 Chemical
Engineering at the University of Arkansas
Michael S. Martin
Phoenix International, Inc.
ISBN 0-9713470-0-X
6 x 9 Casebound
216 pages with 277 black & white photographs
$29.95
One
hundred years ago the University of Arkansas announced course offerings
leading to a degree in chemical engineering. Bauxite had just been
discovered in central Arkansas and had sparked dreams of great mineral
wealth yet to be discovered and exploited. This book traces the history
of chemical engineering at the University of Arkansas. But it is more;
it is a history of people—students and teachers, first in the
Department of Chemistry and eventually in the Department of of Chemical
Engineering. It tells of Professors Muckenfuss, Carroll, and Guy;
of Harrison Hale and Edgar Wertheim; of Colonel Maurice Barker and
Jim Turpin and the hundreds of students whose lives they touched.
It is the story of how two world wars impacted the U of A campus;
of the Razorbacks—in victory and defeat; of how Gamma Chi, the local
chemistry fraternity, became a chapter of alpha Chi Sigma; of how
women and minority students increasingly entered the field; and of
the department preparing to enter its second century. |
