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DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING

EDWIN ANDERSON ALDERMAN, Ph.B., D.C.L., LL.D.

President of the University.

JOHN LLOYD NEWCOMB, B.A., C.E.

Dean of the Department of Engineering.

                                                   

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WILLIAM MYNN THORNTON, B.A., LL.D.  Professor of Applied
Mathematics
 
FRANCIS PERRY DUNNINGTON, C.E., E.M.  Professor of Analytical and
Industrial Chemistry
(retired
WILLIAM HOLDING ECHOLS, B.S., C.E.  Professor of Mathematics 
JAMES MORRIS PAGE, M.A., Ph.D., LL.D.  Professor of Mathematics 
ROBERT MONTGOMERY BIRD, B.A., B.S., Ph.D.  Professor of Chemistry 
WILLIAM HARRISON FAULKNER, M.A., Ph.D.  Professor of Germanic
Languages
 
JOHN LLOYD NEWCOMB, B.A., C.E.  Professor of Civil Engineering 
LLEWELLYN GRIFFITH HOXTON, B.S., B.A., M.A., Ph.D.  Professor of
Physics
 
WALTER SHELDON RODMAN, M.S., S.M.  Professor of Electrical
Engineering
 
CARROLL MASON SPARROW, B.A., Ph.D.  Professor of Physics 
JOHN JENNINGS LUCK, M.A., Ph.D.  Professor of Mathematics 
TIPTON RAY SNAVELY, M.A., Ph.D.  Professor of Economics 
WILBUR ARMISTEAD NELSON, B.S., M.A.  Corcoran Professor of
Geology
 
GARDNER LLOYD CARTER, M.A., Ph.D.  Professor of Chemistry 
ALBERT JULIUS BARLOW, B.A., C.P.A.  Professor of Commerce and
Business Administration
 
W. PATTON GRAHAM, M.A.  Professor of Romanic Languages 
FRANCIS HARRIS previous hit ABBOT next hit, M.A.  Professor of French 
JOSEPH KENT ROBERTS, M.A., Ph.D.  Professor of Geology 
JOHN HOWE YOE, M.S., M.A., Ph.D.  Professor of Chemistry 
ARTHUR FERGUSON BENTON, M.A., Ph.D.  Professor of Chemistry 
GEORGE WASHINGTON SPICER, B.A., Ph.D.  Acting Professor
of Political Science
 
[2] HERMAN PATRICK JOHNSON, M.A., Ph.M.  Associate Professor of
English Literature
 
CHARLES WAKEFIELD PAUL  Associate Professor of Public Speaking 
EDWARD WATTS SAUNDERS, Jr., C.E.  Associate Professor of Applied
Mathematics
 
ARTHUR FRANCIS MACCONOCHIE, B.Sc. (Engrg.) London  Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering 
FREDERICK LYONS BROWN, M.A., Ph.D.  Associate Professor of Physics 
FRANK STRINGFELLOW BARR, B.A. (Oxon.), M.A.  Associate Professor
of History
 
JAMES SHANNON MILLER, Jr., B.S., B.A., E.E.  Associate Professor of
Electrical Engineering
 
CHARLES HENDERSON, E.E.  Associate Professor of Experimental
Engineering
 
CHARLES NEWTON HULVEY, M.S., LL.B.  Associate Professor of
Commercial Law
 
THOMAS CARY JOHNSON, Jr., B.A., M.A.  Associate Professor of History 
LAUREN BLAKELY HITCHCOCK, S.B., S.M.  Associate Professor of
Chemical Engineering
 
ARTHUR AUGUST PEGAU, M.A., Ph.D.  Assistant Professor of Geology 
FRANZ KARL MOHR, M.A., Dr.Jur.  Assistant Professor of Germanic
Languages
 
HUGH MILLER SPENCER, B.A., M.S., Ph.D.  Assistant Professor of
Chemistry
 
EDWIN CARLYLE MARKHAM, B.A., Ph.D.  Assistant Professor of
Chemistry
 
ORESTE RINETTI, Ph.D.  Assistant Professor of Italian 
THADDEUS BRAXTON WOODY, M.A.  Assistant Professor of Spanish 
CHARLES MORTIMER DANIEL, B.S., M.E.  Acting Assistant
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
 

Service Fellows and Instructors

                                               
Richmond Thomas McGregor Bell, B.S.  Chemistry 
Alvin Blocksom Biscoe, B.A., M.A.  Economics 
Donald Denby Bode, B.S.  Chemistry 
George Lewis Cunningham, B.A.  Chemistry 
Leonard Chapman Drake, B.A.  Chemistry 
Adolph Pharo Gagge, B.A.  Physics 
Charles Lee Harman, B.S.  Chemistry 
Carlisle Joseph Kennett, B.S.  Chemistry 
Nathaniel Pruden Lawrence, Jr., B.A., M.A.  English 
Irving Lindsey, B.A., M.A.  Mathematics 
Lowrey Love, Jr., B.A.  Chemistry 
Marion Randolph Lytton, B.S.  Chemistry 
William Porter McLendon, B.A.  Cost Accounting 
Irvine Hartford Marshall, B.S.  Chemistry 
William Albert Moomaw, B.S.  Chemistry 
Dalton Jefferson Pilcher, B.A., M.A.  Economics 
Avery Henry Reed, Sr.  Mining Engineering 
Jabez Curry Street, B.S., E.E.  Physics 
Robert Joseph Taylor, B.A.  Chemistry 
Carlisle Monroe Thacker, B.S.  Chemistry 
John Albert Tiedeman, B.S., M.S.  Physics 
Joseph Lee Vaughan, B.A., M.A.  English 
Fontaine Allen Wells, B.S. (Instructor)  Mathematics 
Floyd Henry Wirsing, B.S.  Chemistry 

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Service Scholars and Assistants

                                             
Edwin Eads Andrews, Jr.  Field-work 
Harold Donald Burt (Service Scholar)  Chemistry 
Ernly Estes (Service Scholar)  Chemistry 
Robert Edward Lee Gildea  Field and Shop-work 
Alvin Cushman Graves  Mathematics 
Howard Hayward Hackley, B.A.  Business Speaking 
Charles Dorsey Harmon, B.A., B.S.E.  Bridge Drafting 
Clarence Mortimer Hawkins  Plane Surveying and Field-work 
Harry Reginald Holt, B.S.E.  Electrical Engineering 
Edward Fruth Joachim, B.S.E., M.E.  Junior and Senior Applied
Mathematics and Experimental Engineering
 
Alva Alexander Johnson  Mathematics 
Bernard Jerry Kyle  Junior Applied Mathematics 
Allen Quarles Ladd  Shop-work 
Charles Edward McMurdo, B.S.E.  Freshman Applied Mathematics
and Electrical Engineering
 
David Lee Maulsby  Railway Surveying and Field-work 
Garnett Virgil Moore (Service Scholar)  Sophomore Applied
Mathematics and Chemistry
 
Fred Shank Palmer (Service Scholar)  Chemistry 
Thomas James Peterson  Field-work 
Gilford Godfrey Quarles  Freshman Applied Mathematics 
Avery Henry Reed, Jr.  Field-work 
George Austin Robertson  Shop-work 
Frank William Rose, Jr. (Service Scholar)  Freshman Applied
Mathematics and Chemistry
 
Edward Carl Stevenson, B.S.E., M.S.,  Junior Applied Mathematics 

ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS

For admission to the Freshman Class in the Department of Engineering
the candidate must be at least sixteen years old. He must present a certificate
of honorable withdrawal from the school last attended, or other valid
proof of general good character. He must further satisfy the Dean of the
University as to his adequate preparation for the work by passing the Entrance
Examinations specified below or by the presentation of equivalent
certificates of preparation signed by the president of a recognized institution
of collegiate rank, or by the principal of an accredited high school. The
topics required for entrance and their values in units are as follows, the unit
being one year's work on the subject in an accredited high school:

         

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English A.—Grammar and Grammatical Analysis  1 
English B.—Composition and Rhetoric  1 
English C.—Critical study of Specimens of Literature  1 
Mathematics A1.—Algebra to Quadratics  1 
Mathematics A2.—Quadratics, Progressions, Binomial Formula  1 
Mathematics B.—Plane Geometry  1 
Mathematics C.—Solid Geometry  ½ 
Mathematics D.—Plane Trigonometry  ½ 
History.—Ancient; Medieval; English; American (any one)  1 
Electives  7 
Total  15 

High school students who expect to study Engineering are advised to
include among their electives at least one Foreign Language (Latin or French
or German), one Science (Chemistry or Physics with adequate laboratory
work) and an additional unit of History. Other electives which may be
profitably offered are History of English and American Literature, Greek,
Botany, Zoölogy, Physical Geography.

A candidate may be admitted as a Conditioned Student in spite of some
deficiencies in required entrance subjects, provided these are not such as
will impair the integrity of his work, but he must submit not less than 15
units. No such candidate will be conditioned except upon subjects actually
taught in this University, nor will any candidate be conditioned on more than
2 units; and all conditions must be absolved before the beginning of the
next session after initial registration. Courses taken for the removal of entrance
conditions may in no case be counted as part of the work credited
for any degree. No conditions will be allowed in English A or B or in
Mathematics A1, A2, or B.

As the table of Entrance Requirements shows, the full High School
course in Mathematics is required for entrance to the Department of Engineering,
but unfortunately the graduates of the High Schools are often deficient
in Solid Geometry and Plane Trigonometry and can be admitted only
upon conditions in those subjects. High School principals are advised to urge
their graduates, with this status, to attend a Summer Session at the University
before entering the Department of Engineering so that these deficiencies
may be overcome. If the prospective student finds it impossible to attend
a Summer School previous to his regular matriculation, a course has
been planned which will allow him to make up his deficiencies by taking work
in the Summer School following his first year in Engineering. This course
provides for Trigonometry, Solid Geometry and College Algebra in the three
terms of the regular session, with the other work as outlined for the regular
student, and in addition, in the two terms of the Summer School, Analytical
and Coördinate Geometry are taken. Such a program will prepare the student
for Sophomore standing and will save him from the failure usually encountered
by students who attempt to make up the deficient work in regular
session in addition to the full course of required subjects.

A candidate may be admitted as a Special Student, without formal
examination, provided he is more than twenty years old if a Virginian and
not less than twenty-three years old if a non-Virginian, and gives evidence
of serious purpose and of fitness to pursue with profit the courses for which
he is registered. No special student may be a candidate for any degree. No
conditioned student may register later as a special student.


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ADMISSION OF WOMEN

Women are admitted as candidates for the Engineering Degrees but not
as Special Students. A candidate must be at least twenty years old on the
birthday preceding matriculation; must present certificates showing graduation
from an accredited public high-school, or not less than four years' attendance
in an accredited private school, with credit for not less than 15 college
entrance units obtained at least two years before admission to the University;
and must in addition show by proper certificate the completion in
a standard college, subsequent to the credit obtained for 15 entrance-units,
of at least 30 session-hours (60 semester-hours), of courses of college grade,
in not less than eighteen calendar months.

ADVANCED STANDING

Under the elective system of the University of Virginia, a student who
has completed courses of college or university grade in other institutions of
learning on mathematical or scientific subjects may be excused from attendance
upon these courses by the Dean, with the advice and consent of the
professor in charge, and will then be registered for the more advanced work,
provided the full entrance requirements have been satisfied.

In order to secure College Credit upon such courses toward a degree in
Engineering from this University, the applicant must show—

1. That the courses offered are coextensive with the corresponding
courses as given in the University of Virginia.

2. That his grades on them were not below the 75 per cent. pass-mark
of this University.

Such credits may be granted by the faculty upon the recommendation of
the Dean and the professors in charge; but are automatically revoked by
the failure of the student to pass in the more advanced courses in the related
topics.

