 | University of Virginia record February, 1914 |  |
DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING.
| EDWIN ANDERSON ALDERMAN, D. C. L., LL. D. | President |
| WILLIAM MYNN THORNTON, LL. D. | Dean |
| FRANCIS HENRY SMITH, M. A., LL. D., | Emeritus Professor of Natural Philosophy |
| WILLIAM MYNN THORNTON, LL. D., | Professor of Applied Mathematics |
| FRANCIS PERRY DUNNINGTON, B. S., C. E., | Professor of Analytical and Industrial Chemistry |
| WILLIAM HOLDING ECHOLS, B. S., C. E., | Professor of Pure Mathematics |
| JAMES MORRIS PAGE, M. A., Ph. D., | Professor of Pure Mathematics |
| ROBERT MONTGOMERY BIRD, B. A., B. S., Ph. D., | Collegiate Professor of Chemistry |
| THOMAS LEONARD WATSON, Ph. D., | Corcoran Professor of Geology |
| JOHN LLOYD NEWCOMB, B. A., C. E., | Professor of Civil Engineering |
| LLEWELLYN GRIFFITH HOXTON, B. S., M. A., | Associate Professor of Physics |
| CHARLES HANCOCK, B. S., | Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering |
| GRAHAM EDGAR, B. S., Ph. D., | Associate Professor of Chemistry |
| JOHN SHARSHALL GRASTY, Ph. D., | William Barton Rogers Associate Professor of Economic Geology |
| WALTER SHELDON RODMAN, B. S., M. S., | Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering |
| CARROLL MASON SPARROW, M. A., Ph. D., | Adjunct Professor of Physics |
| EARNEST JACKSON OGLESBY, B. A., | Instructor in Pure Mathematics |
| GLENN HOWARD GRAYBEAL, B. A., | Instructor in Pure Mathematics |
| RAYMOND CARLYLE DINGLEDINE, B. S., | Instructor in Physics |
| GARDNER LLOYD CARTER, B. A. | Instructor in Chemistry |
| STERLING HENRY DIGGS, B. S., M. S., | Instructor in Physical and Organic Chemistry |
| JOSEPH GRAY DINWIDDIE, B. S., M. S., | Instructor in Analytical Chemistry |
| JUSTUS HENRY CLINE, B. A., M. A. | Instructor in Geology |
| JARED STOUT LAPHAM, M. E., | Instructor in Applied Mathematics |
| IRVING JONES SHEPHERD, M. E., | Instructor in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering |
| CHARLES EUGENE SHULL, B. S., | Assistant in Pure Mathematics |
| ELLIS NIMMO TUCKER | Student Assistant in Pure Mathematics |
| RICHARD EMMETT, Jr. | Student Assistant in Physics |
| ANDREW JACKSON TERRY BROWN, | Student Assistant in Chemistry |
| LINWOOD DICKENS KEYSER | Student Assistant in Chemistry |
| JAMES CHRISTIAN LAMB | Student Assistant in Drawing |
| HANSFORD ANDERSON, Jr. | Student Assistant in Drawing |
| CHARLES EDWARD THORNTON, | Student Assistant in Civil Engineering |
| CARTER BERKELEY COOKE, | Student Assistant in Civil Engineering |
| MILES FRANKLIN TRUMMELL, | Student Assistant in Mechanical Engineering |
Inquiries with reference to Entrance Requirements should be
addressed to the Dean of the University.
For information as to lodgings, board, expenses, etc., and for
catalogue and other printed literature, address the Registrar.
For other information address the Dean of the Engineering
School.
ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS.
For admission to the regular Freshman Class in the Department
of Engineering the candidate must be at least sixteen years old. He
must present a certificate of honorable withdrawal from the school
last attended, or other valid proof of general good character. And
he must satisfy the Dean of the University as to his adequate preparation
for the work by passing the Entrance Examinations specified
signed by the President of a recognized institution of collegiate
rank, or by the Principal of an accredited high school. The
topics required for entrance and their value in units are as follows:
| English A.—Grammar and Grammatical Analysis | 1 |
| English B.—Composition and Rhetoric | 1 |
| English C.—Critical Study of Specimens of Literature | 1 |
| Mathematics A.—Algebra to Quadratics | 1 |
| Mathematics B.—Quadratics, Progressions, Binomial Formula | ½ |
| Mathematics C.—Plane Geometry | 1 |
| Mathematics D1.—Solid Geometry | ½ |
| Mathematics D2.—Plane Trigonometry | ½ |
| History.—Ancient; Mediæval; English; American (any one) | 1 |
| Electives | 6½ |
| Total | 14 |
The candidate is recommended to include among his electives
Physical Geography, Chemistry, Physics, Mechanical Drawing, and
Shop-work (valued at one unit each). Other electives which may
be offered are History (3 units), Latin (4 units), German (2 units),
French (2 units), Spanish (2 units), Botany (half unit), Zoölogy
(half unit).
COURSES OF INSTRUCTION.
The candidate who has satisfied the requirements for entrance
as above defined is matriculated as a student of Engineering and
admitted to the regular Freshman Class. The studies of this class
comprise lecture-courses in Mathematics, Chemistry, Engineering,
with associated laboratory courses in Chemistry, Drawing, Shop-work
and Field-work.
For advancement to the Sophomore Class the student must have
completed at least two-thirds of his Freshman work. Upon entering
this class he elects his specialty. The courses thereafter diverge according
as the student is an applicant for a degree in Civil, Mechanical,
Electrical, Mining, or Chemical Engineering. Programmes of study
for each degree are given below.
The degree courses are distinguished by Roman numerals as follows:
Course I.—Civil Engineering.
Course II.—Mechanical Engineering.
Course III.—Electrical Engineering.
Course IV.—Chemical Engineering.
Course V.—Mining Engineering.
The courses are so ordered that the specified entrance requirements
are adequate for the work of the Freshman Year. Each succeeding
year presupposes the completion of the work for all the foregoing
years. Students are advised to adhere strictly to the regular programmes.
The arrangements specified in them have been carefully
planned and are the best. Departures from the curriculum will in
almost every case produce conflicts in lecture hours or laboratory periods
and may cost the student a year's time. Haphazard election is
discouraged and in extreme cases will be prohibited. No student will
be registered for a course unless in the opinion both of the Dean and
of the professor his preliminary training has fitted him for the profitable
pursuit of that course.
Students are especially advised against the attempt to crowd too
many studies into their scheme of work, and are warned that admission
to advanced courses will be granted only to those who have adequate
mathematical and scientific training to profit by them. Men
overloaded with work, too great in volume or in difficulty for their
powers, suffer inevitable discouragement and incur almost certain
failure.
Every candidate for a degree in Engineering will be required at the
beginning of his graduating year to submit to the Dean some subject
for independent study suited to the student's especial course and aims.
After such subject has been approved by the Dean and the professor
in charge, the student will be expected to carry out for himself the necessary
literary and laboratory researches and to present his results in
the form of a Graduating Thesis. Such thesis must be typewritten on
standard sheets, 8 by 10½ inches, bound in a proper cover, and handed
in for final approval not later than May 25th. All necessary computations
and drawings must accompany the thesis. Serious weight will be
given to this work in estimating the student's fitness for graduation.
In the following matter describing subjects of instruction and in the
various programmes of courses, of examinations and in lecture and
laboratory schedules, these subjects of instruction are grouped into
nine classes, each subject being designated by a distinctive number
for each term, and the lectures and the laboratory are likewise differentiated.
The grouping by classes follows the arrangement shown herewith
| Mathematics | 100 to 199 |
| Physics | 200 to 299 |
| Chemistry | 300 to 399 |
| Geology and Mining | 400 to 499 |
| Mechanics | 500 to 599 |
| Drawing and Shop-work | 600 to 699 |
| Civil Engineering | 700 to 799 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 800 to 899 |
| Electrical Engineering | 900 to 999 |
Lectures are listed in the first fifty numbers of all classes while
laboratory or practice courses are listed in the second fifty numbers
of all classes.
Numbers in parenthesis following Roman numerals indicate in
every instance the respective year of a four years' course in which
the subject is taken.
MATHEMATICS.
100 Trigonometry. [Page.]
Lectures 9-10, Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
A complete course in Plane and Spherical Trigonometry is pursued
with constant drill in the solution of problems, and exercises
in the use of logarithms.
[Required, Fall, in Courses I, II, III, IV, V (1).]
101 Algebra. [Page.]
Lectures 9-10, Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
The work begins with the Progressions and proceeds with the
study of the Binomial Formula, Convergence and Divergence of
Series, with special study of the Binomial, Exponential and Logarithmic
Series. The study of Inequalities and Determinants prepares
for the Theory of Equations with which the course is closed.
[Required, Winter, in Courses I, II, III, IV, V (1).]
102 Analytical Geometry. [Page.]
Lectures 9-10, Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
In this elementary course the study of Cartesian and Polar Coördinates
is followed by numerous exercises on the graphical representation
of equations. Special attention is given to the straight
line and the representation of the general equation of the first degree
in two variables. The course is intended to prepare for the
fuller study of the Analytical Geometry of the Conic Sections.
[Required, Spring, in Courses I, II, III, IV, V (1).]
103 Conic Sections. [Echols.]
Lectures 12-1, Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
This course consists in a study of Analytical Geometry, taking
the study up at the point left off in Course 102, completing the study
of the conic in its particular and general form. A brief study of
of classical curves. The Differential Calculus is begun and the
remainder of the term spent in exercises in differentiation of functions.
[Required, Fall, in Courses I, II, III, IV, V (2).]
104 Differential Calculus. [Echols.]
Lectures 12-1, Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
The Differential Calculus is continued and applied to simple exercises
in the expansion of Functions, Evaluation of Indeterminate
Forms and the problems of Maximum and Minimum for functions
of one variable. The subject is then applied to the Geometry of
Curves, Tangencies, Curvature, Envelopes and Curve Tracing.
[Required, Winter, in Courses I, II, III, IV, V (2).]
105 Integral Calculus. [Echols.]
Lectures 12-1, Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
The Integral Calculus is taken up—the integral defined and exercises
in elementary integration prepare for the application to numerous
problems in Lenghts, Areas and Volumes. When the time permits
a brief introduction to ordinary differential equations will be
given.
[Required, Spring, in Courses I, II, III, IV, V (2).]
PHYSICS.
200-201-202 General Physics. [Hoxton and Sparrow.]
Lectures 11-12, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday; Quiz 10-11 or
3-4, Friday.
This course includes elementary Mechanics, Sound, Heat, Electricity
and Magnetism, and Light. Instruction is given by textbooks
and lectures, with experimental demonstrations. Solutions of illustrative
problems and recitations are required.
[Required respectively, Fall, Winter, Spring, in Courses I,
II, III, IV, V (2).]
203-204 Electricity and Magnetism. [Hoxton.]
Lectures 3 hours per week by appointment, until Feb. 1.
This course is more advanced than 200-1-2. The elements of the
mathematical theory are given, free use being made of the calculus.
Descriptive treatment, however, forms an important part of the course
Modern ideas of electricity will be introduced.
[Required respectively, Fall, Winter, in Course III (4).]
250-251-252 General Physics, Laboratory. [Sparrow and Assistants.]
Hours 9-11, Monday, Wednesday.
This course accompanies 200-1-2. Emphasis is laid upon those
fundamental principles and phenomena which underlie engineering
problems. Written reports of laboratory work are required.
[Required respectively, Fall, Winter, Spring, in Courses I,
II, III, IV, V (2).]
253-254 Electricity and Magnetism, Laboratory. [Hoxton.]
Hours 3-5, Tuesday, Thursday, until end of Winter Term.
This course accompanies 203-4. It is mainly concerned with methods
of standardizing, although it includes experimental studies in the
behaviour and underlying principles of measuring instruments and
other electrical apparatus.
[Required respectively, Fall, Winter, in Course III (4).]
CHEMISTRY.
300-301-302 General Chemistry. [Bird and Instructors.]
Lectures 10-11, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.
The fundamental principles and phenomena, of inorganic, organic
and physical chemistry are discussed, and the foundations of analytical
chemistry are dealt with at appropriate places. Most of the
time is devoted to inorganic phenomena. No previous study of
chemistry is demanded.
[Required respectively, Fall, Winter, Spring, in Courses I,
II, III, IV, V (1).]
303-304-305 Physical Chemistry. [Edgar.]
Lectures 11-12, Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
(Courses 300-1-2, 350-1-2, 330-1-2 and 380-1-2 or their equivalent
are prerequisite.)
Some knowledge of the calculus is required, and previous work
in Physics is desirable. This course will include work upon such
topics as the gas laws, kinetic theory of gases, the properties of dilute
solutions, osmotic pressure, the determination of molecular
weights, mass action, reaction velocity and equilibrium, electrolysis
and electrolytic dissociation, the phase rule, etc.
[Required respectively, Fall, Winter, Spring, in Course
IV (3).]
306-307-308 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry. [Bird.]
