 | The University of Virginia record April 15, 1936 |  |
DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING
JOHN LLOYD NEWCOMB, B.A., C.E., ScD., LL.D.
President of the University
WALTER SHELDON RODMAN, M.S., S.M.
Dean of the Department of Engineering
| [1] WILLIAM MYNN THORNTON, B.A., LL.D. | Emeritus Professor of Applied Mathematics |
| [2] FRANCIS PERRY DUNNINGTON, C.E., E.M. | Professor of Analytical and Industrial Chemistry (retired) |
| ROBERT MONTGOMERY BIRD, B.A., B.S., Ph.D. | Professor of Chemistry |
| WILLIAM HARRISON FAULKNER, M.A., Ph.D. | Professor of Germanic Languages |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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, MA., Ph.D. | Professor of Chemistry |
| EDWARDS WATTS SAUNDERS, Jr., C.E. | Professor of Civil Engineering |
| ARTHUR FRANCIS MACCONOCHIE, B.Sc. (Engrg.) London | Professor of Mechanical Engineering |
| EARNEST JACKSON OGLESBY, M.A. | Professor of Engineering Mathematics |
| [3] CHARLES WAKEFIELD PAUL | Associate Professor of Public Speaking |
| FREDERICK LYONS BROWN, M.A., Ph.D. | Associate Professor of Physics |
| JAMES SHANNON MILLER, Jr., B.S., B.A., E.E. | Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering |
| CHARLES HENDERSON, E.E. | Associate Professor of Experimental Engineering |
| [4] LAUREN BLAKELY HITCHCOCK, S.M., Sc.D. | Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering |
| FREDERIC TURNBULL WOOD, B.A., Ph.D. | Associate Professor of Germanic Philology |
| HERMAN CARL HESSE, B.S., M.E. | Associate Professor of Engineering Drawing |
| FRANCIS ELLIOTT HALL McLEAN, M.S., Ph.D. | Acting Associate Professor of Public Speaking |
| 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 |
| FREDERICK TRACY MORSE, M.E., E.E. | Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering |
| THOMAS HAYHURST EVANS, M.S. | Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering |
| James Charles Alexander, B.S. | Chemistry |
| William McSwain Breazeale, B.S.E.E., M.S., Ph.D. | Physics |
| Joshua Robert Callaway Brown, Jr., B.S. | Chemistry |
| George Landon Browning, Jr., B.S. | Chemistry |
| Gordon Keith Carter, B.S.E., E.E. | Physics |
| Thomas Bigelow Crumpler, M.S. | Chemistry |
| Joseph Robert Dietrich, B.S. | Physics |
| Hugh Nelson Dyer, Jr., M.S. | Chemistry |
| Richard Royston Fell, B.S.Ch.E. | Chemistry |
| Carl Keister Fink, Jr., B.S.Ch.E., Ph.D. (Instructor) | Chemistry |
| Henry Louis Forbes, Jr., B.S.Ch.E. | Chemistry |
| Edward Merrick Fry, B.A. | Chemistry |
| William Taylor Ham, Jr., B.S.E., M.S., Ph.D. | Physics |
| Edmund Frank MacDonald, B.S.Com. (Instructor) | Cost Accounting |
| James Edgar Mallonee, Jr., B.S. | Chemistry |
| William Harwood Peden, B.S. | English |
| Lawrence Reginald Quarles, B.S.E., Ph.D. (Instructor) | Electrical Engineering |
| Charles Pleasant Roberts, Jr., B.S.Ch.E. | Chemistry |
| Waldemar Adrian Schmidt, B.S.Ch.E., S.M. (Instructor) | Chemical Engineering |
| Donald Foss Smith, B.S. | Chemistry |
| Alfred Herbert Stuart, B.S. | Chemistry |
| Joseph Lee Vaughan, M.A. (Instructor) | English |
| Matthew Volm, Ph.D. (Instructor) | German |
| Samuel Branch Walker, B.S.Ch.E. | Chemistry |
| John Lewis Wood, B.S.Chem. | Chemistry |
ENGINEERING ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS
For admission to the First-year 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
Department of Engineering 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 an official of a recognized
institution of collegiate rank, or by the principal of an accredited public
high school or of an accredited private secondary school. An applicant for
admission from outside of Virginia may be required to supplement his application
by an interview with a representative of the University. 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:
| English A.—Grammar and Grammatical Analysis | 1 |
| English B.—Composition and Rhetoric | 1 |
| English C.—Critical study of Specimens of Literature | 1 |
| Mathematics A.—Algebra through Quadratics, Progressions, Binomial Formula |
2 |
| Mathematics C.—Plane Geometry | 1 |
| Mathematics D.—Solid Geometry | ½ |
| Mathematics E.—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.
Conditioned Students.—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 absorbed 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 C or in Mathematics A or C.
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. Such a program
will prepare the student for Second-year 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.
Special Students.—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 course
degree. No conditioned student may register later as a special student.
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 the 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 Second-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 explicit recommendation
of the suspending university, and after such additional tests as this
Engineering Faculty may impose.
Credits on Practice-Courses, in Drawing, 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 First-year
Class. The studies of this class comprise lecture courses in English,
Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Chemistry with associated laboratory
courses in Chemistry, Drawing, and Field-work. All First-year students have
the same courses.
For advancement to the Second-year Class the student must have completed
at least two-thirds of his First-year work. Upon entering this class the
students majoring in Chemical Engineering begin their specialized work, while
all others pursue identical courses of study through the year, except for
courses in the third term. On entering this third term each student elects his
specialty. The courses thereafter diverge according to the major subject
chosen by the student. At the beginning of the fourth year the students of
Mechanical Engineering must choose either the machinery or the aeronautical
option. 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 First 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 arangements 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
the completion of the additional Graduate Course in a satisfactory manner
the faculty will award the appropriate degree of Chemical Engineer, Civil
Engineer, Electrical Engineer, or Mechanical 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.
EXPENSES OF REGULAR STUDENTS
The average annual expense of a student who pursues the regular course
in Engineering will be:
| NonVirginians | First-year Virginians |
Other Virginians |
|
| University Fee | $ 60.00 | $ 50.00 | $ 50.00 |
| Tuition Fee | 200.00 | 65.00 | 130.00 |
| Athletic Fee | 15.00 | 15.00 | 15.00 |
| Topics Fee | 1.50 | 1.50 | 1.50 |
| Laboratory Fees (average) | 35.00 | 45.00 | 35.00 |
| Living Expenses (for 9 months) | 375.00 | 375.00 | 375.00 |
| Books and Drawing Materials | 30.00 | 30.00 | 30.00 |
| Incidental Expenses (for 9 months) | 60.00 | 60.00 | 60.00 |
| Total annual for average conditions | $776.50 | $641.50 | $696.50 |
The charges for Tuition are uniform to all students, except that Virginians
are relieved of tuition on certain courses, this exception saving regular
Freshmen from Virginia $135 and all other Virginia students $70 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 for the
year's course in Engineering Geology is charged. The fee for each practice
course in the Engineering Department, Drawing, and Engineering Laboratories
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, the Athletic
Fee, the Topics Fee, and the Tuition and Laboratory Fees.
SCHOLARSHIPS
The Accredited School Scholarships from accredited public or private
secondary schools may be assigned to the Department of Engineering. Tenure,
one year. Emolument, for Virginians, the remission of $60 in fees; for nonVirginians,
the remission of $150 in fees.
The holder must be a graduate of his school, he must rank in the highest
quarter of his class, and he must enter the University the session immediately
following his graduation.
The Alumni Scholarships may be assigned to the Department of Engineering.
Tenure, one year, but an incumbent may be eligible for reappointment upon
recommendation of the Dean. Emolument, for Virginians, the remission of $60
in fees; for non-Virginians, the remission of $150 in fees.
The holder must need financial aid in order to attend the University, and
must file a written statement to this effect, together with a similar statement from
his parent or guardian. He must have ranked in the highest quarter of the
graduating class of his school, and must enter the University the session immediately
following his graduation.
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 $150, 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 reappointed
upon recommendation of the Dean.
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.
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
Engineers (1922), and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
(1934). 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.
ENGINEERING COUNCIL
In 1934 was established the students' Engineering Council with representatives
of the Student Branches and a Faculty advisor chosen by the Council.
This Council coördinates the activities of the student societies and plans in
general to advance the welfare of students in Engineering by every means
within the reasonable reach of the Department.
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
object the broadening of the education of the engineering student by fraternal
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.
ALPHA CHI SIGMA
On May 27, 1922, a charter was granted at the University of Virginia,
creating the Alpha Kappa chapter of the National Chemical Fraternity of
and seriousness of purpose in students specializing in chemistry and chemical
engineering. As the leading national fraternity in this field, it has 47 active
college chapters, 10 professional chapters, and six professional groups, serving
to advance chemistry and chemical engineering both scientifically and professionally.
Among the regular activities of the local chapter are the sponsoring
of the annual Alpha Chi Sigma lecture, the award of a membership
in the American Chemical Society to the outstanding student in chemistry
and chemical engineering, and general assistance to the faculty in the conduct
of official functions.
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, has made possible much needed changes
and additions to the library.
EXAMINATIONS AND REPORTS
Oral Examinations may be 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
work of that term. The result of examination combined with the student's 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.
DEPARTMENT 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 that course.
5. No averaging of term grades shall be used in courses taken for credit
for a degree in Engineering. Failure to make 75 on any term course will
necessitate taking the course again.
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. A student who fails a second time on any course will be allowed to attempt
the course for a third time only by special permission of the faculty; a third
failure in a course will prevent such student from acceptance as a degree candidate
here in engineering.
9. Special examinations are not given except by reason of sickness on the
day of examination, attested by the written certificate of a reputable physician,
special vote of the faculty.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. The Dean's List.—A student, who, in any successive three terms,
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 successive
three terms, 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 17 term-hours, with
an average grade on all 17 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
17 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
the University, nor does absence from any class entail on such student any
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.
PHYSICAL PLANT FOR ENGINEERING INSTRUCTION
DRAFTING ROOMS
At present there are available three drafting rooms, one containing 78
individual tables, for the use of first-year students, and two containing 15
individual tables each, for upper classmen. The tables are of special design,
with individual drawers for each student, and can adequately hold all of the
student's equipment. All tables are provided with padlock hasps, and students
are required to furnish their own padlocks, which must be of a type
approved by the Department. The tables for upper classmen are provided
with parallel rules, for which the student must supply a cord at a nominal
fee.
Careful attention is given to the training of students in freehand lettering,
in the use of standard instruments and special equipment, in engineering
drawing expression and convention, and in the use of such media as
pencil and ink on drawing paper, and tracing paper and cloth. A photostat
machine, and a vertical blue-printing machine comprise a portion of the
auxiliary equipment of the Department, and some time is devoted to reproduction
of drawings.
Technical ability and dexterity is required to the extent of preparing men
for positions in industry, but the graphical method is taught and used
primarily as an indispensable instrument of communication and research, the
mastery of which is essential for the instructed Engineer.