Advanced standing in the technical engineering subjects of higher grade
than those of the Sophomore year will not be given except to graduates of
other institutions offering technical engineering instruction and then only
upon special consideration of each application for such advanced standing.
No degree in Engineering will be awarded for less than one full year's work
in a regular session of this University and the work of a candidate's last
year must be performed in residence here.

The same rules apply to Credits on Summer School Courses; except that
for courses in the Summer School of this University the examination questions
must be prepared by the professor in charge of the regular course, and
the answers must be read and graded by him.

Students, suspended from other universities, are not granted college
credits on courses previously passed, except upon the explicit recommendation
of the suspending university, and after such additional tests as this
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Credits on Practice-Courses in Drawing, Shop-work, or Field-work may
be granted to applicants who have gained in professional practice the training
which these courses represent. Such applicants must file with the Dean
proper certificates from the official under whom the work was done and must
in every case pass an additional practical test on the subjects for which
credit is desired.

College credit is not granted for high-school work.

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 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.

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
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the faculty will award the appropriate degree of Chemical Engineer, Civil
Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, or Mining Engineer.

The 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 the graduates may be better fitted to undertake their
duties as engineers and citizens.

COURSES OF INSTRUCTION

The Subjects of Instruction in Engineering are grouped into classes, each
designated by a distinctive number for each term, the lecture and laboratory
courses being likewise differentiated. This grouping follows the arrangement
shown below:

                   
Humanities  1 to 99 
Mathematics  100 to 199 
Physics  200 to 299 
Chemistry  300 to 399 
Geology  400 to 499 
Applied Mathematics  500 to 599 
Experimental Engineering  600 to 699 
Civil Engineering including Field-work  700 to 799 
Mechanical Engineering including Shop-work  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.
The same numbers are used in schedules of lecture hours, laboratory periods
and examination days.

HUMANITIES

1-2-3: English:

12:30-1:30, M. W. F.

First and second terms: Advanced composition with parallel reading,
with particular attention to Description, Exposition, and Argument. Third
term: Survey of English literature with composition and parallel reading,
with particular attention to scientific writings. (Fall, Winter, Spring.)

Associate Professor H. P. Johnson, Mr. Vaughan and Mr. Lawrence.

7-8-9: Business Speaking:

Section I, 11:30-12:30, M. W. F.

Section II, 12:30-1:30, M. W. F.

This course is intended to fit engineers for effective speaking in the
modern business world. It includes the principles of persuasive speaking,
various types of business talks, radio and telephone speaking, and a detailed
treatment of the personal conference. This training is required of all
Juniors. (Fall, Winter, Spring.)

Associate Professor Paul and Mr. Hackley.


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10-11-12: Economics:

10:30-11:30, M. W. F.

First and second terms: Survey of the principles of economics. Third
term: The bearing of these principles upon present American conditions.
Instruction will be given by lectures, assigned readings, reports, and discussions.
(Fall, Winter, Spring.)

Optional course, for all except Chemical Engineering students, who all
take it in the second year, in place of which a 3-session-hour course in
Modern Language (40-41-42), French, German, Italian or Spanish may be
chosen.

Professor Snavely, Mr. Biscoe and Mr. Pilcher.

13-14-15: Commercial Law:

11:30-12:30, T. Th. S.

A detailed study of the fundamental and important, rather than the
technical, principles of those subjects of which knowledge is necessary in
ordinary commercial transactions. (Fall, Winter, Spring.) Optional for
Government (16-17-18) or History (31-32-33).

Associate Professor Hulvey.

16-17-18: Government:

9:30-10:30, T. Th. S.

A description and comparison of the principles and essential features of
the governments of the United States, England, France, Germany, and
Switzerland, with especial emphasis on the characteristics of the American
Constitutional system and the operation of Congressional government. (Fall,
Winter, Spring.) Optional for Commercial Law (13-14-15) or History
(31-32-33).

Acting Professor Spicer.

21-22-23: Cost Accounting:

9:30-10:30, M. W. F.

First term: Theory and practice in General Accounting. Second and
third terms: Application of accounting principles to various types of manufacturing
and engineering enterprises. (Fall, Winter, Spring.)

Professor Barlow and Mr. McLendon.

26: Engineering Economics and Specifications:

11:30-12:30, T. Th. S.

Lectures, parallel reading and written work dealing with the economic
considerations involved in engineering problems and specifications for engineering
structures. Special emphasis is placed upon the general problem of
economic selection of methods, machinery and apparatus in the several engineering
fields. Questions of first cost, depreciation, rates for service, etc.,
will be treated. Complete specifications are required from each student, subjects
being chosen particularly from the special field of study of each individual
student. (Winter.)

Professor Rodman.

31-32-33: History:

11:30-12:30, T. Th. S. or M. W. F.

A college course in history to be chosen by the student and approved by
the Faculty of Engineering. (Fall, Winter, Spring.) Optional for Commercial
Law (13-14-15) or Government (16-17-18).

Associate Professors Barr and T. C. Johnson.


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34-35-36: Elective:

A graduate-year humanistic course chosen from Philosophy, Architecture,
Fine Art, or other subject approved by the Faculty of Engineering. (Fall,
Winter, Spring.)

40-41-42: Modern Language:

9:30-10:30, M. T. W. Th. F.

A college credit course in modern language chosen between French, German,
Italian and Spanish and upon approval of the student's major-subject
professor. (Fall, Winter, Spring.) An optional course, for all except Chemical
Engineering students, which may be taken in place of Economics
(10-11-12). Chemical Engineering students are required to take German for
one year.

Professors Faulkner, Graham, previous hit Abbot next hit and Assistant Professors Mohr,
Woody
and Rinetti.

MATHEMATICS

100: Trigonometry:

9:30-10:30, T. Th. S.

A complete course in plane trigonometry is pursued with constant drill in
the solution of problems, and exercises in the use of logarithms. (Fall.)

Professor Luck, Mr. Wells and Mr. Lindsey.

106: Analytical Geometry and College Algebra:

9:30-10:30, T. Th. S.

In this course Cartesian and polar coördinates are presented and applied
to the study of the straight line and the circle. The related college algebra
topics of determinants, the function notion with especial reference to the
linear function, the graphical representation of equations and of functions
are also considered. (Winter.)

Professor Luck, Mr. Wells and Mr. Lindsey.

107: Analytical Geometry and College Algebra:

9:30-10:30, T. Th. S.

This course is a continuation of course 106. The conic is studied in its
particular and general forms. Especial attention is given to the solution of
numerous loci problems by the use of Cartesian and polar coördinates. The
study of related college algebra topics is continued. The quadratic function
of one and two variables, the theory of the quadratic equation in particular
and of equations in general are some of the topics considered. (Spring.)

Professor Luck, Mr. Wells and Mr. Lindsey.

108-109-110: Calculus:

11:30-12:30, M. W. F.

A first course in the differential and integral calculus. This includes a
study of series and partial fractions. The principal emphasis is upon the applications
of the subjects to geometry, elementary kinematics and mechanical
problems. (Fall, Winter, Spring.)

Professors Echols and Luck.

111: Differential Equations:

9:30-10:30, T. Th. S.

An elementary course in differential equations with particular reference
to the differential equations of electrical engineering. (Fall.)

Associate Professor Saunders.


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158-159-160: Mathematics Laboratory:

6 hours a week.

An intensive, supervised study of calculus problems with extensive drill
in the solution and formation of the calculus forms with particular reference
to its use as a tool in the solution of physical and engineering problems.
(Fall, Winter, Spring.)

Associate Professor Saunders, Mr. Johnson and Mr. Graves.

PHYSICS

200-201-202: Sophomore Physics:

9:30-10:30, M. W. F.

250-251-252: Physics Laboratory:

9:30-11:30, T. Th. S.

An elementary course in general physics consisting of lectures, lecture
demonstrations, recitations and laboratory exercises. (Fall, Winter, Spring.)

Associate Professor Brown and Assistants.

259: Electrical Laboratory:

2:30-5:30, Th.

This course deals particularly with the more precise electrical measurements
and the manipulation of instruments of precision used in the higher
grade of electrical testing and standardization. (Winter.)

Professor Hoxton and Associate Professor Brown.

CHEMISTRY

300-301-302: General Chemistry:

10:30-11:30, T. Th. S.

350-351-352: Chemistry Laboratory:

11:30-1:30, T. Th. S.

The fundamental principles and phenomena of inorganic, organic, and
physical chemistry, and the foundations of analytical chemistry. Most of
the time is devoted to inorganic phenomena. (Fall, Winter, Spring.)

Professor Carter, Assistant Professor Markham and Assistants.

306-307-308: Analytical Chemistry:

8:30-9:30, T. Th. S.

356-357-358: Analytical Chemistry Laboratory:

2:30-5:30, T. Th.

Chemistry 300-1-2 prerequisite.

(a) Qualitative Analysis. First and second terms, 3 hours of lecture
and 6 hours of laboratory per week, devoted to the study of systematic qualitative
analysis. (b) Quantitative Analysis. Third term, 2 hours of lecture
and 9 hours of laboratory per week, devoted to elementary quantitative
analysis. In the lectures and recitation work special emphasis is given to the
theoretical foundations of analytical chemistry. (Fall, Winter, Spring.)

Professor Yoe and Assistants.

309-310-311: Organic Chemistry:

11:30-12:30, T. Th. S.

359-360-361: Organic Chemistry Laboratory:

2:30-5:30, T. Th.

Chemistry 300-1-2 prerequisite.

An introduction to the study of the compounds of carbon, including the
application of modern chemical theory to such compounds and their reactions.
(Fall, Winter, Spring.)

Professor Bird and Assistants.


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318-319-320: Quantitative Analysis:

Lecture by appointment

368-369-370: Quantitative Analysis Laboratory:

2:30-5:30, M. W.

Chemistry 306-7-8 prerequisite.

A course in the principles of quantitative analysis. The laboratory work
will include a study of characteristic procedures, illustrating gravimetric and
volumetric analysis. 1 hour of lecture and 6 hours of laboratory per week.
(Fall, Winter, Spring.)

Professor Yoe and Assistants.

321-322-323: Physical Chemistry:

12:30-1:30, M. W. F.

371-372-373: Physical Chemistry Laboratory:

2:30-5:30, T. Th.

Chemistry 306-7-8 prerequisite, as well as some knowledge of the Calculus and
previous training in Physics.

An introductory study of atomic structure theory, kinetic theory and the
principle of the conservation of energy form the foundations of the study of
gases, liquids, solids, solutions and rates of reaction. A brief study of the
direction of chemical change is then followed by the consideration of homogeneous
and heterogeneous equilibria. (Fall, Winter, Spring.)

Assistant Professor Spencer and Assistant.

324-325-326: Principles of Chemical Engineering:

10:30-11:30, M. W. F.

Chemistry 321-22-23 prerequisite.

A course designed to give the prospective chemical engineer a thorough
foundation in the basic principles of his profession. Regularly taken in the
fourth year. The unit operations of chemical industry are studied from the
standpoint of the chemical and physical principles involved. Practice in the
application of these principles is given by the solution of numerous type problems
in which quantitative treatment is emphasized. Attention is first devoted
to a detailed study of flow of fluids and flow of heat, since these topics are
fundamental in the subsequent development of unit operations in Chemical
Engineering. These subjects are followed by sub-division of solids, evaporation,
humidification and drying. Facility is developed in the stoichiometry of
chemical industry. A number of plant inspection trips are made during the
year. Lectures and recitations, 3 hours a week. (Fall, Winter, Spring.)

Textbook: Walker, Lewis and McAdams: "Principles of Chemical Engineering."

Associate Professor Hitchcock.

327-328-329: Advanced Chemical Engineering:

9:30-10:30, M. W. F.

Chemical Engineering 324-25-26 prerequisite.

Regularly taken in the graduate year by candidates for the Ch. E. degree.
The subjects of evaporation and drying are treated in more detail
than in the preliminary course, while the additional subjects of filtration,
distillation, absorption and extraction are taken up. Familiarity is gained with
the applications of calculus to the solutions of problems in these fields. Principles
in the flow of fluids and flow of heat are used in solving problems of


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more advanced character. Recent developments in Chemical Engineering are
studied. Lectures and recitations, 3 hours a week. (Fall, Winter, Spring.)

