Graphic Statics (C. E. 20); Chemistry 3b; Steam Boilers (Mech. Eng'g 17); Electrical Engineering 1. Fourth Year Bridges (Civil Eng'g 12, 13); Chemistry 20; Masonry Construction (Civil Eng'g 5); Water Supply Engineering (Mun. and San. Eng'g 2); Thesis. 2. Bridge Design (Civil Eng'g 14a); Engineering Contracts and Specifications (Civil Eng'g 16); Mechanical Engineering Laboratory (Mech. Eng'g 13); Sewerage (Mun. and San. Eng'g 3); Water Purification, Sewage Disposal, and General Sanitation (Mun. and San. Eng'g 6); Thesis. PHYSICS The purpose of the courses in this department is to furnish the student who intends to follow the profession of engineering, science teaching, or research in physical science, with a knowledge of the phenomena and laws of physics. LABORATORY AND EQUIPMENT The physics department occupies about 1,500 square yards in Engineering Hall. The rooms are a lecture room, with seats for 180 students; four adjoining rooms, for lecture apparatus and preparation; a general laboratory room 60 feet square, for first year experimental work; an adjoining apparatus room; six small laboratories on the first floor with masonry piers, a constant temperature room, a battery room, a work shop, and three offices for instructors. These rooms are supplied with gas, water, compressed air, vacuum pipes, polyphase-alternating and direct electric currents, and other facilities for instruction and investigation in physics. The laboratory contains a large collection of standard electrical and magnetic measurement apparatus from the best makers, together with various pieces and devices designed and constructed in the department, so that the facilities for all such work are equal to the very best. In optics there are spectrometers, Rowland diffraction gratings (plane and concave), a Fresnal optical bench, a complete photometer bench in a well equipped dark room, a spectrum photometer, polarization apparatus, etc. The collection also includes apparatus for measurements of precision, such as balances, driving engine, cathetometer, chronograph, Kater's pendulum, thermometers, etc. The apparatus for first year experimental work has been greatly increased recently and is believed to be now unsurpassed. The workshop of the department is equipped with power lathe, milling machine and a good collection of tools. The services of a mechanician give the department facilities for making apparatus from original designs, both for instruction and investigation. COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AIMS AND SCOPE The College of Science is based upon the idea that the methods of science and the branches of study to which those methods are applicable, present a subject-matter and a discipline suited to the purposes of a liberal education, and that an education so derived differs materially in character and value from one whose substance is mainly literary. This College is distinguished in general from the technical colleges of the University by the fact that its choice of subjects is not limited by practical ends, and from the College of Literature and Arts by the predominance, in its courses and requirements, of the strictly scientific subjects. It is articulated with the latter, however, by the liberal elections from the literary courses permitted to students who have satisfied its demands as to scientific work, and by the special courses in science open to election by students from the companion College. ORGANIZATION OF SUBJECTS The offerings of this College include three groups of subjects: prescribed, major electives, and general electives. The prescribed subjects are required of all students unconditionally; the major electives are to be chosen by each from a considerable list of courses in the subjects most characteristic of the work of the College; and the general electives are taken, subject to the approval of the Dean, from any courses offered by the University. The student is thus allowed great liberty of choice with respect both to main lines of study and to associated and secondary subjects, and at the same time is so guided as to his elections that his course shall always contain an axis of closely articulated major work.. The subjects offered are further combined in various courses of instruction arranged on substantially the same general plan but making somewhat different graduation requirements. In the general science course the elections are least restricted. Its specific requirements amount to 46 hours for men and to 41 hours for women; the electives chosen from the list of majors amount to 40 hours' credit; and the remaining studies necessary to complete the total graduation requirement of 130 hours are elected by the student at will, subject only to the approval of the College Dean. By modification of this general course, special courses are provided for in chemistry, in education, in household science, in mathematics, in physics, and in the studies preliminary to medicine. CLASSIFICATION OF SUBJECTS General Prescribed List Chemistry 1, 3b, 4; 10 hours; or 1. 2, 3a, 5a, 9, 9a, 9c; 23 hours. French* 1 or 5, or one year of advanced German; 8 or 10 hours. Military Science 1, 2; 5 hours. Men, 1, 3; 2 hours. Women, 7, 9; 3 hours. Rhetoric 2; 6 hours. Major Electives Astronomy 3, 5 to 14. Botany 1 to 5, 7, 9, 10. Chemistry 2, 2a, 3, 5 to 15, 17 to 19, 21, 23 to 25. Entomology 2, 3, 5, 6. *Two years' entrance credit in a foreign language will be accepted in licu of this requirement. Courses in Chemistry and Mathematics taken to meet the requirement of the prescribed list may not be counted as major electives. Geology 1, 2, 4 to 9. Household Science 1 to 5. Mathematics 1 or 2, 3 or 4, 6, 8a, 8b, 10 to 26. Physics 1, 3 to 10. Physiology 1 to 3, 5. Psychology 1 to 8. Zoology 1 to 4, 8, 9, 12. The following subjects are open, as majors, to students in chemical courses only: Civil Engineering 10. Electrical Engineering 1. General Engineering Drawing Ia, Ib, Ic. Mechanical Engineering 1, 13. 16, 17. Theoretical and Applied Mechanics 1, 2a, 2b. 3. DEGREES The usual degree given for work in this College is that of bachelor of arts, but the degree of bachelor of science may be given on recommendation of the head of the department in which the principal major work has been done, and approval by the Faculty of the College. REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION In a General Course in Science A student may graduate from a General Course in Science by taking the subjects of the general prescribed list; 40 hours of work from the major electives (which must include 30 hours in one subject or 20 hours in each of two subjects); and additional studies, chosen, with the approval of the Dean of the College, from any courses offered by the University, and sufficient to complete the general graduation requirement of 130 hours' credit; provided that no student shall be graduated from this course with less than 5 hours' credit in physics or geology, and 5 hours in botany or zoölogy. A thesis course may be taken in any department (subject to the approval of the head thereof) in which the student has done 20 hours of major work preceding his senior year. |