 | University of Virginia March, 1907 |  |
DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING.
| EDWIN ANDERSON ALDERMAN, D. C. L., LL. D., | President. |
| WILLIAM MYNN THORNTON, LL. D., | Dean. |
| FRANCIS HENRY SMITH, M. A., LL. D., | |
| Professor of Natural Philosophy. | |
| WILLIAM MORRIS FONTAINE, M. A., | |
| Professor of Geology and Mineralogy. | |
| WILLIAM MYNN THORNTON, LL. D., | |
| Professor of Applied Mathematics. | |
| FRANCIS PERRY DUNNINGTON, B. S., C. E., | |
| Professor of Analytical Chemistry. | |
| JOHN WILLIAM MALLET, M. D., Ph. D., LL. D., F. R. S., | |
| Professor of General and Industrial Chemistry. | |
| WILLIAM HOLDING ECHOLS, B. S., C. E., | |
| Professor of Pure Mathematics. | |
| JAMES MORRIS PAGE, M. A., Ph. D., | |
| Professor of Pure Mathematics. | |
| LEWIS LITTLEPAGE HOLLADAY B. S., | |
| Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering. | |
| CHARLES MILLAR McKERGOW, M. S., | |
| Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering. | |
| JOHN LLOYD NEWCOMB, A. B., C. E., | |
| Adjunct Professor of Civil Engineering. | |
| LLEWELLYN GRIFFITH HOXTON, M. A., B. S., | |
| Adjunct Professor of Physics. | |
| JOHN WINFREE WEST, | Instructor in Drawing. |
| WALTER JONES LAIRD, | Instructor in Shop-Work. |
| ELBERT ABRAHAM FRÜTH, | Assistant Instructor in Shop-Work. |
| G. F. RADCLIFFE JACKSON, | Assistant Instructor in Shop-Work. |
| MARSHALL GOODE HOMES, | Superintendent of Tool-Room. |
ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS.
The primary requisite for success in the studies of this Department is
adequate preparation. To insure this, students are examined in the
following subjects:
1. English, including grammar, composition, elementary rhetoric,
and courses of reading equivalent to those prescribed from year to year
by the Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools of the Southern
States.
2. Arithmetic and Algebra, including a complete course in numerical
Arithmetic and Algebra through Quadratics. Equations and problems will
be given involving not one unknown only, but two or more.
3. Plane Geometry, embracing the whole of the usual five books (the
mensuration of the circle being included). Not only the classical propositions
of the text-books will be required, but original exercises will also
be set.
4. Solid Geometry and Elementary Plane Trigonometry, embracing
the usual propositions in Solid Geometry on planes and lines, prisms and
pyramids, the regular polyhedra, and the three round bodies, with Spherical
Geometry; also the fundamental principles of Plane Trigonometry and their
application to the solution of triangles and the reduction of trigonometrical
formulæ.
The applicant may substitute for the last of these examinations any one
of the Entrance Electives as given in the General Catalogue. The substitution
is not, however, advised. Ample mathematical preparation is most desirable.
Applicants for admission may present in lieu of the above examinations
equivalent certificates from some accredited preparatory school.
Such certificates must guarantee the adequacy of the student's preliminary
training.
From and after June 1st, 1908, the revised entrance requirements
will be in force. A special circular giving the details of the new requirements
will be sent on application.
The regular entrance examinations are held at the University in
June (1907, 4th-7th) and in September (1907, 10th-13th). Certificates of
preparation should be submitted to the Dean of the University not later
than September 1st. Sample Entrance Examination papers will be furnished
on request.
For admission as a student the age of the applicant must be at
least sixteen years. A certificate of honorable discharge from the school
last attended by him or other evidence of general good conduct must be
presented. Candidates, who have furnished such certificates, and have
satisfied the entrance requirements as above stated, will be registered
by the Dean with the concurrence of their several professors as students
four days of the session (1907, September 11th-14th). Late entrance
is forbidden except by special consent of the President and then with an
additional fee.
