was Doc ID.M.J Smith, a math professor. He was some character. He could make calculus seem so simple in class you'd think a first grader could learn it. But when you got back to the dor-mitory, you'd soon find out differently.

The swimming coach was [Fred] "don't touch the sides" Lanoue. On Thursdays, we played water polo for 45 minutes without getting out of the pool for a rest. All that time he was saying, "Don't touch the sides." If you held onto the sides, he stepped on your fingers. After that swim, we were exhausted. Once his picture was in Life magazine, which described

him as being a great swimming coach. LLanoue gained national recognition as the

founder of drown-proofing, a swimming technique to avoid drowning.]

Sideways the dog was very much a part of our lives. She had been [injured in an automobile mishap and walked] and ran sideways, the most pe-culiar gait anyone had

ever seen. She was so popular the At-lanta Journal chronicled her, and hardly a week went by but what she made the papers. She attended classes and snored loudly when the professor's lecture became too boring.

On one occasion, [football] tickets were oversold, and about 100 stu-dents couldn't get in to see the game. About two hours before kickoff, we sat on the football field and wouldn't move. Tech officials hustled out 100 chairs and placed them on the run-ning track. We had the best seats in the stadium.

[Some of us] were violently op-posed to the name change from "school" to "institute" [in 1948]. We always believed criminals and the insane were sent to institutions. But when it was explained to us that the designation fit us perfectly, we dropped our opposition.

After graduation, I was a civilian with the Army in Huntsville, Ala., and later with the National Aeronau-tics and Space Administration. In the Army I was assigned to the nuclear testing program in the South Pacific. During the late 1950s, I was part of the launch crew that detonated nuclear devices in outer space.

Once, when leaving the states, we had a stopover on Kwajalein, and there I saw Professor Alan Pope of aerospace engineering. Several

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months later, when returning, we saw each other again! We hadn't seen each other in 15 years, but our paths crossed twice in the middle of the Pa-cific.

My years with NASA were the most interesting and excit-ing of my life. 1 had the oppor-tunity to work closely with some of the great scientists of the world. I also worked closely with the astronauts, although I was not [a personal acquain-tance]. I was in several meet-ings with astronauts [Richard] Truly and [John] Young, and they were two of the most gracious people I have ever met.

Thanks to Georgia Tech, I have been able to live a good and exciting lifeand make a comfortable living along the way.

E. R. Ritch, IM '47 Huntsville, Ala.

Time Factor The excellent presentation of the history of Georgia Tech in the 75th Anniversary edition of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE provided several hours of pleasant memories as I revisited the past.

On Page 45, in the second paragraph, and on the time-line at the foot of the page, it says the issue of racial desegregation [at Tech] first erupted in 1956.1 believe that the Sugar Bowl game with Pittsburgh took place on Jan. 1,1956; therefore, the attempted ban of Tech's participation and the resulting protest may actually have taken place in late 1955. This detail, although minor, may be worthy of investigation and correction.

Larry E. Haller, IM '61 Lake Worth, Fla.

Cooling Third World The Summer 1998 issue had an ar-ticle called "Einstein's Refrigerator" that described work done by Tech student Andy Delano. I work with an organization which has been active for two decades and adapts products and technologies for the Third World. Having operated on grants and with the volunteer efforts of many devoted people, the organiza-tion has provided many useful prod-ucts to enhance the lives of those in the Third World. There have also been some hard lessons learned over the years in this effort.

The article said the refrigeration cycle could be used Nov.llilM0 in under-developed areas. I would like to see where things might lead.

Ervin C. Lentz, ME'53

Compatible Technologies Inc. Shoreview, Minn.

ing manufactured, particularly for trailers, remotely located cabins and similar uses. In fact, I even found ref-erence to research being conducted that would eliminate the natural or manufactured gas burner by using solar radiation, as suggested in the quote by [graduate student Andy] Delano. The proposed use, I believe, was to provide refrigerated storage of medical supplies in under-developed areas of Africa. I must be missing something concerning the uniqueness of Einstein's refrigerator being stud-ied at Georgia Tech.

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Summer 1998), and a refrigerator, such as I believe was described, was manufac-tured in the United States for a num-ber of years by Servel in Evansville, Ind. The company was later renamed ArkLa-Servel, after being acquired by the Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co. The one purchased by my parents in 1947 still runs perfectly well. My fa-ther once told me that he had spent 39 cents in repair costs (to replace the copper pilot-light tubing), although I believe he later replaced the rubber gasket around the exterior door.

An inquiry on the Internet shows that parts are readily available and that similar refrigerators are still be-

Cool Idea Sounds Familiar The article, "Einstein's Re-frigerator," in the Summer 1998 issue, indi-cates that the described re-

frigeration process is a new way to generate cooling using ammo-nia, water and heat.

