Faculty would support the Homefront effort through proposed accredited programs. Within the Engineering, Science, and Management department in 1943-1945, both male and female students would be offered courses with practical skills in assisting the construction of materials: Ship Drafting, Chemical Testing & Inspection, Electro-Chemistry of Strategic Metals. Fuels Combustion & Lubricants. In addition within the years leading up to the United States declaring War, The Dean of Art, James C. Boudreau would initiate programs such as Industrial Camouflage Program in 1940 which would focus on creating the visual deception, not only hiding structures but creating falsified targets such as inflatable tanks as well as Air Raid Shelter Design. Furthermore within 1941 and 1942, besides these programs contributing to the war effort, a consciousness of the immediacy of war was established through ongoing air raid drills.