EXPERIMENTAL ENGINEERING LABORATORIES
Roads 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
Waller Page. In addition, the Department has acquired a 40,000-pound compression
tester, a diamond core drill, a diamond rock saw, 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, Hubbard pyknometers, 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 200,000-pound Olsen
universal testing machine equipped with extension arms for transverse tests
of beams; a 100,000-pound Olsen universal testing machine; a 100,000-pound
Riehle universal testing machine with attachments for autographic tests; an
Olsen torsion machine of 26,400 inch-pound capacity; two Hayes machines
and one Thompson machine for rotating beam fatigue tests; hand machines
for tensile tests of rods and wires and transverse tests of small metal and timber
specimens; and a Shore scleroscope. Accessory measuring instruments
included in the equipment are a Riehle extensometer; two Olsen strain gauge
extensometers; a Ewing extensometer; a Ewing combination extensometer
and compressometer; three Olsen wire extensometers; an Olsen compressometer
for metal specimens; an Olsen compressometer for timber; an Olsen
deflectometer; an Olsen troptometer; and an Amsler calibrating box of 200,000
pounds capacity.
Concrete Laboratory.—The laboratory is equipped with screens, sieves,
and all other apparatus necessary for mechanical analyses and other routine
tests of concrete aggregates. In addition there are specimen moulds of various
moist storage; an Olsen compressometer for use on mortar cylinders up to
3-inch diameter; and an Olsen compressometer for tests of concrete cylinders
of 6-inch diameter. The testing machines in the Structural Materials
Laboratory furnish ample facilities for compressive tests and for transverse
tests of reinforced concrete beams.
Fuel and Oil Laboratory.—For the determination of the heating values of
fuels the laboratory has an Emerson bomb calorimeter and a gas calorimeter
of the Junkers type made by the American Meter Company and provided
with attachments for use with liquid fuels. The equipment also includes
two electric muffle furnaces; a Freas electric drying oven with automatic
temperature regulation; a sample crusher and grinder; a Brown high
resistance pyrometer; chemical balances and the required small equipment.
For testing lubricants there are Saybolt viscosimeters with automatic
bath temperature controls; Cleveland and Pensky-Martens flash and fire point
testers; hydrometers and pyknometers; Conradson carbon residue apparatus;
and A. S. T. M. standard cloud and pour point testers.
Hydraulics Laboratory.—The laboratory equipment for work in hydraulics
includes two motor-driven, two-stage, centrifugal pumps; two motor-driven,
single-stage, centrifugal pumps; a Pelton Wheel manufactured by the Pelton
Wheel Company expressly for laboratory use; a Rife hydraulic ram; a standpipe
arranged for tests of orifices in vertical and horizontal planes; orifices of
various sizes and types; a weir tank for tests of rectangular, trapezoidal, and
triangular weirs; three Venturi meters of different sizes; a Bailey orifice
meter; a Gurley current meter; a piping system arranged for measurement
of friction and shock losses in various sizes of commercial pipe and fittings;
manometers, weigh tanks, etc. The laboratory pumps provide an ample supply
of water for test purposes, at heads up to 500 feet, and in addition are arranged
for performance tests.
Power Laboratory.—The laboratory is designed and equipped to illustrate
the principles of Mechanical Engineering as applied to power plant and internal
combustion engine practice. It contains an oil-fired experimental boiler
with superheater, Sturtevant induced draft fan, Bailey feed water regulator,
and Worthington triplex boiler feed pump; a 75-Kw. General Electric turbo-generator
of modern design; a Westinghouse 25-Kw. turbo-generator; a
Wheeler surface condenser with steam jet air ejector for high vacuum work;
a smaller Wheeler surface condenser with wet vacuum pump for engine
tests; a Ball high-speed steam engine; a 12-Hp. Otto gasoline engine with
special additional piston and fuel valve for use with alcohol; a 12-Hp. White
and Middleton engine designed to use illuminating gas and convertible to
the use of liquid fuels; a General Electric 35-Kw. gasoline engine-generator
set; a motor-driven air compressor; a General Electric domestic-type oil
furnace arranged for tests; and all necessary testing equipment such as gauge
testers, indicators, planimeters, draft gauge, separating and throttling calorimeters,
Orsat apparatus, etc.
AERONAUTICS LABORATORY
The Aeronautics Laboratory, located in the rear wing of the second floor
of Building C, consists of a large laboratory room, a small combined office
and model shop, and a mezzanine floor for storage and other purposes. The
laboratory is equipped with facilities for building and testing aerodynamic
models of all types. Two wind tunnels are available for student use. One of
these is a portable model with 10 inch by 12 inch throat, having moderate
throat velocity. This is more of a demonstration than a laboratory type
tunnel. The large wind tunnel, used for routine and research aerodynamic
testing is capable of testing a model of 36 inch wing span at 150 miles per hour.
This tunnel is of the rectangular type having a 30 inch by 50 inch test section
which may be used with either an open or closed throat. The design is of
the high-efficiency return circuit type and the propeller is powered by a direct
drive streamlined electric motor developing over 40 horsepower and having
external control equipment capable of varying the speed over a wide range.
Precision type wood working machinery, bench mounted, and consisting
of equipment such as the jointer, sander, jig saw, etc., is installed for the
purpose of model making of all descriptions. This equipment is mobile and
is available to all divisions of the Engineering Department for wood repair
or modeling work.
Several aircraft engines including the Whirlwind, Wasp, and Gypsy in
the air-cooled field and representative water-cooled engines are available for
engine work in the Aeronautics Laboratory. A Consolidated Trainer and a
Curtiss Dive Bomber have been loaned to the Department of Engineering
and are employed for instruction in airplane structures and rigging. There
is considerable detached equipment such as instruments, carburetors, magnetos,
supercharger, etc., available for study.
REPAIR SHOP AND MACHINE SHOP
The equipment of the Repair Shop has been selected with a view to serving
as a nucleus of an instrument-making shop in addition to its general
departmental repairs function. The machine equipment installed for working
metals consists of a Rivett precision lathe, a LeBlond lathe, a milling machine
with gear-cutting attachment, a shaper, large and small drill presses, hack
saw, and grinding machines. All equipment is individually motor driven.
Forge and welding equipment, as well as the usual complement of bench and
hand tools are available.
The Machine Shop will be available for the work in courses in Engineering
Shop Practice, and is equipped with a representative line of machine
tools, most of which will be individually motor driven. Among the items
are lathes of various sizes and capacities, shapers, milling machines, a planer,
a cylindrical grinding machine, and a bandsaw, jointer and lathes for woodworking
practice.
FIELD WORK AND EQUIPMENT IN CIVIL ENGINEERING
The outfit of field instruments contains compasses, transits, and levels
of various approved makes; a solar transit, furnished with stadia wires and
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, etc. 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.
MODEL TESTING APPARATUS
The Department has apparatus for the determination of stresses in structural
and machine parts by the use of models.
The Beggs' Deformeter is a specialized set of equipment for the determination
of moments and shears in elastic structures by utilizing Maxwell's
principle of reciprocal deflections. The work is done on small scale models
accurately cut from celluloid or other suitable material.
This year the Department is securing modern Photoelastic equipment for
the analysis of stresses in elastic members. The equipment consists of an
elaborate optical set in which a model of bakelite is inserted. The method is
based on certain optical effects imposed on a ray of light by the stressed
model.
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY
A new unit process laboratory for Chemical Engineering is being planned
and portions of it will be installed for service during the coming year. This
laboratory will occupy space in one end of the second floor of Building C.
It will be provided with essential services of air, water and gas as well as
electrical outlets and a floor drainage system. Additional facilities exist
at the University Power House, where semi-plant scale absorption equipment
has been installed for the experimental treatment of flue gas.
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. In
recent years a large number of new machines, measuring instruments and
pieces of auxiliary apparatus have been purchased. Improvements are constantly
being made and items of equipment added. As a result the laboratory
is now well supplied with the best modern equipment.
Power is supplied to the laboratory direct from the 4,000-volt distribution
system of the local power company through a modern substation located in
and all equipment is available for inspection and study. In one end of the
laboratory is located the main light and power switchboard for the entire
building, consisting of seventeen steel panels containing a complete array of
instruments, relays and low tension circuit breakers together with the control
switches for the eight electrically operated high voltage circuit breakers
which are located in the adjacent fireproof vault. The vault also contains
six single-phase induction regulators, a 300-Kv.-a. bank of transformers
for the power supply, a 225-Kv.-a. bank of transformers for lighting
and a 75-Kv-a. autotransformer. Adjacent to the vault is the battery room
containing a 120-volt and a 24-volt storage battery, the former furnishing
control current for the substation. Near the main switchboard are located
two motor generator sets for supplying direct current to the laboratory. These
sets consist of synchronous motors driving three-wire direct current generators
of 100 and 50 kilowatts capacity respectively. There is also an alternator
of 50-Kv-a. capacity which is provided with a Tirrill regulator. Automatic
control for the synchronous motors is provided on the switchboard.
From the main switchboard power is conducted through the permanent
wiring system to four distribution panels in the electrical machinery laboratory
and four panels in the adjacent communications, photometry, and measurements
laboratories. These panels make available six different sources of
power at convenient locations. The panels and all of the experimental equipment
are fitted with universal plug receptacles to facilitate the making of necessary
connections.
For the machine testing there are available several direct-current motor
generator sets with automatic control; numerous series, shunt and compound
motors and generators; synchronous and induction motor driven generator
sets; high voltage direct-current generator; steam turbine driven three-phase
alternator with exciter and control switchboard; two experimental test sets for
alternating current single or polyphase generator operation; single-phase induction
motor; single-phase repulsion-induction motor; two-phase induction
motor; three-phase squirrel cage induction motors of the general purpose,
high reactance and double cage types; wound rotor induction motors; induction
generator; wound rotor induction motor set for concatenation; Fynn-Weichsel
synchronous induction motor; frequency changer set; synchronous
motors; rotary converter; arc welding generator set; constant potential transformers;
constant current transformer; polyphase transformer; induction
regulator; mercury arc and thermionic rectifiers; a number of different types
of A. C. and D. C. fractional horsepower motors; prony brakes for all motors;
adjustable resistances, inductances and capacitances.
The instrument room is unusually well equipped with all of the types of
high grade portable instruments required for the laboratory tests, including
frequency and power factor meters, watthour meters, synchroscopes, tachometers,
instrument transformers, recording voltmeters, ammeters and wattmeters.
For testing and calibrating the portable instruments and for more
precise work in electrical measurements there are available a set of laboratory
standard instruments with standard shunts and resistances; standard cells;
standard condensers, inductances and resistances; galvanometers of the best
such as the Wolff potentiometer, Siemens and Halske-Thomson double bridge,
Carey-Foster bridge, Koepsel permeameter, Fahy simplex permeameter and
others.
For experiments in illumination and photometry there are a Station
photometer with Lummer-Brodhun screen, a Macbeth illuminometer, General
Electric and Weston portable foot-candle meters.
The lighting system for the building has been designed so that it will
serve as a complete up-to-date laboratory of commercial and industrial lighting,
illustrating the best lighting equipment available at the present time.
Equipment for the study of communication and power transmission includes
a complete artificial transmission line; an adjustable frequency test
oscillator; impedance bridge; vacuum tube voltmeter-ammeter; representative
pieces of modern telephone equipment including two central office ringer sets;
equipment for the study of vacuum tube performance; model network distribution
system; relays of different types; radio transmitting and receiving
sets; microphones, amplifiers and other sound equipment; phototubes and
amplifier tubes of various types; all with the necessary auxiliary apparatus.
In addition the automatic dial telephone system installed in the building
is available for examination and study.
The laboratory is equipped with three oscillographs which are available
for the study of wave forms and transient phenomena. Two of the oscillographs
are of the latest portable type—one a six element and the other a one
element. All are complete with the necessary accessories for both visual observation
and photographic recording.
