Long Beach State Engineering Graphics Class
September, 1973. This photo was taken during the first class of the day, our Engineering Graphics class. The class subject matter seemed quite similar to the Drafting classes I took all through high school. It was one of those classes required for all of the engineering majors at the college. There’s a ‘drafting machine’ visible on the right margin of the photo, an upgrade from the t-square and triangles we had during high school. The instructor for that class was Dr. Chester Kyle, a renowned expert on human-powered vehicles and their aerodynamics.
It was the general practice at Long Beach State for professors to teach classes instead of having teaching assistants do that work.
I wish I could remember more about my classmate, the young man in the photo. I seem to recall that he was perhaps an Electrical Engineering major as I had only one other class together with him around 2 years later. What I do remember about him was that he was talkative and had a sense of humor.
He’s holding a pencil in his left hand, which reminds me of a story involving him. That one other class that we had together was Ethics in Engineering. It was another one of those classes required by all the engineering disciplines, so it was held at the noon hour in the Chemistry Lecture Hall which had a capacity of hundreds. It dealt with important topics and issues that an engineer might encounter as a practicing professional, perhaps also with difficult choices along the way. One day, the lecturer said something to the effect of, “...so these are lessons to keep in mind all through your engineering career that could last half of a century.” To this, my witty classmate above commented, “In half a century I’m not sure that I could even pick up a pencil!” :-)
Long Beach State Engineering Graphics Class
September, 1973. This photo was taken during the first class of the day, our Engineering Graphics class. The class subject matter seemed quite similar to the Drafting classes I took all through high school. It was one of those classes required for all of the engineering majors at the college. There’s a ‘drafting machine’ visible on the right margin of the photo, an upgrade from the t-square and triangles we had during high school. The instructor for that class was Dr. Chester Kyle, a renowned expert on human-powered vehicles and their aerodynamics.
It was the general practice at Long Beach State for professors to teach classes instead of having teaching assistants do that work.
I wish I could remember more about my classmate, the young man in the photo. I seem to recall that he was perhaps an Electrical Engineering major as I had only one other class together with him around 2 years later. What I do remember about him was that he was talkative and had a sense of humor.
He’s holding a pencil in his left hand, which reminds me of a story involving him. That one other class that we had together was Ethics in Engineering. It was another one of those classes required by all the engineering disciplines, so it was held at the noon hour in the Chemistry Lecture Hall which had a capacity of hundreds. It dealt with important topics and issues that an engineer might encounter as a practicing professional, perhaps also with difficult choices along the way. One day, the lecturer said something to the effect of, “...so these are lessons to keep in mind all through your engineering career that could last half of a century.” To this, my witty classmate above commented, “In half a century I’m not sure that I could even pick up a pencil!” :-)