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 Freshman Class. The studies of this class comprise lecture-courses
in Mathematics, Chemistry and 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,
Chemical, or Mining Engineering. Programmes of study for each degree
are given below.
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.
Changes of classes with transfer of fees may be made, subject to the
approval of the Dean, within two weeks after the beginning of any term.
Thereafter such changes may be made only on recommendation of the
Faculty, and then without transfer of fees.
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 durable stiff 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, in the various
programmes of courses, and in lecture, laboratory and examination
schedules, these subjects of instruction are grouped into nine classes, each
subject being designated by a distinctive number for each term, the lecture
and laboratory courses being 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 |
Lecture-courses are listed in the first fifty numbers of all classes;
laboratory or practice courses are listed in the second fifty numbers of all
classes.
