Repository: UIHistories Project: Dedication - Willard Airport [PAGE 9]

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ture, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Meteorology, and Agronomy. Air transportation will require education and research in many fields of knowledge now represented at the University. The newly established Department of Aeronautical Engineering will need the assistance of experts in many fields, including, of course, all the other engineering departments — Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Metallurgical, and Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. At least a score of departments in other colleges of the University have been giving consideration to their share in such a program, and a number of them are actually engaged in research work in fields closely related to the problems of air transportation. Among the science departments are Physics, Geology (Meteorology), Geography, Chemistry, Psychology, and Mathematics. In the College of Agriculture and the Agricultural Experiment Station the development of air transportation is of significance in dealing with problems of getting special crops to markets and in fighting insects and plant diseases by the use of aircraft in applying insecticides. In the College of Commerce and Business Administration there is great interest in the development of courses of instruction and programs of economic research in the fields of administration, financing, and the operation of airports and air lines. The requirements of war have served to emphasize the importance of unsolved physiological and medical problems involving the fundamental problems of circulation, body ilOY