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RESEARCH LABORATORIES FOR THE ENGINEERING SCIENCESMembers of the faculty who teach at the undergraduate and graduate levels and a number of professional engineers and scientists whose primary activity is research generate and conduct the investigations that make up the school's research program. The School of Engineering and Applied Science of the University of Virginia believes that research goes hand in hand with teaching. Early in the development of its graduate training program, the School recognized that men and women engaged in research should be as free as possible of the administrative duties involved in sponsored research. In 1959, therefore, the Research Laboratories for the Engineering Sciences (RLES) was established and assigned the administrative responsibility for such research within the School.The director of RLES-himself a faculty member and researcher-maintains familiarity with the support requirements of the research under way. He is aided by an Academic Advisory Committee made up * of a faculty representative from each academic department of the School. This Committee serves to inform * RLES of the needs and perspectives of the research program.In addition to administrative support, RLES is charged with providing certain technical assistance. Because it is not practical for each department to become self-sufficient in all phases of the supporting technology essential to present-day research, RLES makes services available through the following support groups: Machine Shop, Instrumentation, Facilities Services, Publications (including photographic facilities). and Computer Terminal Maintenance.