BUILDINGS
The buildings at present wholly or partially devoted to the work of the
Department of Engineering are the following:
Thornton Hall.—The new center for instruction in engineering at the
University of Virginia, open for use at the beginning of the 1935-1936 session,
is named Thornton Hall, in honor of the first Dean of Engineering at Virginia,
William Mynn Thornton, whose active service spanned 55 years, from 1875
to 1930.
The building plans were perfected by the Architectural Commission of
the University upon a skeleton plan for service needs prepared by the teaching
staff of the Department of Engineering. The Commission was particularly
fortunate in its finished plan in securing two important essentials: harmony
with the well-known Jeffersonian architecture of the rest of the University;
and at the same time fitness for service as a working home for the activities
in class and laboratory of a department concerned with engineering instruction
of a professional character.
The Setting of the Building
The site selected, at the southern end of the main campus, on McCormick
Road, affords a pleasing outlook on all sides and secures an unencumbered
abundance of light and air for the working areas. The building is designed to
several years of the course, and it is expected that the matriculation in engineering
will be restricted to that approximate number, in the belief that it
affords an ideal group for the University to train in its engineering school.
The building is in a sense three interconnected structures arranged in
U-fashion, with a central grass court 150 feet square, closed at the top of
the U by an arcaded walk which furnishes ready access between the two
wings. The main unit of the group consists of basement and two upper
floors; the western wing is of one-story, and the eastern wing of two-story,
construction, each unit being approximately 300 feet long.
The entire building is erected upon reinforced concrete foundations with
the walls of over-size brick of a color to match other campus structures, and is
of a simple, dignified design most pleasing from every aspect. Cast stone
bands, with the same material as a part of door and window trim, serve to
relieve the severity of extensive uninterrupted areas of brick. The arcade
motif is used throughout the construction rather than the colonnade, which is
a feature of many of the earlier buildings on the campus. Reinforced concrete
floors are the rule; partitions of brick, tile or gypsum block predominate, and
the slate roof is supported on structural steel trusses.
Floors vary from those of concrete in most of the laboratories, through
terrazzo in corridors, to mastic-covered concrete in offices, classrooms and
library. The classrooms and offices have plastered walls and sound-absorbing
ceiling surfaces, while the walls of most of the laboratories and drawing
rooms are of painted brick. Basement corridors and lavatories are finished
in general with glazed tile walls to a height of about 6 feet. Throughout the
building generous window allotment has been secured to insure ample natural
light and ventilation.
Heating and Illumination
The entire building is heated from the central heating plant of the University,
which provides a circulating hot-water system, with radiators wall-supported
to aid in maintaining cleanliness. The building's water supply is
obtained from the main service of the University. All laboratories are piped
for the necessary water supply, electric water heaters provide essential service
to lavatories, and electric coolers in strategic locations make available a ready
supply of cool drinking water. All laboratories which have use for gas are
piped for that service from the city mains.
The problem of adequate artificial illumination for all purposes was given
careful attention, and as a result the planned illumination will be in accord
with the best modern practice. An ample arrangement of panel boards with
heavy mains together with a finely divided individual control of circuits provides
a flexible and entirely adequate system suited to the several uses made
necessary in such an all-inclusive structure. Semi-indirect and totally indirect
lighting is utilized in most locations, with such a variety of lighting units
as will serve both to provide essential illumination and at the same time be an
exemplification of several means of obtaining approved illumination of required
intensity but free from glare. Incandescent units ranging in size from
100 to 1,500 watts are in the main utilized. A single installation of modern
mercury-arc units is applied, however, in the repair shop.
In connection with the electrical system, care has been taken to supply,
wherever requisite, an ample number of convenience outlets, so that electric
fans, projection apparatus, etc., may readily be connected when needed.
Interior communication will be afforded between various parts of the
building by an intercommunicating telephone system of some 40 stations. A
number of electric clocks are installed, and class periods will be announced
on an electric program service reaching every portion of the building.
Interior Arrangement of Central Unit—Building A
The central unit of the group is entered from the main walk through an
arcaded entrance leading to the lobby in which the main bulletin boards are
placed. From this open lobby the main corridor extends in both directions,
giving access at each end by stairways to the upper floor level and also by
stairways downward to the basement and connecting passageways to the
other two units of the building. Arranged along the main corridor are eleven
offices for ten professors and the secretary to the Dean, which overlook the
central grass court, and in each of which modern steel office equipment is
installed.
From the main corridor, across from the offices, are three classrooms
and a Faculty conference room. Side corridors lead to six other classrooms,
to which access is also possible through two side doors from the front plaza.
The Faculty conference room is equipped with a conference table and the
necessary chairs. Four of the classrooms will seat 30 students each, three
seat 27 each, and one larger room is arranged to seat 56. These eight rooms
are equipped with individual swivel chairs arranged with table tops on
pedestals in front of each row of chairs. The remaining large classroom is
equipped with 77 tablet-arm chairs arranged radially. All classrooms are furnished
with ample blackboards covering all available wall space, besides bulletin
board and special lecture desk. This floor is completed by two small
lavatories, one at each end of the office suite, reserved for use of the Faculty
and for ladies respectively.
The upper floor of this unit is devoted to the library and drawing rooms
for the Department. The library is directly above the offices and will constitute
a combined library and reading room. This handsome room is pleasingly
furnished in oak panels and trim, and is equipped with oak reading tables
and substantial chairs. Steel stacks house the present engineering library of
some 6,000 volumes, and adequate space is available for growth of the collection.
A librarian's office adjoins the library proper, and an additional office
for drawing instructors completes one end of the floor. At the opposite end
of the reading room are an office and a small room which contains the blueprinting
equipment for the Department, with a dark-room attached.
The remainder of this floor is assigned to drafting rooms, space being
available for something over 150 individual drawing tables and the accessory
files. For the present, 108 drawing tables are in place, 78 in one main
group for first-year students principally, with two smaller groups of 15 each
in partitioned rooms for more advanced classes. The drawing tables are
specially built and provide adjustable tilt tops 3 by 4 feet in area; each table
is equipped with two drawers, each drawer being supplied with individual
supplied for each table. The planned artificial illumination for the drawing
room is 30 foot-candles on the working surface. For the present the unoccupied
space, later to be equipped with additional drawing tables, will be used
as a temporary auditorium, using folding steel chairs, where the entire student
group may assemble for lectures and general meetings.
The Basement of the Central Unit
The basement floor of this unit is occupied in the front by one large
and four smaller storage rooms, the photostat and mimeograph room, and the
main locker-room and lavatory. More than 200 individual steel lockers,
supplied with combination, master-keyed padlocks, are installed here. The
sanitary arrangements of the lavatories are of the best modern type. The
inner section of this basement will be used by three experimental laboratories.
The largest is that for hydraulic testing. This laboratory has adequate headroom
and is provided with a built-in trench extending its entire length. Here
are assembled the various pumping units, high- and low-pressure, electrically
driven and controlled; apparatus for flow experiments; weirs, tanks, scales,
meters, etc., with the essential auxiliary apparatus necessary for successful
hydraulic testing of motors, pumps and systems.
A second laboratory on this floor is that for testing fuels and oils. This
is supplied with gas, water and electricity and in its equipment are calorimeters
for solid, liquid and gaseous fuels; electric-muffle furnace, electric
drying oven, sample grinder and crusher, pyknometers, balances, crucibles,
etc. Here also are found flash and chill testers, hydrometers, viscosimeters,
etc., used in determining the properties of oils. The third of these laboratories
is for concrete testing. It is completely equipped for making tests of cement,
cement aggregates, and concrete. It has tensile testers, compressometers of
several types, tools for shearing test, steaming oven for accelerated tests,
drying ovens with automatic temperature regulation, moist-air closets, sieves,
moulds, and the necessary small apparatus required in these tests.
The One-Story Wing—Building B
This wing is devoted mainly to three additional laboratories of experimental
engineering. One of these is to be used for road materials testing.
It is equipped with abrasive machine, ball mill, molding press for briquetting,
impact cementation tester, toughness tester, rock crusher and brick rattler,
compression tester, diamond core drill, diamond rock saw, grinding lap, Westphal
balance, specific gravity apparatus and sets of sieves. For bituminous
road materials there are a penetrometer, ductility machine, viscosimeters,
extractor, oil tester, pyknometers, flow plates, gas and electric hot plates, and
accessory apparatus for testing bituminous road binders.
The second laboratory in this wing is the power laboratory. Here are
found the units for steam and gas power testing; steam boiler, steam engines,
turbines, gas engines, condensers, air compressor, and auxiliary equipment
such as indicators, thermometers, gages, planimeters, standards for their
calibration and correction, Orsat apparatus, calorimeters, etc. In addition to
available for student tests.
Also in this group is the structural materials laboratory. Here are placed
standard machines for tensile, compressive and transverse tests of both metals
and wood; torsion machine, impact testing machine, fatigue test machine,
scleroscope, wire testing machines; extensometers, compressometers and tools
for shearing tests of metals and timber. On a mezzanine are an office and an
apparatus room. An office for the instructing staff in surveying is located in
this wing, and directly connecting with it is the instrument room for surveying
classes. This equipment includes compasses, transits and levels of various
makes, hand levels and clinometers, plane tables, sextant, leveling rods, telemeter
rods, signal poles, chains, tapes, pins and so on. For hydraulic surveys
there are hook gage and current meter. The facilities of this wing also include
a locker room and lavatory easily accessible.
The Two-Story Wing—Building C
The ground floor of the two-story wing is devoted entirely to the electrical
engineering laboratories. The main room will be used for dynamo-machine
testing and has the building power plant at one end. The electrical
supply is at present secured from the Public Service Company, and the needs
of laboratories and building are taken through transformers and motor-generator
sets. The dynamo laboratory is well supplied with test units of
moderate size, of various makes, and of the general types usual in service,
both direct and alternating current. All tests units are direct-driven, and all
connections are made by universal plug and receptacle connections with flexible
cords. Individual control panels are placed at convenient points throughout
the laboratory, and their supply is by conduit embedded in the floor structure.
Brakes are furnished for each motor unit, and a complete supply of instruments
is at hand for all tests. Transformers of various types, induction regulators,
control resistances, inductances and capacitances are included in this
equipment. Mercury arc rectifiers, arc welding sets and numerous other units
supply additional test service. Oscillographs, single and multiple, make possible
a wide variety of tests of transient phenomena. An office for the laboratory
instructor, and a large instrument room, adjoin the machine laboratory.
As a part of the electrical supply system, there is the transformer room,
which houses also the main circuit breakers and voltage regulators. A storage
battery room is closely adjacent, and a dark-room for photographic developing
is included.
Moreover, there are three additional laboratories in the electrical division.
One of these is the standardizing laboratory, which is supplied with the usual
electrical standards necessary for testing and calibrating portable test instruments.
Here are included also several instruments of high-precision type,
such as potentiometers, double bridges, galvanometers, permeameters, etc.
A second small laboratory is for illumination tests of various kinds. This is
equipped with photometers, illuminometers and several types of foot-candle
meters. A third unit in this suite will be used for communication and power
transmission testing, with electronic testing being developed. Its equipment
includes an artificial transmission line, test oscillator, bridge, vacuum tube
in this particular field of electrical testing. This floor is completed by a
medium-sized locker room and lavatory adjacent to the main electrical laboratory,
and a janitors' room.
The upper story of this wing is for chemical and mechanical engineering.
