Chemistry (three terms), I., II. Qualitative Analysis (two terms), V. Blowpipe Analysis (one term), VIII. Geology (two terms), I. The course concludes with a written thesis on some subject connected with mechanical engineering, and leads to the degree of Bachelor of Science. For details concerning the nature and scope of the instruction in the various subjects embraced in the course, the reader is referred to the statements made under the descriptions of the several courses of instruction, beginning on page 38. GRADUATE COURSE. The libraries, laboratories, and collections of the University are at the service of students desiring to pursue advanced or special work after graduation. For the professional degree in this College the following conditions must be complied with: A candidate for the degree of MECHANICAL ENGINEER must be a graduate of the College of Mechanics of this University, or he must give evidence satisfactory to its Faculty of having successfully completed an amount of work equivalent to that of its regular undergraduate course; and he must pass a satisfactory examination in the following studies: Thermodynamics, construction of hydraulic motors and heat engines, theory of electric motors, machine construction, general machine design. He must also have engaged for at least one year in professional work in addition to the time spent in the graduate course; and he must present an acceptable original memoir on some professional subject. This degree will not be given earlier than three years after graduation. LABORATORY PRACTICE. The Mechanical Laboratory is designed to offer facilities for tests and experimental inquiry, such as (1) submitting to actual test, and verifying directly, principles developed in the lecture-room; (2) building and testing machines designed by the students; (3) investigating such subjects and engineering problems as are not only calculated to impart training in methods of investigation, but the results of which may prove of value to the engineering public at large; (4) ascertaining the character and proper treatment of materials, and acquiring familiarity with the appliances and processes necessary to the construction of designs. If the student desires to acquire skill in the use of tools, opportunity is offered to him for practice, under the instruction of an able mechanician, (1) in the working of metal and the use of tools, to give him an insight into the most practical methods of manipulating given machines; (2) in wood turning, planing, and carpenter work; (3) in molding and pattern-making; (4) in steamfitting, such as cutting and threading pipes, etc.; (5) in forging and tempering tools. After he has become sufficiently acquainted with the working of wood and metals, and is able to recognize the difference in machines, tools, and methods of founding and blacksmithing, he is shown through manufacturing establishments, so selected as to enable him to see on a large scale those operations and methods with which he has become familiar only on a small one. For descriptions of the mechanical and other laboratories, the reader is referred to pages 76-81. COLLEGE OF MINING. The College of Mining is designed for students who wish to become mining or metallurgical engineers, or to engage in one of the many pursuits connected with the mining industry, such as the surveying and mapping of mines, the assaying and working of ores, the designing and use of mining machinery, or the exploitation of mines. FACULTY. The Faculty of each College consists of the President of the University and the resident Professors, Associate Professors, and Assistant Professors giving instruction in the College. Professor KELLOGG, PRESIDENT pro tempore; Professor STRINGHAM, DEAN; Professors CHRISTY, HESSE, PUTZKER, RANDOLPH, RISING, SLATE, SOULÉ; Associate Professors BRADLEY, EDWARDS, PAGET; Assistant Professors HASKELL, KOWER, LANGE, LAWSON, O'NEILL, SENGER. THE UNDERGRADUATE COURSE. The requirements for admission are specified on page 32. The undergraduate course may be completed by the average student in four years. During the first two years considerable time is devoted to language studies, embracing English prose style, the preparation of summaries and theme writing, and to the acquisition of a reading knowledge of either French or German. Owing to the large and valuable scientific and technical literatures of these languages, it is important to the advanced student to be able to read them both. Only one is required of undergraduates, but both may be mastered during the course by a little extra effort. Those who have already a reading knowledge of either of these languages are advised to elect the other in College. A knowledge of Spanish, while not required, will be of considerable advantage to mining students, as they will find many professional opportunities in Spanish-American countries. It may be easily acquired during the course. Preliminary to the strictly technical studies of the course, the student receives a sufficient training in those branches of modern physical science which lie at the basis of all the industries connected with mining: on the one hand, mathematics and its applications; and on the other, chemistry, mineralogy, petrography, and geology. The mathematical studies are pursued with special reference to subsequent practical applications in surveying, physics, and analytic mechanics, which in their turn