Textbook: Walker, Lewis, and McAdams: "Principles of Chemical
Engineering."

Associate Professor Hitchcock.

340-341-342: Applied Chemistry:

8:30-9:30, M. W. F.

Chemistry 309-10-11 and 321-22-23 prerequisite.

The lectures and recitations in this course are devoted to the study of
fundamental principles underlying the more important phases of industrial
chemistry, including both theoretical and economic problems. A considerable
amount of collateral reading in descriptive industrial chemistry is assigned,
and written reports involving use of the literature are required. Better appreciation
of the quantitative relationships existing in the applications of
chemistry is gained through problem work paralleling the lecture material.
A number of plant inspection trips are arranged during the year. Lectures
and recitations, 3 hours a week. (Fall, Winter, Spring.)

Associate Professor Hitchcock.

386-387-388: Chemical Engineering Research:

This course is designed for candidates for the Ch. E. degree and affords
an introduction to research methods. Fundamental problems will be selected
for study whenever possible from the field in which the student is particularly
interested, or from fields which are of importance in representative chemical
industries of the State, such as Rayon and Nitro-cellulose, Nitrogen Fixation,
Paper and Heavy Chemicals. The method of attack in general will be
to reduce the selected problem to laboratory scale leading to the collection of
basic data susceptible of definite interpretation, rather than to attempt special
investigations on semi-plant equipment which usually lead to merely empirical
data. The use of the chemical literature as an aid in conducting investigations
accompanies the laboratory work, as well as practice in the
mathematical and graphical treatment of the data obtained. (Fall, Winter,
Spring.)

Associate Professor Hitchcock.

Advanced Courses: A number of advanced courses in Chemistry, not
listed above, are described in the catalogue of the College. When time permits,
students in Chemical Engineering, who are properly prepared, may take
such of these courses as are approved by the Faculty of Engineering.

The Chemical Journal Club will meet once a week (hour to be arranged)
for the critical review and discussion of various topics of interest in current
chemical literature and of such chemical researches as are in progress in the
University. All members of the teaching staff and advanced students in
chemistry are expected to participate in these meetings and to take part
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GEOLOGY

400-401-402: Engineering Geology:

8:30-9:30, M. W. F.

450-451-452: Field and Laboratory:

6 hours a week.

Fundamental principles of dynamical and structural geology for first
term with Professor Roberts; minerals and rocks for second term with
Assistant Professor Pegau; and building stones and ores for third term with
Professor Nelson. The laboratory work is devoted to the interpretation of
topographic and structural maps, the principal building stones and their
mineral content and properties, field trips, the use of the plane table in topographic
mapping, and geologic mapping.

Professors Nelson, Roberts, Assistant Professor Pegau and Assistant.

403-404-405: Economic Geology:

10:30-11:30, M. W. F.

453-454-455: Field and Laboratory:

6 hours a week.

This course is designed to give a general but comprehensive account of
the origin, nature, distribution and uses of the metallic and non-metallic
products of the earth with especial reference to those of the United States.
Lectures and collateral reading, 6 hours a week. (Fall, Winter, Spring.)

Professor Nelson.

409-410-411: Advanced Economic Geology:

459-460-461: Field and Laboratory:

Hours by appointment.

Special topics in mining geology for advanced students, selected according
to the needs of the individual student. Lectures, laboratory and field
work, reading, reports and theses. (Fall, Winter, Spring.)

Professor Nelson.

412-413-414: Mineralogy:

8:30-9:30, T. Th. S.

462-463-464: Laboratory:

6 hours a week.

Crystallography, physical and chemical mineralogy, and descriptive mineralogy.
(Fall, Winter, Spring.)

Assistant Professor Pegau.

APPLIED MATHEMATICS

521: Plane Surveying:

10:30-11:30, M. W. F.

Lecture course: Theory, uses, and adjustments of compass, level, transit,
and stadia. Special methods of land, city, topographic and mining surveys.
Survey computation and maps. (Fall or Spring.)

571: Field course: Practical use of chain and tape, level, compass,
transit and stadia. Field notes, records and reports. 6 hours a week.

Associate Professor Saunders and Assistants.

522: Mechanical Drawing:

10:30-11:30, M. W. F.

Lecture course: Plane problems, conic sections, graphic algebra. Projections
of prisms and pyramids; of cylinders, cones and spheres; of the
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572: Practice course: Each week the student executes a finished plate
15″ × 20″ of exercises in mechanical drawing based on the lectures. 6 hours
a week.

Professor Thornton, Associate Professor Henderson and Assistants.

523: Descriptive Geometry:

10:30-11:30, M. W. F.

Lecture course: Fundamental problems on the point, line, and plane.
Projections, tangencies, and intersections of curved surfaces. Applications to
shades and shadows, problems in mining, and so on. (Winter or Spring.)

573: Practice course: Each student executes a weekly plate 15″ × 20″
of problems based on the lectures. 6 hours a week.

Professor Thornton, Associate Professor Saunders and Assistants.

524: Graphical Statics:

10:30-11:30, T. Th. S.

Lecture course: Graphic composition and resolution of forces; centers
of gravity and moments of inertia; strain sheets for simple types of roof and
bridge trusses; beams under fixed and rolling loads; reservoir dams and retaining
walls; internal stresses and beam deflections. (Fall.)

574: Practice course: Each student executes a weekly plate 15″ × 20″
of problems based on the lectures. 6 hours a week.

Professor Thornton, Mr. Stevenson and Mr. Kyle.

525: Structural Drawing:

10:30-11:30, T. Th. S.

Lecture course: Graphic analysis of steel and timber trusses for roofs
and bridges; of solid beams and plate girder bridges; and of reinforced concrete
slabs, girders, columns, and retaining walls. (Spring.)

575: Practice course: Design and detailed drawings of simple examples
of roofs and bridges, with complete computations for each structure. 6
hours a week.

Professor Thornton, Mr. Stevenson and Mr. Kyle.

526: Elementary Mechanics:

12:30-1:30, T. Th. S.

Lecture course: Composition and resolution of forces; friction; problems
in equilibrium; rectilinear motion, circular motion, projectile motion.
(Fall.)

576: Practice course: Solution of weekly problems in mechanics by
graphical and analytical methods. 6 hours a week.

Professor Thornton and Mr. Moore.

527: Applied Mechanics:

12:30-1:30, M. W. F.

Review of elementary mechanics; dynamics of a particle; moments of
inertia; revolving bodies; rolling bodies; theory of work and energy; collision
of elastic solids; dynamics of the Steam Engine.

Weekly problems are assigned for solution by graphical and analytical
methods. (Spring.)

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528: Strength of Materials:

12:30-1:30, M. W. F.

Fundamental laws of stress and strain; straining actions and stresses in
ties and struts, beams and shafts, reinforced concrete slabs and girders; deflections
in simple, restrained and continuous girders; columns under axial
and eccentric loads. Laboratory courses 661-2-3. (Fall.)

Professor Thornton and Mr. Joachim.

529: Hydraulics:

12:30-1:30, T. Th. S.

Equilibrium of fluids, applied to the analysis and design of thin and thick
shells and pipes, dams and weirs. Motion of fluids and discharges from orifices,
weir notches, pipes, canals, and rivers. Principles of linear and angular
momentum with applications to the analysis and design of hydraulic motors
and pumps. Laboratory course 680. (Spring.)

Professor Thornton and Mr. Joachim.

Laboratory studies in Strength of Materials and Hydraulics are given
in the Classes in Experimental Engineering.

541-542-543: Mining:

11:30-12:30, M. W. F.

Mine Surveying and Prospecting (Fall); Exploitation of Mines (Winter);
Mining Machinery (Spring). This course is for Seniors and requires as a
prerequisite the completion of the studies of the first three years.

Mr. Reed.

EXPERIMENTAL ENGINEERING

Lectures are given to explain the origin and manufacture of materials,
the design and operation of equipment, methods of conducting the tests, and
the calculation of the desired results from the data taken in the laboratory.
The work is done principally in the laboratories where special emphasis is laid
upon (1) a thorough understanding of the problem to be undertaken, (2) accuracy
in carrying out the investigation, (3) the presentation of the results
in a report which must meet the standards of professional practice.

650: Road Materials Testing:

6 hours a week.

Standard tests of Portland cement. Samples of stone are tested for specific
gravity, absorption, cementing value, toughness, resistance to abrasion,
and compressive strength. Asphalts and tars are tested for specific gravity,
penetration, melting point, volatilization, viscosity, flash point, fixed carbon.
(Winter.)

Associate Professor Henderson.

661: Structural Materials Testing:

5 hours a week.

Tests of cement, timber and metals. A course for Electrical and Mechanical
Engineers, similar to 662 and 663 but arranged so as to cover all of the
work in one term. (Winter.)

Associate Professor Henderson and Mr. Joachim.


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662: Structural Materials Testing:

5 hours a week.

Tests of sand; tests of fine and coarse aggregates; proportioning of concrete;
compression tests of concrete and mortar, with measurements of deformation;
tests of reinforced concrete beams; construction of forms for
concrete. For Civil Engineers. (Fall.)

Associate Professor Henderson.

663: Structural Materials Testing:

5 hours a week.

Continuation of Course 662. Tests of wires; tension, compression and
torsion tests of metals; tranverse tests of metals and timber; determination
of the Modulus of Elasticity of metals; autographic testing; impact tests of
metals; fatigue tests; hardness tests. For Civil Engineers. (Winter.)

Associate Professor Henderson.

670: Fuel and Oil Testing:

5 hours a week.

Standard methods of sampling coal; proximate analysis of coal; determination
of the heating value of coal by the bomb calorimeter, with a study
of the cooling correction; the heating value of gas by the Junker calorimeter;
determination of heating value of liquid fuels; determination of specific gravity,
flash and boiling points, chill point, viscosity, carbon residue, and emulsification
value of oils. (Fall.)

Associate Professor Henderson and Mr. Joachim.

680: Hydraulic Testing:

5 hours a week.

The measurement of the flow of water by means of orifices and weir
notches; determination of the coefficient of friction for pipe and pipe elbows;
study of a piston water meter; tests of large and small Venturi meters; performance
tests of piston and centrifugal pumps; measurement of stream velocity
and discharge by means of current meter. (Spring.)

Associate Professor Henderson and Mr. Joachim.

690: Power Laboratory:

5 hours a week.

The calibration and adjustment of gauges; calibration of thermometers,
planimeters, pyrometers, and indicators; flue gas analysis; steam quality tests;
valve setting; determination of clearances; tests of steam boilers; tests of a
steam engine. For Mechanical and Chemical Engineers. (Fall.)

Associate Professor Henderson and Mr. Joachim.

691: Power Laboratory:

5 hours a week.

Continuation of Course 690. Complete tests of a gasoline engine; complete
tests of a steam engine; tests of a steam turbine with a study of
methods of correcting to standard conditions. The Power Test Code of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers used. For Mechanical Engineers.
(Winter.)

Associate Professor Henderson and Mr. Joachim.


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692: Power Laboratory:

5 hours a week.

Continuation of Course 691. Tests of an air compressor; tests of a
blower; complete tests of a centrifugal pump, and other assigned tests. For
Mechanical Engineers. (Spring.)

Associate Professor Henderson and Mr. Joachim.

CIVIL ENGINEERING

701: Curves and Earthwork:

9:30-10:30, T. Th. S.

Lectures on simple circular, compound, reverse, transition and vertical
curves. The form of excavations and embankments, earthwork surveys, computation
of volumes, formation of embankments, computation of haul, cost of
earthwork, blasting. Practical problems covering work of lecture course.
(Fall.)

Professor Newcomb and Mr. Maulsby.

