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<br />OUOL <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />operation we have approximately 120 professional <br />people out of the College of Engineering and <br />other related areas working in our facilities. <br />We have working with the staff approximately 200 <br />to 225 graduate students. These are working on <br />Masters and Ph.D. programs. They come to US from <br />allover the world. I think presently 26 <br />different councries are represented. In Civil <br />Engineering as of the last three years we <br />started graduating more people in Civil Engi- <br />neering with Masters and Ph.D. degrees than we <br />are with Bachelor degrees, showing the increased <br />interest nationally and internationally in water <br />resources and related problems. <br /> <br />Considering our research activities, my <br />principal interest is hydraulics, river <br />mechanics, erosion and sedimentation, and we <br />have a large segment of our faculty that is <br />also interested in working in this segment of <br />research. Our activities include both applied <br />and basic research. We are perhaps a little <br />different in this regard than many other univer- <br />sities. Approximately forty percent of the <br />work which we do is done with mission orienta- <br />tion, such as hydraulic structures, dams, de- <br />silting of reservoirs, checking hydraulic <br />machinery and various things of these types. <br />To be more specific, we are presently working <br />on problems related to the design of water con- <br />veyance systems, flood control, all facets of <br />river stabilization, design and testing of <br />hydraulic structures, desilting of reservoirs, <br />the aggradation upstream, the degradation <br />downstream, system analysis which is something <br />very, very important to us at this time. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />As we look and see what we are doing, often <br />we orient on a particular problem here without <br />ever really considering the consequences down- <br />stream and upstream of this action. In much <br />of the activity we are presently involved in, <br />we find an orientation toward this. It isn't <br />at all uncommon to find our engineers going out, <br />putting a $5 million or $6 million installation <br />in that may cause a $10 million problem down <br />