NEWS
Summer Career Program Helps NBS Find Scientists A program of summer employment for college students is helping the National Bureau of Standards meet its increasing demand for technical graduates. The program, started in 1948, has a record enrollment of 236 students in 1957 at the Washington, D. C , and Boulder, Colo., laboratories. In addition to being a long-range recruitment plan, the student trainee program demonstrates the ability of younger employees to make direct contributions to the research program. During the past summer, students aided in projects ranging from isotope standardization to designing cryogenic equipment. Students in the program represented 70 colleges and universities. Fields of study represented at Washington were as follows: physics, 101 students; chemistry, 50; engineering (all branches), 54; mathematics, 25; metallurgy, 5; geology, 1. At Boulder there were 10 physics majors and 14 engineering majors. Further details are available from Mrs. Frankie R. Keyser, Chief of Recruitment and Placement Personnel Office, National Bureau of Standards, Washington 25, D. C.
Instrumentation Industry Faces Sluggish Year Barring a national emergency, 1958 will find the scientific instrumentation industry facing narrowed profit margins, according to Kenneth Andersen, executive vice president, Scientific Apparatus Makers Association. SAMA, representing the country's prime manufacturers and suppliers of scientific instruments, estimates dollar volume may be down 5 to 15%. Manufacturers may be helped in the latter part of the year by increased appropriations for science teaching facilities throughout the nation. But this hinges on Congressional decisions in the coming session. Even with favorable decisions, funds for this purpose would not become available until July 1, beginning the Government's new fiscal year, says Andersen. He points out, however, that some segments of the industry will be aided by needs of missile and satellite research and production groups. Also, he adds, business executives will soon be turning more to laboratory quality control, research, and small business automation as an answer to increased production, marketing, and distribution costs.
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