Lectures 12-1, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
(Courses 300-1-2, 350-1-2, 303-4-5, 353-4-5, 333-4-5 and 383-4-5
or their equivalent are prerequisite.)
The lectures deal with the fundamental theories and laws of chemical
See 312-3-4 below.
[Required respectively, Fall, Winter, Spring, in Course
IV (4).]
309-310-311 Organic Chemistry. [Edgar.]
Lectures 9-10, Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
(Courses 300-1-2 and 350-1-2 or their equivalent are prerequisite.)
This course is intended to serve as an introduction to the general
subject of Organic Chemistry, including chemical synthesis and the
theories of molecular structure, as applied to the compounds of Carbon.
This course is optional but it is recommended for those who
may have sufficient advanced standing to enable them to give the
time to it.
[Optional in Course IV.]
312-313-314 Advanced Organic Chemistry. [Edgar.]
Lectures three hours a week by appointment.
(Courses 300-1-2, 350-1-2, 309-10-11 and 359-60-1 or their equivalent
prerequisite.)
The work of the first term consists of lectures and recitations on
the History of Chemical Development and Theory. The second and
third terms consist of lectures, etc., on Advanced Organic Chemistry,
making use of the most recent and comprehensive treatises on this
subject. This course is optional and may be substituted for 306-7-8
if the student is adequately prepared in organic chemistry.
[Optional (see above) for 306-7-8 in Course IV (4).]
330-331-332 Analytical Chemistry. [Dunnington.]
Lectures 10-11, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.
The course consists of three lectures a week, throughout the session,
followed by practical experiments in the laboratory. Weekly
written exercises are required. The work is divided among the three
terms as follows: First Term; A course in Chemical manipulation,
Blowpipe Analysis, Recognition of Ores, Fire Assaying of ores of
Lead, Gold and Silver. Second Term; A systematic course in Inorganic
Qualitative Analysis. Third Term; Practice in the analysis
of salts, alloys and ores, and the examination of potable water, coal,
limestone, clay and so on, including some simpler quantitative determinations.
[Required respectively, Fall, Winter, Spring, in Courses IV
(2); V (4).]
333-334-335 Analytical Chemistry. [Dunnington.]
Lectures 10-11, Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
The work of this course is also given in three lessons a week
throughout the session. This course is primarily one in Quantitative
Analysis. After some training in manipulation and gravimetric estimations,
the class pursues volumetric estimations and a full course
in Quantitative Analysis of minerals, ores, coal, soil, iron and steel,
technical products, and so on. Weekly written exercises are required.
As the student advances in the course he is encouraged to undertake
original research and assist in its prosecution; and in determining his
fitness for graduation, work of this kind is considered as having much
weight.
[Required respectively, Fall, Winter, Spring, in Course
IV (3).]
336 Industrial Chemistry. [Dunnington.]
Lectures 3-4, Monday, Wednesday, Friday; Quiz 12-1 Tuesday.
This course is concerned with the applications of chemistry to the
purposes of human life. Three lectures a week are devoted to the
metallurgy and uses of iron, steel, copper and all the more important
metals. Manufacture of pottery, brick, lime, cement and explosives.
Weekly exercises in chemical computations are regularly required.
[Required, Fall, in Courses I, II, III, IV (4); V (3).]
337-338 Industrial Chemistry. [Dunnington.]
Lectures 3-4, Monday, Wednesday, Friday; Quiz 12-1, Tuesday.
A continuation of 336 given in three lectures a week during Winter
and Spring Terms respectively. The first part deals with the manufacture
of acids, alkalies, salts, fertilizers and glass, preparation of
foods and water. The second part considers the preparation of
starch products and flavorings, the chemistry of dyeing and tanning,
rubber, paints, lubricants, disinfectants, lighting, heating and refrigeration.
Weekly exercises in chemical computations are regularly required.
[Required respectively, Winter, Spring, in Courses IV (4);
V (3).]
The collections of the University in illustration of the processes
and products of Industrial Chemistry have been procured at much
expense and pains in this country, England, France and Germany,
and are extensive and good; among the best on this side of the Atlantic.
350-351-352 General Chemistry, Laboratory. [Bird and Instructors.]
Hours 12-2, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.
This course accompanies 300-1-2 and deals for the most part with
the phenomena of inorganic chemistry.
[Required respectively, Fall, Winter, Spring, in Courses I,
II, III, IV, V (1).]
353-354-355 Physical Chemistry, Laboratory. [Edgar and Instructor.]
Hours 6 hours a week by appointment.
This course accompanies 303-4-5 and consists of a thorough course
in physico-chemical methods, including the measurement of electrolytic
conductivity, electromotive force, etc. Toward the end of
the course the student will be required to do a limited amount of research
on some chemical problem suggested by the instructor.
[Required respectively, Fall, Winter, Spring, in Course
IV (3).]
356-357-358 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, Laboratory. [Bird.]
Hours 12 hours a week by appointment.
This course accompanies 306-7-8. The study of chemical reactions
is taken up in an advanced way, and when the student has shown
proper fitness he undertakes work upon some special problem in
Inorganic Chemistry. See 362-3-4 below.
[Required respectively, Fall, Winter, Spring, in Course
IV (4).]
359-360-361 Organic Chemistry, Laboratory. [Edgar and Instructor.]
Hours 2-4, Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
This course accompanies 309-10-11 (see above) and is optional. In
this laboratory standard methods of synthesis, as well as the preparation
from natural sources, of important organic substances will
be studied experimentally.
[Optional in Course IV.]
362-363-364 Advanced Organic Chemistry, Laboratory. [Edgar.]
Hours 12 hours a week by appointment.
This course accompanies 312-3-4 and is optional for 356-7-8 if the
student is sufficiently prepared in organic chemistry. The work of
the first term is illustrative of fundamental Chemical laws; in the
second term it deals with Advanced Organic Chemistry; during the
research on some subject suggested by the instructor.
[Optional (see above) for 356-7-8 in Course IV (4).]
380-381-382 Analytical Chemistry, Laboratory. [Dunnington and Instructor.]
Hours 9 hours a week by appointment.
This course accompanies 330-1-2. The laboratory is open to students
six days in the week, during all the working hours of the day.
[Required respectively, Fall, Winter, Spring, in Courses IV
(2); V (4).]
383-384-385 Analytical Chemistry, Laboratory. [Dunnington and Instructor.]
Hours 12 hours a week by appointment.
This course accompanies 333-4-5. The laboratory is open to students
six days in the week, during all the working hours of the day
[Required respectively, Fall, Winter, Spring, in Course
IV (3).]
THE CHEMICAL JOURNAL CLUB.
The Chemical Journal club meets every other Tuesday from 11-12,
in Dr. Edgar's lecture-room, for the critical review and discussion
of various topics of interest in current chemical literature, and of
such chemical researches as may be in progress in the university.
GEOLOGY AND MINING.
400-401-402 General Geology. [Watson.]
Lectures 1-2, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
A course of three lectures a week and three hours for private
study. Special emphasis is given to the study of common rock-forming
minerals and rocks, building stones and ores. The divisions of
Dynamical, Structural, and Physiographical Geology are covered in
considerable detail.
[Required respectively, Fall, Winter, Spring, in Courses I,
IV (4); V (3).]
403-404-405 Economic Geology. [Watson.]
Lectures 12-1, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
This course is designed to give a general but comprehensive account
of the origin, nature, distribution and uses of the metallic and
of the United States. Lectures and collateral reading six hours a
week.
[Required respectively, Fall, Winter, Spring, in Course V
(4).]
420 Exploitation of Mines. [Thornton.]
Lectures 9-10, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Lectures on the principles to be observed in prospecting; on the
work of opening the mine by shaft or adit tunnel; on the layout of
the underground workings and the extraction of the mineral; on
timbering the excavation; on lighting the mine; on mine explosions
and other accidents; on mine surveys, maps, and plans with practical
exercises solved by the student in nocturnal surveying; and on the
computations and drawings of the Mining Engineer.
[Required, Fall, in Course V (4).]
421 Mining Machinery. [Thornton.]
Lectures 9-10, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Lectures on the central power plant for mining undertakings; on
the theory and operation of power transmission lines; on the machinery
for haulage, hoisting, drainage, and ventilation; on the
methods and machinery used in hydraulic mining; and on the machinery
for quarrying and ore dressing. The lectures are paralleled
by a series of practical exercises in which the student makes independent
estimates on the mechanical equipment of a projected mine
or reports on the operation and outfit of some actual mine inspected
by him.
[Required, Winter, in Course V (4).]
422 Electricity in Mining. [Thornton.]
Lectures 9-10, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Lectures on the installation of electric lines for light and for power
in mines; on the special types of generators and motors suitable for
mines; on electric locomotives and haulage; on electrically driven
hoists, pumps, and fans; on electric coal cutters; on electric lights
for mines; and on electric methods of signaling. Practical exercises
in electric computations for mine installations.
[Required, Spring, in Course V (4).]
450-451-452 General Geology, Laboratory. [Grasty and Cline.]
Hours 10-1, Monday, Wednesday; or by appointment.
This course of six hours a week in laboratory and field work accompanies
and supplements 400-1-2.
[Required respectively, Fall, Winter, Spring, in Courses I,
IV (4); V (3).]
453-454-455 Economic Geology, Laboratory. [Grasty and Cline.]
Hours 6 hours a week by appointment.
This course accompanies and supplements 403-4-5. It consists of
assigned laboratory and field work.
[Required, respectively, Fall, Winter, Spring, in Course
V (4).]
MECHANICS.
The lecture courses in Mechanics below presuppose the completion
of courses equivalent to Mathematics 100 to 105, inclusive, and Physics
200-1-2, and 250-1-2. Free use is made of the calculus, and no
student will be admitted to the classes, who has not a good working
knowledge of this branch of pure mathematics. In the laboratory
students verify the more important data and conclusions of the theoretical
courses.
500 Statics and Elementary Dynamics. [Thornton.]
Lectures 10-11, Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
This course furnishes a general introduction to Theoretical Mechanics.
The fundamental principles of the Kinematics of a particle
are followed by a study of the Newtonian Laws of Motion. On this
basis the more important propositions in the Statics of the material
particle, of the plane lamina, and of solid bodies in three dimensions
are then developed. Applications are made to the problems of equilibrium
of rigid bodies with and without friction and of flexible cables
and to the determination of centers of gravity by both elementary
and advanced methods. The principle of work and the
application of the law of virtual work to problems of equilibrium are
discussed and illustrated. The motions of material particles under
the action of constant forces are then considered and the cases of
uniform motion, uniformly varied motion, and projectile motion
are fully discussed. Special attention is given throughout the course
to illustrative problems, many of these being selected from the engineering
field.
[Required, Fall, in Courses I, II, III, V (3); IV (4).]
501 Dynamics of a Particle. [Thornton.]
Lectures 10-11, Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
In this course the motions of material particles under varied forces
are systematically studied. Simple and compound harmonic motions,
motions in resisting media, pendulum motions, and planetary
motions are discussed and illustrated. Problems are introduced
freely and are drawn not only from the usual ranges of theoretical
mechanics, but also from the engineering and industrial applications
railway trains under the varied traction of the locomotive, the motion
of projectiles through atmospheric air, the descent of heavy particles
through water in the processes of ore dressing and so on. The
course concludes with an elementary discussion of moments of inertia
and of the motions of revolving and rolling bodies under finite
and under impulsive forces.
[Required, Winter, in Courses I, II, III, V (3).]
502 Dynamics of a Rigid Body. [Thornton.]
Lectures 10-11, Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
This course offers an ampler and more rigorous treatment of the
motions of rigid bodies. Moments of inertia are investigated by
more powerful methods and the motions of rigid bodies about fixed
axes, parallel to fixed planes, and about fixed points are submitted
to both kinematical and dynamical analysis. Numerous applications
are made to the dynamics of machines. The inertia forces developed
in the moving parts are studied and the problems arising in
the balancing of engines, and in gyroscopic movements are used to
illustrate the fundamental doctrines of theoretical mechanics.
[Required, Spring, in Courses I, II, III, V (3).]
503 Strength of Materials. [Thornton.]
Lectures 9-10, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
The fundamental laws of stress and strain, as developed from the
point of view of applied mechanics and illustrated by experimental
tests in the laboratory, are made the basis of this course. Systematic
studies are made of the strength and elasticity of ties and struts,
of beams of constant and of varied sections, of solid and hollow
shafts under torsion and bending, of helical springs, of columns under
both axial and eccentric loads, of struts and ties under lateral
loads, of reinforced concrete slabs and beams, of earth pressure and
retaining walls, and of the distribution of pressures in massive masonry
and in foundations. Attention is given not only to the classical
methods of solution, but also to the more modern accelerated
methods based on the principle of work and using graphical as well
as analytical processes. Illustrations are drawn throughout from
standard engineering practice. Especial care is given to the discussion
of the rules and formulæ on which laboratory tests of structural
materials must be based, and to the interpretation of actual
tests.
[Required, Fall, in Courses I, II, III (3); V (4).]
