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Engineering 1.

This course is designed to furnish to the beginner in engineering
studies training in those preliminary disciplines, which form a
necessary part of his equipment, whatever the specialty which he
may later elect. The work is distributed as follows: Lectures, 11-12,
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.

Fall Term.—Practical Geometry. [Thornton].—This course presupposes
good high-school training in plane and solid geometry
and in the rudiments of plane trigonometry. It embraces a review
and extension of the fundamental problems of plane geometry with
applications to the mensuration of rectilinear and curvilinear figures;
an elementary study of the conic sections and of the methods
of constructing these curves; the orthographic projection of polyedra
and of the three round bodies in erect and in oblique positions;
the mensuration of solids and Simpson's rule; the graphical solution
of equations, both algebraic and transcendental; and the theory
and use of the Polar Planimeter.

Winter Term.—Machine Construction. [Hancock].—A study of
the hand and machine tools in the wood and machine shops and
of the testing machines in the laboratory, involving careful investigation
of their functions, construction, and operation; free-hand
sketching of machine parts, elementary problems in the computation
of shafting, belting, rope drives, toothed gears, etc. Illustrative
and descriptive lectures are given and a large number of questions
and problems are assigned the student to guide him in the
study of each machine.

Spring Term.—Plane Surveying. [Newcomb].—Lectures on the
theory, uses, and adjustments of the Compass, Level, Transit, and
Stadia; the Computations of Surveying; the methods and proper
conduct of Land, Mine, City, Topographic, and Hydrographic Surveys.
Practical class exercises illustrating the subject matter of
the lectures are assigned to the students throughout the entire
course.

The following courses in engineering practice are given in
parallel with the lectures:

Wood Shop.—Exercises at the bench in sawing, planing, boring,
chiseling, and tool sharpening; lathe work in turning between centers
and on the face plate; practice at the machine tools in the
construction of some simple though useful article. Hours, 3-6.
Friday.

Machine Shop.—Bench exercises in chipping and filing; engine
lathe turning, boring, outside and inside thread cutting; drilling,
planing, and milling. Hours, 3-6, Friday.

Field Surveying.—The student is required to spend three afternoons
a week throughout the Spring Term in Field Surveying and
Plotting. He is taught the use of the Chain, Tape, Compass, Level,
Transit, Stadia, and Plane Table. The work in the drawing-room
consists in making Computations, Scale Drawings, Profiles, and
Contour Maps from notes taken in the field. Hours, 3-6, thrice a
week.