Calendar: 1968-1969 Page 439

Annual Report of the Delegacy xcvii on the heat transfer under conditions of condensation is proceeding Progress was also made in studies of the use of mixed refrigerant fluids and on the effects of circulating oil on cycle performance Professor Greig was invited to serve as member of the University Grants Committee for the University of East Africa and in that capa- city visited during the Easter vacation the constituent colleges of the University at Kampala Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam Appointed member of the Royal Society's UNESCO committee Professor Greig attended in Varna Bulgaria meeting of UNESCO Committee on Engineering Education Dr Ε Deeley was appointed Recorder of Section of the British Association Dr Ε Freeman lectured at Rugby and at Leeds University Dr Lindsay contributed paper to the sixth international con- ference on Microwave and Optical Generation and Amplification at Cambridge September 1966 In the Electrical Engineering department undergraduate teaching in the laboratory was further strengthened by the provision of two addi- tional generalised machine sets The practice was initiated of inviting experts from industry to contribute to the teaching programme of final-year students by giving short series of lectures One such series was given in the session and this will be further extended in subse- quent years with view to introducing undergraduates more directly to the engineering problems of industry On the research side work continues on automatic control on electro-magnetic field problems relating to machines and to trans- mission lines having certain conductor configurations Electronic equipment for recording rotational acceleration which utilises novel principle and which was developed to facilitate the machines research was the subject of Patent sponsored by the National Research Development Corporation The experimental equipment for project concerning the effects of the ionic bombardment of single crystals is approaching completion study of the electrical conductivity of high- frequency plasma was completed The results of study of human factors in the transmission of data by speech using automatic speech recognition was reported and further work on noise and electron- velocity distribution was published Certain of these researches attracted increased support from industry in the form of research contracts