504 Hydrostatics and Hydraulics. [Thornton.]
Lectures 9-10, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
The fundamental laws of the equilibrium of fluids are studied and
in boiler shells and tanks, the stability of reservoir walls and
dams, and the equilibrium of floating bodies. The elementary principles
of the movement of fluids are then discussed and applied to
deduce rules for efflux from orifices and weir notches, for flow in
pipes and open canals, and for gauging the flow of water in both
natural and artificial channels. The views of modern hydraulic engineers
are fully discussed and their bearings on professional practice
are carefully explained. A great variety of problems, drawn
as far as possible from current practice, is incorporated into the
course. Many of these are assigned to the class for independent
solution. Care is taken to make the tests executed by the student
in the hydraulic laboratory adequate illustrations of the theoretical
principles expounded in the lectures.
[Required, Winter, in Courses I, II, III (3); IV, V (4).]
505 Hydraulic Motors and Pumps. [Thornton.]
Lectures 9-10, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
The course is based upon the principles of angular and linear
momentum, and the laws of action of hydraulic motors and pumps
are developed from these principles. Only such attention is given
to the older types of hydraulic machinery as their historic interest
justifies. The body of the course is a careful study of the modern
types of the turbine as a motor and as a pump. The principles of
action of these machines are systematically developed and their operation
is illustrated from examples taken from the current practice.
Free use is made of problems, and the student is required to design
hydraulic machinery and to predict the performance under test of
such machines. The inertia effects of moving masses of water on
the conduits which carry them are also examined, and the methods
for limiting the consequent strains are explained.
[Required, Spring, in Courses I, II, III (3); IV, V (4).]
506 Stability of Structures. [Thornton.]
Lectures 10-11, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.
In this more advanced course in the principles of applied mechanics
careful studies are made of the continuous girder, of the cable
in its applications to aerial lines for electrical and power transmission
and to suspension bridges, of the elastic arch as a structural
elements of the hook and ring and chain, of thin and thick pipes under
fluid pressure, of the analogous problems arising in shrinkage and
forced fits, of whirling discs and cylinders, and of vibratory strains
and stresses arising in beams and shafts and other structural elements.
Free use is made of the principle of least work in the analysis of
complex structural problems. Illustrations are drawn as far as possible
from standard modern engineering practice.
[Required, Winter, in Courses I, II, III (4).]
507 Canal and River Engineering. [Thornton.]
Lectures 10-11, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.
A study of the general laws of river flow, of the standard methods
of gauging such flows, and of the works needed for the control of
floods, serves as an introduction to the discussion of canalized rivers
and canals as elements in a system of internal navigation. The
principles upon which are based the construction of locks and their
accessories, the design of weirs and navigation passes, and the
erection of movable dams are carefully studied. Illustrations are
drawn from such works of national importance as the Isthmian canal,
the Erie canal, and the canalized rivers of the United States. The
design and construction of hydraulic works for power development
is also a part of this course. Practical problems in hydraulic design
and field exercises in guage measurements constitute a part of the
required work.
[Required, Spring, in Courses I, II, III (4).]
553 Tests of Materials. [Thornton, Hancock and Instructor.]
Hours 10-1, Saturday; and by appointment.
Testing the Materials of Construction; including tensile and compressive
tests of wires, rods, and bars for strength and elasticity;
transverse tests of timber and cast iron; torsional tests of metal;
and tensile and compressive tests of cements and mortars, stones
and bricks and concrete.
[Required, Fall, in Courses I, II, III (3); IV, V (4).]
554 Friction and Lubricants. [Thornton, Hancock and Instructor.]
Hours 10-1, Saturday; and by appointment.
This laboratory course includes experiments on sliding friction,
journal friction and belt friction; on the viscosity and density of
lubricants; and on the friction of machines.
[Required, Winter, in Courses I, II, III (3); IV, V (4).]
555 Hydraulics Laboratory. [Thornton, Hancock and Instructor.]
Hours 10-1, Saturday; and by appointment.
This course includes measurements of efflux from orifices and
weir notches, the experimental study of pipe friction, and the determination
of the specific gravities of the materials of engineering.
Practical exercises in stream gauging are also required.
[Required, Spring, in Courses I, II, III (3); IV, V (4).]
DRAWING AND SHOP WORK.
The first courses here listed are designed to furnish to the beginner
in engineering studies training in those preliminary disciplines,
speciality which he may later elect.
Systematic instruction in engineering drawing is given through the
Freshman and Sophomore years. The student is carefully trained
in the technique of good draftsmanship. Especial attention is paid
to lettering. The importance of neatness, accuracy, clearness and
completeness is constantly impressed upon the student's mind. Frequent
exercises in tracing and blue printing are required. As the
student advances in the course he is taught more and more to use
the graphical method not merely as a means of representation, but
as an instrument of research both in Geometry and in Mechanics.
To the Junior and Senior students are assigned by their respective
professors such further drawings as are needed for the full development
of the courses of instruction.
In the Freshman year the work is distributed over the three terms
as indicated below, one finished plate 15″ by 20″ being required
of the student each week. The theoretical instruction is comprised
in courses 600, 601 and 700. The practical teaching is given at the
drawing board. The Sophomore course in Drawing requires each
week three hours of lecture work and nine of study and practice, of
which six are in the drawing-room under the tuition of the instructor
Courses in engineering practice are given throughout the year as
indicated below.
600 Practical Geometry. [Thornton.]
Lectures 11-12, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.
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 polyhedra and of the three round bodies in erect and 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.
[Required, Fall, in Courses I, II, III, IV, V (1).]
601 Machine Construction. [Hancock.]
Lectures 11-12, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.
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
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.
[Required, Winter, in Courses I, II, III, IV, V (1).]
603 Graphical Statics. [Thornton.]
Lectures 11-12, Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
The necessary preparation is such knowledge of experimental mechanics
as is given in Physics, 200. The theory and use of graphical
methods in mechanics are carefully taught and illustrated by
means of problems in the composition and resolution of velocities
and accelerations, and of forces and moments. Applications follow
to the determination by graphical methods of centers of gravity and
moments of inertia, to the construction of stress sheets for the
simpler forms of roof trusses and bridges, to the study of the stability
of reservoir dams and retaining walls, and to the calculation
of internal stress in girders and shafts.
[Required, Fall, in Courses I, II, III, IV, V (2).]
604 Descriptive Geometry. [Thornton.]
Lectures 11-12 Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
The required preparation is given by the Freshman Drawing courses.
The fundamental problems on the point, line, and plane are carefully
studied, with applications to the construction of shadows on polyhedra
and to the graphical statics of force systems in three dimensions.
The projections, tangencies, sections, and intersections of curved surfaces
are then taken up, with applications to the determination of
shades and shadows on such surfaces. The course concludes with an
elementary theory of linear perspective.
[Required, Winter, in Courses I, II, III, IV, V (2).]
605 Structural Drawing. [Thornton.]
Lectures 11-12, Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
The methods of Graphical Statics and Descriptive Geometry are
applied to the design and analysis of a series of simple structures
in masonry, timber, steel, concrete, and so on. Incidental instruction
is given in the elements of stereotomy, the construction of
joints in carpentry, and the analysis of simple types of roofs and
bridges.
[Required, Spring, in Courses I, II, III, IV, V (2).]
650 Mechanical Drawing. [Hancock and Assistant.]
Hours 11-2, Monday, Wednesday.
This course embraces careful training in technique, assiduous practice
in lettering, and the graphical solution in the weekly plates of a
geometry, and in graphical algebra and trigonometry.
[Required, Fall, in Courses I, II, III, IV, V (1).]
651 Machine Drawing. [Hancock and Assistant.]
Hours 11-2, Monday, Wednesday.
Carefully constructed and finished plates consisting of detailed
working drawings of machine parts. The drawings are made, in
part, from free-hand sketches from the machine itself, and, in part
from designs and specifications worked out by the student in the
class in Machine Construction, 601.
[Required, Winter, in Courses I, II, III, IV, V (1).]
652 Topographical Drawing. [Hancock and Assistant.]
Hours 11-2, Monday, Wednesday.
This course consists of six hours a week in the drawing-room
throughout the Spring Term of the Freshman year, and is devoted
to a study of the conventional methods employed in making topographical
maps. Each student is required to make a number of
plates, and to become reasonably proficient in the preparation of
such maps. Particular attention is given to the study of contour
maps, and the solution of problems relating thereto.
[Required, Spring, in Courses I, II, III, IV, V (1).]
653 Graphical Statics. [Thornton and Assistant.]
Hours 12-2, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.
This course accompanies and supplements course 603. The time
is devoted to the solution of problems at the drafting board which
exemplify the theoretical considerations outlined in the lecture course.
[Required, Fall, in Courses I, II, III, IV, V (2).]
654 Descriptive Geometry. [Thornton and Assistant.]
Hours 12-2, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.
This course accompanies and supplements course 604 and consists
in applications of the theoretical considerations to a series of
problems assigned by the instructor.
[Required, Winter, in Courses I, II, II, IV, V (2).]
655 Structural Drawing. [Thornton and Assistant.]
Hours 12-2, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.
A course accompanying and supplementing 605, in which the application
of theoretical considerations is made by graphical methods.
[Required, Spring, in Courses I, II, III, IV, V (2).]
660 Wood Shop. [Hancock and Assistant.]
Hours 3-6, once a week.
Exercises at the bench in sawing, planing, boring, chiseling, and
face plate; practice at the machine tools in the construction of some
simple though useful article.
[Required, Fall, in Courses I, II, III, IV, V (1).]
661 Machine Shop. [Hancock and Instructor.]
Hours 3-6, once a week.
Bench exercises in chipping and filing; engine lathe turning, boring,
outside and inside thread cutting; drilling, planing, and milling.
[Required, Winter, in Courses I, II, III, IV, V (1).]
662 Advanced Machine Shop. [Hancock and Instructor.]
Hours 3-6, Monday, Wednesday.
Bench and machine-tool work in the construction of articles of
commercial value.
[Required, Fall, in Courses II, III (3).]
663 Pattern Making, Foundry and Forge. [Hancock and Instructor.]
Hours 3-6, Monday, Wednesday.
Simple solid and split patterns and core boxes; core making,
moulding, and casting; exercises in forging iron and steel; forging
and tempering center punches, cold chisels, lathe, and planer tools.
[Required, Spring, in Courses II, III (3).]
664 Advanced Machine Shop. [Hancock and Instructor.]
Hours 12 hours a week by appointment.
A continuation of the work of course 662. More intricate and
complicated pieces are constructed and a broader understanding and
improved technique are developed.
[Required, Winter, in Course II (4.)]
CIVIL ENGINEERING.
700 Plane Surveying. [Newcomb.]
Lectures 11-12, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.
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.
[Required, Spring, in Courses I, II, III, IV, V (1).]
701 Curves and Earthwork. [Newcomb.]
Lectures 9-10, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Lectures on Simple, Compound, Transition and Vertical Curves;
Computation of Volumes, Formation of Embankments, Computation
of Haul, Cost of Earthwork, Blasting. Practical exercises in Map
Drawing and Topography.
[Required, Fall, in Course I (2).]
702 Railroad Engineering. [Newcomb.]
Lectures 9-10, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Lectures on Reconnoissance and Preliminary Surveys, Office Location,
Field Location; the construction, maintenance and operation
of Railroads. Special attention is given to questions of Economics
which arise in the location, construction and operation of Railroads.
[Required, Winter, in Course I (2).]
703 Roads, Streets, and Street Railways. [Newcomb.]
Lectures 9-10, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Lectures on the Principles of Road Location; the Construction and
Maintenance of Earth Roads, Broken Stone Roads, Gravel Roads;
the pavements for City Streets and Sidewalks; the Location and
Construction of Street Railways.
[Required, Spring, in Course I (2).]
704 Masonry Construction. [Newcomb.]
Lectures 1-2, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Lectures on the Materials of Construction; Foundations; the design
and construction of Dams, Retaining Walls, Bridge Piers and
Abutments, Culverts, Arches; The Theory of Reinforced Concrete;
the design and construction of the simpler Reinforced Concrete
Structures. Practical exercises in the design of Masonry Structures
and Structural Drawing.
[Required, Fall, in Courses I (3); II (4).]
705 Short Span Bridges. [Newcomb.]
Lectures 1-2, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Lectures on the design and construction of standard types of Steel
and Timber Bridges.
[Required, Winter, in Course I (3).]
706 Long Span Bridges. [Newcomb.]
Lectures 1-2, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Lectures on the design and construction of the more intricate
Simple Trusses, Cantilever Bridges, Steel Arches, Continuous Girders,
and Swing Bridges.
[Required, Spring, in Course I (3).]
707 Waterworks and Sewers. [Newcomb.]
Lectures 12-1, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Lectures on the quality, sources, collection, conveyance, purification,
and distribution of City Water Supplies; the laws of flow in
pipe lines and aqueducts; the drainage of houses and streets; the
collection and conveyance of sewage; the disposal of sewage; the
construction and maintenance of works. Practical exercises in the
design of pipe lines and sewers.
