 | The University of Virginia record January 15, 1926 |  |
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 English,
Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Chemistry 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
the student majoring in Chemical Engineering begins his specialized work,
while all others pursue identical courses of study through the year. On entering
the Junior year each student elects his specialty. The courses thereafter
diverge according to the major subject chosen by the student. 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 pre-supposes
the completion of the work for all the foregoing years. Students are
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.
Upon the completion of the four years' course as defined in any one of
the Programs of Study, the faculty will award to any student in regular
and honorable standing the degree of Bachelor of Science in Engineering.
Upon the completion of the additional Graduate Course in a satisfactory
manner the faculty will award the appropriate degree of Civil Engineer,
Mechanical Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Chemical Engineer, or Mining
Engineer.
The new five-year curriculum has been adopted at the University of
Virginia in view of the impressive and growing demand from practicing
engineers and industrial leaders that Schools of Engineering should enlarge
the field of study to embrace more of the humanities and better opportunities
for student research, to the end that graduates may be better fitted to
undertake their duties as engineers and citizens.
The entering classes, beginning with 1923-24, will be matriculated under
the new program as presented in this volume of the University of Virginia
Record, while students registered before the session of 1923 or with corresponding
advanced standing will be permitted to graduate under the former
four-year curriculum, but not later than June, 1926. Complete programs of
the former four-year degree courses may be found in volume IX of the
University of Virginia Record for those who are yet to graduate under the
older curriculum. The present volume presents in detail only the new five-year
curriculum.
| The University of Virginia record January 15, 1926 | |