 | University of Virginia record February, 1912 |  |
DRAWING.
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.
Drawing 1. [Thornton and Hancock].
The work is distributed over the several terms as follows, one
finished plate 15″ × 20″ being required of the student each week.
The theoretical instruction in the subjects of this course is given
in connection with the work of Engineering 1. The practical
teaching is given at the drawing board. Hours, 11-2, Monday,
Wednesday.
Fall Term.—Mechanical Drawing; embraces careful training in
technique, assiduous practice in lettering, and the graphical solution
in the weekly plates of a series of carefully selected problems in
practical plane and solid geometry, and in graphical algebra and
trigonometry.
Winter Term.—Machine Drawing.—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.
Spring Term.—Topographical Drawing.—This course consists of
nine hours per 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
proficient in the preparation of such maps. Particular attention
is given to the study of contour maps, and the solution of
problems relating thereto.
Drawing 2. [Thornton and Gallalee].
This course 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. The distribution of topics is
as below: Hours, 12-2, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday. Lectures, 11-12,
Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
Fall Term.—Graphical Statics.—The necessary preparation is
such knowledge of experimental mechanics as is given in Physics
1. 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.
Winter Term.—Descriptive Geometry.—The required preparation
is given by Drawing 1. The fundamental problems on the
point, line, and plane are carefully studied, with applications to the
construction of shadows on polyedra 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.
Spring Term.—Structural Drawing.—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.
| University of Virginia record February, 1912 | |