[Required, Fall, in Course I (4).]
708 Reinforced Concrete. [Newcomb.]
Lectures 12-1, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
This course supplements course 704, Masonry Construction, and
extends throughout the Winter Term of the Senior Year. Lectures
on the Theory of Reinforced Concrete, the Design and Construction
of selected types of Reinforced Concrete structures. Practical
exercises in the design of Reinforced Concrete structures, and
Structural Drawing.
[Required, Winter, in Course I (4).]
750 Field Surveying. [Newcomb and Assistants.]
Hours 3-6, thrice weekly.
This course accompanies 700. 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.
[Required, Spring, in Courses I, II, III, IV, V (1).]
751 Railroad Surveying. [Newcomb and Assistants.]
Hours 3-6, thrice weekly.
This course supplements 701, Curves and Earthwork, and extends
three afternoons a week throughout the Fall Term of the Junior
Year. The class is divided into squads, each squad making complete
Surveys, Maps, Profiles, and Estimates for a mile of located line.
[Required, Fall, in Course I (3).]
753 Road Material Testing. [Newcomb.]
Hours by appointment.
This course accompanies 703. Each student is given a selected
sample of road stone, and is required to make complete laboratory
tests for Abrasion, Impact, Cementation, and Absorption.
[Required, Spring, in Course I (2).]
755 Bridge Drafting. [Newcomb.]
Hours 12 hours a week.
This course accompanies 705, Short Span Bridges. Each student
is required to make complete design and detail drawings of one
plate girder, and one selected type of short span bridge truss.
[Required, Winter, in Course I (3).]
756 Bridge Drafting. [Newcomb.]
Hours 12 hours a week.
This course accompanies 706, Long Span Bridges. Each student
is required to prepare stress sheets and drawings for selected types
of long span bridges.
[Required, Spring, in Course I (3).]
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.
800 Elementary Steam Engineering. [Hancock.]
Lectures 1-2, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Descriptive and experimental study of steam and gas engines,
steam turbines, condensers, feed-water heaters, feed pumps and injectors.
Steam boilers. The properties of steam; the steam engine
indicator, calorimeters, and separators. Engine testing and the computation
of power and efficiency. Weekly problems for private solution.
For illustration and practice free use is made of the steam
equipment of the laboratory and of the university power plant.
[Required, Fall, in Courses I (4); II, III, V (2); IV (3).]
801 Steam Power Plants. [Hancock.]
Lectures 1-2, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
In the previous course a general knowledge has been obtained of
steam equipment, each piece of apparatus having been considered as
a separate unit. Here is studied the interrelation and arrangement
of this apparatus for the production of power. The fundamental
problem of power generation by the use of steam at a minimum cost
is treated as thoroughly as may be in the time allotted. Weekly exercises
and problems for private solution add to the interest and
value of the course.
[Required, Winter, in Courses I (4); II, III, V (2); IV (3).]
802 Machine Design. [Hancock.]
Lectures 1-2, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Straining actions in machine elements; friction, lubrication, and
efficiency; riveted fastenings, screws and screw fastenings; keys,
cotters, and force fits; axles, shafting, and couplings, journals and
bearings; belt and rope transmissions; toothed gearing, spur, and
design of machine elements are assigned each week.
[Required, Spring, in Courses II, III, V (2); IV (3).]
803 Internal Combustion Engines. [Hancock.]
Lectures 9-10, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
A study of the thermal problems of internal combustion engines,
gas producers, air compressors and motors, hot air engines, etc.,—
all the familar heat motors using gases as the vehicle for the transfer
of heat. Weekly exercises and problems.
[Required, Fall, in Course II (4).]
804 Steam Engines and Turbines. [Hancock.]
Lectures 9-10, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
A study of the thermal problems of steam engines and turbines,
refrigeration, etc.,—the familiar apparatus in which vapors serve as
the vehicle for the transfer of heat. Weekly problems and exercises.
[Required, Winter, in Course II (4).]
805 Engine Design. [Hancock.]
Lectures 9-10, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
A study of the mechanical problems involved in the design of the
engines, motors, etc., which have been studied in the two previous
courses from the standpoint of thermodynamics. Inertia effects,
stresses in and strength of parts, balancing, governing, etc. Weekly
exercises and problems.
[Required, Spring, in Course II (4).]
806 Kinematics of Machines. [Hancock.]
Lectures 12-1, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
A study in familiar machines of the applications of plane, spheric,
and screw motions. The course is largely devoted to valves and
valve gears, straight line motions, cams, toothed wheels, and screw
gears. Graphic methods for the solution of problems are employed
and the work is almost wholly on the drawing board, where finished
plates are produced.
[Required, Fall, in Course II (4).]
807 Locomotive Engineering. [Hancock.]
Lectures 12-1, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
A study of the locomotive as an important type of steam power
plant; one in which there are problems of acute interest, many unsolved,
and which are receiving a large share of attention from engineers.
The course is meant to study the locomotive as it is now
and to outline in a measure, some of its deficiencies and its possibilities.
track and train resistances, hauling capacity, etc., are treated in lectures;
a clear physical conception is gained by careful examination
and study of the machine itself, and for a knowledge of its history
and present development general reading and reports are required.
[Required, Winter, in Course II (4).]
850 Steam Laboratory. [Hancock and Instructor.]
Hours 3-6, Tuesday, Thursday.
Calibration of thermometers and steam guages; tests for humidity
of steam with separating and throttling calorimeters; test of Wheeler
surface condenser, Ball steam engine, DeLaval steam turbine, Otto
gasoline engine, Worthington direct acting duplex pump, Remington
air compressor; Air engine; steam fitting and testing steam and compressed
air lines; experiments in engine balancing.
[Required, Fall, in Courses II, III, IV, V (3).]
860 Inspection. [Hancock.]
Hours 5 hours a week by appointment.
This course marks the beginning of a systematic effort to make use
of all the industrial equipment within easy reach for the purposes of
illustration and study. Inspection tours will be arranged from time
to time, and serious study and investigation will be made. This should
constitute a very interesting and valuable part of engineering instruction.
[Required, Fall, in Courses II, III (4).]
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.
900 Elements of Electrical Engineering. [Rodman.]
Lectures 9-10, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Lectures treating fundamental principles of Electrical Engineering
Free use of the calculus is made in this course. Basic ideas and fundamental
units are discussed; magnetic circuits and continuous electric
currents treated in detail; electromagnetism carefully studied. Special
attention is given to the physical conceptions involved and numerous
assigned problems exemplify and broaden the theoretical conceptions.
The whole course is introductory to the detailed study of electrical
apparatus and machines.
[Required, Fall, in Courses II, III, IV, V (3).]
901 Direct Current Machines. [Rodman.]
Lectures 9-10, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Lectures on the theory, construction, characteristics, and operation
of Direct Current Generators and Motors and the accessory apparatus
required for the proper management and control of these
A brief treatment of the theory, construction, and operation
of Storage Batteries and auxiliary devices concludes the term's
work. Problem work illustrating the methods of calculation involved
in continuous current circuits and practical examples from
standard engineering practice form an important part of the work.
[Required, Winter, in Courses II, III, IV, V (3).]
902 Periodic Currents. [Rodman.]
Lectures 9-10, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Lectures on electrostatic phenomena, variable currents, alternating
currents, and alternating current circuits both single and polyphase.
A careful study is made of circuits with periodic currents and their
characteristics when resistance, inductive and capacity reactance are
present in their various combinations. Extensive problem work is
required to facilitate the treatment of simple and complex circuits.
Free use is made of vector and symbolic notations and of graphical
solutions; while standard nomenclature is carefully discussed. Special
efforts are made to keep the physical conceptions prominent
while the value of mathematics as a tool is emphasized.
[Required, Spring, in Courses II, III, IV, V (3).]
903 Alternating Current Machinery. [Rodman.]
Lectures 11-12, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Lectures on the theory, construction, characteristics, and operation
of Alternating Current Generators, Synchronous Motors, Rotary
Converters, and Transformers. These machines are considered as
units and as integral parts of electrical systems. Graphical diagrams
are made use of as offering the most readily comprehensible treatment
of the complex relations existing in alternating current machinery.
The principles of testing such apparatus under various conditions
of loading are discussed and assigned problem work illustrates
the theory and practice.
[Required, Fall, in Course III (4).]
904 Alternating Current Machinery. [Rodman.]
Lectures 11-12, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
This course is a continuation of 903. The lectures treat more
particularly Alternating Current Motors, induction, series and repulsion
types, with their characteristics and control apparatus
Methods of testing are outlined and graphical methods of calculation
and predetermination of operating characteristics are discussed.
Problems taken from engineering practice serve to broaden and
fix the theoretical deductions.
[Required, Winter, in Course III (4).]
905 Electric Power Transmission. [Rodman.]
Lectures 11-12, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Lectures on systems of transmission and distribution, with a detailed
consideration of the electrical characteristics of transmission
lines; the electrical equipment of stations and sub-stations, including
generating apparatus, switchboards, control systems and protective
devices. Systems of transformation and the economic considerations
which influence the design of the complete electrical system.
[Required, Spring, in Course III (4).]
906 Illumination and Photometry. [Rodman.]
Lectures 12-1, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Lectures on light, its physical properties; illuminants and their
characteristics; shades and reflectors; photometry, standards and apparatus;
illumination calculations for point and surface sources;
principles of interior, exterior, decorative, and scenic illumination.
Problem work illustrating computations necessary for the consideration
of the Illuminating Engineer are assigned.
[Required, Fall, in Course III (4).]
907 Electric Traction. [Rodman.]
Lectures 12-1, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Lectures on the various types of electric motors for traction purposes,
controllers and systems of control, brakes, rolling stock, track,
train performance, and electric railway economics. A discussion of
the complete electrification system for electric railways, including
generating apparatus, transmission, sub-stations and equipment, distribution,
and utilization of electrical energy for car propulsion.
Problem work dealing with the fundamental considerations necessary
for the solution of traction problems is required. After February
first, three extra periods a week are devoted to this course.
[Required, Winter, in Course III (4).]
908 Electrical Systems. [Rodman.]
Lectures 10-11, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Lectures dealing with the fundamentals of electrical circuits and
machines; utilization of electricity as a motive power in industrial
activities. Followed by a more detailed discussion of the types of
power stations and structures utilized in electrical systems; railway
construction and line structures treated with relation to their layout
and design; mechanical characteristics of complete electrical systems.
This course gives a general survey of the electrical field more particularly
for the students of Civil Engineering.
[Required, Fall, in Course I (4).]
950 Direct Current Laboratory. [Rodman and Instructor.]
Hours 3-5, Tuesday, Thursday.
This course supplements 900-1. The laboratory work is devoted to
a study of electrical instruments, their use and manipulation; simple
electrical circuits and study of direct current apparatus and its operation.
Characteristics of generators and motors.
[Required, Winter, in Courses II, III, IV, V (3).]
951 Direct Current Laboratory. [Rodman and Instructor.]
Hours 3-5, Monday, Wednesday.
This course supplements 950. It is concerned with some of the
more detailed and special tests of direct current apparatus and serves
to broaden the field presented in 950.
[Required, Winter, in Courses II, III (3).]
952 Direct Current Laboratory. [Rodman and Instructor.]
Hours 3-5, Tuesday, Thursday.
A continuation of 950-1. The work is devoted to those direct current
tests in which machines are groupe and with such tests as opposition
tests for efficiency, parallel running of generators and the
complete electrical power plant.
[Required, Spring, in Courses II, III, IV, V (3).]
953 Alternating Current Laboratory. [Rodman.]
Hours 10-2, Monday.
This course supplements 902-3. The first part of the course deals
with measuring instruments for alternating current circuits; series
and parallel circuits and their characteristics; polyphase circuits, balanced
and unbalanced. Study of alternating current generator characteristics
is begun.
[Required, Fall, in Course III (4).]
954 Alternating Current Laboratory. [Rodman.]
Hours 10-2, Monday.
A continuation of 953. Generator and synchronous motor characteristics
and operation are continued and the regulation transformer
tests carried out.
[Required, Winter, in Course III (4).]
955 Alternating Current Laboratory. [Rodman.]
Hours 10-2, Monday.
A continuation of 953-4. Alternating current machinery in group
relations; parallel running of alternators and the complex tests on
alternating current machinery are studied.
[Required, Spring, in Course III (4).]
956 Photometrical Laboratory. [Rodman.]
Hours 10-1, Wednesday.
This course accompanies 906. Photometric tests are made upon
different types of incandescent lamps. The operating characteristics
of incandescent and arc lamps are studied. Tests of illumination,
interior and exterior, are carried out. Study of photometric standards
and devices.
[Required, Fall, in Course III (4).]
957 Alternating Current Laboratory. [Rodman.]
Hours 10-1, Wednesday.
