• Curtiss-Wright labor shortage led to Cadette program at 7 colleges
• Purdue programs
• led by Profs. Wood/Bruhn
• 12 February 1943
  100 cadettes
  two 22-week terms
• 4 July 1944
  116 cadettes
  two 12 week terms
• Curriculum
  math, drafting, aeronautics,
  mechanics, materials