it due to lack of working space. Space is needed for laboratories, storage,
and offices. The survey lacks laboratory space for carrying on research
into the utilization of the mineral raw materials of Kansas, such as clay,
chalk, chats, glass sands; molding sands, and other materials. Storage
space is needed for the enormous and constantly increasing collection of
well cores and cuttings which are essential to a study of the deeper po-
tential oil-bearing formations of the state. Space provided a year ago
under the Hoch Auditorium is completely utilized. Adequate office space

is needed for the staff to prepare their maps and write their reports.

Geology. The department of Geology is located in Haworth Hall. Due to
increasing enrollment, the present lecture rooms and laboratories have been
insufficient for several years. In addition, there is no space available
in which valuable collections of minerals, rocks ani fossils can be effic-
iently stored.

Petroleum Engineering. Probably no branch of engineering is growing
more rapidly or shows more promise of utilization in Kansas than Petroleum
Engineering. Petroleum engineering, established as a new department only
a year ago, has already greatly outgrown the limited quarters assigned to
it. There is every indication that the initial enrollment of 44 students,
which was considerably greater than was anticipated, will continue to grow
rapidly. The need for additional quarters is acute. Absolutely no more
space is available, but double the present. space mst be provided in the
immediate future if the department is to serve adequately even the present
enrollment. Quarters and facilities for research are, of course, addition-
al needs.

Chemical Engineering. The work in Chemical engineering is given in the
basement and sub-basement of the Bailey Chemical Laboratories in quarters
that are obviously inadequate ani are badly needed by Chemistry. In ad-
dition, the installation of high pressure equipment and distillation ap-
paratus has greatly increased the fire hazard to the building. For this ©
reason alone chomical engineering should be housed in a fireproof modern
building, preferably in a wing of a new building.

The student enrollment has increased from 79 in 1933 to 167 in 1937.
Present quarters are inadequate for the current enrollment, for install-
ation of much needed additional laboratory equipment, or for research
quarters. ;

‘Inasmuch as certain phases of the oil industry are closely connected
with chemical engincering, the department should be housed in the same
building with petroleum engineering for research purposes.

Testing Laboratories. At present most of the testing laboratories of
the School of Engineering and Architecture are located in the basement of
Marvin Hall in quarters needed for lecture, office, and conference rooms.
The laboratories are of necessity noisy or dusty, or both, and for this
reason reduce the efficiency of teaching in the building.

These laboratories have a vital place in a research program, and —
for this reason should be readily accessible to a staff working on any
industrial problem. Their location in the industrial research building
would seem highly desirable, and would not decrease their effective use ,
in teaching.

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