This type of refrigeration has been used commercially for many years by several manufacturers. My recreational vehicle has a sys-

tem described above using propane or 12-volt electricity or 120-volt elec-tricity as a heat source. Unless I missed something, the system is not really new.

M. K. Russom, Cls '53 Mableton, Ga.

While the article mentioned that Electro-lux bought Einstein's most promising patents to protect its own refrigeration technology from competition, it did not go into all the technological differences. Dr. Samuel Shelton, who was Andy Delano's faculty adviser, explains;

The Electrolux company had a patent by Platen & Munters on a cycle using


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ammonia, water and hydrogen. Refrig-erators were made in this country by Servel using the Platen & Munters cycle in the 1920s. These natural-gas-fired refrigerators were replaced by elec-tric refrigerators using the vapor com-pression cycle when electricity became widely available in the 1930s. Small refrigerators for camping, etc., still use the cycle today.

The Platen /Munters cycle is a totally different cycle from Einstein's cycle. Einstein was well aware of this cycle and set out to develop a different cycle to accomplish the same thing that could operate over wider temperature applica-tions, would not use explosive hydrogen and would be more efficient. He did that with the Einstein cycle, which operates in a totally different manner.

We have been unable to find any ref-erence to one being built and operated. In fact, subsequent patents by others stated that the Einstein cycle could not work. It is interesting to see the "inver-sion" of the Einstein cycle compared to the Platen/Munters cycle. It is truly an ingenious cycle compared to any other. We believe that it has numerous benefits stemming from a potentially higher effi-ciency and ability to be applied to appli-cations that, with the restricted operat-ing temperature range, the Platen/ Munters cycle cannot serve.

Andy Delano's thesis is on Dr. Shelton's Web site at: http:/( www.me.gatech.edu/energy/ under "Publications." Delano's thesis is found in its entirety, and it has a section on the ammonia/water/hydrogen, Platen/ Munters, Servel cycle.

Gold Mine Issue As I'm sure is the case for most al-ums, when I get the ALUMNI MAGA-ZINE, I look first for articles about people I know or subjects with which I directly relate. The summer issue was a gold mine for me.

First the article about my cousin, Larry Lord. We started Tech to-gether in 1960, and I've followed his

work closely, including visiting some of the buildings the article highlights. Second, Gil Amelio and I were gradu-ate students together in the School of Physics in the mid-'60s. Third, the article on Einstein's refrigerator, which, as a physicist, I found interest-ing, and in addition the student's ad-viser is my close friend, Professor Sam Shelton.

Finally, I'm planning to visit Tech's French campus in Metz when I'm in the area this summerwhile Profes-sor Shelton is teaching over there. So thanks for an issue unusually relevant for me and my family.

John Moseley, Phys '64, MS Phys '66, Ph.D. '69

Professor of Physics, Provost and Vice President for

Academic Affairs University of Oregon Eugene, Ore.

Outstanding Job The Summer 1998 ALUMNI MAGAZINE continues your outstanding job in producing an outstanding magazine. Keep up the good work.

John A. Siewert, IM '61 La Verne, Calif.

Timely Mickey Mouse When I recently attended a reunion of Georgia Tech ceramic engineers at the annual convention of the American Ceramic Society in Cincinnati, men-tion was made by professors and peers of mine regarding many of the "antics" I pulled during my student days.

While I never took a "T" from the tower, and I was not even sure where to find the steam whistle ... I will ad-mit to placing the first Mickey Mouse on the clock adorning the Skiles class-room building.

I was a final-quarter graduate stu-dent in the fall of 1978, and I thought that Mickey would provide an appro-priate finale to more than five years of mischief on my part. The sponsoring

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caper was a mythical company named Smaxton Inc., comprising me and a friend named Henry Claxton. You can just make out our corpo-rate signature"Smaxton"at the bottom of the picture, which was published in the Technique shortly after the act.

Occasionally, I visit Atlanta and the Tech campus. My two children get a kick out of the Mickey Mouse that Dad made. But I'll give you fair warning: My oldest child has picked up the Georgia Tech bug, and you'll probably be seeing him in another eight years!

Lindsey K. Smith, CerE '77, MS CerE 78

Champaign, 111.

Wow About Howe I enjoyed the article on Bones Howe [Summer 1998 ALUMNI MAGAZINE]. I was a liner-note fanatic as a kid. What a great treat to find a name I followed throughout the '60s and 70s is a Georgia Tech alum!

Jane Skelton, IM 77 Atlanta

Do Gears Mesh? In the Summer edition of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, I was disappointed to see that the very prominent gear assem-

blies on the

front of the Manufacturing Research Center were designed so that they won't mesh and therefore could not possibly work.