The lectures begin on the first Monday of the session, on and after
which day all classes meet in exact accordance with the official schedule.
No excuse for absence at lecture or other required exercise will be
granted, except by reason of sickness or upon the written leave of the
Dean. The laws of the University require from every student regular
and diligent application to his studies, as well as decorous, sober, and
upright conduct, as long as he remains a member of the school, whether
he be within the precincts or not. It any student fails to fulfil the purposes
for which he ought to have come to the University and be not
likely to fulfil them, the Dean will inform him of the objections to his
conduct and afford him reasonable opportunity of defense and amendment.
If the student continues delinquent, the Faculty will request his
withdrawal.
METHODS OF INSTRUCTION.
The Department of Engineering is conducted by a Faculty of sixteen
professors and other instructors. It furnishes complete four-year courses
leading to degrees in each of the four great divisions of Engineering—
Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, and Mining. Their common basis is the
axiom that clear understanding and firm grasp of scientific principles
furnish the only sure foundation for the labors of the modern scientific
engineer. Their aim is to secure:
First, thorough drill in Pure and Applied Mathematics, without
which no engineer can justly pretend to a sound knowledge of his profession.
Second, broad, accurate and thorough training in those Pure and
Applied Sciences, of which rational engineering is simply the concrete
expression.
Third, adequate knowledge of the Special Elective Topics, which
constitute the subject matter of each great division of Engineering
Science.
The methods of instruction employed to effect this aim are thorough,
rational, and modern. The courses are given by the joint use
of text-books and lectures. They are made objective by parallel practical
courses in the drafting room, the shop, the laboratory and the field.
They are enforced by daily oral examinations, by frequent written reviews,
by copious exercises in drafting and computation, and by abundant
illustration from experiments and specimens. At the end of each term
the student's mastery of the course is tested by a rigid written examination,
and his fitness for graduation is judged by the combined result of
to give to the thoughtful student an intelligent mastery of scientific
method and with this aim in view certain departures have been made
from the more ordinary routine processes of engineering education.
The Drafting Exercises are not separated from and independent of
the theoretical studies, designed to give merely a technical mastery of
the draftman's tools. They run parallel with the lecture course, and
are used to illustrate and enforce its lessons. Each problem assigned is
made, if possible, an exercise not only in drawing but in design, and serves
to cultivate power of analysis as well as manual skill.
The Shop-work is planned for engineers and not for artisans. The
equipment is of the best quality, but the time and energies of the student
are not wasted on too extended a course. Enough is done to give intelligent
ideas as to constructive materials and shop methods, and the manual
dexterity necessary for laboratory research is in some measure secured.
After that the student turns to higher problems.
The Laboratory Exercises begin with the beginning of the Student's
work and continue to the end. Like the drafting exercises they run parallel
with the lecture course, or are the objective prelude to it. As far as is
possible each student verifies for himself by actual tests and measurements
the fundamental laws of engineering science.
In Field-work enough practice is required from every student to give
him clear understanding and ready use of the standard field instruments.
Students of Civil Engineering have ample practice in the later years of the
course, in conjunction with the special elective topics pursued by them.
COURSES OF INSTRUCTION.
The following condensed summary gives by title the various courses
of instruction offered in the Engineering Department, arranged in an
orderly curriculum of four years. Those courses, for which no special
note is given, must be taken by all candidates for degrees. The special
elective courses are in each case followed by a note, showing the degree
for which they are required. The name of the professor and the lecture
hour follow in brackets after each title; Arabic numbers are for lectures
on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday; Roman for lectures on Tuesday,
Thursday, and Saturday.
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 programmes. The arrangements
specified in them have been carefully planned and are the best.
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 successful pursuit of that course.
FIRST YEAR.
Pure Mathematics 1. [Page, X.]
FIRST TERM.—Geometrical Exercises. Solid Geometry.