A course supplementing 954. Alternating current motors are tested
and their characteristics determined. Experimental results are compared
with those graphically obtained by means of the circle diagram;
and the general behavior of various types of alternating current
motors, single and polyphase, are studied.
[Required, Winter, in Course III (4).]
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA BRANCH OF THE AMERICAN
INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS.
This branch hold meetings regularly at which various programmes
are carried out. Current literature is abstracted and discussed. Prominent
engineers address the Branch at intervals upon topics of engineering
interest, and members of the Faculty present subjects of
interest which are not in general covered in the regular courses.
LECTURE SCHEDULE. DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING.
| Hours | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| Math. 100-1-2 | Math. 100-1-2 | Math. 100-1-2 | ||||
| Mech. 503-4-5 | Mech. 503-4-5 | Mech. 503-4-5 | Engin. 701-2-3 | Engin. 701-2-3 | Engin. 701-2-3 | |
| Engin. 803-4-5 | Engin. 803-4-5 | Engin. 803-4-5 | ||||
| 9-10 | Engin. 900-1-2 | Engin. 900-1-2 | Engin. 900-1-2 | |||
| Mining 420-1-2 | Mining 420-1-2 | Mining 420-1-2 | ||||
| Chem. 309-10-11 | Chem. 309-10-11 | Chem. 309-10-11 | ||||
| Mech. 500-1-2 | Chem. 300-1-2 | Mech. 500-1-2 | Chem. 300-1-2 | Mech. 500-1-2 | Chem. 300-1-2 | |
| An. Chem. 333-4-5 | Mech. x-506-7 | An. Chem. 333-4-5 | Mech. x-506-7 | An. Chem. 333-4-5 | Mech. x-506-7 | |
| 10-11 | Engin. 908-x-x | Engin. 908-x-x | Engin. 908-x-x | |||
| An. Chem. 330-1-2 | An. Chem. 330-1-2 | An. Chem. 330-1-2 | ||||
| Phys. Quiz 200-1-2 | ||||||
| Draw. 603-4-5 | Engin. 600-1-700 | Draw. 603-4-5 | Engin. 600-1-700 | Draw 603-4-5 | Engin. 600-1-700 | |
| 11-12 | Phy. Chem. 303-4-5 | Phys. 200-1-2 | Phys. 200-1-2 | Phys. 200-1-2 | ||
| Phy. Chem. 303-4-5 | Phy. Chem. 303-4-5 | |||||
| Engin. 903-4-5 | Engin 903-4-5 | Engin. 903-4-5 | ||||
| Math. 103-4-5 | Math. 103-4-5 | |||||
| Math. 103-4-5 | Geol. 403-4-5 | Geol. 403-4-5 | Engin. 707-8-x | Engin. 707-8-x | Engin. 707-8-x | |
| Geol. 403-4-5 | In. Chem. Quiz | Engin. 806-7-x | Engin. 806-7-x | Engin. 806-7-x | ||
| 12-1 | 336-7-8 | Engin. 906-7-x | Engin. 906-7-x | Engin. 906-7-x | ||
| Chem. 306-7-8 | Chem. 306-7-8 | Chem. 306-7-8 | ||||
| Geol. 400-1-2 | Geol. 400-1-2 | Geol. 400-1-2 | Engin. 704-5-6 | Engin. 704-5-6 | Engin. 704-5-6 | |
| 1-2 | Engin. 800-1-2 | Engin. 800-1-2 | Engin. 800-1-2 | |||
| 3-4 | In. Chem. 336-7-8 | In. Chem. 336-7-8 | In. Chem. 336-7-8 | |||
| Phys. Quiz 200-1-2 | ||||||
| Chem. 312-3-4. Hours of lecture by appointment. Physics 203-4. Hours of lecture by appointment. | ||||||
| Numbers following group names indicate in order subjects given in Fall, Winter and Spring respectively. | ||||||
| x indicates that no subject is given in the group in the respective term. | ||||||
LABORATORY SCHEDULE. DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING.
| Hours | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| 9-10 | Phys. 250-1-2 | Phys. 250-1-2 | Mech. 553-4-5 | |||
| Phys. 250-1-2 | Phys. 250-1-2 | Mech. 553-4-5 | ||||
| 10-11 | Geol. 450-1-2 | Geol. 450-1-2 | ||||
| Engin. 953-4-5 | Engin. 956-7-x | |||||
| Geol. 450-1-2 | Geol. 450-1-2 | Mech. 553-4-5 | ||||
| 11-12 | Engin. 953-4-5 | Engin. 956-7-x | ||||
| Draw. 650-1-2 | Draw. 650-1-2 | |||||
| Geol. 450-1-2 | Geol. 450-1-2 | Mech. 553-4-5 | ||||
| 12-1 | Engin. 953-4-5 | Chem. 350-1-2 | Engin. 956-7-x | Chem. 350-1-2 | Chem. 350-1-2 | |
| Draw. 650-1-2 | Draw. 653-4-5 | Draw. 650-1-2 | Draw. 653-4-5 | Draw. 653-4-5 | ||
| Engin. 953-4-5 | Mech. 553-4-5 | |||||
| 1-2 | Draw. 650-1-2 | Chem. 350-1-2 | Chem. 350-1-2 | Chem. 350-1-2 | ||
| Draw. 653-4-5 | Draw. 650-1-2 | Draw. 653-4-5 | Draw. 653-4-5 | |||
| Engin. x-951-x | Engin. x-950-2 | Engin. x-951-x | Engin. x-950-2 | Phys. 250-1-2 | ||
| 3-5 | Phys. 253-4-x | Phys. 253-4-x | ||||
| Field x-x-750 | Field x-x-750 | Field x-x-750 | Field x-x-750 | Field x-x-750 | Field x-x-750 | |
| 3-6 | Field 751-x-x | Field 751-x-x | Field 751-x-x | Field 751-x-x | Field 751-x-x | Field 751-x-x |
| Shop 662-x-3 | Shop. 662-x-3 | Shop 660-1-x | Shop 660-1-x | |||
| Engin. 850-x-x | Engin. 850-x-x | |||||
| BY APPOINTMENT. | ||||||
| An. Chem. 380-1-2 9 hours a week | Chem. 356-7-8 12 hours a week | Ph. Chem. 353-4-5 6 hours a week | ||||
| An. Chem. 383-4-5 12 hours a week | Chem. 362-3-4 12 hours a week | Engin. x-x-753 | ||||
| Geol. 453-4-5 6 hours a week | Eng. Drafting x-755-6 12 hours a week | Chem. 359-60-1 2-4 Mon.-Wed.-Fri. | ||||
| Shop x-664-x 12 hours a week | Engin. 860-x-x 5 hours a week | |||||
EXAMINATIONS AND REPORTS.
Written Examinations are held at the end of each term covering
the work of that term and the results of these examinations, combined
with the student's class standing, give his Term Grade.
Regular Reports are sent out at the end of every term to the
student's parent or guardian. These state for each course followed
the term grade and the number of absences. Further comment
may be added by the Dean or the professor, if it appears probable
that such comment would be helpful to the student. Parents are
urged to examine these reports carefully, and to exert such parental
influence as may seem needed to establish and confirm the student
in habits of industry and order.
Special Reports are sent to parents at the end of each month for
students delinquent in attendance or studiousness and for delinquents
only. When a student is making steady progress and showing
due diligence in his work only the regular reports are sent.
The receipt of a special report is evidence that, in the judgment of
the Faculty, prompt and pointed parental admonition is urgently
needed.
Re-examinations are held during registration week in September.
To these re-examinations the Faculty will admit, on the recommendation
of his professor, any student of the previous session who in
any course fell below the pass mark of seventy-five per cent., but
made at least sixty-five per cent. at the regular examination. For
every such re-examination the student must pay to the Bursar on
or before July 15th a fee of $5, which fee is in no case returnable.
The student who fails in any course and does not make up his deficiency
on re-examination will be required to register anew for
that course and attend the lectures and pass the regular examination,
unless relieved by special vote of the Faculty. The Dean will
send to every student eligible for re-examination a programme of
the dates of the September examinations.
DEGREES.
Upon the completion of the four years' course as defined in any
one of the Programmes of Study and the presentation of an acceptable
graduating thesis the Faculty will award to any student in
regular and honorable standing the appropriate Degree of Civil Engineer,
Mechanical Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Mining Engineer,
or Chemical Engineer. In each programme will be found the Topics
of Study for the several years. The hours for lectures and laboratory
exercises will be found in the Schedules. The dates for the examinations
are given in the Examination Programme.
PROGRAMME OF EXAMINATIONS.
1914-1915.
| Dec. | Mar. | June | Freshman | Sophomore | Junior | Senior |
| 12 | 17 | 10 | Engin. 701-2-3 | Mech. 500-1-2 | ||
| Engin. 800-1-2 | An. Ch. 333-4-5 | |||||
| Engin. 707-8-x | ||||||
| Engin. 806-7-x | ||||||
| 14 | 18 | 1 | Math. 100-1-2 | Engin. 906-7-x | ||
| Mining 420-1-2 | ||||||
| Chem. 306-7-8 | ||||||
| 15 | 19 | 2 | Math. 103-4-5 | Engin. 908-x-x | ||
| 16 | 20 | 3 | Engin. 900-1-2 | Phys. 203-4-x | ||
| 17 | 22 | 4 | Chem. 300-1-2 | An. Ch. 330-1-2 | Engin. 704-5-6 | Mech. x-506-7 |
| 18 | 23 | 5 | Phys. 200-1-2 | Engin. 903-4-5 | ||
| 19 | 24 | 7 | Geol. 403-4-5 | |||
| In. Ch. 336-7-8 | ||||||
| 21 | 25 | 8 | Draw. 603-4-5 | Engin. 803-4-5 | ||
| 22 | 26 | 9 | Engin. 600-1-700 | Geol. 400-1-2 | ||
| May | Mech. 503-4-5 | |||||
| 23 | 27 | 31 | Ph. Ch. 303-4-5 |
The numbers following group names indicate in order subjects
upon which examinations are given in December, March and June
respectively.
x indicates that no subject is given in the group in the respective
term.
(i) The student who makes an average of less than 40 per cent
on his courses at the end of any term is dropped from the rolls.
(ii) The student who makes an average of 40 per cent. or more
at the end of any term, but who makes less than 65 per cent. on
each of his courses, is on probation for the term next ensuing.
(iii) The student—already on probation—who again makes less
than 65 per cent. on each of his courses at the end of the current
term, is dropped from the rolls.
EXPENSES OF REGULAR STUDENTS.
The average annual expenses of a student who pursues the regular
course in Engineering will be:
| Outside Students |
Virginians. | |
| University Fee | $ 40 | $ 40 |
| Tuition and Laboratory Fees (average) | 100 | 50 |
| Living Expenses (for nine months) | 225 | 225 |
| Books and Drawing Materials | 20 | 20 |
| Incidental Expenses (for nine months) | 45 | 45 |
| Total for average conditions | $430 | $380 |
The charges for Tuition are uniform to all students, except that
Virginians are relieved of tuition on courses offered in the College.
The fee for each class taken will be $25, with the addition of the
prescribed laboratory charges, which are $5 for each class in Applied
Mechanics, Engineering, and Physics; $15 for Chemistry. For
each class in Analytical Chemistry a special fee of $50 is charged
for tuition, plus $10 for apparatus and supplies. The fee for practical
instruction in each class in Drawing is $10, and for each class
in Shopwork and Fieldwork $5.
The University Fee entitles the student to the free use of the
Library, Gymnasium, Shops, and Laboratories; to free medical attention;
to the services of the Instructor in Physical Culture; to
the facilities of the Hospital in case of need; and covers all fees for
the regular examinations, degrees, and diplomas.
The Living Expenses include board, lodging, fuel and lights,
servant and laundry; the average is $25 a month, the minimum $18,
and a reasonable maximum $32. Books and Drawing Materials will
cost about $80 for the four year course. Incidental Expenses ought
to be kept within modest bounds; the above estimate is sufficient;
large allowances of pocket money promote idleness and attract companions
of the baser sort. No allowances are made for clothing or
travel, the expenses for which vary too much to be introduced into
any general estimate.
The following are payable on entrance: University Fee ($40);
Tuition and Laboratory Fees ($100); Contingent Deposit ($10);
Books and Instruments ($20); and one month's Living Expenses
($32-18). The student will need at entrance about $200.
SPECIAL COURSE IN HIGHWAY ENGINEERING.
