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PROGRAMS OF STUDY.

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. Programs 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 programs. 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 by special order 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 25.
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.

Upon the completion of the four years' course as defined in any one of
the Programs 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, Chemical Engineer, or Mining Engineer.