SECOND TERM.—Plane and Spherical Trigonometry.
THIRD TERM.—Higher Algebra. Theory of Equations.
Applied Mathematics 1. [Thornton, 10.]
FIRST TERM.—Practical Plane Geometry. Descriptive Geometry.
SECOND TERM.—Shades, Shadows, and Perspective.
THIRD TERM.—Plane Surveying.
Chemistry 1. [Mallet, X.]
FIRST TERM.—Introduction to Chemical Physics. Atomic Theory.
SECOND TERM.—Inorganic Chemistry.
THIRD TERM.—Introduction to Organic Chemistry.
Drawing 1. [Instructor, XII-II.]
FIRST TERM.—Mechanical Drawing. Projection Drawing.
SECOND TERM.—Shades, Shadows, and Perspectives.
THIRD TERM.—Plan and Map Drawing. Lettering.
Shop and Field Work 1. [Instructors; afternoon hours.]
FIRST TERM.—Wood Shop.
SECOND TERM.—Pattern Shop.
THIRD TERM.—Field Work.
Chemical Laboratory.
Exercises will be given in Chemical Manipulation and Inorganic Chemistry.
These run parallel to the lecture course and consume six hours
a week during each term.
The studies of this First Year are designed to embrace those disciplines
which are most necessary for the young engineer, whether he stand at the
beginning of professional study or at the beginning of practical life. The
student, who completes them creditably, can draw respectably, handle a field
instrument with intelligence and accuracy, keep his notes properly, and
execute a decent map, the tasks ordinarily confided to assistant engineers.
SECOND YEAR.
Pure Mathematics 2. [Echols, 11.]
FIRST TERM.—Analytical Geometry.
SECOND TERM.—Differential Calculus.
THIRD TERM.—Integral Calculus.
Applied Mathematics 2. [Thornton, X.]
FIRST TERM.—Introduction to General Mechanics.
SECOND TERM.—Graphical Statics. Analysis of Structures.
THIRD TERM.—Elements of Steam Engineering.
Experimental Physics. [Smith, XI.]
FIRST TERM.—Experimental Mechanics of Solids and Fluids.
SECOND TERM.—Heat and Electricity.
THIRD TERM.—Sound and Light.
Drawing 2. [Instructor, 12-2.]
FIRST TERM.—Elementary Structural Drawing.
SECOND TERM.—Graphical Statics and Structural Design.
THIRD TERM.—Elementary Machine Drawing and Design.
Shop-Work 2. [Instructors; afternoon hours.]
FIRST TERM.—Machine Shop.
SECOND TERM.—Foundry.
Mechanical Laboratory 1. [McKergow and Newcomb; afternoon hours.]
FIRST TERM.—Tests of Cement and Timber.
SECOND TERM.—Strength and Elasticity of Iron and Steel.
THIRD TERM.—Steam Engine Tests.
The foregoing courses contain the fundamenta of education in the
Applied Sciences and are taken in common by all students of Engineering.
The succeeding years are largely devoted to the specialized elective
courses, which deal with the subject matter of professional practice in the
various branches of Engineering. In these courses only such students are
admitted as have an adequate preliminary training in Pure Mathematics, in
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, and in Drawing and Design.
THIRD YEAR.
Applied Mathematics 3. [Thornton, IX.]
FIRST TERM.—Strength of Materials.
SECOND TERM.—Hydrostatics and Hydraulics.
THIRD TERM.—Hydraulic Motors, Pumps, and Power Plants.
Geology 1. [Fontaine, 9.] Required for C. E. and E. M.
FIRST TERM.—Dynamical Geology.
SECOND TERM.—Structural Geology.
THIRD TERM.—Historical Geology.
Electricity 1. [Hoxton, 10.] Required for E. E.
FIRST TERM.—Elementary Electricity and Magnetism.
SECOND TERM.—Mathematical Theory of Electricity.
