Calendar: 1970-1971 Page 431

Ivi Annual Report of the Delegacy consolidation of soils using large specimens under back pressure was also under investigation Active work continued in the development of methods of analysis of complex structures In the hydraulics section self-priming spillway siphons and air entrainment in water flow were under investigation Two new items of equipment are proving of great assistance Firstly 200-Channel data-logger can handle the output from numerous sensors at short time-intervals Secondly small closed-circuit wind tunnel permits studies of the effects of air flow as related to civil en- gineering problems The wind tunnel was designed in the department and assembled by the technical staff The use of computers in the work of the department has again been extended In the undergraduate course the teaching of program writing in the first year now enables computer-oriented projects to be tackled on larger scale than formerly In addition new course was introduced in the third year on applications of computing of particular reference to civil engineers Continued emphasis was given to com- puting in the postgraduate course and research Department of Mechanical Engineering The three postgraduate courses for which the department is responsible showed further development during the session special feature being the considerable number of lecturers from industry research establishments and other universities who took part Particularly noteworthy was the contribution made by the Bath University of Technology and firm link between the King's College Mechanical Engineering Department and the corresponding department at Bath was established in June when postgraduate students of Internal Combustion Engineering at King's spent week at Bath studying the research projects at that institution and making use of the experimental facilities It is intended to strengthen this link on reciprocal basis Postgraduate students from all three courses paid visits to industrial establishments concerned with their particular subjects of study Lectures dealing with the place of the engineer in industry and society and spread over the second and third years of the undergraduate course were arranged by the department These lectures together with those already given to engineering students by lecturers from the Faculty of Law at King's College and from the London School of Economics form valuable addition to the course for the Bachelor's degree Professor Kastner took part in important discussions led by Sir Arnold Lindley President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers