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I started in a small way. We have three finish- ing this spring. We'll bring ten people on board from across the United States and other countries next year. We think within a short time this program will probably expand to include as many as thirty or forty people some- times for short courses, and sometimes for courses that extend through the full year. To give you a better appreciation of our activities and the potential here in this category, those of you who are interested, when you get out to the Engineering Research Center may pick up various types of bulletins which will give you a little more detail. The College of Engineering has a rather recent bulletin which outlines all of our activities and I think you will find it interesting. Our activities do range from water resources and related types of research to interplanetary space travel, electric propulsion, and so forth. We also pulled together over the last year a list of all of the water resources type courses in the whole university. A matter of interest to us as engineers in saying to other people is 'Look, here are the courses you can draw on'. If that is of interest to you, you are more than welcome to pick up this informa- tion from our people who will be out there with you conducting tours this afternoon. I I might add, in closing, that we have been very fortunate to have a lot of interest in our activities expressed by the various federal agencies. Over the past many years the Geological Survey has kept a sizeable group here doing basic research on water con- veyance, erosion, sedimentation, transport, diffusion, dispersion, and so forth. We have a similar group working on watershed hydrology, irrigation systems and ground water with the Agricultural Research Service. In anyone year we have approximately ten professional people from the agencies here pursuing further work to meet a specific objective or working toward an advanced degree.