THIRD TERM.—Magnetic Induction in Metals.
Civil Engineering 1. [Newcomb, 11.] Required for C. E.
FIRST TERM.—Railway Location and Construction.
SECOND TERM.—Bridge Stresses. Graphical Analysis of Trusses.
THIRD TERM.—Bridge Design, Detailing and Drafting.
Mechanical Engineering 1. [McKergow, XII.] Required for M. E.
FIRST TERM.—Theory of Steam and Gas Engines.
SECOND TERM.—Machine Kinematics and Machine Design.
THIRD TERM.—Construction, Design, and Operation of Steam Boilers.
Electrical Engineering 1. [Holladay, 11.] Required for E. E. and M. E.
FIRST TERM.—Electrical Measurements; Direct Currents.
SECOND TERM.—Direct Current Machinery; Dynamo Design.
THIRD TERM.—Introduction to Alternating Currents.
Analytical Chemistry 1. [Dunnington, X.] Required for E. M.
FIRST TERM.—Manipulation; Blowpipe analysis; Fire assays.
SECOND TERM.—Inorganic Qualitative Analysis.
THIRD TERM.—Determinative Mineralogy. Quantitative Analysis.
Shop-Work 3. [Instructors; afternoon hours.] Required for M. E.
FIRST TERM.—Forge Shop.
SECOND TERM.—Machine Shop.
Mechanical Laboratory 2. [McKergow and Newcomb; afternoon hours.]
FIRST TERM.—Strength and Elasticity of Structural Materials.
SECOND TERM.—Gas engine tests and fuel tests.
THIRD TERM.—Hydrographic Surveys; Hydraulic Measurements.
FOURTH YEAR.
Applied Mathematics 4. [Thornton, 9.]
FIRST TERM.—Kinematics. General Principles of Dynamics.
SECOND TERM.—Statics. Dynamics of a Particle.
THIRD TERM.—Dynamics of a Rigid Body.
Chemistry 2. [Mallet, 3.]
FIRST TERM.—Industrial Chemistry of the Metals.
SECOND TERM.—Building Materials and Explosives.
THIRD TERM.—Fuels, Paints, Oils, Dyes, etc.
Geology 2. [Fontaine, IX.] Required for E. M.
FIRST TERM.—Crystallography; Descriptive Mineralogy.
SECOND TERM.—Stratigraphic Geology. Lithology.
THIRD TERM.—Paleontology. Field Geology.
Civil Engineering 2. [Newcomb, XI.] Required for C. E.
FIRST TERM.—Masonry Construction.
SECOND TERM.—Waterworks and Sewers.
THIRD TERM.—Roads, Streets, and Pavements.
Mechanical Engineering 2. [McKergow, I.] Required for M. E.
FIRST TERM.—Hydraulic Machinery.
SECOND TERM.—Mechanical Power Plants.
THIRD TERM.—Locomotive Engineering.
Electrical Engineering 2. [Holladay, XI.] Required for E. E.
FIRST TERM.—A. C. Generators and Transformers.
SECOND TERM.—A. C. Phenomena; Induction Motors.
THIRD TERM.—Electrical Power Plants; Photometry.
Mining Engineering. [Thornton, I.] Required for E. M.
FIRST TERM.—Exploitation of Mines.
SECOND TERM.—Mining Machinery.
THIRD TERM.—Electricity in Mining.
Thesis Work.
Every candidate for a degree in Engineering will be required at
the beginning of his graduating year to submit to the Dean some subject
for independent study suited to the student's especial course and aims.
After such subject has been approved by the Dean and the Professor
literary and laboratory researches and to present his results in the
form of a thesis. Such thesis must be typewritten on standard sheets,
bound in a proper cover, and handed in for final approval not later than
May 25th. All necessary computations and drawings must accompany the
thesis. Serious weight will be given to this work in estimating the
student's fitness for graduation.
EQUIPMENT.
