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Howard W. Emmons will step into the Gordon McKay professorship in Engineering Science, Provost Buck announced yesterday. Emmons has been associate professor of Mechanical Engineering since 1944.

During the war Emmons helped design and construct the Army's first large supersonic wind tunnel, which was used for research on bombs, projectiles and guided mission. At present he is consultant to several groups conducting research for the armed forces.

The 37 year-old professor received his M. E. and M. S. degrees from the Stevens Institute of Technology and his S. D. from Harvard.

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