Show NEW DIRECTOR FOR COLLEGE professor ray B west appointed director of the school of agricultural engineering ray B D west C E graduate of cornell an engineer of varied and extensive practical experience professor of agricultural engineering at the utah agricultural college for the past three years has been elected director of the school of agricultural engineering according to an announcement made by president E 0 peterson Pe tereon professor Z Z IN prof ray B west C E west Is especially fitted for this position because of his exhaustive knowl edge of the engineering problems pecullar peculiar to the rural community these are very different from the problems of the civil engineer and require men of special training in their solution in defining the field the school ot of agricultural engineering covers professor west said agricultural engineering is largely the adaptation of civil mechanical and architectural engineering to the problems of agriculture it is true however that new branches of agricultural engineering are being developed and extended As now generally recognized agricultural engineering consists r of the following seven branches irrigation and drainage farm machinery rural architecture rural roads rural sanitation farm surveying manufacture of agricultural products not only will men be trained to work out the engineering problems of agriculture but the average farmer will find many courses designed to give him just the technical knowledge necessary in ills his general farming activities tivi ties it Is interesting to note the work the government is doing to encourage this work or k in agricultural engineering A new bill has been formulated by congress providing tor for financial aid to 10 the various agricultural institutions throughout the united states it is proposed to establish experiment stations in agricultural engineering as aa we wa have agricultural experiment stations to aid in the ot of this important field |