Bob Crossfield ME '40 Griffin, Ga.

Appearances can be deceiving. In fact, the teeth fit together and it would ap-pear the gears do mesh. However, Ward O. Winer, chair of the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, asked for some expert opinions. Here are two: "Although a serious gear expert might find that some details could be im-proved, the helical gears have a 45-de-gree helix angle and mesh properly. This is a conventional arrangement from the auto industry to drive a distributor from the camshaft; the gears are excel-lent architectural symbols representing manufacturing engineering." "For two generally disposed gear axes, the gear pitch surfaces must be hyperbo-loids of revolution of one sheet.

There are only two special cases: 1. If the gear axes are parallel, the hyperbo-loids become cylinders. This case is rep-resented by common spur gears. 2. If the gear axes intersect, the hyperboloids become cones. This case is represented by bevel gears. Since the gears in front

of the MARC are at right angles and nonintersecting, neither of the special cases apply. Therefore their pitch surfaces must be hyperboloi-dal. However by inspection, the pitch surfaces are clearly cylindrical and therefore the gears do not form a functional pair.

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Popularity Problem Surprisingly large freshman class swells rolls for required classes

G eorgia Tech's incoming fresh-man class has escalated to almost 2,200 students, nearly 20 percent more than last year, sending administrators hustling to accommo-date the influx.

"The surprise came not in the num-ber of students who applied, but the percentage of those accepted who are actually coming," says Robert C. McMath, vice provost for undergradu-ate studies and academic affairs.

"What changed is not the number of applicants, but the yield rate." Last year's freshman class had 1,848 students, and enrollment this year was intended to be 1,950, according to Deborah Smith, director of under-graduate admission. About 28 percent of the freshman class are women and 62 percent are Georgia residents, she said.

Additional resources are being di-rected to departments teaching required courses in English, math and chemistry to accommodate the surge of students.

"We can handle the English and the math just by adding sections, but the real crunch comes with chemistry there's a real bottleneck in those classes because of the physical con-straint of the laboratories," McMath says. More freshman-chemistry labs have been scheduled, and some may even meet on Saturdays, he says. Tech's experience is part of a national phenomena, McMath says. Increased enrollment is occurring at a number of selective schools nationally.

Tech is purposefully increasing its enrollment numbers to gradually ex-pand the student body to 15,000 from 13,000. Historically, the freshman class enrollment could be projected with remarkable accuracy, but this year saw a change in the application procedure, McMath explains.

"We changed our admission deci-sion-making process this year to in-

clude not only the high school grade-point average and the SAT scores, but also an essay and a measure of a student's participation in high school activities," McMath says. "This didn't lower the quality any, but it took away some of our familiarity, and our ability

to predict the number of students who would actually come based on the ones we had admitted.

"It's a mixed blessing. It's a good problem to havethe heart of it is that a lot of people want to come to Geor-gia Tech.'

Surge Space Georgia Tech housing is bursting at the seams

Daniel R. Morrison, acting director of Housing, knew he had problems on May 1. That's the deadline for students to accept their admission to Georgia Tech and apply for housing.

"Everybody accepted," Morrison says, a bit incredulous. "Which is a

wonderful thing," he adds. "Right now we have a larger-than-average

number of returning students and our largest-ever freshman class."

The almost 2,200 members of the freshman class primarily account for

the space crunch. Some rooms that had been reduced from three-per-

room to double-occupancy, are back to three-person occupancy.

Residence hall lounge areas have been converted to temporary hous-

ing that Morrison calls "surge space." Lounges in some of the traditional

buildings have been equipped with telephone jacks, data jacks for

Internet hookups, cable television and a full complement of furniture.

"We would not want someone to be in there more than a few weeks, but

if this were to happen again, we'll have this surge space," he says. "No

one would have guessed this would happen when we built 3,000 beds for

the Olympics, but we are bursting at the seams."


High Rankings U.S. News, Kiplinger & Black Issues release academic assessments

Preseason football polls aren't the only bellwether of quality on the nation's college cam-puses this fall. A string of recent aca-demic rankings continues to show Georgia Tech among the nation's finest universities in a variety of categories.

The most promi-nent rankings, pro-vided by U.S. News & World Report, rank Georgia Tech 13th of all 147 pub-lic universities and 46th of all 228 national , research universi-tiesboth public and private. In a new ranking developed by U.S. News, Tech ranked among the lowest of all universities (18th) in the debt burden of its graduates.

Harvard, Princeton and Yale were the top three national universities ranked by U.S. News, while Cal-Berkeley, Virginia and the Univer-sity of North Carolina-Chapel Hill topped the public university list.