The equipment of the Engineering Department for the work of
instruction includes shops, laboratories and museums, an excellent outfit
of field instruments, and ample facilities for engineering drawing.
SHOPS.
The Wood-shop contains a full outfit of hand-tools, lathes for
ordinary turning and for pattern-making, machine-saws for ripping and
slitting and cross-cutting, band-saw, jig-saw, planer, jointer, and trimmer.
The Machine-shop is supplied with the necessary hand-tools for
bench-work, engine lathes, planer, shaper, sensitive drill, power drill,
universal milling machine, universal grinding machine, cut-off saw, gas
forge for tempering tools, and the accessory instruments needed for exact
work in metals. Two new engine lathes of the finest construction have
been recently added to the equipment.
The Forge-shop has a full outfit of smith's tools, and is equipped
with forges having down draft and mechanical exhaust operated by a
special engine and fan.
The Foundry has a cupola furnace for work in cast iron, and a brass
furnace for soft metal castings. The cupola is operated by a blower,
driven by a special engine. The necessary appliances for moulding are
also provided.
LABORATORIES AND MUSEUMS.
The Sinclair Laboratory for work in Strength of Materials was
equipped through the generosity of Mrs. John Sinclair, of New York City,
as a memorial to her late husband. The outfit comprises Riehle and
Olsen machines, each of 100,000 pounds capacity, for tests of tensile,
compressive and transverse strengths and elasticities; a Ewing machine for
testing the elasticity of rods; an Olsen torsion machine of 50,000 inchpounds
capacity; hand machines for tensile and transverse tests; Fairbanks
and Olsen cement testing machines of 1,000 pounds capacity each;
an Olsen compression machine of 40,000 pounds capacity; special
apparatus for impact tests and tests of reinforced concrete; moulds for
extensometers, compressometers, and micrometers for delicate measurements.
The John Waverly Scott Laboratory for Electrical Engineering was
both equipped and endowed by Mrs. Frances Branch Scott, of Richmond,
Virginia, as a memorial to her late son, a former student and a loyal
alumnus of this University. It is provided with generators of both
direct and alternating currents, with transformers of various types and
capacities, with direct current motors and induction motors, with
electric meters of all the requisite ranges, and with the laboratory
standards needed for testing and calibrating them, and the brakes
and rheostats used in testing the electrical machines. The equipment
contains also a full outfit of apparatus of the best and most
modern construction for delicate electrical measurements, together with
a full supply of the necessary electrical standards. Two storage batteries
have been provided, one for pressure and one for current. A Duddell
oscillograph is used for the study of alternating current phenomena, and
is arranged to permit the projection of the wave forms on a screen. A
well equipped photometer cabinet is used for the testing and study of
electrical lamps.
For Steam Tests the equipment contains a full series of pressure
gauges, gauge testers, thermometers, steam calorimeters, fuel calorimeters,
apparatus for chimney gas analysis, indicators, friction brakes, apparatus
for testing the thermal qualities of steam, apparatus for measuring the
mechanical equivalent of heat, and the heat equivalent of electrical
energy, and all the appliances needed for the proper utilization of this
outfit. A machine for testing lubricants and apparatus for measuring the
density, viscosity, and flash point of oils has also been provided. The
laboratory engine has been equipped with rope brake and indicators,
steam calorimeters and steam separator, and is connected with a condenser,
so that tests of indicated and brake horsepower may be made both
with and without condensation. In addition, the boilers and engines of
the electric light and heating plant of the University are available for
testing purposes.
For Thermodynamic Tests an Otto engine and Remington ice machine
have been recently installed. The engine, which develops 15 I. H. P. and
12 B. H. P., is arranged for operation with gas, gasoline, or alcohol.
Provision has been made for accurate measurements of fuel consumption,
indicated and brake horsepower, speed and explosions, temperatures of
gases and cooling water, and for determining the composition of the
exhaust gases. A complete experimental study of the motor can thus be
carried out. For the ice machine the necessary brine tanks, indicators,
meters, thermometers and so on have been provided, so that accurate test
runs can be made. These machines, added to the outfit above described,
thermodynamics.
