For a while I commuted to Dayton to teach some classes. The school had started a shuttle bus because the Center had expanded its offerings and a number of teachers were making the trip. At one point, the Air Force supplied the school with a small airplane for the trip which took off from the university airport (I never used it). This ended when a student landed his plane at the airport, got out without shutting off the engine and the out-of-control plane tore the tail off the Air Force plane!
My advisor in Physics was Professor Prebus who earlier had been with the Electrical Engineering Department, where he built an electron microscope, so he was sympathetic to projects that could be borderline between the Departments. I joined Professor Boone's "Vacuum Tube Laboratory", which promised to lead to the required research. Making high-frequency tubes didn't turn out to be my thing, but I analyzed tubes made by others and showed them how to get more power from them. This led me to my dissertation problem -- the analysis of the cavities used in such applications. My work was published in a technical journal 8.and, after I left, another student used my methods for his work. As related earlier, I also described the work at a conference in El Paso.
About the time I finished my dissertation Mr. Kappler, who had shepherded the FM Sonar equipment through production during WW II, visited me and talked me into joining him at the RAND Corporation.
On to My Work at Rand and SDC
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