U.S. News is not the only publica-tion ranking colleges and universities. Kiplinger's joined the rankings race this year and included Georgia Tech in its "Cream of the Crop" section, rating Tech the ninth-best value among all state universities. Kiplinger's value ranking attempts to rank schools "with a high-caliber education with-out a mortgage-size debt."

Black Issues in Higher Education re-cently released its annual "Top 100" rankings of colleges and universities that graduate the most students of color. Georgia Tech continued its na-tional leadership in minority graduate education, with a No. 1 ranking in en-

gineering master's degrees awarded to minority students, and a No. 2 ranking in doctoral engineering degrees.

"High quality, high value and a leader in diversity; those are all strong attributes and we're delighted to have them noted in national rankings," Tech President Wayne Clough said.

"Georgia Tech has made consider-able progress over the last few

years, and these consistently high rankings reflect that

progress. "Compla-

J cency is not an op-tion if we're to con-

tinue our national as-cent, and our current Capital Campaign will be critical to that rise," Clough said. "We have to improve our faculty-to-student ratio and our overall faculty resources

if we hope to compete with the elite in American

higher education. We've raised more than $300 million thus far in our Capi-tal Campaign, and a sizable portion of those funds will be used to address these resource issues."

Clough also noted the prominence of other Atlanta-area universities in the various rankings. "Education is directly related to economic develop-ment," Clough said. "The national reputations of Georgia Tech, of Emory, of the University of Georgia, are all crucial to growing and attracting the type of high-tech, high-pay industries we want in Georgia.

These rankings are important in that context, and the continued rise of our national reputations is something about which all Georgians can be very proud."

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No Sign of Politics Looking for a little relief from the proliferation of political posters that blanket the horizon during election years? Take a stroll around campus. Georgia Tech policies forbid the posting of po-litical campaign or commercial advertisements on campus. Debat-ing the pros and cons of political issues are sure to reverberate off the walls of the Sam Nunn School of Public Policy, but not to worry, they won't clutter the walkways.

Secret Talent Faculty members are discovering the hidden talents of colleagues this fall, something that has been an equally inter-esting revela-tion to stu-dents and alumni. A fall quarter faculty and staff art show is being exhibited in the Hall of Success of the Bill Moore Student Success Center. The art works are being displayed throughout the football season and include archi-tectural drawings, paintings, needlepoint and sculptures.

New Look, Big Words In its periodic search for staff tal-ent, the Technique announced it has undergone a redesign. The always opportunistic staff couldn't resist using the occasion to also make a nonthreatening pitch: "If you think it's really nifty, come write for the Technique. Remember, journalistic integrity is just two big words.'

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Little Learning, Big Universe Phil Froelich develops how-to instructions on care and maintenance of planet Earth

Freshmen and sophomores meet-ing the prerequisite of "a little chemistry, physics and math" stand to learn something pretty big during the fall quarter: "how to engi-neer a living planet from scratch, to provide for running water, a moderate climate and environmental resources that support life."

Professor Philip N. Froelich in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sci-ences is offering a course on "How to Build and Maintain a Habitable Planet."

The popular course is being devel-oped as one of the school's core curricu-lum courses offered when Tech changes from quarters to semesters next fall. Froelich, who taught the course at Columbia University for a decade before coming to Tech in 1994, says it is "designed to attract engineers to take something outside their curriculum."

He teaches the course based on a paperback text developed at Columbia that Froelich is revising. "I'm rewriting it, adding a lab to it and bringing it up to engineering standards," he says. The course is being taught twice this year: without the lab this fall, and with the lab next spring.

"I'll teach them the chemistry, physics and geochemistry about how the universe formed, and where the elements came from," Froelich says. "I'll also teach them nuclear physics. Everybody told me you can't do that to freshmen, but you can. You can teach them nuclear physics, and you can teach them how stars work on the inside. You can teach them the basic

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Phil Froelich has designed a popular course that also carries an important message.

rudiments of decay reaction so they can tell time. By the end of this course, I can throw any radio-decay scheme at them, and they can solve it."

Froelich's syllabus for the course makes it sound like just plain fun: Creating a Universe (in the begin-ningcosmogenesis); Origin of the Elements (nucleosynthesis inside stars); Constructing a Solar System and Earth (meteorite clues); Clocks (radioisotopes and the times of every-thing); Earth's Early Years (the shell game); Planetary Systems (other solar

systems); Satellites, Moons and Aster-oids (planetary billiards); Oceans and Atmospheres (hot and cold running water); Evolution of Life and Climate (the adventure begins); and Future of a Habitable Planet (multiple choice).

"When they complete this course, students will have a much deeper and broader appreciation of maintaining the Earth as a living planet, and under-stand why it is the way it is and why it is unique, and where it fits into the whole universal scheme of things," Froelich says.

