Evening star., 1940-12-23
U. s. Colleges Speed
Emergency Training
For Defense Work
New York University
Is Latest Institution
To Join Drive
BY PAUL ID. GESNER,
Aeeoniated press RllSineSS Write

NEW YORK, Dec. Z3.-EneIgellcA
defense training courses within the
very near future may be vital part
of the curricula of engineering
schools and colleges throughout tht
country.
Latest to fall In line in announc.
ing plans for quick training o.
technicians to help supply looming
shortages of skilled workers in de.
fense activity is New York Univer.
sity, in New York City.
Last week Stevens Institute Of
Technology, in Hoboken, announced
similar plans.
Trained men are as vitally impor-
tant to speeding up of the defense
program as adequate machines fol
growing production.
William S. Knudsen, director Of
production management for defense
only last week cited the terrible
urgency" for quickening defense pro-
duction, and if trained personne
is to keep pace with broadening
defense plant expansion, steps like
those taken at Sevens Institute anc
N. Y. U. must be repeated on wide
scale, the experts say.
Special Courses Offered.
New York University today an.
nounced that its college of engineer.
ing had organized five special en-
glneering training courses, and five
others may be offered shortly in co.
operation with the United States
Office of Education, Federal secur-
ity agency. Some of the courses will
begin January and the rest about
February l.
These courses may be similar te
others now in preparation at schools
and colleges in your own locality.
N. Y. US short-term, intensive
study courses to be offered include
Cd aerial bombardment protection
% marine engineer, 90 gaging and
inspection methods, "a production
control, and (5) time and operation
study. Others in the cards include
aircraft detail design, food inspec-
ton, materials testing, with lab
oratory, metallurgy and metallog-
raphy, and military sanitation.
None will earn college credits
toward a degree. They simply are
compact, practical courses to train
men for jobs in the defense pro-
gram.
No Tuition Charged.
No tuition fees of any kind will
be charged students for the defense
courses. Tuition costs are borne by
the congressional appropriation of
100000 being distributed by the
United States Office of Education as
part of its Nationwide program of
education for national defense.
Shortage of trained personnel
are seen as likely to become more
acute as the defense program gains
momentum and the demands on
industrial plants increase" said
Dean Thorndike Saville of the N.
Y. U. college of engineering. The
full force of the program has not
yet been felt, but already person.
mel needs are looming up seriously.
Intensive training of youth and men
prepared to gain proficiency for
plant positions is an effort to meet
the growing need"
Scores of new industrial factories
making airplaneS and aircraft parts,
machine tools, steel, tanks, guns,
ammunition and other defense needs
have been approved since the big
$4,000 100000 national defense pro-
gram got under way last fall. Ship
yards are expanding. During the
next year these plants will open for
business. They will need trained
workers
Speed Is Required.
The new NJ Y. U. courses are
designed to prepare men for defense
work quickly.
The new courses in gaging and
inspection methods, production con-
troll and time and operation study
will start at N. Y. U. around Janu-
ary and will meet for three hours
an evening, two evenings a week,
for tx weeks. Each of these three
courses are open to students with
two years technical or four years
non-technical education in good COL
leges, and to other applicants with
acceptable backgrounds of practical
experience.
The N Y. U. course in marine en-
gineering starting around February
!, will meet 3s4 hours an evening,
9 evenings week, for 20 weeks. Ad-
mitted to the course will be me-
chanical and engineering college
graduates and non-college men with
considerable marine industry ex-
perience.
The course in aerial bombardment
protection also will start around
February and will meet for three
hours Saturday afternoons for Is
weeks 1t is open to structural
and architectural graduates from
good colleges, with minimum of
three years experience in RESPONSE
BILE design work.
Progress of national defense, the
armament production figures in next
years industrial corporation reports
and American security all are tied
up in the ability of co-ordinated
agences to keep an adequate supply
of trained workers owing into rap
idly expanding strategic plants and
factories.