The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-01-16

iSSTi DC TittSu 10 Weel haplOl,
Expanding Problems of Naval Or
Grafton
Officers from the United States. Jap
anese and Argentine navies form q
picked group of engineers who are
. pursuing advanced training in the en-
gineering schools of Columbia uniyer
slty in New York. This is a develop.
ment of the American policy of school
Ing certain percentage of naval Off
GERS in advanced engineering to fit
them to meet the rapidly expanding
problems of naval construction and Cd
Grafton
To cooperate with the university
and the navy, Columbia announces
that group of experts from a big
electric and manufacturing company
have been engaged as special lectur-
ers on the steam turbine. These ex-
pertS will work under Harry l.. Parr,
associate professor of mechanical en-
gineering. Enlisting the aid of out
side corporations is now regarded as a
fixed part of COlumbia's engineering
program.
10 secure properly authoritative
presentation Of the highly technical
subject of steam turbines" said Dean
George B. Pegram, referring to the
spring session, lit has been neces-
sary for the department of mechani-
cal engineering to seek outside as
sistance. There is convincing evidence
of the soundness of the principle of
part-time service for professional ex-
perts teaching advanced students"
Argentine Represented.
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The Argentine navy is represented
It Columbia this year for the first
time Fourteen teen !. United nit States navy
officers, all lieutenants, are among the
students, Officers studying in what is
called the gas engine group will be
capable of designing and operating
submarines, airplanes and small aux
iliary vessels. Those studying in the
steam engine group will learn the OPP
GRAFTON of steam plants on large yes
sells such as uperdreadnoughts Stu
dents III electrical designing study the
designing and plant use of all the aux
iliary electrical apparatus on ship
board, such as lighting, raising the
anchor and other phases Of the uses
Of the 300 electrical motors on mod
lern battleships.
new group in electrical propulsion
will study the machinery of boats like
he California just put into commits
sion which are propelled by electrical
Commander J. O. Fisher is in charge
# the men at Columbia as executive
'ficer Of the post graduate school of
he navy, to which the students are
f1icially attached. The headquarters
f this school are at Annapolis, where
Fisher has a staff of off
ers and instructors and a large group
( Student officers" undergoing vari-
US courses of special training includ-
ag another group preparing to come
. Columbia next year.
Five Years Service First.
The naval officers, said Walter l.
LIGHTER, professor of electrical engi-
eering will receive the degrees Of
aster of science after completing a
ears study at Columbia. When they L
re selected for a course of training
) professional engineers they enter
pom a years course of preparatory Il
udies at Annapolis and are then k
mt to Columbia. They do not K
Ike up this course until they have i
EN- about five years of service suisse Il
lent to graduation from the naval X
The Annapolis group now k
udying at Columbia have all seen If
al service. Their actual student pc E
ID is the same as that required of IL
udents in the Columbia engineering lE
hools, to whom the engineering de- is
ees are given at the end of six years, 4
rec of which are devoted to pre- K
work in Columbia or some E
her college. lis
One of the group of naval officers at E
lumbia Lieutenant NagaO Higuchi, IE
non matriculated student taking lie
aduate work in electrical engineer lis
:. Lieut.. A. Kunz of the Argentine E
Wy is taking work in electrical de- IL
n. He comes to Columbia through IL
made between the Uni is
States and Argentine governments. liz
At Columbia it was said that action liz
the disarmament conference was IL
expected to alter the navy's plans is
graduate instruction of officers. IE