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METHOD AND COURSES OF INSTRUCTION.
The method of instruction is by systematic lectures, and the study
of appropriate text-books, combined with a large amount of practical
work in the drawing-room, the laboratories, and the field. With each
lecture-course a series of such practical exercises is associated and the
student is not permitted to present himself as a candidate for graduation
until these exercises have been duly performed.
1. Projective Geometry.
a. Mechanical Drawing, including the instruments and their uses;
orthogonal projections; elementary problems in the intersections of
surfaces, and in shadows and perspective. Morris's Practical Plane and
Solid Geometry.
b. Descriptive Geometry of plane and curved surfaces, with applications
to shades and shadows, and to axonometric and perspective projections.
Faunce's Descriptive Geometry; Hill's Shades, Shadows and Perspective.
c. Building Construction in masonry, timber, and metals, introductory
to the design of structures and machines. Lectures with Burrell's
Elementary Building Construction and Drawing as a guide in drafting.
II. Engineering Geodesy.
a. Land, Mine, and City Surveying; Leveling; Construction of maps
and plans; mensuration of areas of land and of volumes of earthwork
and masonry. Raymond's Surveying, Nagle's Field Book.
b. Railway Engineering; location and construction of railways,
earthwork, rockwork, foundations, masonry, carpentry, ironwork,
track construction and maintenance. Nagle's Field Book; Tratman's
Railway Track and Trackwork.
c. Municipal Engineering, including the location, construction and
maintenance of roads, streets, and street railways; the water supply
of cities; sewerage and drainage of cities; and street cleaning and
lighting.
III. General Mechanics.
a. Theoretical Mechanics treated by elementary mathematical methods,
including the Kinematics and Dynamics of a particle, Statics,
Graphical Statics, Hydrostatics and Hydraulics. Jessop's Elements of
Applied Mathematics; Lectures.
b. Strength of Materials, including the theoretical principles of
stress, strain, elasticity, and resilience, and their applications in the
design of the parts of structures and machines. Greene's Structural
Mechanics, with lectures.
c. Graphical Statics, applied to girders and Trusses, to Retaining and
Reservoir Walls, and to Masonry Arches, Jacoby's Graphical Statics, with
lectures.
IV. Advanced Mechanics.
a. Dynamics of a particle and a rigid body with the application of
dynamical principles to the general theory of machines and to the
discussion of the special methods employed in the measurement, regulation,
and transmission of power. Lectures.
b. Hydraulics, including the general principles of the equilibrium
and movement of water, and their applications in the theory of
hydraulic motors and pumps. Bovey's Hydraulics.
c. Thermodynamics, including the study of heat as a form of energy,
with special applications to air, and to steam, and the discussion of the
laws of flow of elastic fluids and the thermodynamic action of Steam
and Gas engines. Peabody's Thermodynamics.
V. Civil Engineering.
a. Structures in Timber, Iron, and Steel, including the analysis and
design of rolled beams, plate girders, lattice girders, trusses, elastic
arches, and suspension bridges. Wright and Wing's Manual of Bridge
Drafting; Merriman's Bridge and Roof Trusses, Parts III and IV;
Lectures.
b. Structures in Masonry, including bridge foundations, abutments,
piers, arches, domes, retaining walls, and reservoir walls. Baker's
Masonry Construction; Lectures.
c. Canal and River Engineering, including the principles and practice
of Hydrographic Surveying, the regulation, improvement, and control
of rivers, the location and construction of canals, and the canalization
of rivers. Vernon Harcourt's Rivers and Canals; Lectures.
VI. Mining Engineering.
a. Exploitation of Mines, with special reference to the mining of
metals and of coal. Foster, Ore and Stone Mining. Hughes, Coal Mining.
b. Hydraulic Mining, with particular regard to the details of placer
mining. Bowie, Hydraulic Mining. Wilson's Hydraulic and Placer Mining.
c. Mining Machinery, including the prime movers employed in mining
operations, the methods of transmission of power, and the special
machinery employed for hoisting, pumping, ventilating the mine, and
handling the ores. Lectures.
VII. Mechanical 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 flywheels;
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, bearings, couplings,
of steam engine. Low and Bevis's Manual of Machine Drawing and
Design; Hermann's Graphical Statics of Mechanisms; Lectures.
VIII. Electrical Engineering.
a. Direct current machines, their design, construction, testing and
operation, with detailed study of typical forms of continuous current
generators and motors. Wiener's Dynamo-electric Machines; Jackson's
Electromagnetism and Construction of Dynamos.
b. Alternating currents and alternating current machinery; design,
construction, testing and operation of generators and transformers;
polyphase circuits, alternating current motors. Jackson's Alternating
Current Machines; Loppé and Bouquet's Alternate Currents in Practice.
c. Electrical systems for the conveyance and distribution of light,
heat, and power, and the storage of electrical energy. Lectures.
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