In recognition of the growing interest in Good Roads in Virginia
and the immense economic importance of the construction of
such roads in all parts of the Commonwealth, the courses of instruction
relating directly to this topic have been grouped together
to form a Special Course in Highway Engineering. This course
is given in the Spring Term and embraces:
| 703. | Location, Construction and Maintenance of County Roads and of City Streets and Pavements, with Laboratory tests of road materials. [Newcomb]. |
| 753. | |
| 700. | Plane Surveying with especial reference to land and topographical surveying and to highway location. [Newcomb]. |
| 652. | Topographical Drawing, embracing contoured maps, colored topography, map lettering, tracing and blue printing. [Hancock and Assistant]. |
| 655. | Structural Drawing, with especial reference to county road bridges, and to culverts and retaining walls for highways. [Thornton and Assistant]. |
| 750. | Field Surveying, with the adjustments and uses of the compass, transit, level and plane table. [Newcomb and the Field Assistants]. |
The regular fees for this special course aggregate $40.00, but
to a limited number of adequately prepared applicants, citizens of
Virginia, nominated by the County Board of Supervisors of their
respective counties, free scholarships will be given. Such students
pay only a registration fee of $5.00, for the use of field instruments
and laboratory apparatus.
REQUIREMENTS FOR ADVANCED STANDING.
Applicants from other colleges will be admitted provisionally to
advanced standing as candidates for a degree in Engineering upon
presentation of proper certificates covering the courses for which
credit is desired. Such certificates must be filed with the Dean,
and must be acceptable both to him and to the professors in charge
of the accredited courses. The certificate must bear the official
signature of the head of the college; must specify the character and
content of the course followed by the student; must give his marks,
which should not fall below the standard seventy-five per cent. of
this university; and must recommend the student as worthy of admission
to the University of Virginia in respect of both character
and scholarship. The final validation of such a certificate is effected
by the successful completion of the courses attended in this university.
The programme of studies offered by such a candidate for his
degree in Engineering must satisfy all the requirements for that
to engineering studies in this university.
Credits on Practical Work will be allowed to applicants, who
have accomplished successfully courses in Drawing, Field-Work, or
Shop-Work equivalent to those given in this university, or have acquired
in professional practice the training which these courses represent.
To secure credit for such work the student must make written
application to the Dean of the Department, and with this application
must file the certificate of the chief draftsman or other officer
under whom the work was done.
Credit for Summer School Work will be allowed when the conditions
stated in the following resolutions of the Engineering Faculty
are satisfied.
Resolved, That for courses in Mathematics, Physics, or Chemistry
required for degrees in Engineering in the University of Virginia
credits will be accepted from the Summer School of said University
on coextensive courses, provided the examination questions are prepared
by the professor in charge of the regular course, and the answers
are read and graded by him.
Resolved, That for courses required for degrees in Engineering
in the University of Virginia credits will be accepted from the Summer
Schools of other universities of corresponding grade on coextensive
courses, provided (1) that the grade attained on examination
is 75 per cent, and (2) that such courses are accepted by the universities
where they are given for the corresponding degrees.
Applicants for admission to the Engineering Department, who
are over twenty years old, and desire to enter for the pursuit of
special elective courses, must present adequate proofs of good character
and of the needful maturity and training. Such applicants are
then registered as Special Students, and are admitted without formal
examination to the privileges of the university, but not as candidates
for any titled degree.
HUMANISTIC STUDIES.
Students, who have enjoyed the benefits of sound preliminary
training in good high schools, are advised in all cases to enrich
and liberalize their professional course by the introduction of humanistic
studies.
Under the elective system of this university it is easy to plan a
schedule of work for a well-prepared matriculate, which will at the
end of six years give him in addition to his professional degree the
general culture degree of Bachelor of Science or of Bachelor of Arts.
The additional courses required are three in two languages (selected
or Economics), three courses in English, English Literature, or
Biblical History and Literature, and two courses in Philosophy
(Logic, or Ethics, or Psychology).
DRAFTING ROOMS.
The drafting rooms are abundantly lighted and are provided
with solidly constructed tables with locked drawers for instruments
and materials. Each student is assigned to a table and has a drawer
for his exclusive use. The regular Drawing Classes execute each
one plate a week under the supervision of the Instructor in Drawing.
The more advanced students have such additional drawings assigned
by their respective professors as are needed for the full development
of the courses of study.
Careful attention is given to the training of the students in
lettering, in the conventional signs of mechanical drawing, in the
proper lay-out of drawings, and in neat and accurate execution. Exercises
are required also in tracing and in blue-printing, the rooms
for which are conveniently arranged and in close contiguity to
the drafting rooms. While, however, technical dexterity is demanded,
the graphical method is taught and used primarily as a powerful
and indispensable instrument of research, the thoughtful mastery
of which is essential for the instructed Engineer.
The construction and theory of the Polar Planimeter, the Slide
Rule, and the Pantograph are carefully taught, and the student is
trained in the practical use of these appliances for the rapid and
accurate production of estimates and copies from finished drawings.
SHOPS.
The Shop Equipment is throughout of the best quality, the
machines being all from good makers and of sizes ample for the
purposes of instruction. A full outfit of hand tools is maintained
at all times. Each shop is equipped for the instruction of a squad
of sixteen students, this being as large a number as one instructor
can properly direct at once.
The Machine Shop is provided with four first-class engine
lathes, illustrating the practice of the best American makers; with
a planer, a shaper, two drill presses, a universal drilling machine
(Brown and Sharpe), and a universal grinder (same makers); also
with a gas forge for tempering tools, a cut-off saw for metal rods,
an emery wheel, and so on.
The Wood Shop is furnished with several small lathes, a large
pattern maker's lathe, a jointer, a planer, a saw bench for slitting
pattern making.
The Foundry has a cupola furnace for working cast iron, a brass
furnace, a core oven, and all needful accessories for moulding and
casting; the blast for the cupola is furnished by a special blower,
driven by a small high-speed steam engine.
The Forge Room is equipped with Buffalo down-draft forges;
and the necessary smith's tools; the draft is furnished by an engine-driven
blower, and the exhaust is operated by a fan driven also by
the engine.
Shop instruction is given for its educational value. The purpose
of this Department is to train engineers, not artisans; and
the claims of the shops are not permitted to infringe on the truly
vital functions of the laboratories, the drafting rooms, and the lectures.
FIELD INSTRUMENTS.
The outfit of Field Instruments contains compasses, transits, and
levels of various approved makes; a solar transit, furnished also with
stadia wires and gradienter for tachymetric work; hand-levels and
clinometers for railway topography; plane tables; a sextant; together
with an adequate supply of leveling rods, telemeter rods, signal
poles, chains, tapes, pins, and so on. For hydraulic work and hydrographic
surveys a hook guage and a current meter are provided. All
students are instructed in the theory and adjustments of the field
instruments and in their practical use in the field. They are also
required to make up their field-books in standard forms; to reduce
their surveys and execute all the necessary profiles, plans, and maps;
and to determine lengths, areas, and volumes both from the maps and
from the original notes. Polar planimeters are provided for facilitating
such estimates and a pantograph for making reduced copies
of finished drawings.
ROAD MATERIAL TESTS.
In the Road Material Tests the machines used are mainly those
devised by Dr. Logan Waller Page, director of the United States
office of public roads. For measuring the strength of the stone
cylindrical samples are cut out with a diamond drill and tested under
impact and in a 40,000-pound compression machine. The resistance
to abrasion is measured on fragments of the stone, rotated in heavy
cast iron cylinders mounted on their diagonals. The binding power
of the dust is measured by impact tests on cylindrical briquettes
formed under heavy hydraulic pressure. The dust for these briquettes
is produced in a ball mill fed with a fine stone broken in a small
by the generous aid of Dr. Page. Useful experimental researches
on the road-building rocks and gravels of Virginia are carried out
with it each year, as well as class demonstrations of the standard
tests for road materials.
LABORATORY WORK IN STRENGTH OF MATERIALS.
The Sinclair Laboratory for work in Strength of Materials.—
This was founded on the original donation of Mrs. John Sinclair,
of New York City, as a memorial to her late husband. The collection
has since been considerably enlarged. It contains Riehle and
Olsen machines, each of 100,000 pounds capacity, arranged for tensile,
compressive, and transverse tests; an Olsen torsion machine of
50,000 inch-pounds capacity; an Olsen compression machine of 40,000
pounds capacity; a Ewing tester for the elasticity of rods; hand machines
for testing rods and wires under pull and small specimens of
timber and cast iron under transverse loads; Fairbanks and Olsen
cement testers of 1,000 pounds capacity each; apparatus for torsional
tests on both long wires and short wires; together with the necessary
accessory apparatus for utilizing these machines.
LABORATORY AND FIELD-WORK IN HYDRAULICS.
The equipment for this work comprises a steel tank for weir
experiments with adjustable bronze notches; a hook guage for accurate
measurement of surface levels; a cast-iron stand pipe for experiments
on efflux with adjustable bronze orifices; a series of pipes
with bends, elbows, and tees for measuring pipe friction; and the
proper manometers and gauges for reading pressures. For the
field-work the outfit of field instruments has been enlarged by a
current meter of modern construction and a set of hollow copper
ball floats for direct stream velocity measurements.
LABORATORY WORK IN STEAM ENGINEERING.
The Steam Engine Tests are made on the high-speed Ball
engine, which operates the shops. This motor has been specially
equipped for the purpose. It receives steam from the main line
through a Sweet separator; humidity determinations are thus made
twice—once by a separating calorimeter before the steam enters
the separator, and again by a throttling calorimeter as it enters the
cylinder. It is fitted with proper indicators, and permanent indicator
rigging so that at any time cards may be taken and the indicated
horse-power determined. In like manner a rope friction brake
is so arranged that it may be at once applied for the determination
of brake horse-power. Connections are so made with a Wheeler
condensing or non-condensing. Provisions are made for measuring
the temperatures and the amounts of the condensation water
and the condensed steam produced during the run. With these
data a complete heat balance of the experimental run is attainable.
The Steam Turbine Tests are made on a DeLaval 30 horsepower
turbine direct connected to a 25 kva. alternating current generator.
The turbine takes steam from the main line through a Cochrane separator;
humidity tests are made with a throttling calorimeter below
the separator. Pressure guages indicate the steam pressure before and
after passing the governor and after expansion in the nozzles. Humidity
tests of exhaust steam are made with a separating calorimeter
The turbine has interchangeable nozzles for saturated steam exhausting
to atmosphere; for saturated steam exhausting to condenser;
for superheated steam exhausting to condenser. Steam consumption
is determined by weighing the condensate. Power output is measured
at the generator, the efficiency of the latter being known.
The Steam Pump Tests are made on a Worthington direct acting
duplex pump, receiving steam from the main line and exhausting
either to atmosphere or condenser. By weighing the condensed steam
hourly consumption is determined. The pump draws water from a
concrete tank in the floor of the laboratory and delivers it to a copper-lined
tank in the attic under a head of forty-five feet. Water
from the attic tank is returned to a wrought iron weir tank in the
laboratory, and thence to the concrete tank. In the weir tank
quantity of water delivered is measured. Velocity head is determined
indirectly from the quantity and the known area of the discharge
nozzle. Friction head is determined independently, and steam consumption
per developed horse-power-hour is computed.
The Air Compressor Tests are made on a Remington Ammonia
compressor, 4″ × 6″ double cylinder, single acting, so arranged
that it may be connected either to the refrigerating machine
or an air storage tank of ample capacity. Temperature of the storage
tank is determined at a thermometer cup passing well across
the diameter of the tank near its central portion. From the temperature,
pressure, and the known capacity of the tank compressor capacity
is determined; a check on the capacity from the indicator diagrams
being thus obtained. Power input is measured by a calibrated
electric motor which drives the compressor.
The Air Engine Tests are made on a 3″ × 4″ single cylinder
double acting engine receiving air from the storage tank at any desired
pressure below 100 lbs. The engine is permanently rigged
for taking indicator diagrams, the intake air temperature being determined
provide means for determining power output.
This equipment provides for the determination of (a) Mechanical
efficiency of the compressor, (b) Cylinder efficiency of the compressor,
(c) Efficiency of transmission, (d) Cylinder efficiency of the
engine, (e) Mechanical efficiency of the engine, (f) Over-all efficiency
of the air plant.
For Steam Boiler Tests the boilers of the university heating
and lighting plant are available. The department is equipped with
the necessary apparatus—thermometers, gauges, steam calorimeters,
fuel calorimeters, gas analyzers, scales, tanks, and so on. Students
of Mechanical Engineering are taught by practical lessons in the
boiler room the standard methods for boiler trials, and the class
makes each session at least one complete trial.
The Gas Engine Tests are made on an Otto machine of 15
I. H. P. and 12 B. H. P. This is also provided with its friction
brake, indicator rigging, and indicator. The cooling water is run
in from calibrated tanks and provision is made for observing not
only its amount but the initial and final temperatures. Gasoline
or alcohol is used as fuel, and is run in from a graduated wrought-iron
bottle, so that the amount consumed is determined. The heating
power is obtained by an independent test with a Rosenhain calorimeter.
Samples of the burnt gases are drawn from the exhaust
pipe and analyzed in an Orsat gas apparatus. With these data, and
the observed numbers of revolutions and explosions, the heat balance
is worked out.