703: Highway Engineering:

11:30-12:30, T. Th. S.

A study of highway economics, administration, legislation and organization.
The principles of highway location, surveying, mapping and design.
The construction, maintenance and characteristics of earth, sand-clay, gravel,
and broken stone roads. A study of bituminous materials. The construction,
maintenance and characteristics of bituminous macadam, bituminous
concrete, asphalt, cement-concrete, wood block, brick and stone block pavements.
Sidewalks, curbs and gutters. (Winter.)

Associate Professor Saunders.

705: Bridge Engineering:

9:30-10:30, T. Th. S.

A study of bridge stresses, the design and construction of selected types
of steel bridges. (Winter.)

Professor Newcomb.

707: Water Supply and Sewerage:

9:30-10:30, T. Th. S.

A study of the quality, sources, collection, conveyance, purification and
distribution of city water supplies; the drainage of houses and streets, the
collection and conveyance of sewage, the disposal of sewage, the construction
and maintenance of works. (Winter.)

Associate Professor Saunders.

715: Materials of Construction:

12:30-1:30, T. Th. S.

A descriptive study of the properties, characteristics and manufacture
of the materials used in engineering structures. Problems in estimating
quantities and costs. (Winter.)

Associate Professor Henderson and Mr. Moore.

716: Railway Engineering:

9:30-10:30, T. Th. S.

An intensive study of the location, construction, maintenance and operation
of steam railways. Special attention is given to questions of railway
economics. (Spring.)

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718: Masonry Structures:

11:30-12:30, T. Th. S.

A study of the theory of reinforced concrete design. The design and construction
of selected types of masonry structures. Practical exercises in design
together with structural drawing. (Fall.)

Associate Professor Saunders.

719: Advanced Highway Engineering:

10:30-11:30, T. Th. S.

Highway engineering design. Theory and economics of highway transport
surveys. Highway transport economics, methods, legislation and management.
Highway traffic regulations. (Spring.)

Professor Newcomb and Instructor.

720: Structural Engineering:

10:30-11:30, T. Th. S.

An advanced course in the design and construction of engineering structures
of steel and masonry. The student will be required to design, detail
and prepare completed drawings of selected structures. (Fall.)

Associate Professor Saunders.

721: Design of Water Supply and Sewerage Systems:

11:30-12:30, M. W. F.

The design, construction and operation of water supply and sewage systems.
The student will be required to make complete designs and prepare
all necessary plans and specifications. (Fall.)

Associate Professor Saunders.

722: Sanitary Engineering:

11:30-12:30, M. W. F.

A study of water purification and sewage disposal. The design, construction
and operation of water purification works, and sewage disposal
plants. The student will be required to make complete designs and prepare
all necessary plans and specifications. (Spring.)

Associate Professor Saunders.

725: Civil Engineering Research:

This course will be devoted to intensive study and research planned to
accord with the student's individual choice of major topic of study in the
graduate year. (Spring.)

Professor Newcomb and Associate Professor Saunders.

PRACTICE COURSES

751: Railroad Surveying:

9 hours a week.

This course supplements 701, Curves and Earthwork. The class is divided
into squads, each squad making complete surveys, maps, profiles, and
estimates for a mile of located line. (Fall.)

Associate Professor Saunders and Mr. Maulsby.

755: Bridge Drafting:

12 hours a week.

This course accompanies 705, Bridges. Each student is required to make
complete design and detail drawings of one plate girder and one selected
type of bridge truss. (Winter.)

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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

800: Elementary Applied Thermodynamics:

12:30-1:30, T. Th. S.

Physical units and their measurement. Properties of the permanent
gases, of steam, ammonia, and carbon dioxide. The transformation of heat
energy into mechanical work. The production of cold. (Spring.)

Acting Assistant Professor Daniel.

801: Elementary Applied Thermodynamics:

10:30-11:30, T. Th. S.

An introduction to the design and performance of stokers, boilers, and
boiler auxiliaries, steam engines and turbines, internal combustion engines,
and refrigerating plants. (Winter.)

Acting Assistant Professor Daniel.

802: General Thermodynamics:

11:30-12:30, M. W. F.

The molecular theory of gases. Properties of fluids. The laws of thermodynamics.
Carnot's cycle. Entropy. Standard cycles. Fluids in motion.
(Fall.)

Acting Assistant Professor Daniel.

803: Applied Thermodynamics:

11:30-12:30, M. W. F.

Fuels and their combustion. Power plant equipment. The theory of the
steam engine and steam turbine. (Winter.)

Acting Assistant Professor Daniel.

804: Applied Thermodynamics:

12:30-1:30, T. Th. S.

The theory of the air compressor, internal combustion engine and mechanical
refrigerator. The production of very low temperatures. Gas turbines.
(Winter.)

Acting Assistant Professor Daniel.

805-806-807: Advanced Applied Thermodynamics:

12:30-1:30, M. W. F.

Power plant design. Initial and operating costs. Types of equipment including
boilers, stokers, boiler house auxiliaries, steam engines and turbines,
internal combustion engines.

Opportunities will be offered for the study of power generators of industrial
plants and for keeping in touch with current research on fuels and
in the power field. (Fall, Winter, Spring.)

Associate Professor Macconochie.

810: Mechanical Technology:

8:30-9:30, M. W. F.

Production and properties of the chief materials of construction. Preparatory
processes. Molding, forging, rolling and stamping. Fundamentals of
welding. The metallography and heat treatment of iron and steel. Special
and alloy steels. (Fall.)

Associate Professor Macconochie.


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811: Machine Design:

8:30-9:30, M. W. F.

The application of basic principles to the design of simple machine elements.
Toothed wheels. Screw and worm gearing. Cams. Transmission
systems. (Winter.)

Associate Professor Macconochie.

812: Theory of Machines:

8:30-9:30, M. W. F.

Kinematic chains and linkages. Simple machines. Mechanisms possessing
some particular geometrical property. Higher and lower pairs. Velocities
and accelerations in mechanisms. (Spring.)

Associate Professor Macconochie.

820-821-822: Advanced Theory of Machines:

10:30-11:30, M. W. F.

Motion of rigid bodies. Velocity and acceleration diagrams. Inertia
forces in machine parts. Balancing. Mechanics of the gyroscope. Critical
speeds and vibrations. (Fall, Winter, Spring.)

Associate Professor Macconochie.

826: Industrial Management:

9:30-10:30, T. Th. S.

Organization and location. Layout, design and construction. Transportation,
heating and ventilation. Standardization. Fatigue. Human relations.
Operation studies. Wage plans and incentives. Budgeting and purchasing.
Inspection and production control. Costs. (Winter.)

Associate Professor Macconochie.

830: General Aeronautics:

Hours to be arranged

An introductory course including a brief history of the subject; a complete
nomenclature and explanation of the various parts of both heavier-than-air
and lighter-than-air craft; theory of flight; use of the controls; construction;
stability; engine development and present design; future possibilities;
civil and military aviation; Department of Commerce Rules and Regulations.
(Fall.)

Acting Assistant Professor Daniel.

831: Theory of Aviation:

Hours to be arranged.

A discussion of the various types of airplanes and their uses; aerodynamical
properties of planes; characteristics and types of airfoils; explanations
of lift and drag; parasitic resistance; dynamic loads; structural considerations;
analysis of performance; equilibrium and stability; propeller theory.
(Winter.)

Acting Assistant Professor Daniel.

832: Airplane Power Plants:

Hours to be arranged.

A detailed study of modern engines, together with performance characteristics
of the various types; a discussion of engine accessories including
ignition systems, carburetion, fuel piping, lubrication, superchargers, propellers,
power plant instruments. (Spring.)

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860-861-862: Engineering Drawing:

12 hours a week Fall; 8 hours a week Winter and Spring.

Design of simple elements of machines such as screws, bolts, nuts, keys
and cottered joints, riveted joints and connections, pipes and pipe joints,
shafts and shaft couplings, clutches, bearings and supports, thrust blocks,
engine details. General assembly from detail drawings. Original design of
pump, machine tool, et cetera.

Acting Assistant Professor Daniel.

SHOP-WORK

865: Pattern Shop:

3 hours a week.

Exercises in the use of hand and machine tools, including the saw, planer,
and center lathe. The production of simple patterns. (Fall or Spring.)

Associate Professor Macconochie and Assistants.

866: Machine Shop:

3 hours a week.

Exercises in turning, boring and screw cutting, machine tool operation,
chipping, filing and fitting at the bench. (Fall or Spring.)

Associate Professor Macconochie and Assistants.

Works Experience: Students of Mechanical Engineering are strongly
recommended to spend their summer vacations in the practice of their profession.
Wherever possible, arrangements will be made to facilitate this.

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

900: Elements of Electrical Engineering:

11:30-12:30, M. W. F.

Lectures treating fundamental principles of Electrical Engineering; basic
ideas and fundamental units discussed; magnetic circuits and continuous electric
currents treated in detail; electromagnetism carefully studied. Special attention
is given to the physical conceptions involved, and numerous assigned
problems exemplify and broaden the theoretical discussions. 3 hours per week
of supervised problem work. (Fall.)

Professor Rodman and Mr. McMurdo.

901: Direct Current Machines:

11:30-12:30, M. W. F.

Lectures on the theory, construction, characteristics, and operation of direct
current generators and motors and the necessary apparatus required for
the proper management and control of these machines. The principles of
testing such machines are carefully discussed. Problems illustrating the
methods of calculation involved in continuous current circuits and practical
examples from standard engineering practice form an important part of the
work. 3 hours per week of supervised problem work. (Winter.)

Professor Rodman and Mr. McMurdo.

902: Periodic Currents:

10:30-11:30, T. Th. S.

Lectures on electrostatic phenomena, variable currents, alternating currents,
and alternating current circuits, both single and polyphase. A careful


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study is made of circuits with periodic currents and their characteristics
when resistance, inductive reactance and capacity reactance are present in
their various combinations. Extensive problem work is required to facilitate
the treatment of simple and complex circuits. 3 hours of supervised problem
work per week. (Winter.)

Professor Rodman and Mr. McMurdo.

903: Alternating Current Machinery:

10:30-11:30, M. W. F.

Lectures on balanced and unbalanced polyphase circuits and power measurements
followed by the treatment of theory, construction, characteristics,
and operation of synchronous alternating current generators. The principles
of testing such apparatus under various conditions of loading are discussed,
and assigned problem work illustrates the theory and practice. 3 hours per
week of supervised problem work. (Fall.)

Professor Rodman.

904: Alternating Current Machinery:

10:30-11:30, M. W. F.

This course is a continuation of 903. The lectures treat more particularly
transformers, synchronous motors and parallel operation of alternating current
generators. Methods of testing are outlined and graphical methods of
calculation and predetermination of operating characteristics are discussed.
Problems taken from engineering practice serve to broaden and fix the theoretical
deductions. 3 hours per week of supervised problem work. (Winter.)

Professor Rodman.

905: Alternating Current Machinery:

10:30-11:30, M. W. F.

This course is a continuation of 903-4. Lectures deal with the theory,
construction and operation of rotary converters, induction, series, and repulsion
motors. Problems are solved to clarify the theory. 3 hours of
supervised problem work per week. (Spring.)

Professor Rodman.

906: Illumination and Photometry:

11:30-12:30, T. Th. S.

Lectures on light, its physical properties; illuminants and their characteristics;
shades and reflectors; photometry, standards and apparatus; illumination
calculations for point and surface sources; principles of interior, exterior,
decorative, and scenic illumination. Problems illustrating computations
necessary for the consideration of the Illuminating Engineer are assigned.
(Spring.) Optional for Hydro-electric Engineering (920), or Electric
Traction (907), only one given in any year.

Professor Rodman.

907: Electric Traction:

11:30-12:30, T. Th. S.

