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STUDY AND RESEARCH AT THE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE 119
have shown capacity to do advanced work are expected to take the
fifth year, which represents additional professional subjects and work
in both design and research. While the work of the fifth year is
prescribed to a considerable extent, it offers time and encouragement
for the student to engage in research in a field of his own selection
under the guidance of a staff representing a wide range of experience
and current activity.
AERONAUTICS AND METEOROLOGY
The Graduate School of Aeronautics and the Daniel Guggenheim
Laboratory of Aeronautics connected with this school were established
at the Institute with the aid of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund
for the Promotion of Aeronautics in 1928. Since this time an intensive
program of instruction and research has been pursued in the fields
of Aeronautics, Meteorology and the allied sciences. The Director of
the Laboratory, Dr. Theodore von Karman, serves also as adviser for
the Daniel Guggenheim Airship Institute in Akron, Ohio. The
cooperation between the two institutions permits the inclusion of
problems connected with "lighter-than-air" craft in the school's
activities.
The following program of instruction and research is now in
progress:
1. A comprehensive series of theoretical courses in aerodynamics,
hydrodynamics, meteorology and elasticity, with the underlying
mathematics, mechanics, thermodynamics and physics of metals.
2. A group of practical courses in airplane design conducted by
the Institute's experimental staff in cooperation with practicing engineers
in the vicinity.
3. A course in meteorology, with special reference to the problems
of weather forecasting for aeronautical operations. The course
includes an introduction to modern dynamic meteorology and to the
theory and practice of weather forecasting and mapping, using the
"air mass analysis" methods.