The Refrigerating Tests are made on a Remington Ice Machine
of one ton capacity. This is an ammonia compression machine
driven by an electric motor. Instead of brine, plain water is used,
heated by a steam jet to 100 degrees and then cooled down to 40
degrees by the machine. A run is first made with the pipes empty
in order to determine the friction horse-power. The ammonia is
then turned on and the run is made under load. In both cases the
power consumed is measured both by wattmeter and by ammeter
and voltmeter readings. The tanks are accurately calibrated and
careful measurements of the temperature are made through the
run. Indicator cards are also taken from the ammonia cylinders
and the number of revolutions is registered by counter. With these
data the mechanical and thermodynamic performance of the machine
are figured out.
For Engine Balancing Experiments the 3″ × 4″ air engine is provided
with detachable weights which may be clamped at any desired
position relative to the crank and the axis of the main shaft. The
from previously computed weights being determined by the
nature of vibration of the suspended frame.
LABORATORY WORK IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.
The Scott Laboratory of Electrical Engineering.—This laboratory
was initially equipped and endowed by Mrs. Frances Branch
Scott, of Richmond, Va., as a memorial to her late son, an alumnus
of this university. During the year 1910 the equipment was substantially
increased through the generosity of the Hon. Charles M.
Crane, of Chicago, Ill., a friend of the university. During 1912, still
further substantial additions were made, consisting of measuring
instruments, auxiliary control apparatus, and more particularly a
steam-turbine driven alternating current, three-phase, generator
with exciter and control switchboard.
In addition to full sets of electric meters with the appliances
for testing and calibrating them, galvanometers of the best modern
types, standard cells and resistances, standard condensers, and
other pieces of apparatus for minor tests, it contains numerous
pieces of the very best construction. Such are the Wolff Potentiometer,
the Siemens and Halske Thomson Double Bridge, the
Koepsel Permeameter, the Duddell Double Projection Oscillograph,
the Station Photometer with Lummer-Brodhun screen, the Carey-Foster
Bridge and others. For the work in machine testing there
are a number of direct current generators and motors, series, shunt
and compound, an interpole motor, a double current generator, a
two phase alternator, a General Electric experimental test set for
alternating current comprising a generator furnishing single, two,
three, six or twelve phase current and in addition offering three
types of induction motors with all necessary starting and controlling
devices, a single phase repulsion motor, a two phase induction motor,
two three phase induction motors, several pairs of constant
voltage transformers, a constant current transformer, frequency
meters, power factor indicator, synchronism indicator, ground detector
and the auxiliary apparatus used in testing these machines.
The laboratory has been arranged with a system of universal plug
and receptacle connections to facilitate the setting up of all experimental
combinations.
The laboratory work is carried on in squads or groups of two
or three students and the work is so arranged that each student will
become familiar with all the details and connections of each particular
test. A most important feature of the laboratory instruction is
the required preparation of a preliminary report on each experiment
before the actual test is carried out. These preliminary reports
of a complete résumé of the test under discussion. The object, the
theory, the scheme of connections necessary, the choice of measuring
instruments and all auxiliary devices needful for the proper
performance of the experiment are here worked out and this preliminary
report is handed in for correction or approval. After approval
the test is assigned for a definite laboratory hour and the
work is then carried through. A final report is then handed in
consisting of the preliminary and the additional data in tabulated
and in graphical form. Such a final report comprises a complete
text on any given experiment and will prove of great value in later
work in commercial fields. It is recognized that the outlined method
for laboratory work is of the greatest benefit to the student inasmuch
as it requires a thorough understanding of each given test,
and at the same time inculcates habits of self-reliance and a spirit
of originality which cannot prove to be other than beneficial in the
later work when the engineer must rely upon his own ingenuity to
a great extent.
BUILDINGS.
The buildings devoted wholly or in part to the work of the Department
of Engineering are the following:
The Mechanical Laboratory is the main seat of the instruction
in technical studies. It is 180 by 70 feet and contains on the main
floor the Dean's office and the offices of the three other professors;
the main lecture room; the laboratory of electrical engineering; and
the drafting room for the First and Second Year students. Above
are a smaller drafting room for advanced students, and blue-print
and photographic rooms. Below on the ground floor are another
classroom, the reading-room, the testing laboratory, the wood shop,
the metal shop, apparatus and store rooms, the tool room, and the
students' lavatory.
The Power House is a single-story building 110 by 40 feet. In
addition to the university boiler plant and the electric lighting plant
this contains the foundry and the forge room. The boiler plant
consists of two horizontal return-tubular boilers, each of 140 horsepower.
The lighting plant consists of three electric generators directly
connected to high-speed engines, the respective capacities
being 25, 50, and 75 kilowatts. The whole plant is available for
purposes of instruction, study and experiment.
The Laboratory of General Chemistry, situated at the southern
end of West Range, is one of the older buildings recently remodelled
and fitted up for the work of instruction in undergraduate chemistry.
It is furnished with all the necessary apparatus and supplies, and is
taught in a separate section, have three hours in lecture each week
and six hours in the laboratory. The work is specially adapted to
their needs. The room used for work in Organic Chemistry is at
the northern end of West Range.
The Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry is 150 by 60 feet. It
is a single-story building, containing the lecture rooms, the laboratory
of analytical chemistry, the rooms for assaying, the balance
rooms, the offices and private laboratories of the professor of Industrial
and Analytical Chemistry, and a number of store rooms.
These contain not only the usual laboratory supplies, but an extensive
collection of specimens, illustrating very completely the processes
and products of industrial chemistry, and of especial interest
to engineering students.
The Geological Museum is 120 by 50 feet. It is a three-story
building. The main floor is devoted to the very extensive geological
collection of specimens, charts, relief maps, and so on. The gallery
above contains an equally good collection of minerals and numerous
models of typical crystallographic forms. The upper floor
contains the lecture rooms and the laboratories of Economic Geology.
In the basement are stored subsidiary collections and new
material accumulated in more recent geological surveys.
The Physical Laboratory faces the Mechanical Laboratory on
the opposite side of the quadrangle, and has almost the same proportions.
The main floor contains the lecture room, the professors'
offices, the laboratory of experimental physics, and the store room
for the very large collection of apparatus used in the lectures. On
the ground floor is the laboratory of theoretical electricity, the
storage battery room, a well-equipped shop for the repair and manufacture
of apparatus, and numerous smaller rooms for the work
of graduate students.
I—CIVIL ENGINEERING.
| Courses | Fall Term | Winter Term | Spring Term | Schedule | |
| Freshman | Mathematics | Trigonometry (100) | Algebra (101) | Analytical Geometry (102) | 9-10 M. W. F. |
| Chemistry | General Chemistry (300) | General Chemistry (301) | General Chemistry (302) | 10-11 T. Th. S. | |
| Chemical Lab. | Gen. Chem. Laboratory (350) | Gen. Chem. Laboratory (351) | Gen. Chem. Laboratory (352) | 12-2 T. Th. S. | |
| Engineering | Practical Geometry (600) | Machine Construction (601) | Plane Surveying (700) | 11-12 T. Th. S. | |
| Drawing | Mechanical Drawing (650) | Machine Drawing (651) | Topographical Drawing (652) | 11-2 M. W. | |
| Shop Work | Wood Shop (660) | Machine Shop (661) | 3-6 once a week | ||
| Field Work | Field Surveying (750) | 3-6 thrice weekly | |||
| Sophomore | Mathematics | Conic Sections (103) | Differential Calculus (104) | Integral Calculus (105) | 12-1 M. W. F. |
| Physics | General Physics (200) | General Physics (201) | General Physics (202) | 11-12 T Th S; 10-11 F | |
| Physical Lab. | Gen. Phys. Laboratory (250) | Gen. Phys. Laboratory (251) | Gen. Phys. Laboratory (252) | 9-11 M. W. | |
| Drawing | Graphical Statics (603) | Descriptive Geometry (604) | Structural Drawing (605) | 11-12 M. W. F. | |
| Drawing | Graphical Statics (653) | Descriptive Geometry (654) | Structural Drawing (655) | 12-2 T. Th. S. | |
| Engineering | Curves and Earthwork (701) | Railroad Engineering (702) | Roads, Strs. & St. Rys. (703) | 9-10 Th. F. S. | |
| Engineering Lab. | Road Material Testing (753) | By Appointment | |||
| Junior | Mechanics | Statics & Elem. Dynam. (500) | Dynamics of a Particle (501) | Dynamics of Rigid Body (502) | 10-11 M. W. F. |
| Mechanics | Strength of Materials (503) | Hydrosta. & Hydraul. (504) | Hydraulic M. & P. (505) | 9-10 M. T. W. | |
| Mechanical Lab. | Tests of Materials (553) | Friction & Lubricants (554) | Hydraulics Laboratory (555) | 10-1 S. | |
| Engineering | Masonry Construction (704) | Short Span Bridges (705) | Long Span Bridges (706) | 1-2 Th. F. S. | |
| Field Work | Railway Surveying (751) | 3-6 thrice weekly | |||
| Drafting | Bridge Drafting (755) | Bridge Drafting (756) | 12 hours a week | ||
| Senior | Chemistry | Industrial Chemistry (336) | 3-4 M. W. F.; 12-1 T. | ||
| Mechanics | Stability of Structures (506) | Canal & River Eng. (507) | 10-11 T. Th. S. | ||
| Geology | General Geology (400) | General Geology (401) | General Geology (402) | 1-2 M. T. W. | |
| Geological Lab. | Gen. Geol. Laboratory (450) | Gen. Geol. Laboratory (451) | Gen. Geol. Lab. (452) | 10-1 M. W. | |
| Engineering | Water Works, etc. (707) | Reinforced Concrete (708) | Thesis | 12-1 Th. F. S. | |
| Engineering | Elem. Steam Eng. (800) | Steam Power Plants (801) | Thesis | 1-2 Th. F. S. | |
| Engineering | Electrical Systems (908) | 10-11 Th. F. S. |
II—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.
| Courses | Fall Term | Winter Term | Spring Term | Schedule | |
| Freshman | Mathematics | Trigonometry (100) | Algebra (101) | Analytical Geometry (102) | 9-10 M. W. F. |
| Chemistry | General Chemistry (300) | General Chemistry (301) | General Chemistry (302) | 10-11 T. Th. S. | |
| Chemical Lab. | Gen. Chem. Laboratory (350) | Gen. Chem. Laboratory (351) | Gen. Chem. Laboratory (352) | 12-2 T. Th. S. | |
| Engineering | Practical Geometry (600) | Machine Construction (601) | Plane Surveying (700) | 11-12 T. Th. S. | |
| Drawing | Mechanical Drawing (650) | Machine Drawing (651) | Topographical Drawing (652) | 11-2 M. W. | |
| Shop Work | Wood Shop (660) | Machine Shop (661) | 3-6 once a week | ||
| Field Work | Field Surveying (750) | 3-6 thrice weekly | |||
| Sophomore | Mathematics | Conic Sections (103) | Differential Calculus (104) | Integral Calculus (105) | 12-1 M. W. F. |
| Physics | General Physics (200) | General Physics (201) | General Physics (202) | 11-12 T Th S; 10-11 F | |
| Physical Lab. | Gen. Phys. Laboratory (250) | Gen. Phys. Laboratory (251) | Gen. Phys. Laboratory (252) | 9-11 M. W. | |
| Drawing | Graphical Statics (603) | Descriptive Geometry (604) | Structural Drawing (605) | 11-12 M. W. F. | |
| Drawing | Graphical Statics (653) | Descriptive Geometry (654) | Structural Drawing (655) | 12-2 T. Th. S. | |
| Engineering | Elem. Steam Eng. (800) | Steam Power Plants (801) | Machine Design (802) | 1-2 Th. F. S. | |
| Junior | Mechanics | Statics & Elem. Dynam. (500) | Dynamics of a Particle (501) | Dynamics of Rigid Body (502) | 10-11 M. W. F. |
| Mechanics | Strength of Materials (503) | Hydrosta. & Hydraul. (504) | Hydraulic M. & P. (505) | 9-10 M. T. W. | |
| Mechanical Lab. | Tests of Materials (553) | Friction & Lubricants (554) | Hydraulics Laboratory (555) | 10-1 S. | |
| Engineering | Elements of Elec. Eng. (900) | Direct Current Mach. (901) | Periodic Currents (902) | 9-10 Th. F. S. | |
| Engineering Lab. | D. C. Laboratory (950) | D. C. Laboratory (952) | 3-5 T. Th. | ||
| Engineering Lab. | D. C. Laboratory (951) | 3-5 M. W. | |||
| Shop Work | Advanced Mach. Shop (662) | Pat. Mkg., Fdry., Forge (663) | 3-6 M. W. | ||
| Engineering Lab. | Steam Laboratory (850) | 3-6 T. Th. | |||
| Senior | Chemistry | Industrial Chemistry (336) | 3-4 M. W. F.; 12-1 T. | ||
| Mechanics | Stability of Structures (506) | Canal & River Eng. (507) | 10-11 T. Th. S. | ||
| Engineering | Internal Com. Eng. (803) | Steam Eng. & Turbines (804) | Engine Design (805) | 9-10 Th. F. S. | |
| Engineering | Kinematics of Mach. (806) | Locomotive Eng. (807) | Thesis | 12-1 Th. F. S. | |
| Engineering | Masonry Construction (704) | Thesis | 1-2 Th. F. S. | ||
| Shop Work | Advanced Mach. Shop (664) | Thesis | 12 hours a week | ||
| Engineering | Inspection (860) | 5 hours a week |
III—ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.
