Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-08-09
A CHANCE FOR
YOUNG MEN.
THE STATE UNIVERSITY TO
TRAIN YOUNG MEN FOR
PAPER, BEET SUGAR
AND FERTILIZER
INDUSTRIES.
Demand for Men With Special
Training in Both Chemical and
Engineering Work. Demand
Greater Than Supply.

In direct response to the frequent
| and ever increasing demand by the
| management Of large industrial ente. =
prlses for men with special training in
both chemical and engineering work,
the University of Wisconsin is provd-
ing department of chemical engineer
ing which will be open to students at
the opening Of the next collegiate
year in September. The new course
which will be given by the College of
engineering provides for a thorough
training in the several branches of
chemistry that are of particular i'm
portance in commercial work. together
with those engineering subjects that
gineer. Hitherto it has been impos-
sible for the college of engineering to
meet adequately this frequent demand
for men thus technically trained for
positions Of responsibility in important
industries such as the manufacture of
paper, fertilizer, beet sugar, gas and
other products, involving a practical
knowledge of both chemical and en-
gineering subjects.
The great future which this line of
Orl< Of ~
sibilities of development in many in
dustries. together with the assurance
of lucrative positions to those who have
received the training, will doubtless
attract many students to the new
course. La fact, since informal an
nouncement has been made of the pro-
| posed establishment of the course,
number of applications for enrolment
in it have been received from upper
| classmen and gl aduates of the College
of engineering.
The development of the beet sugar
industry in Wisconsin supplies local
field of exceptional promise FOR the
chemical engineer. This growth has
been accompanied by certain perplex-
! ing problems and the chemical en-
gineer who shall discover new and
better processes for extracting all pos
sible sugar from the beet will have no
need to ask for kinder fortune.
| Another call for chemical engineers
comes from the manufacturers of
| fertilizers, whose business is in many
respects one of the most important
industries of the day. In ten years
the manufacture Of fertilizing agents
in this county has increase over fifty
per cent. and it is safe to say that this
ratio will be increased rather than
diminished in the next decade. Wheth-
er such fertilizers are made Of . hos
pbate rocks, from blast furnish Stag,
| from the constituents of the air, or from
animal or vegetable material, certain
technical problems are involved and
these are of the sort which require not
only knowledge of chemistry in itself
but of engineering skill in it's widest
application.
The paper making Industry has
special need Of the chemical engineer
Before many wears: the paper maker
who has been rapidly cutting down Ill
the available trees to procure pulp
! for his product musb look elsewhere
| for new materials and in his search
chemistry must aid him. The straw Of
| flax, wheat and other grains. the
grassy growth Of the marshes. and
it is safe to say, can be made to yield
the celluiose now obtained from trees.
and it will be the special province Of
of the chemical engineer to discover
| how this may best be done.
Still another field for the exercises Of
the chemical engineers energies lies
| in the scientific solution Of sanitary
problems. such as the publication of
water and air supplies and one disposal
of sewage, problems of increasing i'm
portance to large and growing munci-
palities.
| There is no more inSStent call for
chemical engineers than that which
comes from the maker of Illuminating
and fuel gas. Already several of the
largest gas con panies in this country
have asked for The privilege of having
the first men specializing in the new
department at the University. and the
demand from this one industry alone
will beyond doubt be greater than can
be met by that institution for soma
time to come,