For Tests of Road Building Materials there have been installed a
ball mill, an abrasion machine, a briquette machine, a small crusher, a
diamond drill, and a grinding disc. The University owes the use of this
equipment to the generous coöperation of Dr. Logan Waller Page, director
of the United States office of public roads. It will be employed in connection
with the outfit of the Sinclair Laboratory for experimental researches
on the available road building rocks and gravels of Virginia.
The Rouss Physical Laboratory, the Chemical Laboratory and the
Brooks Museum, while designed primarily to foster the scientific studies
of the Academical Department of the University, are also available and
utilized for the instruction of the classes in Engineering.
The Physical Laboratory is not only provided with a large collection
of apparatus for demonstrative experiments in illustration of
the lectures on Physics, but possesses also the necessary instrumental
equipment for exact measures in General Physics, in Electricity and Magnetism,
and in Photometry.
The Chemical Laboratory is furnished with all the appliances and
supplies needed for illustrating the lecture course in General Chemistry,
and possesses also a remarkable museum of Industrial Chemistry, which
is utilized in the lectures on that subject. The analytical work-rooms
are well equipped and the course of instruction has been especially
adapted to the needs of students of Mining Engineering.
The Brooks Museum contains the collections of the University
in Geology and Mineralogy, collections of great value and of especial
interest to students of Civil and Mining Engineering. These collections
are used to illustrate the lectures and are thrown open to students
for individual study.
FIELD INSTRUMENTS.
The outfit of instruments for field-work in surveying, levelling
and location contains transits and levels of various approved makes,
compasses, hand-levels and clinometers, a plane-table, a sextant,
mercurial and aneroid barometers, a current-meter, a hook gauge, a
solar transit, and the usual provision of rods, chains, tapes, and like
accessories. Instruction is given to all students in the accurate testing
and adjustment of the standard instruments, and in their use for the
solution of all the ordinary field problems. In addition they are taught
and practised in simple but accurate methods for locating the True
Meridian, and for determining Latitude, Time, and Longitude. Students
of Civil Engineering execute more extended surveys for the location of
roads, railways, hydraulic works, and so on.
DRAFTING ROOMS.
The drafting rooms are abundantly lighted and are provided with
solidly constructed tables with locked drawers for instruments and
materials. Each student is assigned to a table and has a board and a
drawer for his exclusive use. The classes of the First and Second years
execute each one plate a week under the supervision of the Instructor in
Drawing. The more advanced students have such drawings assigned by
their respective professors as are needed for the full development of the
courses of study.
Careful attention is given to the training of the students in lettering,
in the conventional signs of mechanical drawing, in the proper lay-out
of drawings, and in neat and accurate execution. Exercises are required
also in tracing and in blue-printing, the rooms for which are conveniently
arranged and in close contiguity to the drafting rooms. While, however,
technical dexterity is demanded, the graphical method is taught and
used primarily as a powerful and indispensable instrument of research,
the thoughtful mastery of which is essential for the instructed Engineer.
The construction and theory of the Polar Planimeter, the Slide Rule,
and the Pantograph are carefully taught, and the student is trained in
the practical use of these appliances for the rapid and accurate production
of estimates and copies from finished drawings.
EXPENSES.
The expenses of a student of Engineering will vary slightly with
his year of residence, largely with his personal habits. The following
estimates presuppose a reasonable economy, equally removed from
parsimony on the one hand and from profusion on the other. They may
be somewhat reduced by strict economy. They may be largely and
disastrously augmented by extravagance.
REGULAR STUDENTS.