Lectures on the various types of electric motors for traction purposes,
controllers and systems of control, brakes, rolling stock, track, train performance,
and electric railway economics. A discussion with problems of
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apparatus, transmission, sub-stations and equipment, distribution, and utilization
of electrical energy for car propulsion. (Spring.) Optional for Hydroelectric
Engineering (920), or Illumination and Photometry (906-956), only
one given in any year.

Professor Rodman.

910: Direct Current Systems:

9:30-10:30, T. Th. S.

Lectures dealing with the fundamentals of electrical circuits and direct
current machinery. Problem work accompanies the lectures. The course
is essentially for the non-electrical engineering students. (Fall.)

Professor Rodman and Mr. McMurdo.

911: Alternating Current Systems:

9:30-10:30, T. Th. S.

Lectures covering the fundamentals of alternating current circuits and
machinery. Brief expositions of the subjects of electric lighting and power
fundamentals. For non-electrical engineering students. (Winter.)

Professor Rodman and Mr. McMurdo.

916-917-918: Advanced Alternating Current Machinery:

9:30-10:30, M. W. F.

A more detailed study of advanced character dealing with alternating current
machinery under abnormal conditions of service with attention to the
more refined problems involved. Optional for Electrical Communication
(940-941-942), only one given in any year. (Fall, Winter, Spring.)

Professor Rodman.

920: Hydro-electric Engineering:

11:30-12:30, T. Th. S.

A course of lectures dealing with the fundamentals of hydro-electric engineering
from the consideration of rain-fall through the various steps of investigation
and construction to the finished plants, with especial emphasis on the
economic features of the problem. (Spring.) Optional for Illumination and
Photometry (906-956), or Electric Traction (907), only one given in any year.

Professor Rodman.

925: Electric Transients:

10:30-11:30, M. W. F.

A course dealing with transients as they are encountered in varied electric
circuits with regard to their production, behavior, and reduction to minimum
effects. (Fall.)

Associate Professor Miller.

930-931-932: Electric Power Transmission:

9:30-10:30, T. Th. S.

A study of the problems involved in modern electric power transmission.
Treating the inductance and capacity of lines, aerial and underground; corona;
steady state solutions for short and long lines; production, effect, and calculation
of transient conditions with means of protecting against such phenomena.
(Fall, Winter, Spring.)

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940-941-942: Electrical Communication:

9:30-10:30, M. W. F.

A course dealing with the general subject of electrical communication of
intelligence by wire and wireless telegraph and telephone with emphasis on the
theoretical details of the subject. Treatment of the various mechanisms and
circuits utilized with particular reference to the vacuum tube engineering.
(Fall, Winter, Spring.) Optional with Advanced A. C. Machinery (916-917-918),
only one given in any year.

Professor Rodman.

LABORATORY COURSES

950-951: Direct Current Laboratory:

5 hours a week.

This course supplements 900-1. The laboratory work is devoted to a
study of electrical instruments, their use and manipulation; simple electrical
circuits and study of direct current apparatus and its operation; characteristics
of generators and motors. (Winter, Spring.)

Associate Professor Miller, Mr. McMurdo and Mr. Holt.

953-954-955: Alternating Current Laboratory:

5 hours a week.

This course supplements 902-3-4-5, dealing with measuring instruments
for alternating current circuits; series and parallel circuits and their characteristics;
polyphase circuits, balanced and unbalanced; and alternating current
generator, motor and transformer characteristics. (Fall, Winter, Spring.)

Associate Professor Miller, Mr. McMurdo and Mr. Holt.

956: Photometric Laboratory:

2 hours a week.

This course accompanies 906. Photometric tests are made upon different
types of incandescent lamps. The operating characteristics of incandescent
and arc lamps are studied. Tests of illumination, interior and exterior, are
carried out. Study of photometric standards and devices. (Spring.)

Associate Professor Miller.

960-961: Electrical Laboratory:

5 hours a week.

This course supplements 910-11. The work of the first term is devoted
to direct current tests; the second term exercises are on alternating current
circuits and machines. (Winter, Spring.)

Associate Professor Miller, Mr. McMurdo and Mr. Holt.

966-967-968: Advanced Electrical Machinery Laboratory:

4 hours a week.

This course supplements 916-17-18. Special tests are carried out with
emphasis upon original work by the student. (Fall, Winter, Spring.)

Professor Rodman and Associate Professor Miller.

975: Transient Laboratory:

4 hours a week.

A course supplementing 925. It deals largely with oscillographic study of
illustrative transient circuit phenomena of varied types. (Fall.)

Associate Professor Miller and Mr. Street.


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980-981: Electric Power Transmission Laboratory:

4 hours a week.

A course supplementing 930-1-2 and dealing with certain phenomena
encountered in transmission circuits as they may be subjected to test on
artificial lines. (Winter, Spring.)

Associate Professor Miller.

990-991-992: Electrical Communication Laboratory:

4 hours a week.

A course supplementing 940-1-2 and devoted to various special tests of
communication circuits and apparatus. (Fall, Winter, Spring.)

Professor Rodman and Associate Professor Miller.

STUDENT BRANCHES OF NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL
SOCIETIES

There have been established at the University of Virginia Student
Branches of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1912), the American
Society of Civil Engineers (1921) and the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers (1922). These societies hold regular meetings for the
discussion of periodical literature and the exposition by resident and visiting
engineers of the present-day problems in Engineering. A valuable feature
of the meetings is the opportunity presented for practice in public speaking
and debate. At stated meetings the Branches hold joint sessions for the discussion
of mutually interesting questions. A local society for students of
Chemical Engineering was organized in 1929.

TAU BETA PI

In May, 1921, a chapter of the National Honorary Engineering Fraternity
Tau Beta Pi was granted and the Alpha of Virginia Chapter of Tau
Beta Pi will henceforth serve to further inspire high scholarship and integrity.
This fraternity is recognized as the leading honorary engineering fraternity
of this country and its chapters are found in a limited number of engineering
schools of the highest standing. The members are elected with care and the
standards maintained are rigid both in respect to scholarship and character.

THETA TAU

In June, 1923, a chapter of the National Engineering Fraternity of Theta
Tau was granted at the University of Virginia. This fraternity has chapters
in a score or more of the leading engineering schools of the country and membership
is eagerly sought and greatly appreciated by the members of the student
body. Elections are made each year based on scholarship and general
record of ability and promise of future service to the profession of engineering.

TRIGON SOCIETY

The Trigon Engineering Society was founded at the University of Virginia
early in the spring of 1923. It is a local organization which has for its
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and social contact and by encouraging lectures and study on subjects aside
from those dealing primarily with engineering. The society is active in the
student affairs of the department and is always ready to help in any undertaking
for the betterment of the Engineering School. Members are selected
for their personality, sociability, and promise of high engineering attainment.

JONES AND BARKSDALE MEMORIAL FUNDS

A gift to the Department of Engineering from Messrs. Arthur P. Jones,
William Barham Jones (B.A. 1907) and Major Kenneth S. Jones (B.A.,
LL.B., C. E. 1915, Major U. S. A., Engineer Corps) in memory of their
father, the late Walter H. Jones, of Norfolk, Va., and of his deep interest
in the University of Virginia, in the form of an endowment fund has made
it possible to provide a considerable number of professional periodicals representing
the various engineering activities. A gift to the Department of Engineering
from Mrs. Hamilton Barksdale in memory of her husband, an alumnus
of the Engineering Department, specifically donated for the purpose of
building up the department library, will make possible at once much needed
changes and additions to the library.


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ENGINEERING CURRICULUM

                                                                                                 
Freshman
All courses 
Sophomore
All except Chemical 
Sophomore
Chemical 
English 1-2-3  [1] Calculus 108-9-10  Economics 10-11-12 
Math. 100-106-107  [1] Physics 200-1-2  [1] Calculus 108-9-10 
[1] Chem. 300-1-2  Engrg. 526-715-800  [1] Physics 200-1-2 
[1] Ap. Math. 521-2-3  Com. Law 13-14-15 or  [1] Anal. Chem. 306-7-8 
[1] Field-work 571  Govt. 16-17-18 or 
[1] Shop-work 865-6  Hist. 31-32-33 
L. F. $55  L F. $15  L. F. $40 
Junior  Senior  Graduate 
Chemical  Business Speaking 7-8-9  Chem. Engrg. 324-5-6  Cost. Acct. 21-2-3 
[1] Quan. Anal. 318-19-20  [1] Org. Chem. 309-10-11  Ad. Chem. Engrg. 327-8-9 
[1] Phys. Chem. 321-22-23  [1] Elec. Sys. 910-11  Ap. Chem. 340-1-2 
German 40-1-2  Ap. Math. 524-29  Engrg. Econs. and Spec. 26 
Engrg. 526-715-800  [1] Exp. Engrg. 680-90  Elective 34-5-6 
M. E. 801  [1] Chem. Engrg. Research
386-7-8 
L. F. $50  L. F. $45  L. F. $25 
Civil  Business Speaking 7-8-9  Cost Acct. 21-2-3  [1] Eng. Geol. 400-1-2 
[1] Ap. Math. 524-9-5  Ap. Math. 527-8  [1] Elec. Sys. 910-11 
C. E. 701-3-7  [1] Exp. Engrg. 662-3-80  Engrg. Econs. and Spec. 26 
[1] Exp. Engrg. 650  C. E. 718-5-16  Elective 34-5-6 
Econs. 10-11-12 or  [1] Ry. Field-work 751  Option: C. E. 720-19 or 
Mod. Lang. 40-1-2  [1] Bridge Drafting 755  C. E. 721-22 
M. E. 801  C. E. Research 725 
L. F. $15  L. F. $35  L. F. $10 
Electrical  Business Speaking 7-8-9  Cost Acct. 21-2-3  E. E. [1] 930-[1] 1-2 
[1] Ap. Math. 524-9-5  Ap. Math. 527-8  Option: E. E. [1] 906 
E. E. 900-1-2  [1] Exp. Engrg. 670-61-80  or 920 or 907 
Math. 111  E. E. 903-4-5  [1] Phys. 259 
[1] E. E. Lab. 950-1  [1] E. E. Lab. 953-4-5  Engrg. Econs. and Spec. 26 
Econs. 10-11-12 or  M. E. 801  [1] E. E. 925 
Mod. Lang. 40-1-2  Option: [1] E. E. 916-17-18 
or [1] E. E. 940-1-2 
Elective 34-5-6 
L. F. $20  L. F. $30  L. F. $35 
Mechanical  Business Speaking 7-8-9  Cost. Acct. 21-2-3  M. E. 805-6-7 
[1] Ap. Math. 524-9-5  Ap. Math. 527-8  M. E. 820-21-22 
M. E. 802-3-4  Exp. Engrg. 670-61-80  M. E. 826 
[1] Exp. Engrg. 690-1-2  [1] M. E. 810-11-12  C. E. 719 
Econs. 10-11-12 or  [1] Elec. Sys. 910-11  Engrg. Econs. and Spec. 26 
Mod. Lang. 40-1-2  Elective 34-5-6 
M. E. 801 
L. F. $25  L. F. $40  L. F. $00 
Mining  Business Speaking 7-8-9  Cost Acct. 21-2-3  [1] Mineralogy 412-13-14 
[1] Ap. Math. 524-5  [1] Elec. Sys. 910-11  [1] Adv. Econ. Geol. 409-10-11 
[1] Engrg. Geol. 400-1-2  Ap. Math. 529  Engrg. Econs. and Spec. 26 
Econs. 10-11-12 or  [1] Exp. Engrg. 680  Elective 34-5-6 
Mod. Lang. 40-1-2  [1] Econ. Geol. 403-4-5  [1] Anal. Chem. 306-7-8 
M. E. 801  Mining 541-2-3 
L. F. $15  L. F. $15  L. F. $30 

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SCHEDULE OF FOUR-YEAR COURSES