Revving Up Microchips New consortium center to research new microchip networks

Anew microelectronics Focus Center Research Program has been created to vastly improve microchip capability and performance, A consortium of universi-ties led by Georgia Tech will receive up to $19.5 million over the next three years to

conduct research leading to radically new architecture for the multilevel wiring networks

connecting the billions of transistors on future microchips.

The Focus Center Research Program, created by the U.S. semiconductor industry

and the federal government, is negotiating with university consortia led by Georgia

Tech and the University of California at Berkeley, sites of the first two centers.

Georgia Tech will develop interconnect technology, and UC Berkeley will handle

design and testing sciences. The Tech-led consortium will address the five-to-10 lev-

els of wiring that connect the billions of transistors in a microchip. Research will in-

clude the methodology, materials and processes needed for connecting individual

circuit components together in an integrated chip.

Participants in Tech's consortium include the Massachusetts Institute of Technol-

ogy, Stanford University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Cornell University and State

University of New York at Albany.


Horse Sense A Tech education is still a better deal than boarding 01' Paint

G eorgia Tech President Lyman Hall argued 100 years ago that it just made good sense for parents to send their sons to Tech, which didn't be-come co-educa-tional until 1952. B. Franklin King III, IM '50, of Mobile, Ala., sent a clipping from the Mobile Press Register, reprinted from July 26,1898, that presents Hall's argument.

"Do not say you cannot afford to send your boy to Georgia Tech in Atlanta," the article says. "You can-not afford not to do it. Your son's expenses there are less than the cost of keeping a horse at home. Then the question is plain. Is the gift of an advanced, scientific, practical education to your son worth as

much to you as your beast of burden? Board $6.50 to $10. Fees nominal. For catalogue, address Lyman Hall, presi-dent, Atlanta, Ga."

Boarding a horse in Atlanta today costs about $250 a month$3,000 a year. Total estimated costs for a full time student, including room and board, for this academic year is $9,997. But the horse doesn't get to take calcu-lus or attend football games.

Tech's First Olympic Medal Hamming it up in Amsterdam

Seventy years ago, at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam, Nether-lands, track star Ed Hamm became the first Georgia Tech ath-lete to win an Olympic gold medal with a record-breaking broad jump of 25 feet, 43A inches. His Olympic record stood until Jesse Owens broke it in Berlin in 1936.

75 Years AgoGeorgia Tech was elected to the South-ern Association of Colleges and Universities.

50 Years AgoGround was broken on May 22,1948, for construction of the President's Home, built during the tenure of President Blake Van Leer, Geor-gia Tech's fifth president. The property between Eighth and Tenth streets was purchased, and the Fuller E. Callway Foun-dation gave $100,000 for the con-struc-tion. Mrs. Van Leer, who held a degree in architecture from the University of California at Berkeley, designed the home in a traditional Georgian style. The site, the highest point on the campus, overlooks Tech's Rose Bowl field and the skyline of downtown Atlanta.

25 Years AgoThe Summer 1973 issue was -30-for the Georgia Tech Alumnus magazine"30" being a jour-nalism parlance that means the end of the story. After 50 years, and in a tough economic cli-mate, the magazine ceased publication to be replaced by Tech Topics, the alumni news-paper. Faithful readers, however, demanded its return, and in 1975, the magazine resumed publication as the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine.


Community Pride TEAM Buzz seeks to be helpful neighbor

G eorgia Tech students, faculty, staff and alumni will be grab-bing hammers, nails, paint, rakes, clippers and just about every other kind of tool to perform neigh-borly deeds with Atlanta community agencies in November.

TEAM Buzz, a Georgia Tech stu-dent-led community service organi-zation, has set Nov. 14 for its annual Community Service Day.

At last year's inaugural event, more than 1,000 members of the Tech community joined with members of local agencies such as Trees Atlanta, Habitat for Humanity, the Roosevelt House, PRIDE Atlanta and Hands On Atlanta to form 27 teams that tackled

various projects within the Atlanta perimeter.

"Our goal this year is to have 2,500 partici-pants," says Trey Childress III, TEAM Buzz marketing chair. "People were excited about it last year. It was a new ideaand our first yearand all of the feedback 1 got was that it was a great idea, and people had fun with it."

TEAM (Tech Enhancing Atlanta Metropolitan) Buzz is a part of the Student Center's MOVE (Mobilizing Opportunities for Volunteer Experi-ence) office. It was conceived by Tech graduate student Tony Chan, IE '94, MS IE '98, as a way to combine the

forces of the Georgia Tech community and that of metro Atlanta and to have a significant impact on a local level. Melissa Byrd chairs this year's TEAM Buzz steering committee.