serve as a means for discussing such subjects as strength of materials and hydraulics. A similar sequence is observed with other studies; thus descriptive geometry is connected with work in the drawing-room, surveying with extensive field practice and the mapping of surveys actually made by the student, physics with physical problems and work in the physical laboratory, strength of materials and hydraulics with original designs in the drawingroom, followed by working tests in the mechanical laboratory. These important studies extend through the whole four years' course; and inasmuch as they are peculiarly interdependent, it is necessary that they should be completed in the prescribed order, otherwise the student will find himself seriously embarrassed in his work. The studies in chemistry and allied branches begin with general experimental chemistry, inorganic and organic, followed by analytical chemistry as an application, viz.: qualitative, quantitative and blowpipe analysis, subjects indispensable to subsequent work in metallurgy and assaying. Having acquired a working power in chemistry, the student begins the study of mineralogy; this is followed by petrography, and by courses in general and field geology. These studies are developed with special reference to their applications in mining. The fine collections, laboratory appliances, and opportunities for field work which the University is now prepared to offer, render these courses particularly attractive not only to mining students, but to those who wish to make a specialty of geological work. The technical branches of mining, metallurgy and assaying, peculiar to this College, are begun in the Junior year, when the student has had sufficient training in the general and preparatory branches to study them with profit. The instruction in mining and metallurgy is illustrated throughout by maps, plans, drawings and sketches of mines, furnaces, etc., together with actual working results whenever possible. The illustrations and references are drawn, as far as possible, from typical mines and reduction works in operation in California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, etc., so that the vacation trips of the student may be made more directly useful to him. In order that the student may have a ready means of following up any subject for himself, constant reference is made for details to the best technical literature, standard and current, in English, French, and German. In the Course in metallurgy, after the general consideration of the subjects which concern the treatment of all the metals, the rest of the undergraduate work is devoted to a detailed study of all the important methods in use for the reduction of the ores of lead, silver, gold, copper, and quicksilver. These have been selected as the metals most intimately connected with California industries; the other metals have been reserved for graduate study, for the reason given under the head of lectures on metallurgy, Special Part, page 66, above. In assaying each method is explained by lecture, following which the student is required to carry out the method in the laboratory, and to obtain accurate results before another is treated. Since the wet methods are taught in the quantitative chemical laboratory, most attention is paid to fire assays. Students are advised to spend their vacation throughout the course in examining typical mines and smelting works in various parts of the State. For details concerning laboratory facilities in assaying, metallurgy, chemistry, mineralogy, physics, and mechanics, see pages 76–80. For details concerning the subjects taught in the course, the reader is referred to the following outline: Outline of Studies. English (two terms), II., III., IV. Eight themes the first year, six the second, and four the third. French (four terms), I., or German (four terms), I. Mathematics (four terms), III., IV., V(b), VIII., IX. Surveying (one term), I. Field Practice (two terms), III. Physics (two terms), I. Physical Laboratory (two terms), V., VI. Analytic Mechanics (two terms), 1(a). Elementary Drawing (two terms), I. Instrumental Drawing and Descriptive Geometry (two terms), II. Mechanical Drawing (one term), IV. Graphostatics (one term), V. Strength of Materials (one term), V. Chemistry (three terms), I., II. Geology (two terms), I. Field Geology (two terms), II. Mining (two terms), I. Metallurgy (two terms), II. Assaying (two terms), III. Metallurgical Laboratory (one term), IV. The course concludes with a written thesis on some subject connected with mining or metallurgy, and leads to the degree of Bachelor of Science. Special Students. Students of mature years having the necessary preparation to follow such courses with advantage may concentrate their entire attention on mining, metallurgy, or assaying, with the subjects directly related. To derive any real benefit from such courses, the student should be prepared to carry on the work for at least one year, and if possible two or more. Such students should be prepared to enter at the beginning of the academic year, August 15, 1892, as all the courses begin at that time, and it would be usually impossible to enter later without being at a disadvantage. The regular undergraduate course is advised in all cases in preference to any other. Where through lack of time this is impossible the special course should approximate to it as much as possible. |