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Engineering Department.

                     

WILLIAM M. THORNTON, LL. D.	Professor of Applied Mathematics.
CHARLES S. VENABLE, LL. D.	Professor of Mathematics.
FRANCIS H. SMITH, M. A., LL. D.	Professor of Natural Philosophy.
JOHN W. MALLET, M. D., Ph. D., LL. D., F. R. S.	Professor of Chemistry.
FRANCIS P. DUNNINGTON, B. S.	Professor of Analytical Chemistry.
WILLIAM M. FONTAINE, M. A.	Professor of Mineralogy and Geology.
WILLIAM H. ECHOLS, B. S., C. E.	Adjunct Professor of Applied Mathematics.
GEORGE M. PEEK, M. E.	Instructor in Engineering.
HOPSON O. MURFEE	Instructor in Mathematics.
JAMES H. CORBITT, M. A., B. Ph.	Instructor in Physics.
WILLIAM J. MARTIN, A. M., Ph. D., M. D.	Instructor in Chemistry.

By a recent order of the Board of Visitors the courses of instruction leading
to degrees in this department have been made elective. Following the
example of the chief schools of Engineering in this country and in England,
the University of Virginia will hereafter confer the general degree of Bachelor
of Science, instead of the special degrees of Civil Engineer, Mining
Engineer, etc. This degree will be given to the student who has been graduated
in seven B. S. courses, selected from the following five groups, but so
that at least one course is taken from each group; and has in addition been
graduated in two of the seven schools elected. The subjects elected as the
major studies will be indicated in the diploma—as Bachelor of Sciences in
Civil Engineering, or in Chemistry, or in Natural History, etc.

A. Mathematics—Mechanics.

B. Physics—Astronomy.

C. Chemistry—Analytical Chemistry.

D. Geology—Biology.

E. Applied Mathematics.

The following is a brief outline of the several courses:

B. S. COURSES.

Each of these courses leads to a special diploma of graduation. In each
class three lectures a week are given extending through the entire session.

Mathematics.—Professor Venable.

First Year: Todhunter's Algebra; Venable's Legendre's Geometry with exercises;
Todhunter's Trigonometry for Beginners.

Second Year: Venable's Exercises in Plane Geometry; Todhunter's Plane Trigonometry;
Puckle's Conic Sections; Wells's Spherical Trigonometry; Lectures on Geometrical
Conics.

Mechanics.—Professor Thornton.

Arthur Thornton's Theoretical Mechanics; Bovey's Theory of Structures; Lectures
on engineering design.

Physics.—Professor Smith.

Lectures on the doctrines of motion, force, energy, potential, heat, and electricity.
Professor's Syllabus. Everett's Units and Physical Constants.

Astronomy.—Professor Stone.

Young's General Astronomy; Problems and Lectures.

Chemistry.—Professor Mallet.

Lectures on Chemical Physics, Theoretical and Descriptive Chemistry. Fownes's Chemistry;
Professor's Syllabus.

Analytical Chemistry.—Professor Dunnington.

Chemical Manipulation, Blowpipe Analysis, Fire Assays of Ores. Inorganic Qualitative
Analysis. Stoichiometry. Elements of Quantitative Analysis. This course may
be modified to meet the special aims of the student.

Geology.—Professor Fontaine.

LeConte's Elements of Geology; Dana's New Text-book of Geology; Lectures.

Biology.—Professor Tuttle.

(a) Botany: Warming's Systematic Botany; Gray's Manual.

(b) Comparative Anatomy: Wiedersheim's Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates;
Parker's Zootomy; Lectures on Histology and Embryology.

Either course may be offered for the B. S.

Applied Mathematics.—Professors Thornton and Echols.

(a) Descriptive Geometry; Low's Practical Solid Geometry; Waldo's Exercises;
Lectures on Shades, Shadows, Axonometric Projections and Perspective.

(b) Engineering Geodesy:—Johnson's Surveying; Baker's Instruments; Byrne's
Highway Construction; Lectures on Railway Engineering.

(c) Machine Design:—Reuleaux's Constructor; Low's Machine Drawing and Design;
Lectures on the Dynamics of Machines.

Course (a) is required of all students and in addition either of courses (b) and (c).

ADVANCED COURSES.

For admission to any one of the following courses the completion of the
corresponding B. S. course, or equivalent studies, will be a necessary prerequisite.
In each course three lectures a week are given, except where noted.
The student who completes both the B. S. and the advanced course in any
subject receives the general diploma of graduation in the school.

Mathematics.—Professor Venable.

