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CURRICULUM IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Option A—Power; Option B—Aeronautics

                                                                         

	Humanities	Mathematics and Science	Technical Engineering
Freshman	English:	Mathematics:	Plane Surveying
	Rhetoric and Composition	Trigonometry	Mechanical Drawing
	Reports and Letter Writing	Analytical Geometry and	Descriptive Geometry
	Technical Papers	College Algebra	El. Mech. Technology
		Chemistry	Drawing Laboratory
			Field-work
Sophomore	Options:	Mathematics:	Machine Design
	History	Differential and	General Aeronautics
	or Government	Integral Calculus	Elementary Mechanics
	or Commercial Law	Physics	Engineering Drawing
		Mathematical Laboratory
Junior	Business Speaking	Applied Mechanics	General Thermodynamics
	Option:	Graphical Statics	Steam Power Plants
	Economics	Structural Drawing	Airplane Power Plants
	or Modern Language	Mechanics Laboratory	Power Testing
		Drawing Laboratory
Senior	Cost Accounting[3]	Hydraulics	Materials of Construction
		Strength of Materials	Theory of Machines
		Mechanics Laboratory	Metallography of Iron and Steel
			Aerodynamics (B-option)
			Airplane Design (B-option)
			Heating, Ventilation and Refrigeration (A-option)
			Propeller Design (B-option)
			Power Testing
			Electric Systems
			Engineering Design
Degree of B. S. in Engineering on completion of Four-Year Course.
Graduate	Elective		Steam Generators, Turbines and Diesel Engines
	Philosophy
	or Architecture		Mechanism, Mechanics of Machinery and Engrg. and Industrial Processes
	or Fine Arts
	or other subject
	approved by the		Industrial Management
	Faculty of		Engineering Economics and Specifications
	Engineering
Degree of M. E. on completion of the additional Graduate Course.

Practice courses are printed in Italics; courses with combined lecture and laboratory work in Black Face Type.