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Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Sciences
African Studies
Ancient History
Anthropology
Applied Ocean Science
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Sciences
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Sciences
officially started operation on April 1, 1964, with the arrival
of the first four faculty members: Stanford S. Penner (chairman),
Hugh Bradner, Forman A. Williams, and Sinai Rand. Richard W. Patch
had started some months earlier, with the help of a technician,
to transfer Penner's fully equipped shock-tube and spectroscopy
laboratory from the California Institute of Technology.
By September 1, 1964, a distinguished
faculty covering combustion and propulsion sciences, gas dynamics,
fluid mechanics and related fields had been assembled which included
Paul A. Libby and Daniel B. Olfe; this group was joined in January,
1965, by John W. Miles. By September, 1964, there were 15 graduate
students enrolled. Graduate enrollment reached 19 in January,
1965.
During 1965, the first important
steps were taken in complementing the existing faculty by the
addition of an outstanding group of people in solid mechanics
and structures, which included the great pioneer in applied mechanics,
structures and applied mathematics, William Prager from Brown
University. William Nachbar, N. C. Hunag, and Chester Van Atta
completed the faculty roster in June, 1965.
By June, 1965, the department had
become firmly established as one of the important graduate study
centers in the country. In the aerospace community, the department
was affectionately referred to as "the La Jolla sink"; over a
period of a few months, more than 50 professorial candidates from
all parts of the world had to be turned down because of the absence
of suitable openings at the San Diego campus.
At that time, the department was
gearing up for the expected arrival of 40 additional graduate
students, had enrolled five post-doctoral fellows, formulated
an undergraduate curriculum leading to the degree of applied science
that complemented the unique program of lower division education
which was being developed in Revelle college on the San Diego
Campus, and had numerous research programs in fluid mechanics,
(radiation) gas dynamics, reentry physics, plasma physics and
magnetohydrodynamics, combustion and propulsion theory well under
way. Sizable government research grants had been received to support
both theoretical and experimental studies. The Ph.D. and M.S.
degree curricula in engineering science had been designed with
the hope of immunizing participants permanently against the type
of technical obsolescence which was known to plague earlier graduates
of engineering schools. source
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African Studies
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Ancient History
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Anthropology
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Applied Ocean Science
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