"In the future, we'd like to start TEAM Buzz chapters across the coun-try through the Georgia Tech Alumni clubs," says Amanda Martin, student chair for alumni involvement on the steering committee. "It would be great to see our alumni start a tradition like this in their own communities."

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Expanding Tech's Reputation Dean Jean-Lou Chameau says Tech will expand engineering programs in Georgia

F ollowing a 1998 study that predicts an increasing demand for engineering graduates in Georgia especially in computer engineering and related fieldsthe board of regents asked Georgia Tech to spear-head an effort to expand engineering education in the state.

The need reflects population growth within the state, which has been greater than any state east of the Rockies for several years and shows no signs of slowing.

This continuous flow of people and businesses into the state parallels a rapid growth of high-tech businesses and the introduction of high-tech elements into Georgia's tradi-tional industries such as textiles and paper.

According to the American Electronics Association, the number of high-tech businesses in Georgia has more than doubled since 1990. Growth of high-tech jobs was the high-est in the nation this past year, and demand for Tech gradu-ates by Georgia companies was at an all-time high.

"The job market for engineers has totally exploded," says John Hannabach, director of Georgia Tech's career ser-vices. "Some students may have as many as 15 job offers, and most average at least four or five."

Part of the proposed plan calls for additional growth of the Tech campus. The Institute's Strategic Plan aims to boost the student population at Tech from 13,500 to 15,000.

"Growth beyond that size could jeopardize the focus of our programs and the quality of service provided to stu-dents," Georgia Tech President Wayne Clough says. "Therefore, it's in our best interest to look for solutions in other options rather than continued and unchecked growth at our campus."

Two other initiatives would entail expansion of Tech's distance-learning network and the support of regional engi-neering programs.

"The regional engineering programs will be tailored to specific needs and will be designed to best assist in each area's economic development," says Engineering Dean Jean-Lou Chameau. "We need to evaluate cost-effectiveness and leverage existing regional expertise and facilities around the state."

Two institutions expected to participateArmstrong Atlantic State University and Georgia Southern Univer-sityare members of the Regents' Engineering Transfer Program, presently offering the first two years of the engi-neering curriculum for students who transfer to Tech.

A team headed by Dr. Chameau has visited the universi-ties in the Savannah and Statesboro areas to assess the fa-cilities and the potential for programs. An undergraduate program in computer and software engineering and a sec-

ond engineering program still under development are be-ing considered for the regional programs. Expanding the accessibility of graduate degrees already offered through distance learning is also crucial.

Here Dean Chameau discusses the various possibilities confronting Georgia Tech.

Will this diminish the value of a Georgia Tech degree?

N o. First, there is no impact whatsoever on the academic programs at Georgia Tech. Second, students obtaining degrees through these programs will receive their degrees from Georgia Tech at the host site (the degree would come from Georgia Tech at Statesboro, for example). Courses and curricula will be developed and taught by Georgia Tech professors at the host institutions. Quality will continue to be important. Third, Georgia Tech professors will also offer engineering courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels through distance learning programs. They will be offered via video, the Internet, and GSAMS (Georgia State-wide Academic and Medical System). This will augment efforts to increase engineering education in Georgia.

What types of degrees will be conferred and by what institution?

There has not been a decision made on specific degrees or locations. One area of likely emphasis includes com-puter/software engineering. Other engineering disciplines are still under consideration. In addition, Georgia Tech's Atlanta campus will expand existing graduate level offer-ings through distance learning.

How will the students at other institutions compare to those at Tech?

Quality will continue to be critical, wherever Georgia Tech is involved. Our standards will be rigorous and our curriculum relevant. Quality standards are critical to achieving program accreditation.

Students in these programs will have to meet admission and graduation standards similar to those currently re-quired of Georgia students applying to Georgia Tech. These new programs will be different, however, from those of-fered at the Atlanta campus. Therefore, the admission stan-dards will be specific and pertinent to the programs offered.

Historically, students who transfer to Georgia Tech from other institutions fare very well on our campus. We see no reason why this trend will not continue.

Do you have comprehensive data on the need for


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these degrees?

There is considerable data to support a targeted ap-proach to additional engineering programs. A recent study projects an increase in the need for qualified engi-neers in Georgia over the next 10 years. In total, engineering jobs are expected to increase 46 percent over the next de-cade. These programs will be important if Georgia is to con-tinue its leadership as a high-tech employer.

What is the political force driving this issue?

G eorgia is now the 10th largest state in the country and is one of the national leaders in the development of high-tech jobs. Elected officials and business executives in south Georgia are aware of this growth and the need for future growth. They, understandably, would like to partici-pate more fully in high-tech growth.