| Courses | Fall Term | Winter Term | Spring Term | Schedule | |
| Freshman | Mathematics | Trigonometry (100) | Algebra (101) | Analytical Geometry (102) | 9-10 M. W. F. |
| Chemistry | General Chemistry (300) | General Chemistry (301) | General Chemistry (302) | 10-11 T. Th. S. | |
| Chemical Lab. | Gen. Chem. Laboratory (350) | Gen. Chem. Laboratory (351) | Gen. Chem. Laboratory (352) | 12-2 T. Th. S. | |
| Engineering | Practical Geometry (600) | Machine Construction (601) | Plane Surveying (700) | 11-12 T. Th. S. | |
| Drawing | Mechanical Drawing (650) | Machine Drawing (651) | Topographical Drawing (652) | 11-2 M. W. | |
| Shop Work | Wood Shop (660) | Machine Shop (661) | 3-6 once a week | ||
| Field Work | Field Surveying (750) | 3-6 thrice weekly | |||
| Sophomore | Mathematics | Conic Sections (103) | Differential Calculus (104) | Integral Calculus (105) | 12-1 M. W. F. |
| Physics | General Physics (200) | General Physics (201) | General Physics (202) | 11-12 T Th S; 10-11 F | |
| Physical Lab. | Gen. Phys. Laboratory (250) | Gen. Phys. Laboratory (251) | Gen. Phys. Laboratory (252) | 9-11 M. W. | |
| Drawing | Graphical Statics (603) | Descriptive Geometry (604) | Structural Drawing (605) | 11-12 M. W. F. | |
| Drawing | Graphical Statics (653) | Descriptive Geometry (654) | Structural Drawing (655) | 12-2 T. Th. S. | |
| Engineering | Elem. Steam Eng. (800) | Steam Power Plants (801) | Machine Design (802) | 1-2 Th. F. S. | |
| Junior | Mechanics | Statics & Elem. Dynam. (500) | Dynamics of a Particle (501) | Dynamics of Rigid Body (502) | 10-11 M. W. F. |
| Mechanics | Strength of Materials (503) | Hydrosta. & Hydraul. (504) | Hydraulic M. & P. (505) | 9-10 M. T. W. | |
| Mechanical Lab. | Tests of Materials (553) | Friction & Lubricants (554) | Hydraulics Laboratory (555) | 10-1 S. | |
| Engineering | Elements of Elec. Eng. (900) | Direct Current Mach. (901) | Periodic Currents (902) | 9-10 Th. F. S. | |
| Engineering Lab. | D. C. Laboratory (950) | D. C. Laboratory (952) | 3-5 T. Th. | ||
| Engineering Lab. | D. C. Laboratory (951) | 3-5 M. W. | |||
| Shop Work | Advanced Mach. Shop (662) | Pat. Mkg., Fdry., Forge (663) | 3-6 M. W. | ||
| Engineering Lab. | Steam Laboratory (850) | 3-6 T. Th. | |||
| Senior | Chemistry | Industrial Chemistry (336) | 3-4 M. W. F.; 12-1 T. | ||
| Mechanics | Stability of Structures (506) | Canal & River Eng. (507) | 10-11 T. Th. S. | ||
| Engineering | Alternating Cur. Mach. (903) | Alternating Cur. Mach. (904) | Electric Power Trans. (905) | 11-12 Th. F. S. | |
| Engineering | Illumination & Photom. (906) | Electric Traction (907) | Thesis | 12-1 Th. F. S. | |
| Engineering Lab. | A. C. Laboratory (953) | A. C. Laboratory (954) | A. C. Laboratory (955) | 10-2 M. | |
| Engineering Lab. | Photometrical Lab. (956) | A. C. Laboratory (957) | Thesis | 10-1 W. | |
| Physics | Elec. & Magnetism (203) | Elec. & Magnetism (204) | Thesis | 3 hours by appt. | |
| Physical Lab. | Elec. & Mag. Lab. (253) | Elec. & Mag. Lab. (254) | Thesis | 3-5 T. Th. | |
| Engineering | Inspection (860) | 5 hours a week |
IV—CHEMICAL ENGINEERING.
| Courses | Fall Term | Winter Term | Spring Term | Schedule | |
| Freshman | Mathematics | Trigonometry (100) | Algebra (101) | Analytical Geometry (102) | 9-10 M. W. F. |
| Chemistry | General Chemistry (300) | General Chemistry (301) | General Chemistry (302) | 10-11 T. Th. S. | |
| Chemical Lab. | Gen. Chem. Laboratory (350) | Gen. Chem. Laboratory (351) | Gen. Chem. Laboratory (352) | 12-2 T. Th. S. | |
| Engineering | Practical Geometry (600) | Machine Construction (601) | Plane Surveying (700) | 11-12 T. Th. S. | |
| Drawing | Mechanical Drawing (650) | Machine Drawing (651) | Topographical Drawing (652) | 11-2 M. W. | |
| Shop Work | Wood Shop (660) | Machine Shop (661) | 3-6 once a week | ||
| Field Work | Field Surveying (750) | 3-6 thrice weekly | |||
| Sophomore | Mathematics | Conic Sections (103) | Differential Calculus (104) | Integral Calculus (105) | 12-1 M. W. F. |
| Physics | General Physics (200) | General Physics (201) | General Physics (202) | 11-12 T Th S; 10-11 F | |
| Physical Lab. | Gen. Phys. Laboratory (250) | Gen. Phys. Laboratory (251) | Gen. Phys. Laboratory (252) | 9-11 M. W. | |
| Drawing | Graphical Statics (603) | Descriptive Geometry (604) | Structural Drawing (605) | 11-12 M. W. F. | |
| Drawing | Graphical Statics (653) | Descriptive Geometry (654) | Structural Drawing (655) | 12-2 T. Th. S. | |
| Chemistry | Analytical Chemistry (330) | Analytical Chemistry (331) | Analytical Chemistry (332) | 10-11 T. Th. S. | |
| Chemical Lab. | An. Chem. Laboratory (380) | An. Chem. Laboratory (381) | An. Chem. Laboratory (382) | 9 hours a week | |
| Junior | Chemistry | Analytical Chemistry (333) | Analytical Chemistry (334) | Analytical Chemistry (335) | 10-11 M. W. F. |
| Chemical Lab. | An. Chem. Laboratory (383) | An. Chem. Laboratory (384) | An. Chem. Laboratory (385) | 12 hours a week | |
| Chemistry | Physical Chemistry (303) | Physical Chemistry (304) | Physical Chemistry (305) | 11-12 M. W. F. | |
| Chemical Lab. | Phys. Chem. Lab. (353) | Phys. Chem. Laboratory (354) | Phys. Chem. Lab. (355) | 6 hours a week | |
| Engineering | Elements of Elec. Eng. (900) | Direct Current Mach. (901) | Periodic Currents (902) | 9-10 Th. F. S. | |
| Engineering | Elem. Steam Eng. (800) | Steam Power Plants (801) | Machine Design (802) | 1-2 Th. F. S. | |
| Engineering Lab. | Steam Laboratory [3-6] (850) | D. C. Laboratory (950) | D. C. Laboratory (952) | 3-5 T. Th. | |
| Senior | Chemistry | Industrial Chemistry (336) | Industrial Chemistry (337) | Industrial Chemistry (338) | 3-4 M. W. F.; 12-1 T. |
| Mechanics | Statics & Elem. Dynamics 10-11 M. W. F. (500) |
Hydrosta. & Hydraul. (504) | Hydraulic M. & P. (505) | 9-10 M. T. W. | |
| Mechanical Lab. | Tests of Materials (553) | Friction & Lubricants (554) | Hydraulics Laboratory (555) | 3 hours S. (a. m.) | |
| Geology | General Geology (400) | General Geology (401) | General Geology (402) | 1-2 M. T. W. | |
| Geological Lab. | Gen. Geol. Laboratory (450) | Gen. Geol. Laboratory (451) | Gen. Geol. Lab. (452) | 10-1 M. W. | |
| Chemistry | Advanced Inorg. Chem. (306) | Adv. Inorganic Chem. (307) | Adv. Inorg. Chem. (308) | 12-1 Th. F. S. | |
| Or Chemistry | Advanced Org. Chem. (312) | Adv. Organic Chem. (313) | Adv. Organic Chem. (314) | By Appt. thrice wkly. | |
| Chemical Lab. | Adv. Inorg. Ch. Lab. (356) | Adv. Inorg. Chem. Lab. (357) | Adv. Inorg. Chem. Lab. (358) | 12 hours a week. | |
| Or Chemical Lab. | Adv. Org. Chem. Lab. (362) | Adv. Org. Chem. Lab. (363) | Adv. Org. Chem. Lab. (364) | 12 hours a week. |
V—MINING ENGINEERING.
| Courses | Fall Term | Winter Term | Spring Term | Schedule | |
| Freshman | Mathematics | Trigonometry (100) | Algebra (101) | Analytical Geometry (102) | 9-10 M. W. F. |
| Chemistry | General Chemistry (300) | General Chemistry (301) | General Chemistry (302) | 10-11 T. Th. S. | |
| Chemical Lab. | Gen. Chem. Laboratory (350) | Gen. Chem. Laboratory (351) | Gen. Chem. Laboratory (352) | 12-2 T. Th. S. | |
| Engineering | Practical Geometry (600) | Machine Construction (601) | Plane Surveying (700) | 11-12 T. Th. S. | |
| Drawing | Mechanical Drawing (650) | Machine Drawing (651) | Topographical Drawing (652) | 11-2 M. W. | |
| Shop Work | Wood Shop (660) | Machine Shop (661) | 3-6 once a week | ||
| Field Work | Field Surveying (750) | 3-6 thrice weekly | |||
| Sophomore | Mathematics | Conic Sections (103) | Differential Calculus (104) | Integral Calculus (105) | 12-1 M. W. F. |
| Physics | General Physics (200) | General Physics (201) | General Physics (202) | 11-12 T Th S; 10-11 F | |
| Physical Lab. | Gen. Phys. Laboratory (250) | Gen. Phys. Laboratory (251) | Gen. Phys. Laboratory (252) | 9-11 M. W. | |
| Drawing | Graphical Statics (603) | Descriptive Geometry (604) | Structural Drawing (605) | 11-12 M. W. F. | |
| Drawing | Graphical Statics (653) | Descriptive Geometry (654) | Structural Drawing (655) | 12-2 T. Th. S. | |
| Engineering | Elem. Steam Eng. (800) | Steam Power Plants (801) | Machine Design (802) | 1-2 Th. F. S. | |
| Junior | Mechanics | Statics & Elem. Dynam. (500) | Dynamics of a Particle (501) | Dynamics of Rigid Body (502) | 10-11 M. W. F. |
| Geology | General Geology (400) | General Geology (401) | General Geology (402) | 1-2 M. T. W. | |
| Geological Lab. | Gen. Geol. Laboratory (450) | Gen. Geol. Laboratory (451) | Gen. Geol. Laboratory (452) | 11-1 M. W.; & 2 hrs. | |
| Engineering | Elements of Elec. Eng. (900) | Direct Current Mach. (901) | Periodic Currents (902) | 9-10 Th. F. S. | |
| Engineering Lab. | Steam Laboratory [3-6] (850) | D. C. Laboratory (950) | D. C. Laboratory (952) | 3-5 T. Th. | |
| Chemistry | Industrial Chemistry (336) | Industrial Chemistry (337) | Industrial Chemistry (338) | 3-4 M. W. F.; 12-1 T. | |
| Senior | Mechanics | Strength of Materials (503) | Hydrosta. & Hydraul. (504) | Hydraulic M. & P. (505) | 9-10 M. T. W. |
| Mechanical Lab. | Tests of Materials (553) | Friction & Lubricants (554) | Hydraulics Laboratory (555) | 3 hours S. (a. m.) | |
| Chemistry | Analytical Chemistry (330) | Analytical Chemistry (331) | Analytical Chemistry (332) | 10-11 T. Th. S. | |
| Chemical Lab. | An. Chem. Lab. (380) | An. Chem. Laboratory (381) | An. Chem. Laboratory (382) | 9 hours a week | |
| Geology | Economic Geology (403) | Economic Geology (404) | Economic Geology (405) | 12-1 M. T. W. | |
| Geological Lab. | Econ. Geol. Lab. (453) | Econ. Geol. Laboratory (454) | Econ. Geol. Lab. (455) | 6 hours a week | |
| Mining | Exploita. of Mines (420) | Mining Machinery (421) | Electricity in Mining (422) | 9-10 Th. F. S. |
| University of Virginia record February, 1914 | |