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hline.gif (1894 bytes) Learning to use water weighing tanks anad pumps. first class taught in the initial Hydraulics Laboratory, May 1921. IIHR has been educating fliuds engineers since the day the Hydraulics Laboratory first opened.... In the 1930s, across the country, classes emphasizing fundamental principles of fluid mechanics started to replace applications-oriented hydraulic engineering coursework. Rouse's Laboratory Instruction in the Mechanics of Fluids (1961) has been used to design instructional facilities at many institutions. In the 1970s, the advent of programmable calculators signaled new classes in their use and applications to hydraulics. Programmable calculator, 1970s, which replaced the slide rule as the engineers tool of choice. The new inside hydraulic laboratory is one of the most interesting things... Rouse's drawing instruments and slide rule. Learning to use current meters and sediment samplers by lowering them into the Iowa River from a cable trolley. Conventional propeller meter. IIHR has always attracted a large number of foreign and American graduate students. Student programming the IBM 1801, IIHR's first computer, for online data acquisition and control (1967). Students work on collecting velocity and pressure data in water surrounding a model shp hull (1992). Rouse (lowest level) took pride in the mid-century shift from mechanical to electronic instrumentation at IIHR. Rouse and his IIHR colleagues designed, tested, and constructed laboratory teaching equipment. Young Hunter Rouse demonstrating cavitation in IIHR's first Fluids Teaching Laboratory (early 1940s). Founding director floyd Nagler (far right) works with students Max Stanley (far left, who later founded Stanley Consultants and HON Industries) and C. Todson on river velocity instruments. Rouse held that advanced students should understand the background of their profession. Rouse's textbook Fluid Mechanics for Hydraulic Engineers (1938) was the first advanced fluid-mechanics text written specifically for hydraulic engineers. THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS PRESENTS THIS 1960 AWARD TO HUNTER ROUSE - CIVIL ENGINEERING HISTROY AND HERITAGE AWARD
 

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