Being selfish for a moment, is this in the best interest of Georgia Tech?

A bsolutely. While Georgia Tech is meeting statewide en-gineering needs todayin 1998we will not be able to do so in the next 10-15 years. If we don't attempt to de-velop these programs at host institutions, we will have to dramatically increase enrollment at the Atlanta campus.

Georgia Tech does hope to increase its enrollment to

15,000, but numbers over that could diminish the focus and quality of programs, and possibly lower admission standards here in order to meet employment demand. In the long run, that would not be in Tech's best interest and could indeed erode the value of a Georgia Tech degree.

Can Georgia Tech say, "No," and, if so, what would be the financial consequences?

G eorgia Tech is a proud member of the University System of Georgia. It is in our best interest to be a team player in that system. It's important to show elected officials, the board of regents and the chancellor that we intend to be a part of the solution. If we do that, we will be in a better po-sition in the future.

The bottom line is that these programs will become a reality whether or not we choose to participate. Strategi-cally, it's far wiser for Georgia Tech to be a playernot a spectatorin the process.

Is this the start of something bigger?

P erhaps. We already have engineering programs in France and are now expanding programmatic offerings in Georgia. Depending upon demand, the economy and other variables, we will continue to entertain opportunities to expand the role and reputation of Georgia Tech. GT


"We choose to go to the moon

in this decade and do the other

things, not because they are easy,

but because they are hard."

- John F, Kennedy, Sept, 11, 1962

?m When President John F. Kennedy issued his historic challenge to "go to the moon in this

decade," he set America on a course that would forever change the way we look at the

night sky. With the brave men and women of Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab and

Shuttle, JFK tuned an entire generation to the awe and mystery of the cosmos.

Alan Shepard, the astronaut who took the first step upon Kennedy's courageous

path, died July 21, 1998. His death marked the end of an era at the cusp of a new

millennium. Against the backdrop of mourning this one hero, in October the Na-

tional Aeronautics and Space Administration celebrates the thousands of scientists, engi-

neers and managersboth unsung and much laudedwho guided America through 40

years of adventure and discovery, decades that witnessed remarkable success and sor-

rowful failure. Throughout those years Georgia Tech has had a special place at the

forefront of humankind's first bold steps into the wider universe. Alumni, students and fac-

ulty at Georgia Techmen and women who shared Kennedy's can-do attitudehave

helped pave the way to the stars. Even in those early days of the National Advisory

Committee for Aeronautics, the Institute was well represented by people like Martial

Honnell, whose pioneering work in television would send back the first images from

space. Later came John Young, Tech's first and America's most experienced astronaut.

And Richard Truly, who would resurrect NASA after the Challenger disaster. In

m 40 years we have conquered many frontiers. We have walked on the moon and

^ visited planets. We have flung spacecraft into the immense void between stars. Yet

while breaking the barriers between terra firma and the limitless sky, we have barely

crossed our own threshold, The adventure is still new. The journey continues....

When Sputnik circled the Earth, it launched a new era of exploration

By Gary Goettling

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It was the beep heard 'round the world, and a

wake-up call for the United States. Millions of

Americans were stunned when a beach- ball-

sized artificial satellite called Sputnik was

launched into orbit by the Soviet Union in Octo-

ber 1957. Scientists at Georgia Tech were fasci-

nated by the feat, and doubtless taken aback by

the display of Soviet technological prowess. I

But soon after the announcement, engineers at

Tech's Engineering Experiment Station (EES)

were zeroing in on the satellite's telemetry.

Radio station WGST broadcast a Sputnik infor-

mation session with experts from Georgia Tech,

including an EES engineer named Jesse James.

He described what he knew: "The information

that the thing contains would really be a guess.

Whether or not it is sending back any informa-

tion to the Russians would be entirely a guess. It

may be possible that they are triggering the

transmitter so that when it is over Russian terri-

tory, they receive information." At the time,

the U.S. space program was divided between

satellite-development work and rocketry

research, the latter primarily in terms of

missiles for the military. Sputnik

changed all that.

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Georgia Tech played a key role in making the "giant leap for mankind" possible. Though the contributions of its faculty and research staff tended toward Tech's trade-mark kind of "unglamorous" scientific applied research, they were nonetheless vital to the complex task of landing astronauts on the moon and returning them safely.

The federal government infused the U.S. space program with an urgency that trans-lated into a "race" for technological superi-ority. All space-related activities were brought to-gether under the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), formed in 1958. The heightened priority unleashed millions of research dollars for technical institutions across the country, particularly at Georgia Tech.