A large laboratory is being developed for aeronautical testing. Here are
found aeroplanes, aeroplane engines and auxiliary apparatus, and a wind tunnel
of moderate proportions. An office and a storeroom adjoin this laboratory,
and a locker and lavatory are placed for use on this level. A repair shop
will provide facilities for repairing apparatus and for building experimental
equipment. This shop communicates with the lower level by freight elevator,
which will be installed later, the complete shaft only having been built. A
separate tool-room adjoins the repair shop. A wood shop is equipped with
the usual motor-driven wood-working machinery. A second shop provides
a variety of machine tools. Instead of actual shop practice, however, it will
be the policy here to use this machinery to familiarize the student with principles
of machine design as well as to introduce him to both possibilities and
limitations of such equipment in production. One unit in this division will
allow the student to become acquainted with various phases of metallography.
The equipment here includes an electric heat-treating furnace, polishers,
microscopes, hardness tester, and varied samples of metal and alloys. The
remainder of this section will be devoted to a unit-process laboratory for the
work in Chemical Engineering. This laboratory is now being planned and
will be partially installed during the coming year. Representative units required
for an approved laboratory course in this subject will be rapidly put into
operation.
It may be noted that the major technical instruction in chemical, civil,
electrical and mechanical engineering is cared for in this new building group.
In addition to the technical instruction, all mathematics and English for the
engineering students will be given in Thornton Hall. Physics, chemistry,
modern language and certain other humanities will continue to be given in
the College of Arts and Sciences.
With the facilities made available in Thornton Hall, many restrictions of
space under which instruction has been carried on hitherto will be removed.
The rigid disciplines of the theoretical courses which have ever been a part
of the instruction here will hereafter be supplemented by the advantages of adequate
space and equipment for both students and faculty.
The Power House is a single story building 130 by 60 feet, in which
is housed the University heating plant. The equipment includes two 310
horsepower Heine water tube boilers, equipped with single retort stokers
of the underfeed type, supplied by the Combustion Engineering Corporation,
two Babcock and Wilcox boilers (Stirling type) fitted with underfeed twin-retort
Detroit stokers, two steam and two electrically driven circulating
pumps, low pressure heaters, etc. Provision has been made for the future
installation of two steam turbine generator sets for the supply of electric
current to the University buildings. The entire plant is available for instructional
purposes.
Plants available for inspection both locally and elsewhere throughout the
State include the Bremo Bluff and other generating stations of the Virginia
Public Service Company, numerous chemical plants, the Langley Memorial
Aeronautical Laboratory, Hampton, the Newport News Shipyard, the Norfolk
Navy Yard, the Rothwell Cold Storage and Ice Company's plants in
Charlottesville and Waynesboro, the Norfolk and Western Railway shops and
the works of the Virginia Bridge and Iron Company at Roanoke, the Charlottesville
Woolen Mills, etc. Visits of several days' duration are organized to
distant points and are made to coincide, if possible, with some event of more
than usual interest, such as the launching of a cruiser at the Newport News
Shipyard, the visit of an airplane carrier to Hampton Roads or the sea trials
of a passenger liner.
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
new material accumulated in more recent geological surveys.
The Rouss Physical Laboratory faces the old Mechanical Laboratory on
the opposite side of the Lawn, and has almost the same proportions, namely
180 by 70 feet. The main floor contains the lecture-room, the professors'
offices, and a laboratory for experimental research, and the storeroom for
the very large collection of apparatus used in the lectures. On the ground
floor is 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 laboratory for experimental physics is in the basement of the old
Mechanical Laboratory.
The Cobb 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 45,000 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.
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 hereafter:
| Humanities | 1 to 99 |
| Mathematics | 100 to 199 |
| Physics | 200 to 299 |
| Chemistry and Chemical Engineering | 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 Enginering including Aeronautics | 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:
Section I, 10:30-11:30, M. W. F.
Section II, 11:30-12:30, M. W. F.
First term: Grammar and Composition. Parallel reading. Second term:
Vocabulary studies, Composition and Oral Exposition. Parallel reading.
Third term: Oral Exposition. Students will be expected to speak before one
of the professional societies. (Fall, Winter, Spring.)
Mr. Vaughan, Mr. Peden, and Mr. Lapsley.
4-5-6: English:
9:30-10:30, T. Th. S.
First term: Advanced Composition. Parallel reading. Second term:
Letter Writing. Third term: Report Writing. Students in this course must
read at least two papers before one of the professional societies. (Fall,
Winter, Spring.)
Mr. Vaughan and Assistant.
7-8-9: Business Speaking:
6 sections, each with 3 periods per week.
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. (Fall, Winter, Spring.) (Not given after
session of 1935-36.)
Associate Professor Paul, Acting Associate Professor McLean and Mr.
Seward.
10-11-12: English:
Hours by appointment.
A special elective course for fourth-year and graduate students. This is
a directed reading course arranged to meet the special needs of engineering
students. (Fall, Winter, Spring.)
Mr. Vaughan.
16-17: Government and Technology:
9:30-10:30, T. Th. S.
A study of government with special reference to those aspects which
concern the engineer. Consideration is given to the influence of science and
(Fall, Winter.)
Professor Macconochie.
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.) (Beginning with the 1936-37
session the third term of this course will be discontinued.)
Professor Barlow and Mr. MacDonald.
24-25-26: Technical Economics:
9:30-10:30, M. W. F.
First term: Lectures and written work dealing with the operation of the
economic system, presenting, on a factual basis, the economic principles of
a civilization of which the engineer is inescapably a part. Financial structures,
business units, marketing, and prices. Second term: A further study of
economics with especial emphasis directed towards engineering aspects of
economic theory and business activity. Wages and labor relations, insurance,
investment, and profits. Taxation. Political and social aspects of economics.
Study of contract and other methods of construction. Third term: Economic
considerations involved in engineering problems and in drawing up specifications
for engineering structures. Theory and practice of specification writing.
Especial emphasis will be placed upon the general problem of economic
selection of methods, and equipment, in the several engineering fields. Questions
of first cost, depreciation, rates, etc., will be treated. (Fall, Winter,
Spring.)
Assistant Professor Morse.
34-35-36: Elective:
A graduate-year humanistic course chosen from Philosophy, Architecture,
Fine Arts, or other subject approved by the Faculty of Engineering. (Fall,
Winter, Spring.)
40-41-42: German:
11:30-12:30, M. T. W. Th. F.
A first course in German, required of all students of Chemical Engineering.
(Fall, Winter, Spring.)
Professor Faulkner, Assistant Professor Mohr and Dr. Volm.
43-44-45: German:
9:30-10:30, M. W. F.
A course in second-year German required of students in Chemical Engineering.
(Fall, Winter, Spring.)
Associate Professor Wood and Dr. Volm.
MATHEMATICS
100: Trigonometry:
8:30-10:30, T. Th. S.
A complete course in plane trigonometry is pursued with constant drill in the
solution of problems, equations, identities, and exercises in the use of logarithms.
(Fall.)
Professor Oglesby, Mr. H. B. Daniel, Mr. Rucker and Mr. J. M. Cowgill.
106: Analytical Geometry and College Algebra:
8:30-10:30, T. Th. S.
In this course Cartesian and polar coördinates are presented and applied to
the study of the straight line, the circle, the parabola and the ellipse. About
one-third of the time is spent on related topics in college algebra. (Winter.)
Professor Oglesby, Mr. H. B. Daniel, Mr. Rucker and Mr. J. M. Cowgill.
107: Analytical Geometry and College Algebra:
8:30-10:30, T. Th. S.
This course is a continuation of course 106. The topics studied are the
hyperbola, transformation of coördinates, the general equation of the second
degree, systems of conics, tangents and polars, and problems on loci. The study
of college algebra is continued. (Spring.)
Professor Oglesby, Mr. H. B. Daniel, Mr. Rucker and Mr. J. M. Cowgill.
108: Calculus:
11:30-12:30, T. Th. S.
A first course in the differential calculus. The topics studied are limits,
differentiation of algebraic and transcendental functions, applications to geometry,
elementary kinematics and mechanical problems, parametric equations, polar
equations, differentials and curvature. (Fall.)
Professor Oglesby, Mr. Rutherfoord and Mr. Stipe.
109: Calculus:
11:30-12:30, T. Th. S.
A first course in the integral calculus. A study of the process of integration
with applications. (Winter.)
Professor Oglesby, Mr. Rutherfoord and Mr. Stipe.
110: Calculus:
11:30-12:30, T. Th. S.
The topics studied are the theorem of mean value and its applications, series,
expansions of functions, partial differentiation and multiple integrals. (Spring.)
Professor Oglesby, Mr. Rutherfoord and Mr. Stipe.
111: Differential Equations:
11:30-1:00, W. F.
An elementary course in differential equations with particular reference to
the differential equations of electrical engineering. (Fall.)
Professor Oglesby.
158-159-160: Mathematics Laboratory:
2:30-5:30, W. F.
This course is conducted in conjunction with 108-109-110. It consists of an
intensive, supervised study of calculus problems. (Fall, Winter, Spring.)
Professor Oglesby, Mr. Rutherfoord and Mr. Stipe.
PHYSICS
200-201-202: General Physics:
10:30-11:30, M. W. F.
250-251-252: Physics Laboratory:
8:30-10:30, M. W. F.
An elementary course in general physics consisting of lectures, lecture
demonstrations, recitations and laboratory exercises. (Fall, Winter, Spring.)
Associate Professor Brown and Assistants.
CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
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.)
Textbooks: Richardson: General Chemistry; Carter: Laboratory Course in
General Chemistry; Long and Anderson: Chemical Calculations.
Professor Carter, Dr. Fink and Assistants.
312-313-314: Organic Chemistry:
9:30-10:30, T. Th. S.
362-363-364: Organic Chemistry Laboratory:
2:30-5:30, M.
Chemistry 300-301-302 and 350-351-352 prerequisite.
An introductory study of Organic Chemistry. Typical reactions are discussed
largely around questions and problems which illustrate chemical principles
and reaction tendencies. Intrinsic influencing factors, conditions and
the mechanisms of reactions are stressed. The laboratory work: An experimental
study of unit processes and the control of reactions by imposed conditions.
A thorough study of the textbook is called for in connection with
every experiment. Parallel reading. 3 hours of lecture and 3 hours of laboratory
a week. (Fall, Winter, Spring.)
Textbooks: Bird: Typical Reactions of Organic Compounds; Laboratory
Notes and Groggin's Unit Processes for parallel study.
Professor Bird and Assistants.
315-316-317: Qualitative Analysis:
8:30-9:30, T. Th.
365-366-367: Qualitative Analysis Laboratory:
2:30-5:30, Th.
Chemistry 300-301-302 and 350-351-352 prerequisite.
A course devoted to the study of systematic qualitative analysis. In the
lecture work special emphasis is given to the theoretical foundations of
analytical chemistry. 2 hours of lecture and 3 hours of laboratory a week.
(Fall, Winter, Spring.)
Textbooks: A. A. Noyes: Qualitative Chemical Analysis; Hammett: Solutions
of Electrolytes; Engelder: Calculations of Qualitative Analysis.
Professor Yoe and Assistants.
318-319-320: Quantitative Analysis:
Lecture by appointment
368-369-370: Quantitative Analysis of Laboratory:
2:30-5:30, M. W. F.
Chemistry 315-316-317 and 365-366-367 prerequisite.
An introductory course in volumetric and gravimetric methods of analysis.