                                                                                                     
CLASSES  LECTURES  LABORATORY 
C—lectures per wk. S-H—session
hours. 
L—hrs. of practice per wk.  S-H  M. W. F.  T.Th. S. 
Freshman  English (1-2-3)  12:30-1:30 
Math. (100-106-107)  9:30-10:30 
Gen. Chem. (300-301-302)  10:30-11:30  11:30-1:30, T. Th. S. 
Ap. Math. (521-522-523)  10:30-11:30  8:30-10:30, M. W. F. 
Field-work (571)  6 h. a. w. 
Shop-work (865-866)  3 h. a. w. 
Sophomore  Com. Law (13-14-15) or Govt. (16-17-18)  11:30 or 9:30 
or History (31-32-33)  11:30-12:30  or 11:30-12:30 
Math. (108-109-110)  11:30-12:30  2:30-4:30, M. W. F. 
Physics (200-201-202)  9:30-10:30  9:30-11:30, T. Th. S. 
Anal Chem. (306-307-308)  8:30-9:30  2:30-5:30, T. Th. 
Engrg. (526-715-800)  12:30-1:30 
Junior  Business Speaking (7-8-9)  11:30-12:30 or
12:30-1:30 
Econs. (10-11-12) or  10:30-11:30 
Mod. Lang. (40-41-42) M. T. W. Th. F.  9:30-10:30 
Math (111) Fall  9:30-10:30 
Quant. Anal. (318-319-320)  1 hr. to be arranged  2:30-5:30, M. W. 
Phys. Chem. (321-322-323)  12:30-1:30  2:30-5:30, T. Th. 
Engrg. Geol. (400-401-402)  8:30-9:30  6 h. a. w. 
Ap. Math. (524-525)  10:30-11:30  8:30-10:30, T. Th. S. Fall and Spring 
Ap. Math. (529)  12:30-1:30 
Civil Engrg. (701-707)  9:30-10:30  6 h. a. w. Winter 
Civil Engrg. (703)  11:30-12:30 
Mech. Engrg. (801)  10:30-11:30 
Mech. Engrg. (802-803)  11:30-12:30 
Mech. Engrg. (804)  12:30-1:30 
Elec. Engrg. (900-901-902)  4½  11:30-12:30  10:30-11:30 Wint.  2:30-5:30, M. 
Exp. Engrg. (650)  6 h. a. w. Winter 
Exp. Engrg. (690-691-692)  9:30-10:30, M.  2:30-6:30, M. or W. 
Elec. Lab. (950-951)  11:30-12:30, Th.  2:30-6:30, T. or W. or Th. Winter & Spring 
Senior  Cost Accounting (21-22-23)  9:30-10:30 
Org. Chem. (309-310-311)  11:30-12:30  2:30-5 30, T. Th. 
Chem. Engrg. (324-325-326)  10:30-11:30 
Econ. Geol. (403-404-405)  10:30-11:30  6 h. a. w. 
Ap. Math. (528-527)  12:30-1:30 
Mining (541-542-543)  11:30-12:30 
Civil Engrg. (705-716)  12  9:30-10:30  12 h. a. w. Spring 
Civil Engrg. (718)  11:30-12:30  6 h. a. w. Fall 
Mech. Engrg. (810-811-812)  8:30-9:30 
Elec. Engrg. (903-904-905)  4½  10:30-11:30  2:30-5:30, Th. 
Elec. Engrg. (910-911)  9:30-10:30 
Exp. Engrg. (662-663)  11:30-12:30, W.  2:30-6:30, T. or Th. or F. 
Exp. Engrg. (670-661-680)  11:30-12:30, F.  2:30-6:30, T. or Th. or F. 
Ry. Field-work (751)  1½  9 h. a. w. Fall 
Bridge Draw. (755)  12  12 h. a. w. Winter 
Engrg. Drawing (860-861-862)  12 or 8  12 h.a.w. Fall; 8 h.a.w. Winter & Spring 
Elec. Lab. (953-954-955)  11:30-12:30, T.  2:30-6:30, M. or W. or F. 
Elec. Lab. (960-61)  11:30-12:30, W.  2:30-6:30, M. or W. or F. Winter and Spring 

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CURRICULUM IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

               
Humanities  Mathematics and Science  Technical
Engineering
 
Freshman  English:
Rhetoric
Composition
Survey of
Literature 
Mathematics:
Trigonometry
Analytical Geometry and
College Algebra
Chemistry 
Plane Surveying
Mechanical Drawing
Descriptive Geometry
Drawing Laboratory
Field-work
Shop-work
 
Sophomore  Economics  Mathematics:
Differential and
Integral Calculus
Physics
Analytical Chemistry

Mathematics Laboratory 
Junior  Business Speaking
German 
Quantitative Analysis
Physical Chemistry
 
Elementary Mechanics
Materials of Construction
Elem. Ap. Thermo. 
Senior  Organic Chemistry
Graphical Statics
Hydraulics
Hydraulics Laboratory 
Elem. Ap. Thermo.
Electric Systems
Chemical Engineering
Principles
Power Testing 
Degree of B. S. in Engineering on completion of Four-Year Course 
Graduate  Cost Accounting
Elective:
Philosophy
or Architecture
or Fine Arts
or other subject
approved by the
Faculty of
Engineering 
Applied Chemistry  Engineering Economics
and Specifications
Chemical Engineering
Research

Ad. Chemical Engineering 
Degree of Ch. E. on completion of the additional Graduate Course. 

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CURRICULUM IN CIVIL ENGINEERING

               
Humanities  Mathematics and Science  Technical
Engineering
 
Freshman  English:
Rhetoric
Composition
Survey of
Literature 
Mathematics:
Trigonometry
Analytical Geometry and
College Algebra
Chemistry 
Plane Surveying
Mechanical Drawing
Descriptive Geometry
Drawing Laboratory
Field-work
Shop-work
 
Sophomore  Options:
History
or Government
or Commercial Law 
Mathematics
Differential and
Integral Calculus
Physics
Mathematics Laboratory 
Elementary Mechanics
Materials of Construction
Elem. Ap. Thermo. 
Junior  Business Speaking
Options:
Economics
or Modern Language 
Graphical Statics
Structural Drawing
Hydraulics
Drawing Laboratory 
Curves and Earthwork
Highways
Water Supply and Sewerage
Road Materials Tests 
Senior  Cost Accounting  Applied Mechanics
Strength of Materials
Mechanics Laboratory 
Elem. Ap. Thermo.
Masonry
Bridges
Railways
Bridge Drafting
Railway Surveying
 
Degree of B. S. in Engineering on completion of Four-Year Course. 
Graduate  Elective:
Philosophy
or Architecture
or Fine Arts
or other subject
approved by the
Faculty of
Engineering 
Engineering Geology  Engineering Economics
and Specifications
Option:
Advanced Structural
Engineering and Highways

or Advanced Water Supply
and Sewerage
Electric Systems
C. E. Research 
Degree of C. E. on completion of additional Graduate Course. 

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CURRICULUM IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

               
Humanities  Mathematics and Science  Technical
Engineering
 
Freshman  English:
Rhetoric
Composition
Survey of
Literature 
Mathematics:
Trigonometry
Analytical Geometry and
College Algebra
Chemistry 
Plane Surveying
Mechanical Drawing
Descriptive Geometry
Drawing Laboratory
Field-work
Shop-work
 
Sophomore  Options:
History
or Government
or Commercial Law 
Mathematics:
Differential and
Integral Calculus
Physics
Mathematics Laboratory 
Elementary Mechanics
Materials of Construction
Elem. Ap. Thermo. 
Junior  Business Speaking
Option:
Economics
or Modern Language 
Mathematics:
Differential Equations
Graphical Statics
Hydraulics
Structural Drawing
Drawing Laboratory 
Elements of Electricity
Direct Cur. Machinery
Periodic Currents
Electrical Laboratory
Supervised Problem Work 
Senior  Cost Accounting  Applied Mechanics
Strength of Materials
Mechanics Laboratory 
Elem. Ap. Thermo.
Alternating Current Machinery

Electrical Laboratory
Supervised Problem Work 
Degree of B. S. in Engineering on completion of Four-Year Course. 
Graduate  Elective:
Philosophy
or Architecture
or Fine Arts
or other subject
approved by the
Faculty of
Engineering 
Electrical
Measurements
 
Electric Power
Engineering Economics
and Specifications
Electric Transients
Option:
Illumination and Photometry

or Hydro-electric Engineering
or Electric Traction
Option:
Adv. Alternating Current
Machinery

or Electrical Communication 
Degree of E. E. on completion of the additional Graduate Course. 

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CURRICULUM IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

               
Humanities  Mathematics and Science  Technical
Engineering
 
Freshman  English:
Rhetoric
Composition
Survey of
Literature 
Mathematics:
Trigonometry
Analytical Geometry and
College Algebra
Chemistry 
Plane Surveying
Mechanical Drawing
Descriptive Geometry
Drawing Laboratory
Field-work
Shop-work
 
Sophomore  Options:
History
or Government
or Commercial Law 
Mathematics:
Differential and
Integral Calculus
Physics
Mathematics Laboratory 
Elementary Mechanics
Materials of Construction
Elem. Ap. Thermo. 
Junior  Business Speaking
Option:
Economics
or Modern Language 
Graphical Statics
Structural Drawing
Hydraulics
Drawing Laboratory 
Elem. Ap. Thermo.
General and Applied
Thermodynamics
Power Testing 
Senior  Cost Accounting  Applied Mechanics
Strength of Materials
Mechanics Laboratory 
Mechanical Technology
Machine Design
Theory of Machines
Electric Systems
 
Degree of B. S. in Engineering on completion of Four-Year Course. 
Graduate  Elective
Philosophy
or Architecture
or Fine Arts
or other subject
approved by the
Faculty of
Engineering 
Adv. Theory of Machines
Adv. Ap. Thermo.
Industrial Management
Engineering Economics
and Specifications
Highway Transport 
Degree of M. E. on completion of the additional Graduate Course. 

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CURRICULUM IN MINING ENGINEERING

               
Humanities  Mathematics and Science  Technical
Engineering
 
Freshman  English:
Rhetoric
Composition
Survey of
Literature 
Mathematics:
Trigonometry
Analytical Geometry and
College Algebra
Chemistry 
Plane Surveying
Mechanical Drawing
Descriptive Geometry
Drawing Laboratory
Field-work
Shop-work
 
Sophomore  Options:
History
or Government
or Commercial Law 
Mathematics:
Differential and
Integral Calculus
Physics
Mathematics Laboratory 
Elementary Mechanics
Materials of Construction
Elem. Ap. Thermo. 
Junior  Business Speaking
Option:
Economics
or Modern Language 
Graphical Statics
Structural Drawing
Drawing Laboratory
Engineering Geology 
Elem. Ap. Thermo. 
Senior  Cost Accounting  Economic Geology
Hydraulics
Hydraulics Laboratory 
Electric Systems
Mining 
Degree of B. S. in Engineering on completion of Four-Year Course 
Graduate  Elective:
Philosophy
or Architecture
or Fine Arts
or other subject
approved by the
Faculty of
Engineering 
Advanced Economic
Geology
Mineralogy
Analytical Chemistry
 
Engineering Economics
and Specifications 
Degree of E. M. on completion of the additional Graduate Course. 