The average annual expense of a student who pursues the regular
course of the Engineering Department will be:
| University Fee | $ 40 |
| Department Fee (average of four years) | 65 |
| Living Expenses (for nine months) | 225 |
| Books and Drawing Materials | 20 |
| Incidental Expenses | 50 |
| Total for outside students | $400 |
| Deduction for Virginians | 45 |
| Total for Virginians | $355 |
Strict economy may reduce the living expenses from $25 a month,
as estimated above, to $18 or $20, and may take off something also
from incidental expenses. A more liberal estimate will increase them
by about the same amount. We should thus have the following average
annual allowances:
| ANNUAL ALLOWANCES. | MIN. | MEAN. | MAX. |
| Outside students | $350 | $400 | $480 |
| Virginians | $275 | 355 | 435 |
These estimates are exclusive of clothing and traveling expenses, items
which vary too much to be introduced into any general estimate.
The University Fee of $40 is paid by every student. It entitles
the student to the free use of the Library, and of the Gymnasium; to
the advice and direction of the Instructor in Physical Culture; to free
medical advice and attendance by the Health Officers of the University;
to the facilities of the University Hospital in case of need; and it covers
all fees for examinations, diplomas, and degrees.
The Department Fee is $80 for the First Year course, $70 for the
Second, $60 for the Third, $50 for the Fourth, and thus averages $65.
It covers the tuition and laboratory fees for all the classes (except
Analytical Chemistry). It entitles the student also to take over again
without additional charge any course of the previous year which he may
have failed to complete. Virginians have free tuition in the academical
schools, and are therefore allowed a deduction of $45 a year.
The item of Living Expenses includes board, lodging, fuel, lights,
servant, and laundry. A fair average allowance is $25 a month. Severe
economy may reduce it to $18. Ample generosity would place it at $32,
but no higher.
The Books, Drawing Instruments, Drawing Materials and Stationery
will cost about $80 for the four-year course, an average of $20 a year.
It is wise economy for the young engineer to buy good instruments and
to collect during his college life a few good books, as the nucleus of his
professional library.
The Incidental Expenses of the student ought to be kept within
modest bounds. The allowances made above are liberal enough. Large
expenditures as a rule promote idleness and attract companions of the
baser sort.
The items payable at entrance are the University Fee of $40, the
Department Fee, and a Contingent Deposit of $10 to cover library fines
and damage to apparatus, if such should occur. The last item is credited
in the student's final settlement with the Bursar. The First Year Student
of Engineering should bring with him about $200 to meet these charges
and cover the initial payments for books, instruments, room, furniture,
board, and so on.
SPECIAL STUDENTS.
Applicants for admission to the Engineering Department, who are
twenty years old, and desire to enter for the pursuit of special elective
courses, must present adequate proofs of good character and of the
needful maturity and training. Such applicants are then registered as
Special Students, and are admitted without formal examination to the
privileges of the University, but not as candidates for any titled degree.
Such students pay the University Fee of $40, a Tuition Fee of $25 for each
class attended, and the proper Laboratory Fees ($5 per class in Applied
Mathematics and Engineering; $35 in Analytical Chemistry). Virginians
have free tuition in the Academic Schools.
Under the general elective plan of this University, many young
men, who cannot afford to take the regular four-year course, qualify
themselves by such studies for highly successful professional careers.
Any student, who possesses a good working knowledge of Pure Mathematics,
including the processes of the Differential and Integral Calculus,
and some acquaintance with the Natural Sciences, may attempt with
success the following shorter course in Engineering:
First Year.—Applied Mathematics 1 and 2. Engineering 1.
Second Year.—Applied Mathematics 3 and 4. Engineering 2.
Upon its completion he receives a diploma of graduation in Applied
Mathematics and Engineering. No student, who is deficient in mathematics,
will be allowed to enter upon this special course.
STUDENTS ADMITTED WITH ADVANCED STANDING.