With its School of Aeronautical Engineering and the EES (now the Georgia Tech Research Insti-tute) already well-established in communications, rocketry and other flight-related work, Tech was the logical beneficiary of NASA largesse. The sheer complexity of the space effort required a multi-disciplinary approach, and here, too, Tech offered a proven track record through its ordnance work for the government.

For example, in the late '50s, EES ceramics engi-neers were experimenting with economical new ways to make missile nose-cones and engine nozzles from bonded, fused silica grains. The ma-terial they developed was able to withstand the thermal shock of re-entry into the atmosphere, and could also be molded into virtually any shape similar to the characteristics of the tiles covering the space shuttle. Later research improved the ma-terial by adding ceramic fibers.

Among Georgia Tech's earliest activities di-rectly related to the space program was Project Firefly. Before risking manned space flight, scien-tists had to know more about wind turbulence in the upper atmosphere. Beginning in 1959, physics Professor Howard Edwards supervised the inves-tigation, which involved launching chemical-packed canisters to a pre-determined altitude of between 50 and 90 miles. The canisters were ejected and exploded, and their contents diffused to create luminous clouds 30 to 50 miles wide. Spe-cial cameras, spectrographic equipment and radar recorded the clouds' behavior to determine wind-shear forces, speed and other factors.

In January 1964, more than a year before John Young, AE '52, would orbit the Earth three times in the first Gemini flight, scientists from Georgia

Tech's Space Sciences Branch were already at work on the Saturn-class rockets that would eventually take Young to the moon.

At Cape Kennedy for the first flight of the Sat-urn I's second stage, Tech scientists recorded the launch and second-stage ignition sequence on ul-traviolet and infrared film. By analyzing the ex-haust gases at various points, they gathered data about the rocket engine's performance at different levels of the atmosphere. Observations of chemical reactions in the exhaust itself provided additional information about the physical and chemical char-acteristics of the upper atmosphere.

In April of that year, Tech joined the big leagues when NASA awarded a $1,000,000 grant for con-struction of a space research facility on campus.

Announcing the grant, Georgia Sen. Richard B. Russell said, "NASA's decision to finance con-struction of this space research facility is recogni-tion of the important contribution Georgia Tech is making to the nation's space program and of the larger and broader role Tech will play in future space science and research development."

The Space Science and Technology Center (now the Knight Building) was dedicated in late 1967 with NASA director James Webb as guest speaker. Webb noted that NASA had so far spent $6.5 mil-lion at Tech, with roughly a third of that for project research. Sustained contract work from NASA to-taled $300,000 annually.

Two years later, the long journey came to a heart-pounding end as astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped gingerly from the lunar excursion module onto the surface of the moon.

Life After Apollo

Tech's basic-research strength would be called upon again as a scaled-down NASA devel-oped new objectives and projects following the moon landings. With emphasis shifting to the space shuttle and unmanned space probes, Geor-gia Tech scientists were often concerned with adapting or improving existing space technology.

Such behind-the-scenes work is exemplified by a materials degradation experiment. Researchers

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Researching Re-Entry Calculations still guide the shuttle hack to Earth

Wilbur and Orville Wright build the first successful powered airplane and make history's first sustained, controlled flight of a heavier-than-air machine.

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1923 Hermann Oberth, a

German pioneer in the theory

of rocket flight, publishes The

Rocket into Planetary Space.

Dr. Bob Roper remembers the standing joke at every informal gathering when one of his fellow space researchers would get up for a cup of cof-fee: "Hey, while you're up, why don't you get me another grant?"

That was 1969, when money for the space program "flowed like water," he says.

A professor and assistant dean in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Roper has devoted much of his re-search time to studying condi-tions in the upper atmosphere, particularly the area 50 miles up, where the second stage of rockets usually ignite.

That work, combined with research by other Tech faculty

members, led to what Roper considers his most significant contribution to the space pro-gram: a model for the space shuttle's re-entry. The trouble was, no one bothered to tell him.

Roper and his team had re-ceived a NASA grant to work out data for the engineering model of the shuttle's re-entry phase, particularly the blackout time when the vehicle would be enveloped in ionization and unable to communicate by ra-dio. Formally called the Global Reference Atmospheric Model, it represents air density and winds as well as seasonal factors.

"It is fairly critical that they have a good handle on it be-

cause with a trajectory two de-grees down from where they're supposed to be, they'll burn up. Two degrees too high, and they'll skip off the atmo-sphere," he says.

Several years later, with the space shuttle program well under way, Roper and his col-leagues were visiting the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., when he first learned that the engineering model he had worked out at Georgia Tech was being used as the operational model as well.

"It came as sort of a shock," he says, laughing.

The calculations devised by Roper and his team still guide the space shuttle, GT

1926 Robert Goddard, the father of modern v rocketry in America, launches his first successful liquii propellant rocket

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