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<br />13~:> <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />On the staff itself we have ten PhD's <br />in Civil Engineering, and as far as I can <br />find out, there is only one Civil Engineering <br />Department in the Nation that has that many <br />on its staff. You say well, what difference <br />does it make whether you've got ten PhD's or a <br />hundred? Only this, that normally your PhD's <br />are your more productive or higher level basic <br />research scientists and I might add in passing, <br />that within the profession itself, our staff <br />is considered as being within one of the top <br />five in the nation, <br /> <br />The facilities that these people make use <br />of. Supported and maintained primarily by con- <br />tract work. The facilities are concentrated in <br />three areas - the Hydraulics Lab that you will <br />see, the Wave Basin that will be pointed out <br />to you in passing and the Wind Tunnel Facility <br />on the other side of the campus. HO:wever, a <br />good many of the staff are housed at least part <br />time in the new Engineering Building that we <br />will pass through on the way to the Hydraulics <br />Lab and I will give you a briefing on the person- <br />nel in there, and so on, when we get there. <br /> <br />In total the research staff has available <br />around 35,000 square feet of space. At the <br />same time, while this seems like considerable <br />space, you will see that we have projects <br />stacked on top of projects, particularly in <br />our Hydraulics Laboratory. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />As far as our plans are concerned, we <br />propose to expand our scientific endeavors <br />largely in two areas, in the sanitary engineer- <br />ing field and in the meteorology field. Our <br />reasons for this are largely opportunistic and <br />that our major endeavor is in fluid mechanics <br />in its broadest ramification. Meteorology or <br />atmospheric research is simply another aspect <br />of fluid mechanics, at least much of it is. <br />Sanitary engineering is the same way and be- <br />cause of this and the current national inter- <br />est in public health, in other words the <br />National Institutes of Health, a~d in atmos- <br />pheric physics research, we will seek our <br />support from these areas because they have the <br />most money available. <br />