9 hours a week, including 1 lecture or recitation on the technique and theory of
quantitative analysis. (Fall, Winter, Spring.)
Textbooks: Willard and Furman: Elementary Quantitative Analysis; Hamilton
and Simpson: Calculations of Quantitative Chemical Analysis.
Professor Yoe and Assistant.
321-322-323: Physical Chemistry:
10:30-11:30, M. W. F.
371-372-373: Physical Chemistry Laboratory:
2:30-5:30, T. Th.
Chemistry 315-316-317 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.)
Textbooks: Taylor: Elementary Physical Chemistry; Daniels, Mathews and
Williams: Experimental Physical Chemistry.
Professor Benton, Assistant Professor Spencer and Assistant.
324-325-326: Principles of Chemical Engineering:
11:30-12:30, M. W. F.
Chemistry 321-322-323 prerequisite.
A course designed to give the prospective chemical engineer a thorough
foundation in the unit operations. Regularly taken in the fourth year. Practice
in the application of the principles involved 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 evaporation,
humidification, drying, and distillation. Facility is developed in the
stoichiometry of chemical industry. Plant inspection trips are made from
time to time. Lectures and recitations, 3 hours a week. (Fall, Winter, Spring.)
Textbooks: Walker, Lewis and McAdams: Principles of Chemical Engineering;
Badger and McCabe: Elements of Chemical Engineering; Perry: Chemical
Engineers' Handbook.
Associate Professor Hitchcock and Mr. Schmidt.
327-328-329: Advanced Chemical Engineering:
10:30-11:30, M. W. F.
Chemical Engineering 324-325-326 prerequisite.
Regularly taken in the graduate year by candidates for the Ch. E. degree.
The subjects of distillation and drying are treated in more detail than in the preliminary
course, while the additional subjects of filtration, absorption, and extraction
are taken up. Further practice is had in 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 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;
McAdams: Heat Transmission.
Associate Professor Hitchcock.
340-341-342: Applied Chemistry:
8:30-9:30, M. W. F.
Chemistry 312-313-314 and 321-322-323 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.)
Textbooks: Badger and Baker: Inorganic Chemical Technology; Lewis and
Radasch: Industrial Stoichiometry; Riegel: Industrial Chemistry.
Associate Professor Hitchcock.
374-375-376: Chemical Engineering Laboratory:
The student demonstrates to himself essential features of the unit operations
of chemical engineering, by constructing and testing with his own hands
suitable apparatus for the illustration of principles in the parallel classroom
work. Under minimum supervision, he plans, builds, and tests such equipment
as orifices and other measuring apparatus, fluid flow devices verifying
Fanning's equation, apparatus for determination of heat transfer coefficients
in the more common cases, model vacuum pan sufficient to demonstrate the
ordinary relationships of evaporation, and packed columns for the absorption
of gases in liquids.
The primary object of this course is to teach the student how to obtain
the data necessary for the interpretation of the unit operations in chemical
engineering. It is inevitable that at the same time, he gains a clearer understanding
of these operations, as well as facility in shopwork and the use of
his hands, the preparation of working drawings, and the reduction of his
results to writing in the form of an acceptable report. Whether the apparatus
is particularly efficient, or even practicable from a production standpoint,
is not regarded as important at this stage.
The students work in small groups in order to make better use of the
time, and the results obtained by each group are made available to all through
dependent problem work in the classroom. 6 hours a week. (Fall, Winter,
Spring.)
Associate Professor Hitchcock.
383-384-385: Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Research:
Opportunity is afforded undergraduate students to obtain an introduction
to research methods in problems pertaining to chemical engineering. As a
rule the course is open to those who are taking the major portion of their
work in senior subjects, and who have had or are taking Chemical Engineering
324-325-326. A minimum of nine hours per week for one term is required
in the laboratory, and it is expected that normally the student will
the time to apply to it.)
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 are selected, whenever
possible, from the field of greatest interest to the student. The method of attack
is in general to reduce the selected problem to laboratory scale leading to the
collection of basic data susceptible of definite interpretation, rather than to attempt
investigations on commercial equipment which usually yield empirical results.
The use of the chemical literature as an aid in conducting investigations
prefaces and accompanies the laboratory work, as well as practice in the mathematical
and graphical treatment of the data obtained.
The preparation and submission of a satisfactory thesis marks the completion
of this course, and is a partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Ch. E.
degree. Two copies of the thesis, typewritten on paper of prescribed quality and
size, and substantially bound, must be deposited in the office of the Dean of the
Department of Engineering not later than May 15 of the year in which it is expected
that the degree will be conferred. The back of the cover must bear the
title of the thesis and the writer's name, and the title page must bear the words:
A thesis presented to the Engineering Faculty of the University of Virginia in
candidacy for the degree of Chemical Engineer. (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
in the discussions.
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.
APPLIED MATHEMATICS
521: Plane Surveying:
11:30-12:30, 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, 2:305:30,
T. Th. or W. F.
Assistant Professor Evans, Mr. Forsyth and Field Assistants.
522: Engineering Drawing II:
Winter, 11:30-12:30, M. W. F.
Spring, 10:30-11:30, M. W. F.
Lecture Course: This course is an extension of course 523, and applies
the theoretical principles of orthographic representation to the problems of
industry. It includes: free-hand sketching, sectional views and commercial
conventions, pictorial representation, developments, principles of dimensioning,
detail and assembly drawings, tracing and reproduction, and commercial
practice.
572: Practice Course: The students execute a series of drawings, applying
the principles acquired in the lecture course to problems selected from
various branches of engineering. 6 hours a week, 8:30-10:30, M. W. F.
(Winter or Spring.)
Associate Professor Hesse, Mr. Irvine and Mr. Olsen.
523: Engineering Drawing I—Descriptive Geometry:
10:30-11:30, M. W. F.
Lecture Course: Theory of Engineering Drawing; orthographic projection,
point, line, and plane fundamentals; intersections; lettering and use of
equipment.
573: Practice course: The students execute a series of drawings, applying
the principles acquired in the lecture course to problems selected
from various branches of engineering. 6 hours a week, 8:30-10:30, M. W. F.
(Fall or Winter.)
Associate Professor Hesse, Mr. Irvine and Mr. Olsen.
524: Graphical Statics:
10:30-11:30, M. W. F.
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.
574: Practice Course: Each student executes a weekly plate 15 by 20
inches of problems based on the lectures. 6 hours a week, 11:30-1:30, M. W.
F. (Winter.)
Professor Saunders, Associate Professor Hesse and Mr. W. W.
Starke, Jr.
525: Structural Theory and Design:
10:30-11:30, M. W. F.
Lecture Course: Principles of design of certain elementary structures
such as the plate girder and steel roof truss. Some fundamental theory of
structures in general.
575: Practice Course: Design and detailed drawings of a roof truss and
plate girder, with complete computations for each. Other computations relating
to certain determinate structures. 6 hours a week, 11:30-1:30, M. W. F.
(Spring.)
Assistant Professor Evans, Associate Professor Hesse and Mr. W. W.
Starke, Jr.
526: Elementary Mechanics:
10:30-11:30, T. Th. S.
Composition and resolution of forces; friction; problems in equilibrium;
rectilinear motion, circular motion, projectile motion. (Spring.)
Assistant Professor Evans and Mr. Hahn.
527: Applied Mechanics:
10:30-11:30, T. Th. S.
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.
3 hours a week of supervised problem work, 2:30-5:30, Th. (Fall.)
Assistant Professor Evans and Mr. Hahn.
528: Strength of Materials:
10:30-11:30, T. Th. S.
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. 3 hours a week of supervised problem work, 2:30-5:30, Th. (Winter.)
Assistant Professor Evans and Mr. Hahn.
529: Hydraulics:
10:30-11:30, 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. (Spring.)
Associate Professor Henderson and Mr. Edwards.
Laboratory studies in Strength of Materials and Hydraulics are given in the
Classes in Experimental Engineering.
530: Machine Design: (For Electrical Course.)
11:30-12:30, T. Th. S.
Lecture course: Materials and methods of Machine Design; friction,
lubrication, plain, roller and ball bearings; positive and friction clutches; belt,
rope and chain transmission; gearing and commercial speed reducers; riveted
and screw fastenings; fits; shafts; flywheels; machine frames.
580: Practice course: Application of principles studied in the lecture
course to problems of particular interest to the Electrical Engineer. Design,
re-design, selection and layout of equipment. 6 hours a week, 11:30-1:30,
M. W. F. (Spring.)
Associate Professor Hesse and Mr. Hahn.
531: Strength of Materials:
9:30-10:30, T. Th. S.
For students of Mechanical Engineering. An advanced course in this
subject covering such elements as theories of failure, curved flexual members,
and localized stresses, with a discussion of photoelastic analysis. (Winter.)
Assistant Professor Evans.
581: Engineering Design: (For Chemical Course.)
7 hours a week.
Machine and structural elements; elementary graphic statics; applications
of mechanics to problems of power transmission, conveying and materials
handling. The course is planned to teach students to attack problems
of design in an orderly manner. The major portion of the work is individual,
and is done in the laboratory, with one lecture each week on design
and application. (Winter.)
Associate Professor Hesse and Mr. Hahn.
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: Highway Materials Laboratory:
5 hours a week.
Standard tests are run on cement and fine aggregates. Stone is tested for
specific gravity, toughness, resistance to abrasion, and cementing value.
Specific gravity and consistency tests are made on bituminous materials.
Next year it is hoped to incorporate with the above some work in the newer
field of soil mechanics. (Fall.)
Assistant Professor Evans.
661: Structural Materials Testing:
5 hours a week.
Tests of concrete, timber and metals. A course for Electrical and Mechanical
Engineers, similar to Courses 662 and 663 but not as comprehensive,
being condensed into a one-term course. (Winter.)
Associate Professor Henderson and Mr. Edwards.
662: Structural Materials Testing:
5 hours a week.
Sieve analyses and other routine tests of fine and coarse aggregates; proportioning
of concrete; compressive tests of mortar and concrete, with
Design, construction, and tests of reinforced concrete beams. For Civil Engineers.
(Fall.)
Associate Professor Henderson.
663: Structural Materials Testing:
5 hours a week.
A continuation of Course 662. Tension tests of wires and metal rods;
compression tests of metals and timber; transverse tests of metals and timber;
torsion tests of metals; autographic tests; hardness tests; fatigue tests.
Special attention is given to determining the elastic constants of the materials
tested. For Civil Engineers. (Winter.)
Associate Professor Henderson.
670: Fuel and Oil Testing:
5 hours a week.
Sampling coal by standard methods; proximate analysis of coal; measurement
of the heating value of coal by a bomb calorimeter; the heating value of
gas and liquid fuels by the Junkers calorimeter; determination of viscosity,
flash and fire points, specific gravity; carbon residue and pour point of lubricating
oils. For Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. (Fall.)
Associate Professor Henderson and Mr. Hahn.
680: Hydraulic Testing:
5 hours a week.
The measurement of the flow of water by means of orifices and weirs;
the calibration of Venturi and orifice meters; the determination of the
coefficient of friction for pipes, and the measurement of shock losses due to
elbows, bends, and sudden changes of section; performance tests of centrifugal
pumps; tests of a Pelton wheel; tests of an hydraulic ram. (Spring.)
Associate Professor Henderson and Mr. Edwards.
690: Power Testing:
5 hours a week.
The calibration of planimeters; calibration and adjustment of gauges;
calibration of indicator springs; thermometer calibration; exercises in valve
setting; steam quality determination by the separating and the throttling
calorimeter; flue gas analysis; steam engine tests; boiler tests. For Chemical,
Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. (Fall.)