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LECTURE HOURS AND EXAMINATION DAYS 1930-1931

                                           
MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY  TUESDAY, THURSDAY, SATURDAY 
Exam Day  Lecture
Hour
 
Exam Day 
Fall  Winter  Spring  Fall  Winter  Spring 
IV  III  II  Mech. Engineering (810-811-812)  8:30
to
9:30 
Anal. Chemistry (306-307-308)  IV  III 
Engrg. Geology (400-401-402) 
IX  VIII  Cost Accounting (21-22-23)  9:30
to
10:30 
Government (16-17-18)  IX 
Modern Languages (40-41-42)  Mathematics (100-106-107 and 111) 
Physics (200-201-202)  Civil Engineering (701-705-707-716) 
Elec. Engineering (910-911-x) 
IX  VIII  VII  Applied Mathematics (521-522-523)  10:30
to
11:30 
Applied Mathematics (524-x-525)  VI  IV 
Chem. Engineering (324-325-326)  General Chemistry (300-301-302) 
Economics (10-11-12)  Elec. Engineering (x-902-x) 
Elec. Engineering (903-904-905) 
Mech. Engineering (x-801-x) 
VII  VI  Elec. Engineering (900-901)  11:30
to
12:30 
Organic Chemistry (309-310-311)  VIII  VII  VI 
Mathematics (108-109-110)  Civil Engineering (718-703-x) 
Mech. Engineering (802-803)  Commercial Law (13-14-15) 
Business Speaking (7-8-9)  History (31-32-33) 
III  II  Applied Mathematics (528-x-7)  12:30
to
1:30 
Applied Mathematics (x-x-529)  II 
English (1-2-3)  Engineering (526-715-800) 
Mech. Engineering (x-804-x) 
Physical Chemistry (321-322-323) 

The examination days for the various classes are fixed
by the hour of regular lecture period. The examination day
for a particular course is indicated in the table above by
the Roman numeral in the first or last columns, for the
corresponding lecture hours in the middle column. The
examination period covers ten days at the end of each term.
Examination days change each term.

A change in lecture for any course will change the examination
day correspondingly. Classes for which lecture
periods are not indicated will have examination days fixed
by the arranged lecture hour in accordance with above
schedule.

 
[1]

Starred courses involve laboratory work.
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EXPENSES OF REGULAR STUDENTS

The average annual expense of a student who pursues the regular course
in Engineering will be:

               
NonVirginians  Virginians 
University Fee  $ 60  $ 50 
Tuition  165  95 (avg.) 
Laboratory Fees (average)  35  35 
Living Expenses (for nine months)  420  420 
Books and Drawing Materials  30  30 
Incidental Expenses (for nine months)  60  60 
Total annual for average conditions  $770  $690 

The charges for Tuition are uniform to all students, except that Virginians
are relieved of tuition on courses offered in the College, this exception
saving regular Freshmen from Virginia $110 and all other Virginia
students $60 each year in comparison with non-Virginians.

The laboratory charges are $15 per class for the year's course in Physics,
and $20 per class for a year's course in Chemistry. A deposit for breakage of
$5 is required for each laboratory course in Chemistry. A fee of $5 each
for the year's course in Engineering Geology and in Mineralogy is charged.
The fee for each practice course in the Engineering Department, Drawing,
Engineering Laboratories, and Shop-work is $5 per term for each course.
The fees for Field-work and Bridge Drafting are each $10 per term per
course. These fees include all charges for laboratory materials; but the
student is held further responsible for breakage.

The Living Expenses include board, lodging, fuel and lights, servant and
laundry; the average is $10.00 per week, the minimum $7.50, and a reasonable
maximum $12.50. Books and Drawing Materials will cost about $120 for the
four-year course. Incidental Expenses ought to be kept within modest
bounds; the above estimate is sufficient; large allowances of pocket money
promote idleness and attract companions of the baser sort. No allowances
are included for clothing and travel, the expenses for which vary too much
to be introduced into any general estimate.

The charges payable on entrance are the University Fee, and the Tuition
and Laboratory Fees.

SCHOLARSHIPS

The Philip Francis duPont Scholarships: Founded in 1928 upon the generous
bequest of Philip Francis duPont, '00:

In the Department of Engineering a number of these scholarships are
awarded annually to both new and old students of the department. The
emolument will vary from $100 to $300, depending upon the income available,
with apportionment at the discretion of the Faculty of Engineering.

The tenure of each scholarship is one year, but any incumbent may be
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Applicants for these scholarships who have not previously attended the
University must have complied with the entrance requirements before their
applications can be considered; they must give evidence of financial need;
and they must have ranked in the highest quarter of their class. Preference
is given to applicants who ranked in the highest tenth of their class.

Applications must be made on a blank form supplied by the Dean. Students
who have not attended the University must submit their applications
not later than July 1; students attending the University must apply not later
than May
1.

The Isabella Merrick Sampson Scholarship in the Department of Engineering,
with an income of $100: Founded in 1910 upon the gift of Mr. W. Gordon
Merrick, of Glendower, Albemarle County, Virginia. Appointments are
made upon the recommendation of the trustees of the Isabella Merrick
Sampson Endowment. Preference is given to an applicant from Albemarle
County.

A limited number of additional scholarships may be granted in the Department
of Engineering from those general scholarships open to any department
of the University. A complete statement regarding all scholarships
will be found in the General Catalogue.

LOAN FUNDS AND STUDENT SELF-HELP

The University is in possession of funds from which loans are made to
deserving students in need of such assistance. An account of these loans is
given in the General Catalogue. Inquiries concerning them should be addressed
to the Bursar.

Opportunities for obtaining remunerative employment are afforded to students
who are desirous by this means of partially paying their way through
the University. It is difficult to give definite assurance of employment to a
student before he reaches the University, but it may be stated that any student
with sufficient resources to carry him through the first half of the session
can be reasonably sure of obtaining work which will help defray his expenses
for the rest of the academic year. Information as to employment may be obtained
from the Secretary of the Committee on Student Help, Madison Hall,
University, Virginia.

EXAMINATIONS AND REPORTS

Oral Examinations are held at the beginning of each lecture hour on the
topics of the preceding lecture. Written test papers are set monthly, or at
such interval as the professor may appoint. Absences from lecture except by
reason of sickness are not excused without a written leave from the Dean.
Class standing is determined on the basis of the oral examinations and the
written tests. Absence from the latter or failure to answer incurs a 0
grade. Absences from laboratory periods, however caused, must be made
up by special private arrangement with the instructor.

Written Examinations are held at the end of each term on the entire
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class-standing gives his term-grade. The pass-mark is 75 per cent. Absence
from the written term examination incurs a 0 term-grade, which
may not be removed except by the passage of a special written examination
on the work of that term. Such special examinations are granted only upon
presentation of a written certificate from a reputable physician that the
student by reason of sickness on the day of the regular examination was
unable to attend.

Regular Reports are sent out at the end of every term to the student's
parent or guardian. These state for each course followed the term-grade.
Further comment may be added by the Dean or the professor, if it appears
probable that such comment would be helpful to the student. Parents are
urged to examine these reports carefully and to exert such parental influence
as may seem needed to establish and confirm the student in habits of industry
and order.

Special Reports are sent to parents at the end of each month for students
delinquent in attendance or studiousness and for delinquents only. When a
student is making steady progress and showing due diligence in his work,
only the regular reports are sent. The receipt of a special report is evidence
that, in the judgment of the faculty, prompt and pointed parental admonition
is urgently needed.

If in any class in the Department of Engineering a student fails to make
satisfactory progress, he is first admonished by the professor in charge. In
default of prompt and permanent improvement, he is next formally warned
by the Dean. If due amendment is then not immediately effected, the student's
name is dropped from the rolls of the Department, on the ground that
he is not accomplishing the purposes for which he should have entered upon
a University course of study.

REGULATIONS

The following regulations, adopted to define the policy of the faculty, are
published for the information and guidance of the students:

1. Practice-courses as well as lecture-courses must be conducted under
the Honor System. The student who submits any work to be graded is considered
to submit it under pledge.

2. When the lecture-course and the associated practice-course are given
in the same term of the same year, no student will be admitted to examination
on the lecture-course until he has completed at least three-fourths of
the practice-course.

3. No student will be admitted to any practice-course unless he is at
the same time pursuing the associated lecture-course, or has already received
credit for the same.

4. No student will be admitted to the graduating examination on a lecture-course
unless he has been present at more than half the lectures in
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5. In the technical courses in Engineering (i. e., courses not given in the
College) term-grades shall not be averaged; except that the term-grades for
Freshmen Applied Mathematics may be averaged for the first-year men only,
provided no mark is below 65.

6. The pass-mark in every course is 75. Class standing and written
examination are combined for the term-grade in such proportions as the
several professors may determine.

7. No student who fails to make 75 on term-grade shall be granted
another examination on the course until he has again attended lectures on
that course.

8. Special examinations are not given except by reason of sickness on
the day of examination, attested by the written certificate of a reputable
physician, or for other like providential causes. In every case they must be
validated by special vote of the faculty.

9. Any engineering student who fails to attain a passing grade of 75
on at least 9 term-hours will be placed on probation for the following term,
probation to continue until at least 9 term-hours are passed in one term.
No engineering student shall remain on probation for more than three terms,
whether consecutive or not, in his entire engineering course. If probation
is imposed a fourth time the student shall be suspended.

10. Any engineering student on probation who fails to attain a passing
grade of 75 on at least 6 term-hours and whose average grade on all courses
taken is less than 65 will be suspended. Any engineering student who passes
less than 6 term-hours and whose average grade on all courses taken is less
than 65 will be suspended. Suspension during a session continues for the remainder
of the regular session. Suspension imposed at the end of a session
holds for the whole of a subsequent session, except that such suspension may
be absolved by the successful completion of prescribed work in the Summer
Quarter. No engineering student suspended for a second time shall re-enter
the department.

11. The Dean's List.—A student, who, in any session, passes on all
courses taken, aggregating not less than 18 session-hours, with an average
grade on all courses of not less than 82 per cent, will be placed on the
Dean's list. A student, who, in any session, passes on all courses taken
aggregating not less than 18 session-hours, but who does not average 82 per
cent, and who, in any subsequent term, passes on all courses taken, aggregating
not less than 18 term-hours, with an average grade on all 18 term-hours
of not less than 82 per cent will be placed on the Dean's List. A student
will be automatically dropped from the Dean's List, if, in any term, he
does not pass on all courses taken, aggregating not less than 18 term-hours,
with an average grade on all courses of not less than 82 per cent. A student
dropped from the Dean's List will be again placed on it if he meets the
above mentioned standard for a term. A student on the Dean's List is not
subject to the regulations limiting the issuance of leaves of absence from
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penalty, affecting class standing, imposed for absence alone. Students on
the Dean's List must attend all laboratory classes and must perform all
written problem work and take all written quizzes under the same conditions
as all other students.

DRAFTING ROOMS

The Drafting Rooms are abundantly lighted and are provided with solidly
constructed tables with locked drawers for instruments and materials. Each
student is assigned to a table and has a drawer for his exclusive use. The
regular Drawing Classes execute each one plate a week under the supervision
of the Instructors in Drawing. The more advanced students have such additional
drawings assigned by their respective professors as are needed for
the full development of the courses of study.

Careful attention is given to the training of the students in free-hand lettering,
in the conventional signs of mechanical drawing, in the proper layout
of drawings, and in neat and accurate execution. Exercises are required also
in tracing and in blue-printing, the rooms for which are conveniently arranged
and in close contiguity to the drafting rooms. A vertical blue-printing machine
with arc lamp, complete with trays, has recently been procured and installed.
While, however, technical dexterity is demanded, the graphical
method is taught and used primarily as an indispensable instrument of research,
the thoughtful mastery of which is essential for the instructed Engineer.

The construction and theory of the Polar Planimeter, the Slide Rule, and
the Pantograph are carefully taught, and the student is trained in the practical
use of these appliances for the rapid and accurate production of estimates
and copies from finished drawings.

SHOPS

The Machine Shop is provided with six first-class engine lathes, illustrating
the practice of the best American makers; with a planer, a shaper, two
drill presses, a universal milling machine (Brown & Sharpe), and a universal
grinder (same makers); also with a gas forge for tempering tools, a cut-off
saw for metal rods, an emery wheel, grindstone, and so on.

The Wood Shop is furnished with five small lathes, a large pattern-maker's
lathe, a jointer, a planer, a saw bench for slitting and cross-cutting,
a band-saw, a jig-saw, and a wood trimmer for pattern-making, six cabinetmaker's
benches, and an ample supply of hand tools.

