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On the other hand, the needs of our professional training due to the rapid 
development of techniques and equipment in photogrammetry, geodesy and 
cartography would require many times the total hours given before this dimin- 
ishing process began. Our profession too has been evolving at an even more 
rapid rate than that of the parent profession. Even more important due to the 
trend of our own evolution, much of the background education essential to 
the civil or construction engineer now serves no purpose in our new profession. 
Steel and concrete design, hydraulics, water supply, sewage disposal, 
strength of materials, mechanics and soil mechanics, highway design and many 
others, although essential to the civil engineer, make no direct contribution to 
the training for our profession, and have doubtful value as broadening or 
cultural courses. 
On the other hand, a strong course in both electronic and optical physics, 
geology and geomorphology, geography, meteorology, astronomy, and mathe- 
matics as well as specialized courses in photo-interpretation, photogrammetry, 
geodesy, and cartography are essential to a sound academic training for our 
profession. 
Thus, our profession, as a child, and raised within the confines of past 
limited instructional facilities under the heading of surveying and mapping 
in the civil engineering departments, has come of age and must step out as an 
adult with many interests and requirements of his own that cannot be met 
until he has established his own household. This is not a criticism of civil 
engineering or the policies that have led to this condition, but rather the 
inevitable result of the evolution that has been taking place in both their 
profession and our own. 
Just as there comes a time in man’s development when he accepts the 
responsibility for his own household, so must our profession now accept the 
responsibility for seeing that proper training is provided for those we need, 
not only to help us now, but to succeed us. That is an obligation of the pro- 
fession of which we are a part and cannot avoid if we are to continue to 
progress and grow. 
This is not a simple or easy task in the pioneer state of our profession. 
To obtain academically qualified men in this country to present these special- 
ized courses is difficult. They are all too few because of the limited training 
facilities that have been available in this hemisphere. They must be carefully 
selected for their training, knowledge, and enthusiasm, all of which they will 
have to impart to their students. They must be research-minded, for this is a 
rapidly changing profession and the students must be imbued with the desire 
to improve as well as create in order to accelerate the progress of the 
profession. 
Just as the civil or construction engineer to-day has as components of his 
training water supply, hydraulics, steel and concrete design and must utilize 
these related subjects in the design of a dam for irrigation and flood control 
purposes, so should the member of our profession to-morrow have the basic 
knowledge to readily understand the interrelation between the problems of 
geodesy, photogrammetry and cartography that may be involved in a mapping 
and charting program in addition to training in photo-interpretation in order 
to most effectively use and recognize the data available to him through aerial 
photography. 
  
  
STE