Associate Professor Henderson and Mr. Edwards.
691: Power Testing:
5 hours a week.
A continuation of Course 690. Complete tests of a steam engine; tests of
a steam turbine; tests of a surface condenser; tests of reciprocating pumps;
tests of an oil furnace; tests of an internal combustion engine. For Electrical
and Mechanical Engineers. (Winter.)
Associate Professor Henderson and Mr. Edwards.
692: Power Testing:
5 hours a week.
A continuation of Course 691. Special emphasis is placed on the internal
combustion engine and efficiency tests are made using a variety of fuels and
modifying the arrangement for each. For Mechanical Engineers. (Spring.)
Associate Professor Henderson and Mr. Hahn.
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. (Spring.)
Professor Saunders and Mr. Ferrer.
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.
(Spring.)
Assistant Professor Evans.
705: Bridge Engineering:
8:30-9:30, T. Th. S.
A study of bridge stresses, the design and construction of selected types of
steel bridges. (Winter.)
Professor Saunders.
708: Water Supply:
8:30-9:30, T. Th. S.
A study of the elements of public water supply systems covering such
topics as quality, quantity, methods of collection, conveyance, purification, and
distribution of water. Text study is supplemented by the assignment of
numerous problems of a practical nature. (Fall.)
Professor Saunders.
709: Sewerage and Sewage Treatment:
8:30-9:30, T. Th. S.
A preliminary study of sewerage systems and methods of sewage treatment.
This course covers estimates of sewage quantity and the design of
sewage collector systems; a study of sewage disposal by dilution; and studies
of sewage treatment by tank, filtration, and other standard methods. The
lecture course is paralleled by the assignment of appropriate practical problems.
(Spring.)
Professor Saunders.
715: Materials of Construction:
10:30-11:30, M. W. F.
A descriptive study of the properties, characteristics and manufacture of the
materials used in engineering structures. Problems in estimating quantities and
costs. (Fall.)
Associate Professor Henderson and Mr. Edwards.
718: Masonry Structures:
10:30-11:30, M. W. F.
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.)
Professor Saunders.
720: Structural Engineering:
9:30-10:30, M. W. F.
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.)
Assistant Professor Evans.
721: Design of Water Supply and Sewerage Systems:
9:30-10:30, 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.)
Professor Saunders.
722: Sanitary Engineering:
9:30-10:30, 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. (Winter.)
Professor Saunders.
723: Structural Engineering:
9:30-10:30, M. W. F.
Continuation of course 720. (Winter.)
Assistant Professor Evans.
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 Saunders and Assistant Professor Evans.
PRACTICE COURSES
751-752: Railroad Surveying:
6 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. (Spring and Fall.)
Professor Saunders and Mr. Donnally.
754: Elementary Model Analysis:
6 hours a week.
The first part of the course will be devoted to the use of Beggs' Apparatus
for the analysis of stresses in structural frames. This will be followed
by the theory of photoelasticity and its applications to the analysis of stresses
in plane models—particularly machine parts. The course will consist principally
of laboratory work in model making and analysis, with sufficient
lectures to adequately cover the necessary theory. (Winter.)
Professor Saunders and Assistant Professor Evans.
755-756: Bridge Drafting:
6 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 and Spring.)
Professor Saunders and Associate Professor Hesse.
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
800: Elementary Thermodynamics:
10:30-11:30, T. Th. S.
Physical units and their measurement. Properties of the permanent gases,
of steam, ammonia, and carbon dioxide. Laws of thermodynamics. Fuels and
combustion. The transformation of heat into mechanical work and the production
of cold. The generation of steam. (Fall.)
Assistant Professor Morse and Mr. Kasakoff.
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.)
Assistant Professor Morse and Mr. Kasakoff.
802: Power Plants:
12:30-1:30, T. Th. S.
Factors affecting location and design of power plants. Economics of the
electric power industry. Costs and rate making. The Diesel power plant.
(Spring.)
Assistant Professor Morse.
803: Power Plants:
11:30-12:30, M. W. F.
Aspects of hydro-electric power development. Hydrology, water storage,
dams, and penstocks. Hydraulic turbines and other hydraulic machinery.
Cycles and heat balances of the Rankine, regenerative, reheating, and binary
vapor types of power plants. (Fall.)
Assistant Professor Morse.
804: Air Conditioning and Refrigeration:
10:30-11:30, M. W. F.
The principles of conditioning and supplying air to residences and public
buildings. The thermodynamics of refrigeration applied to the manufacture of
ice and the storage of perishables. The production of very low temperatures.
(Winter.)
Professor Macconochie.
805: Steam Generators:
12:30-1:30, M. W. F.
Modern boiler design and fuel burning equipment. Economic considerations
governing plant location and capacity. The use of high-pressure steam. Boiler
corrosion and boiler plant embrittlement. Control of smoke and dust, and ordinances
pertaining thereto. By courtesy of the Virginia Public Service Company
students have access to the Bremo Bluff generating station on the James River.
(Fall.)
Professor Macconochie.
806: Steam Turbines:
12:30-1:30, M. W. F.
Types of modern steam turbines and their application to land and marine
practice. The economy of the isolated station versus purchased power. Nozzle
flow and results of research on the properties of steam. Opportunities will be
offered for the study of industrial power plants and for keeping in touch with
current development in the power field. (Winter.)
Professor Macconochie.
807: Diesel Engines
12:30-1:30, M. W. F.
Design and performance of modern Diesel engines. Their application to industrial,
marine, and locomotive service. Fuel injection and combustion. The
gas turbine. (Spring.)
Professor Macconochie.
808: Steam Power Plants:
11:30-12:30, M. W. F.
Study of the steam boiler-turbine-condenser unit. Functional relationship
of steam plant equipment. Heat transfer computations. Combustion
and combustion equipment. Feedwater heating and treatment. Pumping
problems. Selection of piping. Piping systems. Electrical equipment and
layout. Instruments and meters. (Winter.)
Assistant Professor Morse.
812: Theory of Machines:
10:30-11:30, M. W. F.
Kinematic chains and linkages. Simple machines. Mechanisms possessing
some particular geometrical property. Higher and lower pairs. Velocities and
accelerations in mechanisms. (Fall.)
Professor Macconochie.
813: Ferrous Metallurgy:
10:30-11:30, M. W. F.
Ores of iron and their treatment. The manufacture of cast iron and steel.
The theory of alloys applied to the ferrous metals. The heat treatment of
steel. Alloy steels and their uses. Corrosion and its prevention. Measurement
of temperature in industrial operations. The testing and inspection of
metallurgical products. (Spring.)
Professor Macconochie.
814: Non-ferrous Metallurgy:
10:30-11:30, T. Th. S.
The production and refining of the more common non-ferrous metals.
Equilibrium diagrams of the binary alloys. The phase rule. Properties and
uses of the non-ferrous metals. (Spring.)
Professor Macconochie.
815a-b-c: Mechanical Technology:
Section I, 12:30-1:30, M.
Section II, 12:30-1:30, W.
This course serves to introduce the first-year student to the various preparatory
and manipulative processes with which he must be familiar in order
to properly attack the various courses in technical engineering in succeeding
years. The first two terms are devoted to a study of various engineering elements,
casting, forging, machining, stamping, rolling and drawing processes.
The third term includes lectures on specific topics in the engineering profession
by members of the Departmental staff, with a view to acquainting the
student with the various fields of the profession. Considerable use is made
of slides, motion pictures and model material, and one or more visits to industrial
organizations are generally attempted. (Fall, Winter, Spring.)
Associate Professor Hesse and Mr. V. Quarles.
816: Machine Design:
10:30-11:30, T. Th. S.
A study of the design of machine elements, applying the preliminary
principles acquired in the courses in Machine Design, Mechanics and Strength
design in an orderly manner. (Fall.)
Associate Professor Hesse.
819: Engineering Shop Practice:
9:30-10:30, T. Th. S.
Lectures on various shop processes; time and motion study, job analysis;
etc. The purpose of this course is to familiarize students in Mechanical Engineering
with manufacturing procedures, so that they may be enabled to
enter industrial manufacturing plants, and engage in work that comprises a
large portion of the field of Mechanical Engineering. (Spring.)
Associate Professor Hesse.
820: Mechanism:
9:30-10:30, M. W. F.
A history of mechanism, including biographical studies of eminent engineers.
The elements of patent law. (Fall.)
Professor Macconochie.
821: Mechanics of Machinery:
9:30-10:30, M. W. F.
The dynamics of rotating bodies. Applications of the gyroscope to the
steering and stabilization of ships. Shell ballistics. (Winter.)
Professor Macconochie.
822: Engineering and Industrial Processes:
9:30-10:30, M. W. F.
A study of the technique and managerial problems of local industries, e. g.
textiles, printing, etc. (Spring.)
Professor Macconochie.
826: Industrial Management:
8:30-9:30, M. W. F.
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. (Fall.)
Professor Macconochie.
827: Industrial Management:
8:30-9:30, M. W. F.
This is a continuation of Course 826, developing a broader emphasis in the
field of industrial planning, problems of unemployment and the influence of
industrial economics on the growth of social well being. (Winter.)
Professor Macconochie.
830: General Aeronautics:
11:30-12:30, M. W. F.
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. (Spring.)
Assistant Professor Morse.
833: Aerodynamics:
9:30-10:30, T. Th. S.
Aerodynamic theory, including consideration of circulatory and vortex
flow. Theory of wing section and of complete wings. Aerodynamic design
performance, and stability. (Fall.)
Assistant Professor Morse.
834: Advanced Aeronautics:
9:30-10:30, T. Th. S.
Typical airplane structures. Analysis of load factors, critical loads,
and forces in airplane structures. Investigation of assumed design in accordance
with the requirements for approved type certificate promulgated by
the Bureau of Air Commerce. (Winter.)
Assistant Professor Morse.
835: Airplane Structures:
9:30-10:30, T. Th. S.
Analysis of stresses in statically determinate airplane structures. Design
of fused, glued, riveted, and bolted joints or fittings. Spars, torque tubes,
struts and ties. Materials and methods of aircraft construction. (Spring.)
Assistant Professor Morse.
860: Machine Drawing:
7 hours a week.
The work of this course consists of a weekly lecture and six hours a week
in the drawing laboratory. The lectures are largely descriptive of the various
elements of machinery and mechanisms. The laboratory work is
primarily individual, and such topics as spur, bevel and worm gearing, belt
drives, cams, bearings, etc., are considered. Free-hand sketching of various
machines in the Departmental shops, and their layout is taken up, and a
considerable portion of the time is devoted to empirical design and redesign
from a commercial standpoint. (Spring.)
Associate Professor Hesse and Mr. Hahn.
863: Metallography of Iron and Steel:
3 hours a week.
This is a practice course involving the study of the structure of pure
metals, of cast iron, wrought iron and steel after subjection to various forms
of heat treatment. The determination of thermal critical points in straight
carbon and alloy steels. Cooling curves of pure metals and alloys. Case
studies of failures. (Spring.)
Professor Macconochie.
866: Machine Design Laboratory:
6 hours a week.
Application of the principles acquired in Course 816 to specific problems
in power transmission, structures and frames, and machinery. (Fall.)
Associate Professor Hesse and Mr. Hahn.
867-868: Engineering Design:
7 hours a week.
