Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1958
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1958] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS Contract Changes IO97 With Whom Department of Commerce, Bureau of Public Roads United States Air Force AF-33-600-34668 General Electric Company prime contractor. University of Illinois sub-contractor United States Air Force AF-33(6i6)-3220 United States Army DA-19-129-QM-772 United States Atomic Energy Commission AT-(n-i)-67 United States Atomic Energy Commission AT-(II-I)-276 Purpose Fatigue strength of welded flexural members Development of fatigue strength inspection method Amount to be Paid to the University £20 000 00 Effective Date June 30. 1957 November 1, 1957 Antenna research "confidential" Development of precooked dehydrated cream style sweet corn The mechanism of beta ray radiation injury Study of aerosols Unclassified research on electronic high-speed digital computers Properties of insulating solids Solid state and surface physics of semiconductors Electronics research "confidential" 125 000 00 12 600 00 17 000 00 September 18, 1957 September 24, 1957 December 6, 1957 December 9, 1957 December n , 1957 October 3 it 1957 October 25, 1957 December 12, 1957 7 800 00 250 000 00 16 800 00 r 618 74 125 875 00 United States Atomic Energy Commission AT-(n-i)-4iS United States Navy Nonr-i834(i2) United States Navy N6-0ri-O7i4O United States Navy Nobsr-64723(i7i8) With Whom E, T. Drewitch (Plastering) Adjustments Made in 1957-58 Cost-Pius Contract Purpose Nine items: $20.00 to $910.00 Amount $z 202 00 Date October, November, and December, 1957 This report was received for record. ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR RADAR ANTENNA TOWER FOR CONTROL SYSTEMS LABORATORY (17) The Control Systems Laboratory has received a large radar antenna for use in its research work which the laboratory wishes to have installed approximately one hundred feet above the ground adjacent to the Engineering Research Laboratory. The Director of the Physical Plant and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend employment of A. Epstein and Sons, Inc., Chicago, for the design of a tower for the antenna and other necessary engineering services preliminary to the actual construction work, at a fee of $3,200. The total construction cost is estimated at $35,ooo. I concur and recommend that the Comptroller be authorized to execute a change in the existing contract with A. Epstein and Sons, Inc., covering engineering services on the Digital Computer Laboratory, to include the work on the antenna tower. On motion of Mr. Bissell, this recommendation was approved. REPORT OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ON CONTRACT FOR CLASSROOM ADDITION TO EAST DENTISTRYMEDICINE-PHARMACY BUILDING Mr. Johnston, for the Executive Committee, presented the following report. The Board of Trustees at its meeting on November 21, 1957, referred to the Executive Committee, with power to act, the bids received for the construction of a classroom addition to the East Dentistry-Medicine-Pharmacy Building in Chicago. After securing all necessary information, the Executive Committee found that the Carroll Construction Company, Chicago, Illinois, is the lowest responsible bidder on this project and the Committee has awarded a contract for $212,975 to
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