He was the founding director of the Counseling Center at Michigan State University, and the author of several books.
[2] He joined Michigan State University as the chairman of its board of examiners.
[1] When MSU students first took the Graduate Record Examinations as an experiment for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 1943, it was Dressel who analyzed the results.
[3] Dressel founded MSU's Counseling Center for returning veterans of World War II, and he served as its director until 1981.
[1] Dressel was the author of several books, including College To University: The Hannah Years at Michigan State, 1935-1969.