The solution of various problems in the design of machinery and machine
elements is attempted. Such topics as the design of a flywheel for a reciprocating
engine, unequal addendum gearing, hoisting equipment, linkages for
replacing cam-actuated members, worm gear reducers, etc., are taken up.
The work is largely individual, with a single lecture per week. (Fall and
Spring.) This course sequence will not be given after session of 1936-37.
Associate Professor Hesse and Mr. Hahn.
869: Engineering Shop Practice:
6 hours a week.
Application of the principles of Course 819 in the Machine Shop of the
Department. (Spring.)
Professor Macconochie and Associate Professor Hesse.
885: Aeronautics Laboratory:
6 hours a week.
Theory and operating technique of wind tunnels. Construction of aerodynamic
models for wind tunnel tests. Wind tunnel tests of lift and of
parasite shapes. Stability and control tests of models of complete airplanes.
Construction and test of typical structures such as box spars, ribs, etc. Investigation
of engine construction through overhaul of typical aeronautical
engines. (Spring.)
Assistant Professor Morse.
PLANT INSPECTION
Fourth-year students in Mechanical Engineering are required to make a
three-day inspection trip to the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Company and other points
in Pittsburgh, the Tennessee Valley, Tidewater Virginia, or other selected region.
Included in the last mentioned itinerary are the Langley Memorial Aeronautical
Laboratories, the Newport News Shipyard, the Mariners' Museum and the Norfolk
Navy Yard.
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
900: Elements of Electrical Engineering:
9:30-10:30, T. Th. S.
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, 2:30-5:30, M. (Spring.)
Professor Rodman and Dr. L. R. Quarles.
901: Direct Current Machines:
10:30-11:30, 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, 2:30-5:30, T. (Fall.)
Professor Rodman and Dr. L. R. Quarles.
902: Periodic Currents:
10:30-11:30, M. W. F.
Lectures on electrostatic phenomena, variable currents, alternating currents,
and alternating current circuits, both single and polyphase. A careful study is
made of circuits with periodic currents and their characteristics when resistance,
inductive reactance and capacity reactance are present in their various combinations.
and complex circuits. 3 hours of supervised problem work per week, 2:30-5:30, T.
(Winter.)
Professor Rodman and Dr. L. R. Quarles.
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, 2:30-5:30, T. (Spring.)
Professor Rodman and Dr. L. R. Quarles.
904: Alternating Current Machinery:
10:30-11:30, T. Th. S.
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, 2:30-5:30, M. (Fall.)
Professor Rodman and Dr. L. R. Quarles.
905: Alternating Current Machinery:
10:30-11:30, T. Th. S.
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, 2:30-5:30, M. (Winter.)
Professor Rodman and Dr. L. R. Quarles.
906: Illumination and Photometry:
9:30-10:30, 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. (Winter.) Optional for
Electronics (920), or Electric Traction (907).
Associate Professor Miller.
907: Electric Traction:
9:30-10:30, 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 the complete
electrification system for electric railways, including generating apparatus, transmission,
sub-stations and equipment, distribution, and utilization of electrical energy
for car propulsion. (Winter.) Optional for Advanced Electronics (920), or
Illumination and Photometry (906-956).
Professor Rodman.
908: Electronics:
9:30-10:30, T. Th. S.
A study of the construction, characteristics and applications of the various
electron tubes. Special emphasis is placed on the use of such tubes
in industrial power and control circuits. (Spring.)
Dr. L. R. Quarles.
909: Electrical Engineering Practice:
10:30-11:30, T. Th. S.
This course covers the fundamental principles involved in the design of
electrical systems for light and power; installation of circuits; industrial and
commercial lighting; application of motors and control to industrial problems;
overhead and underground distribution systems; circuit protection; metering
arrangements; indoor and outdoor substations. Each student will be required
to prepare detail designs and drawings for a typical installation.
(Spring.)
Associate Professor Miller.
910: Direct Current Systems:
11:30-12:30, 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 Dr. L. R. Quarles.
911-912: Alternating Current Systems:
11:30-12:30, 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 and Spring.)
Professor Rodman and Dr. L. R. Quarles.
916-917-918: Advanced Alternating Current Machinery:
11:30-12:30, 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).
(Fall, Winter, Spring.)
Professor Rodman.
920: Advanced Electronics:
9:30-10:30, T. Th. S.
A course of lectures dealing with the general subject of electronics, its developments
and applications. (Winter.) Optional for Illumination and Photometry
(906-956), or Electric Traction (907).
Dr. L. R. Quarles.
925: Electric Transients:
9:30-10:30, T. Th. S.
A course dealing with transients as they are encountered in varied electric
circuits with both lumped and distributed constants; an introduction to the operational
method as applied to electrical circuit theory. (Fall.)
Associate Professor Miller.
930-931-932: Electric Power Transmission:
10:30-11:30, M. W. F.
A study of the problems involved in modern electric power transmission.
Treating the inductance and capacity of lines, aerial and underground; corona;
limits and factors entering into the operation of complete power systems. (Fall,
Winter, Spring.)
Associate Professor Miller.
940-941-942: Electrical Communication:
11:30-12:30, 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),
Dr. L. R. Quarles.
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. (Spring and Fall.)
Associate Professor Miller and Dr. L. R. Quarles.
952-953-954-955: 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. Work is also included on electronic tube
characteristics for both direct and alternating current operation. (Winter, Spring,
Fall, Winter.)
Associate Professor Miller and Dr. L. R. Quarles.
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. (Winter.)
Associate Professor Miller.
960-961: Electrical Laboratory:
5 hours a week.
This course supplements 910-11-12. 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 and Dr. L. R. Quarles.
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.
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.)
Dr. L. R. Quarles.
SUMMER SCHOOL
In the Summer School at the University of Virginia it has been possible
for some time to procure many of the non-technical courses required in the
engineering curricula, such as Chemistry, Physics and German. In the Summer
School of 1936 there will be given the following courses as they are given in
the regular session: Mathematics 100-106-107 and 108-109-110 with 158-159-160.
In addition at least two courses in Mechanics will again be offered from the
three 526, 527 and 528. If there be a sufficient demand Engineering Drawing,
522-572, and Descriptive Geometry, 523-573, will be given.
CURRICULUM FOR ALL FIRST YEAR ENGINEERING STUDENTS
| Course | Subject | A | B | C |
| 1 | English—Grammar and Composition | 3 | 1 | |
| 100 | Mathematics—Trigonometry and Algebra | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| 300 | General Chemistry | 3 | 1 | |
| 350 | General Chemistry Laboratory | 6 | 1 | |
| 521 | Plane Surveying | 3 | 1 | |
| or | ||||
| 523 | Descriptive Geometry | (3) | (1) | |
| 571 | Field-work | 6 | 1 | |
| or | ||||
| 573 | Drawing Laboratory I | (6) | (1) | |
| 815a | Mechanical Technology | 1 | ⅓ | |
| Total | 13 | 15 | 6⅓ |
| 2 | English—Vocabulary-Composition | 3 | 1 | |
| 106 | Mathematics—Analytical Geometry-Algebra | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| 301 | General Chemistry | 3 | 1 | |
| 351 | General Chemistry Laboratory | 6 | 1 | |
| 523 | Descriptive Geometry | 3 | 1 | |
| or | ||||
| 522 | Engineering Drawing | (3) | (1) | |
| 573 | Drawing Laboratory I | 6 | 1 | |
| or | ||||
| 572 | Drawing Laboratory II | (6) | (1) | |
| 815b | Mechanical Technology | 1 | ⅓ | |
| Total | 13 | 15 | 6⅓ |
| 3 | English—Oral Exposition | 3 | 1 | |
| 107 | Mathematics—Analytical Geometry-Algebra | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| 302 | General Chemistry | 3 | 1 | |
| 352 | General Chemistry Laboratory | 6 | 1 | |
| 522 | Engineering Drawing | 3 | 1 | |
| or | ||||
| 521 | Plane Surveying | (3) | (1) | |
| 572 | Drawing Laboratory II | 6 | 1 | |
| or | ||||
| 571 | Field-work | (6) | (1) | |
| 815c | Mechanical Technology | 1 | ||
| Total | 13 | 15 | 6⅓ |
Column A gives hours of lecture per week; column B gives hours of laboratory,
practice, problems supervised, etc., per week; column C gives session-hours
of credit for the term course.
