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Page 341

1935-1936
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 
College Algebra  El. Mech. Technology 
Technical Papers  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  Power Plants 
Economics  Structural Drawing  Steam 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) 
Airplane Structures
(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 and laboratory work in
Black Face Type.

 
[3]

Taken in Junior year instead of Economics by those choosing B-option.