COURSE IV. MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING This course is designed to fit young men for responsible positions in the various departments of these professions. It attempts, by practical and theoretical instruction, to lay a solid scientific foundation upon which the student may build rapidly after graduation. The experience necessary to make a successful engineer cannot be acquired in a college course, but the technically educated graduate usually soon distances his uneducated competitors.

While devoting considerable time to purely technical work, it is recognized that to obtain the best ultimate results, the student should be given a thorough training in the English language and as broad and liberal a culture as the time available and his previous preparation will permit. Seeking in some degree to attain this end, such studies as history, English literature, civics, economics, geology, and botany are taught in the course, as well as the partly technical sciences, mathematics, physics, and chemistry.

Within the department are taught physics, mechanics, and mechanical and electrical engineering. Along with the theoretical instruction in these subjects, practice is given in laboratories equipped with the best modern apparatus.

Shop instruction is given in carpentry, turning, and patterm making; in moulding; chipping and filing, and the use of machine tools. The purpose of this instruction is not to turn out skilled artisans, but rather men capable of directing enterprises into which these trades enter as component parts.

The work in drawing is made one of the features of the course, including instruction in freehand drawing in the first year, mechanical drawing during the first three years and machine design in the fourth year.

Graduates from this course are filling responsible positions in various lines of mechanical and electrical engineering and in drawing.

COURSE IV.-MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

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*Political Economy ends and Senior English begins at the middle of the second term.

COURSE V.-CIVIL ENGINEERING

This course is intended to prepare young men for entrance upon professional practice in some of the many branches of civil engineering, and also to meet the needs of those who, having been engaged in engineering work without a course of instruction, desire to equip themselves for more successful competition with those who have had such instruction.

In connection with the technical studies, liberal training is given in English, history, economics, pure mathematics and the physical sciences. The course will also be found to embrace the same amount of drawing, shop work, mechanical engineering and mechanical laboratory practice as the other engineering course.

The distinctive work pursued by students in this course includes the study of land surveying and plotting, topographic surveying and mapping; location, construction, and maintenance of roads, railroads, streets, and pavements; strength of building materials, masonry construction, foundations on land and in water; analytic and graphic investigations of stresses in girders, roofs, and bridges, and the design of these structures; the principles of hydraulics as applied to dams, reservoirs, canals, municipal water works, and the development of water power.

For fuller details, see descriptions of instruction in these subjects.

COURSE V.-CIVIL ENGINEERING

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*Political Economy ends and Senior English begins at the middle of the

second term.

COURSE VI.-TEXTILE INDUSTRY

This department was established primarily to direct young men in their study of the textile fibers, to teach their manipulation, and the after processes of manufacture required by the trade.

The principles underlying the art of manufacture are taught by lecture, text-book, and experiment; skill is acquired by intimate contact with the machinery equipment, which consists of various types of machines designed by the prominent builders of cotton machinery in this country.

The aim has been to arrange a course in which the student will be allowed the opportunity of acquiring a good general education along with this special training in textiles. For this reason, in order to allow time to be devoted to culture studies, and to instruction in the general principles of the sciences involved in manufacture, the course does not follow special lines closely until the junior year.

During the junior and senior years, in which more time is devoted to textile subjects, the student is brought face to face with facts and conditions, from the proper observation and study of which he may obtain information and experience that would take him years to acquire in the mills.

This course does not presume to fit one for the active management of a mill immediately upon graduation, but is intended to give the student a broad foundation on which to specialize, and the graduate is in possession of such information, and has acquired such experience and knowledge in handling raw materials and manufacturing machinery as, if supplemented by energy, application, and tact, will soon place him among leading cotton manufacturers.