Applicants from other colleges will be admitted provisionally to
advanced standing as candidates for a degree in Engineering upon
presentation of proper certificates covering the courses for which credit
is desired. Such certificates must be filed with the Dean, and must be
acceptable both to him and to the professors in charge of the accredited
courses. The certificate must bear the official signature of the head of
the college; must specify the character and content of the course followed
by the student; must give his marks, which should not fall below the
standard seventy-five per cent. of this University; and must recommend
the student as worthy of admission to the University of Virginia in
respect of both character and scholarship. The final validation of such
a certificate is effected by the successful completion of the courses
attended in this University.
CREDITS FOR PRACTICAL WORK.
Students, who have accomplished courses equivalent to those given at
this University in Drawing or in Shop-Work, will not be required to repeat
such courses here. To secure credit for such work the student must
application must file the official certificate of the chief draftsman or other
instructor, under whom the work was done. In default of such certificate
the applicant must take and pass a practical examination on each course,
from which he seeks exemption.
A student who fails in one of his courses, but attains a grade of
sixty-five per cent. on the work of the whole year, may be admitted to
reöxamination on such course at the beginning of the next session.
To secure this privilege the student must make application to the
Dean of the Department before September 1st. It will then be the duty of
the Dean to arrange the schedule of dates for these examinations, and
to communicate these dates to the applicants and to the professors concerned.
All such examinations must be held in the week preceding the
initial lectures of the session.
Students, who on reöxamination fail to pass, will not be admitted
to graduation, until they shall have again attended the lectures of the
course and passed examination on it.
SCHEDULE OF LECTURE AND LABORATORY HOURS.
1907-1908.
| Hour: | Mon. Wed. Fri. | Tues. Thurs. Sat. | Hour: |
| 9 | Applied Mathematics 4. | Applied Mathematics 3. | 9 |
| Geology 1. | Geology 2. | ||
| Mathematics 1. | |||
| 10 | Applied Mathematics 1. | Applied Mathematics 2. | 10 |
| Electricity. | Analytical Chemistry. | ||
| Chemistry. | |||
| 11 | Mathematics 2. | Physics. | 11 |
| Electrical Engineering 1. | Electrical Engineering 2. | ||
| Civil Engineering 1. | Civil Engineering 2. | ||
| 12 | Geology 3. | Mechanical Laboratory 2. | 12 |
| Drawing 1. | Drawing 2. | ||
| Mechanical Engineering 1. | Chemical Laboratory. | ||
| 1 | Mechanical Laboratory 2. | 1 | |
| Geology 4. | Mining Engineering. | ||
| Drawing 1. | Drawing 2. | ||
| Mechanical Engineering 2. | Chemical Laboratory. | ||
| 3-5.30 | Industrial Chemistry: lectures 3-4.30, Mon. Wed. Fri. | 3-5:30 | |
| Mechanical Laboratory: (material and machine tests). | |||
| Shop Work: (Fall and Winter); Field Work: (Spring). | |||
PROGRAMME OF EXAMINATIONS.
1907-1908.
| Dates | First Year. | Second Year. | Third Year. | Fourth Year. | ||
| Dec. | Mar. | June | ||||
| 12 | 18 | 11 | Chemistry. | Electrical Engineering 1. | ||
| 13 | 19 | 2 | Geology 1. | Applied Mathematics 4. | ||
| 14 | 20 | 3 | Applied Mathematics 2. | |||
| 16 | 21 | 4 | Mechanical Engineering | Mining Engineering. | ||
| 17 | 23 | 5 | Applied Mathematics. | Electricity. Civil Engineering 1. |
Mechanical Engineering | |
| 18 | 24 | 6 | Physics. | Geology 4. | ||
| 19 | 25 | 8 | Industrial Chemistry. | |||
| 20 | 26 | 9 | Mathematics 1. | Applied Mathematics 3. | Geology 2. | |
| 21 | 27 | 10 | Electrical Engineering 2. Civil Engineering 2. |
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| 23 | 28 | 1 | Mathematics 2. | Geology 3. | ||
| University of Virginia March, 1907 | |