EXPERIMENTAL ENGINEERING LABORATORIES

Road Materials Laboratory.—The apparatus for tests of non-bituminous
road materials includes a two-cylinder Deval abrasion machine, a ball mill, a
moulding press for briquettes of rock dust, a Page impact cementation tester,
a Page impact toughness tester, a rock crusher and a Purdue brick rattler.
This outfit the University owes to the generous aid of the late Dr. Logan
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tester, a diamond core drill, a diamond rock saw, a grinding lap, a
Westphal balance, specific gravity apparatus, and a complete set of sieves.
Useful researches in the road-building rocks and gravels of Virginia, as well
as the standard tests, are conducted each year by the class in Civil Engineering.

The apparatus for tests of bituminous road materials includes the New
York Testing Laboratory penetrometer, the Kirschbaum ductility machine,
the Engler viscosimeter, the asphalt viscosimeter, the New York Testing
Laboratory extractor, the New York State Board of Health oil tester, Hubbard
pyknometers, asphalt flow plates, gas and electric hot plates, and the
accessory apparatus needed for research on bituminous road-binders.

Structural Materials Laboratory.—The Sinclair Laboratory for work in
testing structural materials was founded on the original donation of Mrs. John
Sinclair, of New York City, as a memorial to her late husband. The collection
has since been considerably enlarged. It contains a Riehle 100,000-pound
machine, arranged for tensile, compressive, and transverse tests, with an attachment
for taking autographic diagrams; an Olsen 100,000-pound machine
and fitted with a suspended ball compression block; a 200,000-pound Olsen
machine suitable for compressive tests and also supplied with extension arms
for making transverse tests of beams; an Olsen torsion machine of 50,000
inch-pounds capacity; an Olsen impact-testing machine of 100 foot-pounds
capacity; fatigue tester; Shore scleroscope; a Ewing machine for finding
the modulus of elasticity; hand machines for testing rods and wires under
pull, and small specimens of timber and cast iron under transverse loads.
It is also equipped with accessory measuring instruments; these include a
Henning extensometer, an Olsen compressometer, and a Ewing optical
extensometer of great delicacy.

The laboratory is completely equipped for making tests of cement, cement
aggregates, and concrete. It contains a Fairbank's tensile tester of
1,000 pounds capacity; a compressometer for concrete specimens; Riehle dial
compressometer for concrete specimens; Riehle dial compressometer-extensometer
for specimens up to 3-inch diameter; tools for shearing tests of
concrete; an Olsen steaming oven for accelerated tests; an Olsen drying
oven with automatic temperature regulation; moist air closets; sieves for
mechanical analysis; moulds for tension and compression tests; and the required
small apparatus.

Fuel and Oil Laboratory.—For the determination of the heating value
of coal, petroleum, etc., the laboratory has an Emerson bomb calorimeter.
For gas and liquid fuel calorimetry, a Junker calorimeter made by the
American Meter Co. is used. The equipment also includes a Braun gas muffle
furnace, a Brown high resistance pyrometer, balances, platinum crucibles,
etc. For investigating lubricants, the laboratory is equipped with such apparatus
as flash and chill point testers, hydrometers, viscosimeters, etc., used in
the determination of the physical properties of oil.

Hydraulics Laboratory.—The laboratory equipment for work in hydraulics
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bronze notches; a hook gauge for measurement of surface levels; a standpipe
provided with a set of standard bronze orifices for experiments on
efflux; commercial pipe and elbows arranged for determining friction losses;
Gurley current meter; and the necessary scales, tanks, manometers, etc. It
also includes a pump which is piped to circulate water from a cement cistern
to a tank in the attic of the building.

Additional equipment of this laboratory is a motor driven centrifugal
pump with a capacity of 350 gallons per minute at 100 feet head, equipped
with a Venturi meter and the necessary piping, valves and gauges to provide
for complete performance tests on the pump. This unit also supplies water
at constant pressure for the other hydraulic tests.

Power Laboratory.—The laboratory is equipped to illustrate the theory
involved in Mechanical Engineering; to give practical instruction in the handling
of machinery; and to teach the fundamental methods of experimental
work. It contains a Ball high-speed engine; a De Laval turbine with condensing
and non-condensing nozzles, which is direct-connected to a 20-kva.
alternating-current generator; an Otto gasoline engine with a special piston
for alcohol; a White and Middleton 12 HP. Engine (gasoline or illuminating
gas); two Liberty aeroplane motors; a Wheeler surface condenser to which
the exhaust from any of the steam units may be connected; a Sturtevant
engine and blower; an air compressor; an A. B. C. Pitot tube; a steam pump;
steam traps, etc. For boiler tests, the boilers of the University Heating and
Lighting Plant are used. A new Unaflow Engine of recent design is to be
installed in time for the work of session 1930-31.

The instrument room contains all necessary apparatus for carrying out
complete tests. Among this may be mentioned indicators, thermometers,
gauges, planimeters, with standards for their correction and calibration; two
types of Orsat apparatus; separating and throttling calorimeters, etc.

FIELD WORK IN CIVIL ENGINEERING

The outfit of field instruments contains compasses, transits, and levels of
various approved makes; a solar transit, furnished also with stadia wires and
gradienter for tachymetric work; a Gurley mining transit, one of the finest
products of the instrument maker's art; a complete Gurley transit, graduated
to 30 seconds, with solar attachment; hand-levels and clinometers for field
topography; plane tables; a sextant; together with an adequate supply of
leveling rods, telemeter rods, signal poles, chains, tapes, pins, and so on. For
hydraulic surveys a hook gauge and a current meter are provided. All students
are instructed in the theory and adjustments of the field instruments and
in their practical use in the field. They are also required to make up their
field-books in standard forms; to reduce their surveys and execute all the
necessary profiles, plans and maps; and to determine lengths, areas, and
volumes both from the maps and from the original notes. Polar planimeters
are provided for facilitating such estimates, and a pantograph for making
reduced copies of finished drawings. A set of Beggs' Deformeter apparatus
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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY

The Scott Laboratory of Electrical Engineering.—This laboratory was
initially equipped and endowed by Mrs. Frances Branch Scott, of Richmond,
Va., as a memorial to her late son, an alumnus of this University. During
the year 1910 the equipment was substantially increased through the generosity
of the Hon. Charles R. Crane, of Chicago, Ill., a friend of the University.

Substantial additions of machines, measuring instruments, control apparatus,
and auxiliaries are being made regularly in order to keep the equipment
in the best order for laboratory work.

In addition to a supply from the University Power Plant the laboratory
is furnished from the Virginia Public Service Company through a synchronous
motor driving an alternator and three-wire direct current generator, with two
exciters, all on a common shaft. A complete three-panel switchboard for the
control of this set is equipped with full sets of instruments and controls including
a voltage regulator for the alternating current generator. Universal
plug and receptacle-connections facilitate the setting up of all experimental
combinations.

For the machine testing there are available two direct-current motor generator
sets with automatic push-button start and stop control complete, several
direct current motors and generators, series, shunt and compound; high-voltage
direct current generator set; steam-turbine-driven three-phase alternator
with exciter and control switchboard; experimental test set for alternating
current single or polyphase generator operation or induction motor
testing; a second test set with modern switchboard control panel and driving
motor with automatic start, stop, and reverse equipment; singe-phase induction
motor; single-phase repulsion-induction motor; two- and three-phase
induction motors; three-phase induction-motor set for concatenation tests;
induction generator; double-current generator; several pairs of constant potential
transformers; constant-current transformer; polyphase transformer;
mercury are rectifier set; Prony brakes for all motors; variable resistances;
variable inductances and capacities; current and potential transformers; recording
instruments; meters for measuring frequency, power factor and indicators
of synchronism and grounded circuits. A complete three-element
oscillograph set with all accessories is available. Two telephone central-office
ringer and signal sets, and a 100-watt radio broadcast transmitter are
installed. A complete artificial transmission line with oscillator, bridge,
vacuum-tube ammeter-voltmeter and auxiliary equipment is available for
communication tests.

In addition to full sets of electric meters with the appliances for testing
and calibrating them, galvanometers of the best modern types, standard cells
and resistances, standard condensers, and other pieces of apparatus for minor
tests, this laboratory contains numerous pieces of the very best construction.
Such are the Wolff potentiometer, the Siemens and Halske Thomson double
bridge, the Koepsel permeameter, the Station photometer with Lummer-Brodhun
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BUILDINGS

The buildings devoted wholly or in part to the work of the Department
of Engineering are the following:

The Mechanical Laboratory is the main seat of the instruction in technical
studies. It is 180 by 70 feet and contains on the main floor the Dean's
office and the offices of three other professors; and three lecture-rooms.

Above are an office, a small drafting room for advanced students, and
blue-print and photographic rooms. Below on the ground floor are an office
and classroom, the electrical laboratories, the testing laboratories, apparatus
and storerooms, and the student's lavatory. In order to more adequately
care for increased numbers this building has undergone a considerable rearrangement
during recent years. Wood and machine shop equipment has
been entirely removed from the building, as well as the facilities for Freshman
and Sophomore Drawing. This change made available much needed
classroom space and allowed the electrical laboratories to be expanded. Incident
to the changes new cement floors were constructed for the road Materials
Testing Laboratory, the main testing Laboratory and the main hall.
A new high-pressure steam line from the Power House was also installed.

The Shops are now temporarily housed in the Garage erected for the
Motor Truck Training Detachment during the World War. This building
gives a floor space of some 5,000 square feet and has allowed the rearrangement
of wood and machine shop equipment for group drive by four electric
motors. Space is also available in this structure for use in connection with
the course in automobile construction and testing.

The Drawing Room is temporarily housed near Peabody Hall in one of
the Barracks taken from the Training Camp site and rebuilt and fitted for
drawing. The building accommodates about 180 men, each man having his
individual drawing desk.

The Power House is a single-story building 110 by 40 feet. It contains
the University boiler plant and the electric lighting plant. The Boiler plant
consists of two horizontal return-tubular boilers, each of 140 horsepower. The
lighting plant consists of three electric generators directly connected to high-speed
engines, the respective capacities being 25, 50, and 75 kilowatts. The
whole plant is available for purposes of instruction, study and experiment.

In addition to the University plants there are available by courtesy of
the owners for purposes of inspection, study and tests such plants as the
turbine station and railway and power substation of the Virginia Public
Service Company, the water turbines and oil engine plant of the Charlottesville
Woolen mills, and plants of the local ice companies and cold storage.

The Geological Museum is 120 by 50 feet. It is a three-story building.
The main floor is devoted to the very extensive geological collection of specimens,
charts, relief maps, and so on. The gallery above contains an equally
good collection of minerals and numerous models of typical crystallographic
forms. The upper floor contains the lecture-rooms and the laboratories of
Economic Geology. In the basement are stored subsidiary collections and
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The Physical Laboratory faces the Mechanical Laboratory on the opposite
side of the quadrangle, and has almost the same proportions. The main
floor contains the lecture-room, the professors' offices, the laboratory of experimental
physics, and the storeroom for the very large collection of apparatus
used in the lectures. On the ground floor is the laboratory of theoretical
electricity, the storage battery room, a well-equipped shop for the
repair and manufacture of apparatus, and smaller rooms for the work of
graduate students.

The new Chemical Laboratory was opened for use in September, 1917,
In this fire-proof structure all the work in Chemistry is assembled. The floor
area provided is about 30,000 square feet. The lecture-rooms seat classes of
300, 75 and 25 students. The laboratories assigned to General Chemistry,
Organic Chemistry, Qualitative Analysis, Quantitative Analysis, and Physical
Chemistry contain 110, 60, 40, 30, and 20 desks. Altogether by dividing
classes into sections, 600 students may be accommodated. Smaller private
laboratories are provided for research workers. Large stock rooms communicating
by elevators with the several floors contain ample stores of chemical
supplies. The 5,000 volumes of books and bound sets of journals constituting
the Departmental Library of Chemistry are so housed as to be accessible to
both teachers and students.