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CERAMIC ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

A third feature of the educational work of the department is an annual Short Course of two weeks' duration devoted to practical instruction, and organized for the benefit of superintendents, foremen, workmen and others actively engaged in industrial work who are unable to take advantage of the more extensive training provided in the four-year curriculum. Second. Through the cultivation of intimate relations with the clay workers of the state, the department endeavors, to the extent which its resources will permit, to give assistance and advice in connection with scientific problems which arise in those industries. These relations with the industries have reciprocal advantages in that by means of a yearly three-day inspection trip through different types of clay working plants, the advanced students in the curriculum of Ceramic Engineering are enabled to come in direct contact with ceramic processes on a large scale and to secure a conception of industrial work which would not be possible in any other way. Third. In co-operation with the State Geological Survey, the department has undertaken a systematic study of all of the ceramic resources of the state, with the purpose of determining the extent, character and value of these resources and the directions in which they may be most effectively developed. Fourth. A fourth important function of the department is the prosecution of research, not only in special ceramic problems, but also in the broader and more fundamental scientific problems which underly the Twentjhscven