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The following succinct description of the technical courses offered is added for
the information of students who desire to enter upon work in this department.
Courses I and II are required from all candidates for graduation and one of III
or IV with one of V or VI. It is earnestly recommended, however, that every
student pursue both III and IV. The sub-heads, marked a, b, c, indicate the
work done in the Fall, Winter and Spring terms, respectively.

I. Projective Geometry.

a. Introductory course in Mechanical Drawing, including the instruments and
their uses; orthogonal projections; elementary problems in the intersections of
surfaces, and in shadows and perspective. Tracy's Mechanical Drawing.

b. Descriptive Geometry of plane and curved surfaces, with applications to
shades and shadows, and to axonometric and perspective projections. Millar's
Descriptive Geometry; Hill's Shades, Shadows, and Perspective.

c. Technical Drawing of constructions in masonry, timber, and metals, introductory
to the design of structures and machines. Low's Machine Drawing and
Design; Burrell's Elementary Building Construction and Drawing.

II. General Mechanics.

a. Elementary Theoretical Mechanics, including Dynamics, Statics, and Hydrostatics.
Glazebrook's Mechanics.

b. Strength of Materials, including the theoretical principles of stress, strain,
elasticity, and resistence, and their applications in the design of the parts of structures
and machines. Greene's Structural Mechanics.

c. Graphical Statics, applied to Roofs and Bridges, to Retaining and Reservoir
Walls, and to Masonry Arches. Jacoby's Graphical Statics, with lectures.

III. Engineering Geodesy.

a. Land, Mine, and City Surveying; Levelling; Construction of maps and
plans; mensuration of areas of land and of volumes of earthwork and masonry.
Raymond's Surveying.

b. Railway Surveying; location and construction of railways and highways;
earthwork, rockwork, foundations, masonry, carpentry, ironwork, track construction
and maintenance. Nagle's Field Book; Byrne's Highway Construction.

c. Hydrographic Surveying; measurement of the flow of water; design and
location of pipes, flumes, and canals; construction of works for the storage and
conveyance of water; river engineering. Vernon Harcourt's Rivers and Canals;
Wilson's Irrigation Engineering; Fanning's Water Supply Engineering.

IV. Steam Engineering.

a. Steam Boilers; their design, construction, operation and testing, with the
principles and practice of the heating and ventilation of buildings by direct and
indirect methods. Peabody and Miller's Steam Boilers; Carpenter's Heating and
Ventilation of Buildings.

b. Steam Engines; the thermodynamics of steam and the steam engine; the
mechanism of the engine, valve gears, governors, and fly-wheels; typical forms of
steam engine. Ewing's Steam Engine; Peabody's Steam Tables.

c. Machine design; the strength and proportions of parts of machines, including
the construction of fastenings, beams, couplings, and gearing of all sorts, and
the complete design of some typical form of steam engine. Low and Bevis's
Manual of Machine Drawing and Design; Hermann's Graphical Statics of Mechanisms;
Lectures.

V. Civil Engneering.

a. Structures in Timber, Iron, and Steel, with especial reference to bridges and
the analysis and design of rolled beams, plate girders, lattice girders, trusses, and
elastic arches. Wright and Wing's Manual of Bridge Drafting; Burr's Stresses in
Bridge and Roof Trusses; Lectures.

b. Structures in Masonry, including foundations, piers, arches, domes, retaining
walls and reservoir walls. Baker's Masonry Construction, with lectures.

c. Hydraulic and Sanitary Engineering, including systems of water supply,
sewerage, and sewage disposal for cities. Turner and Brightmore's Water-works Engineering;
Waring's Sewerage and Land Drainage.

VI. Mechanical Engineering.

a. Dynamics of Machines, including the study of fly-wheels, governors, dynamometers,
and of systems for the storage and transmission of power. Lectures with
reference to special treatises for parallel reading.

b. Hydraulic Machinery, including theoretical and practical hydraulics, hydraulic
motors, pumps, and hydraulic transmissions of power. Merriman's Hydraulics;
Lectures on Hydraulic Motors; Weisbach's Pumps and Pumping Machinery.

c. Heat Engines, including the general principles of Thermodynamics, gas
engines, air compressors and compressed air engines, blowing and ventilating
machinery, and refrigerating machinery. Clerk's Gas Engines, with lectures.

VII. Electrical Engineering. [Not offered in 1888-89.]

In addition to the foregoing it is proposed to develop in the near future a parallel
course of Electrical Engineering, in which, on the basis of the courses in Electricity
and Magnetism given in the department of Physics, the technical extensions
of the science to engineering problems will be fully treated. This course will
embrace the following:

a. Direct current machines, their design, construction, testing and operation,
with detailed study of typical forms of continuous current generators and motors.

b. Alternating currents and alternating current machinery; design, construction,
testing and operation of generators and transformers; polyphase circuits, alternating
current motors.

c. Electrical systems for the conveyance and distribution of light, heat, and
power, and of the storage of electrical energy.

PREPARATION OF THE STUDENT.

No student can hopefully enter upon the scientific study of Engineering without
adequate preliminary training in Pure Mathematics. For this purpose the
work embraced in Course A of the School of Pure Mathematics is considered a
minimum, and all students are advised to complete at least the equivalent of this
course. For the more advanced work of the department such knowledge of the
Calculus as is to be obtained in the class B of the same school, will be found essential,
but also ample. The following arrangements of courses leading to the B. S.
degree in engineering are recommended:

	First Year.	Second Year.	Third Year.
Civil Engineering.	Projective Geometry. Engineering Geodesy. Mathematics (B. A.) General Chemistry.	General Mechanics. Mathematics (M. A.) General Physics.	Civil Engineering. Analytical Chemistry (B.S.) General Geology.
Mining Engineering.	Projective Geometry. Engineering Geodesy. Mathematics (B. A.) General Chemistry.	General Mechanics. General Physics. Industrial Chemistry. General Geology.	Analytical Chemistry. Steam Engineering. M. A. Geology.
Mechanical Engineering.	Projective Geometry. Mathematics (B. A.) General Chemistry. General Physics.	General Mechanics. Mathematics (M. A.) Steam Engineering. Electricity & Magnetism.	Mechanical Engineering. Analytical Chemistry (B.S.) General Geology.