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Engineering and Management Course at UCLA
Beginning on October 8, the College of Engineerrng School of Business Administration and University Extension will combine resources to present the second industrial engineering and management seminar at the University of California at Los Angeles. The course will study job evaluation, motion and time study, wage and salary administration and related subjects.
Elwood S. Buffa, lecturer in production management at the university, will be seminar leader for 10 seminar sessions beginning October 8 at 4:30 p.m. and continuing through consecutive Thursdays in the university's Business Administration and Econcmics building. Session leaders will present the latest trends and developments, citing cases and examples of successful applications.
An unusual opportunity will be afforded to participants to exchange information regarding the practices of their companies.
The seminar is designed for plant managers, supervisors, industrial engineers, motion and time study analysts, cost accountants, office managers, personnel managers, and industrial reltaions directors.
Initial presentation of each session subject rvill be made from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Dinner will be served in UCLA's
Kerckhoff Hall from 6 to 7:30 p.m. From 7:30 to 9 p.-. infomal discussion of the subject by the participants and session leader will be held.
Enrollment in the seminar r,vill be limited and reservations will be accepted in the order received.
Topics for study at the 10 sessions include job er-aluation, time study policies and procedures, overcoming barriers to the acceptance of new ideas and methods, motion study and simplification of work methods, time studl' and rvork measurement, industrial engineering in a manufacturing plant-a case study, installation and maintenance of a lvage incentive program, wage payment and rvage and salary administration, cost controls and supervisor incentives and indoctrination and training of industrial engineers by industry.
Session leaders will include M .R. Lohmann, professor of industrial engineering and vice-dean, Oklahoma A & M College, Stillwater, Okla.; Rodger Del Mar, manager of the methods and standards division, Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., Los Angeles; Robert Tannenbaum, associate professor of personnel management and industrial relations, and Ralph M. Barnes, professor of engineering and production management, both of LfCLA.
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George H. Gustat, superintendent, industrial engineering division, Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N.Y.; John J. Barry, incentives administrator, Kwikset Locks. Inc., Anaheim ; Charles A. Bogenrief, head of industrial engineering departnrent, Grayson Controls l)ivision, Robertshau'-Fu1ton Cor-rtrols Co., Lynwood.
Raiph \\r. Iru'in, chief industrial engineer, Irroctor and Gamble Xlanufacturing Co., Long Beach and Buffa, u,ho formerly served as an indtrstrial engineer at the Eastman Kodak Co. at Rochester, rvhere he rvas concerned rvith the training of industrial engineers.
Andy Donovan, Los Angeles, has returned trom a pleasure trip to San Francisco and Medford, Ore.
Art Evans, Roddiscraft, Inc., San Francisco, and Mrs. E,vans, returned home Labor Day weekend from a tworveek vacation in Southern California. Their first stop in the Southland was at La Jolla, and Art worked in some golf at the Rancho Santa Fe to prove to his friends there that he really deserved winning that golf trophy presented to him at the San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Roundup last August. He also spent some time with Lou Holland, Roddis California, Inc., Los Angeles. On their return trip, they stopped in Oxnard and visited friends.
Nate Parsons, Standard wood. Calii.. vacationed in nia. He spent several days poration at Standard, Calif.
Lumber Company, Inc., IngleOregon and Northern Califorat the Pickering Lumber Cor-
