DRAWING.
Drawing 1. [Thornton and Hancock].
The Freshman course combines instruction in Mechanical Drawing
and Shop-Work, the exercises begin so correlated that the student
acquires at the same time the elementary technique of Engineering
Drafting and the essentials of accuracy, neatness, and dexterity best
gained by carefully directed practise in the use of hand and machine
tools. Every exercise in the shops is the reproduction of a drawing
already worked out by the student himself at the drawing board.
Three periods a week of three hours each are assigned to this course;
two periods being given to Drawing and one to Shop-Work. The
exercises in the drafting room include free-hand and mechanical lettering,
elementary graphics, projection drawing, machine drawing,
and tracing and blue-printing. The shop exercises include benchwork
in wood and in metals, wood-turning, and work in wood and
metals with machine tools.
Drawing 2. [Thornton and Hancock].
The aim of the Sophomore course is to train the student in the
use of the graphical method not merely as a means of representation
but as an instrument of research both in Geometry and Mechanics.
The Fall Term is devoted to
Descriptive Geometry, the Winter Term
to
Graphical Statics. In the Spring Term the class is subdivided into
two sections, The Civil and Mining engineers are trained in
Topographical
Drawing, including the construction of Maps and Plans.
The Mechanical and Electrical engineers are given a course in
Machine
Drawing and Design which covers all the standard elements
used in building up a complete machine. Three periods a week of
three hours each are assigned for this work.
Drawing 3. [Thornton and Hancock].
In the Junior course the student applies the technical skill and the
graphical methods acquired in the earlier years to the independent
solution of more advanced problems in drawing and design. The
Fall Term is given to Structural Drawing, problems being assigned
in which use is made of the parallel studies of the class in the Strength
of Materials. In the Winter Term the study of Shades and Shadows
is taken up as an advanced chapter of Descriptive Geometry. In the
Spring Term a similar study is made of Linear Perspective. In this
course also three periods a week of three hours each are assigned to
the work.