CURRICULUM FOR SECOND-YEAR CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
| Course | Subject | A | B | C |
| 108 | Mathematics—Differential Calculus | 3 | 1 | |
| 158 | Calculus Laboratory | 6 | ⅔ | |
| 200 | General Physics | 3 | 1 | |
| 250 | General Physics Laboratory | 6 | 1 | |
| 312 | Organic Chemistry | 3 | 1 | |
| 362 | Organic Chemistry Laboratory | 3 | ⅓ | |
| 315 | Qualitative Analysis | 2 | ⅔ | |
| 365 | Qualitative Analysis Laboratory | 3 | ⅓ | |
| Total | 11 | 18 | 6 |
| 109 | Mathematics—Integral Calculus | 3 | 1 | |
| 159 | Calculus Laboratory | 6 | ⅔ | |
| 201 | General Physics | 3 | 1 | |
| 251 | General Physics Laboratory | 6 | 1 | |
| 313 | Organic Chemistry | 3 | 1 | |
| 363 | Organic Chemistry Laboratory | 3 | ⅓ | |
| 316 | Qualitative Analysis | 2 | ⅔ | |
| 366 | Qualitative Analysis Laboratory | 3 | ⅓ | |
| Total | 11 | 18 | 6 |
| 110 | Mathematics—Calculus | 3 | 1 | |
| 160 | Calculus Laboratory | 6 | ⅔ | |
| 202 | General Physics | 3 | 1 | |
| 252 | General Physics Laboratory | 6 | 1 | |
| 314 | Organic Chemistry | 3 | 1 | |
| 364 | Organic Chemistry Laboratory | 3 | ⅓ | |
| 317 | Qualitative Analysis | 2 | ⅔ | |
| 367 | Qualitative Analysis—Laboratory | 3 | ⅓ | |
| Total | 11 | 18 | 6 |
CURRICULUM FOR SECOND-YEAR CIVIL, ELECTRICAL AND
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
| Course | Subject | A | B | C |
| 16 | Government and Technology | 3 | 1 | |
| 108 | Mathematics—Differential Calculus | 3 | 1 | |
| 158 | Calculus Laboratory | 6 | ⅔ | |
| 200 | General Physics | 3 | 1 | |
| 250 | General Physics Laboratory | 6 | 1 | |
| 800 | Elementary Thermodynamics | 3 | 1 | |
| Total | 12 | 12 | 5⅔ |
| 17 | Government and Technology | 3 | 1 | |
| 109 | Mathematics—Integral Calculus | 3 | 1 | |
| 159 | Calculus Laboratory | 6 | ⅔ | |
| 201 | General Physics | 3 | 1 | |
| 251 | General Physics Laboratory | 6 | 1 | |
| 801 | Elementary Applied Thermodynamics | 3 | 1 | |
| Total | 12 | 12 | 5⅔ |
| 110 | Mathematics—Calculus | 3 | 1 | |
| 160 | Calculus Laboratory | 6 | ⅔ | |
| 202 | General Physics | 3 | 1 | |
| 252 | General Physics Laboratory | 6 | 1 | |
| 526 | Elementary Mechanics | 3 | 1 | |
| 701 | Curves and Earthwork | 3 | 1 | |
| 751 | Railway Surveying | 6 | 1 | |
| Total | 12 | 18 | 6⅔ |
| 110 | Mathematics—Calculus | 3 | 1 | |
| 160 | Calculus Laboratory | 6 | ⅔ | |
| 202 | General Physics | 3 | 1 | |
| 252 | General Physics Laboratory | 6 | 1 | |
| 526 | Elementary Mechanics | 3 | 1 | |
| 900 | Elements of Electrical Engineering | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| 950 | Electrical Laboratory | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Total | 13 | 18 | 6⅔ |
| 110 | Mathematics—Calculus | 3 | 1 | |
| 160 | Calculus Laboratory | 6 | ⅔ | |
| 202 | General Physics | 3 | 1 | |
| 252 | General Physics Laboratory | 6 | 1 | |
| 526 | Elementary Mechanics | 3 | 1 | |
| 802 | Power Plants | 3 | 1 | |
| 860 | Machine Drawing | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| Total | 13 | 18 | 6⅔ |
CURRICULUM FOR THIRD-YEAR CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
| Course | Subject | A | B | C |
| 4 | English—Advanced Composition | 3 | 1 | |
| 40 | German | 5 | 1 | |
| 318 | Quantitative Analysis | 1 | ⅓ | |
| 368 | Quantitative Analysis Laboratory | 8 | ⅔ | |
| 321 | Physical Chemistry | 3 | 1 | |
| 371 | Physical Chemistry Laboratory | 6 | 1 | |
| 800 | Elementary Thermodynamics | 3 | 1 | |
| Total | 15 | 14 | 6 |
| 5 | English—Letter Writing | 3 | 1 | |
| 41 | German | 4 | 1 | |
| 319 | Quantitative Analysis | 1 | ⅓ | |
| 369 | Quantitative Analysis Laboratory | 8 | ⅔ | |
| 322 | Physical Chemistry | 3 | 1 | |
| 372 | Physical Chemistry Laboratory | 6 | 1 | |
| 801 | Elementary Applied Thermodynamics | 3 | 1 | |
| Total | 14 | 14 | 6 |
| 6 | English—Report Writing | 3 | 1 | |
| 42 | German | 4 | 1 | |
| 320 | Quantitative Analysis | 1 | ⅓ | |
| 370 | Quantitative Analysis Laboratory | 8 | ⅔ | |
| 323 | Physical Chemistry | 3 | 1 | |
| 373 | Physical Chemistry Laboratory | 6 | 1 | |
| 526 | Elementary Mechanics | 3 | 1 | |
| Total | 14 | 14 | 6 |
CURRICULUM FOR THIRD-YEAR CIVIL ENGINEERING
| Course | Subject | A | B | C |
| 4 | English—Advanced Composition | 3 | 1 | |
| 21 | Cost Accounting | 3 | 1 | |
| 527 | Applied Mechanics | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| 662 | Structural Materials Testing | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 715 | Materials of Construction | 3 | 1 | |
| 752 | Railway Surveying | 6 | 1 | |
| Total | 13 | 13 | 6 |
| 5 | English—Letter Writing | 3 | 1 | |
| 22 | Cost Accounting | 3 | 1 | |
| 524 | Graphic Statics | 3 | 1 | |
| 574 | Graphic Statics Drawing | 6 | 1 | |
| 528 | Strength of Materials | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| 663 | Structural Materials Testing | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Total | 13 | 13 | 6 |
| 6 | English—Report Writing | 3 | 1 | |
| 525 | Structural Theory and Design | 3 | 1 | |
| 575 | Structural Design Drawing | 6 | 1 | |
| 529 | Hydraulics | 3 | 1 | |
| 680 | Hydraulics Testing | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 703 | Highways | 3 | 1 | |
| Total | 13 | 10 | 6 |
CURRICULUM FOR THIRD-YEAR ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
| Course | Subject | A | B | C |
| 4 | English—Advanced Composition | 3 | 1 | |
| 21 | Cost Accounting | 3 | 1 | |
| 111 | Differential Equations | 3 | 1 | |
| 527 | Applied Mechanics | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| 901 | Direct Current Machinery | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| 951 | Electrical Laboratory | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Total | 16 | 10 | 6 |
| 5 | English—Letter Writing | 3 | 1 | |
| 22 | Cost Accounting | 3 | 1 | |
| 528 | Strength of Materials | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| 661 | Structural Materials Testing | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 902 | Periodic Currents | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| 952 | Electrical Laboratory | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Total | 14 | 14 | 6 |
| 6 | English—Report Writing | 3 | 1 | |
| 529 | Hydraulics | 3 | 1 | |
| 680 | Hydraulics Testing | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 903 | Alternating Current Machinery | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| 908 | Electronics | 3 | 1 | |
| 953 | Electrical Laboratory | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Total | 14 | 11 | 6 |
CURRICULUM FOR THIRD-YEAR MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
| Course | Subject | A | B | C |
| 4 | English—Advanced Composition | 3 | 1 | |
| 21 | Cost Accounting | 3 | 1 | |
| 527 | Applied Mechanics | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| 690 | Power Testing | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 715 | Materials of Construction | 3 | 1 | |
| 803 | Power Plants | 3 | 1 | |
| Total | 16 | 7 | 6 |
| 5 | English—Letter Writing | 3 | 1 | |
| 22 | Cost Accounting | 3 | 1 | |
| 528 | Strength of Materials | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| 691 | Power Testing | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 804 | Air-conditioning and Refrigeration | 3 | 1 | |
| 808 | Power Plants | 3 | 1 | |
| Total | 16 | 7 | 6 |
| 6 | English—Report Writing | 3 | 1 | |
| 529 | Hydraulics | 3 | 1 | |
| 680 | Hydraulics Testing | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 692 | Power Testing | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 813 | Ferrous Metallurgy | 3 | 1 | |
| 863 | Ferrous Metallography Laboratory | 3 | ½ | |
| 830 | General Aeronautics | 3 | 1 | |
| Total | 14 | 11 | 6½ |
CURRICULUM FOR FOURTH-YEAR CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
| Course | Subject | A | B | C |
| 43 | German | 3 | 1 | |
| 324 | Principles of Chemical Engineering | 3 | 1 | |
| 374 | Chemical Engineering Laboratory | 6 | 1 | |
| 690 | Power Testing | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 715 | Materials of Construction | 3 | 1 | |
| 910 | Direct Current Systems | 3 | 1 | |
| Total | 13 | 10 | 6 |
| 44 | German | 3 | 1 | |
| 325 | Principles of Chemical Engineering | 3 | 1 | |
| 375 | Chemical Engineering Laboratory | 6 | 1 | |
| 581 | Machine Design | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| 911 | Alternating Current Systems | 3 | 1 | |
| 960 | Electrical Laboratory | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Total | 11 | 16 | 6 |
| 45 | German | 3 | 1 | |
| 326 | Principles of Chemical Engineering | 3 | 1 | |
| 376 | Chemical Engineering Laboratory | 6 | 1 | |
| 529 | Hydraulics | 3 | 1 | |
| 680 | Hydraulics Testing | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 912 | Alternating Current Systems | 3 | 1 | |
| 961 | Electrical Laboratory | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Total | 14 | 14 | 7 |
CURRICULUM FOR FOURTH-YEAR CIVIL ENGINEERING
| Course | Subject | A | B | C |
| 24 | Technical Economics | 3 | 1 | |
| 650 | Highway Laboratory | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 708 | Water Supply | 3 | 1 | |
| 718 | Masonry Structures | 3 | 6 | 2 |
| 910 | Direct Current Systems | 3 | 1 | |
| Total | 13 | 10 | 6 |
| 25 | Technical Economics | 3 | 1 | |
| 705 | Bridges | 3 | 1 | |
| 755 | Bridge Drafting | 6 | 1 | |
| 754 | Model Analysis | 6 | 1 | |
| 911 | Alternating Systems | 3 | 1 | |
| 960 | Electrical Laboratory | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Total | 10 | 16 | 6 |
| 26 | Technical Economics | 3 | 1 | |
| 709 | Sewerage | 3 | 1 | |
| 756 | Bridge Drafting | 6 | 1 | |
| 813 | Ferrous Metallurgy | 3 | 1 | |
| 863 | Ferrous Metallography Laboratory | 3 | ½ | |
| 912 | Alternating Current Systems | 3 | 1 | |
| 961 | Electrical Laboratory | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Total | 13 | 13 | 6½ |
CURRICULUM FOR FOURTH-YEAR ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
| 24 | Technical Economics | 3 | 1 | |
| 670 | Fuel and Oil Testing | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 690 | Power Testing | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 715 | Materials of Construction | 3 | 1 | |
| 904 | Alternating Current Machinery | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| 954 | Electrical Laboratory | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Total | 12 | 15 | 6 |
| 25 | Technical Economics | 3 | 1 | |
| 524 | Graphic Statics | 3 | 1 | |
| 574 | Graphic Statics Drawing | 6 | 1 | |
| 691 | Power Testing | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 905 | Alternating Current Machinery | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| 955 | Electrical Laboratory | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Total | 11 | 17 | 6 |
| 26 | Technical Economics | 3 | 1 | |
| 530 | Machine Design | 3 | 1 | |
| 580 | Machine Design Drawing | 6 | 1 | |
| 813 | Ferrous Metallurgy | 3 | 1 | |
| 863 | Ferrous Metallography Laboratory | 3 | ½ | |
| 909 | Electrical Engineering Practice | 3 | 3 | 1½ |
| Total | 12 | 12 | 6 |
CURRICULUM FOR FOURTH-YEAR MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
| Course | Subject | A | B | C |
| 24 | Technical Economics | 3 | 1 | |
| 670 | Fuel and Oil Testing | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 816 | Machine Design | 3 | 1 | |
| 866 | Machine Design Drawing | 6 | 1 | |
| 910 | Direct Current Systems | 3 | 1 | |
| 812 (Mach) | Kinematics | 3 | 1 | |
| 833 (Aero) | Aerodynamics | (3) | (1) | |
| Total | 13 | 10 | 6 |
| 25 | Technical Economics | 3 | 1 | |
| 524 | Graphic Statics | 3 | 1 | |
| 574 | Graphic Statics Drawing | 6 | 1 | |
| 661 | Structural Materials Testing | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 911 | Alternating Current Systems | 3 | 1 | |
| 960 | Electrical Laboratory | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 531 (Mach) | Strength of Materials | 3 | 1 | |
| 834 (Aero) | Advanced Aeronautics | (3) | (1) | |
| Total | 14 | 14 | 7 |
| 26 | Technical Economics | 3 | 1 | |
| 814 | Non-ferrous Metallurgy | 3 | 1 | |
| 912 | Alternating Current Systems | 3 | 1 | |
| 961 | Electrical Laboratory | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 819 (Mach) | Engineering Shop Practice | 3 | 1 | |
| 869 (Mach) | Shop Practice Laboratory | 6 | 1 | |
| 835 (Aero) | Airplane Structures | (3) | (1) | |
| 885 (Aero) | Aeronautics Laboratory | (6) | (1) | |
| Total | 13 | 10 | 6 |
The courses marked (Mach) and (Aero) are taken respectively by those
students who elect the Machinery or Aeronautics Option in their fourth year,
other courses being common to both groups.
Inasmuch as the content of courses for fifth-year work in the four major
divisions is being changed and modified in several instances no attempt is made
in this catalogue to present the curricula. It is expected that all changes will
have been made in time to incorporate them in the next regular issue.
| The University of Virginia record April 15, 1936 | |