COURSE II.-AGRICULTURE AND ANIMAL INDUSTRY (Numbers in parentheses refer to descriptions beginning on page 79.) *Political Economy ends and Senior English begins at the middle of the second term. COURSE III.-METALLURGY AND GEOLOGY This course is intended to equip the student for engaging in manufacturing operations involving metallurgy or other branches of inorganic chemistry, or for employment as assayer or chemist in connection with mining operations. It also furnishes a basis upon which he may readily specialize in mining or geology, with a view to conducting actual mining enterprises or to employment in responsible positions on state or national surveys. The student is well grounded in the principles of chemistry, physics, mechanics, geology and mineralogy, but the principal stress is laid on geology and metallurgical chemistry. He also acquires valuable practical knowledge of surveying, mechanical engineering, foundry practice, drawing and designing, in addition to the pursuit of courses in English, history, political economy, and other subjects of general educational value. The first two years of the course are the same as in the engineering courses. The third and fourth years differ chiefly in the substitution of advanced work in chemistry and metallurgy and in geology and mineralogy for the higher mathematics and technical engineering work. For further particulars see the detailed descriptions of subjects tabulated on the opposite page. COURSE III.-METALLURGY AND GEOLOGY (Numbers in parentheses refer to descriptions beginning on page 79.) *Political Economy ends and Senior English begins at the middle of the second term. 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 pattern-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. |