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JUSTIFICATION FOR A NEW AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING BUILDHG College of Agriculture | iy January 27, 1971 The facility ve are requesting will serve the engineering needs of the College of Agriculture, It will provide for the Department of Agricultural Engineering as

well as for related programs in Forestry and Food Science* Agricultural Engineering- has dual responsibilities. The Department of Agricultural Engineering has responsibilities for graduate and undergraduate education in both the Colleges of Agriculture and Engineering. Through organized research and extension and public service programs, it supports the technical needs of industryf Including such all-important areas as agriculture, food processing, and wood utilization* The Department thus contributes

to all the missions of the University - teaching, research, and public service. Agricultural Engineering conducts interdisciplinary and cooperative programs* Agricultural Engineering is by its nature an interdisciplinary program that utilizes the basic sciences to solve the problems of agriculture* Within the College of Agriculture, the. Department has cooperative research projects with Animal Science, Dairy Science, Agronomy, Plant Pathology, Agricultural Economics, and Home Economics. Similarly, the Department reaches outside the College to conduct research cooperatively with Civil Engineering, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering, the Speech and Hearing Clinic, and the State Natural History Survey. Only the U-C campus offers degree program. Certain elements of uniqueness should be noted. Within the State of Illinois, only the Urbana-Champaign campus offers a degree program in Agricultural Engineering. The Department has progressed from a B.S. program in 1932 to initiation of a Master's program in 19^8, and to authorization of the Ph.D. program in 196k.