COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING FACULTY ANDREW S. DRAPER, LL.D., President. N. CLIFFORD RICKER, D.ARCH., DEAN, Architecture. IRA O. BAKER, C.E., Civil Engineering. ARTHUR N. TALBOT, C.E., Municipal and Sanitary Engineering; Mechanics. ARTHUR W. PALMER, SC.D., Chemistry. FRANK F. FREDERICK, Art and Design. SAMUEL W. PARR, M.S., Applied Chemistry. (On leave.) DANIEL K. DODGE, PH.D., English. LESTER P. BRECKENRIDGE, PH.B., Mechanical Engineering. DAVID KINLEY, PH.D., Economics. (On leave.) David ALBERT P. CARMAN, SC.D., Physics. JACOB K. SHELL, M.D., Physical Training. LEWIS A. RHOADES, PH.D., German. THOMAS A. CLARK, B.L., Rhetoric. GEORGE D. FAIRFIELD, A.M.,French, Spanish. WILLIAM S. ALDRICH, M.E., Electrical Engineering. EDMOND G. FECHÉT, MAJOR U.S.A., (retired), Military. JAMES M. WHITE, B.S., Architecture. WILLIAM ESTY, B.S., A.M., Electrical Engineering. HERMAN S PIATT, PH.D., French. FRED A. SAGER, B.S., Physics. CYRUS D. MCLANE, B.S., Architecture, Mechanics. OSCAR QUICK, A.M., Physics. WILLIAM H. BROWNE, JR., A.B., Electrical Engineering. GEORGE H. MEYER, A.M., German. GEORGE A. GOODENOUGH, M.E., Mechanical Engineering. NEIL C. BROOKS, PH.D., German. HENRY L. COAR, A.M., Mathematics. EDWARD C. SCHMIDT, M.E., Mechanical Engineering. WILLIAM A. ADAMS, A.B., Rhetoric. EDWARD J. LAKE, B.S., Art and Design. LUCY H. CARSON, A.M., English. ROBERT L. SHORT, A.B., Mathematics. ALFRED L. KUEHN, B.S., Civil Engineering. DWIGHT T. RANDALL, B.S., Mechanical Engineering. JAMES F. KABLE, B.S., General Engineering Drawing. CYRIL B. CLARK, Machine Shop. ALBERT R. CURTISS, Wood Shop. JOSEPH WILSON, Foundry. HUGH J. GRAHAM, Rhetoric. ROY H. SLOCUM, B.S., Mechanics. HARRY C. COFFEEN, M.S., General Engineering Drawing. OSCAR L. HOUSEL, Military. AIMS AND SCOPE The purposes of the College of Engineering are thoroughly to prepare men for the professions of engineering and architecture, and also to offer a first-rate training for future managers of great business enterprises. The different courses must therefore comprise both general and technical studies. A primary requisite of success is the ability to present briefly and clearly ideas in terse, correct, and vigorous English. A large fund of general knowledge is now essential to every professional man in order to maintain proper influence among business men. An acquaintance with social customs and life is equally helpful. The marked tendency now toward specialization requires the graduate to be able successfully to enter any specialty of his profession, thus requiring both breadth and thoroughness in his technical training, with frequent applications to practical problems. Employers have no time to educate assistants in the details of their work. But a solid foundation in mathematics is still indispensable, and this science is so presented as to be most practically useful. Since a great part of the most valuable knowledge is found only in foreign languages, the graduate should be able to read such technical works in order to keep up with the rapid advances in modern engineering. The time devoted to technical studies increases during the courses, and occupies more than half the period of University attendance. METHODS OF INSTRUCTION Text-books are used for theory, facts and data, since (if enriched by notes and additions) they afterwards form the most valuable portion of a professional library. Lectures are also given, when proper text-books do not exist, to arouse the enthusiasm of the student by presenting in concise form the latest results and practice. Discussions elucidate difficult points, and they are illustrated fully by diagrams, drawings, blue-prints and photographs of executed work. The elec tric lantern is also fully employed. Seminar classes present and discuss papers on interesting technical ideas. Applications of the theoretical instruction are profusely made to numerical problems, to designs, and to working drawings. EQUIPMENT The special equipment of each department is described in connection with that department. The general equipment of the College consists of a good reference library of indexes, pocket-books, mathematical tables, and other works, together with a very valuable collection of apparatus for economizing time and ensuring accuracy in engineering calculations. These are much used for checking computations and for measuring, reducing, and tabulating observed data, especially for theses, and also for computing tables. The principal instruments are Thomas's 10-place arithmometer, giving accurate results to 20 places; Thacher's computing scales; Grant's computing machines; other calculating machines, various types of slide rules, adders, etc.; Amsler's polar planimeter and Amsler's integrator; Coradi's linear and polar planimeters for very accurate measurement of irregular plane areas; Coradi's pantagraph for the automatic reduction of drawings and maps. DESCRIPTION OF DEPARTMENTS ARCHITECTURE This department offers two courses of instruction and practice, enabling the graduate to enter respectively the professions of architect and architectural engineer. The course in architecture prepares for the examination prescribed by the state license law for architects and for the general practice of architecture. Instruction is given by text-books, by fully illustrated lectures, and especially by practice in drawing, rendering, and design, extending through four years and ending with a carefully rendered thesis design. The specialties of the course are construction, design, and architectural history. EQUIPMENT A large collection of casts of ornament, models of structures, working drawings and blue prints, specimens of stones, bricks, tiles, terra cotta, fixtures and fittings, etc., is arranged in the architectural museum. More than 20,000 engravings, photographs, etc., mounted on cards, are classified for quick reference in the drawing rooms. An electric lantern is used in a specially fitted room, together with a collection of 4,000 lantern slides illustrating the history of architecture and that of painting. A very fine architectural library is located in a large room in the department, and is open for use by students during the entire day. The drawing rooms are spacious, well lighted, amply supplied with desks, lockers, and boards. COURSE OF INSTRUCTION Required for Degree of B.S. in Architecture First Year I. Advanced Algebra and Trigonometry (Math. 2, 4); Lettering, Elements of Drafting, Sketching and Working Drawings (Drawing, Gen. Eng'g Ia, Ib, Ic); Free-hand Drawing or Modeling (Arch. 20 or 21); French 5, or German B or 1 or 4, or English 1; Military 2; Physical Training I, 3 or 7, 9. 2. Analytical Geometry (Math. 6); Descriptive Geometry (Drawing, Gen. Eng'g 2); Architectural Perspective (Arch. 14); French 6, or German 3 or 5 or 6, or English 2; Military 1, 2; Physical Training 1, 3. Second Year 1. Applied Mechanics (Theo. and App. Mech. 4); Wood Construction (Arch. 2); The Orders of Architecture (Arch. 8); Physics 1; Monthly Problems (Arch. 9); Art and Design 8 or 9; Rhetoric 2; Military 2. 2. Strength of Materials (Theo. and App. Mech. 5); Masonry and Metal Construction (Arch. 3); Requirements and planning of Buildings (Arch. 15); Physics 1; Monthly Problems (Arch. 9); Rhetoric 2; Military 2. |