Venable's Analytical Geometry; Todhunter's Differential Calculus; Courtenay's Calculus;
Todhunter's Integral Calculus; Todhunter's Theory of Equations.

Mechanics.—Professor Echols.

Williamson's Dynamics; Tait and Steele's Dynamics of a Particle; Routh's Analytical
Statics; Pirie's Rigid Dynamics.

Physics.—Professor Smith.

(A) Sound and Light:—Preston's Theory of Light, Everett's Vibratory Motion and
Sound; Glazebrook's Practical Physics.

(B) Electricity and Magnetism:—Emtage's Introduction to the mathematical theory
of Electricity and Magnetism; Cumming's Electricity treated experimentally.

Either course may be offered.

Astronomy.—Professor Stone.
Gauss's Theoria Motus Corporum Coelestium.

Chemistry.—Professor Mallet.
Lectures on Industrial Chemistry. Wagner's Chemical Technology.

Analytical Chemistry.—Professor Dunnington.
Quantitative Analysis, gravimetric and volumetric. Original researches.

Geology.—Professor Fontaine.
Stratigraphy, Lithology, Palæontology, Crystallography, and Descriptive Mineralogy.

Biology.—Professor Tuttle.

A. Vegetable Morphology: Bennett and Murray's Cryptogamic Botany; Strasburger's
Practical Botany.

B. Vertebrate Morphology: Detailed comparative study of vertebrate structures.

For graduation in Biology, courses (a) and (b) and either (A) or (B) must be completed.

Applied Mathematics.—Professors Thornton and Echols.

A. Steam Engineering.—Ewing's Steam and Steam Engine; Munro's Steam Boilers;
Peabody's Valve Gears; Clerk's Gas Engines.

B. Hydraulic Machinery.—Merriman's Hydraulics. Lectures on Water Wheels,
Turbines, and Pumps.

C. Hydraulic Engineering.—Merriman's Hydraulics; Turner and Brightmore's Waterworks
Engineering; Baumeister's Sewerage of Cities.

D. Bridge Construction.—Baker's Masonry Construction; Johnson's Modern Framed
Structures.

E. Exploitation of Mines.—LeNeve Foster's Mines and Mining; Bowie's Hydraulic
Mining.

F. Mining Machinery.—Lectures on Hoisting, Pumping, and Ventilating Machinery.

Each of the above is a half course. (A) and (B) are offered for students of Mechanical
Engineering; (C) and (D) for students of Civil Engineering; (E) and (F)
for students of Mining Engineering.

In addition to the foregoing lecture courses, the following practical courses
are given:

Field-work with the chain and tape, level, compass, transit, plane-table,
barometer, and current meter is required of all students of Civil and Mining
Engineering, the work extending over three years. A thorough drill is given
in the use and adjustment of the instruments.

Mechanical Drawing is required of all students in the School, and extends
over three years. It embraces a careful drill in the use of drawing
instruments, with constant practice in the drawing-room in the preparation
of the various plates, maps, and designs required in connection with the
above courses.

Shop-work in wood and iron is required of all students of Mechanical
Engineering, and extends over two years. It includes a series of graduated
exercises with hand and machine tools in wood and metal, and instruction
in forging.

Associated with the various lecture courses also are a series of laboratory
exercises. Tests are made by all the students of the strength and elasticity
of constructive materials. Students of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
are required also to make tests of the pressure, temperature, and humidity
of the steam used in the engine, and to calibrate the gauges, thermometers,
and calorimeters employed for this purpose; to determine the evaporative
power and efficiency of the boiler, and to measure the indicated power
and the brake power of the engine.

The Mechanical Laboratory contained before the recent fire a twenty-five
horse-power Ball automatic high-speed engine; an upright tubular
boiler; a forty-five light Edison dynamo; a collection of hand and machine
tools, gauges, thermometers, barometers, dynamometers, calorimeters, and
other apparatus for engine and boiler trials; a 100,000-pound Olsen testing
machine for tensile, transverse and compressive tests of the strength and
elasticity of materials; a 1,000-pound cement-tester; and the necessary
appliances for micrometric measurements of strain, and apparatus for torsional
tests of strength and rigidity, and for the precise measurement of
tensile strains.[1]

The collection of Field Instruments contains a surveyor's compass, a
railroad compass, a wye level, a dumpy level, a plain transit, a complete
transit, with the Saegmuller Solar attachment, a plane-table, a sextant, a
standard barometer, an aneroid barometer, and a full supply of ranging-poles,
flag-poles, chains, tapes, and other accessories, with a planimeter, a
trigonometer, and two vernier-protractors for use in office-work.